Halton Borough Council - Business Sectors
Click on the sectors below for further information about each one:
- Telecommunications
Telecommunications
Key Reasons:
Halton is home to a cluster of telecommunications companies, and makes a competitive location for businesses in telecoms, ICT and call centres due to its availability of skilled and qualified workers from the local colleges, as well as its competitive costs of property and labour.
Daresbury SIC is a leader in UK supercomputing and high performance and distributed computing & data services. The Computational Science & Engineering Department (CSED) specialises in theoretical and computational science communities across the academic and industrial spheres. The department is globally renowned for the modelling and design of microfluidic devices.
More than 60 computational scientists are working in the department, developing high-performance applications in key areas of molecular simulation, quantum chemistry, solid-state physics, engineering, environmental simulations and materials simulation.
Through the DAComS service, these scientists, can conduct advanced simulation in science and engineering, with the unique advantage of access HPCx – the second largest academic high end computing (HEC) facility in the world, (the largest in Europe).
Sub-Sectors:
Sales, Engineering, Call Centres,Skills:
Skill Area: IT salesSkill Salary: Up to £35,000
Skill Area: Systems engineer
Skill Salary: Up to £45,000
Skill Area: Telecoms engineer
Skill Salary: Up to £30,000
Sector Companies:
O2, Ikon UK/Europe, Yokogawa UK Ltd, Vistorm, Atos Origin UKMain Business Functions
- Business services/ offices
- Research & development
- Distribution/ logistics/ warehousing
- Advanced manufacturing
- Light industrial
