The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 23 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 68 57 47
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -10
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 100 105 129
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 3.200% 3.050% 3.662%
As % of the General category 7.143% 7.738% 7.847%
Number of salaries quoted 51 68 79
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% -14.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £21,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
All of the General Category
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
1400 1357 1644
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 44.80% 39.41% 46.66%
Number of salaries quoted 801 916 1216
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £27,050 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Telecoms
UK

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Telecoms Salary Trend

Telecoms
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland Telecoms Salary Histogram

Telecoms
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 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
Glasgow -6 40 £34,625 +29.43%
Edinburgh -15 23 £34,000 -9.33%
West Lothian +7 14 £36,000 -
Fife +8 11 £39,000 +21.87%
North Lanarkshire +4 4 - -
Aberdeen -4 4 £28,750 -28.12%
South Ayrshire - 3 £22,500 -
Renfrewshire - 1 - -
Telecoms
UK

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 109 (55.90%) Finance
2 49 (25.13%) Banking
3 47 (24.10%) Microsoft
4 45 (23.08%) Cisco
5 43 (22.05%) SQL
6 41 (21.03%) UNIX
7 39 (20.00%) C#
8 35 (17.95%) Java
8 35 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
9 34 (17.44%) Oracle
9 34 (17.44%) Degree
10 33 (16.92%) C
11 29 (14.87%) Windows
11 29 (14.87%) Retail
12 26 (13.33%) Linux
12 26 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
13 25 (12.82%) ETL
14 24 (12.31%) C++
15 22 (11.28%) Firewall
15 22 (11.28%) MySQL
15 22 (11.28%) Juniper
16 21 (10.77%) Informatica
16 21 (10.77%) Cisco Certification
16 21 (10.77%) Network Security
17 20 (10.26%) Cisco PIX
17 20 (10.26%) Cisco ASA
17 20 (10.26%) Blue Coat
17 20 (10.26%) Netezza
17 20 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
17 20 (10.26%) F5

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 Development
1 19 (9.744%) XML
2 14 (7.179%) .NET
2 14 (7.179%) Spring
3 10 (5.128%) Web Services
4 9 (4.615%) JMS
4 9 (4.615%) Hibernate
5 8 (4.103%) HTML
5 8 (4.103%) J2EE
6 7 (3.590%) WebSphere
6 7 (3.590%) ASP.NET
7 6 (3.077%) JDBC
7 6 (3.077%) .NET Framework
8 5 (2.564%) WCF
8 5 (2.564%) Ruby on Rails
8 5 (2.564%) JSP
8 5 (2.564%) Servlets
8 5 (2.564%) CSS
9 4 (2.051%) WinForms
9 4 (2.051%) Ajax
9 4 (2.051%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 7 (3.590%) Tomcat
1 7 (3.590%) MS Exchange
2 4 (2.051%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.051%) Apache
3 3 (1.538%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (1.538%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (1.538%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.538%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (1.026%) SAS
4 2 (1.026%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.026%) WebSphere Process Server
4 2 (1.026%) TIBCO EMS
4 2 (1.026%) ESB
4 2 (1.026%) GemFire
4 2 (1.026%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.513%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.513%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.513%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 1 (0.513%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (0.513%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 19 (9.744%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.051%) MS Office
3 1 (0.513%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (0.513%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.513%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.28%) Firewall
2 21 (10.77%) Network Security
3 20 (10.26%) Cisco PIX
3 20 (10.26%) Cisco ASA
4 19 (9.744%) VoIP
5 15 (7.692%) SAN
6 11 (5.641%) TCP/IP
7 8 (4.103%) Intranet
7 8 (4.103%) WAN
7 8 (4.103%) Unified Communications
7 8 (4.103%) IP Telephony
8 7 (3.590%) Broadband
9 4 (2.051%) Wireless
9 4 (2.051%) VPN
9 4 (2.051%) LAN
10 3 (1.538%) DNS
11 2 (1.026%) HTTP
11 2 (1.026%) NAS
12 1 (0.513%) FWSM
12 1 (0.513%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (11.28%) MySQL
3 18 (9.231%) RDBMS
4 17 (8.718%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.641%) Informix
5 11 (5.641%) DataStage
6 6 (3.077%) Oracle 8/8i
7 5 (2.564%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (2.564%) DB2
8 3 (1.538%) Oracle 11g
8 3 (1.538%) MS Access
8 3 (1.538%) Oracle 10g
9 2 (1.026%) OLAP
9 2 (1.026%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (0.513%) BusinessObjects XI
10 1 (0.513%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 1 (0.513%) SQL Server 2005
10 1 (0.513%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.513%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.513%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 16 (8.205%) Subversion
2 9 (4.615%) Maven
3 7 (3.590%) JUnit
3 7 (3.590%) Eclipse
4 6 (3.077%) Ant
5 5 (2.564%) JIRA
6 3 (1.538%) Hudson
6 3 (1.538%) CruiseControl
6 3 (1.538%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.538%) QuickTest Pro
6 3 (1.538%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.026%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.026%) NUnit
7 2 (1.026%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.026%) Rhino Mocks
7 2 (1.026%) Moq
7 2 (1.026%) MSTest
7 2 (1.026%) Git (software)
7 2 (1.026%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.026%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 109 (55.90%) Finance
2 49 (25.13%) Banking
3 29 (14.87%) Retail
4 15 (7.692%) Automotive
5 10 (5.128%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.103%) Back Office
6 8 (4.103%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.564%) Private Banking
8 3 (1.538%) Local Government
8 3 (1.538%) Electronics
9 2 (1.026%) Games
9 2 (1.026%) Publishing
9 2 (1.026%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.026%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.026%) Front Office
9 2 (1.026%) Billing
10 1 (0.513%) Marketing
10 1 (0.513%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 53 (27.18%) Developer
2 24 (12.31%) Security Engineer
3 21 (10.77%) Support Engineer
4 20 (10.26%) Network Engineer
5 19 (9.744%) Network Security Engineer
5 19 (9.744%) Firewall Engineer
6 17 (8.718%) Software Engineer
7 13 (6.667%) Java Developer
8 11 (5.641%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (5.641%) Analyst
9 10 (5.128%) Consultant
10 9 (4.615%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 9 (4.615%) IT Support
10 9 (4.615%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (4.103%) Field Engineer
11 8 (4.103%) Data Warehouse Developer
11 8 (4.103%) Service Desk Engineer
12 7 (3.590%) C++ Developer
12 7 (3.590%) Field Service Engineer
12 7 (3.590%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.205%) Computer Science
2 10 (5.128%) Fixed Income
2 10 (5.128%) Clustering
3 5 (2.564%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.564%) Open Source
3 5 (2.564%) N-Tier
3 5 (2.564%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.051%) Equities
4 4 (2.051%) SaaS
5 3 (1.538%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.538%) CLARiiON
6 2 (1.026%) Symmetrix
6 2 (1.026%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.026%) Economics
6 2 (1.026%) Derivative
6 2 (1.026%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.026%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.513%) Symmetrix DMX
7 1 (0.513%) iPad
7 1 (0.513%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 41 (21.03%) UNIX
2 29 (14.87%) Windows
3 26 (13.33%) Linux
4 9 (4.615%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (3.077%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (2.051%) AIX
6 4 (2.051%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.026%) Solaris
8 1 (0.513%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.513%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.513%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.513%) Windows Vista
8 1 (0.513%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
2 25 (12.82%) ETL
3 20 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (8.718%) TDD
5 15 (7.692%) Multithreading
5 15 (7.692%) Software Engineering
5 15 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
6 14 (7.179%) OO
7 13 (6.667%) Data Modelling
8 12 (6.154%) ITIL
8 12 (6.154%) Incident Management
9 10 (5.128%) Scrum
9 10 (5.128%) Unit Testing
10 9 (4.615%) Asset Management
10 9 (4.615%) Project Management
11 8 (4.103%) SOA
11 8 (4.103%) B2B
11 8 (4.103%) Workforce Management Optimization
12 7 (3.590%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (3.077%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 43 (22.05%) SQL
2 39 (20.00%) C#
3 35 (17.95%) Java
4 33 (16.92%) C
5 24 (12.31%) C++
6 14 (7.179%) Korn
7 12 (6.154%) Perl
8 11 (5.641%) Python
9 7 (3.590%) JavaScript
10 6 (3.077%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.564%) Ruby
12 4 (2.051%) Scala
13 3 (1.538%) PHP
13 3 (1.538%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.538%) VBScript
13 3 (1.538%) VB
14 2 (1.026%) VBA
14 2 (1.026%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.513%) XPath
15 1 (0.513%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (17.44%) Degree
2 21 (10.77%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (9.744%) CCNP
3 19 (9.744%) JNCIS
3 19 (9.744%) CCSE
4 11 (5.641%) Security Cleared
4 11 (5.641%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (5.128%) MCSE
6 8 (4.103%) Avaya Certification
6 8 (4.103%) HND
6 8 (4.103%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.590%) MCDST
7 7 (3.590%) HNC
8 2 (1.026%) CCNA
9 1 (0.513%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.513%) MCP
9 1 (0.513%) CISSP
9 1 (0.513%) Siebel Certification
9 1 (0.513%) CNE
9 1 (0.513%) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.154%) SLA
2 4 (2.051%) QA
3 2 (1.026%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.513%) COBIT
4 1 (0.513%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (5.128%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.051%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.538%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.026%) vSphere
4 2 (1.026%) XenApp
4 2 (1.026%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.513%) Xen
5 1 (0.513%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.513%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.513%) NFS
5 1 (0.513%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.513%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 5 (2.564%) SCOM
2 4 (2.051%) Backup Exec
2 4 (2.051%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 3 (1.538%) SCCM
3 3 (1.538%) Tivoli
3 3 (1.538%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.513%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.513%) Ionix
4 1 (0.513%) WSUS
4 1 (0.513%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 47 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 45 (23.08%) Cisco
3 34 (17.44%) Oracle
4 22 (11.28%) Juniper
5 21 (10.77%) Informatica
6 20 (10.26%) Blue Coat
6 20 (10.26%) Netezza
6 20 (10.26%) F5
6 20 (10.26%) CheckPoint
7 19 (9.744%) Websense
8 17 (8.718%) Ab Initio
9 14 (7.179%) Teradata
10 13 (6.667%) HP
11 12 (6.154%) Fujitsu
12 10 (5.128%) VMware
13 9 (4.615%) Avaya
14 8 (4.103%) Symantec
14 8 (4.103%) Nortel
14 8 (4.103%) Verint
15 6 (3.077%) Razor Risk
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