The first table below looks at the demand for LTE skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LTE over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the East of England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)
Rank 235 189 151
Rank change year-on-year
-46 -38
Permanent jobs citing LTE 29 78 134
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.351% 0.897% 1.404%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.655% 4.872% 7.247%
Number of salaries quoted 14 53 134
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £40,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,750 £54,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +2.27%
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1752 1601 1849
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 21.20% 18.40% 19.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1404 1286 1483
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £27,616 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
LTE
England

LTE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing LTE across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

East of England LTE Jobs Demand Trend

LTE
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing LTE across the East of England region.

East of England LTE Salary Trend

LTE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LTE across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England LTE Salary Histogram

LTE
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LTE within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridgeshire +20 18 £51,250 +13.88%
Hertfordshire -18 8 £42,500 -5.55%
Bedfordshire -43 2 £37,500 -6.25%
LTE
England

LTE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing LTE also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited LTE.

1 38 (63.33%) 3GPP
1 38 (63.33%) Degree
2 26 (43.33%) Telecoms
3 20 (33.33%) WCDMA
4 16 (26.67%) GSM
4 16 (26.67%) C
4 16 (26.67%) Wireless
5 15 (25.00%) GPRS
5 15 (25.00%) 3G
6 14 (23.33%) Software Engineering
7 13 (21.67%) UMTS
7 13 (21.67%) MATLAB
8 12 (20.00%) Validation
9 11 (18.33%) Business Development
9 11 (18.33%) Handset
10 10 (16.67%) Anite
11 9 (15.00%) Electronics
11 9 (15.00%) Perl
11 9 (15.00%) C++
11 9 (15.00%) Python
11 9 (15.00%) ClearCase
12 7 (11.67%) Embedded C
13 6 (10.00%) ClearQuest
13 6 (10.00%) 2G
13 6 (10.00%) NAS
14 5 (8.333%) 4G
14 5 (8.333%) SystemC
14 5 (8.333%) Digital Signal Processing
14 5 (8.333%) Signal Processing
14 5 (8.333%) OFDM

LTE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing LTE also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited LTE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (3.333%) .NET
1 2 (3.333%) HTML
1 2 (3.333%) WPF
2 1 (1.667%) HTML5
2 1 (1.667%) jQuery
2 1 (1.667%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.667%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.667%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.333%) MS Excel
1 2 (3.333%) MS Visio
1 2 (3.333%) FrameMaker
1 2 (3.333%) XMetaL
2 1 (1.667%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 38 (63.33%) 3GPP
2 20 (33.33%) WCDMA
3 16 (26.67%) GSM
3 16 (26.67%) Wireless
4 15 (25.00%) GPRS
4 15 (25.00%) 3G
5 13 (21.67%) UMTS
6 6 (10.00%) 2G
6 6 (10.00%) NAS
7 5 (8.333%) 4G
7 5 (8.333%) OFDM
7 5 (8.333%) MIMO
8 4 (6.667%) HSPA
9 3 (5.000%) ASN.1
9 3 (5.000%) WiMAX
10 2 (3.333%) Ethernet
10 2 (3.333%) FTP
10 2 (3.333%) HTTP
10 2 (3.333%) HSDPA
10 2 (3.333%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.667%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (1.667%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) ClearCase
2 6 (10.00%) ClearQuest
3 2 (3.333%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.333%) XMLSpy
General
1 26 (43.33%) Telecoms
2 9 (15.00%) Electronics
3 3 (5.000%) Manufacturing
3 3 (5.000%) Marketing
4 1 (1.667%) Portuguese Language
4 1 (1.667%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Software Engineer
2 11 (18.33%) Development Manager
2 11 (18.33%) Business Manager
2 11 (18.33%) Business Development Manager
3 10 (16.67%) Senior Business Development Manager
3 10 (16.67%) Senior Business Manager
3 10 (16.67%) Verification Engineer
3 10 (16.67%) Senior Development Manager
3 10 (16.67%) Senior Manager
4 9 (15.00%) Test Engineer
5 5 (8.333%) DSP Engineer
6 4 (6.667%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 3 (5.000%) Senior FPGA Engineer
7 3 (5.000%) Senior Design Engineer
7 3 (5.000%) FPGA Engineer
7 3 (5.000%) Senior Test Engineer
7 3 (5.000%) Design Engineer
7 3 (5.000%) FPGA Design Engineer
8 2 (3.333%) Architect
8 2 (3.333%) Author
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Handset
2 5 (8.333%) SystemC
2 5 (8.333%) VHDL
2 5 (8.333%) Verilog
3 3 (5.000%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 2 (3.333%) ASIC
4 2 (3.333%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.333%) VxWorks
2 3 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.33%) Software Engineering
2 12 (20.00%) Validation
3 11 (18.33%) Business Development
4 5 (8.333%) Digital Signal Processing
4 5 (8.333%) Signal Processing
5 4 (6.667%) Competitor Analysis
6 3 (5.000%) Embedded Software Development
7 2 (3.333%) OO
7 2 (3.333%) Content Management
7 2 (3.333%) Multithreading
7 2 (3.333%) Manual Testing
8 1 (1.667%) Network Architecture
8 1 (1.667%) Product Marketing
8 1 (1.667%) Integration Testing
8 1 (1.667%) Network Planning
8 1 (1.667%) TDD
8 1 (1.667%) Project Management
8 1 (1.667%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.67%) C
2 13 (21.67%) MATLAB
3 9 (15.00%) Perl
3 9 (15.00%) C++
3 9 (15.00%) Python
4 7 (11.67%) Embedded C
5 3 (5.000%) Embedded C++
5 3 (5.000%) PowerHouse
6 2 (3.333%) C#
7 1 (1.667%) Ruby
7 1 (1.667%) Assembly Language
7 1 (1.667%) PHP
7 1 (1.667%) Java
7 1 (1.667%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 38 (63.33%) Degree
2 3 (5.000%) PhD
3 2 (3.333%) HNC
4 1 (1.667%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.667%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.333%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Anite
2 1 (1.667%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 1 (1.667%) Agilent
2 1 (1.667%) Cramer
2 1 (1.667%) Microsoft
South Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
Summary: LTE Test Engineer, 2G/3G/LTE experience needed, growing company, South Cambs, to £highly competitive + benefits... With a good degree in Electronics or Communications Engineering, Computing, Physics,...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £highly competitive + benefits
Posted: 26 April 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
We are part of the larger BlackBerry Cellular Technologies group, which provides support across the whole range of current and future wireless standards (2G, 2.5G, EDGE, evolved...
Blackberry
Salary: Competitive Salary + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
You will play a key part developing and optimising DSP algorithms in applications such as video and audio codecs, 3G, LTE and VoIP; with the chance to become...
Technical Futures
Salary: From £35,000 to £50,000 per annum Excellent Package with Shares
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Embedded software development is predominantly in C and Assembly programming with scripting using Python, Perl and Tcl... Desirables include processors, CPUs, real-time performance, cache memory systems, device...
ENTERPRISE RECRUITMENT LTD
Salary: From £30,000 to £70,000 per annum excellent benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Wireless embedded systems development and debugging. - C / C++ programming in a real-time environment. - Linux / Unix development... Desirables include processors, CPUs, real-time performance, cache memory systems, device...
ENTERPRISE RECRUITMENT LTD
Salary: £48000 to £65000 per annum - excellent package
Posted: 20 May 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
You will have the opportunity to work on market leading wireless, cellular and connectivity standards (WLAN, 80211AC, LTE, LTE-Advanced, HSPA+) on the company's innovative and technically...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: Competitive upon experience
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Any of EUTRA/LTE/GRPS/EDGE/UMTS/HSPA, WIMAX, Wifi, DECT, BT, CDMA, ISDN, TCP/UDP/RCP/IP, Ethernet, ADSL, etc. - Experience of programming in C/C++/C#... -...
Blackberry
Salary: Competitive + Comprehensive Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
We will consider candidates with experience of telecommunications networks (LTE, VoLTE) for a Telecoms Senior Business Development Manager to become part of our thriving and talented team based...
Understanding Recruitment
Posted: 19 May 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
The PC applications software group use the latest Windows development tools to contribute to the development of the GUI, control and measurement features in innovative, high performance, powerful...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: Competitive upon experience
Posted: 21 May 2013
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
NET Developer - Global Company - Fast track personal career development opportunities - Cutting Edge Technologies - Learn WPF - This is an opportunity to become part of the next generation of innovative...
Connectus
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013