The first table below looks at the demand for DWDM skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DWDM 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
Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
Rank 785 808 803
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -5
Permanent jobs citing DWDM 77 91 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.071% 0.075% 0.063%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.369% 0.430% 0.397%
Number of salaries quoted 49 74 39
Average salary £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.04% +10.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,800 £34,300 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £82,750 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £55,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-22.72% +57.14%
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%

DWDM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

DWDM Jobs Demand Trend

DWDM
Salary Trend

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

DWDM Salary Trend

DWDM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DWDM over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

DWDM Salary Histogram

DWDM
Top 23 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DWDM 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 +10 75 £42,500 -19.04%
London +37 38 £45,000 -14.28%
South East +11 15 £40,000 -11.11%
City of London -2 13 £36,500 -27.00%
South West +3 6 £42,500 +16.43%
Berkshire - 6 £40,000 -
Bristol - 6 £42,500 -
Buckinghamshire -7 5 - -
Milton Keynes -15 5 - -
East of England -8 4 £55,000 +2.32%
Hertfordshire - 4 £55,000 -
Surrey - 3 £35,000 -
Midlands - 3 - -
Maidenhead - 3 £40,000 -
Hertford - 3 £55,000 -
Stratford-upon-Avon - 2 £27,750 -
Reading - 2 £40,000 -
Docklands, London - 2 £67,500 -
Warwickshire - 2 £27,750 -
West Midlands - 2 £27,750 -
Canary Wharf +2 1 - -
Hampshire -8 1 £65,000 +14.53%
Winchester - 1 £65,000 -

DWDM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 125 (70.62%) SDH
2 124 (70.06%) Telecoms
3 82 (46.33%) Cisco
4 78 (44.07%) MPLS
5 57 (32.20%) Ethernet
6 52 (29.38%) WAN
7 50 (28.25%) Internet
8 46 (25.99%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (24.86%) VPN
10 42 (23.73%) LAN
11 41 (23.16%) Degree
12 39 (22.03%) TCP/IP
13 37 (20.90%) SQL
13 37 (20.90%) Firewall
14 35 (19.77%) OSPF
15 34 (19.21%) ATM
16 33 (18.64%) Linux
16 33 (18.64%) Network Design
17 32 (18.08%) DNS
17 32 (18.08%) Juniper
18 31 (17.51%) Huawei
19 30 (16.95%) Nortel
20 29 (16.38%) BGP
21 28 (15.82%) Finance
22 26 (14.69%) Load Balancing
22 26 (14.69%) CCNA
23 25 (14.12%) UNIX
23 25 (14.12%) Project Management
24 24 (13.56%) Windows
25 23 (12.99%) Alcatel-Lucent

DWDM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 14 (7.910%) DCOM
2 12 (6.780%) ASP
3 6 (3.390%) CSS
4 5 (2.825%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 5 (2.825%) IIS
2 1 (0.565%) Apache
2 1 (0.565%) SharePoint Foundation
Applications
1 5 (2.825%) MS Office
1 5 (2.825%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.260%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.260%) MS Project
3 2 (1.130%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 125 (70.62%) SDH
2 78 (44.07%) MPLS
3 57 (32.20%) Ethernet
4 52 (29.38%) WAN
5 50 (28.25%) Internet
6 44 (24.86%) VPN
7 42 (23.73%) LAN
8 39 (22.03%) TCP/IP
9 37 (20.90%) Firewall
10 35 (19.77%) OSPF
11 34 (19.21%) ATM
12 32 (18.08%) DNS
13 29 (16.38%) BGP
14 21 (11.86%) Network Security
15 20 (11.30%) IPsec
16 19 (10.73%) Frame Relay
17 16 (9.040%) VoIP
18 15 (8.475%) HTTP
19 14 (7.910%) SNMP
19 14 (7.910%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.260%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.565%) MySQL
3 1 (0.565%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (0.565%) Subversion
General
1 124 (70.06%) Telecoms
2 28 (15.82%) Finance
3 10 (5.650%) Electronics
4 9 (5.085%) Billing
4 9 (5.085%) Marketing
5 7 (3.955%) Advertising
6 2 (1.130%) German Language
7 1 (0.565%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 43 (24.29%) Network Engineer
2 19 (10.73%) Implementation Engineer
3 15 (8.475%) Support Engineer
3 15 (8.475%) Architect
4 13 (7.345%) Systems Administrator
4 13 (7.345%) Administrator
4 13 (7.345%) Network Security Engineer
4 13 (7.345%) Security Engineer
5 12 (6.780%) Field Engineer
6 9 (5.085%) Transmission Engineer
6 9 (5.085%) Sales Engineer
7 8 (4.520%) Operations Engineer
7 8 (4.520%) Microwave Engineer
7 8 (4.520%) Network Architect
7 8 (4.520%) Operations Manager
8 7 (3.955%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.955%) Cisco Engineer
8 7 (3.955%) Network Administrator
8 7 (3.955%) Senior Architect
8 7 (3.955%) Senior Implementation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.345%) Computer Science
2 10 (5.650%) Mathematics
2 10 (5.650%) Physics
3 7 (3.955%) Streaming Video
4 5 (2.825%) Clustering
5 3 (1.695%) Equities
5 3 (1.695%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.130%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.565%) Firmware
7 1 (0.565%) Economics
7 1 (0.565%) VHDL
7 1 (0.565%) Handset
7 1 (0.565%) Derivative
7 1 (0.565%) Statistics
7 1 (0.565%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.565%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.565%) Social Media
7 1 (0.565%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 33 (18.64%) Linux
2 25 (14.12%) UNIX
3 24 (13.56%) Windows
4 14 (7.910%) Solaris
5 11 (6.215%) Windows 2000
5 11 (6.215%) Windows NT
6 9 (5.085%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (3.390%) OpenBSD
8 5 (2.825%) Windows XP
8 5 (2.825%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (2.825%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.565%) Debian
9 1 (0.565%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.565%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (18.64%) Network Design
2 26 (14.69%) Load Balancing
3 25 (14.12%) Project Management
4 19 (10.73%) Service Delivery
5 15 (8.475%) ITIL
6 13 (7.345%) Product Management
7 12 (6.780%) Migration
8 11 (6.215%) Network Architecture
9 7 (3.955%) Network Management
10 6 (3.390%) Change Management
11 5 (2.825%) PRINCE2
11 5 (2.825%) Security Management
12 4 (2.260%) Capacity Management
12 4 (2.260%) Change Control
12 4 (2.260%) Financial Analysis
12 4 (2.260%) Workflow
13 3 (1.695%) Service Management
13 3 (1.695%) Performance Improvement
13 3 (1.695%) WAN Optimisation
14 2 (1.130%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 37 (20.90%) SQL
2 11 (6.215%) Perl
2 11 (6.215%) Python
3 6 (3.390%) Bash shell
3 6 (3.390%) PHP
4 5 (2.825%) C
4 5 (2.825%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.260%) Java
Qualifications
1 46 (25.99%) Cisco Certification
2 41 (23.16%) Degree
3 26 (14.69%) CCNA
4 19 (10.73%) CCNP
5 9 (5.085%) Check Point Certification
6 8 (4.520%) CCIE
7 5 (2.825%) JNCIE
8 4 (2.260%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 3 (1.695%) SC Cleared
9 3 (1.695%) Security Cleared
10 2 (1.130%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.565%) PMP
11 1 (0.565%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.565%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.565%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.910%) SLA
2 6 (3.390%) QA
3 4 (2.260%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.565%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.565%) BS7799
System Software
1 10 (5.650%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (2.825%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.825%) Hyper-V
2 5 (2.825%) Xen
3 4 (2.260%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (5.085%) Netcool
2 5 (2.825%) Tivoli
2 5 (2.825%) Cacti
3 4 (2.260%) CiscoWorks
3 4 (2.260%) OpenView
4 1 (0.565%) Cisco IPCC
4 1 (0.565%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 82 (46.33%) Cisco
2 32 (18.08%) Juniper
3 31 (17.51%) Huawei
4 30 (16.95%) Nortel
5 23 (12.99%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 18 (10.17%) Oracle
7 16 (9.040%) CheckPoint
8 14 (7.910%) Sybase
8 14 (7.910%) Veritas
9 13 (7.345%) BT
10 12 (6.780%) Telcordia
11 10 (5.650%) VMware
11 10 (5.650%) Microsoft
11 10 (5.650%) HP
12 9 (5.085%) Symantec
13 6 (3.390%) Nokia Siemens Networks
13 6 (3.390%) NEC
14 5 (2.825%) Avaya
14 5 (2.825%) Siemens
14 5 (2.825%) ZTE
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