The first table below looks at the demand for SONET skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SONET over the 3 months to 17 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
Rank 588 627 621
Rank change year-on-year
+39 -6
Permanent jobs citing SONET 21 13 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.048% 0.024% 0.026%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.264% 0.146% 0.191%
Number of salaries quoted 21 9 15
Average salary £36,000 £57,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-37.39% +43.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £39,500 £34,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £97,500 £69,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £49,250 £67,000
% change year-on-year
-26.90% -26.49%
All Communications & Networking
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
7948 8921 7850
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 18.22% 16.58% 13.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6555 7583 6622
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £30,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
SONET
England

SONET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London SONET Jobs Demand Trend

SONET
Salary Trend

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

London SONET Salary Trend

SONET
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SONET within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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
City of London +27 19 £36,000 -4.00%
SONET
England

SONET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing SONET 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 SONET.

1 24 (100.00%) SDH
1 24 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 22 (91.67%) Ethernet
3 14 (58.33%) MPLS
4 13 (54.17%) Cisco
5 12 (50.00%) TCP/IP
5 12 (50.00%) OSPF
5 12 (50.00%) Internet
5 12 (50.00%) DWDM
5 12 (50.00%) Huawei
6 9 (37.50%) VLAN
6 9 (37.50%) VPLS
6 9 (37.50%) HSRP
6 9 (37.50%) RSVP
6 9 (37.50%) BGP
6 9 (37.50%) Juniper
6 9 (37.50%) IPv6
7 5 (20.83%) ATM
7 5 (20.83%) Project Management
8 3 (12.50%) MS PowerPoint
8 3 (12.50%) Time Management
8 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
8 3 (12.50%) X.21
8 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (12.50%) BGP-4
8 3 (12.50%) CCNP
8 3 (12.50%) CCDP
8 3 (12.50%) VPN
8 3 (12.50%) Microsoft

SONET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing SONET 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 SONET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 3 (12.50%) MS Visio
1 3 (12.50%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 24 (100.00%) SDH
2 22 (91.67%) Ethernet
3 14 (58.33%) MPLS
4 12 (50.00%) OSPF
4 12 (50.00%) Internet
4 12 (50.00%) DWDM
4 12 (50.00%) TCP/IP
5 9 (37.50%) IPv6
5 9 (37.50%) RSVP
5 9 (37.50%) BGP
5 9 (37.50%) VLAN
5 9 (37.50%) VPLS
5 9 (37.50%) HSRP
6 5 (20.83%) ATM
7 3 (12.50%) VPN
7 3 (12.50%) RIP
7 3 (12.50%) WAN
7 3 (12.50%) BGP-4
7 3 (12.50%) X.21
8 2 (8.333%) Frame Relay
General
1 24 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Transmission Engineer
3 2 (8.333%) Cisco Network Consultant
3 2 (8.333%) Cisco Consultant
3 2 (8.333%) Operations Manager
3 2 (8.333%) Network Consultant
3 2 (8.333%) Consultant
4 1 (4.167%) Project Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) Provisioning Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) IP Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) Project Management
2 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 3 (12.50%) ITIL
2 3 (12.50%) PRINCE2
2 3 (12.50%) Time Management
3 2 (8.333%) Network Architecture
3 2 (8.333%) Incident Management
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) CCNP
1 3 (12.50%) CCDP
1 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.167%) SLA
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Cisco
2 12 (50.00%) Huawei
3 9 (37.50%) Juniper
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.333%) Sun
6 1 (4.167%) Nortel
6 1 (4.167%) Ericsson
6 1 (4.167%) Nokia