The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bath region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 19 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 for the Bath region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 42 38 37
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -1
Permanent jobs citing WAN 5 8 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 1.458% 3.320% 1.639%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.23% 47.06% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 3
Average salary £35,000 £32,750 £30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.87% +7.37%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £29,300
10% offered a salary of more than £56,500 £33,600 £30,900
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Bath
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
26 17 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 7.580% 7.054% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 25 17 27
Average salary £25,000 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.57% +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £22,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £59,000 £62,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
Somerset

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bath 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 Bath region.

Bath WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the Bath region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Bath WAN Salary Histogram

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bath 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 12 (85.71%) LAN
2 10 (71.43%) Windows
2 10 (71.43%) Cisco
3 9 (64.29%) CCNA
3 9 (64.29%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (57.14%) TCP/IP
5 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
6 6 (42.86%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (35.71%) Windows 7
7 5 (35.71%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (35.71%) ITIL
7 5 (35.71%) MCSE
7 5 (35.71%) MCSA
7 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (35.71%) Legal
7 5 (35.71%) Business Continuity
8 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
8 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
9 3 (21.43%) CCNP
9 3 (21.43%) Windows XP
9 3 (21.43%) MS Excel
9 3 (21.43%) HND
9 3 (21.43%) Linux
9 3 (21.43%) Windows 2000
9 3 (21.43%) MS Office
9 3 (21.43%) ATM
9 3 (21.43%) Frame Relay
9 3 (21.43%) MPLS

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bath 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 Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) MS Exchange
2 1 (7.143%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) MS Excel
1 3 (21.43%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (85.71%) LAN
2 8 (57.14%) TCP/IP
3 3 (21.43%) ATM
3 3 (21.43%) Frame Relay
3 3 (21.43%) MPLS
4 2 (14.29%) Firewall
4 2 (14.29%) Wireless
4 2 (14.29%) VLAN
4 2 (14.29%) VoIP
4 2 (14.29%) WLAN
4 2 (14.29%) DHCP
4 2 (14.29%) Ethernet
4 2 (14.29%) DNS
4 2 (14.29%) SAN
General
1 5 (35.71%) Legal
2 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Team Leader
2 3 (21.43%) Desktop Support
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (14.29%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) IT Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Network Operations Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Network Operations Manager
4 1 (7.143%) IT Support
4 1 (7.143%) Senior IT Support
4 1 (7.143%) Senior IT Support Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Network Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Desktop Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.143%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (35.71%) Windows 7
3 3 (21.43%) Windows XP
3 3 (21.43%) Linux
3 3 (21.43%) Windows 2000
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (7.143%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Root Cause Analysis
1 5 (35.71%) ITIL
1 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (35.71%) Business Continuity
2 2 (14.29%) Time Management
2 2 (14.29%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (7.143%) High Availability
3 1 (7.143%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (7.143%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.143%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) CCNA
1 9 (64.29%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (35.71%) MCSE
2 5 (35.71%) MCSA
3 3 (21.43%) CCNP
3 3 (21.43%) HND
4 2 (14.29%) Degree
5 1 (7.143%) CCDP
5 1 (7.143%) CCIP
5 1 (7.143%) MCPD
5 1 (7.143%) MCTS
5 1 (7.143%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) NetApp
3 2 (14.29%) Symantec
3 2 (14.29%) Citrix
3 2 (14.29%) Exinda
3 2 (14.29%) Riverbed
4 1 (7.143%) Avaya