The first table below looks at the demand for WLAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WLAN over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless LAN (WLAN)
Rank 144 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 10 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.319% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.451% - -
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 0
Average salary £42,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £41,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+3.65% +26.15%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
408 502 447
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 13.03% 14.49% 13.15%
Number of salaries quoted 219 329 312
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £39,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -10.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,600 £77,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
WLAN
UK

WLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland WLAN Salary Trend

WLAN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WLAN within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 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
Aberdeen - 1 £42,500 -
Glasgow - 1 £30,000 -
Renfrewshire - 1 - -
WLAN
UK

WLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 13 (100.00%) LAN
2 12 (92.31%) Cisco
3 11 (84.62%) CCNA
3 11 (84.62%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (84.62%) Wireless
4 10 (76.92%) HP
4 10 (76.92%) Windows
5 9 (69.23%) MS Exchange
5 9 (69.23%) TCP/IP
5 9 (69.23%) VPN
5 9 (69.23%) Exchange Server 2003
5 9 (69.23%) Exchange Server 2010
6 8 (61.54%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
6 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
6 8 (61.54%) WAN
6 8 (61.54%) Linux
6 8 (61.54%) Firewall
7 7 (53.85%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (53.85%) IPsec
7 7 (53.85%) Finance
7 7 (53.85%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (53.85%) Business Continuity
7 7 (53.85%) Wireshark
7 7 (53.85%) Exchange Server 2007
7 7 (53.85%) Cisco IOS
7 7 (53.85%) Client/Server
7 7 (53.85%) DHCP
7 7 (53.85%) Ethernet
7 7 (53.85%) SNMP

WLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 Platforms
1 9 (69.23%) MS Exchange
1 9 (69.23%) Exchange Server 2003
1 9 (69.23%) Exchange Server 2010
2 7 (53.85%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Office
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) LAN
2 11 (84.62%) Wireless
3 9 (69.23%) TCP/IP
3 9 (69.23%) VPN
4 8 (61.54%) WAN
4 8 (61.54%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (61.54%) Firewall
5 7 (53.85%) MRTG
5 7 (53.85%) DHCP
5 7 (53.85%) Ethernet
5 7 (53.85%) SNMP
5 7 (53.85%) DNS
5 7 (53.85%) SSL
5 7 (53.85%) IPsec
5 7 (53.85%) Wireshark
5 7 (53.85%) Cisco IOS
5 7 (53.85%) Cisco PIX
6 3 (23.08%) SAN
6 3 (23.08%) VoIP
7 1 (7.692%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Support Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Support Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Support
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Support Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Communications Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Service Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Network Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Client/Server
2 2 (15.38%) Thin Client
2 2 (15.38%) Fat Client
3 1 (7.692%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) Linux
3 7 (53.85%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (53.85%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (15.38%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Disaster Recovery
1 7 (53.85%) Business Continuity
2 2 (15.38%) Document Management
2 2 (15.38%) Network Management
2 2 (15.38%) Project Management
3 1 (7.692%) Business Transformation
3 1 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) CCNA
1 11 (84.62%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (15.38%) MCP
3 2 (15.38%) MCSE
3 2 (15.38%) MCSA
4 1 (7.692%) CCNP
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) VMware ESX
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Cisco
2 10 (76.92%) HP
3 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
4 7 (53.85%) Dell
4 7 (53.85%) Juniper
5 3 (23.08%) VMware
6 2 (15.38%) CommVault
6 2 (15.38%) EMC
7 1 (7.692%) Riverbed
7 1 (7.692%) F5