The first table below looks at the demand for PSTN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PSTN 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
Public Switched Telecom Network (PSTN)
Rank 136 148 162
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +14
Permanent jobs citing PSTN 7 2 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.285% 0.079% 0.182%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.095% 0.361% 0.743%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
Average salary £23,500 £43,750 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-46.28% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -30.00%
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%
PSTN
East of England

PSTN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire PSTN Jobs Demand Trend

PSTN
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire PSTN Salary Trend

PSTN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PSTN 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
St Albans -6 3 - -
Watford - 3 £23,500 -
PSTN
East of England

PSTN
Top 26 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (63.64%) MS Office
1 7 (63.64%) VoIP
1 7 (63.64%) Telecoms
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco UCCX
2 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
2 4 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (36.36%) Wireless
2 4 (36.36%) Supplier Management
2 4 (36.36%) VLAN
2 4 (36.36%) iPhone
2 4 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (36.36%) MS Excel
2 4 (36.36%) Broadband
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) Apple
2 4 (36.36%) DSL
2 4 (36.36%) H.323
3 3 (27.27%) 3G
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) LAN
3 3 (27.27%) PBX
3 3 (27.27%) WAN
3 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
3 3 (27.27%) Windows
3 3 (27.27%) Service Management
4 1 (9.091%) Unified Communications

PSTN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 7 (63.64%) MS Office
2 4 (36.36%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) VoIP
2 4 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (36.36%) Wireless
2 4 (36.36%) VLAN
2 4 (36.36%) Broadband
2 4 (36.36%) DSL
2 4 (36.36%) H.323
3 3 (27.27%) 3G
3 3 (27.27%) LAN
3 3 (27.27%) PBX
3 3 (27.27%) WAN
3 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (9.091%) Unified Communications
General
1 7 (63.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Voice Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Support Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Telephony Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) VoIP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
1 4 (36.36%) Supplier Management
2 3 (27.27%) Service Management
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco
1 4 (36.36%) Apple
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft