The first 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 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
3G
Rank 566 504 491
Rank change year-on-year
-62 -13
Permanent jobs citing 3G 286 391 396
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.283% 0.345% 0.336%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.449% 1.958% 2.102%
Number of salaries quoted 153 317 261
Average salary £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.12% -1.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,200 £30,000 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+11.76% -
All Communications & Networking
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
19732 19973 18837
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 19.51% 17.62% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 16042 16804 15735
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
3G
UK

3G
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 3G Jobs Demand Trend

3G
Salary Trend

This 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

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

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 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
South East -16 160 £50,000 +11.11%
London +23 45 £32,500 -27.77%
South West +8 35 £50,000 +11.11%
East of England -31 29 £37,500 -11.76%
West Midlands -21 9 £36,250 +20.83%
North West 0 3 £18,000 -70.00%
Yorkshire -8 1 £35,000 -2.77%
North East - 1 £41,500 -
3G
UK

3G
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

1 269 (52.54%) Telecoms
2 148 (28.91%) LTE
3 142 (27.73%) 2G
4 129 (25.20%) Windows
5 120 (23.44%) Degree
6 119 (23.24%) 4G
7 118 (23.05%) GSM
7 118 (23.05%) Wireless
8 109 (21.29%) Cisco
9 105 (20.51%) Radio Access Network
10 90 (17.58%) Internet
11 72 (14.06%) Ethernet
11 72 (14.06%) Linux
12 71 (13.87%) TCP/IP
13 70 (13.67%) Broadband
14 69 (13.48%) Microsoft
15 68 (13.28%) VPN
16 67 (13.09%) MPLS
17 66 (12.89%) WAN
18 65 (12.70%) Project Management
19 63 (12.30%) Validation
20 62 (12.11%) DNS
21 58 (11.33%) VoIP
22 57 (11.13%) C
23 56 (10.94%) Blackberry
24 53 (10.35%) Cisco Certification
25 52 (10.16%) UMTS
26 51 (9.961%) Network Design
27 50 (9.766%) LAN
27 50 (9.766%) Firewall

3G
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 18 (3.516%) HTML
2 11 (2.148%) Web Services
3 10 (1.953%) XHTML
4 7 (1.367%) STL
4 7 (1.367%) Middleware
5 6 (1.172%) SOAP
6 5 (0.977%) .NET
6 5 (0.977%) WSH
7 4 (0.781%) Cocoa
7 4 (0.781%) Qt
7 4 (0.781%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (0.586%) XML
8 3 (0.586%) CORBA
8 3 (0.586%) CGI
9 2 (0.391%) MFC
9 2 (0.391%) soapUI
9 2 (0.391%) REST
10 1 (0.195%) .NET Compact Framework
10 1 (0.195%) iOS SDK
10 1 (0.195%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 32 (6.250%) MS Exchange
2 15 (2.930%) Exchange Server 2003
3 13 (2.539%) Apache
4 12 (2.344%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (1.953%) WebLogic
6 7 (1.367%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 7 (1.367%) CMS
7 6 (1.172%) WorkSite
7 6 (1.172%) Exchange Server 2007
7 6 (1.172%) Lync
8 5 (0.977%) IIS
9 4 (0.781%) SAS
10 3 (0.586%) Office Communications Server
10 3 (0.586%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.586%) NetWeaver
10 3 (0.586%) Site Server
11 2 (0.391%) Exchange Server 2000
11 2 (0.391%) Confluence
12 1 (0.195%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.195%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 45 (8.789%) MS Office
2 28 (5.469%) MS Excel
3 14 (2.734%) MS PowerPoint
4 5 (0.977%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.781%) XMetaL
5 4 (0.781%) FrameMaker
6 2 (0.391%) Simulink
6 2 (0.391%) MS Project
7 1 (0.195%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.758%) assyst
2 3 (0.586%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.195%) Metrica
3 1 (0.195%) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking
1 148 (28.91%) LTE
2 142 (27.73%) 2G
3 119 (23.24%) 4G
4 118 (23.05%) GSM
4 118 (23.05%) Wireless
5 105 (20.51%) Radio Access Network
6 90 (17.58%) Internet
7 72 (14.06%) Ethernet
8 71 (13.87%) TCP/IP
9 70 (13.67%) Broadband
10 68 (13.28%) VPN
11 67 (13.09%) MPLS
12 66 (12.89%) WAN
13 62 (12.11%) DNS
14 58 (11.33%) VoIP
15 52 (10.16%) UMTS
16 50 (9.766%) LAN
16 50 (9.766%) Firewall
17 47 (9.180%) WCDMA
18 42 (8.203%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.102%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.125%) MySQL
3 3 (0.586%) SQL Server 7
3 3 (0.586%) SQL Server 2000
3 3 (0.586%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (0.391%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 2 (0.391%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (0.391%) GIS
5 1 (0.195%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.195%) MS Access
5 1 (0.195%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.195%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (2.344%) Subversion
2 10 (1.953%) ClearCase
3 8 (1.563%) GCC
4 6 (1.172%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.977%) JIRA
5 5 (0.977%) Xcode
6 4 (0.781%) XMLSpy
6 4 (0.781%) GDB
6 4 (0.781%) Trac
7 3 (0.586%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.586%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.391%) Selenium
8 2 (0.391%) ClearQuest
8 2 (0.391%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.391%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.195%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 269 (52.54%) Telecoms
2 35 (6.836%) Electronics
3 31 (6.055%) Billing
4 30 (5.859%) Back Office
5 25 (4.883%) Finance
6 18 (3.516%) Legal
6 18 (3.516%) Retail
7 15 (2.930%) Law
8 10 (1.953%) Marketing
9 8 (1.563%) Military
9 8 (1.563%) Spanish Language
10 6 (1.172%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.977%) Advertising
12 4 (0.781%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.781%) French Language
12 4 (0.781%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.586%) Automotive
14 1 (0.195%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.195%) Interactive Media
14 1 (0.195%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 38 (7.422%) Software Engineer
2 37 (7.227%) Design Engineer
3 36 (7.031%) Analyst
3 36 (7.031%) IP Engineer
4 28 (5.469%) Principal Engineer
5 27 (5.273%) Test Engineer
5 27 (5.273%) Voice Engineer
6 24 (4.688%) Architect
7 23 (4.492%) IT Support
8 22 (4.297%) Network Engineer
9 21 (4.102%) Support Engineer
10 20 (3.906%) Support Analyst
11 18 (3.516%) Customer Engineer
11 18 (3.516%) RAN Engineer
11 18 (3.516%) 3G Engineer
12 17 (3.320%) Security Engineer
13 15 (2.930%) Team Leader
14 13 (2.539%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (2.539%) IT Support Analyst
15 12 (2.344%) DSP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.94%) Blackberry
2 31 (6.055%) Smartphone
3 29 (5.664%) iPhone
4 28 (5.469%) Handset
5 21 (4.102%) Computer Science
6 18 (3.516%) Management Information System
7 16 (3.125%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.539%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
9 11 (2.148%) iPad
9 11 (2.148%) Embedded Systems
9 11 (2.148%) Device Driver
9 11 (2.148%) Clustering
10 8 (1.563%) Verilog
11 7 (1.367%) Video Conferencing
11 7 (1.367%) SecurID
11 7 (1.367%) Mathematics
11 7 (1.367%) Physics
12 6 (1.172%) Open Source
12 6 (1.172%) Mobile Computing
13 5 (0.977%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 129 (25.20%) Windows
2 72 (14.06%) Linux
3 44 (8.594%) UNIX
4 40 (7.813%) Windows XP
5 36 (7.031%) Windows 7
6 27 (5.273%) Android
7 24 (4.688%) Windows Server 2003
8 18 (3.516%) Windows Server 2008
9 14 (2.734%) Solaris
9 14 (2.734%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (1.953%) Apple iOS
11 8 (1.563%) Windows Mobile
12 7 (1.367%) Embedded Linux
13 5 (0.977%) Windows Vista
14 4 (0.781%) Windows 2000
14 4 (0.781%) Windows 8
15 3 (0.586%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.586%) Debian
16 1 (0.195%) Windows 2000 Server
16 1 (0.195%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (12.70%) Project Management
2 63 (12.30%) Validation
3 51 (9.961%) Network Design
4 47 (9.180%) ITIL
5 35 (6.836%) CRM
6 33 (6.445%) Performance Management
7 31 (6.055%) Capacity Management
8 25 (4.883%) Service Delivery
8 25 (4.883%) Change Management
9 17 (3.320%) Capacity Planning
9 17 (3.320%) Network Planning
9 17 (3.320%) Problem Management
10 16 (3.125%) Fault Management
11 15 (2.930%) Network Management
12 14 (2.734%) Network Architecture
12 14 (2.734%) Signal Processing
13 13 (2.539%) Content Management
14 12 (2.344%) Performance Testing
14 12 (2.344%) Software Engineering
14 12 (2.344%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (11.13%) C
2 41 (8.008%) Perl
3 39 (7.617%) C++
4 35 (6.836%) SQL
5 24 (4.688%) Python
6 20 (3.906%) Embedded C
7 18 (3.516%) Java
7 18 (3.516%) PHP
8 14 (2.734%) MATLAB
9 11 (2.148%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.148%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.172%) Embedded C++
10 6 (1.172%) C#
11 4 (0.781%) Objective-C
11 4 (0.781%) Ruby
11 4 (0.781%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.586%) Bash shell
12 3 (0.586%) PowerHouse
12 3 (0.586%) PHP5
13 2 (0.391%) VC++
Qualifications
1 120 (23.44%) Degree
2 53 (10.35%) Cisco Certification
3 30 (5.859%) CCNA
4 24 (4.688%) CCNP
5 21 (4.102%) CCIP
6 12 (2.344%) ISEB
6 12 (2.344%) PhD
6 12 (2.344%) CCIE
6 12 (2.344%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.953%) CCSA
7 10 (1.953%) CCDP
8 8 (1.563%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.367%) MCSE
9 7 (1.367%) PMP
9 7 (1.367%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.367%) CCSE
10 6 (1.172%) MCSA
10 6 (1.172%) SC Cleared
10 6 (1.172%) Security Cleared
11 4 (0.781%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (9.570%) SLA
2 17 (3.320%) ISO 9001
3 10 (1.953%) QA
4 9 (1.758%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.781%) ISO 9000
6 3 (0.586%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.195%) JTAG
System Software
1 47 (9.180%) Active Directory
2 26 (5.078%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.320%) ProxySG
4 9 (1.758%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (1.758%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.758%) Xen
5 7 (1.367%) Terminal Services
6 6 (1.172%) VMware ESX
7 3 (0.586%) FreeRADIUS
7 3 (0.586%) vSphere
7 3 (0.586%) Squid
8 1 (0.195%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (2.344%) HP NNM
1 12 (2.344%) OpenView
1 12 (2.344%) CiscoWorks
2 9 (1.758%) Sysprep
2 9 (1.758%) HP Quality Center
2 9 (1.758%) Backup Exec
3 4 (0.781%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (0.586%) FortiGate
4 3 (0.586%) McAfee ePO
4 3 (0.586%) Puppet
4 3 (0.586%) ZABBIX
4 3 (0.586%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.391%) ARCserve
6 1 (0.195%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.195%) SCCM
6 1 (0.195%) WSUS
6 1 (0.195%) DameWare
Vendors
1 109 (21.29%) Cisco
2 69 (13.48%) Microsoft
3 38 (7.422%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 37 (7.227%) HP
5 35 (6.836%) Ericsson
6 29 (5.664%) Juniper
7 26 (5.078%) Huawei
7 26 (5.078%) VMware
7 26 (5.078%) Redback
8 25 (4.883%) CheckPoint
9 22 (4.297%) Nokia
10 18 (3.516%) Oracle
10 18 (3.516%) F5
11 17 (3.320%) Blue Coat
12 16 (3.125%) Citrix
13 14 (2.734%) Cramer
13 14 (2.734%) Red Hat
14 11 (2.148%) BT
15 10 (1.953%) Apple
16 8 (1.563%) Siemens
Amersham, Thames Valley
My client is leading the UK in network management and delivery of 4G technologies.As a Transmission Planner you will be responsible for auditing the transmission design and...
Fulcrum Telecom
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 2 May 2013
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
Fleet, Hampshire
LTE Layer2 protocol development, Embedded C/C++, Real Time OS, Knowledge of telecommunications protocols... C.Analysis of LTE/3G/2G specifications... 3.Ability to program in C/C++.
Connectus
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cambridge
Customer Support Engineer - Client-facing; Ethernet / Network / Wireless; Communications; On-call; International Travel... Requirements: - Degree qualified in a relevant subject (Computer Science / Electronics or similar). - Experience in setting...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: £0 - £50,000 per year
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
Fleet, Hampshire
Anite Telecoms provides specialist handset and system solutions to customers within the telecoms sector... Working at Anite... An exciting and challenging role working in the team involved in...
Anite Telecoms Limited
Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 29 April 2013
Fleet, Hampshire
Working at Anite... Gain practical C/C++ programming experience. Design and develop of Windows applications in C / C++ to support test case execution... Participate in the design of...
Anite Telecoms Limited
Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 29 April 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Principal Voice CS Core Design Lead / Architect ideally who has managed small teams but is also a technical specialist in the Circuit Switched Core / CS Core particularly ideally...
Opus Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + £6k Car Allow + Bonus to 20%
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
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
Maidenhead, Berkshire
Key skills required include some of two or more of the following *3G Mobile Packet Core architecture *3G Circuit Switched Core architecture *CS Voice, messaging or popular internet...
Opus Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £55000 - £62000 per annum + £6k Car Allow + Bonus to 20%
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
Reading, Berkshire
Junior Project Engineer - Handsets / Devices / Quality of Service / Drive Test / Field Test - Telecoms... Key Skills: Previous experience in field test / drive test / mobile handset testing would be advantageous.....
Prosper Consulting
Salary: From £18,000 to £25,000 per annum DOE + Excellent Corporate Package
Posted: 17 May 2013
Stockport, North West
Requirements for this position on a technical front are skills with the installation and operating of Microsoft Windows XP and 7, Windows Server, Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, an...
Salary: £16000.00 - £20000.00 per annum
Posted: 27 April 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
Stockport, North West
Requirements for this position on a technical front are skills with the installation and operating of Microsoft Windows XP and 7, Windows Server, Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, an...
Salary: £17000 - £18000 per annum + Benefits package
Posted: 1 May 2013
Gloucestershire
It is an ideal position for someone with some IT support experience to advance their career and work within an exciting fast paced environment... Due to the nature...
ReThink Recruitment
Salary: £20000 - £25000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Somerset, South West
This includes MPLS VPN, IP Access and associated overlay services, such as Application Performance Management (APM), and IPSec VPN, delivered over xDSL, EFM (copper and fibre), Leased Line,...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: to £62k + 5% bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010 (although experience with other versions may be acceptable) Microsoft Office 365... Microsoft Active Directory. Microsoft SharePoint... Cisco knowledge. Linux/Unix knowledge... BES software...
Rockfield
Salary: From £30,000 to £37,000 per annum Pension, bonus, health etc
Posted: 21 May 2013
Somerset, South West
This includes MPLS VPN, IP Access and associated overlay services, such as Application Performance Management (APM), and IPSec VPN, delivered over xDSL, EFM (copper and fibre), Leased Line,...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: to £35K + 5% bonus + 20% shift allowance
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Summary: DSP algorithms, C, Assembler, 3G, wireless, VoIP, multimedia, Cambridge, to £60k + benefits.Global company with UK based design centres focussed on developing IC cores. This is a...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £55k
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Summary: DSP algorithms, C, Assembler, 3G, wireless, VoIP, multimedia, Cambridge, to £60k + benefits... As the Wireless DSP Engineer you will have a good technical degree probably from a...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £55k
Posted: 22 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Microsoft NT/Windows 2000 & XP. - Microsoft Office suite 2003, 2007 & 2010... - Document Management Systems (Interwoven)... - Remote device support including Blackberry, Mobile Phones, 3G, Citrix... MS Access, MS Project,...
Cogence Search
Salary: £20000 - £22000 per annum + bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Are you well versed in networking: Networking: VLANs, VPNs, MPLS, DNS, routing & switching, wireless (3G/WiFi) In terms of languages, have you got skills in Perl, PHP, Java,...
Ampersand Consulting
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Microsoft NT/Windows 2000 & XP. - Microsoft Office suite 2003, 2007 & 2010... - Document Management Systems (Interwoven)... - Remote device support including Blackberry, Mobile Phones, 3G, Citrix... MS Access, MS Project,...
Venturi
Salary: £20000 - £22500 per annum + Car, pension
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Identification of potential improvements to 3rd Line support - Actively communicate status of work items to team members - Deal with problems and incidents in timely fashion You will require...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013