South Wales Wireless Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Wireless skills within the South Wales region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Wireless over the 3 months to 14 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Accrington Ascot Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Lingfield Liverpool London Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcheldean Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Aycliffe North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Rugby Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadley Tadworth Teesside Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tilbury Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 14 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	80
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching permanent IT job ads	42	28
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	13.42 %	9.459 %
Salaries quoted	42	26
Average minimum salary	£49,942	£41,333
Average salary	£55,500	£43,889
% change on same period last year	+26.45 %
Average maximum salary	£61,058	£46,444
UK excluding London average salary	£40,189	£40,702
% change on same period last year	-1.26 %
Communications & Networking South Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	313	296
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.185 %	0.128 %
Salaries quoted	292	259
Average minimum salary	£36,636	£33,635
Average salary	£41,055	£36,770
% change on same period last year	+11.65 %
Average maximum salary	£45,473	£39,904
UK excluding London average salary	£37,895	£38,882
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Wireless across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 14 October 2008.

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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 South Wales region over the 3 months to 14 October 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
Newport	0	36	£62,500	+51.51 %
Cardiff	+2	14	£40,429	+6.71 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 70 (86.42 %) Cisco 2 69 (85.19 %) WAN 3 68 (83.95 %) LAN 4 41 (50.62 %) Nortel 4 41 (50.62 %) VoIP 5 39 (48.15 %) Security Cleared 6 29 (35.80 %) Cisco Certification 6 29 (35.80 %) CCNP 7 27 (33.33 %) MPLS 7 27 (33.33 %) DSL 7 27 (33.33 %) ISDN 8 24 (29.63 %) Network Design 9 20 (24.69 %) Telecoms 10 18 (22.22 %) Military 11 4 (4.938 %) C

12 3 (3.704 %) Windows 12 3 (3.704 %) MS Exchange 12 3 (3.704 %) Broadband 12 3 (3.704 %) GSM 12 3 (3.704 %) SDH 12 3 (3.704 %) Embedded C 12 3 (3.704 %) Device Driver 12 3 (3.704 %) Nokia 12 3 (3.704 %) Siemens 12 3 (3.704 %) Windows Server 2003 12 3 (3.704 %) Insurance 12 3 (3.704 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 2 (2.469 %) Windows Server 2008 13 2 (2.469 %) Exchange Server 2007 13 2 (2.469 %) Cisco PIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 Platforms 1 3 (3.704 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (3.704 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (2.469 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (1.235 %) Exchange Server 2000	Communications & Networking 1 69 (85.19 %) WAN 2 68 (83.95 %) LAN 3 41 (50.62 %) VoIP 4 27 (33.33 %) MPLS 4 27 (33.33 %) DSL 4 27 (33.33 %) ISDN 5 3 (3.704 %) SDH 5 3 (3.704 %) Broadband 5 3 (3.704 %) GSM 6 2 (2.469 %) PSTN 6 2 (2.469 %) Cisco PIX 7 1 (1.235 %) SMTP 7 1 (1.235 %) Internet
General 1 20 (24.69 %) Telecoms 2 18 (22.22 %) Military 3 3 (3.704 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 27 (33.33 %) Design Engineer 1 27 (33.33 %) Cisco Engineer 2 19 (23.46 %) Project Manager 3 15 (18.52 %) Network Manager 3 15 (18.52 %) Network Project Manager 3 15 (18.52 %) Telecoms Project Manager 4 4 (4.938 %) Installations Engineer 5 3 (3.704 %) Microwave Engineer 5 3 (3.704 %) Radio Engineer 5 3 (3.704 %) Support Engineer 5 3 (3.704 %) RF Engineer 6 2 (2.469 %) Network Support 6 2 (2.469 %) Network Engineer 6 2 (2.469 %) Network Support Engineer 7 1 (1.235 %) Messaging Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.704 %) Device Driver 2 1 (1.235 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 3 (3.704 %) Windows 1 3 (3.704 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (2.469 %) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies 1 39 (48.15 %) Security Cleared 2 24 (29.63 %) Network Design 3 2 (2.469 %) Requirements Management 4 1 (1.235 %) Performance Management 4 1 (1.235 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (1.235 %) Project Management 4 1 (1.235 %) Change Management 4 1 (1.235 %) Disaster Recovery	Programming Languages 1 4 (4.938 %) C 2 3 (3.704 %) Embedded C 3 1 (1.235 %) Java 3 1 (1.235 %) SQL 3 1 (1.235 %) VBScript 3 1 (1.235 %) VB
Qualifications 1 29 (35.80 %) CCNP 1 29 (35.80 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (2.469 %) CCNA	Vendors 1 70 (86.42 %) Cisco 2 41 (50.62 %) Nortel 3 3 (3.704 %) Nokia 3 3 (3.704 %) Siemens