The first table below looks at the demand for TCAP skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TCAP over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transaction Capabilities Applications Part (TCAP)
Rank 853 870 850
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -20
Permanent jobs citing TCAP 7 17 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.014% 0.017%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.033% 0.080% 0.110%
Number of salaries quoted 5 14 17
Average salary £50,000 £35,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+42.85% -17.64%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £36,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+22.44% -8.12%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21033 21229 19145
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 19.36% 17.52% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 17006 17692 15862
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £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%

TCAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

TCAP Jobs Demand Trend

TCAP
Salary Trend

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

TCAP Salary Trend

TCAP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TCAP over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

TCAP Salary Histogram

TCAP
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCAP within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 -1 7 £50,000 +42.85%
London +22 3 £67,500 +92.85%
South East -3 3 £40,000 +9.58%
Guildford - 2 £40,000 -
Surrey - 2 £40,000 -
Berkshire +8 1 £50,000 +36.98%
City of London +4 1 £67,500 +17.39%
Reading - 1 £50,000 -

TCAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing TCAP 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 TCAP.

1 10 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 9 (90.00%) SCCP
3 8 (80.00%) INAP
4 7 (70.00%) Linux
4 7 (70.00%) LDAP
4 7 (70.00%) GSM
4 7 (70.00%) VoIP
5 6 (60.00%) SCTP
5 6 (60.00%) M3UA
6 5 (50.00%) XML
6 5 (50.00%) UNIX
6 5 (50.00%) Solaris
7 4 (40.00%) HTTP
7 4 (40.00%) SOAP
7 4 (40.00%) DNS
7 4 (40.00%) SLA
7 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
7 4 (40.00%) 3G
7 4 (40.00%) 4G
7 4 (40.00%) XCAP
7 4 (40.00%) SIGTRAN
7 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (40.00%) LTE
7 4 (40.00%) MGW
7 4 (40.00%) SMPP
7 4 (40.00%) Megaco
7 4 (40.00%) 2G
8 3 (30.00%) Cisco
8 3 (30.00%) 3GPP
8 3 (30.00%) UMTS

TCAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing TCAP 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 TCAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (50.00%) XML
2 4 (40.00%) SOAP
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) SCCP
2 8 (80.00%) INAP
3 7 (70.00%) LDAP
3 7 (70.00%) GSM
3 7 (70.00%) VoIP
4 6 (60.00%) SCTP
4 6 (60.00%) M3UA
5 4 (40.00%) HTTP
5 4 (40.00%) DNS
5 4 (40.00%) 3G
5 4 (40.00%) 4G
5 4 (40.00%) XCAP
5 4 (40.00%) SIGTRAN
5 4 (40.00%) LTE
5 4 (40.00%) MGW
5 4 (40.00%) SMPP
5 4 (40.00%) Megaco
5 4 (40.00%) 2G
6 3 (30.00%) 3GPP
6 3 (30.00%) UMTS
General
1 10 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Czech Language
2 1 (10.00%) Portuguese Language
2 1 (10.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Customer Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Development Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Product Development Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Account Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Account Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) UNIX
2 5 (50.00%) Solaris
3 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Project Management
1 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Migration
1 2 (20.00%) System Testing
1 2 (20.00%) Business Development
2 1 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) C
1 2 (20.00%) C++
1 2 (20.00%) Perl
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (20.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) SLA
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) HP
4 1 (10.00%) Sun