The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT jobs advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 20 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 terms in our General category for the Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 23 37 49
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +12
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 36 17 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 7.500% 3.712% 0.741%
As % of the General category 27.91% 12.14% 2.459%
Number of salaries quoted 36 8 2
Average salary £40,000 £27,250 £26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+46.78% +2.83%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
All of the General Category
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
129 140 122
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 26.88% 30.57% 30.12%
Number of salaries quoted 113 116 105
Average salary £40,000 £31,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.03% -7.46%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £17,500 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £56,400 £50,250 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Telecoms
Tyne and Wear

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Newcastle upon Tyne region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Newcastle upon Tyne Telecoms Jobs Demand Trend

Telecoms
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne Telecoms Salary Trend

Telecoms
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Newcastle upon Tyne region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Newcastle upon Tyne Telecoms Salary Histogram

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne region citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms.

1 38 (66.67%) Wireless
2 34 (59.65%) Linux
3 31 (54.39%) Cisco
3 31 (54.39%) Internet
4 30 (52.63%) HP
5 21 (36.84%) Red Hat
5 21 (36.84%) Firewall
5 21 (36.84%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (36.84%) DNS
5 21 (36.84%) LDAP
5 21 (36.84%) DHCP
5 21 (36.84%) Apache
5 21 (36.84%) MySQL
5 21 (36.84%) VLAN
5 21 (36.84%) CentOS
6 20 (35.09%) Degree
7 18 (31.58%) OSPF
7 18 (31.58%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (24.56%) Java
9 13 (22.81%) SQL
10 12 (21.05%) UNIX
10 12 (21.05%) Citrix
10 12 (21.05%) XenServer
11 11 (19.30%) CCNA
11 11 (19.30%) HTML
12 10 (17.54%) CCNP
13 9 (15.79%) RHCE
13 9 (15.79%) BGP
13 9 (15.79%) Nagios
13 9 (15.79%) Cisco ASA

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne region citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (19.30%) HTML
2 8 (14.04%) HTML5
3 6 (10.53%) J2EE
3 6 (10.53%) JSP
3 6 (10.53%) XML
4 5 (8.772%) XSLT
5 4 (7.018%) CSS
5 4 (7.018%) WebSphere
6 2 (3.509%) soapUI
7 1 (1.754%) XHTML
7 1 (1.754%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.754%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 21 (36.84%) Apache
2 4 (7.018%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.754%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.754%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 38 (66.67%) Wireless
2 31 (54.39%) Internet
3 21 (36.84%) DNS
3 21 (36.84%) LDAP
3 21 (36.84%) DHCP
3 21 (36.84%) VLAN
3 21 (36.84%) Firewall
4 18 (31.58%) OSPF
5 9 (15.79%) BGP
5 9 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
5 9 (15.79%) HSRP
6 8 (14.04%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (7.018%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.754%) DWDM
8 1 (1.754%) Ethernet
8 1 (1.754%) HTTP
8 1 (1.754%) SDH
8 1 (1.754%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (36.84%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.018%) Ant
2 2 (3.509%) Selenium
General
1 4 (7.018%) Billing
2 1 (1.754%) Marketing
2 1 (1.754%) Law
2 1 (1.754%) Legal
2 1 (1.754%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (52.63%) Administrator
2 20 (35.09%) Linux Administrator
3 12 (21.05%) Systems Administrator
4 11 (19.30%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 9 (15.79%) Senior Network Administrator
5 9 (15.79%) Senior Linux Administrator
5 9 (15.79%) Network Administrator
6 8 (14.04%) Software Development Manager
6 8 (14.04%) Development Manager
6 8 (14.04%) Software Manager
7 5 (8.772%) Java Developer
7 5 (8.772%) Developer
8 3 (5.263%) Analyst
9 2 (3.509%) Test Manager
9 2 (3.509%) Business Analyst
9 2 (3.509%) Tester
9 2 (3.509%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.509%) Field Engineer
9 2 (3.509%) QA Manager
9 2 (3.509%) QA Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.509%) Management Information System
1 2 (3.509%) Open Source
2 1 (1.754%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 34 (59.65%) Linux
2 21 (36.84%) CentOS
3 12 (21.05%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.58%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (10.53%) Scrum
2 6 (10.53%) OO
2 6 (10.53%) Project Management
2 6 (10.53%) Release Management
2 6 (10.53%) Waterfall
3 4 (7.018%) RUP
3 4 (7.018%) UML
3 4 (7.018%) Content Management
4 3 (5.263%) Web Development
5 2 (3.509%) Business Development
5 2 (3.509%) Test Management
5 2 (3.509%) Automation Testing
5 2 (3.509%) Product Management
5 2 (3.509%) Use Case
5 2 (3.509%) Business Analysis
5 2 (3.509%) Software Testing
5 2 (3.509%) Workflow
5 2 (3.509%) RAD
5 2 (3.509%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.56%) Java
2 13 (22.81%) SQL
3 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.754%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (36.84%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (35.09%) Degree
3 11 (19.30%) CCNA
4 10 (17.54%) CCNP
5 9 (15.79%) RHCE
6 4 (7.018%) Sun Certification
7 2 (3.509%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.754%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.018%) QA
2 1 (1.754%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (21.05%) XenServer
2 1 (1.754%) XenDesktop
2 1 (1.754%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) Nagios
Vendors
1 31 (54.39%) Cisco
2 30 (52.63%) HP
3 21 (36.84%) Red Hat
4 12 (21.05%) Citrix
5 4 (7.018%) Oracle
6 1 (1.754%) Nortel
6 1 (1.754%) Microsoft
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