The first table below looks at the demand for GSM skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GSM over the 3 months to 19 June 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 West region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
Rank 206 205 195
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -10
Permanent jobs citing GSM 6 9 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.114% 0.161% 0.400%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.699% 0.984% 2.242%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 13
Average salary £25,500 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-49.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -
All Communications & Networking
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
858 915 1115
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 16.27% 16.38% 17.85%
Number of salaries quoted 737 766 925
Average salary £38,500 £35,000 £34,900
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% +0.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
GSM
England

GSM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West GSM Jobs Demand Trend

GSM
Salary Trend

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

South West GSM Salary Trend

GSM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GSM across the South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South West GSM Salary Histogram

GSM
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GSM within the South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Wiltshire +13 3 £25,500 -36.25%
Bristol -5 3 - - 1
GSM
England

GSM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing GSM 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 GSM.

1 9 (81.82%) LTE
2 8 (72.73%) GPRS
2 8 (72.73%) WCDMA
3 7 (63.64%) UMTS
4 6 (54.55%) Degree
5 5 (45.45%) 3G
6 4 (36.36%) Wireless
6 4 (36.36%) C
6 4 (36.36%) 2G
6 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
7 3 (27.27%) Device Driver
8 2 (18.18%) TETRA
8 2 (18.18%) Validation
8 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
8 2 (18.18%) HNC
8 2 (18.18%) HND
8 2 (18.18%) Windows
8 2 (18.18%) Linux
8 2 (18.18%) SLA
8 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
8 2 (18.18%) Wiki
8 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
8 2 (18.18%) Fault Management
8 2 (18.18%) Service Management
8 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (9.091%) Erlang
9 1 (9.091%) System Testing
9 1 (9.091%) Performance Management
9 1 (9.091%) Network Architecture
9 1 (9.091%) 4G

GSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing GSM 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 GSM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) LTE
2 8 (72.73%) GPRS
2 8 (72.73%) WCDMA
3 7 (63.64%) UMTS
4 5 (45.45%) 3G
5 4 (36.36%) Wireless
5 4 (36.36%) 2G
6 2 (18.18%) TETRA
7 1 (9.091%) 4G
7 1 (9.091%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (9.091%) Broadband
7 1 (9.091%) WiMAX
General
1 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Engineering Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Radio Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Testing Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Sales Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Test and Integration Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Integration Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) DSP Software Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Pre Sales Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) DSP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Device Driver
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
2 2 (18.18%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Validation
2 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
2 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
2 2 (18.18%) Fault Management
2 2 (18.18%) Service Management
2 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) System Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Performance Management
3 1 (9.091%) Network Architecture
3 1 (9.091%) Network Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) C
2 1 (9.091%) Erlang
2 1 (9.091%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) HNC
2 2 (18.18%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (9.091%) Agilent
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