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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for GSM skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GSM over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the London region.

 Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank446397566
Rank change year-on-year
Down-49Up+169
Matching permanent IT job ads4360104
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London0.110 %0.188 %0.124 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category0.890 %1.207 %0.804 %
Salaries quoted295473
Average salary£40,000£40,000£48,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
--17.52 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£21,700£35,000£39,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,500£47,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,000£40,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+5.000 %+14.28 %
London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
4830497012933
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London12.32 %15.61 %15.38 %
Salaries quoted3941424010954
Average salary£47,500£41,000£43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.85 %-4.650 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£66,500£62,500£67,500
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
GSM EnglandGSM
England

GSM
Demand Trend

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

London GSM Demand Trend

GSM
Salary Trend

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

London GSM Salary Trend

GSM
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GSM across the London region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of LondonDown-545£45,000+16.12 %
LutonNew entry-3£52,500-
Kingston Upon ThamesNew entry-1£28,000-
GSM EnglandGSM
England

GSM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the London 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.

131 (47.69 %)Telecoms
218 (27.69 %)Wireless
218 (27.69 %)Handset
317 (26.15 %)Wi-Fi
416 (24.62 %)C++
416 (24.62 %)VoIP
416 (24.62 %)Marketing
513 (20.00 %)Health
513 (20.00 %)Pensions
612 (18.46 %)Symbian
612 (18.46 %)Internet
711 (16.92 %)Blackberry
810 (15.38 %)C
810 (15.38 %)SMS
810 (15.38 %)3G
99 (13.85 %)GPRS
108 (12.31 %)Perl
108 (12.31 %)XML
108 (12.31 %)Windows
117 (10.77 %)UMTS
117 (10.77 %)TCP/IP
117 (10.77 %)Dutch Language
126 (9.231 %)C#
126 (9.231 %)HTML
126 (9.231 %)3GPP
126 (9.231 %)German Language
135 (7.692 %)LAN
135 (7.692 %)WAP
135 (7.692 %)Microsoft
135 (7.692 %)System Testing

GSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the London 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.

London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
18 (12.31 %)XML
26 (9.231 %)HTML
35 (7.692 %)WAP
44 (6.154 %)J2ME
53 (4.615 %)NetBeans
53 (4.615 %)Spring
53 (4.615 %)JSON
53 (4.615 %).NET
62 (3.077 %)XSLT
71 (1.538 %)CORBA
71 (1.538 %)XHTML
71 (1.538 %)XSL
71 (1.538 %)ASP.NET
71 (1.538 %)CSS
71 (1.538 %)WCF
London IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (4.615 %)MS Office
22 (3.077 %)MS Excel
London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
118 (27.69 %)Wireless
217 (26.15 %)Wi-Fi
316 (24.62 %)VoIP
412 (18.46 %)Internet
510 (15.38 %)3G
510 (15.38 %)SMS
69 (13.85 %)GPRS
77 (10.77 %)TCP/IP
77 (10.77 %)UMTS
86 (9.231 %)3GPP
95 (7.692 %)LAN
95 (7.692 %)LTE
103 (4.615 %)DSL
103 (4.615 %)SS7
103 (4.615 %)Firewall
103 (4.615 %)BSS
103 (4.615 %)HSDPA
103 (4.615 %)2G
112 (3.077 %)2.5G
112 (3.077 %)ZigBee
London IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (4.615 %)MySQL
22 (3.077 %)SQL Server
31 (1.538 %)Informix
31 (1.538 %)RDBMS
31 (1.538 %)GIS
London IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (4.615 %)ClearCase
13 (4.615 %)Eclipse
13 (4.615 %)Rational Robot
22 (3.077 %)JIRA
31 (1.538 %)Ant
London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
131 (47.69 %)Telecoms
216 (24.62 %)Marketing
313 (20.00 %)Health
313 (20.00 %)Pensions
44 (6.154 %)Finance
44 (6.154 %)Games
53 (4.615 %)Advertising
62 (3.077 %)Music
62 (3.077 %)Manufacturing
62 (3.077 %)Banking
62 (3.077 %)Billing
62 (3.077 %)Education
71 (1.538 %)Front Office
71 (1.538 %)Electronics
71 (1.538 %)Investment Banking
London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
114 (21.54 %)Technical Manager
213 (20.00 %)Technical Account Manager
213 (20.00 %)Account Manager
213 (20.00 %)Certification Manager
38 (12.31 %)Software Engineer
47 (10.77 %)Analyst
47 (10.77 %)Senior Software Engineer
56 (9.231 %)Team Leader
65 (7.692 %)Test Engineer
74 (6.154 %)Helpdesk Analyst
74 (6.154 %)Developer
74 (6.154 %)Programme Manager
74 (6.154 %)Project Manager
83 (4.615 %)Support Analyst
83 (4.615 %)Helpdesk Support
83 (4.615 %)Research Engineer
83 (4.615 %)C++ Team Leader
83 (4.615 %)UMTS Engineer
92 (3.077 %)PRINCE2 Project Manager
92 (3.077 %)Network Operator
London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
118 (27.69 %)Handset
211 (16.92 %)Blackberry
37 (10.77 %)Dutch Language
46 (9.231 %)German Language
52 (3.077 %)Blog
52 (3.077 %)iPhone
52 (3.077 %)Firmware
61 (1.538 %)Client/Server
61 (1.538 %)Field-Programmable Gate Array
London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
18 (12.31 %)Windows
24 (6.154 %)Symbian OS
33 (4.615 %)Android
42 (3.077 %)UNIX
42 (3.077 %)Linux
42 (3.077 %)Windows 2000
42 (3.077 %)Windows NT
42 (3.077 %)Windows XP
51 (1.538 %)Windows CE
51 (1.538 %)Windows Server 2003
51 (1.538 %)Windows Mobile
51 (1.538 %)Solaris
51 (1.538 %)Windows 2000 Server
51 (1.538 %)Windows 7
London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (7.692 %)System Testing
24 (6.154 %)Scrum
33 (4.615 %)Test Scripting
42 (3.077 %)Agile Software Development
42 (3.077 %)Asset Management
42 (3.077 %)ITIL
42 (3.077 %)PRINCE2
42 (3.077 %)UML
42 (3.077 %)OO
42 (3.077 %)SSADM
42 (3.077 %)RUP
51 (1.538 %)OOD
51 (1.538 %)Project Management
51 (1.538 %)Migration
51 (1.538 %)Automated Testing
51 (1.538 %)Software Engineering
51 (1.538 %)Web Testing
51 (1.538 %)Manual Testing
51 (1.538 %)Test Automation
London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
116 (24.62 %)C++
210 (15.38 %)C
38 (12.31 %)Perl
46 (9.231 %)C#
54 (6.154 %)SQL
54 (6.154 %)Python
54 (6.154 %)JavaScript
54 (6.154 %)Embedded C++
63 (4.615 %)Objective-C
63 (4.615 %)Embedded C
63 (4.615 %)VBScript
63 (4.615 %)VC++
63 (4.615 %)PHP
72 (3.077 %)Java
81 (1.538 %)ECMAScript
81 (1.538 %)Bash shell
81 (1.538 %)Assembly Language
81 (1.538 %)Tcl
London IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (3.077 %)CISSP
12 (3.077 %)PMP
12 (3.077 %)PMI Certification
12 (3.077 %)CISM
21 (1.538 %)Degree
London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (3.077 %)ISO17799
12 (3.077 %)SLA
12 (3.077 %)ISO27001
12 (3.077 %)PCI DSS
21 (1.538 %)QA
London IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (3.077 %)Active Directory
London IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (1.538 %)OpenView
11 (1.538 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
112 (18.46 %)Symbian
25 (7.692 %)Microsoft
34 (6.154 %)Ericsson
43 (4.615 %)Perforce
52 (3.077 %)Apple
52 (3.077 %)CheckPoint
52 (3.077 %)Cisco
61 (1.538 %)Sun
61 (1.538 %)HP
61 (1.538 %)Citrix
61 (1.538 %)Oracle