The first table below looks at the demand for Broadband skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Broadband over the 3 months to 17 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 for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Broadband
Rank 199 180 164
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -16
Permanent jobs citing Broadband 8 9 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.161% 0.200% 0.145%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.926% 1.280% 0.801%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 5
Average salary £35,000 £38,000 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.89% +35.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,600 £19,750 £25,300
10% offered a salary of more than £47,000 £70,000 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,250 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+0.71% -6.66%
All Communications & Networking
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
864 703 749
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 17.40% 15.61% 18.04%
Number of salaries quoted 716 569 590
Average salary £37,500 £34,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.29% -9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Broadband
England

Broadband
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Broadband across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

West Midlands Broadband Jobs Demand Trend

Broadband
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Broadband across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Broadband Salary Trend

Broadband
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Broadband across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Midlands Broadband Salary Histogram

Broadband
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Birmingham -27 4 £55,000 +18.91%
Worcestershire +8 3 £35,000 -23.91%
Coventry - 1 £26,000 -
Broadband
England

Broadband
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Broadband 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 Broadband.

1 16 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (30.00%) MVC
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (30.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (30.00%) MCP
2 6 (30.00%) MCAD
2 6 (30.00%) MCSD
2 6 (30.00%) C#
2 6 (30.00%) .NET
2 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (30.00%) TDD
2 6 (30.00%) MCTS
2 6 (30.00%) Music
2 6 (30.00%) WCF
2 6 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 6 (30.00%) Dependency Injection
2 6 (30.00%) Ninject
3 5 (25.00%) Business Development
3 5 (25.00%) B2B
4 4 (20.00%) Windows
5 3 (15.00%) WinForms
5 3 (15.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (15.00%) WPF
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.00%) Kanban
5 3 (15.00%) Spring.NET
5 3 (15.00%) Inversion of Control
5 3 (15.00%) MVVM
5 3 (15.00%) Rhino Mocks
5 3 (15.00%) Moq

Broadband
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Broadband 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 Broadband. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (30.00%) .NET
1 6 (30.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (30.00%) WCF
1 6 (30.00%) Ninject
1 6 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (15.00%) Node.js
2 3 (15.00%) Castle Windsor
2 3 (15.00%) Razor View Engine
2 3 (15.00%) KnockoutJS
2 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 3 (15.00%) Unity DI Container
2 3 (15.00%) WPF
2 3 (15.00%) Spring.NET
2 3 (15.00%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.000%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.000%) LAN
1 1 (5.000%) WLAN
1 1 (5.000%) VPN
1 1 (5.000%) 3G
1 1 (5.000%) DSL
1 1 (5.000%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (5.000%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) NUnit
1 3 (15.00%) MSTest
1 3 (15.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 3 (15.00%) Moq
General
1 16 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (30.00%) Music
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.000%) Banking
4 1 (5.000%) Marketing
4 1 (5.000%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (5.000%) Cantonese Language
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
1 6 (30.00%) .NET Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Business Development Manager
2 5 (25.00%) Development Manager
2 5 (25.00%) Business Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Sales Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Installation Technician
5 1 (5.000%) Deskside Support
5 1 (5.000%) Report Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Installations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (10.00%) DTV
3 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.000%) SaaS
3 1 (5.000%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.000%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) MVC
1 6 (30.00%) TDD
1 6 (30.00%) Dependency Injection
2 5 (25.00%) B2B
2 5 (25.00%) Business Development
3 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (15.00%) Kanban
3 3 (15.00%) Scrum
3 3 (15.00%) MVVM
3 3 (15.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 3 (15.00%) Web Application Development
4 1 (5.000%) Capacity Management
4 1 (5.000%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (5.000%) Project Planning
4 1 (5.000%) ERP
4 1 (5.000%) OpenUP
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) MCP
1 6 (30.00%) MCAD
1 6 (30.00%) MCSD
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (30.00%) MCTS
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.000%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (5.000%) Cisco
1 1 (5.000%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.000%) Lotus
Redditch, West Midlands
My client can provide training in: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4,SQL Server 2012, WCF, KnockoutJS, T4 Template, Dependency Injection, Ninject, Node.js, Agile, TDD and...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Redditch, Worcestershire
My client can provide training in: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4,SQL Server 2012, WCF, KnockoutJS, T4 Template, Dependency Injection, Ninject, Node.js, Agile, TDD and...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013