The first table below looks at the demand for the Communications Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Communications Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Comms Engineer
Rank 201 - 178
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Communications Engineer 2 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.038% - 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% - 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
Average salary £37,500 - £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £35,000 £28,500
% change year-on-year
+28.57% +22.80%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5056 4527 4141
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 95.50% 95.47% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4199 3970 3517
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Communications Engineer
England

Communications Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Communications Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Communications Engineer
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands Communications Engineer Salary Trend

Communications Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Communications Engineer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

West Midlands Communications Engineer Salary Histogram

Communications Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Communications Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Birmingham - 1 £45,000 -
Warwickshire - 1 £30,000 - 1
Communications Engineer
England

Communications Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Communications Engineer in their job title 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 with Communications Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) SMTP
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Avaya
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) MCITP
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) iPhone
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Asterisk PBX

Communications Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Communications Engineer in their job title 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 with Communications Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) SMTP
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) PBX
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) iPhone
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 8
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Avaya
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Ideally you will also possess experience with VOIP, hosting and / or network infrastructure, HP, Extreme, or Cisco routing, switching, cabling. Desirable to possess Avaya Aura Enterprise Server and...
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