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

LinkGlobal System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
Location
3 months to
16 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank532407467
Rank change year-on-year
Down-125Up+60
Matching permanent IT job ads147306613
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.175 %0.357 %0.303 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category1.221 %2.109 %1.817 %
Salaries quoted120240491
Average salary£42,000£40,000£36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.000 %+9.580 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,800£30,000£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£55,000£50,900
UK excluding London average salary£42,000£40,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+5.000 %+14.28 %
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 %-

GSM
Demand Trend

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

GSM Demand Trend

GSM
Salary Trend

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

GSM Salary Trend

GSM
Salary Histogram

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

GSM Salary Histogram

GSM
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GSM 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-140140£42,000+5.00 %
South EastDown-8748£42,000+5.00 %
LondonDown-4240£40,000-
HampshireUp+2420£32,500-27.77 %
East of EnglandDown-2519£42,250-6.11 %
South WestUp+714£60,000+41.17 %
DevonNew entry-13£60,000-
MiddlesexUp+1312£50,000+78.57 %
CambridgeshireDown-811£45,000-10.00 %
BuckinghamshireUp+36£42,000+20.00 %
M4 CorridorNo change06£32,500-
DerbyshireNew entry-6£32,500-
East MidlandsNew entry-6£32,500-
Milton KeynesNew entry-6£42,000-
West MidlandsUp+125£38,500-3.75 %
CambridgeDown-115£45,000-23.40 %
City of LondonDown-425£45,000+9.09 %
BedfordshireNew entry-5£37,500-
West YorkshireUp+194£31,500-28.40 %
YorkshireUp+144£31,500-28.40 %
LeedsUp+134£31,500-28.40 %
BerkshireDown-753£41,750+4.37 %
IpswichNew entry-3--
SuffolkNew entry-3--
ManchesterNew entry-3£30,000-
LutonNew entry-3£52,500-
North WestNew entry-3£30,000-
StockportNew entry-2£30,250-
FarnboroughUp+191--
BirminghamUp+151£40,000+6.66 %

GSM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1115 (39.93 %)GPRS
2114 (39.58 %)Wireless
3106 (36.81 %)Telecoms
490 (31.25 %)C
574 (25.69 %)C++
673 (25.35 %)3G
771 (24.65 %)UMTS
863 (21.88 %)Degree
950 (17.36 %)Handset
1042 (14.58 %)Wi-Fi
1042 (14.58 %)Electronics
1133 (11.46 %)Windows
1133 (11.46 %)LTE
1231 (10.76 %)Project Management
1326 (9.028 %)Embedded C
1425 (8.681 %)C#
1425 (8.681 %)WiMAX
1523 (7.986 %)VoIP
1523 (7.986 %)Ericsson
1622 (7.639 %)3GPP
1622 (7.639 %)SMS
1721 (7.292 %)Linux
1820 (6.944 %)UNIX
1820 (6.944 %)Pensions
1919 (6.597 %).NET
2018 (6.250 %)TCP/IP
2018 (6.250 %)Firmware
2018 (6.250 %)Marketing
2117 (5.903 %)UML
2117 (5.903 %)Health

GSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
119 (6.597 %).NET
212 (4.167 %)WAP
39 (3.125 %)XML
48 (2.778 %)WinForms
56 (2.083 %)HTML
65 (1.736 %)ASP.NET
74 (1.389 %)J2ME
74 (1.389 %)MFC
83 (1.042 %)JSON
83 (1.042 %)Spring
83 (1.042 %)NetBeans
92 (0.694 %)XSLT
92 (0.694 %)CORBA
101 (0.347 %)WCF
101 (0.347 %)CSS
101 (0.347 %)XSL
101 (0.347 %)XHTML
101 (0.347 %)Cocoa
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (0.347 %)Tomcat
11 (0.347 %)Apache
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
113 (4.514 %)MATLAB
27 (2.431 %)MS Office
34 (1.389 %)MS Excel
42 (0.694 %)MS Visio
42 (0.694 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1115 (39.93 %)GPRS
2114 (39.58 %)Wireless
373 (25.35 %)3G
471 (24.65 %)UMTS
542 (14.58 %)Wi-Fi
633 (11.46 %)LTE
725 (8.681 %)WiMAX
823 (7.986 %)VoIP
922 (7.639 %)3GPP
922 (7.639 %)SMS
1018 (6.250 %)TCP/IP
1116 (5.556 %)2G
1215 (5.208 %)TETRA
1215 (5.208 %)Internet
1314 (4.861 %)WCDMA
1412 (4.167 %)PSTN
1412 (4.167 %)HSPA
1511 (3.819 %)CDMA
1610 (3.472 %)ZigBee
178 (2.778 %)RNC
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (1.042 %)MySQL
22 (0.694 %)SQL Server
31 (0.347 %)RDBMS
31 (0.347 %)Informix
31 (0.347 %)GIS
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (1.042 %)Rational Robot
13 (1.042 %)Eclipse
13 (1.042 %)ClearCase
22 (0.694 %)Telelogic Rhapsody
22 (0.694 %)JIRA
31 (0.347 %)Selenium
31 (0.347 %)Ant
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1106 (36.81 %)Telecoms
242 (14.58 %)Electronics
320 (6.944 %)Pensions
418 (6.250 %)Marketing
517 (5.903 %)Health
611 (3.819 %)Automotive
78 (2.778 %)Manufacturing
84 (1.389 %)Finance
84 (1.389 %)Construction
84 (1.389 %)Education
84 (1.389 %)Electric
84 (1.389 %)Games
84 (1.389 %)Insurance
92 (0.694 %)Billing
92 (0.694 %)Banking
92 (0.694 %)Military
92 (0.694 %)Advertising
92 (0.694 %)Back Office
92 (0.694 %)Music
101 (0.347 %)Investment Banking
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
149 (17.01 %)Software Engineer
228 (9.722 %)Developer
327 (9.375 %)Certification Manager
416 (5.556 %)Systems Engineer
416 (5.556 %)Technical Manager
416 (5.556 %)Product Manager
514 (4.861 %)Software Developer
514 (4.861 %)Hardware Engineer
514 (4.861 %)Technical Account Manager
514 (4.861 %)Consultant
514 (4.861 %)Account Manager
514 (4.861 %)Analyst
514 (4.861 %)Principal Engineer
613 (4.514 %)Principal Systems Engineer
613 (4.514 %)Embedded Software Engineer
613 (4.514 %)Test Engineer
711 (3.819 %)Test Manager
711 (3.819 %)Network Engineer
810 (3.472 %)Development Engineer
99 (3.125 %)Team Leader
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
150 (17.36 %)Handset
218 (6.250 %)Firmware
314 (4.861 %)Blackberry
410 (3.472 %)German Language
57 (2.431 %)Dutch Language
66 (2.083 %)Computer Science
75 (1.736 %)Field-Programmable Gate Array
84 (1.389 %)VHDL
93 (1.042 %)Italian Language
93 (1.042 %)Statistics
93 (1.042 %)iPhone
102 (0.694 %)Client/Server
102 (0.694 %)Blog
102 (0.694 %)Smart Meter
111 (0.347 %)PMI
111 (0.347 %)Device Driver
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
133 (11.46 %)Windows
221 (7.292 %)Linux
320 (6.944 %)UNIX
410 (3.472 %)Windows CE
410 (3.472 %)Windows Mobile
56 (2.083 %)Embedded Linux
65 (1.736 %)Nucleus RTOS
74 (1.389 %)Windows NT
74 (1.389 %)Android
83 (1.042 %)Symbian OS
92 (0.694 %)Windows XP
92 (0.694 %)Windows 2000
101 (0.347 %)Windows 7
101 (0.347 %)Windows 2000 Server
101 (0.347 %)Mac OS X
101 (0.347 %)Windows Server 2003
101 (0.347 %)VxWorks
101 (0.347 %)Solaris
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
131 (10.76 %)Project Management
217 (5.903 %)UML
314 (4.861 %)Software Engineering
411 (3.819 %)Project Planning
411 (3.819 %)OO
411 (3.819 %)Configuration Management
411 (3.819 %)Validation
510 (3.472 %)Requirements Analysis
510 (3.472 %)Network Planning
69 (3.125 %)System Testing
69 (3.125 %)Software Testing
78 (2.778 %)Network Design
87 (2.431 %)OOD
87 (2.431 %)Change Management
96 (2.083 %)Agile Software Development
96 (2.083 %)Regression Testing
96 (2.083 %)Integration Testing
96 (2.083 %)Capacity Planning
105 (1.736 %)Service Management
114 (1.389 %)Scrum
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
190 (31.25 %)C
274 (25.69 %)C++
326 (9.028 %)Embedded C
425 (8.681 %)C#
515 (5.208 %)SQL
515 (5.208 %)Perl
614 (4.861 %)Assembly Language
614 (4.861 %)Java
711 (3.819 %)TTCN
88 (2.778 %)VC++
88 (2.778 %)Embedded C++
96 (2.083 %)VB
105 (1.736 %)VB.NET
105 (1.736 %)Python
114 (1.389 %)Objective-C
114 (1.389 %)JavaScript
123 (1.042 %)PHP
123 (1.042 %)VBScript
123 (1.042 %)VB6
131 (0.347 %)Bash shell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
163 (21.88 %)Degree
213 (4.514 %)Security Cleared
33 (1.042 %)PMI Certification
33 (1.042 %)PhD
42 (0.694 %)CISM
42 (0.694 %)SSCP
42 (0.694 %)CISSP
42 (0.694 %)PMP
42 (0.694 %)SC Cleared
51 (0.347 %)BC Cleared
51 (0.347 %)Cisco Certification
51 (0.347 %)ITIL Certification
51 (0.347 %)CCNP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
113 (4.514 %)QA
25 (1.736 %)SLA
32 (0.694 %)ISO17799
32 (0.694 %)ISO9001
32 (0.694 %)PCI DSS
32 (0.694 %)JTAG
32 (0.694 %)ISO27001
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (1.042 %)Active Directory
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.347 %)OpenView
11 (0.347 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
123 (7.986 %)Ericsson
215 (5.208 %)EMC
311 (3.819 %)Symbian
47 (2.431 %)Nokia
47 (2.431 %)Microsoft
47 (2.431 %)Oracle
55 (1.736 %)Nokia Siemens Networks
55 (1.736 %)Hitachi
64 (1.389 %)Telelogic
64 (1.389 %)Cisco
64 (1.389 %)Atmel
64 (1.389 %)Actix
73 (1.042 %)Huawei
73 (1.042 %)Perforce
82 (0.694 %)Anite
82 (0.694 %)Apple
82 (0.694 %)CheckPoint
91 (0.347 %)Sun
91 (0.347 %)Citrix
91 (0.347 %)Siemens