The first table below looks at the demand for GSM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GSM over the 3 months to 21 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
Rank 141 138 113
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -25
Permanent jobs citing GSM 2 12 55
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.081% 0.476% 1.669%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.313% 2.166% 6.807%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 49
Average salary £39,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.23% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,800 £37,850 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,200 £50,750 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+23.45% +1.25%
All Communications & Networking
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
639 554 808
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 26.00% 21.99% 24.51%
Number of salaries quoted 477 407 580
Average salary £42,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.17% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £63,750 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
GSM
East of England

GSM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire GSM Jobs Demand Trend

GSM
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire GSM Salary Trend

GSM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GSM across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Hertfordshire GSM Salary Histogram

GSM
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GSM within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Watford - 2 £39,000 -
GSM
East of England

GSM
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing GSM 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 GSM.

1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) PBX
2 3 (60.00%) VoIP
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Nortel
2 3 (60.00%) Avaya
2 3 (60.00%) SS7
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Agilent
3 1 (20.00%) LTE
3 1 (20.00%) Product Management
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 1 (20.00%) Electronics
3 1 (20.00%) ISUP
3 1 (20.00%) INAP
3 1 (20.00%) Assembly Language
3 1 (20.00%) Motorola
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) WCDMA
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) UMTS
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) GPRS

GSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing GSM 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 GSM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) PBX
1 3 (60.00%) VoIP
1 3 (60.00%) SS7
2 1 (20.00%) LTE
2 1 (20.00%) ISUP
2 1 (20.00%) INAP
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) WCDMA
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) UMTS
2 1 (20.00%) GPRS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Voice Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Voice Network Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Voice Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Support
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Network Design
1 1 (20.00%) Product Management
1 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (20.00%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) Nortel
1 3 (60.00%) Avaya
2 1 (20.00%) Agilent
2 1 (20.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 1 (20.00%) Motorola