The first table below looks at the demand for SONET skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SONET 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the Oxfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing SONET 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £49,250 £67,000
% change year-on-year
-26.90% -26.49%
All Communications & Networking
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
314 238 210
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 17.07% 16.27% 13.23%
Number of salaries quoted 291 208 180
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
SONET
South East

SONET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire SONET Jobs Demand Trend

SONET
Salary Trend

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

Oxfordshire SONET Salary Trend

SONET
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing SONET 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 SONET.

1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Riverbed
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Publishing
3 1 (33.33%) WLAN
3 1 (33.33%) DWDM
3 1 (33.33%) Big Data

SONET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
3 1 (33.33%) DWDM
3 1 (33.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
General
1 2 (66.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Juniper
1 2 (66.67%) Riverbed