The first table below looks at the demand for the Communications Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Communications Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Comms Engineer
Rank 431 420 413
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Communications Engineer 10 18 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.045% 0.076% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.080% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 10 18 6
Average salary £50,000 £40,000 £25,600
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% +56.25%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £35,000 £28,500
% change year-on-year
+42.85% +22.80%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
21050 22607 21256
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.89% 95.23% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 17463 19538 18266
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Communications Engineer
England

Communications Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Communications Engineer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East Communications Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Communications Engineer
Salary Trend

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

South East Communications Engineer Salary Trend

Communications Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Communications Engineer across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East Communications Engineer Salary Histogram

Communications Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Communications Engineer within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Berkshire - 5 £45,000 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £50,000 -
Surrey +6 1 £32,500 -7.14%
Kent - 1 £50,000 -
Communications Engineer
England

Communications Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited Communications Engineer in their job title 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 with Communications Engineer in their job title.

1 10 (62.50%) Cisco
1 10 (62.50%) Unified Communications
2 9 (56.25%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (56.25%) CCNP
3 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (37.50%) CCIE
4 6 (37.50%) Lync
5 5 (31.25%) MCITP
6 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
6 4 (25.00%) Firewall
6 4 (25.00%) CCVP
6 4 (25.00%) Windows
6 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
6 4 (25.00%) Cisco UCCX
7 3 (18.75%) Cisco UCCE
7 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
7 3 (18.75%) SQL
7 3 (18.75%) ITIL
7 3 (18.75%) CCNA
7 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
7 3 (18.75%) Project Management
7 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (12.50%) VSAT
8 2 (12.50%) SCOM
8 2 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (12.50%) MCTS
8 2 (12.50%) LANDesk
8 2 (12.50%) Information Security
8 2 (12.50%) Citrix
8 2 (12.50%) VMware

Communications Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited Communications Engineer in their job title 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 with Communications Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) XMPP
Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) Lync
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
3 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (6.250%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (6.250%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) Unified Communications
2 4 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) VSAT
3 2 (12.50%) DVB
3 2 (12.50%) PBX
3 2 (12.50%) VoIP
4 1 (6.250%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (6.250%) WAN
4 1 (6.250%) SMTP
4 1 (6.250%) DHCP
4 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.250%) VPN
4 1 (6.250%) DNS
4 1 (6.250%) SSL
4 1 (6.250%) ISDN
4 1 (6.250%) LAN
4 1 (6.250%) SAN
4 1 (6.250%) MPLS
4 1 (6.250%) LDAP
4 1 (6.250%) IP Telephony
General
1 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.250%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (6.250%) Open Source
2 1 (6.250%) iPad
2 1 (6.250%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (6.250%) Windows Phone
4 1 (6.250%) Windows 8
4 1 (6.250%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL
2 3 (18.75%) Project Management
3 2 (12.50%) Information Security
3 2 (12.50%) Service Management
3 2 (12.50%) CRM
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL V3
3 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (6.250%) PRINCE2
4 1 (6.250%) Change Management
4 1 (6.250%) Migration
4 1 (6.250%) Integration Testing
4 1 (6.250%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco Certification
1 9 (56.25%) CCNP
2 6 (37.50%) CCIE
3 5 (31.25%) MCITP
4 4 (25.00%) CCVP
5 3 (18.75%) CCNA
6 2 (12.50%) MCTS
6 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (6.250%) MCP
7 1 (6.250%) MCSE
System Software
1 1 (6.250%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (6.250%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco UCCX
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco UCCE
3 2 (12.50%) SCOM
4 1 (6.250%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Cisco
2 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) LANDesk
3 2 (12.50%) Citrix
3 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Remedy
3 2 (12.50%) Sonus
4 1 (6.250%) Polycom
4 1 (6.250%) Tandberg
Surrey, South East
Communications System Engineer - (EX-FORCES Person required) by a leading Company who specialise in Satellite Communications... This is a great oppportunity to work for a unique and leading...
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Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013