The first table below looks at the demand for NGN skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NGN 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Next Generation Network (NGN)
Rank 818 848 789
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -59
Permanent jobs citing NGN 12 15 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.012% 0.013% 0.060%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.061% 0.075% 0.378%
Number of salaries quoted 9 14 39
Average salary £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.00% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £60,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year
-15.00% +9.89%
All Communications & Networking
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
19754 20019 18514
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 19.59% 17.62% 15.84%
Number of salaries quoted 16094 16857 15453
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
NGN
UK

NGN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England NGN Jobs Demand Trend

NGN
Salary Trend

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

England NGN Salary Trend

NGN
Salary Histogram

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

England NGN Salary Histogram

NGN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NGN within the 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
South West - 6 £42,500 -
London +32 2 - -
East of England +2 2 £31,000 -47.23%
South East -2 2 £45,000 +12.50%
NGN
UK

NGN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 22 (78.57%) Telecoms
2 13 (46.43%) 3G
3 11 (39.29%) 2G
4 10 (35.71%) LTE
4 10 (35.71%) Ethernet
5 8 (28.57%) VoIP
5 8 (28.57%) SDH
5 8 (28.57%) Windows
5 8 (28.57%) 4G
6 7 (25.00%) GSM
6 7 (25.00%) LAN
6 7 (25.00%) UNIX
6 7 (25.00%) DWDM
6 7 (25.00%) MPLS
6 7 (25.00%) OSPF
7 6 (21.43%) Juniper
7 6 (21.43%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 6 (21.43%) IPv4
7 6 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (21.43%) Internet
7 6 (21.43%) DSL
7 6 (21.43%) VPN
7 6 (21.43%) DNS
7 6 (21.43%) SSL
7 6 (21.43%) Cisco
7 6 (21.43%) WAN
7 6 (21.43%) ATM
7 6 (21.43%) Python
7 6 (21.43%) Perl
7 6 (21.43%) IIS

NGN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (17.86%) WSH
2 1 (3.571%) Qt
2 1 (3.571%) XML
Application Platforms
1 6 (21.43%) IIS
2 1 (3.571%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.571%) Lync
2 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 13 (46.43%) 3G
2 11 (39.29%) 2G
3 10 (35.71%) Ethernet
3 10 (35.71%) LTE
4 8 (28.57%) 4G
4 8 (28.57%) VoIP
4 8 (28.57%) SDH
5 7 (25.00%) LAN
5 7 (25.00%) GSM
5 7 (25.00%) DWDM
5 7 (25.00%) MPLS
5 7 (25.00%) OSPF
6 6 (21.43%) Internet
6 6 (21.43%) DSL
6 6 (21.43%) Firewall
6 6 (21.43%) ATM
6 6 (21.43%) WAN
6 6 (21.43%) VPN
6 6 (21.43%) DNS
6 6 (21.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
General
1 22 (78.57%) Telecoms
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 1 (3.571%) Law
3 1 (3.571%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
1 6 (21.43%) Customer Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Test Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (17.86%) Systems Test Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Cisco Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Administrator
3 2 (7.143%) Business Development Manager
3 2 (7.143%) Account Director
3 2 (7.143%) Business Manager
3 2 (7.143%) Software Engineer
3 2 (7.143%) Development Manager
4 1 (3.571%) Senior Manager
4 1 (3.571%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.571%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (3.571%) Network Manager
4 1 (3.571%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (3.571%) Analyst
4 1 (3.571%) Consultant
4 1 (3.571%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Clustering
2 1 (3.571%) CESG
2 1 (3.571%) Economics
2 1 (3.571%) IPTV
2 1 (3.571%) CCTV
2 1 (3.571%) SCADA
2 1 (3.571%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.571%) NHS
2 1 (3.571%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Windows
2 7 (25.00%) UNIX
3 6 (21.43%) Windows 7
4 5 (17.86%) Windows XP
4 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (10.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Business Development
1 5 (17.86%) Load Balancing
2 3 (10.71%) Project Management
3 2 (7.143%) Service Delivery
3 2 (7.143%) Network Design
4 1 (3.571%) Network Planning
4 1 (3.571%) Competitor Analysis
4 1 (3.571%) Software Testing
4 1 (3.571%) Data Security
4 1 (3.571%) Information Security
4 1 (3.571%) Security Testing
4 1 (3.571%) Product Management
4 1 (3.571%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) Perl
1 6 (21.43%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.86%) SQL
3 3 (10.71%) C
4 2 (7.143%) C++
5 1 (3.571%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (3.571%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (3.571%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.571%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.571%) PMP
3 1 (3.571%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.571%) CISA
3 1 (3.571%) CISM
3 1 (3.571%) CCNP
3 1 (3.571%) IRCA
3 1 (3.571%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) SLA
1 1 (3.571%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
1 5 (17.86%) Xen
1 5 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (17.86%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Juniper
1 6 (21.43%) Alcatel-Lucent
1 6 (21.43%) Cisco
2 5 (17.86%) Nortel
2 5 (17.86%) Siemens
2 5 (17.86%) VMware
2 5 (17.86%) Huawei
2 5 (17.86%) ZTE
2 5 (17.86%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 1 (3.571%) Microsoft
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