The first table below looks at the demand for UMTS 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 UMTS over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)
Rank 250 218 187
Rank change year-on-year
-32 -31
Permanent jobs citing UMTS 19 54 75
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.230% 0.621% 0.790%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.072% 3.354% 4.030%
Number of salaries quoted 17 32 70
Average salary £52,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,400 £30,750 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £52,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1772 1610 1861
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 21.43% 18.51% 19.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1427 1278 1501
Average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £27,616 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
UMTS
England

UMTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England UMTS Jobs Demand Trend

UMTS
Salary Trend

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

East of England UMTS Salary Trend

UMTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UMTS across the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England UMTS Salary Histogram

UMTS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UMTS within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 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 +1 8 £50,000 +25.00%
Hertfordshire -1 8 £75,000 +66.66%
Bedfordshire -39 3 £55,000 +37.50%
UMTS
England

UMTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing UMTS 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 UMTS.

1 15 (68.18%) GPRS
2 12 (54.55%) LTE
3 10 (45.45%) C
3 10 (45.45%) Wireless
4 9 (40.91%) Degree
5 8 (36.36%) C++
5 8 (36.36%) GSM
6 7 (31.82%) FTP
6 7 (31.82%) HTTP
7 6 (27.27%) 3GPP
7 6 (27.27%) 3G
7 6 (27.27%) Electronics
8 5 (22.73%) Finance
8 5 (22.73%) Network Design
8 5 (22.73%) ADSL
8 5 (22.73%) Broadband
8 5 (22.73%) Embedded C
8 5 (22.73%) IPv6
8 5 (22.73%) CCIE
8 5 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (22.73%) DHCP
8 5 (22.73%) WCDMA
8 5 (22.73%) SNMP
8 5 (22.73%) VPN
8 5 (22.73%) DNS
8 5 (22.73%) Cisco
8 5 (22.73%) Windows
8 5 (22.73%) Load Balancing
8 5 (22.73%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (22.73%) VSAT

UMTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing UMTS 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 UMTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 15 (68.18%) GPRS
2 12 (54.55%) LTE
3 10 (45.45%) Wireless
4 8 (36.36%) GSM
5 7 (31.82%) FTP
5 7 (31.82%) HTTP
6 6 (27.27%) 3GPP
6 6 (27.27%) 3G
7 5 (22.73%) WCDMA
7 5 (22.73%) DHCP
7 5 (22.73%) SNMP
7 5 (22.73%) VPN
7 5 (22.73%) DNS
7 5 (22.73%) IPv6
7 5 (22.73%) VSAT
7 5 (22.73%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (22.73%) ADSL
7 5 (22.73%) Broadband
7 5 (22.73%) HSRP
8 3 (13.64%) OFDM
Development Applications
1 2 (9.091%) LabVIEW
2 1 (4.545%) ClearCase
2 1 (4.545%) ClearQuest
General
1 6 (27.27%) Electronics
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 2 (9.091%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Network Manager
2 4 (18.18%) DSP Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Operations Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Design Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Test Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Team Leader
3 3 (13.64%) Development Team Leader
3 3 (13.64%) C++ Team Leader
3 3 (13.64%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) FPGA Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Network Operations Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Senior FPGA Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Design Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) Software Test Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) Network Services Manager
4 2 (9.091%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Senior Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Handset
2 3 (13.64%) VHDL
2 3 (13.64%) Verilog
2 3 (13.64%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 3 (13.64%) SystemC
3 2 (9.091%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) VxWorks
3 2 (9.091%) Windows 7
3 2 (9.091%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Network Design
1 5 (22.73%) Load Balancing
2 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 3 (13.64%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (13.64%) Change Management
3 3 (13.64%) OO
3 3 (13.64%) Performance Management
3 3 (13.64%) Digital Signal Processing
3 3 (13.64%) Signal Processing
3 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (13.64%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (9.091%) Test Automation
4 2 (9.091%) E-Commerce
4 2 (9.091%) Project Management
4 2 (9.091%) Test Management
4 2 (9.091%) Regression Testing
4 2 (9.091%) Validation
4 2 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (9.091%) Information Security
4 2 (9.091%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) C
2 8 (36.36%) C++
3 5 (22.73%) Embedded C
4 3 (13.64%) MATLAB
5 2 (9.091%) Python
6 1 (4.545%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Degree
2 5 (22.73%) CCIE
2 5 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (13.64%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) ISO 9000
2 2 (9.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.091%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Cisco
1 5 (22.73%) Verint
2 3 (13.64%) Juniper
3 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.545%) Agilent
4 1 (4.545%) Nokia Siemens Networks
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Rewarding opportunity for a Degree qualified Senior Engineer with a solid background of working on Protocol development ( LTE / UMTS ) and with good experience of real-time embedded application...
Technical Futures
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum Dep on Experience
Posted: 17 May 2013
Bedfordshire
Mandatory technical skills for this role are: C++, UMTS, Layer 2 & 3 Exp... Use of configuration and change management methods... Software design and development using C++ (> 5 yrs)...
Firway Consulting
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum Circa £55k + Substantial Large Company Bens
Posted: 16 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 April 2013