Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for 3G skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited 3G over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the England region.

 3G
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank484425499
Rank change year-on-year
Down-59Up+74
Matching permanent IT job ads183249533
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England0.225 %0.311 %0.277 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category1.554 %1.815 %1.629 %
Salaries quoted125124394
Average salary£45,000£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,500£29,150£29,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£52,500£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£45,000£40,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+12.50 %-
England IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
117771371632722
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England14.49 %17.10 %17.01 %
Salaries quoted98301155927545
Average salary£40,000£37,500£38,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-1.960 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,500£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
3G UK3G
UK

3G
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing 3G across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

England 3G Demand Trend

3G
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing 3G across the England region.

England 3G Salary Trend

3G
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing 3G across the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

England 3G Salary Histogram

3G
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3G within the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South EastDown-6551£42,750+15.54 %
East of EnglandUp+838£36,750-26.50 %
LondonDown-4035£47,500+18.75 %
North WestUp+2831£45,000-
South WestUp+1116£60,000+60.00 %
West MidlandsUp+134£38,500+28.33 %
North EastNew entry-2£45,000-
East MidlandsUp+51£22,500-23.72 %
MidlandsDown-11--
3G UK3G
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3G
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the England region citing 3G 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 3G.

1133 (42.63 %)Telecoms
298 (31.41 %)2G
371 (22.76 %)GSM
455 (17.63 %)C++
552 (16.67 %)GPRS
651 (16.35 %)Wireless
749 (15.71 %)Blackberry
749 (15.71 %)C
848 (15.38 %)3GPP
947 (15.06 %)Ericsson
947 (15.06 %)Degree
1045 (14.42 %)Windows
1141 (13.14 %)UMTS
1237 (11.86 %)VPN
1237 (11.86 %)Finance
1333 (10.58 %)Linux
1333 (10.58 %)LTE
1432 (10.26 %)MS Exchange
1432 (10.26 %)Nokia
1432 (10.26 %)Wi-Fi
1529 (9.295 %)HSDPA
1529 (9.295 %)Handset
1529 (9.295 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1529 (9.295 %)SSL
1529 (9.295 %)Problem Management
1628 (8.974 %)WAN
1628 (8.974 %)LAN
1725 (8.013 %)SQL
1725 (8.013 %)TCP/IP
1725 (8.013 %)Exchange Server 2007

3G
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the England region citing 3G 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 3G. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

England IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
113 (4.167 %)XML
25 (1.603 %).NET
34 (1.282 %)WAP
43 (0.962 %)NetBeans
43 (0.962 %)JSON
43 (0.962 %)HTML
43 (0.962 %)J2ME
52 (0.641 %)J2EE
52 (0.641 %)ASP.NET
61 (0.321 %)ATL
61 (0.321 %)COM
61 (0.321 %)CSS
61 (0.321 %)Web Services
61 (0.321 %)XHTML
61 (0.321 %)Silverlight
61 (0.321 %)AJAX
61 (0.321 %).NET Framework
61 (0.321 %)MAPI
61 (0.321 %)Cocoa
England IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
132 (10.26 %)MS Exchange
229 (9.295 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
325 (8.013 %)Exchange Server 2003
325 (8.013 %)Exchange Server 2007
42 (0.641 %)SharePoint
51 (0.321 %)Lotus Notes
51 (0.321 %)Lotus Domino
51 (0.321 %)Apache
51 (0.321 %)Tomcat
England IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
115 (4.808 %)MATLAB
29 (2.885 %)MS Office
37 (2.244 %)MS Excel
46 (1.923 %)Spreadsheet
54 (1.282 %)MS Visio
62 (0.641 %)MS Project
71 (0.321 %)FrameMaker
71 (0.321 %)MS PowerPoint
England IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (0.962 %)Singl.eView
England IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
198 (31.41 %)2G
271 (22.76 %)GSM
352 (16.67 %)GPRS
451 (16.35 %)Wireless
548 (15.38 %)3GPP
641 (13.14 %)UMTS
737 (11.86 %)VPN
833 (10.58 %)LTE
932 (10.26 %)Wi-Fi
1029 (9.295 %)HSDPA
1029 (9.295 %)SSL
1128 (8.974 %)WAN
1128 (8.974 %)LAN
1225 (8.013 %)HSUPA
1225 (8.013 %)TCP/IP
1317 (5.449 %)HSPA
1317 (5.449 %)SDH
1415 (4.808 %)WCDMA
1514 (4.487 %)VoIP
1514 (4.487 %)RNC
England IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (0.962 %)MS Access
13 (0.962 %)BusinessObjects
22 (0.641 %)GIS
22 (0.641 %)Oracle 9i
31 (0.321 %)SQL Server
31 (0.321 %)Informix
31 (0.321 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
31 (0.321 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
31 (0.321 %)SQL Server Integration Services
31 (0.321 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
31 (0.321 %)SQL Server 2008
31 (0.321 %)PerformancePoint
England IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (0.962 %)ClearCase
13 (0.962 %)Eclipse
13 (0.962 %)Rational Robot
21 (0.321 %)Visual Studio
21 (0.321 %)XMLSpy
England IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1133 (42.63 %)Telecoms
237 (11.86 %)Finance
316 (5.128 %)Front Office
411 (3.526 %)Marketing
59 (2.885 %)Billing
68 (2.564 %)Education
68 (2.564 %)Electric
77 (2.244 %)Electronics
77 (2.244 %)Construction
77 (2.244 %)Publishing
86 (1.923 %)Health
86 (1.923 %)Law
86 (1.923 %)Pensions
93 (0.962 %)Games
93 (0.962 %)Manufacturing
93 (0.962 %)Multimedia
101 (0.321 %)Investment Banking
101 (0.321 %)Insurance
101 (0.321 %)Banking
101 (0.321 %)Retail
England IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
129 (9.295 %)Software Engineer
227 (8.654 %)Analyst
323 (7.372 %)Support Specialist
422 (7.051 %)Blackberry Support
422 (7.051 %)RAN Engineer
520 (6.410 %)Developer
618 (5.769 %)Consultant
717 (5.449 %)Systems Engineer
815 (4.808 %)Test Engineer
815 (4.808 %)Principal Engineer
914 (4.487 %)Certification Manager
914 (4.487 %)Principal Systems Engineer
1012 (3.846 %)Support Engineer
1111 (3.526 %)Support Analyst
1111 (3.526 %)Test Manager
129 (2.885 %)Field Engineer
138 (2.564 %)Java Developer
138 (2.564 %)3G Engineer
147 (2.244 %)Transmission Planner
147 (2.244 %)Architect
England IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
149 (15.71 %)Blackberry
229 (9.295 %)Handset
323 (7.372 %)PDA
413 (4.167 %)Statistics
512 (3.846 %)Streaming Media
69 (2.885 %)Video Conferencing
77 (2.244 %)CMDB
85 (1.603 %)Semantic Web
85 (1.603 %)Computer Science
85 (1.603 %)Client/Server
93 (0.962 %)Mathematics
93 (0.962 %)Physics
102 (0.641 %)Russian Language
102 (0.641 %)Management Information System
111 (0.321 %)Device Driver
111 (0.321 %)Smartphone
111 (0.321 %)PMI
111 (0.321 %)EMV
111 (0.321 %)Smartcard
111 (0.321 %)Data Extraction
England IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
145 (14.42 %)Windows
233 (10.58 %)Linux
312 (3.846 %)Windows XP
411 (3.526 %)UNIX
59 (2.885 %)Red Hat Linux
67 (2.244 %)Ubuntu
75 (1.603 %)Windows Mobile
75 (1.603 %)Windows CE
82 (0.641 %)Windows Server 2003
82 (0.641 %)Android
91 (0.321 %)Embedded Linux
91 (0.321 %)Mac OS X
91 (0.321 %)Windows 2000
91 (0.321 %)AIX
91 (0.321 %)Solaris
England IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
129 (9.295 %)Problem Management
220 (6.410 %)Project Management
317 (5.449 %)CRM
317 (5.449 %)Software Engineering
415 (4.808 %)Validation
513 (4.167 %)Service Management
610 (3.205 %)Process Management
79 (2.885 %)Incident Management
79 (2.885 %)Web Development
79 (2.885 %)Unit Testing
88 (2.564 %)System Testing
97 (2.244 %)Investment Management
97 (2.244 %)Workflow
97 (2.244 %)Workflow Management
97 (2.244 %)RDF
106 (1.923 %)Configuration Management
106 (1.923 %)ITIL
106 (1.923 %)Rapid Prototyping
115 (1.603 %)Fund Management
115 (1.603 %)Test Scripting
England IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
155 (17.63 %)C++
249 (15.71 %)C
325 (8.013 %)SQL
422 (7.051 %)Java
518 (5.769 %)Perl
610 (3.205 %)Embedded C
78 (2.564 %)Groovy
87 (2.244 %)Python
87 (2.244 %)SPARQL
96 (1.923 %)C#
105 (1.603 %)TTCN
114 (1.282 %)Objective-C
123 (0.962 %)Shell Script
123 (0.962 %)PHP
123 (0.962 %)JavaScript
123 (0.962 %)VBScript
123 (0.962 %)VB
123 (0.962 %)VC++
132 (0.641 %)Assembly Language
132 (0.641 %)Tcl
England IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
147 (15.06 %)Degree
23 (0.962 %)Microsoft Certification
23 (0.962 %)MCP
32 (0.641 %)ISEB
32 (0.641 %)CISSP
32 (0.641 %)CISM
32 (0.641 %)ISEB Practitioner
41 (0.321 %)MOS
41 (0.321 %)PRINCE2 Certification
41 (0.321 %)ITIL Certification
41 (0.321 %)PMI Certification
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
114 (4.487 %)SLA
29 (2.885 %)QA
32 (0.641 %)PCI DSS
32 (0.641 %)ISO27001
32 (0.641 %)ISO17799
41 (0.321 %)ISO14443
41 (0.321 %)ISO7816
England IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
16 (1.923 %)Active Directory
England IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
16 (1.923 %)DameWare
25 (1.603 %)SCOM
31 (0.321 %)OpenView
England IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
147 (15.06 %)Ericsson
232 (10.26 %)Nokia
314 (4.487 %)Anite
413 (4.167 %)Microsoft
511 (3.526 %)Oracle
610 (3.205 %)Lucent
610 (3.205 %)Cramer
79 (2.885 %)Red Hat
87 (2.244 %)Reuters
87 (2.244 %)Bloomberg
87 (2.244 %)Tradeweb
95 (1.603 %)Nokia Siemens Networks
95 (1.603 %)Tandberg
95 (1.603 %)Altiris
95 (1.603 %)Alcatel
95 (1.603 %)HP
95 (1.603 %)Symbian
104 (1.282 %)Cisco
104 (1.282 %)Sun
113 (0.962 %)Business Objects