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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
Rank - 171 167
Permanent jobs citing SDH 0 6 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.163% 0.051%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 1.002% 0.375%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 2
Average salary - £62,500 £38,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +63.39%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-23.00% +11.11%
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
587 599 534
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 14.30% 16.25% 13.74%
Number of salaries quoted 491 532 465
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £51,700 £75,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SDH
North West

SDH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester SDH Jobs Demand Trend

SDH
Salary Trend

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

Manchester SDH Salary Trend

SDH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing SDH 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 SDH.

1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
1 6 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (50.00%) Nokia
2 4 (50.00%) IBM
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Degree
3 3 (37.50%) C
3 3 (37.50%) ATM
3 3 (37.50%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (25.00%) BMC
4 2 (25.00%) DWDM
4 2 (25.00%) Remedy
4 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Redback
4 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 2 (25.00%) VoIP
4 2 (25.00%) DHCP
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) DNS
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) CCIE
4 2 (25.00%) CCNP
4 2 (25.00%) CCDP
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (25.00%) CMDB
4 2 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared

SDH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) ATM
2 2 (25.00%) DWDM
2 2 (25.00%) VoIP
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (25.00%) xDSL
3 1 (12.50%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (12.50%) ADSL
3 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
3 1 (12.50%) 3G
General
1 6 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Configuration Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) IP Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior IP Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Capacity Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Logistics
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) VB
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (25.00%) CCIE
3 2 (25.00%) CCNP
3 2 (25.00%) CCDP
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) Nokia
2 4 (50.00%) IBM
3 2 (25.00%) BMC
3 2 (25.00%) Remedy
3 2 (25.00%) Redback
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Cramer