The first table below looks at the demand for Wireless skills in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Wireless over the 3 months to 24 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless
Rank 30 23 7
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -16
Permanent jobs citing Wireless 5 10 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 2.825% 7.092% 18.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.250% 35.71% 38.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 6
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -22.22%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
- -5.88%
All Communications & Networking
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
80 28 94
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 45.20% 19.86% 48.96%
Number of salaries quoted 26 9 14
Average salary £30,000 £28,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -37.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,500 £39,100
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Wireless
Hertfordshire

Wireless
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans Wireless Salary Trend

Wireless
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 6 (54.55%) MS Excel
2 5 (45.45%) VPN
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco
3 4 (36.36%) WLAN
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 4 (36.36%) Windows
3 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (36.36%) Unified Communications
4 3 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (27.27%) iPhone
4 3 (27.27%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (27.27%) Supplier Management
4 3 (27.27%) DSL
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (27.27%) Apple
4 3 (27.27%) Symantec
4 3 (27.27%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) MS Office
4 3 (27.27%) MS Exchange
4 3 (27.27%) Broadband
4 3 (27.27%) LAN
4 3 (27.27%) PSTN
5 2 (18.18%) CCIE
5 2 (18.18%) CCNP
5 2 (18.18%) Network Design
5 2 (18.18%) CCVP
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 (27.27%) MS Exchange
2 1 (9.091%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) MS Excel
2 3 (27.27%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) VPN
2 4 (36.36%) WLAN
2 4 (36.36%) Unified Communications
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (27.27%) DSL
3 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (27.27%) Broadband
3 3 (27.27%) LAN
3 3 (27.27%) PSTN
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco PIX
4 2 (18.18%) Network Security
5 1 (9.091%) tcpdump
5 1 (9.091%) snoop
5 1 (9.091%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (9.091%) iSCSI
5 1 (9.091%) VLAN
5 1 (9.091%) Wireshark
5 1 (9.091%) SSH
5 1 (9.091%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (9.091%) MySQL
General
1 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.091%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) IT Support
2 3 (27.27%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (27.27%) Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Network Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Voice Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Voice Support Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco Support Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco Voice Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco Support
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) iPhone
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 1 (9.091%) CentOS
2 1 (9.091%) Ubuntu
2 1 (9.091%) Debian
2 1 (9.091%) OpenBSD
2 1 (9.091%) UNIX
2 1 (9.091%) Windows NT
2 1 (9.091%) Solaris
2 1 (9.091%) Linux
2 1 (9.091%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Supplier Management
1 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Network Design
3 1 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (9.091%) Process Management
3 1 (9.091%) CAD
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) Ruby
1 1 (9.091%) Python
1 1 (9.091%) C
1 1 (9.091%) C++
1 1 (9.091%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (18.18%) CCIE
3 2 (18.18%) CCNP
3 2 (18.18%) CCVP
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 1 (9.091%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Squid
1 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.091%) Postfix
1 1 (9.091%) Sendmail
1 1 (9.091%) Nmap
1 1 (9.091%) Samba
1 1 (9.091%) VMware ESX
1 1 (9.091%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (9.091%) Puppet
3 1 (9.091%) Cacti
3 1 (9.091%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Apple
3 3 (27.27%) Symantec
4 1 (9.091%) Twitter
4 1 (9.091%) VMware
4 1 (9.091%) NetApp
4 1 (9.091%) Red Hat
4 1 (9.091%) Dell
4 1 (9.091%) Sun
4 1 (9.091%) IBM
4 1 (9.091%) Oracle