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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for 3G skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited 3G over the 3 months to 16 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category.

Link3G
Location
3 months to
16 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank494423498
Rank change year-on-year
Down-71Up+75
Matching permanent IT job ads187286549
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.222 %0.334 %0.271 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category1.553 %1.971 %1.627 %
Salaries quoted127146403
Average salary£46,000£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.00 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,500£30,000£29,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£52,500£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£45,000£40,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+12.50 %-
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
120401450933735
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK14.30 %16.92 %16.68 %
Salaries quoted99821216128088
Average salary£40,000£37,500£38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-1.310 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,500£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£55,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-

3G
Demand Trend

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

3G Demand Trend

3G
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing 3G within the UK.

3G Salary Trend

3G
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing 3G over the 3 months to 16 March 2010 within the UK.

3G Salary Histogram

3G
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 3G within the UK over the 3 months to 16 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-70180£46,000+15.00 %
South EastDown-6447£45,000+12.50 %
East of EnglandUp+739£37,500-25.00 %
LondonDown-1735£47,500+15.15 %
North WestUp+3134£45,000-
CambridgeshireUp+1433£35,000-30.00 %
CheshireUp+3832£45,000-
CambridgeUp+120£38,750-26.19 %
BerkshireDown-3418£41,000+12.32 %
MiddlesexUp+2014£50,000+58.10 %
South WestUp+1914£60,000+60.00 %
WarringtonUp+2713--
DevonNew entry-13£60,000-
City of LondonDown-3310£42,000+5.00 %
HampshireUp+138£30,500-26.06 %
HertfordshireDown-76£55,000+15.78 %
West MidlandsUp+64£38,500+28.33 %
ReadingUp+24£31,500-14.86 %
St AlbansDown-14£55,000-
M4 CorridorDown-33£32,500-
SurreyUp+162£48,750+8.33 %
North EastNew entry-2£45,000-
LutonNew entry-2£52,500-
BelfastNew entry-2--
County AntrimNew entry-2--
Northern IrelandNew entry-2--
BirminghamUp+191£40,000+55.33 %
FarnboroughUp+181--
HerefordshireUp+161--
Hemel HempsteadUp+101--

3G
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing 3G 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 3G.

1136 (43.31 %)Telecoms
296 (30.57 %)2G
373 (23.25 %)GSM
455 (17.52 %)GPRS
455 (17.52 %)Wireless
554 (17.20 %)C++
649 (15.61 %)Blackberry
748 (15.29 %)C
846 (14.65 %)3GPP
846 (14.65 %)Ericsson
945 (14.33 %)UMTS
945 (14.33 %)Degree
1044 (14.01 %)Windows
1137 (11.78 %)VPN
1235 (11.15 %)Finance
1334 (10.83 %)Linux
1433 (10.51 %)LTE
1531 (9.873 %)MS Exchange
1531 (9.873 %)Nokia
1531 (9.873 %)Wi-Fi
1630 (9.554 %)Handset
1729 (9.236 %)HSDPA
1729 (9.236 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1729 (9.236 %)WAN
1729 (9.236 %)SSL
1729 (9.236 %)LAN
1729 (9.236 %)Problem Management
1825 (7.962 %)Exchange Server 2007
1825 (7.962 %)HSUPA
1825 (7.962 %)Exchange Server 2003

3G
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing 3G 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 3G. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
113 (4.140 %)XML
25 (1.592 %).NET
34 (1.274 %)WAP
43 (0.955 %)JSON
43 (0.955 %)NetBeans
43 (0.955 %)J2ME
43 (0.955 %)HTML
52 (0.637 %)ASP.NET
52 (0.637 %)J2EE
61 (0.318 %)Silverlight
61 (0.318 %)AJAX
61 (0.318 %).NET Framework
61 (0.318 %)Cocoa
61 (0.318 %)MAPI
61 (0.318 %)XHTML
61 (0.318 %)CSS
61 (0.318 %)Web Services
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
131 (9.873 %)MS Exchange
229 (9.236 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
325 (7.962 %)Exchange Server 2007
325 (7.962 %)Exchange Server 2003
42 (0.637 %)SharePoint
51 (0.318 %)Apache
51 (0.318 %)Tomcat
51 (0.318 %)Lotus Notes
51 (0.318 %)Lotus Domino
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
114 (4.459 %)MATLAB
29 (2.866 %)MS Office
38 (2.548 %)MS Excel
46 (1.911 %)Spreadsheet
53 (0.955 %)MS Visio
62 (0.637 %)MS Project
71 (0.318 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (0.955 %)Singl.eView
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
196 (30.57 %)2G
273 (23.25 %)GSM
355 (17.52 %)GPRS
355 (17.52 %)Wireless
446 (14.65 %)3GPP
545 (14.33 %)UMTS
637 (11.78 %)VPN
733 (10.51 %)LTE
831 (9.873 %)Wi-Fi
929 (9.236 %)HSDPA
929 (9.236 %)WAN
929 (9.236 %)SSL
929 (9.236 %)LAN
1025 (7.962 %)HSUPA
1025 (7.962 %)TCP/IP
1117 (5.414 %)HSPA
1117 (5.414 %)VoIP
1216 (5.096 %)SDH
1314 (4.459 %)WCDMA
1314 (4.459 %)RNC
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (0.955 %)BusinessObjects
13 (0.955 %)MS Access
22 (0.637 %)Oracle 9i
22 (0.637 %)GIS
31 (0.318 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
31 (0.318 %)SQL Server 2008
31 (0.318 %)PerformancePoint
31 (0.318 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
31 (0.318 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
31 (0.318 %)SQL Server Integration Services
31 (0.318 %)SQL Server
31 (0.318 %)Informix
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (0.955 %)Rational Robot
13 (0.955 %)ClearCase
13 (0.955 %)Eclipse
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1136 (43.31 %)Telecoms
235 (11.15 %)Finance
315 (4.777 %)Front Office
411 (3.503 %)Marketing
59 (2.866 %)Billing
68 (2.548 %)Education
68 (2.548 %)Electric
77 (2.229 %)Construction
77 (2.229 %)Publishing
86 (1.911 %)Electronics
86 (1.911 %)Health
86 (1.911 %)Law
95 (1.592 %)Multimedia
95 (1.592 %)Pensions
103 (0.955 %)Manufacturing
103 (0.955 %)Games
111 (0.318 %)Online Games
111 (0.318 %)Investment Banking
111 (0.318 %)Banking
111 (0.318 %)Police
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
129 (9.236 %)Software Engineer
129 (9.236 %)Analyst
223 (7.325 %)Support Specialist
322 (7.006 %)Blackberry Support
421 (6.688 %)RAN Engineer
520 (6.369 %)Developer
616 (5.096 %)Systems Engineer
616 (5.096 %)Consultant
714 (4.459 %)Principal Engineer
714 (4.459 %)Certification Manager
813 (4.140 %)Principal Systems Engineer
813 (4.140 %)Test Engineer
911 (3.503 %)Test Manager
1010 (3.185 %)Support Engineer
1010 (3.185 %)Support Analyst
118 (2.548 %)Java Developer
127 (2.229 %)Transmission Planner
127 (2.229 %)3G Engineer
127 (2.229 %)Field Engineer
127 (2.229 %)Architect
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
149 (15.61 %)Blackberry
230 (9.554 %)Handset
323 (7.325 %)PDA
413 (4.140 %)Statistics
512 (3.822 %)Streaming Media
68 (2.548 %)Video Conferencing
76 (1.911 %)CMDB
84 (1.274 %)Client/Server
84 (1.274 %)Semantic Web
84 (1.274 %)Computer Science
84 (1.274 %)German Language
93 (0.955 %)Italian Language
93 (0.955 %)Mathematics
93 (0.955 %)Physics
102 (0.637 %)Management Information System
102 (0.637 %)Tandem
102 (0.637 %)Russian Language
111 (0.318 %)French Language
111 (0.318 %)iPhone
111 (0.318 %)Data Extraction
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
144 (14.01 %)Windows
234 (10.83 %)Linux
312 (3.822 %)UNIX
411 (3.503 %)Windows XP
58 (2.548 %)Red Hat Linux
66 (1.911 %)Ubuntu
75 (1.592 %)Windows Mobile
75 (1.592 %)Windows CE
82 (0.637 %)Windows Server 2003
82 (0.637 %)Android
91 (0.318 %)Embedded Linux
91 (0.318 %)Windows Vista
91 (0.318 %)Mac OS X
91 (0.318 %)Windows 2000
91 (0.318 %)AIX
91 (0.318 %)Solaris
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
129 (9.236 %)Problem Management
220 (6.369 %)Project Management
318 (5.732 %)Service Management
318 (5.732 %)Software Engineering
415 (4.777 %)Validation
415 (4.777 %)CRM
510 (3.185 %)Process Management
510 (3.185 %)Incident Management
69 (2.866 %)Web Development
69 (2.866 %)Unit Testing
78 (2.548 %)System Testing
87 (2.229 %)Workflow Management
87 (2.229 %)Workflow
96 (1.911 %)ITIL
96 (1.911 %)RDF
96 (1.911 %)Configuration Management
96 (1.911 %)Investment Management
96 (1.911 %)Rapid Prototyping
105 (1.592 %)Fund Management
105 (1.592 %)Test Scripting
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
154 (17.20 %)C++
248 (15.29 %)C
324 (7.643 %)SQL
421 (6.688 %)Java
518 (5.732 %)Perl
610 (3.185 %)Embedded C
78 (2.548 %)Groovy
87 (2.229 %)Python
96 (1.911 %)C#
96 (1.911 %)SPARQL
105 (1.592 %)TTCN
114 (1.274 %)Objective-C
123 (0.955 %)Shell Script
123 (0.955 %)VC++
123 (0.955 %)VBScript
123 (0.955 %)VB
123 (0.955 %)PHP
123 (0.955 %)JavaScript
132 (0.637 %)PL/SQL
132 (0.637 %)Delphi
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
145 (14.33 %)Degree
23 (0.955 %)Microsoft Certification
23 (0.955 %)MCP
32 (0.637 %)CISSP
32 (0.637 %)CISM
41 (0.318 %)ISEB Practitioner
41 (0.318 %)MOS
41 (0.318 %)ITIL Certification
41 (0.318 %)PMI Certification
41 (0.318 %)ISEB
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
113 (4.140 %)SLA
29 (2.866 %)QA
32 (0.637 %)ISO17799
32 (0.637 %)ISO27001
32 (0.637 %)PCI DSS
41 (0.318 %)ISO14443
41 (0.318 %)ISO7816
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
17 (2.229 %)Active Directory
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
16 (1.911 %)DameWare
25 (1.592 %)SCOM
31 (0.318 %)OpenView
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
146 (14.65 %)Ericsson
231 (9.873 %)Nokia
314 (4.459 %)Anite
412 (3.822 %)Microsoft
510 (3.185 %)Cramer
510 (3.185 %)Oracle
510 (3.185 %)Lucent
68 (2.548 %)Red Hat
76 (1.911 %)Reuters
76 (1.911 %)Bloomberg
76 (1.911 %)Tradeweb
85 (1.592 %)Nokia Siemens Networks
85 (1.592 %)Tandberg
85 (1.592 %)Altiris
85 (1.592 %)Alcatel
85 (1.592 %)HP
85 (1.592 %)Cisco
85 (1.592 %)Symbian
94 (1.274 %)Sun
103 (0.955 %)Redknee