The first table below looks at the demand for WEP skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WEP over the 3 months to 20 June 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.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
Rank 851 889 887
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -2
Permanent jobs citing WEP 8 7 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.007% 0.006% 0.002%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.038% 0.034% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 1
Average salary £32,000 £57,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-44.34% +15.00%
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 - £50,000
All Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
20961 20715 20880
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 18.98% 17.50% 16.19%
Number of salaries quoted 16947 17156 17340
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.93%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%

WEP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

WEP Jobs Demand Trend

WEP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WEP within the UK.

WEP Salary Trend

WEP
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WEP within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +14 8 £32,000 -44.34%
East of England - 8 £32,000 -
Hertfordshire - 8 £32,000 -
Hemel Hempstead - 5 £32,500 -

WEP
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing WEP 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 WEP.

1 8 (100.00%) ITIL
1 8 (100.00%) WLAN
1 8 (100.00%) WAP
1 8 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 8 (100.00%) SSH
2 7 (87.50%) Wireless
3 6 (75.00%) ADSL
4 4 (50.00%) Internet
4 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (25.00%) Linux
5 2 (25.00%) Apache
6 1 (12.50%) HTTP

WEP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing WEP 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 WEP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (100.00%) WAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) WLAN
1 8 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 8 (100.00%) SSH
2 7 (87.50%) Wireless
3 6 (75.00%) ADSL
4 4 (50.00%) Internet
5 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Incident Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Wireless Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Major Incident Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Support
3 1 (12.50%) NOC Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Management