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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless
Rank 71 81 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 11 11 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 1.322% 1.178% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.820% 6.358% -
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 0
Average salary £32,500 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.77% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-2.43% -3.52%
All Communications & Networking
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
189 173 81
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 22.72% 18.52% 13.28%
Number of salaries quoted 173 158 72
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £22,750 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
Wireless
Hampshire

Wireless
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Wireless Salary Trend

Wireless
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Wireless across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Southampton Wireless Salary Histogram

Wireless
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 16 (59.26%) LAN
2 14 (51.85%) Windows
3 11 (40.74%) VoIP
3 11 (40.74%) Cisco
4 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 9 (33.33%) CCNA
4 9 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (33.33%) DHCP
4 9 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 8 (29.63%) Telecoms
5 8 (29.63%) WAN
5 8 (29.63%) Linux
6 7 (25.93%) WLAN
6 7 (25.93%) Ethernet
6 7 (25.93%) Avaya
6 7 (25.93%) VHDL
6 7 (25.93%) Verilog
6 7 (25.93%) ASIC
6 7 (25.93%) Military
7 6 (22.22%) VMware
7 6 (22.22%) DNS
7 6 (22.22%) MS Excel
8 5 (18.52%) ITIL
8 5 (18.52%) IP Telephony
8 5 (18.52%) VLAN
9 4 (14.81%) Riverbed
9 4 (14.81%) Synopsys
9 4 (14.81%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
9 4 (14.81%) SQL
9 4 (14.81%) VPN

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 2 (7.407%) MS Exchange
1 2 (7.407%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (7.407%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (3.704%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) MS Excel
2 2 (7.407%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.704%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 16 (59.26%) LAN
2 11 (40.74%) VoIP
3 9 (33.33%) DHCP
3 9 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 8 (29.63%) WAN
5 7 (25.93%) WLAN
5 7 (25.93%) Ethernet
6 6 (22.22%) DNS
7 5 (18.52%) IP Telephony
7 5 (18.52%) VLAN
8 4 (14.81%) VPN
9 3 (11.11%) ISDN
9 3 (11.11%) SSL
9 3 (11.11%) CTI
10 2 (7.407%) Firewall
11 1 (3.704%) IPsec
11 1 (3.704%) SSH
11 1 (3.704%) MPLS
11 1 (3.704%) BGP
11 1 (3.704%) VRRP
General
1 8 (29.63%) Telecoms
2 7 (25.93%) Military
3 3 (11.11%) Marketing
4 2 (7.407%) Retail
5 1 (3.704%) Advertising
5 1 (3.704%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Analyst
2 7 (25.93%) Design Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Digital Design Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Network Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Support Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Network Support Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Design Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Network Support
4 4 (14.81%) ASIC Design Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) IC Design Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Digital IC Design Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (7.407%) Service Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Support Specialist
6 2 (7.407%) Systems Support
6 2 (7.407%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (7.407%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Microsoft Specialist
6 2 (7.407%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) ASIC
1 7 (25.93%) VHDL
1 7 (25.93%) Verilog
2 4 (14.81%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 3 (11.11%) IVR
3 3 (11.11%) Blackberry
4 2 (7.407%) CMDB
4 2 (7.407%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Linux
3 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (7.407%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (18.52%) ITIL
2 4 (14.81%) Project Management
2 4 (14.81%) Validation
3 3 (11.11%) IC Design
3 3 (11.11%) Network Design
3 3 (11.11%) WFM
4 2 (7.407%) Time Management
4 2 (7.407%) WAN Optimisation
4 2 (7.407%) Software Distribution
4 2 (7.407%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.704%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) CCNA
1 9 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (14.81%) CCNP
2 4 (14.81%) CCVP
3 3 (11.11%) Degree
3 3 (11.11%) Avaya Certification
4 2 (7.407%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
1 4 (14.81%) ISA Server
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.407%) vSphere
4 1 (3.704%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Cisco
2 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (25.93%) Avaya
4 6 (22.22%) VMware
5 4 (14.81%) Riverbed
5 4 (14.81%) Synopsys
5 4 (14.81%) HP
5 4 (14.81%) Dell
6 3 (11.11%) Foundry
7 2 (7.407%) Citrix
7 2 (7.407%) SAP