The first table below looks at the demand for WLAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WLAN over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless LAN (WLAN)
Rank 185 212 194
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -18
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 34 1 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.632% 0.016% 0.222%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.159% 0.058% 1.109%
Number of salaries quoted 29 1 12
Average salary £37,500 £43,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.79% +58.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £43,500 £22,200
10% offered a salary of more than £65,500 £43,500 £34,950
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £31,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +29.03%
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1575 1719 1082
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 29.27% 28.22% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1196 1338 863
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £31,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WLAN
South East

WLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire WLAN Jobs Demand Trend

WLAN
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire WLAN Salary Trend

WLAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WLAN across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Berkshire WLAN Salary Histogram

WLAN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Reading - 32 £37,500 -
WLAN
South East

WLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing WLAN 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 WLAN.

1 57 (93.44%) Cisco
2 56 (91.80%) Cisco Certification
3 53 (86.89%) LAN
4 43 (70.49%) CCNP
5 42 (68.85%) WAN
6 37 (60.66%) ITIL
7 36 (59.02%) Linux
8 35 (57.38%) CCNA
9 28 (45.90%) Incident Management
9 28 (45.90%) Problem Management
10 27 (44.26%) UNIX
11 22 (36.07%) ISO 9000
11 22 (36.07%) Service Management
11 22 (36.07%) CMMI
12 21 (34.43%) Management Information System
13 20 (32.79%) HP
14 19 (31.15%) VPN
14 19 (31.15%) Firewall
15 18 (29.51%) Wireless
15 18 (29.51%) Juniper
15 18 (29.51%) Cisco ASA
16 16 (26.23%) VMware
17 14 (22.95%) Citrix
18 13 (21.31%) DNS
18 13 (21.31%) Network Security
19 12 (19.67%) SSL
19 12 (19.67%) Microsoft
20 11 (18.03%) DHCP
20 11 (18.03%) Windows
20 11 (18.03%) Cisco Nexus

WLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing WLAN 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 WLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (3.279%) XMPP
2 1 (1.639%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.279%) Lync
2 1 (1.639%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.279%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.639%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.639%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 53 (86.89%) LAN
2 42 (68.85%) WAN
3 19 (31.15%) VPN
3 19 (31.15%) Firewall
4 18 (29.51%) Wireless
4 18 (29.51%) Cisco ASA
5 13 (21.31%) DNS
5 13 (21.31%) Network Security
6 12 (19.67%) SSL
7 11 (18.03%) DHCP
7 11 (18.03%) Cisco Nexus
8 10 (16.39%) MPLS
9 9 (14.75%) VoIP
9 9 (14.75%) TCP/IP
9 9 (14.75%) VPLS
10 6 (9.836%) Cisco PIX
11 5 (8.197%) Unified Communications
12 3 (4.918%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (4.918%) IPsec
12 3 (4.918%) Internet
General
1 2 (3.279%) Multimedia
2 1 (1.639%) French Language
2 1 (1.639%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (32.79%) Network Engineer
2 18 (29.51%) Cisco Engineer
3 16 (26.23%) Network Support
4 12 (19.67%) Network Analyst
4 12 (19.67%) Analyst
5 11 (18.03%) Consultant
5 11 (18.03%) Support Analyst
5 11 (18.03%) Network Support Analyst
5 11 (18.03%) Support Engineer
5 11 (18.03%) Cisco Support
6 8 (13.11%) Network Support Engineer
7 6 (9.836%) Cisco Analyst
7 6 (9.836%) Cisco Support Engineer
8 5 (8.197%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 5 (8.197%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (8.197%) 3rd Line Support
9 4 (6.557%) Architect
9 4 (6.557%) Network Architect
9 4 (6.557%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (6.557%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (34.43%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.279%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (3.279%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.639%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 36 (59.02%) Linux
2 27 (44.26%) UNIX
3 11 (18.03%) Windows
4 10 (16.39%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (16.39%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.639%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (60.66%) ITIL
2 28 (45.90%) Incident Management
2 28 (45.90%) Problem Management
3 22 (36.07%) Service Management
3 22 (36.07%) CMMI
4 9 (14.75%) Load Balancing
4 9 (14.75%) Content Management
4 9 (14.75%) Mobile Device Management
5 6 (9.836%) Risk Management
5 6 (9.836%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (6.557%) Network Design
7 3 (4.918%) Network Management
7 3 (4.918%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (3.279%) Service Delivery
8 2 (3.279%) Project Planning
8 2 (3.279%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (3.279%) Change Control
8 2 (3.279%) Capacity Planning
9 1 (1.639%) Customer Engagement
9 1 (1.639%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.557%) C
2 2 (3.279%) Scala
3 1 (1.639%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 56 (91.80%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (70.49%) CCNP
3 35 (57.38%) CCNA
4 9 (14.75%) CCIE
5 4 (6.557%) CCDP
6 3 (4.918%) Citrix Certification
6 3 (4.918%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.279%) CCVP
7 2 (3.279%) CCSE
7 2 (3.279%) MCTS
7 2 (3.279%) MCITP
8 1 (1.639%) HP ASE
8 1 (1.639%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.639%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.639%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.639%) CCSA
8 1 (1.639%) Check Point Certification
8 1 (1.639%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (36.07%) ISO 9000
2 3 (4.918%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.639%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (16.39%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (16.39%) Active Directory
2 9 (14.75%) XenApp
2 9 (14.75%) XenDesktop
3 1 (1.639%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 4 (6.557%) Cisco UCCX
1 4 (6.557%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (3.279%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (1.639%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 57 (93.44%) Cisco
2 20 (32.79%) HP
3 18 (29.51%) Juniper
4 16 (26.23%) VMware
5 14 (22.95%) Citrix
6 12 (19.67%) Microsoft
7 9 (14.75%) F5
8 8 (13.11%) CheckPoint
9 6 (9.836%) Brocade
9 6 (9.836%) Aruba
10 5 (8.197%) Blue Coat
11 4 (6.557%) Fortinet
12 3 (4.918%) Trapeze
12 3 (4.918%) Symantec
13 2 (3.279%) IronPort
13 2 (3.279%) Polycom
14 1 (1.639%) Foundry
14 1 (1.639%) AirMagnet
14 1 (1.639%) ProCurve
14 1 (1.639%) Twitter