The first table below looks at the demand for WLAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WLAN over the 3 months to 21 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless LAN (WLAN)
Rank 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.087% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.385% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £45,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +23.07%
All Communications & Networking
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
260 173 213
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 22.53% 24.50% 20.31%
Number of salaries quoted 219 162 181
Average salary £41,000 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.14% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £51,250
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 Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent WLAN Salary Trend

WLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Sourcefire
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) ProCurve
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Riverbed
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Snort
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) NFS
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS

WLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 1 (50.00%) CSS
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Network Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) Check Point Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCSE
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Snort
1 1 (50.00%) NFS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Sourcefire
2 1 (50.00%) ProCurve
2 1 (50.00%) Riverbed
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint