Wiltshire SS7 Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Signaling System 7 (SS7) skills within the Wiltshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SS7 over the 3 months to 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Signaling System 7 (SS7)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chippenham City of London Clapham Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset East of England Edinburgh England Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Ipswich London Luton Maidenhead Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Reading Scotland South East South West Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon UK West Midlands Wiltshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	105	120
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching permanent IT job ads	10	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	3.145 %	0.769 %
Salaries quoted	8	3
Average minimum salary	£35,111	£43,333
Average salary	£42,833	£48,333
% change on same period last year	-11.37 %
Average maximum salary	£50,556	£53,333
UK excluding London average salary	£40,825	£43,848
% change on same period last year	-6.89 %
Communications & Networking Wiltshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	318	390
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.183 %	0.170 %
Salaries quoted	278	335
Average minimum salary	£32,137	£40,722
Average salary	£35,174	£43,486
% change on same period last year	-19.11 %
Average maximum salary	£38,210	£46,250
UK excluding London average salary	£37,908	£38,946
% change on same period last year	-2.66 %
SS7 South West

SS7
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SS7 across the Wiltshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SS7
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SS7 across the Wiltshire region.

SS7
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SS7 across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 8 October 2008.

SS7
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SS7 within the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 8 October 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
Swindon	+5	5	£37,500	-22.41 %
Chippenham	-	3	£40,833	-

SS7 South West

SS7
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT jobs across the Wiltshire region citing SS7 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 SS7.

1 9 (81.82 %) Telecoms 2 8 (72.73 %) UNIX 3 6 (54.55 %) ISUP 3 6 (54.55 %) SIGTRAN 4 5 (45.45 %) Linux 5 4 (36.36 %) C 5 4 (36.36 %) VoIP 5 4 (36.36 %) Tcl 6 3 (27.27 %) 3G 6 3 (27.27 %) C++ 6 3 (27.27 %) Perl 6 3 (27.27 %) GPRS 6 3 (27.27 %) GSM 6 3 (27.27 %) ISDN 6 3 (27.27 %) UMTS

6 3 (27.27 %) Software Testing 6 3 (27.27 %) QA 6 3 (27.27 %) Wi-Fi 6 3 (27.27 %) Wireless 6 3 (27.27 %) WiMAX 7 2 (18.18 %) Wireshark 7 2 (18.18 %) TCAP 7 2 (18.18 %) SCCP 8 1 (9.091 %) INAP 8 1 (9.091 %) HP 8 1 (9.091 %) HPUX 8 1 (9.091 %) Solaris

SS7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT jobs across the Wiltshire region citing SS7 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 SS7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 6 (54.55 %) ISUP 1 6 (54.55 %) SIGTRAN 2 4 (36.36 %) VoIP 3 3 (27.27 %) 3G 3 3 (27.27 %) GPRS 3 3 (27.27 %) GSM 3 3 (27.27 %) ISDN 3 3 (27.27 %) UMTS 3 3 (27.27 %) Wi-Fi 3 3 (27.27 %) Wireless 3 3 (27.27 %) WiMAX 4 2 (18.18 %) Wireshark 4 2 (18.18 %) TCAP 4 2 (18.18 %) SCCP 5 1 (9.091 %) INAP	General 1 9 (81.82 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 3 (27.27 %) QA Manager 1 3 (27.27 %) Test Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) Software Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) Test Manager 2 2 (18.18 %) Support Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) QA Test Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Software Test Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) UNIX Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) UNIX Support Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) UNIX Support 3 1 (9.091 %) C Software Engineer	Operating Systems 1 8 (72.73 %) UNIX 2 5 (45.45 %) Linux 3 1 (9.091 %) HPUX 3 1 (9.091 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) Software Testing	Programming Languages 1 4 (36.36 %) C 1 4 (36.36 %) Tcl 2 3 (27.27 %) C++ 2 3 (27.27 %) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (27.27 %) QA	Vendors 1 1 (9.091 %) HP