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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
xDSL
Rank - 174 159
Permanent jobs citing xDSL 0 1 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.028% 0.355%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.168% 2.588%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 13
Average salary - £50,000 £77,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -35.48%
UK excluding London average salary £27,000 £39,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year
-30.76% -44.28%
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
593 597 541
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 14.61% 16.46% 13.71%
Number of salaries quoted 491 534 470
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £23,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £75,000 £52,050
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
xDSL
North West

xDSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester xDSL Salary Trend

xDSL
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) ATM
1 2 (100.00%) SDH
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) CCDP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) DWDM
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Redback
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco IOS

xDSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) ATM
1 2 (100.00%) SDH
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) DWDM
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) IP Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior IP Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) CCDP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Redback