The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 17 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 Basingstoke region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 68 54 52
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -2
Permanent jobs citing WAN 13 14 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 1.816% 2.269% 1.306%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.943% 9.655% 5.469%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 7
Average salary £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.67% +10.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,200 £26,250 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £49,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Communications & Networking
Basingstoke
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
263 145 128
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 36.73% 23.50% 23.88%
Number of salaries quoted 179 111 76
Average salary £36,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
WAN
Hampshire

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke WAN Jobs Demand Trend

WAN
Salary Trend

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

Basingstoke WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Basingstoke WAN Salary Histogram

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke region citing WAN 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 WAN.

1 44 (88.00%) LAN
2 25 (50.00%) Cisco
2 25 (50.00%) Finance
3 24 (48.00%) Windows
4 22 (44.00%) TCP/IP
5 21 (42.00%) Firewall
6 20 (40.00%) SC Cleared
6 20 (40.00%) Security Cleared
7 19 (38.00%) Windows XP
8 18 (36.00%) Juniper
9 17 (34.00%) SAN
9 17 (34.00%) SQL
10 16 (32.00%) Windows Server 2003
10 16 (32.00%) Telecoms
11 15 (30.00%) DNS
11 15 (30.00%) SQL Server
11 15 (30.00%) SharePoint
12 14 (28.00%) VPN
12 14 (28.00%) MPLS
12 14 (28.00%) OSPF
12 14 (28.00%) BGP
12 14 (28.00%) Retail
12 14 (28.00%) Blue Coat
12 14 (28.00%) SQL Server 2005
12 14 (28.00%) Fujitsu
13 13 (26.00%) PKI
13 13 (26.00%) Performance Testing
13 13 (26.00%) Infoblox
13 13 (26.00%) Imperva
13 13 (26.00%) Network Management

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke region citing WAN 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 WAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (10.00%) Application Packaging
2 3 (6.000%) .NET
3 1 (2.000%) XML
3 1 (2.000%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 15 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (14.00%) MS Exchange
3 3 (6.000%) IIS
4 2 (4.000%) Apache
4 2 (4.000%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (2.000%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (2.000%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (2.000%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 44 (88.00%) LAN
2 22 (44.00%) TCP/IP
3 21 (42.00%) Firewall
4 17 (34.00%) SAN
5 15 (30.00%) DNS
6 14 (28.00%) MPLS
6 14 (28.00%) OSPF
6 14 (28.00%) BGP
6 14 (28.00%) VPN
7 13 (26.00%) Ethernet
7 13 (26.00%) EIGRP
7 13 (26.00%) SSL
7 13 (26.00%) Gigabit Ethernet
7 13 (26.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 12 (24.00%) Wireless
9 7 (14.00%) ATM
9 7 (14.00%) Wireless Security
9 7 (14.00%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (14.00%) Extranet
9 7 (14.00%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 14 (28.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 13 (26.00%) IDOL
4 2 (4.000%) MySQL
5 1 (2.000%) DTS
5 1 (2.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 13 (26.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 25 (50.00%) Finance
2 16 (32.00%) Telecoms
3 14 (28.00%) Retail
4 1 (2.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) Support Engineer
2 15 (30.00%) Network Engineer
3 14 (28.00%) Network Support Engineer
3 14 (28.00%) Network Support
4 8 (16.00%) Designer
5 5 (10.00%) Analyst
6 3 (6.000%) Support Analyst
6 3 (6.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.000%) Administrator
7 2 (4.000%) Team Leader
7 2 (4.000%) Server Engineer
7 2 (4.000%) Network Architect
7 2 (4.000%) Financial Business Analyst
7 2 (4.000%) Infrastructure Team Leader
7 2 (4.000%) Financial Services Business Analyst
7 2 (4.000%) Architect
7 2 (4.000%) Business Systems Analyst
7 2 (4.000%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (4.000%) Consultant
7 2 (4.000%) Operations Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.00%) PKI
2 6 (12.00%) Replication
3 5 (10.00%) Thin Client
3 5 (10.00%) Fat Client
4 3 (6.000%) Mathematics
4 3 (6.000%) Smartcard
5 1 (2.000%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.000%) Firmware
5 1 (2.000%) SaaS
5 1 (2.000%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 24 (48.00%) Windows
2 19 (38.00%) Windows XP
3 16 (32.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (18.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (18.00%) Linux
5 8 (16.00%) UNIX
6 5 (10.00%) Windows Vista
6 5 (10.00%) Windows 7
7 2 (4.000%) Solaris
8 1 (2.000%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) ITIL
1 13 (26.00%) Network Design
1 13 (26.00%) Performance Testing
1 13 (26.00%) Network Management
2 9 (18.00%) Service Delivery
2 9 (18.00%) Change Management
3 7 (14.00%) Project Management
4 6 (12.00%) Load Balancing
4 6 (12.00%) PRINCE2
5 3 (6.000%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (6.000%) Workflow
5 3 (6.000%) Use Case
5 3 (6.000%) Business Development
5 3 (6.000%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (6.000%) Systems Analysis
5 3 (6.000%) Business Analysis
5 3 (6.000%) Security Testing
5 3 (6.000%) Cash Management
5 3 (6.000%) Change Control
6 2 (4.000%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.00%) SQL
2 3 (6.000%) VC++
2 3 (6.000%) C#
2 3 (6.000%) C++
3 1 (2.000%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 20 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.00%) Degree
3 5 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.000%) CCNA
5 2 (4.000%) CCNP
5 2 (4.000%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (4.000%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.000%) VTSP
6 1 (2.000%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.000%) MCITP
6 1 (2.000%) MCSE
6 1 (2.000%) MCSA
6 1 (2.000%) CCDA
6 1 (2.000%) CCDP
6 1 (2.000%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) SLA
2 3 (6.000%) QA
System Software
1 11 (22.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (14.00%) ProxySG
3 6 (12.00%) ISA Server
4 5 (10.00%) Terminal Server
4 5 (10.00%) DFS Replication
5 3 (6.000%) Active Directory
6 2 (4.000%) vSphere
6 2 (4.000%) Forefront TMG
6 2 (4.000%) XenApp
7 1 (2.000%) VMware ESX
7 1 (2.000%) Squid
7 1 (2.000%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (26.00%) Netcool
1 13 (26.00%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 7 (14.00%) CiscoWorks
3 5 (10.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 5 (10.00%) WSUS
4 2 (4.000%) Plesk
4 2 (4.000%) Backup Exec
5 1 (2.000%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (2.000%) SCCM
5 1 (2.000%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (50.00%) Cisco
2 18 (36.00%) Juniper
3 14 (28.00%) Blue Coat
3 14 (28.00%) Fujitsu
4 13 (26.00%) Infoblox
4 13 (26.00%) Imperva
4 13 (26.00%) F5
4 13 (26.00%) Meridio
4 13 (26.00%) CheckPoint
4 13 (26.00%) EMC
5 12 (24.00%) VMware
6 8 (16.00%) McAfee
7 7 (14.00%) BT
7 7 (14.00%) Citrix
8 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
8 5 (10.00%) HP
9 3 (6.000%) Oracle
9 3 (6.000%) 3Com
10 2 (4.000%) IBM
10 2 (4.000%) Nimsoft
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