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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
xDSL
Rank 584 625 621
Rank change year-on-year
+41 -4
Permanent jobs citing xDSL 17 24 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.039% 0.044% 0.016%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.212% 0.266% 0.115%
Number of salaries quoted 9 21 9
Average salary £60,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.31% -
90% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £43,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £63,500
UK excluding London average salary £27,000 £39,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year
-30.76% -48.00%
All Communications & Networking
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
8004 9031 7842
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 18.19% 16.58% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6569 7655 6620
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 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
xDSL
England

xDSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London xDSL Jobs Demand Trend

xDSL
Salary Trend

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

London xDSL Salary Trend

xDSL
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing xDSL within the London 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
City of London +10 2 £60,000 +6.66%
Osterley - 2 - -
xDSL
England

xDSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing xDSL 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 xDSL.

1 26 (78.79%) MPLS
2 24 (72.73%) Telecoms
3 22 (66.67%) LAN
3 22 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 22 (66.67%) VPN
3 22 (66.67%) Cisco
4 21 (63.64%) VoIP
4 21 (63.64%) WAN
5 17 (51.52%) Ethernet
6 16 (48.48%) SDH
6 16 (48.48%) Electronics
6 16 (48.48%) Migration
6 16 (48.48%) H.323
6 16 (48.48%) SS7
6 16 (48.48%) Mathematics
6 16 (48.48%) Physics
7 14 (42.42%) Q.931
7 14 (42.42%) Streaming Video
8 13 (39.39%) ITIL
8 13 (39.39%) Microsoft
8 13 (39.39%) VPLS
9 12 (36.36%) Degree
10 10 (30.30%) Network Design
10 10 (30.30%) Juniper
11 9 (27.27%) DWDM
11 9 (27.27%) OSPF
11 9 (27.27%) BGP
11 9 (27.27%) CCNA
11 9 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (27.27%) DNS

xDSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 7 (21.21%) Lync
2 5 (15.15%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (21.21%) MS Excel
1 7 (21.21%) MS Visio
1 7 (21.21%) MS PowerPoint
2 5 (15.15%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 26 (78.79%) MPLS
2 22 (66.67%) LAN
2 22 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 22 (66.67%) VPN
3 21 (63.64%) VoIP
3 21 (63.64%) WAN
4 17 (51.52%) Ethernet
5 16 (48.48%) SDH
5 16 (48.48%) H.323
5 16 (48.48%) SS7
6 14 (42.42%) Q.931
7 13 (39.39%) VPLS
8 9 (27.27%) DWDM
8 9 (27.27%) OSPF
8 9 (27.27%) BGP
8 9 (27.27%) DNS
8 9 (27.27%) ATM
9 8 (24.24%) Firewall
10 7 (21.21%) ISUP
10 7 (21.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
General
1 24 (72.73%) Telecoms
2 16 (48.48%) Electronics
3 7 (21.21%) Marketing
3 7 (21.21%) Billing
4 6 (18.18%) Finance
5 1 (3.030%) French Language
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Sales Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Voice Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Services Delivery Manager
3 5 (15.15%) Service Manager
3 5 (15.15%) Technical Manager
3 5 (15.15%) Delivery Manager
3 5 (15.15%) Technical Services Manager
3 5 (15.15%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 3 (9.091%) Service Analyst
4 3 (9.091%) Analyst
4 3 (9.091%) Consultant
4 3 (9.091%) Technology Consultant
4 3 (9.091%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (6.061%) OSS Consultant
5 2 (6.061%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Technical Support
6 1 (3.030%) 1st Line Support
6 1 (3.030%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Development Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Implementation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (48.48%) Mathematics
1 16 (48.48%) Physics
2 14 (42.42%) Streaming Video
3 9 (27.27%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
4 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (15.15%) IaaS
5 2 (6.061%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (3.030%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Windows
2 7 (21.21%) Linux
3 6 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (9.091%) UNIX
5 3 (9.091%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Migration
2 13 (39.39%) ITIL
3 10 (30.30%) Network Design
4 7 (21.21%) Project Management
4 7 (21.21%) CRM
4 7 (21.21%) ERP
4 7 (21.21%) Product Management
5 6 (18.18%) Service Delivery
6 5 (15.15%) PRINCE2
6 5 (15.15%) High Availability
6 5 (15.15%) Network Architecture
7 3 (9.091%) Workflow
8 2 (6.061%) Requirements Analysis
8 2 (6.061%) Use Case
8 2 (6.061%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (6.061%) WAN Optimisation
9 1 (3.030%) PLM
9 1 (3.030%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.030%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Degree
2 9 (27.27%) CCNA
2 9 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (21.21%) CCDA
4 5 (15.15%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.030%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Terminal Services
1 5 (15.15%) Hyper-V
1 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 22 (66.67%) Cisco
2 13 (39.39%) Microsoft
3 10 (30.30%) Juniper
4 7 (21.21%) Siebel
4 7 (21.21%) Polycom
4 7 (21.21%) Tandberg
5 5 (15.15%) VMware
5 5 (15.15%) Veritas
5 5 (15.15%) EMC
6 1 (3.030%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 1 (3.030%) Mitel
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