West Lothian Telecoms Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in IT jobs within the West Lothian region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Coatbridge Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Ipswich Jersey Keighley Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcheldean Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Powys Prescot Preston Queensferry Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rochdale Rotherham Royston Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke Mandeville Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	38
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching permanent IT job ads	15	9
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	15.46 %	7.200 %
Salaries quoted	9	7
Average minimum salary	£41,444	£40,714
Average salary	£44,722	£44,286
% change on same period last year	+0.98 %
Average maximum salary	£48,000	£47,857
UK excluding London average salary	£42,250	£43,591
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
General West Lothian
Matching permanent IT job ads	97	125
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.052 %	0.052 %
Salaries quoted	70	50
Average minimum salary	£26,681	£32,202
Average salary	£30,219	£34,106
% change on same period last year	-11.39 %
Average maximum salary	£33,757	£36,011
UK excluding London average salary	£41,063	£42,118
% change on same period last year	-2.50 %
Telecoms Scotland

Telecoms
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Telecoms across the West Lothian region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Telecoms
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Telecoms across the West Lothian region.

Telecoms
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Telecoms across the West Lothian region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Telecoms
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the West Lothian region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Livingston	+6	13	£41,786	+4.46 %

Telecoms Scotland

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Lothian region 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.

1 34 (52.31 %) Finance 2 33 (50.77 %) UML 3 29 (44.62 %) Billing 4 26 (40.00 %) J2EE 5 22 (33.85 %) Java 6 21 (32.31 %) SOA 7 20 (30.77 %) CRM 8 14 (21.54 %) Sun 8 14 (21.54 %) Sun Certification 9 12 (18.46 %) EAI 9 12 (18.46 %) Project Management 9 12 (18.46 %) ESB 10 11 (16.92 %) SQL 11 10 (15.38 %) Oracle 11 10 (15.38 %) Middleware

11 10 (15.38 %) Stakeholder Management 11 10 (15.38 %) Use Case 11 10 (15.38 %) WebSphere 12 8 (12.31 %) Zachman Framework 12 8 (12.31 %) TOGAF 12 8 (12.31 %) Construction 12 8 (12.31 %) XML 13 7 (10.77 %) UNIX 13 7 (10.77 %) RAD 13 7 (10.77 %) IBM 13 7 (10.77 %) MQSeries 13 7 (10.77 %) JMS 13 7 (10.77 %) WebSphere MQ 13 7 (10.77 %) Unit Testing 14 5 (7.692 %) Enterprise Architecture

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Lothian region 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.

Application Development 1 26 (40.00 %) J2EE 2 10 (15.38 %) Middleware 2 10 (15.38 %) WebSphere 3 8 (12.31 %) XML 4 7 (10.77 %) JMS 5 1 (1.538 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 12 (18.46 %) ESB 2 7 (10.77 %) MQSeries 2 7 (10.77 %) WebSphere MQ
Communications & Networking 1 3 (4.615 %) LAN 1 3 (4.615 %) SDH 1 3 (4.615 %) WAN 2 2 (3.077 %) MPLS 2 2 (3.077 %) Wi-Fi 2 2 (3.077 %) WiMAX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (7.692 %) RDBMS 2 3 (4.615 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 3 (4.615 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (1.538 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 3 (4.615 %) TestDirector	General 1 34 (52.31 %) Finance 2 29 (44.62 %) Billing 3 8 (12.31 %) Construction 4 3 (4.615 %) Health 4 3 (4.615 %) Banking 5 1 (1.538 %) Insurance 5 1 (1.538 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 27 (41.54 %) Team Leader 2 19 (29.23 %) J2EE Team Leader 3 15 (23.08 %) Architect 4 11 (16.92 %) Business Analyst 4 11 (16.92 %) Analyst 5 8 (12.31 %) Solutions Architect 6 7 (10.77 %) J2EE Architect 7 4 (6.154 %) Project Manager 8 3 (4.615 %) Senior Manager 8 3 (4.615 %) Applications Support 8 3 (4.615 %) Design Engineer 8 3 (4.615 %) Change Manager 8 3 (4.615 %) Business Change Manager 8 3 (4.615 %) Test Team Leader 8 3 (4.615 %) Senior Project Manager 8 3 (4.615 %) Business Change Project Manager 8 3 (4.615 %) Radio Engineer 8 3 (4.615 %) Senior Business Manager 8 3 (4.615 %) Telecoms Engineer 8 3 (4.615 %) Business Project Manager	Operating Systems 1 7 (10.77 %) UNIX 2 4 (6.154 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (50.77 %) UML 2 21 (32.31 %) SOA 3 20 (30.77 %) CRM 4 12 (18.46 %) EAI 4 12 (18.46 %) Project Management 5 10 (15.38 %) Stakeholder Management 5 10 (15.38 %) Use Case 6 8 (12.31 %) Zachman Framework 6 8 (12.31 %) TOGAF 7 7 (10.77 %) RAD 7 7 (10.77 %) Unit Testing 8 5 (7.692 %) Enterprise Architecture 9 3 (4.615 %) ITIL 9 3 (4.615 %) Process Management 9 3 (4.615 %) PRINCE 9 3 (4.615 %) Integration Testing 10 2 (3.077 %) Programme Management 11 1 (1.538 %) Business Analysis 11 1 (1.538 %) Fault Management 11 1 (1.538 %) Performance Management	Programming Languages 1 22 (33.85 %) Java 2 11 (16.92 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 14 (21.54 %) Sun Certification 2 3 (4.615 %) ITIL Certification 2 3 (4.615 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.538 %) MBA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (4.615 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (1.538 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 14 (21.54 %) Sun 2 10 (15.38 %) Oracle 3 7 (10.77 %) IBM 4 3 (4.615 %) Ab Initio 5 1 (1.538 %) Citrix 5 1 (1.538 %) Cramer