The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 16 20 26
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 53 42 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 8.466% 9.150% 6.640%
As % of the General category 19.92% 22.22% 16.92%
Number of salaries quoted 42 42 28
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -14.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,750 £25,646 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
All of the General Category
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
266 189 195
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 42.49% 41.18% 39.24%
Number of salaries quoted 241 179 181
Average salary £38,500 £38,750 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.64% -3.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £90,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Telecoms
South West

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Telecoms Salary Trend

Telecoms
Salary Histogram

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

Somerset 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 Somerset 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
Bath -1 37 £35,000 -
Templecombe - 6 - -
Taunton +3 5 £30,000 +16.97%
Clevedon - 1 - -
Shepton Mallet - 1 £38,250 -
Telecoms
South West

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 67 (53.60%) Digital Media
2 36 (28.80%) Java
3 35 (28.00%) SQL
4 34 (27.20%) JavaScript
4 34 (27.20%) HTML
4 34 (27.20%) CSS
5 23 (18.40%) Web Services
5 23 (18.40%) Oracle
5 23 (18.40%) Microsoft
6 22 (17.60%) Cisco
6 22 (17.60%) Finance
7 21 (16.80%) PHP
8 20 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (14.40%) .NET
9 18 (14.40%) SOAP
9 18 (14.40%) MySQL
9 18 (14.40%) OOP
9 18 (14.40%) OOD
9 18 (14.40%) SOA
9 18 (14.40%) Banking
9 18 (14.40%) RESTful
9 18 (14.40%) JIRA
10 17 (13.60%) Android
10 17 (13.60%) SQL Server
10 17 (13.60%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (12.80%) jQuery
12 15 (12.00%) Investment Management
12 15 (12.00%) Enterprise Architecture
12 15 (12.00%) Java EE
12 15 (12.00%) CCNA

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 34 (27.20%) HTML
1 34 (27.20%) CSS
2 23 (18.40%) Web Services
3 18 (14.40%) .NET
3 18 (14.40%) SOAP
3 18 (14.40%) RESTful
4 16 (12.80%) jQuery
5 15 (12.00%) Java EE
5 15 (12.00%) XML
6 10 (8.000%) Spring
6 10 (8.000%) Hibernate
7 9 (7.200%) ASP.NET
7 9 (7.200%) J2EE
8 7 (5.600%) HTML5
9 2 (1.600%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 13 (10.40%) SAS
2 10 (8.000%) GlassFish
2 10 (8.000%) Apache
2 10 (8.000%) Tomcat
3 8 (6.400%) WordPress
4 3 (2.400%) IIS
4 3 (2.400%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.400%) Drupal
5 2 (1.600%) CICS
5 2 (1.600%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (10.40%) SPSS
1 13 (10.40%) FastStats
2 4 (3.200%) MS Office
3 2 (1.600%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.800%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.800%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.800%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.800%) WAN
1 11 (8.800%) MPLS
2 10 (8.000%) LAN
2 10 (8.000%) Ethernet
3 9 (7.200%) VPN
3 9 (7.200%) DSL
4 7 (5.600%) PPP
4 7 (5.600%) DHCP
4 7 (5.600%) ISDN
4 7 (5.600%) OSPF
4 7 (5.600%) EIGRP
4 7 (5.600%) VRRP
4 7 (5.600%) BGP
4 7 (5.600%) HSRP
4 7 (5.600%) VLAN
4 7 (5.600%) IPsec
5 4 (3.200%) ADSL
5 4 (3.200%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.200%) VoIP
6 3 (2.400%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (14.40%) MySQL
3 17 (13.60%) SQL Server
4 13 (10.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (10.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (10.40%) SQL Server 2008
5 10 (8.000%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.400%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.400%) OLAP
6 3 (2.400%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.400%) Oracle OLAP
7 2 (1.600%) DB2
Development Applications
1 18 (14.40%) JIRA
2 10 (8.000%) Maven
2 10 (8.000%) Subversion
2 10 (8.000%) Git (software)
3 7 (5.600%) Xcode
4 6 (4.800%) Rational Rhapsody
5 4 (3.200%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (3.200%) Rational Rose
General
1 22 (17.60%) Finance
2 18 (14.40%) Banking
3 13 (10.40%) Marketing
4 7 (5.600%) Electronics
4 7 (5.600%) Military
5 6 (4.800%) Legal
6 4 (3.200%) Back Office
6 4 (3.200%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.400%) Local Government
8 2 (1.600%) Front Office
9 1 (0.800%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 40 (32.00%) Developer
2 20 (16.00%) Architect
3 19 (15.20%) Team Leader
3 19 (15.20%) Solutions Architect
4 18 (14.40%) Technical Architect
5 15 (12.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 12 (9.600%) Analyst
7 11 (8.800%) Designer
8 10 (8.000%) PHP Developer
9 9 (7.200%) Data Analyst
10 8 (6.400%) Senior Technical Architect
10 8 (6.400%) Technical Designer
10 8 (6.400%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 8 (6.400%) Senior Designer
10 8 (6.400%) Senior Architect
11 7 (5.600%) Android Developer
12 6 (4.800%) Java Team Leader
12 6 (4.800%) Oracle Team Leader
12 6 (4.800%) Project Manager
13 5 (4.000%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 67 (53.60%) Digital Media
2 13 (10.40%) Cloud Computing
3 12 (9.600%) IBM Mainframe
3 12 (9.600%) Mainframe
4 10 (8.000%) iPad
4 10 (8.000%) iPhone
5 7 (5.600%) Mobile App
5 7 (5.600%) Smartphone
6 6 (4.800%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (4.000%) Management Information System
8 4 (3.200%) Computer Science
9 2 (1.600%) Mathematics
9 2 (1.600%) Physics
10 1 (0.800%) ASIC
10 1 (0.800%) SaaS
10 1 (0.800%) Visualisation
10 1 (0.800%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.800%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
10 1 (0.800%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.60%) Android
2 12 (9.600%) Windows
3 10 (8.000%) Apple iOS
4 6 (4.800%) Linux
5 4 (3.200%) UNIX
6 2 (1.600%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (14.40%) OOP
1 18 (14.40%) OOD
1 18 (14.40%) SOA
2 15 (12.00%) Investment Management
2 15 (12.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 15 (12.00%) ITIL
3 13 (10.40%) Data Analysis
3 13 (10.40%) Analytics
4 11 (8.800%) Web Development
5 10 (8.000%) TOGAF
5 10 (8.000%) Project Management
6 9 (7.200%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (5.600%) Validation
7 7 (5.600%) Migration
7 7 (5.600%) Mobile Application Development
7 7 (5.600%) Business Continuity
8 6 (4.800%) Information Management
8 6 (4.800%) Web Application Development
8 6 (4.800%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (4.800%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (28.80%) Java
2 35 (28.00%) SQL
3 34 (27.20%) JavaScript
4 21 (16.80%) PHP
5 13 (10.40%) T-SQL
6 10 (8.000%) PHP5
7 9 (7.200%) C#
8 8 (6.400%) C
9 7 (5.600%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.400%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.600%) Assembly Language
11 2 (1.600%) Perl
12 1 (0.800%) C++
12 1 (0.800%) COBOL
12 1 (0.800%) VB
12 1 (0.800%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.800%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.800%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (13.60%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (12.00%) CCNA
3 10 (8.000%) CCNP
3 10 (8.000%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (8.000%) MCSE
4 9 (7.200%) CCIP
5 6 (4.800%) MCSA
6 5 (4.000%) HND
7 4 (3.200%) MCDST
7 4 (3.200%) Degree
7 4 (3.200%) HNC
8 2 (1.600%) PhD
9 1 (0.800%) CCIE
9 1 (0.800%) CCDP
9 1 (0.800%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.600%) QA
2 5 (4.000%) COBIT
3 4 (3.200%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.600%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.800%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.800%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.800%) Tivoli
1 1 (0.800%) Netcool
Vendors
1 23 (18.40%) Oracle
1 23 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.60%) Cisco
3 13 (10.40%) IBM
4 3 (2.400%) Business Objects
4 3 (2.400%) Cognos
4 3 (2.400%) Ericsson
4 3 (2.400%) Redback
5 1 (0.800%) BMC
5 1 (0.800%) Remedy
5 1 (0.800%) VMware
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