Reading 2G Jobs

This section looks at the demand for 2G skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited 2G over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Coventry East of England England Hampshire Harrow London Manchester Newbury North West Reading Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire UK West Midlands Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	136	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.272 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	2	0
Average minimum salary	£30,000	-
Average salary	£33,000	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£36,000	-
UK excluding London average salary	£41,213	£43,481
% change on same period last year	-5.21 %
Communications & Networking Reading
Matching permanent IT job ads	734	794
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.387 %	0.325 %
Salaries quoted	653	577
Average minimum salary	£37,872	£38,231
Average salary	£41,131	£41,508
% change on same period last year	-0.90 %
Average maximum salary	£44,390	£44,785
UK excluding London average salary	£37,397	£39,734
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
2G Berkshire

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing 2G across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing 2G across the Reading region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing 2G across the Reading region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Reading region citing 2G 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 2G.

1 3 (100.00 %) 3G 1 3 (100.00 %) RNC 2 2 (66.67 %) Degree 2 2 (66.67 %) BSS 2 2 (66.67 %) Electronics 2 2 (66.67 %) Telecoms 3 1 (33.33 %) UTRAN 3 1 (33.33 %) GPRS 3 1 (33.33 %) GSM 3 1 (33.33 %) UMTS 3 1 (33.33 %) Nokia 3 1 (33.33 %) System Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Reading region citing 2G 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 2G. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 3 (100.00 %) 3G 1 3 (100.00 %) RNC 2 2 (66.67 %) BSS 3 1 (33.33 %) UTRAN 3 1 (33.33 %) GPRS 3 1 (33.33 %) GSM 3 1 (33.33 %) UMTS	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Electronics 1 2 (66.67 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Test Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Principal Engineer	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) System Testing
Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) Degree	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Nokia