The first table below looks at the demand for Radio Access Network skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Radio Access Network 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
Radio Access Network (RAN)
Rank 719 790 772
Rank change year-on-year
+71 -18
Permanent jobs citing Radio Access Network 143 109 109
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.132% 0.090% 0.088%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.685% 0.515% 0.554%
Number of salaries quoted 32 83 55
Average salary £46,000 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.38% -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,200 £40,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,250 £60,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £46,000 £51,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year
-10.67% -28.96%
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%

Radio Access Network
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Radio Access Network Jobs Demand Trend

Radio Access Network
Salary Trend

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

Radio Access Network Salary Trend

Radio Access Network
Salary Histogram

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

Radio Access Network Salary Histogram

Radio Access Network
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Radio Access Network 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 +54 134 £46,000 -12.38%
South East +52 119 £46,000 -10.67%
Berkshire +20 63 £55,000 -4.34%
Surrey +55 51 £42,500 -19.04%
Reading +10 27 £47,500 -17.39%
Guildford - 13 £25,000 -
West Midlands - 8 - -
Coventry - 8 - -
London +33 5 £37,000 -29.52%
Slough -9 5 £70,000 +21.73%
Amersham +11 4 £45,250 -10.83%
Buckinghamshire -23 4 £45,250 -4.73%
City of London - 2 £56,000 -
South West -4 1 £60,000 +23.07%
North West - 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 £60,000 -
Lancashire - 1 - -
Swindon - 1 £60,000 -

Radio Access Network
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Radio Access Network 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 Radio Access Network.

1 176 (81.11%) Telecoms
2 108 (49.77%) 3G
3 66 (30.41%) Degree
4 50 (23.04%) 2G
5 41 (18.89%) Project Management
6 37 (17.05%) LTE
7 36 (16.59%) Network Design
7 36 (16.59%) GSM
7 36 (16.59%) Cisco
8 31 (14.29%) Nokia Siemens Networks
9 30 (13.82%) SMTP
9 30 (13.82%) DHCP
9 30 (13.82%) SNMP
9 30 (13.82%) DNS
10 27 (12.44%) ATM
10 27 (12.44%) Back Office
11 24 (11.06%) Ethernet
12 22 (10.14%) TCP/IP
13 21 (9.677%) WCDMA
13 21 (9.677%) Broadband
13 21 (9.677%) 4G
14 20 (9.217%) Product Management
15 19 (8.756%) Service Delivery
15 19 (8.756%) Validation
16 18 (8.295%) Firewall
16 18 (8.295%) Six Sigma
16 18 (8.295%) UMTS
16 18 (8.295%) CRM
16 18 (8.295%) Ericsson
16 18 (8.295%) Cisco ASA

Radio Access Network
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (0.922%) COM
2 1 (0.461%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.461%) .NET
2 1 (0.461%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (0.461%) SharePoint Foundation
Applications
1 11 (5.069%) MS Excel
2 6 (2.765%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.765%) MS PowerPoint
3 5 (2.304%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.382%) Metrica
Communications & Networking
1 108 (49.77%) 3G
2 50 (23.04%) 2G
3 37 (17.05%) LTE
4 36 (16.59%) GSM
5 30 (13.82%) SMTP
5 30 (13.82%) DHCP
5 30 (13.82%) SNMP
5 30 (13.82%) DNS
6 27 (12.44%) ATM
7 24 (11.06%) Ethernet
8 22 (10.14%) TCP/IP
9 21 (9.677%) WCDMA
9 21 (9.677%) Broadband
9 21 (9.677%) 4G
10 18 (8.295%) Firewall
10 18 (8.295%) UMTS
10 18 (8.295%) Cisco ASA
10 18 (8.295%) Cisco PIX
10 18 (8.295%) FWSM
10 18 (8.295%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.382%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.461%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.461%) Big Data
2 1 (0.461%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.461%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 176 (81.11%) Telecoms
2 27 (12.44%) Back Office
3 18 (8.295%) Billing
3 18 (8.295%) Retail
4 11 (5.069%) Finance
5 9 (4.147%) Marketing
6 5 (2.304%) Legal
7 4 (1.843%) Electronics
8 2 (0.922%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.461%) French Language
9 1 (0.461%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (17.51%) RAN Engineer
2 28 (12.90%) IP Engineer
3 26 (11.98%) Technical Leader
4 18 (8.295%) Junior
4 18 (8.295%) Security Engineer
5 16 (7.373%) Design Engineer
6 14 (6.452%) Account Manager
6 14 (6.452%) Voice Engineer
7 10 (4.608%) Network Engineer
7 10 (4.608%) Principal Engineer
8 9 (4.147%) Analyst
9 8 (3.687%) Performance Engineer
10 7 (3.226%) Core Network Engineer
10 7 (3.226%) Transmission Engineer
10 7 (3.226%) Consultant
11 6 (2.765%) Support Engineer
11 6 (2.765%) Radio Engineer
11 6 (2.765%) Voice Network Engineer
12 5 (2.304%) Junior Analyst
12 5 (2.304%) Process Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.765%) Management Information System
2 1 (0.461%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (0.461%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (0.461%) Wiki
2 1 (0.461%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.382%) UNIX
2 2 (0.922%) Windows
3 1 (0.461%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (18.89%) Project Management
2 36 (16.59%) Network Design
3 20 (9.217%) Product Management
4 19 (8.756%) Service Delivery
4 19 (8.756%) Validation
5 18 (8.295%) Six Sigma
5 18 (8.295%) CRM
6 17 (7.834%) Process Management
7 16 (7.373%) Logistics
7 16 (7.373%) Capacity Planning
8 15 (6.912%) Root Cause Analysis
8 15 (6.912%) Service Management
9 14 (6.452%) Process Improvement
10 13 (5.991%) Capacity Management
10 13 (5.991%) Network Architecture
10 13 (5.991%) Agile Software Development
11 12 (5.530%) Workflow
12 11 (5.069%) Network Planning
12 11 (5.069%) Migration
13 10 (4.608%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.147%) SQL
2 7 (3.226%) C
3 3 (1.382%) Shell Script
3 3 (1.382%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.461%) Java
4 1 (0.461%) Perl
Qualifications
1 66 (30.41%) Degree
2 14 (6.452%) CCNP
2 14 (6.452%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (5.991%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 9 (4.147%) CCSA
5 8 (3.687%) PMP
5 8 (3.687%) PMI Certification
5 8 (3.687%) CCSE
6 6 (2.765%) CCIP
6 6 (2.765%) CCDP
6 6 (2.765%) CCIE
7 3 (1.382%) PgMP
7 3 (1.382%) ISEB
8 2 (0.922%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.461%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.461%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.461%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.461%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.461%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (0.461%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.834%) SLA
2 2 (0.922%) QA
System Software
1 18 (8.295%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 12 (5.530%) OpenView
1 12 (5.530%) CiscoWorks
1 12 (5.530%) HP NNM
Vendors
1 36 (16.59%) Cisco
2 31 (14.29%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 18 (8.295%) Ericsson
3 18 (8.295%) F5
3 18 (8.295%) Blue Coat
4 17 (7.834%) Huawei
4 17 (7.834%) CheckPoint
5 15 (6.912%) Nokia
6 12 (5.530%) Juniper
6 12 (5.530%) HP
6 12 (5.530%) Redback
7 6 (2.765%) Microsoft
8 5 (2.304%) Cramer
9 4 (1.843%) Oracle
9 4 (1.843%) Nortel
10 3 (1.382%) Business Objects
11 2 (0.922%) Remedy
11 2 (0.922%) Siemens
11 2 (0.922%) Mapinfo
12 1 (0.461%) Actix
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