The first table below looks at the demand for WLAN 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 WLAN 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 LAN (WLAN)
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing WLAN 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 1.130% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.500% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £28,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £31,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +29.03%
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%
WLAN
Hertfordshire

WLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans WLAN Salary Trend

WLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Wireless
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) Unified Communications
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco PIX
3 2 (40.00%) Network Security
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) Network Design
3 2 (40.00%) CCIE
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 1 (20.00%) Solaris
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Apache
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) FreeBSD
4 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (20.00%) Windows NT
4 1 (20.00%) Windows XP

WLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) Wireless
2 3 (60.00%) Unified Communications
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco PIX
3 2 (40.00%) Network Security
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP
4 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
4 1 (20.00%) FTP
4 1 (20.00%) HTTP
4 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
4 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) IPv4
4 1 (20.00%) IPv6
4 1 (20.00%) VLAN
4 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Local Government
1 1 (20.00%) Billing
1 1 (20.00%) Back Office
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Solaris
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) FreeBSD
2 1 (20.00%) Windows NT
2 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX
2 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) Debian
2 1 (20.00%) OpenBSD
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Process Management
2 1 (20.00%) CAD
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) C++
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) CCIE
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) CCVP
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) NFS
2 1 (20.00%) Nmap
2 1 (20.00%) Squid
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (20.00%) Samba
2 1 (20.00%) Terminal Server
2 1 (20.00%) Postfix
2 1 (20.00%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Cacti
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco UCCE
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) Sun
3 1 (20.00%) Northgate
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) Twitter