The first table below looks at the demand for WLAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WLAN over the 3 months to 24 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless LAN (WLAN)
Rank 112 99 90
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -9
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 6 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.353% 0.067% 0.074%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.893% 0.342% 0.408%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 1
Average salary £56,250 £67,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% +107.69%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £31,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +29.03%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
317 292 245
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 18.65% 19.70% 18.23%
Number of salaries quoted 255 255 222
Average salary £41,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £59,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WLAN
West Midlands

WLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham WLAN Salary Trend

WLAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WLAN across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Birmingham WLAN Salary Histogram

WLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 11 (100.00%) Cisco
1 11 (100.00%) Wireless
2 9 (81.82%) LAN
2 9 (81.82%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (63.64%) CCNP
4 6 (54.55%) VPN
4 6 (54.55%) Network Security
5 5 (45.45%) CCIE
5 5 (45.45%) WAN
5 5 (45.45%) Firewall
6 4 (36.36%) CCSA
6 4 (36.36%) Nokia
6 4 (36.36%) CheckPoint
6 4 (36.36%) MPLS
6 4 (36.36%) OSPF
6 4 (36.36%) VRRP
6 4 (36.36%) DHCP
6 4 (36.36%) Windows
6 4 (36.36%) ADSL
6 4 (36.36%) DNS
6 4 (36.36%) CCNA
6 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
6 4 (36.36%) Check Point Certification
6 4 (36.36%) Time Management
6 4 (36.36%) Aruba
6 4 (36.36%) Trapeze
6 4 (36.36%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (36.36%) HSRP
6 4 (36.36%) Huawei
6 4 (36.36%) CCSE

WLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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.

Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) Wireless
2 9 (81.82%) LAN
3 6 (54.55%) VPN
3 6 (54.55%) Network Security
4 5 (45.45%) WAN
4 5 (45.45%) Firewall
5 4 (36.36%) MPLS
5 4 (36.36%) OSPF
5 4 (36.36%) VRRP
5 4 (36.36%) DHCP
5 4 (36.36%) ADSL
5 4 (36.36%) DNS
5 4 (36.36%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (36.36%) HSRP
6 3 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (18.18%) Cisco PIX
7 2 (18.18%) BGP
8 1 (9.091%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (9.091%) DSL
8 1 (9.091%) Broadband
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Consultant
1 4 (36.36%) Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Pre Sales Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Principle Consultant
4 1 (9.091%) Sales Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Sales Consultant
4 1 (9.091%) Data Consultant
4 1 (9.091%) Storage Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
1 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Time Management
2 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (9.091%) OpenUP
3 1 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (9.091%) Project Planning
3 1 (9.091%) Load Balancing
3 1 (9.091%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (63.64%) CCNP
3 5 (45.45%) CCIE
4 4 (36.36%) CCSA
4 4 (36.36%) CCNA
4 4 (36.36%) Check Point Certification
4 4 (36.36%) CCSE
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (9.091%) Cisco UCCE
2 1 (9.091%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) Nokia
2 4 (36.36%) CheckPoint
2 4 (36.36%) Aruba
2 4 (36.36%) Trapeze
2 4 (36.36%) Huawei
3 3 (27.27%) VMware
4 2 (18.18%) AirMagnet
4 2 (18.18%) Juniper
4 2 (18.18%) CommVault
4 2 (18.18%) Hitachi
4 2 (18.18%) HP
5 1 (9.091%) IronPort
5 1 (9.091%) Twitter
5 1 (9.091%) F5
Birmingham, West Midlands
You will primarily be responsible for the following:- -Cisco/Alcatel-Lucent routing, switching, WAN-ADSL, Nexus, NetApps, Microsoft, AV and TelePresence -Technical competence in Alcatel-Lucent and / or...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 per annum + Project Bonus + Car Allowance
Posted: 16 May 2013