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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Public Switched Telecom Network (PSTN)
Rank - - 38
Permanent jobs citing PSTN 0 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands - - 1.017%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - 4.688%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
Average salary - - £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £35,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -30.00%
All Communications & Networking
Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
31 63 64
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 15.50% 20.32% 21.69%
Number of salaries quoted 17 63 39
Average salary £55,000 £55,000 £46,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +18.91%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £40,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £65,250 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
PSTN
England

PSTN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands PSTN Jobs Demand Trend

PSTN
Salary Trend

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

Midlands PSTN Salary Trend

PSTN
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands region citing PSTN 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 PSTN.

1 1 (100.00%) ISDN
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson

PSTN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) ISDN
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Support
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) EMC