The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 21 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 Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank - 39 -
Permanent jobs citing WAN 0 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford - 1.951% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 8.000% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 0
Average salary - £50,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
57 50 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 22.80% 24.39% 5.988%
Number of salaries quoted 56 48 8
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £37,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +19.20%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £26,900 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £46,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
Bedfordshire

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford 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 Bedford region.

Bedford WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 18 (90.00%) LAN
1 18 (90.00%) DHCP
2 17 (85.00%) TCP/IP
2 17 (85.00%) DNS
2 17 (85.00%) Change Management
2 17 (85.00%) VLAN
3 16 (80.00%) Firewall
3 16 (80.00%) Cisco
4 15 (75.00%) CCNP
4 15 (75.00%) VPN
4 15 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (70.00%) MPLS
5 14 (70.00%) RIP
5 14 (70.00%) VoIP
5 14 (70.00%) Network Security
6 13 (65.00%) CEH
6 13 (65.00%) CISA
6 13 (65.00%) CISM
6 13 (65.00%) CISSP
6 13 (65.00%) Network Management
7 12 (60.00%) VMware
8 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
8 11 (55.00%) Citrix
8 11 (55.00%) Capacity Planning
9 10 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (50.00%) Network Design
10 8 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 8 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (35.00%) CCDP
12 6 (30.00%) Penetration Testing

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 5 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 18 (90.00%) LAN
1 18 (90.00%) DHCP
2 17 (85.00%) TCP/IP
2 17 (85.00%) DNS
2 17 (85.00%) VLAN
3 16 (80.00%) Firewall
4 15 (75.00%) VPN
5 14 (70.00%) MPLS
5 14 (70.00%) RIP
5 14 (70.00%) VoIP
5 14 (70.00%) Network Security
6 8 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (25.00%) SAN
8 4 (20.00%) NAS
9 1 (5.000%) BGP
9 1 (5.000%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Security Officer
2 6 (30.00%) Network Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Security Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.000%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Change Management
2 13 (65.00%) Network Management
3 11 (55.00%) Capacity Planning
4 10 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (50.00%) Network Design
5 8 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 6 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
6 6 (30.00%) Ethical Hacking
7 4 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.000%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.000%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) CCNP
1 15 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (65.00%) CEH
2 13 (65.00%) CISA
2 13 (65.00%) CISM
2 13 (65.00%) CISSP
3 7 (35.00%) CCDP
4 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (20.00%) MCSE
5 4 (20.00%) MCITP
6 1 (5.000%) Degree
6 1 (5.000%) MCTS
6 1 (5.000%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (5.000%) MCP
6 1 (5.000%) A+ Certification
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) Terminal Server
2 4 (20.00%) VMware ESX
2 4 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.000%) XenApp
4 1 (5.000%) vSphere
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Cisco
2 12 (60.00%) VMware
3 11 (55.00%) Citrix
4 6 (30.00%) F5
5 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.000%) Oracle
6 1 (5.000%) CheckPoint
6 1 (5.000%) CommVault
6 1 (5.000%) Juniper
6 1 (5.000%) HP
6 1 (5.000%) FalconStor