The first table below looks at the demand for 4G skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited 4G over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
4G
Rank 121 124 114
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -10
Permanent jobs citing 4G 11 11 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.512% 0.485% 0.104%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.407% 1.893% 0.519%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 0
Average salary £53,750 £35,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+53.57% -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £44,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year
+13.63% -41.33%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
782 581 385
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 36.41% 25.63% 20.06%
Number of salaries quoted 620 461 315
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 £31,500 £26,000 £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%
4G
Berkshire

4G
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing 4G across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Reading 4G Jobs Demand Trend

4G
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing 4G across the Reading region.

Reading 4G Salary Trend

4G
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing 4G across the Reading region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Reading 4G Salary Histogram

4G
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing 4G 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 4G.

1 24 (100.00%) 3G
2 23 (95.83%) Telecoms
3 17 (70.83%) LTE
4 14 (58.33%) Wireless
5 13 (54.17%) Service Delivery
6 12 (50.00%) GSM
7 11 (45.83%) CDMA
7 11 (45.83%) 2G
8 9 (37.50%) Handset
8 9 (37.50%) Degree
9 8 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (33.33%) UNIX
9 8 (33.33%) Solaris
9 8 (33.33%) Linux
9 8 (33.33%) SLA
9 8 (33.33%) HTTP
9 8 (33.33%) Red Hat
9 8 (33.33%) SMPP
9 8 (33.33%) XCAP
10 7 (29.17%) SIGTRAN
11 6 (25.00%) Clustering
11 6 (25.00%) Time Management
11 6 (25.00%) ISO 9001
11 6 (25.00%) Cisco
11 6 (25.00%) Sun
11 6 (25.00%) HP
12 5 (20.83%) Marketing
12 5 (20.83%) Validation
12 5 (20.83%) Data Analysis
13 4 (16.67%) HSPA

4G
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing 4G 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 4G. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.167%) SOAP
Communications & Networking
1 24 (100.00%) 3G
2 17 (70.83%) LTE
3 14 (58.33%) Wireless
4 12 (50.00%) GSM
5 11 (45.83%) CDMA
5 11 (45.83%) 2G
6 8 (33.33%) HTTP
6 8 (33.33%) SMPP
6 8 (33.33%) XCAP
7 7 (29.17%) SIGTRAN
8 4 (16.67%) HSPA
8 4 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (16.67%) UMTS
9 1 (4.167%) Megaco
9 1 (4.167%) TCAP
9 1 (4.167%) SCCP
9 1 (4.167%) INAP
9 1 (4.167%) VoIP
9 1 (4.167%) LDAP
9 1 (4.167%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.167%) GIS
General
1 23 (95.83%) Telecoms
2 5 (20.83%) Marketing
3 1 (4.167%) Electronics
3 1 (4.167%) Czech Language
3 1 (4.167%) Finance
3 1 (4.167%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Technical Manager
2 6 (25.00%) Customer Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Project Manager
4 4 (16.67%) Technical Project Manager
5 3 (12.50%) Project Leader
5 3 (12.50%) Technical Product Manager
5 3 (12.50%) Product Manager
5 3 (12.50%) Technical Project Leader
6 2 (8.333%) Business Development Manager
6 2 (8.333%) Business Manager
6 2 (8.333%) Development Manager
7 1 (4.167%) Radio Engineer
7 1 (4.167%) Deployment Engineer
7 1 (4.167%) Telecoms Engineer
7 1 (4.167%) Technical Leader
7 1 (4.167%) 3G Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Handset
2 6 (25.00%) Clustering
3 3 (12.50%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 8 (33.33%) UNIX
1 8 (33.33%) Solaris
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Service Delivery
2 6 (25.00%) Time Management
3 5 (20.83%) Validation
3 5 (20.83%) Data Analysis
4 4 (16.67%) Project Management
4 4 (16.67%) Product Management
5 2 (8.333%) Business Development
6 1 (4.167%) Change Management
6 1 (4.167%) Network Planning
6 1 (4.167%) Security Testing
6 1 (4.167%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (4.167%) Workflow
6 1 (4.167%) Supply Chain Management
6 1 (4.167%) Supplier Management
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Degree
2 1 (4.167%) EnCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) SLA
2 6 (25.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 6 (25.00%) Cisco
2 6 (25.00%) Sun
2 6 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (4.167%) Mapinfo