The first table below looks at the demand for SS7 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SS7 over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Signaling System No. 7 (SS7)
Rank 135 130 120
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -10
Permanent jobs citing SS7 4 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.179% 0.085% 0.052%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.528% 0.319% 0.251%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £38,250 £28,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year
+34.21% -45.71%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
757 627 399
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 33.86% 26.66% 20.88%
Number of salaries quoted 587 466 329
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £26,900 £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%
SS7
Berkshire

SS7
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SS7 across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Reading SS7 Jobs Demand Trend

SS7
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SS7 across the Reading region.

Reading SS7 Salary Trend

SS7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing SS7 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 SS7.

1 8 (88.89%) Telecoms
2 6 (66.67%) GSM
2 6 (66.67%) UMTS
3 5 (55.56%) Oracle
3 5 (55.56%) UNIX
4 4 (44.44%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (44.44%) Service Delivery
4 4 (44.44%) INAP
4 4 (44.44%) GPRS
4 4 (44.44%) Huawei
5 2 (22.22%) Marketing
5 2 (22.22%) NGN
5 2 (22.22%) SIGTRAN
5 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Product Marketing
5 2 (22.22%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Billing
5 2 (22.22%) Network Design
5 2 (22.22%) NDS
5 2 (22.22%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 2 (22.22%) TIBCO
5 2 (22.22%) DSL
5 2 (22.22%) Cisco IPCC
5 2 (22.22%) Change Management
5 2 (22.22%) Wireless
5 2 (22.22%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
5 2 (22.22%) LDAP
5 2 (22.22%) Broadband
5 2 (22.22%) CDMA

SS7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing SS7 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 SS7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) GSM
1 6 (66.67%) UMTS
2 4 (44.44%) INAP
2 4 (44.44%) GPRS
3 2 (22.22%) NGN
3 2 (22.22%) SIGTRAN
3 2 (22.22%) DSL
3 2 (22.22%) Wireless
3 2 (22.22%) LDAP
3 2 (22.22%) Broadband
3 2 (22.22%) CDMA
3 2 (22.22%) SMS
4 1 (11.11%) HTTP
4 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (11.11%) Informix
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (88.89%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Support Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Support
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) UNIX Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) UNIX Support Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Technical Support
3 2 (22.22%) UNIX Support
3 2 (22.22%) Senior UNIX Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior UNIX Support
3 2 (22.22%) Senior UNIX Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Team Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Network Support
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) UNIX
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Service Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Product Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Network Design
2 2 (22.22%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) HNC
1 1 (11.11%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) NDS
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
2 4 (44.44%) Huawei
3 2 (22.22%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 2 (22.22%) Alcatel-Lucent
3 2 (22.22%) TIBCO
4 1 (11.11%) Sybase
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