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

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank - 37 -
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 0 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford - 0.538% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 2.703% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £52,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £37,250 £37,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+0.67% +5.71%
All Communications & Networking
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
62 37 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 25.51% 19.89% 9.032%
Number of salaries quoted 61 35 13
Average salary £47,500 £50,000 £36,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% +36.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £35,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VLAN
Bedfordshire

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford VLAN Jobs Demand Trend

VLAN
Salary Trend

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

Bedford VLAN Salary Trend

VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region citing VLAN 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 VLAN.

1 15 (93.75%) TCP/IP
1 15 (93.75%) DNS
1 15 (93.75%) Cisco
1 15 (93.75%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (87.50%) CCNP
2 14 (87.50%) VPN
2 14 (87.50%) Firewall
2 14 (87.50%) Network Security
3 13 (81.25%) Change Management
3 13 (81.25%) LAN
3 13 (81.25%) WAN
3 13 (81.25%) DHCP
4 12 (75.00%) VoIP
4 12 (75.00%) RIP
4 12 (75.00%) CISSP
4 12 (75.00%) CISA
4 12 (75.00%) CISM
4 12 (75.00%) MPLS
4 12 (75.00%) CEH
4 12 (75.00%) Network Management
5 9 (56.25%) Capacity Planning
6 8 (50.00%) Network Design
6 8 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 8 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (50.00%) VMware
7 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
8 5 (31.25%) Citrix
9 4 (25.00%) CCDP
9 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region citing VLAN 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 VLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) MS Exchange
1 3 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (12.50%) IIS
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (93.75%) TCP/IP
1 15 (93.75%) DNS
2 14 (87.50%) VPN
2 14 (87.50%) Firewall
2 14 (87.50%) Network Security
3 13 (81.25%) LAN
3 13 (81.25%) WAN
3 13 (81.25%) DHCP
4 12 (75.00%) VoIP
4 12 (75.00%) RIP
4 12 (75.00%) MPLS
5 8 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (25.00%) SAN
7 2 (12.50%) Internet
7 2 (12.50%) HTTP
7 2 (12.50%) HTTPS
7 2 (12.50%) SSL
8 1 (6.250%) Cisco PIX
8 1 (6.250%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (6.250%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Security Officer
2 6 (37.50%) Network Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Security Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (12.50%) Data Centre Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Data Centre Specialist
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Vista
3 2 (12.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Change Management
2 12 (75.00%) Network Management
3 9 (56.25%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (50.00%) Network Design
4 8 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 4 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
6 2 (12.50%) Migration
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (87.50%) CCNP
3 12 (75.00%) CISSP
3 12 (75.00%) CISA
3 12 (75.00%) CISM
3 12 (75.00%) CEH
4 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (25.00%) CCDP
4 4 (25.00%) MCSE
5 3 (18.75%) MCP
5 3 (18.75%) CCNA
6 2 (12.50%) CCSP
6 2 (12.50%) CCIP
7 1 (6.250%) MCITP
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (12.50%) UAG
2 2 (12.50%) Terminal Services
2 2 (12.50%) ISA Server
2 2 (12.50%) VMware ESX
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.250%) vSphere
3 1 (6.250%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.250%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) Cisco
2 8 (50.00%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) Citrix
4 4 (25.00%) F5
4 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.250%) HP