The first table below looks at the demand for SDH skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SDH over the 3 months to 23 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 Hampshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
Rank 155 173 167
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -6
Permanent jobs citing SDH 21 11 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.613% 0.286% 0.164%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.589% 1.279% 0.852%
Number of salaries quoted 17 8 1
Average salary £36,000 £50,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-23.00% +11.11%
All Communications & Networking
Hampshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
811 860 704
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 23.69% 22.39% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 649 758 572
Average salary £38,500 £41,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.09% +5.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SDH
South East

SDH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire SDH Jobs Demand Trend

SDH
Salary Trend

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

Hampshire SDH Salary Trend

SDH
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SDH across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Hampshire SDH Salary Histogram

SDH
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDH within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Basingstoke +2 17 £36,000 -28.00%
Winchester - 4 £49,000 -
SDH
South East

SDH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire region citing SDH 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 SDH.

1 29 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 20 (68.97%) Cisco
3 19 (65.52%) Juniper
3 19 (65.52%) Internet
3 19 (65.52%) SONET
3 19 (65.52%) MPLS
3 19 (65.52%) OSPF
3 19 (65.52%) BGP
3 19 (65.52%) Ethernet
3 19 (65.52%) TCP/IP
3 19 (65.52%) IPv6
3 19 (65.52%) VPLS
3 19 (65.52%) VLAN
3 19 (65.52%) HSRP
4 12 (41.38%) RSVP
5 7 (24.14%) DWDM
6 6 (20.69%) Degree
7 5 (17.24%) Veritas
7 5 (17.24%) SQL
7 5 (17.24%) Oracle
7 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
7 5 (17.24%) Sybase
7 5 (17.24%) UNIX
7 5 (17.24%) Solaris
7 5 (17.24%) Linux
8 3 (10.34%) ATM
8 3 (10.34%) HP
8 3 (10.34%) SLA
8 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
8 3 (10.34%) Symantec

SDH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire region citing SDH 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 SDH. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 19 (65.52%) Internet
1 19 (65.52%) SONET
1 19 (65.52%) MPLS
1 19 (65.52%) OSPF
1 19 (65.52%) BGP
1 19 (65.52%) Ethernet
1 19 (65.52%) TCP/IP
1 19 (65.52%) IPv6
1 19 (65.52%) VPLS
1 19 (65.52%) VLAN
1 19 (65.52%) HSRP
2 12 (41.38%) RSVP
3 7 (24.14%) DWDM
4 3 (10.34%) ATM
4 3 (10.34%) WAN
5 1 (3.448%) Wireless
5 1 (3.448%) HTTP
5 1 (3.448%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
General
1 29 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (10.34%) Billing
2 3 (10.34%) Finance
3 1 (3.448%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) IP Engineer
1 7 (24.14%) Provisioning Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Network Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Microwave Engineer
4 2 (6.897%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) Architect
5 1 (3.448%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.448%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (3.448%) Support Manager
5 1 (3.448%) Relationships Manager
5 1 (3.448%) Senior Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.448%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) UNIX
1 5 (17.24%) Solaris
1 5 (17.24%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (10.34%) Supplier Management
1 3 (10.34%) Financial Analysis
2 2 (6.897%) Service Delivery
3 1 (3.448%) ITIL
3 1 (3.448%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.448%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.448%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) SLA
Vendors
1 20 (68.97%) Cisco
2 19 (65.52%) Juniper
3 5 (17.24%) Veritas
3 5 (17.24%) Oracle
3 5 (17.24%) Sybase
4 3 (10.34%) HP
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.34%) Symantec
4 3 (10.34%) Huawei