The first table below looks at the demand for VSAT skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VSAT over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT)
Rank 847 888 856
Rank change year-on-year
+41 -32
Permanent jobs citing VSAT 12 24 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.020% 0.007%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.058% 0.113% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 12 21 7
Average salary £42,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,550 £26,000 £30,400
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £52,500 £43,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £32,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+31.25% -20.00%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
20799 21237 19051
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 19.37% 17.54% 15.65%
Number of salaries quoted 16821 17708 15778
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 £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%

VSAT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

VSAT Jobs Demand Trend

VSAT
Salary Trend

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

VSAT Salary Trend

VSAT
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VSAT over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 within the UK.

VSAT Salary Histogram

VSAT
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VSAT within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +25 11 £42,000 +20.00%
East of England - 5 £75,000 -
Hertfordshire - 5 £75,000 -
South East +8 4 £37,250 +24.16%
Surrey +11 2 £29,500 -1.66%
Kent - 2 £42,000 -
Watford - 2 £72,500 -
London +41 1 £27,000 -48.57%
Redhill +11 1 £26,500 -11.66%
Aberdeen -2 1 £35,000 -12.50%
Scotland -9 1 £35,000 -12.50%
West Midlands - 1 £25,500 -
Coventry - 1 £25,500 -

VSAT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing VSAT 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 VSAT.

1 16 (50.00%) Cisco
2 13 (40.63%) Telecoms
3 11 (34.38%) Firewall
4 10 (31.25%) VPN
4 10 (31.25%) Windows
4 10 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (25.00%) SNMP
5 8 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 7 (21.88%) Configuration Management
7 6 (18.75%) ADSL
7 6 (18.75%) GPRS
7 6 (18.75%) Finance
7 6 (18.75%) Network Design
7 6 (18.75%) Degree
7 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
7 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (15.63%) Verint
8 5 (15.63%) HSRP
8 5 (15.63%) Cisco UCCE
8 5 (15.63%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (15.63%) Load Balancing
8 5 (15.63%) Broadband
8 5 (15.63%) UNIX
8 5 (15.63%) DNS
8 5 (15.63%) IPv6
8 5 (15.63%) CCIE
8 5 (15.63%) UMTS
8 5 (15.63%) WAN
8 5 (15.63%) DHCP
8 5 (15.63%) FTP

VSAT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.125%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (6.250%) AutoCAD
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) Firewall
2 10 (31.25%) VPN
3 8 (25.00%) SNMP
3 8 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (18.75%) ADSL
4 6 (18.75%) GPRS
5 5 (15.63%) Broadband
5 5 (15.63%) UMTS
5 5 (15.63%) DNS
5 5 (15.63%) IPv6
5 5 (15.63%) WAN
5 5 (15.63%) DHCP
5 5 (15.63%) FTP
5 5 (15.63%) HTTP
5 5 (15.63%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (15.63%) DVB
5 5 (15.63%) HSRP
6 4 (12.50%) IPsec
7 3 (9.375%) LAN
8 2 (6.250%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.125%) GIS
General
1 13 (40.63%) Telecoms
2 6 (18.75%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Games
4 3 (9.375%) Electronics
5 2 (6.250%) Military
6 1 (3.125%) Retail
6 1 (3.125%) Billing
6 1 (3.125%) Marketing
6 1 (3.125%) Arabic Language
6 1 (3.125%) Legal
6 1 (3.125%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Network Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) Network Manager
1 5 (15.63%) Network Support
2 4 (12.50%) Network Support Technician
2 4 (12.50%) Network Technician
2 4 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Support Technician
3 3 (9.375%) Support Engineer
3 3 (9.375%) Operations Manager
3 3 (9.375%) IP Engineer
3 3 (9.375%) Senior IP Engineer
3 3 (9.375%) Network Operations Manager
4 2 (6.250%) Network Services Manager
4 2 (6.250%) Audio Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Analyst
4 2 (6.250%) Service Manager
4 2 (6.250%) Communications Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Software Support Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Business Manager
5 1 (3.125%) NOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.375%) PMI
2 1 (3.125%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.125%) Tandem
2 1 (3.125%) SCADA
2 1 (3.125%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.125%) SaaS
2 1 (3.125%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) UNIX
3 4 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.125%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) Configuration Management
2 6 (18.75%) Network Design
2 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (15.63%) Load Balancing
4 4 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
4 4 (12.50%) ITIL
4 4 (12.50%) Service Management
5 3 (9.375%) Service Delivery
5 3 (9.375%) PRINCE2
5 3 (9.375%) E-Commerce
5 3 (9.375%) Project Management
5 3 (9.375%) Information Security
5 3 (9.375%) Programme Management
5 3 (9.375%) Time Management
5 3 (9.375%) Portfolio Management
6 2 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (3.125%) Web Application Development
7 1 (3.125%) SIEM
7 1 (3.125%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (3.125%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.375%) SQL
2 2 (6.250%) Java
3 1 (3.125%) Perl
3 1 (3.125%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (18.75%) Degree
2 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) CCIE
4 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.50%) CCNA
5 3 (9.375%) CCDA
5 3 (9.375%) PMI Certification
6 2 (6.250%) HNC
7 1 (3.125%) HND
7 1 (3.125%) CCNP
7 1 (3.125%) CISM
7 1 (3.125%) MBA
7 1 (3.125%) CISSP
7 1 (3.125%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.375%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (9.375%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.125%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.125%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 16 (50.00%) Cisco
2 5 (15.63%) Verint
3 4 (12.50%) Riverbed
3 4 (12.50%) Juniper
4 3 (9.375%) Mitel
5 1 (3.125%) SAP
5 1 (3.125%) VMware
5 1 (3.125%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.125%) HP
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