The first table below looks at the demand for LTE skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LTE over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)
Rank 105 118 119
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +1
Permanent jobs citing LTE 28 14 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 1.291% 0.618% 0.106%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.558% 2.401% 0.528%
Number of salaries quoted 17 13 0
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +2.27%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
787 583 379
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 36.28% 25.75% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 623 463 310
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%
LTE
Berkshire

LTE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading LTE Jobs Demand Trend

LTE
Salary Trend

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

Reading LTE Salary Trend

LTE
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LTE across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading LTE Salary Histogram

LTE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing LTE 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 LTE.

1 32 (72.73%) 3G
1 32 (72.73%) Telecoms
2 25 (56.82%) GSM
3 17 (38.64%) 4G
4 15 (34.09%) CDMA
5 13 (29.55%) Wireless
6 12 (27.27%) Service Delivery
6 12 (27.27%) 2G
7 11 (25.00%) SIGTRAN
8 10 (22.73%) Degree
8 10 (22.73%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (22.73%) UMTS
9 9 (20.45%) HTTP
9 9 (20.45%) Radio Access Network
10 8 (18.18%) Capacity Management
10 8 (18.18%) XCAP
10 8 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (18.18%) Validation
10 8 (18.18%) SLA
10 8 (18.18%) UNIX
10 8 (18.18%) Solaris
10 8 (18.18%) Linux
10 8 (18.18%) Project Management
10 8 (18.18%) SMPP
10 8 (18.18%) Red Hat
11 7 (15.91%) Broadband
12 6 (13.64%) ISO 9001
12 6 (13.64%) Cisco
12 6 (13.64%) Sun
12 6 (13.64%) HP

LTE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing LTE 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 LTE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (4.545%) MFC
1 2 (4.545%) Qt
2 1 (2.273%) SOAP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (72.73%) 3G
2 25 (56.82%) GSM
3 17 (38.64%) 4G
4 15 (34.09%) CDMA
5 13 (29.55%) Wireless
6 12 (27.27%) 2G
7 11 (25.00%) SIGTRAN
8 10 (22.73%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (22.73%) UMTS
9 9 (20.45%) HTTP
9 9 (20.45%) Radio Access Network
10 8 (18.18%) XCAP
10 8 (18.18%) SMPP
11 7 (15.91%) Broadband
12 5 (11.36%) INAP
13 4 (9.091%) HSPA
14 2 (4.545%) Ethernet
14 2 (4.545%) DNS
15 1 (2.273%) GGSN
15 1 (2.273%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.273%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (4.545%) ClearCase
1 2 (4.545%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (72.73%) Telecoms
2 5 (11.36%) Electronics
3 2 (4.545%) Finance
4 1 (2.273%) Czech Language
4 1 (2.273%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (22.73%) Principal Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Design Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Software Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Customer Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Voice Engineer
5 4 (9.091%) Project Manager
5 4 (9.091%) Technical Project Manager
5 4 (9.091%) Consultant
5 4 (9.091%) DSP Engineer
5 4 (9.091%) DSP Software Engineer
5 4 (9.091%) C Software Engineer
5 4 (9.091%) Technical Manager
6 3 (6.818%) Technical Project Leader
6 3 (6.818%) Project Leader
7 2 (4.545%) Radio Engineer
7 2 (4.545%) Principal Software Engineer
7 2 (4.545%) Principal Consultant
7 2 (4.545%) C++ Software Engineer
8 1 (2.273%) RAN Engineer
8 1 (2.273%) Core Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Clustering
1 6 (13.64%) Computer Science
2 4 (9.091%) Handset
3 3 (6.818%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 8 (18.18%) UNIX
1 8 (18.18%) Solaris
1 8 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (4.545%) Windows
2 2 (4.545%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.27%) Service Delivery
2 8 (18.18%) Capacity Management
2 8 (18.18%) Validation
2 8 (18.18%) Project Management
3 6 (13.64%) Network Design
3 6 (13.64%) Time Management
4 4 (9.091%) Product Management
4 4 (9.091%) Embedded Software Development
5 3 (6.818%) Network Planning
6 2 (4.545%) UML
6 2 (4.545%) Resource Management
6 2 (4.545%) Signal Processing
6 2 (4.545%) Performance Management
7 1 (2.273%) Security Testing
7 1 (2.273%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (2.273%) Workflow
7 1 (2.273%) Network Load Balancing
7 1 (2.273%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) C++
2 4 (9.091%) C
3 2 (4.545%) VC++
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) SLA
2 6 (13.64%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 6 (13.64%) Cisco
2 6 (13.64%) Sun
2 6 (13.64%) HP
3 4 (9.091%) Huawei
4 3 (6.818%) Ericsson
5 2 (4.545%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 1 (2.273%) Tektronix
6 1 (2.273%) Actix
6 1 (2.273%) Cramer
6 1 (2.273%) Mapinfo