The first table below looks at the demand for MGW skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MGW over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Media Gateway (MGW)
Rank 123 132 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Permanent jobs citing MGW 9 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.427% 0.044% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.173% 0.175% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
Average salary £47,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £48,750 £37,250 £24,000
% change year-on-year
+30.87% +55.20%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
767 573 364
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 36.42% 25.37% 19.55%
Number of salaries quoted 617 462 298
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +4.65%
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 £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
MGW
Berkshire

MGW
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading MGW Jobs Demand Trend

MGW
Salary Trend

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

Reading MGW Salary Trend

MGW
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing MGW 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 MGW.

1 9 (69.23%) Telecoms
2 8 (61.54%) GSM
3 7 (53.85%) 3GPP
3 7 (53.85%) UMTS
3 7 (53.85%) Wireless
3 7 (53.85%) ATM
3 7 (53.85%) GGSN
3 7 (53.85%) SGSN
4 6 (46.15%) INAP
4 6 (46.15%) 3G
5 5 (38.46%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 5 (38.46%) SIGTRAN
6 4 (30.77%) Validation
6 4 (30.77%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (30.77%) Capacity Management
6 4 (30.77%) Project Management
6 4 (30.77%) Nokia
6 4 (30.77%) ISUP
7 1 (7.692%) SCCP
7 1 (7.692%) Red Hat
7 1 (7.692%) BSS
7 1 (7.692%) Czech Language
7 1 (7.692%) 2G
7 1 (7.692%) SMPP
7 1 (7.692%) Megaco
7 1 (7.692%) TCAP
7 1 (7.692%) SOAP
7 1 (7.692%) UNIX
7 1 (7.692%) Solaris
7 1 (7.692%) Linux

MGW
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing MGW 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 MGW. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) SOAP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) GSM
2 7 (53.85%) 3GPP
2 7 (53.85%) UMTS
2 7 (53.85%) ATM
2 7 (53.85%) Wireless
2 7 (53.85%) GGSN
2 7 (53.85%) SGSN
3 6 (46.15%) INAP
3 6 (46.15%) 3G
4 5 (38.46%) SIGTRAN
5 4 (30.77%) ISUP
5 4 (30.77%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (7.692%) M3UA
6 1 (7.692%) LTE
6 1 (7.692%) SCTP
6 1 (7.692%) XCAP
6 1 (7.692%) 4G
6 1 (7.692%) SCCP
6 1 (7.692%) LDAP
6 1 (7.692%) 2G
General
1 9 (69.23%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.692%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Network Engineer
1 7 (53.85%) Support Engineer
1 7 (53.85%) Network Support Engineer
1 7 (53.85%) Network Support
1 7 (53.85%) Core Network Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Voice Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Design Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Customer Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) 3G Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) UNIX
1 1 (7.692%) Solaris
1 1 (7.692%) Linux
1 1 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Project Management
1 4 (30.77%) Validation
1 4 (30.77%) Capacity Management
2 1 (7.692%) Time Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) ISO 9001
1 1 (7.692%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 4 (30.77%) Nokia
3 1 (7.692%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco
3 1 (7.692%) Sun
3 1 (7.692%) HP