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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unified Communications
Rank 124 148 139
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -9
Permanent jobs citing Unified Communications 29 7 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.922% 0.203% 0.574%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.039% 1.333% 4.329%
Number of salaries quoted 15 4 18
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -30.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £26,600 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £49,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year
- -16.66%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
412 525 462
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 13.09% 15.20% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 217 339 324
Average salary £41,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £23,000 £21,600
10% offered a salary of more than £45,700 £77,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Unified Communications
UK

Unified Communications
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Unified Communications Jobs Demand Trend

Unified Communications
Salary Trend

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

Scotland Unified Communications Salary Trend

Unified Communications
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Unified Communications across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland Unified Communications Salary Histogram

Unified Communications
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unified Communications within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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
Edinburgh +22 18 £47,500 +35.71%
Glasgow -17 9 £35,000 -10.25%
Unified Communications
UK

Unified Communications
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Unified Communications 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 Unified Communications.

1 32 (49.23%) Finance
2 18 (27.69%) Cisco
2 18 (27.69%) Intranet
2 18 (27.69%) Project Management
3 17 (26.15%) ITIL
4 13 (20.00%) Oracle
5 11 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (16.92%) Service Delivery
5 11 (16.92%) Degree
5 11 (16.92%) Resource Management
6 10 (15.38%) SharePoint
7 9 (13.85%) PRINCE2
7 9 (13.85%) TCP/IP
7 9 (13.85%) DNS
7 9 (13.85%) ITIL Certification
7 9 (13.85%) Incident Management
7 9 (13.85%) Telecoms
8 8 (12.31%) Verint
8 8 (12.31%) Workforce Management Optimization
8 8 (12.31%) IP Telephony
8 8 (12.31%) Avaya
8 8 (12.31%) Avaya Certification
8 8 (12.31%) Nortel
8 8 (12.31%) VoIP
8 8 (12.31%) C
9 7 (10.77%) Windows
9 7 (10.77%) Firewall
9 7 (10.77%) SIEM
9 7 (10.77%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (9.231%) Business Continuity

Unified Communications
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 10 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.077%) Lync
3 1 (1.538%) MS Exchange
3 1 (1.538%) IIS
3 1 (1.538%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (1.538%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (3.077%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.538%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (1.538%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (27.69%) Intranet
2 9 (13.85%) TCP/IP
2 9 (13.85%) DNS
3 8 (12.31%) IP Telephony
3 8 (12.31%) VoIP
4 7 (10.77%) Firewall
5 6 (9.231%) DHCP
5 6 (9.231%) Internet
6 5 (7.692%) MPLS
6 5 (7.692%) OSPF
6 5 (7.692%) BGP-4
6 5 (7.692%) EIGRP
6 5 (7.692%) IKE
6 5 (7.692%) SNMP
6 5 (7.692%) WAN
6 5 (7.692%) LAN
6 5 (7.692%) IPv4
6 5 (7.692%) IPv6
6 5 (7.692%) Wireless
6 5 (7.692%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.077%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (1.538%) Oracle 10g
General
1 32 (49.23%) Finance
2 9 (13.85%) Telecoms
3 4 (6.154%) Banking
4 3 (4.615%) Retail
4 3 (4.615%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (20.00%) Analyst
1 13 (20.00%) Consultant
2 10 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 9 (13.85%) IT Support
4 8 (12.31%) Service Desk Engineer
5 6 (9.231%) Security Analyst
6 5 (7.692%) Network Engineer
6 5 (7.692%) Support Engineer
6 5 (7.692%) Cisco Engineer
6 5 (7.692%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (7.692%) Data Consultant
6 5 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 5 (7.692%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
7 4 (6.154%) Graduate
7 4 (6.154%) Security Consultant
8 3 (4.615%) Delivery Project Manager
8 3 (4.615%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.615%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (4.615%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.615%) Blackberry
1 3 (4.615%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.077%) Replication
2 2 (3.077%) CLARiiON
2 2 (3.077%) EMC Centera
2 2 (3.077%) Celerra
3 1 (1.538%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.538%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.77%) Windows
1 7 (10.77%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (4.615%) Windows Mobile
2 3 (4.615%) Android
2 3 (4.615%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.077%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (3.077%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (3.077%) AIX
3 2 (3.077%) Solaris
4 1 (1.538%) UNIX
4 1 (1.538%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.69%) Project Management
2 17 (26.15%) ITIL
3 11 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (16.92%) Service Delivery
3 11 (16.92%) Resource Management
4 9 (13.85%) PRINCE2
4 9 (13.85%) Incident Management
5 8 (12.31%) Workforce Management Optimization
6 7 (10.77%) SIEM
7 6 (9.231%) Business Continuity
8 5 (7.692%) BCP
8 5 (7.692%) Change Management
8 5 (7.692%) Network Design
8 5 (7.692%) Network Architecture
8 5 (7.692%) Network Management
9 3 (4.615%) Business Analysis
9 3 (4.615%) Project Planning
9 3 (4.615%) Security Testing
9 3 (4.615%) Scrum
9 3 (4.615%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.31%) C
2 2 (3.077%) SQL
3 1 (1.538%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.538%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (16.92%) Degree
2 9 (13.85%) ITIL Certification
3 8 (12.31%) Avaya Certification
4 5 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (7.692%) CCIE
4 5 (7.692%) CCSP
4 5 (7.692%) CCNP
4 5 (7.692%) CCIP
4 5 (7.692%) CCNA
5 2 (3.077%) MCTS
6 1 (1.538%) MCSE
6 1 (1.538%) MCSA
6 1 (1.538%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.538%) MCITP
6 1 (1.538%) CCSE
System Software
1 5 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.154%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.615%) VMware ESX
4 2 (3.077%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (1.538%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.538%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.538%) SCCM
1 1 (1.538%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 18 (27.69%) Cisco
2 13 (20.00%) Oracle
3 8 (12.31%) Verint
3 8 (12.31%) Avaya
3 8 (12.31%) Nortel
4 5 (7.692%) VMware
4 5 (7.692%) Mitel
5 2 (3.077%) Brocade
5 2 (3.077%) Citrix
5 2 (3.077%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.077%) EMC
6 1 (1.538%) Juniper
6 1 (1.538%) Nokia
6 1 (1.538%) CheckPoint
Edinburgh, Scotland
Business Development Manager - £50K - Edinburgh £50K Basic + OTE + Benefits A leading provider of unified communications is looking to add an experienced business development manager to their team. Partnering...
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Salary: £50000 - £100000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013