The first table below looks at the demand for SGSN skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SGSN 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
Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN)
Rank 844 890 854
Rank change year-on-year
+46 -36
Permanent jobs citing SGSN 18 9 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.007% 0.022%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.086% 0.043% 0.137%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 6
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% +5.26%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
+18.75% +5.26%
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%

SGSN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SGSN Jobs Demand Trend

SGSN
Salary Trend

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

SGSN Salary Trend

SGSN
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SGSN 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 +33 17 £47,500 +18.75%
South East +19 14 £47,500 +28.37%
Berkshire +16 14 £47,500 +28.37%
Reading - 7 £47,500 -
London - 3 £55,000 -
Bracknell - 3 - -
Hampshire - 1 £47,500 -
Newbury - 1 - -
Basingstoke - 1 £47,500 -

SGSN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 38 (76.00%) GGSN
2 34 (68.00%) Telecoms
3 26 (52.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 20 (40.00%) GSM
5 16 (32.00%) UMTS
6 13 (26.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (24.00%) 3GPP
7 12 (24.00%) Linux
8 10 (20.00%) UNIX
8 10 (20.00%) GPRS
8 10 (20.00%) 3G
8 10 (20.00%) MGW
8 10 (20.00%) Problem Management
9 9 (18.00%) LTE
9 9 (18.00%) Legal
9 9 (18.00%) SLA
9 9 (18.00%) ATM
10 8 (16.00%) Solaris
10 8 (16.00%) VoIP
10 8 (16.00%) Wireless
10 8 (16.00%) Degree
11 7 (14.00%) C++
12 6 (12.00%) WAN
12 6 (12.00%) LAN
12 6 (12.00%) Cisco
13 5 (10.00%) VPN
13 5 (10.00%) Oracle
13 5 (10.00%) Firewall
13 5 (10.00%) Internet
13 5 (10.00%) VLAN

SGSN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (8.000%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 4 (8.000%) STL
2 3 (6.000%) MAPI
2 3 (6.000%) HTML
2 3 (6.000%) X-Windows
Communications & Networking
1 38 (76.00%) GGSN
2 20 (40.00%) GSM
3 16 (32.00%) UMTS
4 12 (24.00%) 3GPP
5 10 (20.00%) GPRS
5 10 (20.00%) 3G
5 10 (20.00%) MGW
6 9 (18.00%) LTE
6 9 (18.00%) ATM
7 8 (16.00%) VoIP
7 8 (16.00%) Wireless
8 6 (12.00%) WAN
8 6 (12.00%) LAN
9 5 (10.00%) VPN
9 5 (10.00%) Firewall
9 5 (10.00%) Internet
9 5 (10.00%) VLAN
10 4 (8.000%) 2G
10 4 (8.000%) Asterisk PBX
10 4 (8.000%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (8.000%) Subversion
1 4 (8.000%) Trac
1 4 (8.000%) GCC
1 4 (8.000%) GDB
General
1 34 (68.00%) Telecoms
2 9 (18.00%) Legal
3 4 (8.000%) Military
3 4 (8.000%) Back Office
4 1 (2.000%) Billing
Job Titles
1 24 (48.00%) Support Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Core Network Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Network Support
3 7 (14.00%) Network Support Engineer
4 4 (8.000%) Software Engineer
4 4 (8.000%) C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (6.000%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.000%) Business Development Manager
6 1 (2.000%) Development Manager
6 1 (2.000%) Senior Manager
6 1 (2.000%) Analyst
6 1 (2.000%) Test Analyst
6 1 (2.000%) Senior Business Manager
6 1 (2.000%) Business Manager
6 1 (2.000%) Senior Business Development Manager
6 1 (2.000%) Test Leader
6 1 (2.000%) Senior Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.000%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.00%) Linux
2 10 (20.00%) UNIX
3 8 (16.00%) Solaris
4 3 (6.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 10 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 4 (8.000%) OO
4 3 (6.000%) Load Balancing
5 2 (4.000%) Integration Testing
5 2 (4.000%) Test Management
6 1 (2.000%) Network Design
6 1 (2.000%) Competitor Analysis
6 1 (2.000%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) C++
2 3 (6.000%) C
2 3 (6.000%) Perl
3 2 (4.000%) SQL
3 2 (4.000%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.000%) ISEB
3 1 (2.000%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (4.000%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (52.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 6 (12.00%) Cisco
3 5 (10.00%) Oracle
4 3 (6.000%) Veritas
5 2 (4.000%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 2 (4.000%) HP
6 1 (2.000%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.000%) Ericsson