The first table below looks at the demand for Wireless skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless
Rank 80 91 87
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -4
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 12 2 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.135% 0.149% 0.908%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.836% 1.198% 8.434%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 14
Average salary £45,000 - £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-2.43% -3.52%
All Communications & Networking
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
122 167 166
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 11.54% 12.46% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 68 105 108
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -28.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £77,500 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Wireless
Scotland

Wireless
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Wireless Salary Trend

Wireless
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Wireless across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Edinburgh Wireless Salary Histogram

Wireless
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 12 (54.55%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 7 (31.82%) C
2 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
2 7 (31.82%) DNS
2 7 (31.82%) MATLAB
2 7 (31.82%) Firewall
2 7 (31.82%) IPsec
3 6 (27.27%) Electronics
4 5 (22.73%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (22.73%) Business Continuity
4 5 (22.73%) Project Management
4 5 (22.73%) Internet
4 5 (22.73%) OSPF
4 5 (22.73%) BCP
4 5 (22.73%) BGP-4
4 5 (22.73%) EIGRP
4 5 (22.73%) IPv4
4 5 (22.73%) IPv6
4 5 (22.73%) Firmware
4 5 (22.73%) LAN
4 5 (22.73%) WAN
4 5 (22.73%) DHCP
4 5 (22.73%) IKE
4 5 (22.73%) SNMP
4 5 (22.73%) Bluetooth
4 5 (22.73%) Degree
4 5 (22.73%) Network Design
4 5 (22.73%) Network Architecture
4 5 (22.73%) Network Management
4 5 (22.73%) Unified Communications

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 Platforms
1 1 (4.545%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) DNS
1 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
1 7 (31.82%) IPsec
1 7 (31.82%) Firewall
2 5 (22.73%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (22.73%) Unified Communications
2 5 (22.73%) IKE
2 5 (22.73%) SNMP
2 5 (22.73%) IPv4
2 5 (22.73%) IPv6
2 5 (22.73%) Internet
2 5 (22.73%) OSPF
2 5 (22.73%) BGP-4
2 5 (22.73%) EIGRP
2 5 (22.73%) Bluetooth
2 5 (22.73%) LAN
2 5 (22.73%) WAN
2 5 (22.73%) DHCP
3 4 (18.18%) Ethernet
4 2 (9.091%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Subversion
General
1 6 (27.27%) Electronics
2 4 (18.18%) Marketing
3 2 (9.091%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.091%) Finance
4 1 (4.545%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.545%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Consultant
2 5 (22.73%) Data Consultant
2 5 (22.73%) Firmware Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior FPGA Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Design Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) FPGA Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Design Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Digital Design Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Communications Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Security Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Senior Security Consultant
5 2 (9.091%) Hardware Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (9.091%) Security Consultant
6 1 (4.545%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Installations Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Security Specialist
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 5 (22.73%) Firmware
3 4 (18.18%) ASIC
3 4 (18.18%) VHDL
3 4 (18.18%) Verilog
4 2 (9.091%) Mainframe
5 1 (4.545%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.545%) PKI
5 1 (4.545%) CAN bus
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 2 (9.091%) AIX
2 2 (9.091%) UNIX
3 1 (4.545%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) BCP
1 5 (22.73%) Project Management
1 5 (22.73%) Business Continuity
1 5 (22.73%) Network Design
1 5 (22.73%) Network Architecture
1 5 (22.73%) Network Management
2 3 (13.64%) Embedded Software Development
2 3 (13.64%) Information Security
3 2 (9.091%) Signal Processing
3 2 (9.091%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (4.545%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (4.545%) Identity Management
4 1 (4.545%) Software Engineering
4 1 (4.545%) Web Development
4 1 (4.545%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) C
1 7 (31.82%) MATLAB
2 4 (18.18%) Embedded C
3 3 (13.64%) C++
4 1 (4.545%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) CISSP
3 2 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.091%) CISA
3 2 (9.091%) CISM
3 2 (9.091%) CCSA
3 2 (9.091%) JNCIA
3 2 (9.091%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (9.091%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.545%) RACF
Vendors
1 2 (9.091%) Cisco
1 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.091%) EMC
1 2 (9.091%) Juniper
1 2 (9.091%) CheckPoint
1 2 (9.091%) Blue Coat
1 2 (9.091%) F5