The first table below looks at the demand for 4G skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited 4G over the 3 months to 21 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
4G
Rank 771 827 790
Rank change year-on-year
+56 -37
Permanent jobs citing 4G 89 60 81
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.082% 0.050% 0.066%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.423% 0.283% 0.423%
Number of salaries quoted 52 54 51
Average salary £50,000 £42,500 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% -43.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £35,000 £37,200
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £55,000 £132,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £45,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -40.00%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21033 21229 19145
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 19.36% 17.52% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 17006 17692 15862
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%

4G
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing 4G within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

4G Jobs Demand Trend

4G
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing 4G within the UK.

4G Salary Trend

4G
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing 4G over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

4G Salary Histogram

4G
Top 27 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 4G within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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
England +25 75 £50,000 +17.64%
South East +8 42 £46,000 +15.00%
Berkshire +17 28 £45,500 +25.51%
South West +4 12 £48,750 +8.33%
Reading 0 10 £50,000 +42.85%
London +27 9 £63,750 +50.00%
Wiltshire +16 7 £50,000 +11.11%
East of England +5 7 £72,500 +45.00%
Surrey +16 5 - -
Swindon - 5 £50,000 -
Newbury +11 4 £43,000 +7.50%
Hertfordshire +8 3 - -
Buckinghamshire -13 3 £44,500 -1.11%
Suffolk - 3 £72,500 -
Oxfordshire - 3 £85,000 -
Ipswich - 3 £72,500 -
Amersham - 3 £44,500 -
Slough +6 2 £43,000 -33.84%
Hampshire -4 2 £47,500 +18.75%
Guildford - 2 - -
Cambridgeshire +6 1 - -
Cambridge 0 1 - -
Bristol -12 1 £60,000 +20.00%
West Midlands - 1 £55,000 -
City of London - 1 £70,000 -
Witney - 1 - -
Coventry - 1 £55,000 -

4G
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing 4G 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 4G.

1 126 (70.00%) 3G
2 109 (60.56%) Telecoms
3 81 (45.00%) LTE
4 60 (33.33%) 2G
5 56 (31.11%) Wireless
6 45 (25.00%) GSM
7 43 (23.89%) Linux
8 30 (16.67%) Degree
9 27 (15.00%) SLA
10 26 (14.44%) VoIP
11 23 (12.78%) UNIX
12 22 (12.22%) Windows
12 22 (12.22%) C
13 21 (11.67%) Broadband
13 21 (11.67%) Radio Access Network
14 20 (11.11%) Android
14 20 (11.11%) Project Management
15 19 (10.56%) Wi-Fi
16 17 (9.444%) HTTP
16 17 (9.444%) Validation
17 16 (8.889%) PRINCE2
17 16 (8.889%) 802.11
18 15 (8.333%) SDH
18 15 (8.333%) Cisco
18 15 (8.333%) WAN
18 15 (8.333%) C++
18 15 (8.333%) Perl
18 15 (8.333%) SIGTRAN
19 14 (7.778%) Finance
20 13 (7.222%) Electronics

4G
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing 4G 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 4G. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (5.556%) Web Services
2 9 (5.000%) SOAP
3 8 (4.444%) HTML
4 6 (3.333%) XML
5 5 (2.778%) CGI
5 5 (2.778%) soapUI
5 5 (2.778%) REST
6 4 (2.222%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.667%) XMPP
7 3 (1.667%) CORBA
7 3 (1.667%) STL
7 3 (1.667%) Middleware
7 3 (1.667%) HTML5
8 2 (1.111%) Qt
8 2 (1.111%) RESTful
8 2 (1.111%) Spring MVC
8 2 (1.111%) CSS
8 2 (1.111%) Spring
9 1 (0.556%) Ajax
9 1 (0.556%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (1.667%) NetWeaver
1 3 (1.667%) Lync
2 2 (1.111%) Apache
2 2 (1.111%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.111%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.556%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.778%) MS Excel
1 5 (2.778%) Quicktime
2 2 (1.111%) Simulink
3 1 (0.556%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (0.556%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.111%) Oracle CRM
2 1 (0.556%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 126 (70.00%) 3G
2 81 (45.00%) LTE
3 60 (33.33%) 2G
4 56 (31.11%) Wireless
5 45 (25.00%) GSM
6 26 (14.44%) VoIP
7 21 (11.67%) Broadband
7 21 (11.67%) Radio Access Network
8 19 (10.56%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (9.444%) HTTP
10 16 (8.889%) 802.11
11 15 (8.333%) SDH
11 15 (8.333%) WAN
11 15 (8.333%) SIGTRAN
12 13 (7.222%) Ethernet
12 13 (7.222%) ATM
13 12 (6.667%) UMTS
13 12 (6.667%) INAP
13 12 (6.667%) Internet
14 11 (6.111%) SMPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.222%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.667%) MySQL
3 1 (0.556%) GIS
Development Applications
1 10 (5.556%) JIRA
2 8 (4.444%) Subversion
3 6 (3.333%) ClearCase
4 5 (2.778%) Trac
4 5 (2.778%) Selenium
4 5 (2.778%) WebDriver
5 2 (1.111%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (1.111%) GCC
5 2 (1.111%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.556%) TestPartner
6 1 (0.556%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.556%) ClearQuest
6 1 (0.556%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.556%) Git (software)
General
1 109 (60.56%) Telecoms
2 14 (7.778%) Finance
3 13 (7.222%) Electronics
4 8 (4.444%) Marketing
5 4 (2.222%) Legal
5 4 (2.222%) Banking
5 4 (2.222%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.667%) French Language
6 3 (1.667%) Spanish Language
6 3 (1.667%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.111%) Games
7 2 (1.111%) Billing
8 1 (0.556%) Retail
8 1 (0.556%) Advertising
8 1 (0.556%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 28 (15.56%) Customer Engineer
2 18 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 17 (9.444%) Project Manager
4 14 (7.778%) Architect
5 9 (5.000%) Design Engineer
5 9 (5.000%) Consultant
5 9 (5.000%) Transmission Engineer
6 8 (4.444%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 7 (3.889%) Technical Manager
7 7 (3.889%) Transmission Planning Engineer
8 6 (3.333%) Analyst
8 6 (3.333%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.333%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (3.333%) Senior Manager
8 6 (3.333%) Telecoms Project Manager
9 5 (2.778%) Developer
9 5 (2.778%) Programme Manager
9 5 (2.778%) Senior Architect
10 4 (2.222%) IP Engineer
10 4 (2.222%) Senior Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.222%) Handset
2 11 (6.111%) Blackberry
3 10 (5.556%) iPhone
3 10 (5.556%) Mobile App
3 10 (5.556%) MPEG
4 8 (4.444%) Device Driver
5 7 (3.889%) Verilog
6 6 (3.333%) Clustering
6 6 (3.333%) Streaming Video
6 6 (3.333%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
7 5 (2.778%) iPad
8 4 (2.222%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.667%) Smartphone
9 3 (1.667%) DTV
9 3 (1.667%) IaaS
10 2 (1.111%) SaaS
10 2 (1.111%) Computer Science
10 2 (1.111%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.111%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.111%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 43 (23.89%) Linux
2 23 (12.78%) UNIX
3 22 (12.22%) Windows
4 20 (11.11%) Android
5 11 (6.111%) Embedded Linux
5 11 (6.111%) Solaris
5 11 (6.111%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (4.444%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.667%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (11.11%) Project Management
2 17 (9.444%) Validation
3 16 (8.889%) PRINCE2
4 13 (7.222%) Service Delivery
5 12 (6.667%) Network Design
6 11 (6.111%) Network Planning
7 9 (5.000%) Configuration Management
7 9 (5.000%) Network Architecture
8 7 (3.889%) Data Analysis
9 6 (3.333%) Time Management
9 6 (3.333%) Capacity Management
9 6 (3.333%) Software Engineering
10 5 (2.778%) Business Development
10 5 (2.778%) Risk Management
10 5 (2.778%) Scrum
10 5 (2.778%) B2B
10 5 (2.778%) OO
10 5 (2.778%) Product Management
10 5 (2.778%) Waterfall
11 4 (2.222%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (12.22%) C
2 15 (8.333%) C++
2 15 (8.333%) Perl
3 13 (7.222%) SQL
4 8 (4.444%) Java
4 8 (4.444%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.889%) Embedded C
6 4 (2.222%) Tcl
6 4 (2.222%) Python
6 4 (2.222%) PHP
6 4 (2.222%) Korn
7 3 (1.667%) Embedded C++
7 3 (1.667%) PowerHouse
7 3 (1.667%) PHP5
7 3 (1.667%) TTCN
8 2 (1.111%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.556%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 30 (16.67%) Degree
2 8 (4.444%) PMP
2 8 (4.444%) PMI Certification
3 6 (3.333%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 4 (2.222%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.222%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.667%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (1.667%) PgMP
6 2 (1.111%) APMP
6 2 (1.111%) CISSP
6 2 (1.111%) PhD
6 2 (1.111%) CISM
7 1 (0.556%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.556%) EnCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.00%) SLA
2 6 (3.333%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.111%) QA
3 2 (1.111%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.556%) JTAG
System Software
1 1 (0.556%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.556%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (2.778%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.111%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.556%) OpenView
3 1 (0.556%) Netcool
Vendors
1 15 (8.333%) Cisco
2 11 (6.111%) Red Hat
3 7 (3.889%) SAP
3 7 (3.889%) HP
3 7 (3.889%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 6 (3.333%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.333%) Sun
4 6 (3.333%) Cramer
5 5 (2.778%) Huawei
6 4 (2.222%) Aruba
6 4 (2.222%) BT
7 3 (1.667%) Sybase
7 3 (1.667%) Syclo
8 2 (1.111%) Nokia
8 2 (1.111%) Siemens
8 2 (1.111%) Siebel
8 2 (1.111%) Oracle
8 2 (1.111%) Cadence
9 1 (0.556%) Amdocs
9 1 (0.556%) IBM
Amersham, Thames Valley
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Fulcrum Telecom
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 2 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Qualifications/Experience: - C for embedded systems (assembly for DSP processors desirable) - Full software development lifecycle: software design, implementation and testing - HW/SW interface debugging (JTAG, logic analyser, oscilloscope) -...
Optimus Search Ltd
Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Cisco devices including Routers (who knows how they connect to the MPLS network or internet based VPN) Multisite (50+) architectures ideally internationally and not just UK based. Experience...
Sanderson
Salary: £75000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Experience working with Unified Communications technology like Lync or Cisco Jabber Any exposure to the following will be advantageous: * Broadcast technologies (MPEG encoding, Contribution and Distribution networking) * Managed...
Sanderson
Salary: £60000 - £75000 per annum + 25% Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
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My US based client are currently looking for a Sales Director to join their team on a permanent basis. This role can be based out of the UK...
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