The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT jobs advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 24 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 terms in our General category for the Tyne and Wear region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 27 32 56
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +24
Permanent jobs citing Telecoms 39 27 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 7.002% 4.631% 0.917%
As % of the General category 25.00% 15.34% 3.012%
Number of salaries quoted 38 18 4
Average salary £40,000 £30,000 £24,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% +21.21%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £24,000 £20,600
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £39,000 £31,350
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
All of the General Category
Tyne and Wear
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
156 176 166
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 28.01% 30.19% 30.46%
Number of salaries quoted 137 143 141
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% -2.98%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £18,450 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £55,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Telecoms
North East

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Tyne and Wear region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Tyne and Wear Telecoms Jobs Demand Trend

Telecoms
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear Telecoms Salary Trend

Telecoms
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Tyne and Wear Telecoms Salary Histogram

Telecoms
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 24 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +10 37 £40,000 +46.78%
Sunderland -12 1 - -
Telecoms
North East

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear region citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms.

1 37 (61.67%) Wireless
2 34 (56.67%) Linux
3 31 (51.67%) Cisco
4 30 (50.00%) Internet
5 29 (48.33%) HP
6 21 (35.00%) Degree
7 20 (33.33%) VLAN
7 20 (33.33%) CentOS
7 20 (33.33%) Firewall
7 20 (33.33%) Red Hat
7 20 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (33.33%) Apache
7 20 (33.33%) LDAP
7 20 (33.33%) DHCP
7 20 (33.33%) DNS
7 20 (33.33%) MySQL
8 18 (30.00%) OSPF
8 18 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (28.33%) Java
10 15 (25.00%) SQL
11 14 (23.33%) UNIX
12 13 (21.67%) HTML
13 11 (18.33%) Citrix
13 11 (18.33%) CCNA
13 11 (18.33%) XenServer
14 9 (15.00%) HTML5
14 9 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
14 9 (15.00%) HSRP
14 9 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (15.00%) CCNP

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear region citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (21.67%) HTML
2 9 (15.00%) HTML5
3 8 (13.33%) J2EE
3 8 (13.33%) JSP
4 7 (11.67%) XML
5 6 (10.00%) XSLT
6 5 (8.333%) CSS
7 4 (6.667%) WebSphere
8 2 (3.333%) soapUI
8 2 (3.333%) Spring
8 2 (3.333%) Hibernate
9 1 (1.667%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 20 (33.33%) Apache
2 6 (10.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.667%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.667%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 37 (61.67%) Wireless
2 30 (50.00%) Internet
3 20 (33.33%) VLAN
3 20 (33.33%) Firewall
3 20 (33.33%) LDAP
3 20 (33.33%) DHCP
3 20 (33.33%) DNS
4 18 (30.00%) OSPF
5 9 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
5 9 (15.00%) HSRP
5 9 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (15.00%) BGP
6 5 (8.333%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.333%) VoIP
8 1 (1.667%) SDH
8 1 (1.667%) Ethernet
8 1 (1.667%) HTTP
8 1 (1.667%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.333%) Ant
2 2 (3.333%) Selenium
General
1 4 (6.667%) Billing
2 1 (1.667%) Law
2 1 (1.667%) Legal
2 1 (1.667%) Manufacturing
2 1 (1.667%) Retail
2 1 (1.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (48.33%) Administrator
2 20 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
3 11 (18.33%) Systems Administrator
3 11 (18.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 9 (15.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 9 (15.00%) Software Manager
4 9 (15.00%) Network Administrator
4 9 (15.00%) Software Development Manager
4 9 (15.00%) Senior Network Administrator
4 9 (15.00%) Development Manager
5 7 (11.67%) Developer
5 7 (11.67%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.000%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 3 (5.000%) Analyst
6 3 (5.000%) Field Engineer
7 2 (3.333%) QA Manager
7 2 (3.333%) Test Manager
7 2 (3.333%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.333%) Tester
7 2 (3.333%) QA Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.333%) Open Source
1 2 (3.333%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.667%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 34 (56.67%) Linux
2 20 (33.33%) CentOS
3 14 (23.33%) UNIX
4 1 (1.667%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (11.67%) OO
2 7 (11.67%) Project Management
2 7 (11.67%) Scrum
3 6 (10.00%) Release Management
3 6 (10.00%) Waterfall
4 5 (8.333%) RUP
4 5 (8.333%) UML
5 4 (6.667%) Web Development
5 4 (6.667%) Content Management
6 2 (3.333%) Change Management
6 2 (3.333%) RAD
6 2 (3.333%) Test Management
6 2 (3.333%) Business Development
6 2 (3.333%) Software Testing
6 2 (3.333%) Use Case
6 2 (3.333%) Product Management
6 2 (3.333%) Automation Testing
6 2 (3.333%) Business Analysis
6 2 (3.333%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.33%) Java
2 15 (25.00%) SQL
3 7 (11.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.333%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (35.00%) Degree
2 20 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (18.33%) CCNA
4 9 (15.00%) CCNP
4 9 (15.00%) RHCE
5 4 (6.667%) Sun Certification
6 2 (3.333%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.667%) MCDST
7 1 (1.667%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.667%) HNC
7 1 (1.667%) HND
7 1 (1.667%) MCSE
7 1 (1.667%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.667%) QA
2 2 (3.333%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 9 (15.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 31 (51.67%) Cisco
2 29 (48.33%) HP
3 20 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 11 (18.33%) Citrix
5 5 (8.333%) Oracle
6 2 (3.333%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.667%) Nortel