The first table below looks at the demand for Wireless skills in IT jobs advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Wireless over the 3 months to 17 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 Basingstoke region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless
Rank 63 37 48
Rank change year-on-year
-26 +11
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 18 32 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 2.514% 5.186% 2.052%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.844% 22.07% 8.594%
Number of salaries quoted 10 22 3
Average salary £33,750 £42,500 £67,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.58% -37.03%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-2.43% -3.52%
All Communications & Networking
Basingstoke
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
263 145 128
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 36.73% 23.50% 23.88%
Number of salaries quoted 179 111 76
Average salary £36,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Wireless
Hampshire

Wireless
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke Wireless Jobs Demand Trend

Wireless
Salary Trend

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

Basingstoke Wireless Salary Trend

Wireless
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Wireless 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 Wireless.

1 15 (35.71%) TCP/IP
2 14 (33.33%) Firewall
2 14 (33.33%) Electronics
3 13 (30.95%) Change Management
3 13 (30.95%) Cisco
3 13 (30.95%) LAN
4 12 (28.57%) ITIL
4 12 (28.57%) DNS
4 12 (28.57%) WAN
4 12 (28.57%) Finance
5 9 (21.43%) ATM
6 8 (19.05%) Chip and PIN
6 8 (19.05%) CheckPoint
6 8 (19.05%) UNIX
6 8 (19.05%) Windows
6 8 (19.05%) Linux
6 8 (19.05%) Legal
6 8 (19.05%) CESG
6 8 (19.05%) Penetration Testing
6 8 (19.05%) Security Testing
6 8 (19.05%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (19.05%) Wireless Security
6 8 (19.05%) Cisco Nexus
6 8 (19.05%) Cyber Security
7 7 (16.67%) FWSM
7 7 (16.67%) HSRP
7 7 (16.67%) F5
7 7 (16.67%) Network Management
7 7 (16.67%) Infoblox
7 7 (16.67%) Imperva

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Wireless 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 Wireless. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (11.90%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 5 (11.90%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (35.71%) TCP/IP
2 14 (33.33%) Firewall
3 13 (30.95%) LAN
4 12 (28.57%) WAN
4 12 (28.57%) DNS
5 9 (21.43%) ATM
6 8 (19.05%) Wireless Security
6 8 (19.05%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (19.05%) Cisco Nexus
7 7 (16.67%) HSRP
7 7 (16.67%) Gigabit Ethernet
7 7 (16.67%) FWSM
7 7 (16.67%) VPN
7 7 (16.67%) Ethernet
7 7 (16.67%) SSL
7 7 (16.67%) Extranet
7 7 (16.67%) MPLS
7 7 (16.67%) OSPF
7 7 (16.67%) BGP
7 7 (16.67%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.143%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (33.33%) Electronics
2 12 (28.57%) Finance
3 8 (19.05%) Legal
4 3 (7.143%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.762%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Team Leader
2 9 (21.43%) Network Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) Tester
3 8 (19.05%) Penetration Tester
4 7 (16.67%) Network Support
4 7 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Network Support Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Security Specialist
6 4 (9.524%) Technical Specialist
6 4 (9.524%) Senior Technical Specialist
7 3 (7.143%) IT Security Specialist
7 3 (7.143%) Wireless Engineer
7 3 (7.143%) EMC Engineer
7 3 (7.143%) Graduate
7 3 (7.143%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.762%) Consultant
8 2 (4.762%) Sales Executive
8 2 (4.762%) Infrastructure Team Leader
8 2 (4.762%) Senior Security Specialist
8 2 (4.762%) Marketing Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Chip and PIN
1 8 (19.05%) CESG
2 5 (11.90%) Fat Client
2 5 (11.90%) Thin Client
2 5 (11.90%) Replication
3 2 (4.762%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) UNIX
1 8 (19.05%) Windows
1 8 (19.05%) Linux
2 5 (11.90%) Windows XP
2 5 (11.90%) Windows Vista
2 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (11.90%) Windows 7
3 1 (2.381%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) Change Management
2 12 (28.57%) ITIL
3 8 (19.05%) Penetration Testing
3 8 (19.05%) Security Testing
3 8 (19.05%) Cyber Security
4 7 (16.67%) Network Management
4 7 (16.67%) Network Design
4 7 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 6 (14.29%) Project Management
6 5 (11.90%) PRINCE2
6 5 (11.90%) SIEM
7 2 (4.762%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (4.762%) Business Development
8 1 (2.381%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) R
2 3 (7.143%) Perl
3 2 (4.762%) C
3 2 (4.762%) C++
3 2 (4.762%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (2.381%) CCNP
3 1 (2.381%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.381%) Check Point Certification
3 1 (2.381%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) SLA
2 3 (7.143%) COBIT
2 3 (7.143%) PCI DSS
2 3 (7.143%) COSO
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) ProxySG
2 5 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (11.90%) Terminal Server
2 5 (11.90%) ISA Server
2 5 (11.90%) DFS Replication
3 1 (2.381%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) CiscoWorks
2 5 (11.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 5 (11.90%) WSUS
3 1 (2.381%) SCCM
3 1 (2.381%) SCOM
3 1 (2.381%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) Cisco
2 8 (19.05%) CheckPoint
3 7 (16.67%) McAfee
3 7 (16.67%) BT
3 7 (16.67%) Blue Coat
3 7 (16.67%) Juniper
3 7 (16.67%) Infoblox
3 7 (16.67%) Imperva
3 7 (16.67%) F5
4 6 (14.29%) EMC
5 5 (11.90%) Citrix
5 5 (11.90%) Tripwire
5 5 (11.90%) VMware
6 4 (9.524%) HP
7 3 (7.143%) 3Com
7 3 (7.143%) Oracle
8 1 (2.381%) Sourcefire
8 1 (2.381%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.381%) ProCurve