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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
Rank 246 225 225
Rank change year-on-year
-21 0
Permanent jobs citing GSM 2 16 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.028% 0.223% 0.089%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.171% 1.530% 0.601%
Number of salaries quoted 2 14 6
Average salary £30,000 £50,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.00% +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £40,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+23.45% +1.25%
All Communications & Networking
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1169 1046 998
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 16.18% 14.55% 14.82%
Number of salaries quoted 946 915 844
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £22,250
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £70,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
GSM
England

GSM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West GSM Jobs Demand Trend

GSM
Salary Trend

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

North West GSM Salary Trend

GSM
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GSM within the North West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cumbria - 2 £30,000 -
GSM
England

GSM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing GSM 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 GSM.

1 7 (100.00%) C
1 7 (100.00%) GPRS
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (71.43%) OpenGL
2 5 (71.43%) Middleware
2 5 (71.43%) Mobile Commerce
2 5 (71.43%) DRM
2 5 (71.43%) DVB
2 5 (71.43%) NFC
2 5 (71.43%) Android
2 5 (71.43%) iPhone
2 5 (71.43%) Qt
2 5 (71.43%) Windows 7
2 5 (71.43%) OpenAL
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Phone 7
2 5 (71.43%) MPEG
2 5 (71.43%) UMTS
2 5 (71.43%) VoIP
2 5 (71.43%) WLAN
2 5 (71.43%) SVG
2 5 (71.43%) Flash
2 5 (71.43%) J2ME
2 5 (71.43%) E-Commerce
2 5 (71.43%) Bluetooth
2 5 (71.43%) C++
2 5 (71.43%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) Multimedia
2 5 (71.43%) Speech Recognition
2 5 (71.43%) BREW

GSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (71.43%) OpenGL
1 5 (71.43%) Middleware
1 5 (71.43%) Qt
1 5 (71.43%) OpenAL
1 5 (71.43%) SVG
1 5 (71.43%) Flash
1 5 (71.43%) J2ME
1 5 (71.43%) BREW
2 2 (28.57%) jQuery
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) CSS3
2 2 (28.57%) Sass
2 2 (28.57%) LESS
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) GPRS
1 7 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (71.43%) DVB
2 5 (71.43%) NFC
2 5 (71.43%) UMTS
2 5 (71.43%) VoIP
2 5 (71.43%) WLAN
2 5 (71.43%) Bluetooth
3 2 (28.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (71.43%) Multimedia
1 5 (71.43%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Software Developer
3 2 (28.57%) PHP Developer
3 2 (28.57%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) iPhone
1 5 (71.43%) MPEG
1 5 (71.43%) Speech Recognition
1 5 (71.43%) Device Driver
2 2 (28.57%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) Android
2 5 (71.43%) Windows 7
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Phone 7
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Mobile
2 5 (71.43%) Nucleus RTOS
2 5 (71.43%) Windows 8
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Phone 8
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Phone
2 5 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Mobile Commerce
1 5 (71.43%) DRM
1 5 (71.43%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C
2 5 (71.43%) C++
2 5 (71.43%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) PHP5
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) PHP
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
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