Manchester WLAN Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Wireless LAN (WLAN) skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WLAN over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
Location Aberdeen Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Coventry Crawley East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties London Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Scotland South East South West Stevenage Surrey Teesside UK Walsall West Midlands West Sussex Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	181	211
Rank change on same period last year	+30
Matching permanent IT job ads	6	8
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.606 %	0.791 %
Salaries quoted	4	8
Average minimum salary	£34,250	£43,875
Average salary	£37,375	£47,625
% change on same period last year	-21.52 %
Average maximum salary	£40,500	£51,375
UK excluding London average salary	£43,296	£45,167
% change on same period last year	-4.14 %
Communications & Networking Manchester
Matching permanent IT job ads	990	1011
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.523 %	0.414 %
Salaries quoted	864	889
Average minimum salary	£30,061	£38,631
Average salary	£32,429	£41,692
% change on same period last year	-22.21 %
Average maximum salary	£34,797	£44,753
UK excluding London average salary	£37,397	£39,734
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
WLAN North West

WLAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing WLAN across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

WLAN
Salary Trend

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

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bolton	-	1	£27,500	-

WLAN North West

WLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 4 (50.00 %) LAN 1 4 (50.00 %) VoIP 1 4 (50.00 %) WAN 1 4 (50.00 %) Cisco 2 3 (37.50 %) Windows 3 2 (25.00 %) Wireless 3 2 (25.00 %) Telecoms 3 2 (25.00 %) Mitel 3 2 (25.00 %) Health 3 2 (25.00 %) Pensions 3 2 (25.00 %) Degree 3 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 4 1 (12.50 %) CCIE 4 1 (12.50 %) CCSP 4 1 (12.50 %) CCNP

4 1 (12.50 %) CCNA 4 1 (12.50 %) HP 4 1 (12.50 %) Compaq 4 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (12.50 %) Avaya 4 1 (12.50 %) Motorola 4 1 (12.50 %) Nokia 4 1 (12.50 %) Mobile Commerce 4 1 (12.50 %) DRM 4 1 (12.50 %) DVB 4 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Linux 4 1 (12.50 %) Flash 4 1 (12.50 %) J2ME 4 1 (12.50 %) Bluetooth

WLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 (12.50 %) J2ME 1 1 (12.50 %) SVG 1 1 (12.50 %) UIQ 1 1 (12.50 %) Series 60 1 1 (12.50 %) BREW	Communications & Networking 1 4 (50.00 %) LAN 1 4 (50.00 %) VoIP 1 4 (50.00 %) WAN 2 2 (25.00 %) Wireless 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco IPT 3 1 (12.50 %) NFC 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Security 3 1 (12.50 %) VPN 3 1 (12.50 %) SSL 3 1 (12.50 %) DVB 3 1 (12.50 %) Firewall 3 1 (12.50 %) Wi-Fi 3 1 (12.50 %) UMTS 3 1 (12.50 %) Bluetooth 3 1 (12.50 %) GPRS 3 1 (12.50 %) GSM
Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Flash	General 1 2 (25.00 %) Telecoms 1 2 (25.00 %) Health 1 2 (25.00 %) Pensions 2 1 (12.50 %) Multimedia 2 1 (12.50 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Consultant 2 2 (25.00 %) Sales Consultant 2 2 (25.00 %) Presales Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Graduate Software Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Graduate Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Support Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Solutions Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Sales Director 3 1 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Graduate 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) MPEG 1 1 (12.50 %) Device Driver 1 1 (12.50 %) Speech Recognition 1 1 (12.50 %) Computer Science 1 1 (12.50 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2 1 (12.50 %) Linux 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows Mobile 2 1 (12.50 %) Nucleus RTOS 2 1 (12.50 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) Mobile Commerce 1 1 (12.50 %) DRM 1 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Technical Architecture 1 1 (12.50 %) Business Development
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) C 1 1 (12.50 %) C++ 1 1 (12.50 %) Java	Qualifications 1 2 (25.00 %) Degree 2 1 (12.50 %) CCIE 2 1 (12.50 %) CCSP 2 1 (12.50 %) CCNP 2 1 (12.50 %) CCNA 2 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (12.50 %) CCVP
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Cisco 2 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (25.00 %) Mitel 3 1 (12.50 %) Symbian 3 1 (12.50 %) HP 3 1 (12.50 %) Compaq 3 1 (12.50 %) Avaya 3 1 (12.50 %) Motorola 3 1 (12.50 %) Nokia 3 1 (12.50 %) NEC 3 1 (12.50 %) 3Com