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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
Rank 89 94 85
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -9
Permanent jobs citing Wi-Fi 3 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 0.243% 0.086% 0.096%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.210% 0.408% 0.870%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 1
Average salary £32,500 £45,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.77% +32.35%
UK excluding London average salary £36,750 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-8.12% -2.43%
All Communications & Networking
Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
248 245 115
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 20.08% 21.01% 11.02%
Number of salaries quoted 232 207 102
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £24,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Wi-Fi
UK

Wi-Fi
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales Wi-Fi Jobs Demand Trend

Wi-Fi
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Wi-Fi across the Wales region.

Wales Wi-Fi Salary Trend

Wi-Fi
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Wi-Fi across the Wales region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Wales Wi-Fi Salary Histogram

Wi-Fi
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Wi-Fi within the Wales region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
South Wales +4 2 £27,750 -38.33%
Wi-Fi
UK

Wi-Fi
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales region citing Wi-Fi 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 Wi-Fi.

1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) Intel
2 3 (42.86%) Middleware
2 3 (42.86%) MPLS
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) VoIP
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) Ethernet
2 3 (42.86%) MS Exchange
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) RPG
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) VB.NET
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) CSS
3 2 (28.57%) JSP
3 2 (28.57%) XML
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) C
3 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Embedded C
3 2 (28.57%) Nortel
3 2 (28.57%) Firmware
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) Internet

Wi-Fi
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales region citing Wi-Fi 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 Wi-Fi. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) Middleware
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) JSP
2 2 (28.57%) XML
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
3 1 (14.29%) GStreamer
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) MS Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) INSURE/90
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) MPLS
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) VoIP
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) Ethernet
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) Internet
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (14.29%) RTP
4 1 (14.29%) Wireless
4 1 (14.29%) RTSP
4 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (14.29%) Bluetooth
General
1 2 (28.57%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Change Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) Device Driver
2 1 (14.29%) Streaming Video
2 1 (14.29%) STB
2 1 (14.29%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
2 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 1 (14.29%) OOD
2 1 (14.29%) UML
2 1 (14.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) RPG
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
1 2 (28.57%) VB.NET
1 2 (28.57%) C
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) Embedded C
2 1 (14.29%) Bash shell
2 1 (14.29%) Assembly Language
2 1 (14.29%) Tcl
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded C++
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Intel
3 2 (28.57%) Nortel
4 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
4 1 (14.29%) Avaya
4 1 (14.29%) McAfee
4 1 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) JBoss