The first table below looks at the demand for UMTS 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 UMTS 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
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)
Rank 372 246 342
Rank change year-on-year
-126 +96
Permanent jobs citing UMTS 54 204 80
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.246% 0.858% 0.356%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.041% 3.910% 1.916%
Number of salaries quoted 33 175 55
Average salary £52,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
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%
UMTS
England

UMTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East UMTS Jobs Demand Trend

UMTS
Salary Trend

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

South East UMTS Salary Trend

UMTS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing UMTS across the South East region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

South East UMTS Salary Histogram

UMTS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UMTS 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
Berkshire -67 29 £48,750 +39.28%
Surrey +5 18 £52,500 +6.06%
Hampshire -33 3 £40,000 -5.88%
UMTS
England

UMTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 115 (89.84%) Telecoms
2 105 (82.03%) GSM
3 53 (41.41%) LTE
4 47 (36.72%) Wireless
5 44 (34.38%) Windows
6 34 (26.56%) 3GPP
7 29 (22.66%) UNIX
8 27 (21.09%) 3G
8 27 (21.09%) C++
9 26 (20.31%) Cisco
10 24 (18.75%) Degree
11 23 (17.97%) Network Planning
11 23 (17.97%) VoIP
11 23 (17.97%) Linux
12 22 (17.19%) Oracle
13 21 (16.41%) SS7
14 20 (15.63%) SQL
15 18 (14.06%) Network Management
15 18 (14.06%) Nokia Siemens Networks
16 17 (13.28%) Agile Software Development
16 17 (13.28%) WCDMA
16 17 (13.28%) GPRS
17 16 (12.50%) OOD
18 15 (11.72%) Computer Science
18 15 (11.72%) GGSN
18 15 (11.72%) SGSN
19 14 (10.94%) QA
20 13 (10.16%) Business Development
20 13 (10.16%) Radio Access Network
21 12 (9.375%) GIS

UMTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (9.375%) STL
1 12 (9.375%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 9 (7.031%) .NET
3 4 (3.125%) XML
4 3 (2.344%) X-Windows
4 3 (2.344%) WCF
5 2 (1.563%) Java SE
6 1 (0.781%) HTML
6 1 (0.781%) WinForms
6 1 (0.781%) XHTML
6 1 (0.781%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.781%) SOAP
6 1 (0.781%) Silverlight
6 1 (0.781%) Google Maps API
6 1 (0.781%) soapUI
6 1 (0.781%) Bing Maps
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.563%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (0.781%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.781%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (2.344%) MS Office
2 2 (1.563%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.563%) MS Project
3 1 (0.781%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 105 (82.03%) GSM
2 53 (41.41%) LTE
3 47 (36.72%) Wireless
4 34 (26.56%) 3GPP
5 27 (21.09%) 3G
6 23 (17.97%) VoIP
7 21 (16.41%) SS7
8 17 (13.28%) WCDMA
8 17 (13.28%) GPRS
9 15 (11.72%) GGSN
9 15 (11.72%) SGSN
10 13 (10.16%) Radio Access Network
11 12 (9.375%) Asterisk PBX
11 12 (9.375%) PBX
12 11 (8.594%) RTP
13 10 (7.813%) MGW
14 9 (7.031%) RANAP
14 9 (7.031%) UTRAN
14 9 (7.031%) ATM
15 8 (6.250%) CDMA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.375%) GIS
2 3 (2.344%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (2.344%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (1.563%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.563%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (0.781%) MySQL
4 1 (0.781%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (9.375%) Subversion
1 12 (9.375%) GCC
1 12 (9.375%) GDB
1 12 (9.375%) Trac
2 7 (5.469%) ClearCase
2 7 (5.469%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.781%) SilkTest
3 1 (0.781%) JIRA
3 1 (0.781%) Selenium
General
1 115 (89.84%) Telecoms
2 9 (7.031%) Finance
3 4 (3.125%) Military
4 3 (2.344%) Marketing
5 1 (0.781%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 29 (22.66%) Software Engineer
2 19 (14.84%) Support Engineer
3 16 (12.50%) Consultant
4 13 (10.16%) Senior Consultant
5 12 (9.375%) C++ Software Engineer
6 11 (8.594%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (8.594%) QA Engineer
7 8 (6.250%) Network Support
7 8 (6.250%) Network Support Engineer
7 8 (6.250%) Network Engineer
8 7 (5.469%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 7 (5.469%) 3G Engineer
8 7 (5.469%) Senior 3G Engineer
8 7 (5.469%) Core Network Engineer
9 6 (4.688%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (4.688%) DSP Engineer
9 6 (4.688%) Developer
9 6 (4.688%) Software Developer
10 4 (3.125%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.125%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.72%) Computer Science
2 12 (9.375%) Statistics
3 6 (4.688%) Firmware
4 2 (1.563%) Mathematics
4 2 (1.563%) Applied Mathematics
5 1 (0.781%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.781%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.781%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 44 (34.38%) Windows
2 29 (22.66%) UNIX
3 23 (17.97%) Linux
4 4 (3.125%) Windows Vista
4 4 (3.125%) Solaris
5 1 (0.781%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (17.97%) Network Planning
2 18 (14.06%) Network Management
3 17 (13.28%) Agile Software Development
4 16 (12.50%) OOD
5 13 (10.16%) Business Development
6 12 (9.375%) Benchmarking
6 12 (9.375%) OO
6 12 (9.375%) Performance Improvement
7 11 (8.594%) Service Delivery
7 11 (8.594%) Regression Testing
7 11 (8.594%) Scrum
8 10 (7.813%) Network Architecture
9 9 (7.031%) Manual Testing
9 9 (7.031%) Project Management
10 8 (6.250%) Configuration Management
11 7 (5.469%) Product Management
12 4 (3.125%) Change Management
12 4 (3.125%) Load Balancing
12 4 (3.125%) Problem Management
12 4 (3.125%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (21.09%) C++
2 20 (15.63%) SQL
3 11 (8.594%) C#
4 10 (7.813%) C
5 9 (7.031%) Java
5 9 (7.031%) Perl
6 8 (6.250%) Embedded C
7 4 (3.125%) Python
7 4 (3.125%) TTCN
8 3 (2.344%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.563%) VB
9 2 (1.563%) VBA
9 2 (1.563%) Bash shell
9 2 (1.563%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.563%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.781%) Embedded C++
10 1 (0.781%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (18.75%) Degree
2 12 (9.375%) ISEB
3 10 (7.813%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.344%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.344%) CCIE
5 2 (1.563%) HNC
5 2 (1.563%) HND
5 2 (1.563%) CCA
5 2 (1.563%) CCIP
5 2 (1.563%) CCDE
6 1 (0.781%) CCDP
6 1 (0.781%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.94%) QA
2 2 (1.563%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (7.813%) NDS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.563%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (20.31%) Cisco
2 22 (17.19%) Oracle
3 18 (14.06%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 12 (9.375%) Mapinfo
4 12 (9.375%) Microsoft
5 10 (7.813%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 10 (7.813%) Nokia
5 10 (7.813%) TIBCO
6 5 (3.906%) Tektronix
7 4 (3.125%) Huawei
7 4 (3.125%) Ericsson
8 3 (2.344%) Veritas
9 2 (1.563%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.563%) HP
10 1 (0.781%) Nortel
10 1 (0.781%) Juniper
10 1 (0.781%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.781%) Actix
10 1 (0.781%) Radware
10 1 (0.781%) BT
Guildford, Surrey
Keywords:- Technical Lead, Software Engineer, Innovation, Telecoms, Datacoms, C++, Linux, STL, GCC, Make, GDB, GSM, UMTS, LTE, System Design, RANAP, GTP, S1, MAP, CAMEL, Radius, SMNP, SIP, VOIP,...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Guildford, Surrey
Keywords:- Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Development Team Lead, Team Lead, Mentor, C++, Linux, STL, GCC, Make, GDB, Telecoms, Datacoms, GSM, UMTS, LTE, RANAP, GTP, S1, MAP, CAMEL,...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013