The first table below looks at the demand for GSM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leatherhead region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GSM over the 3 months to 20 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 Leatherhead region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
Rank 40 42 24
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -18
Permanent jobs citing GSM 8 10 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leatherhead 3.587% 3.610% 4.505%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.53% 14.71% 13.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 5
Average salary £30,000 £41,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.27% +17.85%
UK excluding London average salary £49,000 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+20.98% +1.25%
All Communications & Networking
Leatherhead
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
34 68 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leatherhead 15.25% 24.55% 34.23%
Number of salaries quoted 23 65 37
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +53.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
GSM
Surrey

GSM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leatherhead 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 Leatherhead region.

Leatherhead GSM Salary Trend

GSM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leatherhead 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 25 (86.21%) UMTS
1 25 (86.21%) Telecoms
2 18 (62.07%) Wireless
2 18 (62.07%) Network Planning
3 14 (48.28%) Network Management
3 14 (48.28%) UNIX
3 14 (48.28%) Windows
4 13 (44.83%) GIS
5 12 (41.38%) Statistics
5 12 (41.38%) Business Development
5 12 (41.38%) Benchmarking
5 12 (41.38%) Mapinfo
5 12 (41.38%) Performance Improvement
6 8 (27.59%) SQL
6 8 (27.59%) Degree
7 7 (24.14%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 7 (24.14%) C#
8 6 (20.69%) GPRS
8 6 (20.69%) 3GPP
8 6 (20.69%) Cisco
8 6 (20.69%) HSPA
8 6 (20.69%) Product Management
8 6 (20.69%) Network Architecture
8 6 (20.69%) Radio Access Network
9 5 (17.24%) WCF
9 5 (17.24%) .NET
10 4 (13.79%) Oracle
10 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
10 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
11 3 (10.34%) Mathematics

GSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leatherhead 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.

Application Development
1 5 (17.24%) .NET
1 5 (17.24%) WCF
2 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET
3 2 (6.897%) XML
3 2 (6.897%) Java SE
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.897%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) MS Office
2 2 (6.897%) MS Project
3 1 (3.448%) MS Excel
3 1 (3.448%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 25 (86.21%) UMTS
2 18 (62.07%) Wireless
3 6 (20.69%) HSPA
3 6 (20.69%) GPRS
3 6 (20.69%) 3GPP
3 6 (20.69%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (6.897%) LTE
5 1 (3.448%) 2G
5 1 (3.448%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (44.83%) GIS
2 2 (6.897%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (6.897%) RDBMS
2 2 (6.897%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (86.21%) Telecoms
2 3 (10.34%) Electronics
3 2 (6.897%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Consultant
2 12 (41.38%) Senior Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) C# Software Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (6.897%) C# Software Developer
4 2 (6.897%) Developer
4 2 (6.897%) Software Developer
4 2 (6.897%) Junior
4 2 (6.897%) Principal Consultant
4 2 (6.897%) C# Developer
5 1 (3.448%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) Statistics
2 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
3 3 (10.34%) Mathematics
4 2 (6.897%) Applied Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) UNIX
1 14 (48.28%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Network Planning
2 14 (48.28%) Network Management
3 12 (41.38%) Performance Improvement
3 12 (41.38%) Benchmarking
3 12 (41.38%) Business Development
4 6 (20.69%) Product Management
4 6 (20.69%) Network Architecture
5 2 (6.897%) Release Management
5 2 (6.897%) Project Management
5 2 (6.897%) SOA
6 1 (3.448%) Digital Signal Processing
6 1 (3.448%) Signal Processing
6 1 (3.448%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) SQL
2 7 (24.14%) C#
3 2 (6.897%) Java
3 2 (6.897%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.897%) PL/SQL
3 2 (6.897%) VB
3 2 (6.897%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.897%) SLA
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Mapinfo
2 7 (24.14%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 6 (20.69%) Cisco
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
4 4 (13.79%) Oracle
5 1 (3.448%) Nortel
5 1 (3.448%) Ericsson