The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 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 terms in our General category.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank514350
Rank change year-on-year
Down-8Up+7
Matching permanent IT job ads558955903933
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK4.635 %4.559 %4.119 %
As % of the General category10.30 %9.425 %8.451 %
Number of salaries quoted449544463185
Average salary£45,000£45,000£42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+5.88 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£72,500£67,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£41,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43 %+2.50 %
IT Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
542715931346540
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK45.01 %48.37 %48.74 %
Number of salaries quoted456244848337646
Average salary£50,000£52,500£52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£85,000£85,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£41,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.65 %+2.50 %

Telecoms
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Telecoms within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Telecoms Demand Trend

Telecoms
Salary Trend

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

Telecoms Salary Trend

Telecoms
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Telecoms over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Telecoms Salary Histogram

Telecoms
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. 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-65232£45,000-2.70 %
LondonDown-152056£52,500-
South EastUp+41769£42,500-
BerkshireUp+14862£45,000-10.00 %
City of LondonDown-16502£55,000-8.33 %
East of EnglandDown-12329£45,000+12.50 %
South WestDown-6300£37,500-
HampshireDown-1286£45,000+9.75 %
SurreyDown-1272£40,000-
North WestUp+1245£40,000+6.66 %
NewburyUp+4211£35,000-22.22 %
ReadingUp+10196£45,000+5.88 %
YorkshireUp+55184£37,500-6.25 %
West MidlandsDown-8161£37,500-6.25 %
HertfordshireDown-12157£50,000+25.00 %
East MidlandsUp+3148£40,000+6.66 %
BuckinghamshireUp+6135£32,500-18.75 %
ManchesterDown-21122£37,500-8.53 %
BristolDown-12116£40,000+6.66 %
SloughUp+9114£47,000-3.58 %
ScotlandDown-14105£35,000-14.63 %
West YorkshireUp+2393£33,250-16.87 %
CambridgeshireDown-892£40,000+5.26 %
NottinghamshireUp+2279£42,500-26.08 %
CheshireUp+4178£60,000+66.66 %
NottinghamUp+1571£41,250-28.26 %
MaidenheadUp+1869£52,500-12.50 %
CambridgeDown-465£37,500-
BasingstokeDown-364£47,500-6.86 %
GloucestershireDown-858£39,000+10.63 %

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms.

13185 (28.87 %)Finance
21834 (16.62 %)Degree
31662 (15.06 %)Windows
41653 (14.98 %)Java
51589 (14.40 %)SQL
61481 (13.42 %)Cisco
71356 (12.29 %).NET
71356 (12.29 %)Oracle
81266 (11.47 %)Linux
91260 (11.42 %)C#
101051 (9.525 %)C++
111050 (9.516 %)Project Management
12998 (9.045 %)Microsoft
13996 (9.027 %)Agile Software Development
14976 (8.845 %)Retail
15959 (8.691 %)UNIX
16942 (8.537 %)Banking
17927 (8.401 %)SQL Server
18794 (7.196 %)Cisco Certification
19777 (7.042 %)ITIL
20723 (6.552 %)VoIP
21714 (6.471 %)Firewall
22697 (6.317 %)C
23695 (6.299 %)WAN
24681 (6.172 %)Wireless
25662 (6.000 %)Internet
26659 (5.972 %)MS Excel
27650 (5.891 %)LAN
28634 (5.746 %)Service Delivery
29624 (5.655 %)Scrum

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11356 (12.29 %).NET
2622 (5.637 %)XML
3512 (4.640 %)ASP.NET
4470 (4.260 %)CSS
5469 (4.250 %)J2EE
6447 (4.051 %)Web Services
7436 (3.951 %)HTML
8281 (2.547 %)Spring
9246 (2.229 %)jQuery
10242 (2.193 %)WinForms
11210 (1.903 %)WPF
12182 (1.649 %)SOAP
13169 (1.532 %)Ajax
14163 (1.477 %).NET Framework
15151 (1.368 %)Hibernate
15151 (1.368 %)Middleware
16150 (1.359 %)HTML5
17144 (1.305 %)WCF
18134 (1.214 %)WebSphere
19124 (1.124 %)REST
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1256 (2.320 %)MS Exchange
2246 (2.229 %)Apache
3219 (1.985 %)SharePoint
4168 (1.523 %)SAS
5143 (1.296 %)Tomcat
6124 (1.124 %)CMS
7113 (1.024 %)WebLogic
899 (0.897 %)Exchange Server 2007
899 (0.897 %)Exchange Server 2010
997 (0.879 %)IIS
1072 (0.653 %)Exchange Server 2003
1167 (0.607 %)ESB
1253 (0.480 %)SharePoint 2010
1346 (0.417 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1445 (0.408 %)Lync
1535 (0.317 %)Drupal
1632 (0.290 %)Documentum
1730 (0.272 %)Office Communications Server
1826 (0.236 %)MQSeries
1925 (0.227 %)WordPress
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1659 (5.972 %)MS Excel
2411 (3.725 %)MS Office
3249 (2.257 %)MS Visio
4177 (1.604 %)MS PowerPoint
593 (0.843 %)MS Project
678 (0.707 %)MATLAB
744 (0.399 %)Photoshop
828 (0.254 %)SPSS
920 (0.181 %)Spreadsheet
1014 (0.127 %)Adobe Illustrator
1113 (0.118 %)DOC1
1212 (0.109 %)AutoCAD
1310 (0.091 %)RoboHelp
1310 (0.091 %)Windchill
147 (0.063 %)OmniGraffle
147 (0.063 %)Simulink
156 (0.054 %)PowerPivot
165 (0.045 %)Office 365
165 (0.045 %)FrameMaker
173 (0.027 %)Maya
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
149 (0.444 %)Oracle EBS
242 (0.381 %)Dynamics CRM
341 (0.372 %)SAP ERP
434 (0.308 %)Oracle Applications
532 (0.290 %)SAP FI/CO
532 (0.290 %)SAP CO
532 (0.290 %)SAP FI
627 (0.245 %)Hyperion Planning
725 (0.227 %)Oracle EBS R12
824 (0.218 %)Oracle Financials
920 (0.181 %)Metrica
1018 (0.163 %)INSURE/90
1018 (0.163 %)Oracle BPM
1018 (0.163 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1117 (0.154 %)Dynamics AX
1216 (0.145 %)SAP FSCM
1216 (0.145 %)Oracle CRM
1216 (0.145 %)SAP APO
1216 (0.145 %)HFM
1315 (0.136 %)Dynamics NAV
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1723 (6.552 %)VoIP
2714 (6.471 %)Firewall
3695 (6.299 %)WAN
4681 (6.172 %)Wireless
5662 (6.000 %)Internet
6650 (5.891 %)LAN
7585 (5.302 %)TCP/IP
8579 (5.247 %)GSM
9499 (4.522 %)3G
10495 (4.486 %)Broadband
11490 (4.441 %)UMTS
12468 (4.241 %)MPLS
13436 (3.951 %)VPN
14420 (3.806 %)LTE
15296 (2.683 %)Ethernet
16282 (2.556 %)Network Security
17279 (2.529 %)DNS
18269 (2.438 %)OSPF
19246 (2.229 %)BGP
20229 (2.075 %)SAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1927 (8.401 %)SQL Server
2376 (3.408 %)MySQL
3272 (2.465 %)Data Warehouse
4197 (1.785 %)SQL Server 2008
5132 (1.196 %)SQL Server Integration Services
6121 (1.097 %)ETL
6121 (1.097 %)RDBMS
7109 (0.988 %)Oracle 11g
8102 (0.924 %)SQL Server 2005
991 (0.825 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1088 (0.798 %)Oracle 8/8i
1181 (0.734 %)Oracle 10g
1270 (0.634 %)Data Mining
1364 (0.580 %)DB2
1459 (0.535 %)Oracle Reports
1547 (0.426 %)Oracle BI EE
1645 (0.408 %)DataStage
1744 (0.399 %)PostgreSQL
1843 (0.390 %)GIS
1843 (0.390 %)SQL Server 2000
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1196 (1.776 %)Subversion
2184 (1.668 %)Selenium
3156 (1.414 %)Eclipse
4154 (1.396 %)Ant
5145 (1.314 %)Maven
6123 (1.115 %)Visual Studio
7114 (1.033 %)JUnit
8113 (1.024 %)QuickTest Pro
9105 (0.952 %)JIRA
1096 (0.870 %)Git (software)
1195 (0.861 %)ClearCase
1287 (0.788 %)NUnit
1384 (0.761 %)Bugzilla
1479 (0.716 %)Rhino Mocks
1553 (0.480 %)TestComplete
1643 (0.390 %)LoadRunner
1739 (0.353 %)Xcode
1739 (0.353 %)Team Foundation Server
1838 (0.344 %)Hudson
1935 (0.317 %)FitNesse
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13185 (28.87 %)Finance
2976 (8.845 %)Retail
3942 (8.537 %)Banking
4590 (5.347 %)Marketing
5387 (3.507 %)Billing
6376 (3.408 %)Manufacturing
7344 (3.118 %)Games
8272 (2.465 %)Electronics
9230 (2.084 %)Legal
10139 (1.260 %)Investment Banking
11122 (1.106 %)Pharmaceutical
12116 (1.051 %)Music
13110 (0.997 %)Online Betting
14102 (0.924 %)Back Office
1596 (0.870 %)Advertising
1681 (0.734 %)Front Office
1780 (0.725 %)Publishing
1780 (0.725 %)German Language
1875 (0.680 %)French Language
1969 (0.625 %)Law
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11806 (16.37 %)Developer
21355 (12.28 %)Analyst
3819 (7.423 %)Consultant
4804 (7.287 %)Architect
5613 (5.556 %)Project Manager
6468 (4.241 %)Software Engineer
7398 (3.607 %).NET Developer
8383 (3.471 %)Network Engineer
9381 (3.453 %)Support Engineer
10377 (3.417 %)Java Developer
11373 (3.380 %)Business Analyst
12325 (2.945 %)C# Developer
13293 (2.655 %)Senior Developer
14276 (2.501 %)Software Developer
15265 (2.402 %)Administrator
16250 (2.266 %)Senior Manager
17241 (2.184 %)C# .NET Developer
18207 (1.876 %)Solutions Architect
19206 (1.867 %)Senior Analyst
20199 (1.804 %)Support Analyst
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1537 (4.867 %)Computer Science
2214 (1.939 %)New Media
3198 (1.794 %)Management Information System
4193 (1.749 %)Digital Media
5159 (1.441 %)Open Source
6158 (1.432 %)Mathematics
7142 (1.287 %)Handset
8135 (1.223 %)IVR
9114 (1.033 %)Blackberry
10110 (0.997 %)Physics
11100 (0.906 %)FMCG
1297 (0.879 %)Cloud Computing
1396 (0.870 %)iPhone
1396 (0.870 %)SaaS
1495 (0.861 %)Client/Server
1593 (0.843 %)Video Conferencing
1685 (0.770 %)Embedded Systems
1783 (0.752 %)Statistics
1882 (0.743 %)Online Games
1976 (0.689 %)Clustering
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11662 (15.06 %)Windows
21266 (11.47 %)Linux
3959 (8.691 %)UNIX
4256 (2.320 %)Windows Server 2003
5247 (2.239 %)Windows Server 2008
6205 (1.858 %)Solaris
7172 (1.559 %)Android
8166 (1.504 %)Windows XP
9131 (1.187 %)Windows 7
10108 (0.979 %)Apple iOS
11104 (0.943 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1267 (0.607 %)CentOS
1355 (0.498 %)Debian
1453 (0.480 %)Embedded Linux
1549 (0.444 %)Windows Vista
1645 (0.408 %)VxWorks
1738 (0.344 %)Windows 2000
1835 (0.317 %)LynxOS
1934 (0.308 %)Ubuntu
2027 (0.245 %)Windows CE
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11050 (9.516 %)Project Management
2996 (9.027 %)Agile Software Development
3777 (7.042 %)ITIL
4634 (5.746 %)Service Delivery
5624 (5.655 %)Scrum
6572 (5.184 %)OO
7510 (4.622 %)E-Commerce
8502 (4.550 %)PRINCE2
9481 (4.359 %)CRM
10455 (4.124 %)Software Engineering
11422 (3.825 %)UML
12394 (3.571 %)Business Intelligence
13381 (3.453 %)Business Development
14379 (3.435 %)TDD
15358 (3.245 %)Stakeholder Management
16345 (3.127 %)SOA
17334 (3.027 %)Waterfall
18330 (2.991 %)Service Management
19317 (2.873 %)Change Management
20302 (2.737 %)Network Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11653 (14.98 %)Java
21589 (14.40 %)SQL
31260 (11.42 %)C#
41051 (9.525 %)C++
5697 (6.317 %)C
6477 (4.323 %)JavaScript
7427 (3.870 %)Perl
8411 (3.725 %)Python
9279 (2.529 %)PHP
10228 (2.066 %)VB
11199 (1.804 %)VB.NET
12184 (1.668 %)PL/SQL
13118 (1.069 %)VB6
14114 (1.033 %)T-SQL
15109 (0.988 %)Shell Script
1696 (0.870 %)Embedded C
1792 (0.834 %)Ruby
1888 (0.798 %)Bash shell
1965 (0.589 %)VBA
2056 (0.508 %)PowerShell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11834 (16.62 %)Degree
2794 (7.196 %)Cisco Certification
3524 (4.749 %)Security Cleared
4462 (4.187 %)CCNA
5374 (3.390 %)CCNP
6314 (2.846 %)SC Cleared
7266 (2.411 %)ISEB
8265 (2.402 %)Microsoft Certification
9173 (1.568 %)CCIE
10167 (1.514 %)DV Cleared
11148 (1.341 %)PMI Certification
12134 (1.214 %)MCP
13119 (1.078 %)CCSP
14111 (1.006 %)MCSE
15107 (0.970 %)PRINCE2 Certification
15107 (0.970 %)PMP
1697 (0.879 %)MCTS
1792 (0.834 %)ITIL Certification
1887 (0.788 %)MCAD
1986 (0.779 %)MCSD
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1533 (4.831 %)QA
2479 (4.341 %)SLA
3141 (1.278 %)ISO/IEC 27001
471 (0.643 %)PCI DSS
562 (0.562 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
638 (0.344 %)ISO 9001
735 (0.317 %)JTAG
834 (0.308 %)Data Quality
929 (0.263 %)DO-178B
1020 (0.181 %)ISO 9000
1115 (0.136 %)Basel III
1212 (0.109 %)FATCA
1212 (0.109 %)Basel II
1212 (0.109 %)COBIT
138 (0.073 %)WCAG
138 (0.073 %)BS7799
146 (0.054 %)JSP 440
155 (0.045 %)TickIT
164 (0.036 %)ISO/IEC 17799
173 (0.027 %)WAI
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1385 (3.489 %)Active Directory
2199 (1.804 %)VMware Infrastructure
368 (0.616 %)vSphere
455 (0.498 %)Hyper-V
540 (0.363 %)XenApp
632 (0.290 %)XenServer
632 (0.290 %)Terminal Services
729 (0.263 %)NFS
826 (0.236 %)XenDesktop
921 (0.190 %)Xen
1020 (0.181 %)Oracle RAC
1119 (0.172 %)VMware ESX
1217 (0.154 %)Oracle RMAN
1217 (0.154 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1316 (0.145 %)SRDF
1415 (0.136 %)Terminal Server
1513 (0.118 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1611 (0.100 %)ISA Server
1611 (0.100 %)Sendmail
178 (0.073 %)VMware ESXi
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1114 (1.033 %)HP Quality Center
282 (0.743 %)Nagios
356 (0.508 %)SCCM
451 (0.462 %)NetBackup
550 (0.453 %)Netcool
645 (0.408 %)Cisco CUCM
744 (0.399 %)Ganglia
839 (0.353 %)Tivoli
933 (0.299 %)EMC NetWorker
1032 (0.290 %)Cacti
1130 (0.272 %)Puppet
1229 (0.263 %)Cisco IPCC
1324 (0.218 %)OpenView
1423 (0.208 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1521 (0.190 %)Backup Exec
1617 (0.154 %)Munin
1715 (0.136 %)SCOM
1811 (0.100 %)Netcool/Proviso
1811 (0.100 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1811 (0.100 %)Data Guard
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11481 (13.42 %)Cisco
21356 (12.29 %)Oracle
3998 (9.045 %)Microsoft
4383 (3.471 %)Juniper
5380 (3.444 %)Avaya
6356 (3.226 %)VMware
7285 (2.583 %)HP
8221 (2.003 %)SAP
9201 (1.822 %)Red Hat
10184 (1.668 %)CheckPoint
11181 (1.640 %)IBM
12168 (1.523 %)JBoss
13161 (1.459 %)Nokia
14146 (1.323 %)Citrix
15137 (1.242 %)Nortel
16132 (1.196 %)Ericsson
17129 (1.169 %)Business Objects
17129 (1.169 %)Mitel
18116 (1.051 %)Fujitsu
19115 (1.042 %)NetApp