Suffolk GSM Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) skills within the Suffolk region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited GSM over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
Location Avon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hungerford Ipswich Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Middlesex Midlands Newbury Norfolk North West Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Rugby Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	85
Rank change on same period last year	+37
Matching permanent IT job ads	19	7
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	13.48 %	4.268 %
Salaries quoted	17	1
Average minimum salary	£46,529	£40,000
Average salary	£46,529	£47,500
% change on same period last year	-2.04 %
Average maximum salary	£46,529	£55,000
UK excluding London average salary	£40,975	£40,425
% change on same period last year	+1.36 %
Communications & Networking Suffolk
Matching permanent IT job ads	141	164
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.094 %	0.073 %
Salaries quoted	118	125
Average minimum salary	£33,809	£36,248
Average salary	£35,835	£41,173
% change on same period last year	-12.96 %
Average maximum salary	£37,861	£46,098
UK excluding London average salary	£37,772	£38,125
% change on same period last year	-0.92 %
GSM East of England

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing GSM across the Suffolk region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing GSM across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Ipswich	+30	19	£46,529	-2.04 %

GSM East of England

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 45 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 45 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 45 (100.00 %) Telecoms 1 45 (100.00 %) C++ 2 44 (97.78 %) Requirements Analysis 3 28 (62.22 %) C 4 27 (60.00 %) Degree 4 27 (60.00 %) SS7 5 18 (40.00 %) SQL 6 17 (37.78 %) Software Testing 6 17 (37.78 %) TCAP 6 17 (37.78 %) INAP 6 17 (37.78 %) H.323

GSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 27 (60.00 %) SS7 2 17 (37.78 %) TCAP 2 17 (37.78 %) INAP 2 17 (37.78 %) H.323	General 1 45 (100.00 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 45 (100.00 %) Developer 2 35 (77.78 %) C++ Developer 3 1 (2.222 %) C Developer	Operating Systems 1 45 (100.00 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 44 (97.78 %) Requirements Analysis 2 17 (37.78 %) Software Testing	Programming Languages 1 45 (100.00 %) C++ 2 28 (62.22 %) C 3 18 (40.00 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 27 (60.00 %) Degree	Vendors 1 45 (100.00 %) Oracle