The first table below looks at the demand for Broadband skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Broadband 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Broadband
Rank 115 133 108
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -25
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 43 21 48
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.374% 0.611% 1.396%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.41% 4.200% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 20
Average salary £50,000 £57,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.04% +27.77%
UK excluding London average salary £35,250 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+0.71% -6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
413 500 452
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 13.19% 14.54% 13.15%
Number of salaries quoted 223 326 315
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,150 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,500 £77,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Broadband
UK

Broadband
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Broadband Jobs Demand Trend

Broadband
Salary Trend

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

Scotland Broadband Salary Trend

Broadband
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
West Lothian +8 38 - -
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Edinburgh -6 1 £50,000 -13.04%
Broadband
UK

Broadband
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Broadband 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 Broadband.

1 29 (47.54%) SQL
2 27 (44.26%) UNIX
3 26 (42.62%) Degree
4 23 (37.70%) Windows
5 22 (36.07%) Linux
6 16 (26.23%) Java
7 15 (24.59%) VBScript
8 14 (22.95%) Perl
9 13 (21.31%) Oracle
9 13 (21.31%) ITIL
9 13 (21.31%) Management Information System
10 10 (16.39%) XML
10 10 (16.39%) Data Modelling
10 10 (16.39%) MS Excel
10 10 (16.39%) Time Management
11 9 (14.75%) Capacity Planning
11 9 (14.75%) Capacity Management
11 9 (14.75%) sed
11 9 (14.75%) C#
11 9 (14.75%) T-SQL
11 9 (14.75%) Shell Script
11 9 (14.75%) SNMP
11 9 (14.75%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (14.75%) SAN
11 9 (14.75%) AWK
11 9 (14.75%) Web Development
11 9 (14.75%) Altiris
11 9 (14.75%) SSH
11 9 (14.75%) WMI
12 8 (13.11%) Brocade

Broadband
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 10 (16.39%) XML
2 1 (1.639%) JMS
2 1 (1.639%) WSDL
2 1 (1.639%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.639%) Velocity
2 1 (1.639%) Dojo
2 1 (1.639%) J2EE
2 1 (1.639%) COM
2 1 (1.639%) JDBC
2 1 (1.639%) SOAP
2 1 (1.639%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.639%) SAS
1 1 (1.639%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (1.639%) WebSphere Process Server
1 1 (1.639%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 1 (1.639%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 10 (16.39%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.639%) SPSS
2 1 (1.639%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.639%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.75%) SNMP
1 9 (14.75%) SAN
1 9 (14.75%) SSH
2 8 (13.11%) NAS
3 2 (3.279%) BSS
4 1 (1.639%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.639%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.639%) Wireless
4 1 (1.639%) VPN
4 1 (1.639%) LAN
4 1 (1.639%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.557%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (6.557%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (6.557%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (3.279%) BusinessObjects XI
3 2 (3.279%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (1.639%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (1.639%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 8 (13.11%) Telecoms
1 8 (13.11%) Finance
2 7 (11.48%) Marketing
3 3 (4.918%) Billing
Job Titles
1 14 (22.95%) Analyst
2 9 (14.75%) Developer
2 9 (14.75%) Capacity Planner
3 6 (9.836%) Graduate
4 5 (8.197%) Test Analyst
4 5 (8.197%) Technical Analyst
4 5 (8.197%) Technical Test Analyst
4 5 (8.197%) Administrator
5 4 (6.557%) SAN Storage Engineer
5 4 (6.557%) Storage Engineer
5 4 (6.557%) Senior Storage Engineer
5 4 (6.557%) SAN Engineer
5 4 (6.557%) Report Developer
5 4 (6.557%) SQL Developer
5 4 (6.557%) SQL Server Developer
5 4 (6.557%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.918%) Storage Specialist
6 3 (4.918%) SAN Storage Specialist
6 3 (4.918%) SAN Specialist
7 2 (3.279%) Graduate Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.31%) Management Information System
2 8 (13.11%) Replication
2 8 (13.11%) Symmetrix
2 8 (13.11%) Symmetrix DMX
3 7 (11.48%) Celerra
4 1 (1.639%) DTV
4 1 (1.639%) Open Source
4 1 (1.639%) Statistics
4 1 (1.639%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 27 (44.26%) UNIX
2 23 (37.70%) Windows
3 22 (36.07%) Linux
4 5 (8.197%) Solaris
5 1 (1.639%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.31%) ITIL
2 10 (16.39%) Data Modelling
2 10 (16.39%) Time Management
3 9 (14.75%) Web Development
3 9 (14.75%) Capacity Planning
3 9 (14.75%) Capacity Management
4 8 (13.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (9.836%) Test Automation
6 5 (8.197%) Business Analysis
6 5 (8.197%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (8.197%) Asset Management
7 4 (6.557%) Information Security
7 4 (6.557%) Risk Management
7 4 (6.557%) Validation
7 4 (6.557%) Requirements Analysis
8 3 (4.918%) Incident Management
8 3 (4.918%) Customer Engagement
8 3 (4.918%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (4.918%) Workflow
8 3 (4.918%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 29 (47.54%) SQL
2 16 (26.23%) Java
3 15 (24.59%) VBScript
4 14 (22.95%) Perl
5 9 (14.75%) C#
5 9 (14.75%) T-SQL
5 9 (14.75%) Shell Script
5 9 (14.75%) AWK
5 9 (14.75%) sed
6 5 (8.197%) C
7 4 (6.557%) C-shell
7 4 (6.557%) Bash shell
7 4 (6.557%) Python
7 4 (6.557%) C++
8 1 (1.639%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (42.62%) Degree
2 9 (14.75%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (6.557%) CISM
3 4 (6.557%) CISMP
3 4 (6.557%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.557%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (6.557%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.639%) QA
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) NFS
1 8 (13.11%) Active Directory
1 8 (13.11%) SRDF
2 1 (1.639%) VMware ESX
2 1 (1.639%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (14.75%) WMI
2 8 (13.11%) Ionix
2 8 (13.11%) EMC TimeFinder
3 4 (6.557%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.639%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 13 (21.31%) Oracle
2 9 (14.75%) Altiris
3 8 (13.11%) Brocade
3 8 (13.11%) Cisco
3 8 (13.11%) EMC
3 8 (13.11%) NetApp
4 6 (9.836%) Business Objects
5 5 (8.197%) Microsoft
6 4 (6.557%) NetIQ
6 4 (6.557%) Symantec
7 2 (3.279%) IBM
8 1 (1.639%) Sun
8 1 (1.639%) HP
8 1 (1.639%) StorageTek
8 1 (1.639%) VMware
8 1 (1.639%) Lombardi
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