The first table below looks at the demand for 2G skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited 2G over the 3 months to 21 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
2G
Rank 128 128 117
Rank change year-on-year
0 -11
Permanent jobs citing 2G 4 5 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.186% 0.220% 0.107%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.514% 0.864% 0.543%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 0
Average salary £43,250 £60,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.91% -
UK excluding London average salary £43,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-8.42% +5.55%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
778 579 368
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 36.25% 25.45% 19.75%
Number of salaries quoted 621 464 302
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
2G
Berkshire

2G
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 2G Jobs Demand Trend

2G
Salary Trend

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

Reading 2G Salary Trend

2G
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing 2G across the Reading region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Reading 2G Salary Histogram

2G
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 15 (100.00%) 3G
2 12 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 12 (80.00%) LTE
3 10 (66.67%) GSM
3 10 (66.67%) 4G
4 8 (53.33%) XCAP
4 8 (53.33%) UNIX
4 8 (53.33%) Solaris
4 8 (53.33%) Linux
4 8 (53.33%) SLA
4 8 (53.33%) SMPP
4 8 (53.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (53.33%) HTTP
4 8 (53.33%) Red Hat
5 7 (46.67%) SIGTRAN
5 7 (46.67%) CDMA
6 6 (40.00%) ISO 9001
6 6 (40.00%) Cisco
6 6 (40.00%) Sun
6 6 (40.00%) HP
6 6 (40.00%) Time Management
6 6 (40.00%) Clustering
7 4 (26.67%) Network Planning
8 3 (20.00%) Performance Management
8 3 (20.00%) Huawei
8 3 (20.00%) Ericsson
9 2 (13.33%) 2.5G
9 2 (13.33%) Nokia Siemens Networks
9 2 (13.33%) Radio Access Network
10 1 (6.667%) M3UA

2G
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 1 (6.667%) SOAP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) 3G
2 12 (80.00%) LTE
3 10 (66.67%) GSM
3 10 (66.67%) 4G
4 8 (53.33%) XCAP
4 8 (53.33%) SMPP
4 8 (53.33%) HTTP
5 7 (46.67%) SIGTRAN
5 7 (46.67%) CDMA
6 2 (13.33%) 2.5G
6 2 (13.33%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (6.667%) M3UA
7 1 (6.667%) DNS
7 1 (6.667%) MGW
7 1 (6.667%) SCTP
7 1 (6.667%) RANAP
7 1 (6.667%) NBAP
7 1 (6.667%) Ethernet
7 1 (6.667%) LDAP
7 1 (6.667%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) GIS
General
1 12 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.667%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Legal
2 1 (6.667%) Czech Language
2 1 (6.667%) Back Office
2 1 (6.667%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Customer Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 1 (6.667%) Transmission Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Transmission Planning Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) RAN Performance Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) 3G Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) RAN Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Radio Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Network Consultant
3 1 (6.667%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Clustering
2 1 (6.667%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) UNIX
1 8 (53.33%) Solaris
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
1 8 (53.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Time Management
2 4 (26.67%) Network Planning
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Management
4 1 (6.667%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (6.667%) Network Performance Management
4 1 (6.667%) Workflow
4 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.667%) Supply Chain Management
4 1 (6.667%) Supplier Management
4 1 (6.667%) Network Design
4 1 (6.667%) Fault Management
4 1 (6.667%) Operations Management
4 1 (6.667%) Resource Management
4 1 (6.667%) Service Delivery
4 1 (6.667%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) SLA
2 6 (40.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Red Hat
2 6 (40.00%) Cisco
2 6 (40.00%) Sun
2 6 (40.00%) HP
3 3 (20.00%) Huawei
3 3 (20.00%) Ericsson
4 2 (13.33%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 1 (6.667%) Actix
5 1 (6.667%) Tektronix
5 1 (6.667%) ZTE
5 1 (6.667%) Cramer
5 1 (6.667%) Mapinfo