The first table below looks at the demand for DAB skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DAB 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 of the Communications & Networking category.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB)
Rank 854 881 866
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -15
Permanent jobs citing DAB 8 18 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.007% 0.015% 0.012%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.038% 0.085% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 7 17 12
Average salary £41,500 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.57% +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,300 £24,000 £25,250
10% offered a salary of more than £42,900 £55,000 £50,400
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £27,000 £28,750
% change year-on-year
+53.70% -6.08%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
20871 21174 19668
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 19.31% 17.54% 15.81%
Number of salaries quoted 16834 17640 16289
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,127 £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%

DAB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

DAB Jobs Demand Trend

DAB
Salary Trend

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

DAB Salary Trend

DAB
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DAB within the UK 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
England +15 8 £41,500 +18.57%
East of England +6 6 £41,500 +18.57%
Essex - 6 £41,500 -
North West -2 1 £45,000 +74.75%
West Midlands - 1 - -
Basildon - 1 £36,000 -

DAB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing DAB 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 DAB.

1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
2 5 (33.33%) CentOS
2 5 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (33.33%) Puppet
2 5 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 5 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 5 (33.33%) Bash shell
2 5 (33.33%) Change Control
2 5 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
2 5 (33.33%) Vertica
2 5 (33.33%) Digital Media
2 5 (33.33%) Redis
2 5 (33.33%) Electronics
2 5 (33.33%) Debian
2 5 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (33.33%) Military
2 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) Ruby
2 5 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 5 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 5 (33.33%) QA
2 5 (33.33%) Perl
2 5 (33.33%) PHP
2 5 (33.33%) MySQL
2 5 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) LAN
2 5 (33.33%) WAN
2 5 (33.33%) Web Services
2 5 (33.33%) Linux

DAB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing DAB 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 DAB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (6.667%) HTML5
2 1 (6.667%) CSS3
2 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (6.667%) jQuery
2 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.667%) CSS
2 1 (6.667%) .NET
2 1 (6.667%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle 9iAS
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) LAN
1 5 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (6.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 5 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 5 (33.33%) Redis
1 5 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (6.667%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle 9i
3 1 (6.667%) TOAD
General
1 5 (33.33%) Electronics
1 5 (33.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DBA
3 2 (13.33%) SQL DBA
4 1 (6.667%) UI Programmer
4 1 (6.667%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Front-End Web Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Teradata DBA
4 1 (6.667%) Designer
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Account Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Web Designer
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Web Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Digital Media
2 1 (6.667%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.667%) Social Media
2 1 (6.667%) Mathematics
2 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) CentOS
1 5 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (33.33%) Debian
1 5 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Change Control
1 5 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
1 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 5 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
1 5 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (6.667%) Analytics
2 1 (6.667%) SEO
2 1 (6.667%) Migration
2 1 (6.667%) MVC
2 1 (6.667%) Data Migration
2 1 (6.667%) Data Architecture
2 1 (6.667%) Web Analytics
2 1 (6.667%) Data Modelling
2 1 (6.667%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Bash shell
1 5 (33.33%) Ruby
1 5 (33.33%) Perl
1 5 (33.33%) PHP
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (6.667%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.667%) C
3 1 (6.667%) C#
3 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Vertica
1 5 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.667%) Twitter
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle
2 1 (6.667%) Microsoft