The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT jobs advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms 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 terms in our General category for the Salford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 13 15 15
Rank change year-on-year
+2 0
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 1 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Salford 2.381% 4.082% 2.174%
As % of the General category 5.882% 12.50% 8.333%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 1
Average salary - £33,750 £22,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +53.40%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
All of the General Category
Salford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
17 16 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Salford 40.48% 32.65% 26.09%
Number of salaries quoted 16 16 12
Average salary £36,250 £37,500 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.33% +33.92%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £29,250 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £41,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Telecoms
Manchester

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Salford region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Salford Telecoms Jobs Demand Trend

Telecoms
Salary Trend

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

Salford Telecoms Salary Trend

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Salford region citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms.

1 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Apache
2 6 (85.71%) Billing
2 6 (85.71%) Subversion
2 6 (85.71%) SSH
2 6 (85.71%) Nagios
2 6 (85.71%) TACACS
2 6 (85.71%) Project Management
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (85.71%) MySQL
2 6 (85.71%) IIS
2 6 (85.71%) C
2 6 (85.71%) C++
2 6 (85.71%) Perl
2 6 (85.71%) PHP
2 6 (85.71%) MS Exchange
2 6 (85.71%) VoIP
2 6 (85.71%) NFS
2 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 6 (85.71%) OpenView
2 6 (85.71%) HP
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (85.71%) assyst
2 6 (85.71%) Time Management
2 6 (85.71%) Cacti
2 6 (85.71%) Sendmail

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) Apache
2 6 (85.71%) IIS
2 6 (85.71%) MS Exchange
3 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (85.71%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) SSH
1 6 (85.71%) TACACS
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
1 6 (85.71%) VoIP
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
1 6 (85.71%) MRTG
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (85.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Subversion
General
1 6 (85.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Service Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Data Manager
2 1 (14.29%) UNIX Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) UNIX Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) UNIX Support
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Support
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (85.71%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Project Management
1 6 (85.71%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) C
2 6 (85.71%) C++
2 6 (85.71%) Perl
2 6 (85.71%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) NFS
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
1 6 (85.71%) Sendmail
1 6 (85.71%) SpamAssassin
1 6 (85.71%) FreeRADIUS
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Nagios
1 6 (85.71%) OpenView
1 6 (85.71%) Cacti
1 6 (85.71%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
1 6 (85.71%) HP
1 6 (85.71%) SolarWinds