The first table below looks at the demand for Wi-Fi skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Wi-Fi over the 3 months to 22 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
Rank 238 238 206
Rank change year-on-year
0 -32
Permanent jobs citing Wi-Fi 10 3 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.138% 0.042% 0.371%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.855% 0.287% 2.505%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 23
Average salary £30,000 £23,500 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.65% -68.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,900 £18,300 £27,600
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £38,700 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Communications & Networking
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1169 1046 998
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 16.18% 14.55% 14.82%
Number of salaries quoted 946 915 844
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £22,250
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £70,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Wi-Fi
England

Wi-Fi
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Wi-Fi Jobs Demand Trend

Wi-Fi
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Wi-Fi across the North West region.

North West Wi-Fi Salary Trend

Wi-Fi
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Wi-Fi across the North West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

North West Wi-Fi Salary Histogram

Wi-Fi
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wi-Fi within the North West region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
Cumbria - 5 £30,000 -
Manchester -2 3 £26,000 +10.63%
Cheshire - 2 £25,000 -
Wi-Fi
England

Wi-Fi
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing Wi-Fi 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 Wi-Fi.

1 16 (66.67%) Windows
2 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
3 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 8 (33.33%) Linux
3 8 (33.33%) Windows 7
4 7 (29.17%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (29.17%) C
4 7 (29.17%) MS Excel
4 7 (29.17%) GPRS
4 7 (29.17%) GSM
5 6 (25.00%) HP
5 6 (25.00%) LAN
5 6 (25.00%) VoIP
5 6 (25.00%) WLAN
5 6 (25.00%) MS Office
5 6 (25.00%) iPhone
6 5 (20.83%) Android
6 5 (20.83%) OpenAL
6 5 (20.83%) NFC
6 5 (20.83%) Windows Phone 7
6 5 (20.83%) Windows 8
6 5 (20.83%) Windows Phone 8
6 5 (20.83%) Windows Phone
6 5 (20.83%) Qt
6 5 (20.83%) Firewall
6 5 (20.83%) Wireless
6 5 (20.83%) Electronics
6 5 (20.83%) Device Driver
6 5 (20.83%) Multimedia
6 5 (20.83%) Speech Recognition

Wi-Fi
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing Wi-Fi 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 Wi-Fi. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (20.83%) OpenAL
1 5 (20.83%) Qt
1 5 (20.83%) BREW
1 5 (20.83%) Flash
1 5 (20.83%) J2ME
1 5 (20.83%) SVG
1 5 (20.83%) Middleware
1 5 (20.83%) OpenGL
2 3 (12.50%) COM
3 2 (8.333%) CSS
3 2 (8.333%) jQuery
3 2 (8.333%) Sass
3 2 (8.333%) LESS
3 2 (8.333%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 5 (20.83%) MS Exchange
2 2 (8.333%) Apache
2 2 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (4.167%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (29.17%) MS Excel
2 6 (25.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) GPRS
1 7 (29.17%) GSM
2 6 (25.00%) LAN
2 6 (25.00%) VoIP
2 6 (25.00%) WLAN
3 5 (20.83%) NFC
3 5 (20.83%) Firewall
3 5 (20.83%) Wireless
3 5 (20.83%) UMTS
3 5 (20.83%) Bluetooth
3 5 (20.83%) DVB
4 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 3 (12.50%) VLAN
5 3 (12.50%) VPN
5 3 (12.50%) DNS
5 3 (12.50%) WAN
5 3 (12.50%) DHCP
5 3 (12.50%) HTTP
6 2 (8.333%) 3G
6 2 (8.333%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.333%) MySQL
3 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 5 (20.83%) Electronics
1 5 (20.83%) Multimedia
2 2 (8.333%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.167%) Finance
3 1 (4.167%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Software Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Field Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) IT Support
4 3 (12.50%) Help Desk Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (12.50%) Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Support Analyst
5 2 (8.333%) PHP Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (8.333%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (8.333%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 1 (4.167%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) Help Desk Support
6 1 (4.167%) Help Desk Support Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) IT Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) iPhone
2 5 (20.83%) Device Driver
2 5 (20.83%) Speech Recognition
2 5 (20.83%) MPEG
3 2 (8.333%) Firmware
4 1 (4.167%) EqualLogic
4 1 (4.167%) iPad
4 1 (4.167%) Streaming Video
4 1 (4.167%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 16 (66.67%) Windows
2 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 8 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 7 (29.17%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (20.83%) Android
4 5 (20.83%) Windows Phone 7
4 5 (20.83%) Windows 8
4 5 (20.83%) Windows Phone 8
4 5 (20.83%) Windows Phone
4 5 (20.83%) Windows Mobile
4 5 (20.83%) Nucleus RTOS
5 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (12.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) E-Commerce
1 5 (20.83%) Mobile Commerce
1 5 (20.83%) DRM
2 3 (12.50%) Web Design
2 3 (12.50%) Network Design
2 3 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (8.333%) ITIL
4 1 (4.167%) Capacity Management
4 1 (4.167%) OpenUP
4 1 (4.167%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (4.167%) Service Management
4 1 (4.167%) Fault Management
4 1 (4.167%) Project Planning
4 1 (4.167%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) C
2 5 (20.83%) C++
2 5 (20.83%) Java
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 2 (8.333%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.333%) PHP
3 2 (8.333%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.333%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.167%) ACSP
3 1 (4.167%) ACTC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.50%) Terminal Services
4 2 (8.333%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) Backup Exec
1 1 (4.167%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (4.167%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) HP
3 4 (16.67%) VMware
4 3 (12.50%) Cisco
5 1 (4.167%) Symantec
5 1 (4.167%) Sophos
5 1 (4.167%) Apple
5 1 (4.167%) Dell
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