Manchester DSL Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DSL over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Devon East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Gloucestershire Greenford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Lancashire Leeds London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North West Northampton Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Salford Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon UK Wakefield Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	168	205
Rank change on same period last year	+37
Matching permanent IT job ads	17	5
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.952 %	0.489 %
Salaries quoted	13	5
Average minimum salary	£28,923	£27,400
Average salary	£34,500	£28,000
% change on same period last year	+23.21 %
Average maximum salary	£40,077	£28,600
UK excluding London average salary	£43,658	£36,623
% change on same period last year	+19.21 %
Communications & Networking Manchester
Matching permanent IT job ads	871	1022
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.476 %	0.429 %
Salaries quoted	765	895
Average minimum salary	£29,564	£38,587
Average salary	£32,113	£41,690
% change on same period last year	-22.97 %
Average maximum salary	£34,662	£44,794
UK excluding London average salary	£37,625	£39,458
% change on same period last year	-4.64 %
DSL North West

DSL
Demand Trend

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

DSL
Salary Trend

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

DSL
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DSL across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DSL within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Salford	-	2	£38,000	-

DSL North West

DSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing DSL 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 DSL.

1 13 (61.90 %) ADSL 1 13 (61.90 %) HDSL 1 13 (61.90 %) Telecoms 1 13 (61.90 %) Degree 2 12 (57.14 %) Electronics 3 9 (42.86 %) Computer Science 3 9 (42.86 %) BT 21CN 4 8 (38.10 %) Firewall 4 8 (38.10 %) Cisco Certification 4 8 (38.10 %) WAN 4 8 (38.10 %) Windows 4 8 (38.10 %) Windows 2000 4 8 (38.10 %) VPN 4 8 (38.10 %) DNS 4 8 (38.10 %) Cisco

4 8 (38.10 %) CCNA 4 8 (38.10 %) Active Directory 4 8 (38.10 %) Intel 5 7 (33.33 %) MCSE 5 7 (33.33 %) DHCP 5 7 (33.33 %) VDSL 5 7 (33.33 %) Government 5 7 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 5 7 (33.33 %) Back Office 6 6 (28.57 %) .NET Framework 6 6 (28.57 %) C# 6 6 (28.57 %) SQL 6 6 (28.57 %) .NET 6 6 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 6 6 (28.57 %) WebServices

DSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing DSL 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 DSL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (28.57 %) .NET 1 6 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 1 6 (28.57 %) WebServices 1 6 (28.57 %) XML 1 6 (28.57 %) .NET Framework	Communications & Networking 1 13 (61.90 %) ADSL 1 13 (61.90 %) HDSL 2 9 (42.86 %) BT 21CN 3 8 (38.10 %) WAN 3 8 (38.10 %) VPN 3 8 (38.10 %) DNS 3 8 (38.10 %) Firewall 4 7 (33.33 %) DHCP 4 7 (33.33 %) VDSL 5 1 (4.762 %) SHDSL
General 1 13 (61.90 %) Telecoms 2 12 (57.14 %) Electronics 3 7 (33.33 %) Back Office 3 7 (33.33 %) Government 4 1 (4.762 %) Electric	Job Titles 1 11 (52.38 %) Network Engineer 2 8 (38.10 %) Senior Network Engineer 3 5 (23.81 %) Network Manager 3 5 (23.81 %) Product Manager 4 3 (14.29 %) Telecoms Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) Performance Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 9 (42.86 %) Computer Science 2 1 (4.762 %) CESG	Operating Systems 1 8 (38.10 %) Windows 1 8 (38.10 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (4.762 %) Network Design	Programming Languages 1 6 (28.57 %) C# 1 6 (28.57 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 13 (61.90 %) Degree 2 8 (38.10 %) CCNA 2 8 (38.10 %) Cisco Certification 3 7 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 7 (33.33 %) MCSE 4 1 (4.762 %) CISSP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.762 %) CESG Infosec
System Software 1 8 (38.10 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 8 (38.10 %) Cisco 1 8 (38.10 %) Intel 2 1 (4.762 %) Microsoft