The first table below looks at the demand for PSTN 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 PSTN over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Public Switched Telecom Network (PSTN)
Rank 203 184 168
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -16
Permanent jobs citing PSTN 1 1 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.020% 0.022% 0.192%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.115% 0.138% 1.075%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 8
Average salary £25,500 £36,000 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.16% -17.71%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -30.00%
All Communications & Networking
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
871 724 744
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 17.32% 15.88% 17.83%
Number of salaries quoted 708 594 586
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% -4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,050 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
PSTN
England

PSTN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands PSTN Jobs Demand Trend

PSTN
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands PSTN Salary Trend

PSTN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PSTN within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Coventry - 1 £25,500 -
PSTN
England

PSTN
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing PSTN 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 PSTN.

1 1 (100.00%) ADSL
1 1 (100.00%) GPRS
1 1 (100.00%) GSM
1 1 (100.00%) ISDN
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
1 1 (100.00%) VSAT

PSTN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing PSTN 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 PSTN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) ADSL
1 1 (100.00%) GPRS
1 1 (100.00%) GSM
1 1 (100.00%) ISDN
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) VSAT
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
PSTN Gateway... HP Data protector / Arcserve... Microsoft Exchange 2003 / 2007 / 2010, Symantec Enterprise Vault. ActiveSync, Bes, MobileIron. Active Directory, GPO, DNS, DHCP, Windows 2003/ 2008 servers/ infrastructures... Win...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £28,000 to £40,000 per annum dep on exp, plus bonus & benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013