City of London Telecoms Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in IT jobs within the City of London region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Calne Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Coatbridge Cobham Conwy Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Esher Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Guernsey Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malmesbury Manchester Mansfield Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Pershore Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prestatyn Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rickmansworth Romford Romsey Rossendale Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Thame Thames Valley Tilbury Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodford Green Worcester Worcestershire Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	61
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching permanent IT job ads	880	544
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.430 %	0.234 %
As % of the category below	5.440 %	3.440 %
Salaries quoted	793	474
Average minimum salary	£46,612	£50,004
Average salary	£52,457	£55,579
% change on same period last year	-5.61 %
Average maximum salary	£58,303	£61,154
UK excluding London average salary	£42,144	£43,256
% change on same period last year	-2.57 %
General City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	16175	15816
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	7.913 %	6.792 %
Salaries quoted	13698	12293
Average minimum salary	£51,357	£55,852
Average salary	£56,676	£60,576
% change on same period last year	-6.43 %
Average maximum salary	£61,995	£65,299
UK excluding London average salary	£40,645	£42,055
% change on same period last year	-3.35 %
Telecoms London

Telecoms
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Telecoms
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the City of London region.

Telecoms
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Telecoms across the City of London region over the past 3 months.

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the City of London region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms.

1 376 (28.06 %) Finance 2 271 (20.22 %) Java 3 270 (20.15 %) Oracle 4 247 (18.43 %) Unix 5 200 (14.93 %) Banking 6 198 (14.78 %) SQL 7 165 (12.31 %) Windows 8 148 (11.04 %) J2EE 9 138 (10.30 %) Cisco 10 132 (9.851 %) Project Management 11 123 (9.179 %) C++ 12 119 (8.881 %) Internet 13 112 (8.358 %) WAN 14 105 (7.836 %) Linux 15 103 (7.687 %) Marketing

16 98 (7.313 %) Firewall 16 98 (7.313 %) PRINCE2 16 98 (7.313 %) VoIP 17 97 (7.239 %) Service Delivery 18 95 (7.090 %) LAN 18 95 (7.090 %) XML 19 92 (6.866 %) Degree 20 91 (6.791 %) Spring 20 91 (6.791 %) Solaris 21 89 (6.642 %) Microsoft 22 87 (6.493 %) Hibernate 23 83 (6.194 %) Billing 24 81 (6.045 %) RDBMS 25 80 (5.970 %) OO 25 80 (5.970 %) UML

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the City of London region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 148 (11.04 %) J2EE 2 95 (7.090 %) XML 3 91 (6.791 %) Spring 4 87 (6.493 %) Hibernate 5 66 (4.925 %) .NET 6 47 (3.507 %) WebServices 7 37 (2.761 %) EJB 8 27 (2.015 %) JSP 9 24 (1.791 %) JMS 10 23 (1.716 %) Struts 11 22 (1.642 %) HTML 12 19 (1.418 %) ASP 13 16 (1.194 %) Servlets 14 14 (1.045 %) ASP.NET 14 14 (1.045 %) J2SE 15 12 (0.896 %) Middleware 15 12 (0.896 %) WebSphere 16 11 (0.821 %) SOAP 16 11 (0.821 %) STL 17 8 (0.597 %) CORBA	Application Platforms 1 42 (3.134 %) WebLogic 2 39 (2.910 %) MS Exchange 3 36 (2.687 %) Apache 4 32 (2.388 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 27 (2.015 %) IIS 6 25 (1.866 %) SAS 7 21 (1.567 %) Tomcat 8 20 (1.493 %) WebLogic Portal 9 14 (1.045 %) Lotus Notes 10 10 (0.746 %) SharePoint 10 10 (0.746 %) ESB 11 9 (0.672 %) WPS 12 8 (0.597 %) Oracle Workflow 13 7 (0.522 %) JBoss 14 6 (0.448 %) CMS 15 5 (0.373 %) Exchange Server 2000 16 4 (0.299 %) ColdFusion 17 3 (0.224 %) Rendezvous 17 3 (0.224 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 17 3 (0.224 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 67 (5.000 %) MS Excel 2 32 (2.388 %) MS Office 3 20 (1.493 %) SPSS 4 13 (0.970 %) MS Project 5 10 (0.746 %) MS Visio 6 3 (0.224 %) Acrobat 7 2 (0.149 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 16 (1.194 %) SAP R/3 2 13 (0.970 %) Oracle 11i 3 9 (0.672 %) Oracle EBS 4 7 (0.522 %) SAP FI 4 7 (0.522 %) SAP FI/CO 4 7 (0.522 %) SAP CO 5 5 (0.373 %) Singl.eView 6 4 (0.299 %) SAP SD 6 4 (0.299 %) Dynamics CRM 7 3 (0.224 %) WebTrends 7 3 (0.224 %) Remedy ITSM 8 2 (0.149 %) Remedy AR System 8 2 (0.149 %) SAP MM 8 2 (0.149 %) Kondor+ 8 2 (0.149 %) Misys Opics 8 2 (0.149 %) Line 500 8 2 (0.149 %) Pivotal CRM 9 1 (0.075 %) Oracle iRecruitment 9 1 (0.075 %) Oracle Financials 9 1 (0.075 %) SAP HR
Communications & Networking 1 119 (8.881 %) Internet 2 112 (8.358 %) WAN 3 98 (7.313 %) VoIP 3 98 (7.313 %) Firewall 4 95 (7.090 %) LAN 5 79 (5.896 %) TCP/IP 5 79 (5.896 %) VPN 6 76 (5.672 %) MPLS 7 59 (4.403 %) BSS 8 51 (3.806 %) PBX 9 44 (3.284 %) SDH 10 38 (2.836 %) Broadband 11 28 (2.090 %) Symposium 12 26 (1.940 %) IP Telephony 13 24 (1.791 %) DWDM 13 24 (1.791 %) DNS 14 23 (1.716 %) Nortel Meridian 15 21 (1.567 %) SAN 16 20 (1.493 %) Cisco IPT 17 19 (1.418 %) DSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 81 (6.045 %) RDBMS 2 78 (5.821 %) SQL Server 3 49 (3.657 %) Datawarehouse 4 46 (3.433 %) Oracle 10g 5 33 (2.463 %) MySQL 6 25 (1.866 %) BusinessObjects 7 24 (1.791 %) ETL 8 22 (1.642 %) Oracle 9i 8 22 (1.642 %) SQL Server 2000 9 19 (1.418 %) DB2 10 12 (0.896 %) SQL Server 2005 11 10 (0.746 %) SQL Server 7 12 9 (0.672 %) Oracle OWB 12 9 (0.672 %) Data Mining 13 7 (0.522 %) MS Access 14 6 (0.448 %) Data Cleansing 15 4 (0.299 %) Clementine 15 4 (0.299 %) Oracle 8/8i 15 4 (0.299 %) OLTP 15 4 (0.299 %) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications 1 19 (1.418 %) Eclipse 2 18 (1.343 %) Ant 3 7 (0.522 %) JUnit 4 6 (0.448 %) TestDirector 5 5 (0.373 %) Subversion 6 4 (0.299 %) NUnit 6 4 (0.299 %) QuickTest Pro 6 4 (0.299 %) LoadRunner 6 4 (0.299 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 3 (0.224 %) Bugzilla 7 3 (0.224 %) CruiseControl 8 2 (0.149 %) Oracle Forms 8 2 (0.149 %) jMock 9 1 (0.075 %) Visual Studio 9 1 (0.075 %) Dreamweaver 9 1 (0.075 %) OpenDeploy 9 1 (0.075 %) WinRunner 9 1 (0.075 %) JIRA	General 1 376 (28.06 %) Finance 2 200 (14.93 %) Banking 3 103 (7.687 %) Marketing 4 83 (6.194 %) Billing 5 73 (5.448 %) Retail 6 64 (4.776 %) Investment Banking 7 62 (4.627 %) Health 8 57 (4.254 %) Insurance 9 42 (3.134 %) Pensions 10 38 (2.836 %) Education 11 32 (2.388 %) Legal 12 29 (2.164 %) Front Office 13 27 (2.015 %) Electric 14 26 (1.940 %) Games 15 22 (1.642 %) Government 16 21 (1.567 %) Pharmaceutical 16 21 (1.567 %) Construction 17 11 (0.821 %) Back Office 18 10 (0.746 %) Retail Banking 19 9 (0.672 %) Law
Job Titles 1 201 (15.00 %) Developer 2 191 (14.25 %) Analyst 3 148 (11.04 %) Consultant 4 121 (9.030 %) Architect 5 102 (7.612 %) Project Manager 6 83 (6.194 %) Java Developer 7 68 (5.075 %) Business Analyst 8 44 (3.284 %) C++ Developer 9 42 (3.134 %) J2EE Developer 9 42 (3.134 %) Sales Consultant 9 42 (3.134 %) Presales Consultant 10 40 (2.985 %) Support Analyst 11 34 (2.537 %) Sybase Developer 12 32 (2.388 %) Administrator 12 32 (2.388 %) Network Engineer 13 31 (2.313 %) Senior Manager 13 31 (2.313 %) Telecoms Engineer 14 30 (2.239 %) Product Manager 14 30 (2.239 %) Team Leader 15 29 (2.164 %) Java/J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 44 (3.284 %) Fixed Income 2 42 (3.134 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 38 (2.836 %) Equities 4 33 (2.463 %) Derivative 5 31 (2.313 %) Computer Science 6 22 (1.642 %) Video Conferencing 7 20 (1.493 %) Multithreading 7 20 (1.493 %) Life Science 8 19 (1.418 %) PMI 9 15 (1.119 %) Credit Derivative 9 15 (1.119 %) Blackberry 10 11 (0.821 %) Clustering 10 11 (0.821 %) Credit Risk 11 10 (0.746 %) Client/Server 12 9 (0.672 %) Artificial Intelligence 12 9 (0.672 %) Economics 13 7 (0.522 %) Grid Computing 13 7 (0.522 %) Asset Management 14 6 (0.448 %) PDA 14 6 (0.448 %) VAX
Operating Systems 1 247 (18.43 %) Unix 2 165 (12.31 %) Windows 3 105 (7.836 %) Linux 4 91 (6.791 %) Solaris 5 46 (3.433 %) Windows 2000 6 40 (2.985 %) Windows NT 7 34 (2.537 %) Windows XP 8 15 (1.119 %) HPUX 9 10 (0.746 %) Windows Server 2003 10 9 (0.672 %) Windows CE 10 9 (0.672 %) FreeBSD 11 4 (0.299 %) Debian 12 3 (0.224 %) Symbian OS 13 2 (0.149 %) AIX 14 1 (0.075 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 132 (9.851 %) Project Management 2 98 (7.313 %) PRINCE2 3 97 (7.239 %) Service Delivery 4 80 (5.970 %) UML 4 80 (5.970 %) OO 5 73 (5.448 %) CRM 6 65 (4.851 %) SOA 7 52 (3.881 %) EAI 8 49 (3.657 %) Business Intelligence 8 49 (3.657 %) OOD 9 45 (3.358 %) Data Modelling 10 37 (2.761 %) Agile Software Development 11 35 (2.612 %) ITIL 11 35 (2.612 %) Business Development 12 32 (2.388 %) Service Management 13 30 (2.239 %) RAD 14 29 (2.164 %) Migration 15 26 (1.940 %) Network Design 16 24 (1.791 %) Programme Management 16 24 (1.791 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 271 (20.22 %) Java 2 198 (14.78 %) SQL 3 123 (9.179 %) C++ 4 75 (5.597 %) Perl 5 74 (5.522 %) C# 6 57 (4.254 %) C 7 51 (3.806 %) PL/SQL 8 27 (2.015 %) Shell Script 9 19 (1.418 %) VB 10 17 (1.269 %) Ruby 11 14 (1.045 %) Python 12 11 (0.821 %) PHP 13 10 (0.746 %) VB.NET 13 10 (0.746 %) Korn 14 6 (0.448 %) VB6 15 5 (0.373 %) JavaScript 16 3 (0.224 %) Delphi 16 3 (0.224 %) VBA 16 3 (0.224 %) VBScript 17 2 (0.149 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 92 (6.866 %) Degree 2 40 (2.985 %) Cisco Certification 3 30 (2.239 %) CCNP 4 25 (1.866 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 5 24 (1.791 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 20 (1.493 %) PMI Certification 7 16 (1.194 %) Microsoft Certification 7 16 (1.194 %) CCNA 8 15 (1.119 %) MCSE 9 13 (0.970 %) CCIE 10 12 (0.896 %) ISEB 11 10 (0.746 %) PhD 12 9 (0.672 %) CCVP 12 9 (0.672 %) IBM Certification 12 9 (0.672 %) PMP 13 5 (0.373 %) CCSE 13 5 (0.373 %) MCP 14 4 (0.299 %) HND 14 4 (0.299 %) Postgraduate 14 4 (0.299 %) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 55 (4.104 %) SLA 2 19 (1.418 %) QA 3 9 (0.672 %) Basel II 4 5 (0.373 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 39 (2.910 %) Active Directory 2 8 (0.597 %) Squid 3 7 (0.522 %) NetBackup 4 4 (0.299 %) Oracle RMAN 4 4 (0.299 %) Oracle RAC 5 3 (0.224 %) ISA Server 5 3 (0.224 %) Terminal Server 6 1 (0.075 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 26 (1.940 %) OpenView 2 20 (1.493 %) Netcool 3 13 (0.970 %) Tivoli 4 5 (0.373 %) Nagios 5 4 (0.299 %) BMC Marimba 6 3 (0.224 %) Netcool/Proviso 6 3 (0.224 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 6 3 (0.224 %) CiscoWorks 7 2 (0.149 %) CONTROL-M 7 2 (0.149 %) Norton AntiVirus 8 1 (0.075 %) WSUS 8 1 (0.075 %) CA SiteMinder 8 1 (0.075 %) Oracle Statspack	Vendors 1 270 (20.15 %) Oracle 2 138 (10.30 %) Cisco 3 89 (6.642 %) Microsoft 4 59 (4.403 %) Nortel 5 50 (3.731 %) Bloomberg 6 49 (3.657 %) Sybase 7 44 (3.284 %) Avaya 8 37 (2.761 %) Reuters 9 32 (2.388 %) SAP 10 26 (1.940 %) Amdocs 11 25 (1.866 %) Business Objects 12 24 (1.791 %) HP 13 23 (1.716 %) Infovista 14 22 (1.642 %) Red Hat 15 21 (1.567 %) Mitel 16 20 (1.493 %) Siebel 17 17 (1.269 %) CheckPoint 18 16 (1.194 %) Remedy 19 15 (1.119 %) Sun 20 14 (1.045 %) VERITAS