The first table below looks at the demand for UMTS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited UMTS over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)
Rank 137 136 103
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -33
Permanent jobs citing UMTS 8 15 67
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.326% 0.580% 2.024%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.262% 2.618% 8.313%
Number of salaries quoted 7 12 62
Average salary £75,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+66.66% +12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Communications & Networking
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
634 573 806
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 25.81% 22.17% 24.34%
Number of salaries quoted 471 423 578
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 £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
UMTS
East of England

UMTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire UMTS Jobs Demand Trend

UMTS
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire UMTS Salary Trend

UMTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UMTS across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Hertfordshire UMTS Salary Histogram

UMTS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UMTS within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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 +12 2 £72,500 +26.08%
Stevenage +7 2 £35,000 -22.22%
UMTS
East of England

UMTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing UMTS 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 UMTS.

1 7 (70.00%) FTP
1 7 (70.00%) HTTP
2 6 (60.00%) GPRS
3 5 (50.00%) DHCP
3 5 (50.00%) ADSL
3 5 (50.00%) Broadband
3 5 (50.00%) SNMP
3 5 (50.00%) VPN
3 5 (50.00%) DNS
3 5 (50.00%) Cisco
3 5 (50.00%) IPv6
3 5 (50.00%) CCIE
3 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (50.00%) Network Design
3 5 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 5 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (50.00%) LTE
3 5 (50.00%) VSAT
3 5 (50.00%) Cisco UCCE
3 5 (50.00%) Verint
3 5 (50.00%) HSRP
4 4 (40.00%) Handset
4 4 (40.00%) VxWorks
4 4 (40.00%) C
5 3 (30.00%) Juniper
5 3 (30.00%) Electronics
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (30.00%) Degree
5 3 (30.00%) Strategic Planning

UMTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing UMTS 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 UMTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) FTP
1 7 (70.00%) HTTP
2 6 (60.00%) GPRS
3 5 (50.00%) DHCP
3 5 (50.00%) ADSL
3 5 (50.00%) Broadband
3 5 (50.00%) SNMP
3 5 (50.00%) VPN
3 5 (50.00%) DNS
3 5 (50.00%) IPv6
3 5 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (50.00%) LTE
3 5 (50.00%) VSAT
3 5 (50.00%) HSRP
4 2 (20.00%) NAS
4 2 (20.00%) Firewall
4 2 (20.00%) RTP
4 2 (20.00%) ASN.1
5 1 (10.00%) GSM
5 1 (10.00%) WCDMA
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (10.00%) ClearQuest
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Electronics
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Network Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Operations Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Network Operations Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Network Services Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Service Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Network Design
1 5 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) CCIE
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco
1 5 (50.00%) Verint
2 3 (30.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 1 (10.00%) Agilent
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Rewarding opportunity for a Degree qualified Senior Engineer with a solid background of working on Protocol development ( LTE / UMTS ) and with good experience of real-time embedded application...
Technical Futures
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum Dep on Experience
Posted: 17 May 2013