The first table below looks at the demand for Wireless skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Wireless over the 3 months to 18 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless
Rank 76 96 99
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +3
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 14 11 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 1.304% 0.863% 0.234%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.426% 5.641% 1.563%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 3
Average salary £32,500 £28,808 £20,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.81% +44.04%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- -5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
258 195 192
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 24.02% 15.29% 14.99%
Number of salaries quoted 210 165 173
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -15.78%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Wireless
East of England

Wireless
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Wireless Salary Trend

Wireless
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Essex region over the 3 months to 18 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Brentwood - 8 - -
Basildon -5 1 £37,500 -3.22% 1
Southend-on-Sea - 1 £29,000 -
Wireless
East of England

Wireless
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 9 (47.37%) Cisco
2 8 (42.11%) Broadband
3 7 (36.84%) LAN
3 7 (36.84%) C
3 7 (36.84%) Bluetooth
3 7 (36.84%) EMC
3 7 (36.84%) DVB
3 7 (36.84%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (36.84%) Manufacturing
4 5 (26.32%) Firewall
4 5 (26.32%) WAN
5 4 (21.05%) VPN
5 4 (21.05%) ITIL
5 4 (21.05%) Windows
5 4 (21.05%) MS Excel
5 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
5 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
5 4 (21.05%) CheckPoint
5 4 (21.05%) Windows 8
5 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (21.05%) Hyper-V
5 4 (21.05%) Windows 7
5 4 (21.05%) Fortinet
6 3 (15.79%) Aruba
6 3 (15.79%) NetScreen
6 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (15.79%) HP
6 3 (15.79%) WLAN
7 2 (10.53%) DNS

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 2 (10.53%) MS Exchange
1 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) Broadband
2 7 (36.84%) LAN
2 7 (36.84%) Bluetooth
2 7 (36.84%) DVB
2 7 (36.84%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (26.32%) WAN
3 5 (26.32%) Firewall
4 4 (21.05%) VPN
5 3 (15.79%) NetScreen
5 3 (15.79%) WLAN
6 2 (10.53%) VoIP
6 2 (10.53%) DHCP
6 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
6 2 (10.53%) DNS
6 2 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (10.53%) Network Security
6 2 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (5.263%) NAS
7 1 (5.263%) Unified Communications
7 1 (5.263%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) JUnit
1 1 (5.263%) Bugzilla
1 1 (5.263%) JIRA
1 1 (5.263%) Selenium
1 1 (5.263%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (5.263%) Redmine
1 1 (5.263%) Trac
General
1 7 (36.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Hardware Engineer
1 7 (36.84%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) NOC Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Technician
3 2 (10.53%) Network Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Security Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Network Technician
4 1 (5.263%) Software Tester
4 1 (5.263%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Tester
4 1 (5.263%) Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) IT Support
4 1 (5.263%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Network Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Firmware
1 1 (5.263%) STB
1 1 (5.263%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
1 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (21.05%) Windows 7
1 4 (21.05%) Windows 8
2 2 (10.53%) Windows XP
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) ITIL
2 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (10.53%) Network Design
3 2 (10.53%) Network Management
3 2 (10.53%) Project Management
3 2 (10.53%) Service Management
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (5.263%) Load Balancing
4 1 (5.263%) Use Case
4 1 (5.263%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (5.263%) Change Management
4 1 (5.263%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.263%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (10.53%) CCNP
2 2 (10.53%) CCNA
2 2 (10.53%) MCDST
2 2 (10.53%) MCITP
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) MCSE
3 1 (5.263%) CCIE
3 1 (5.263%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.263%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.263%) CCDA
3 1 (5.263%) CCDP
3 1 (5.263%) Check Point Certification
3 1 (5.263%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
1 4 (21.05%) Hyper-V
2 2 (10.53%) XenDesktop
2 2 (10.53%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) ARCserve
1 2 (10.53%) SCCM
1 2 (10.53%) SCVMM
2 1 (5.263%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Cisco
2 7 (36.84%) EMC
3 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 4 (21.05%) CheckPoint
3 4 (21.05%) Fortinet
4 3 (15.79%) Aruba
4 3 (15.79%) HP
5 2 (10.53%) Citrix
5 2 (10.53%) Sophos
5 2 (10.53%) VMware
5 2 (10.53%) NetApp
6 1 (5.263%) ProCurve
6 1 (5.263%) Sourcefire
6 1 (5.263%) Juniper
Basildon, Essex
Core skills in routing and switching up to high level 65xx, 76xx 72xx and firewall knowledge to include Cisco, Checkpoint or Juniper with beneficial knowledge of Wireless and...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013