Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 17 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the West Midlands region.

 Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location
3 months to
17 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank795665
Rank change year-on-year
Down-23Up+9
Matching permanent IT job ads76150234
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands2.132 %3.214 %2.701 %
As % of the General category5.181 %8.571 %6.866 %
Salaries quoted60115159
Average salary£37,500£35,000£36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-2.770 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£21,550£27,500£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£54,500£55,250£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£39,000£37,500£40,000
% change year-on-year
+4.000 %-6.250 %
West Midlands IT Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
146717503408
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands41.15 %37.50 %39.34 %
Salaries quoted127314112941
Average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£24,500£23,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£57,500£60,000£53,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.260 %+1.330 %
Telecoms EnglandTelecoms
England

Telecoms
Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Telecoms Demand Trend

Telecoms
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands Telecoms Salary Trend

Telecoms
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Telecoms across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 March 2010.

West Midlands Telecoms Salary Histogram

Telecoms
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
WarwickshireDown-227£40,000+14.28 %
BirminghamNo change023£36,000+2.85 %
StaffordshireUp+88£41,250+45.35 %
WolverhamptonUp+203£21,000-34.37 %
WorcestershireUp+153£37,500-3.84 %
HerefordshireUp+13£40,000+8.10 %
CoventryDown-112£41,250+17.85 %
SolihullDown-202£30,500+6.08 %
West BromwichUp+11--
ShropshireNew entry-1--
Telecoms EnglandTelecoms
England

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

133 (17.10 %)SQL
231 (16.06 %)Oracle
329 (15.03 %)UNIX
423 (11.92 %)ITIL
521 (10.88 %)Windows
521 (10.88 %)WAN
521 (10.88 %)VPN
620 (10.36 %)Microsoft
620 (10.36 %)Java
620 (10.36 %)Firewall
719 (9.845 %)SLA
818 (9.326 %)LAN
818 (9.326 %)Finance
916 (8.290 %)Cisco
916 (8.290 %)C
916 (8.290 %)PL/SQL
1015 (7.772 %)Disaster Recovery
1114 (7.254 %)Perl
1213 (6.736 %)SQL Server
1213 (6.736 %)VoIP
1213 (6.736 %)Shell Script
1213 (6.736 %)Project Management
1213 (6.736 %)Billing
1213 (6.736 %)Business Continuity
1213 (6.736 %)Supplier Management
1213 (6.736 %)Degree
1312 (6.218 %)Security Cleared
1312 (6.218 %)MS Excel
1411 (5.699 %)ISO27001
1510 (5.181 %)HP

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

West Midlands IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
19 (4.663 %).NET
25 (2.591 %)Middleware
34 (2.073 %)WCF
34 (2.073 %)SOAP
43 (1.554 %)XML
43 (1.554 %)Oracle Fusion
52 (1.036 %)AJAX
52 (1.036 %)LAMP
52 (1.036 %)CSS
52 (1.036 %)HTML
61 (0.518 %)ASP.NET
61 (0.518 %)Web Services
61 (0.518 %)Spring
61 (0.518 %)Java EE
61 (0.518 %)Silverlight
West Midlands IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
16 (3.109 %)MS Exchange
25 (2.591 %)Apache
34 (2.073 %)SharePoint
43 (1.554 %)ESB
43 (1.554 %)Exchange Server 2007
52 (1.036 %)Oracle Workflow
52 (1.036 %)IIS
61 (0.518 %)Lotus Notes
61 (0.518 %)Exchange Server 2003
61 (0.518 %)SharePoint Server 2007
West Midlands IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
112 (6.218 %)MS Excel
210 (5.181 %)MS Office
33 (1.554 %)MS Project
33 (1.554 %)MS Visio
33 (1.554 %)Spreadsheet
West Midlands IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
14 (2.073 %)Dynamics CRM
14 (2.073 %)Microsoft CRM
22 (1.036 %)assyst
22 (1.036 %)Oracle EBS
31 (0.518 %)Oracle Financials
West Midlands IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
121 (10.88 %)WAN
121 (10.88 %)VPN
220 (10.36 %)Firewall
318 (9.326 %)LAN
413 (6.736 %)VoIP
58 (4.145 %)Wireless
58 (4.145 %)SAN
67 (3.627 %)TCP/IP
67 (3.627 %)GSM
75 (2.591 %)DNS
75 (2.591 %)IP Telephony
84 (2.073 %)GPRS
84 (2.073 %)UMTS
84 (2.073 %)Internet
84 (2.073 %)MPLS
93 (1.554 %)DHCP
93 (1.554 %)Ethernet
93 (1.554 %)Broadband
93 (1.554 %)LTE
93 (1.554 %)Cisco PIX
West Midlands IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
113 (6.736 %)SQL Server
29 (4.663 %)MySQL
36 (3.109 %)PostgreSQL
36 (3.109 %)Oracle 9i
36 (3.109 %)Oracle 10g
45 (2.591 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
53 (1.554 %)GIS
62 (1.036 %)SQL Server 2005
62 (1.036 %)SQL Server 2008
71 (0.518 %)BusinessObjects
71 (0.518 %)Crystal Reports
71 (0.518 %)ETL
71 (0.518 %)Oracle 8/8i
71 (0.518 %)Datawarehouse
71 (0.518 %)Oracle 11g
71 (0.518 %)BusinessObjects XI
West Midlands IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (1.554 %)JDeveloper
21 (0.518 %)VSS/SourceSafe
West Midlands IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
118 (9.326 %)Finance
213 (6.736 %)Billing
39 (4.663 %)Retail
39 (4.663 %)Pensions
48 (4.145 %)Health
56 (3.109 %)Manufacturing
56 (3.109 %)Electronics
56 (3.109 %)Government
64 (2.073 %)Education
73 (1.554 %)Electric
73 (1.554 %)Insurance
82 (1.036 %)Marketing
82 (1.036 %)General Ledger
82 (1.036 %)Pharmaceutical
91 (0.518 %)Construction
91 (0.518 %)Back Office
91 (0.518 %)Auditing
West Midlands IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
120 (10.36 %)Developer
217 (8.808 %)Analyst
314 (7.254 %)Communications Manager
413 (6.736 %)Administrator
511 (5.699 %)Consultant
511 (5.699 %)Delivery Manager
610 (5.181 %)Service Manager
610 (5.181 %)Architect
79 (4.663 %)Technical Consultant
79 (4.663 %)Sales Manager
87 (3.627 %)Project Manager
87 (3.627 %)Account Manager
87 (3.627 %)Data Analyst
87 (3.627 %)OSS Consultant
96 (3.109 %)Technical Design Authority
96 (3.109 %)Services Delivery Manager
96 (3.109 %)Network Manager
96 (3.109 %)UNIX Administrator
96 (3.109 %)Technical Architect
105 (2.591 %)Systems Engineer
West Midlands IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
14 (2.073 %)FMCG
23 (1.554 %)Mainframe
23 (1.554 %)Russian Language
32 (1.036 %)German Language
32 (1.036 %)CCTV
32 (1.036 %)Management Information System
32 (1.036 %)Handset
41 (0.518 %)Thin Client
41 (0.518 %)Smart Meter
41 (0.518 %)Video on Demand
41 (0.518 %)Mathematics
41 (0.518 %)Computer Science
41 (0.518 %)Fat Client
41 (0.518 %)Video Conferencing
West Midlands IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
129 (15.03 %)UNIX
221 (10.88 %)Windows
310 (5.181 %)Linux
47 (3.627 %)Windows XP
56 (3.109 %)Windows Server 2008
56 (3.109 %)HPUX
56 (3.109 %)Windows Server 2003
62 (1.036 %)Ubuntu
62 (1.036 %)CentOS
62 (1.036 %)Windows 7
62 (1.036 %)Windows NT
62 (1.036 %)Windows 2000
62 (1.036 %)Solaris
71 (0.518 %)Windows Vista
West Midlands IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
123 (11.92 %)ITIL
215 (7.772 %)Disaster Recovery
313 (6.736 %)Project Management
313 (6.736 %)Business Continuity
313 (6.736 %)Supplier Management
410 (5.181 %)PRINCE2
59 (4.663 %)CRM
59 (4.663 %)Service Delivery
67 (3.627 %)Stakeholder Management
67 (3.627 %)Service Management
76 (3.109 %)Validation
85 (2.591 %)Performance Management
94 (2.073 %)Incident Management
94 (2.073 %)Business Development
94 (2.073 %)Data Entry
94 (2.073 %)SOA
103 (1.554 %)Configuration Management
103 (1.554 %)E-Commerce
103 (1.554 %)Network Design
103 (1.554 %)BPEL
West Midlands IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
133 (17.10 %)SQL
220 (10.36 %)Java
316 (8.290 %)C
316 (8.290 %)PL/SQL
414 (7.254 %)Perl
513 (6.736 %)Shell Script
610 (5.181 %)C++
76 (3.109 %)JavaScript
85 (2.591 %)C#
85 (2.591 %)T-SQL
92 (1.036 %)PHP
92 (1.036 %)Embedded C
101 (0.518 %)TTCN
West Midlands IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
113 (6.736 %)Degree
212 (6.218 %)Security Cleared
37 (3.627 %)ITIL Certification
37 (3.627 %)Cisco Certification
37 (3.627 %)SC Cleared
46 (3.109 %)HND
54 (2.073 %)HNC
63 (1.554 %)Microsoft Certification
63 (1.554 %)PRINCE2 Certification
63 (1.554 %)MCP
72 (1.036 %)CCNA
81 (0.518 %)CCNP
81 (0.518 %)MCSE
81 (0.518 %)BC Cleared
West Midlands IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
119 (9.845 %)SLA
211 (5.699 %)ISO27001
34 (2.073 %)COBIT
42 (1.036 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
42 (1.036 %)ISO17799
West Midlands IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
16 (3.109 %)Oracle RMAN
16 (3.109 %)Active Directory
22 (1.036 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
22 (1.036 %)Postfix
31 (0.518 %)Citrix Presentation Server
31 (0.518 %)VMware Infrastructure
West Midlands IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
16 (3.109 %)HP Data Protector
22 (1.036 %)Backup Exec
31 (0.518 %)Cisco IPCC
West Midlands IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
131 (16.06 %)Oracle
220 (10.36 %)Microsoft
316 (8.290 %)Cisco
410 (5.181 %)HP
58 (4.145 %)Motorola
64 (2.073 %)Symantec
64 (2.073 %)Remedy
73 (1.554 %)Openet Telecom
73 (1.554 %)BT
73 (1.554 %)Comptel
82 (1.036 %)VMware
82 (1.036 %)Cramer
82 (1.036 %)CheckPoint
82 (1.036 %)Nortel
82 (1.036 %)Ericsson
82 (1.036 %)JD Edwards
91 (0.518 %)Siemens
91 (0.518 %)Lotus
91 (0.518 %)Juniper
91 (0.518 %)Citrix