The first table below looks at the demand for WCDMA 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 WCDMA over the 3 months to 20 June 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA)
Rank 247 251 228
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -23
Permanent jobs citing WCDMA 9 19 53
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.110% 0.226% 0.533%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.521% 1.255% 2.784%
Number of salaries quoted 2 19 53
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +12.50%
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1727 1514 1904
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 21.17% 17.97% 19.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1369 1259 1528
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,050 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WCDMA
England

WCDMA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England WCDMA Jobs Demand Trend

WCDMA
Salary Trend

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

East of England WCDMA Salary Trend

WCDMA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCDMA within the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridgeshire - 6 - -
Hertfordshire -7 3 £42,500 -5.55%
WCDMA
England

WCDMA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing WCDMA 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 WCDMA.

1 21 (75.00%) LTE
2 19 (67.86%) GSM
2 19 (67.86%) Degree
3 17 (60.71%) Validation
4 14 (50.00%) C
4 14 (50.00%) 3G
5 13 (46.43%) Wireless
6 12 (42.86%) GPRS
6 12 (42.86%) 2G
7 10 (35.71%) 3GPP
7 10 (35.71%) HSPA
8 9 (32.14%) Perl
8 9 (32.14%) Python
8 9 (32.14%) MATLAB
8 9 (32.14%) Anite
8 9 (32.14%) Software Engineering
9 8 (28.57%) UMTS
10 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
10 7 (25.00%) System Testing
11 5 (17.86%) SystemC
11 5 (17.86%) Embedded C
11 5 (17.86%) Assembly Language
11 5 (17.86%) C++
11 5 (17.86%) VHDL
11 5 (17.86%) Verilog
12 4 (14.29%) TETRA
12 4 (14.29%) Simulink
12 4 (14.29%) DECT
12 4 (14.29%) 4G
12 4 (14.29%) JTAG

WCDMA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 21 (75.00%) LTE
2 19 (67.86%) GSM
3 14 (50.00%) 3G
4 13 (46.43%) Wireless
5 12 (42.86%) GPRS
5 12 (42.86%) 2G
6 10 (35.71%) 3GPP
6 10 (35.71%) HSPA
7 8 (28.57%) UMTS
8 4 (14.29%) TETRA
8 4 (14.29%) DECT
8 4 (14.29%) 4G
9 3 (10.71%) NAS
9 3 (10.71%) WiMAX
10 2 (7.143%) OFDM
10 2 (7.143%) MIMO
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) ClearCase
2 2 (7.143%) ClearQuest
General
1 3 (10.71%) Electronics
2 1 (3.571%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Software Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Verification Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) Development Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) Senior Development Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) DSP Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Design Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior FPGA Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Design Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) FPGA Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) FPGA Design Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Wireless Architect
6 2 (7.143%) Test Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Architect
6 2 (7.143%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Principal Architect
7 1 (3.571%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) DSP Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) SystemC
1 5 (17.86%) VHDL
1 5 (17.86%) Verilog
2 4 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (10.71%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 2 (7.143%) ASIC
5 1 (3.571%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Validation
2 9 (32.14%) Software Engineering
3 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 7 (25.00%) System Testing
4 2 (7.143%) Digital Signal Processing
4 2 (7.143%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) C
2 9 (32.14%) Perl
2 9 (32.14%) Python
2 9 (32.14%) MATLAB
3 5 (17.86%) Embedded C
3 5 (17.86%) Assembly Language
3 5 (17.86%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (67.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) JTAG
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Anite
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