Home Counties SDH Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) skills within the Home Counties region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SDH over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheltenham City of London Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Egham England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Home Counties Hull Leatherhead Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West Paignton Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wembley West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.041 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	1	0
Average minimum salary	£35,000	-
Average salary	£35,000	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£35,000	-
UK excluding London average salary	£41,105	£41,033
% change on same period last year	+0.17 %
Communications & Networking Home Counties
Matching permanent IT job ads	49	104
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.043 %
Salaries quoted	44	84
Average minimum salary	£41,525	£48,022
Average salary	£43,369	£51,864
% change on same period last year	-16.37 %
Average maximum salary	£45,213	£55,706
UK excluding London average salary	£37,397	£39,734
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
SDH South East

SDH
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SDH across the Home Counties region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SDH
Salary Trend

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

SDH
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Home Counties 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 2 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 2 (100.00 %) Nortel 1 2 (100.00 %) DWDM 1 2 (100.00 %) Project Management 1 2 (100.00 %) Telecoms 2 1 (50.00 %) C

SDH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Home Counties 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.

Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (100.00 %) DWDM
General 1 2 (100.00 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Design Engineer 1 2 (100.00 %) Radio Access Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (50.00 %) C
Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) Nortel