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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SDH 7 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 1.118% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.368% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
Average salary £50,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-23.00% +11.11%
All Communications & Networking
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
95 49 58
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 15.18% 10.68% 11.67%
Number of salaries quoted 86 47 54
Average salary £42,500 £33,950 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.18% -3.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £58,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SDH
South West

SDH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset SDH Jobs Demand Trend

SDH
Salary Trend

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

Somerset SDH Salary Trend

SDH
Salary Histogram

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

Somerset SDH Salary Histogram

SDH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset region citing SDH 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 SDH.

1 18 (100.00%) ADSL
1 18 (100.00%) MPLS
2 17 (94.44%) Cisco
3 16 (88.89%) SHDSL
4 15 (83.33%) IPsec
4 15 (83.33%) VPN
4 15 (83.33%) Ethernet
4 15 (83.33%) ISDN
4 15 (83.33%) Internet
4 15 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (77.78%) CCNA
5 14 (77.78%) 3G
5 14 (77.78%) BGP
6 13 (72.22%) OSPF
6 13 (72.22%) TCP/IP
6 13 (72.22%) EIGRP
7 12 (66.67%) Change Management
7 12 (66.67%) ITIL
7 12 (66.67%) WAN
8 11 (61.11%) Firewall
9 10 (55.56%) TACACS
9 10 (55.56%) DNS
10 9 (50.00%) Fault Management
11 8 (44.44%) LAN
12 7 (38.89%) CheckPoint
12 7 (38.89%) CCNP
12 7 (38.89%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (38.89%) Juniper
12 7 (38.89%) NetScreen
13 6 (33.33%) L2TP

SDH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset region citing SDH 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 SDH. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 18 (100.00%) ADSL
1 18 (100.00%) MPLS
2 16 (88.89%) SHDSL
3 15 (83.33%) IPsec
3 15 (83.33%) VPN
3 15 (83.33%) Ethernet
3 15 (83.33%) ISDN
3 15 (83.33%) Internet
4 14 (77.78%) 3G
4 14 (77.78%) BGP
5 13 (72.22%) OSPF
5 13 (72.22%) TCP/IP
5 13 (72.22%) EIGRP
6 12 (66.67%) WAN
7 11 (61.11%) Firewall
8 10 (55.56%) TACACS
8 10 (55.56%) DNS
9 8 (44.44%) LAN
10 7 (38.89%) NetScreen
11 6 (33.33%) L2TP
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Network Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Change Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Network Operations Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Operations Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Operations Manager
3 3 (16.67%) NOC Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.556%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) IP Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Change Management
1 12 (66.67%) ITIL
2 9 (50.00%) Fault Management
3 6 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 4 (22.22%) Network Management
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Management
5 3 (16.67%) Process Management
5 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) CRM
6 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
7 1 (5.556%) ITIL V3
7 1 (5.556%) Change Control
7 1 (5.556%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (77.78%) CCNA
3 7 (38.89%) CCNP
3 7 (38.89%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (27.78%) CCIP
5 4 (22.22%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) SLA
2 1 (5.556%) QA
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) Cisco
2 7 (38.89%) CheckPoint
2 7 (38.89%) Juniper
3 3 (16.67%) Foundry
3 3 (16.67%) Redback
3 3 (16.67%) Ericsson
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
Somerset, South West
This includes MPLS VPN, IP Access and associated overlay services, such as Application Performance Management (APM), and IPSec VPN, delivered over xDSL, EFM (copper and fibre), Leased Line,...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: to £62k + 5% bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013
Somerset, South West
This includes MPLS VPN, IP Access and associated overlay services, such as Application Performance Management (APM), and IPSec VPN, delivered over xDSL, EFM (copper and fibre), Leased Line,...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: to £35K + 5% bonus + 20% shift allowance
Posted: 21 May 2013