The first table below looks at the demand for SONET skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SONET over the 3 months to 20 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
Rank 404 435 -
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -
Permanent jobs citing SONET 22 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.100% 0.004% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.424% 0.019% -
Number of salaries quoted 15 1 0
Average salary £36,000 £43,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.24% -
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £49,250 £67,000
% change year-on-year
-26.90% -26.49%
All Communications & Networking
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
5185 5218 4176
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 23.64% 21.96% 18.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4165 4423 3496
Average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
SONET
England

SONET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East SONET Jobs Demand Trend

SONET
Salary Trend

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

South East SONET Salary Trend

SONET
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SONET within the South East region over the 3 months to 20 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
Hampshire - 19 £36,000 -
Surrey +17 3 - -
SONET
England

SONET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region citing SONET 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 SONET.

1 25 (96.15%) Ethernet
2 23 (88.46%) SDH
3 22 (84.62%) TCP/IP
3 22 (84.62%) Cisco
3 22 (84.62%) OSPF
3 22 (84.62%) Telecoms
4 21 (80.77%) BGP
4 21 (80.77%) Juniper
4 21 (80.77%) MPLS
5 20 (76.92%) VLAN
6 19 (73.08%) VPLS
6 19 (73.08%) HSRP
6 19 (73.08%) Internet
6 19 (73.08%) IPv6
7 12 (46.15%) RSVP
8 4 (15.38%) Network Design
9 3 (11.54%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
9 3 (11.54%) Electronics
9 3 (11.54%) VHDL
9 3 (11.54%) Huawei
9 3 (11.54%) Xilinx
9 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
9 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
9 3 (11.54%) Gigabit Ethernet
9 3 (11.54%) Altera
9 3 (11.54%) CUDA
9 3 (11.54%) Project Management
9 3 (11.54%) ASIC
9 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
9 3 (11.54%) LAN

SONET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region citing SONET 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 SONET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 25 (96.15%) Ethernet
2 23 (88.46%) SDH
3 22 (84.62%) TCP/IP
3 22 (84.62%) OSPF
4 21 (80.77%) BGP
4 21 (80.77%) MPLS
5 20 (76.92%) VLAN
6 19 (73.08%) VPLS
6 19 (73.08%) HSRP
6 19 (73.08%) IPv6
6 19 (73.08%) Internet
7 12 (46.15%) RSVP
8 3 (11.54%) WAN
8 3 (11.54%) LAN
8 3 (11.54%) Gigabit Ethernet
9 2 (7.692%) EIGRP
9 2 (7.692%) VoIP
10 1 (3.846%) WLAN
10 1 (3.846%) ATM
10 1 (3.846%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.846%) Big Data
General
1 22 (84.62%) Telecoms
2 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
2 3 (11.54%) Electronics
3 2 (7.692%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Provisioning Engineer
1 7 (26.92%) IP Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Developer
2 3 (11.54%) Network Engineer
3 2 (7.692%) Network Manager
4 1 (3.846%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) ASIC
1 3 (11.54%) VHDL
1 3 (11.54%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 3 (11.54%) CUDA
2 1 (3.846%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (15.38%) Network Design
2 3 (11.54%) ITIL
2 3 (11.54%) Project Management
3 2 (7.692%) Service Management
3 2 (7.692%) Incident Management
3 2 (7.692%) Change Management
4 1 (3.846%) Migration
4 1 (3.846%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) C
1 3 (11.54%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.846%) CCIE
2 1 (3.846%) CCNP
2 1 (3.846%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 22 (84.62%) Cisco
2 21 (80.77%) Juniper
3 3 (11.54%) Huawei
3 3 (11.54%) Xilinx
3 3 (11.54%) Altera
4 2 (7.692%) Riverbed