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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless
Rank 116 138 114
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -24
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 39 13 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.231% 0.373% 1.322%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.420% 2.564% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 28 10 35
Average salary £42,500 £25,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+70.00% -47.36%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £25,000 £21,200
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £34,600 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-2.43% -3.52%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
414 507 446
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 13.07% 14.53% 13.11%
Number of salaries quoted 222 329 312
Average salary £40,500 £35,000 £38,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.71% -8.49%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £77,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Wireless
UK

Wireless
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Wireless Salary Trend

Wireless
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Wireless across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland Wireless Salary Histogram

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 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
Edinburgh +20 12 £45,000 -
Aberdeen +8 12 £42,500 +70.00%
Glasgow -19 3 £22,750 -17.27%
Dundee - 2 £42,500 -
Renfrewshire - 1 - -
West Lothian - 1 - -
Wireless
UK

Wireless
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 39 (58.21%) Firewall
2 38 (56.72%) WAN
2 38 (56.72%) Cisco
3 35 (52.24%) LAN
4 34 (50.75%) VPN
5 32 (47.76%) Cisco Certification
6 26 (38.81%) CCNA
7 22 (32.84%) Windows
8 19 (28.36%) TCP/IP
8 19 (28.36%) Cisco ASA
9 18 (26.87%) CCNP
10 16 (23.88%) SNMP
10 16 (23.88%) Ethernet
11 15 (22.39%) DNS
11 15 (22.39%) VoIP
11 15 (22.39%) OSPF
12 14 (20.90%) IPsec
12 14 (20.90%) Active Directory
12 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
13 13 (19.40%) HP
13 13 (19.40%) DHCP
14 12 (17.91%) Finance
14 12 (17.91%) Business Continuity
14 12 (17.91%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
15 11 (16.42%) Network Design
15 11 (16.42%) Network Security
15 11 (16.42%) BGP
15 11 (16.42%) EIGRP
15 11 (16.42%) WLAN
15 11 (16.42%) C

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 Development
1 1 (1.493%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 9 (13.43%) Exchange Server 2003
1 9 (13.43%) MS Exchange
2 8 (11.94%) Exchange Server 2007
3 7 (10.45%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.493%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (1.493%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (5.970%) MS Excel
2 3 (4.478%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 39 (58.21%) Firewall
2 38 (56.72%) WAN
3 35 (52.24%) LAN
4 34 (50.75%) VPN
5 19 (28.36%) TCP/IP
5 19 (28.36%) Cisco ASA
6 16 (23.88%) SNMP
6 16 (23.88%) Ethernet
7 15 (22.39%) DNS
7 15 (22.39%) VoIP
7 15 (22.39%) OSPF
8 14 (20.90%) IPsec
9 13 (19.40%) DHCP
10 11 (16.42%) Network Security
10 11 (16.42%) BGP
10 11 (16.42%) EIGRP
10 11 (16.42%) WLAN
11 9 (13.43%) Bluetooth
12 7 (10.45%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (10.45%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 3 (4.478%) CaliberRM
1 3 (4.478%) RequisitePro
2 1 (1.493%) Subversion
General
1 12 (17.91%) Finance
2 7 (10.45%) Electronics
3 4 (5.970%) Telecoms
3 4 (5.970%) Marketing
4 1 (1.493%) Retail
4 1 (1.493%) French Language
4 1 (1.493%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (29.85%) Network Engineer
2 17 (25.37%) Support Engineer
3 11 (16.42%) Consultant
4 9 (13.43%) Network Support
5 8 (11.94%) Network Support Engineer
5 8 (11.94%) Firmware Engineer
6 6 (8.955%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (7.463%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 5 (7.463%) Data Consultant
7 5 (7.463%) Cisco Engineer
8 4 (5.970%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (5.970%) Design Engineer
8 4 (5.970%) Senior Design Engineer
8 4 (5.970%) Senior FPGA Engineer
8 4 (5.970%) FPGA Engineer
8 4 (5.970%) Digital Design Engineer
9 3 (4.478%) Cisco Consultant
9 3 (4.478%) Security Engineer
9 3 (4.478%) Communications Engineer
9 3 (4.478%) Cisco Support
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 8 (11.94%) Client/Server
2 8 (11.94%) Firmware
3 4 (5.970%) ASIC
3 4 (5.970%) VHDL
3 4 (5.970%) Verilog
4 2 (2.985%) Blackberry
4 2 (2.985%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.985%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.493%) PKI
5 1 (1.493%) PDA
5 1 (1.493%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.493%) CAN bus
5 1 (1.493%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 22 (32.84%) Windows
2 10 (14.93%) Linux
2 10 (14.93%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (11.94%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (4.478%) Windows XP
5 2 (2.985%) UNIX
5 2 (2.985%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.91%) Business Continuity
2 11 (16.42%) Network Design
3 10 (14.93%) ITIL
3 10 (14.93%) Project Management
4 8 (11.94%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (7.463%) Network Architecture
5 5 (7.463%) Network Management
5 5 (7.463%) BCP
6 4 (5.970%) Service Delivery
7 3 (4.478%) Embedded Software Development
7 3 (4.478%) Information Security
7 3 (4.478%) PRINCE2
8 2 (2.985%) Signal Processing
8 2 (2.985%) Vulnerability Management
9 1 (1.493%) Incident Management
9 1 (1.493%) Web Development
9 1 (1.493%) Requirements Analysis
9 1 (1.493%) Software Engineering
9 1 (1.493%) Asset Management
9 1 (1.493%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.42%) C
2 7 (10.45%) MATLAB
2 7 (10.45%) C++
3 5 (7.463%) Embedded C
4 3 (4.478%) Assembly Language
5 2 (2.985%) SQL
6 1 (1.493%) Python
6 1 (1.493%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 32 (47.76%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (38.81%) CCNA
3 18 (26.87%) CCNP
4 9 (13.43%) CCDA
5 8 (11.94%) Degree
5 8 (11.94%) CCVP
6 6 (8.955%) CCIP
6 6 (8.955%) CCIE
6 6 (8.955%) CCSP
6 6 (8.955%) CCDP
7 4 (5.970%) CISSP
8 3 (4.478%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (2.985%) CISA
9 2 (2.985%) CISM
9 2 (2.985%) CCSA
9 2 (2.985%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.985%) Security Cleared
9 2 (2.985%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.493%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (20.90%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.463%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.478%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.493%) VMware ESX
4 1 (1.493%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.493%) ISA Server
4 1 (1.493%) RACF
Vendors
1 38 (56.72%) Cisco
2 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
3 13 (19.40%) HP
4 10 (14.93%) Juniper
4 10 (14.93%) Riverbed
5 9 (13.43%) Dell
6 5 (7.463%) VMware
7 3 (4.478%) Blue Coat
7 3 (4.478%) Twitter
7 3 (4.478%) F5
7 3 (4.478%) IBM
7 3 (4.478%) EMC
7 3 (4.478%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.985%) Intel
8 2 (2.985%) ProCurve
9 1 (1.493%) Iron Mountain
9 1 (1.493%) Aruba
9 1 (1.493%) 3Com
9 1 (1.493%) SurfControl
9 1 (1.493%) Websense
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