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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 56 39 63
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +24
Permanent jobs citing LAN 38 41 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 3.489% 4.311% 1.822%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.23% 18.30% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 31 28 16
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £22,500 £36,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
267 224 104
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 24.52% 23.55% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 242 182 97
Average salary £50,000 £45,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.89% +1.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
LAN
East of England

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire LAN Jobs Demand Trend

LAN
Salary Trend

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

Bedfordshire LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAN across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bedfordshire LAN Salary Histogram

LAN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Bedfordshire 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
Luton +7 21 £50,000 +25.00%
Bedford -14 2 £70,000 +40.00%
Leighton Buzzard - 1 £67,500 -
Shefford - 1 £37,500 -
LAN
East of England

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing LAN 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 LAN.

1 73 (86.90%) WAN
2 51 (60.71%) Cisco
3 46 (54.76%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (41.67%) Windows
5 31 (36.90%) TCP/IP
5 31 (36.90%) Active Directory
6 30 (35.71%) Firewall
7 27 (32.14%) CCNP
8 26 (30.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (29.76%) CCNA
9 25 (29.76%) VMware
10 24 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
11 23 (27.38%) Citrix
11 23 (27.38%) MCSE
12 22 (26.19%) VPN
12 22 (26.19%) Wireless
13 21 (25.00%) MS Exchange
13 21 (25.00%) SQL Server
14 20 (23.81%) DHCP
14 20 (23.81%) VoIP
15 19 (22.62%) Microsoft
15 19 (22.62%) Windows Server 2008
16 18 (21.43%) DNS
16 18 (21.43%) MPLS
17 17 (20.24%) VLAN
18 16 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
19 15 (17.86%) Change Management
19 15 (17.86%) CheckPoint
19 15 (17.86%) MS Excel
19 15 (17.86%) Network Management

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing LAN 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 LAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.190%) COM
Application Platforms
1 21 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 12 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (4.762%) Lync
4 4 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 15 (17.86%) MS Excel
2 8 (9.524%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 73 (86.90%) WAN
2 31 (36.90%) TCP/IP
3 30 (35.71%) Firewall
4 22 (26.19%) VPN
4 22 (26.19%) Wireless
5 20 (23.81%) DHCP
5 20 (23.81%) VoIP
6 18 (21.43%) DNS
6 18 (21.43%) MPLS
7 17 (20.24%) VLAN
8 14 (16.67%) Network Security
8 14 (16.67%) SAN
9 12 (14.29%) RIP
10 11 (13.10%) Unified Communications
11 9 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (9.524%) BGP
12 8 (9.524%) Intrusion Detection
12 8 (9.524%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (8.333%) OSPF
14 6 (7.143%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.762%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (2.381%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 8 (9.524%) Telecoms
2 4 (4.762%) Banking
3 3 (3.571%) Finance
3 3 (3.571%) Legal
3 3 (3.571%) Advertising
4 1 (1.190%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 19 (22.62%) Network Engineer
2 10 (11.90%) Consultant
2 10 (11.90%) Technical Support
2 10 (11.90%) Analyst
3 9 (10.71%) Security Officer
4 8 (9.524%) Support Engineer
5 7 (8.333%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 7 (8.333%) Network Manager
6 6 (7.143%) Project Engineer
6 6 (7.143%) Technical Support Analyst
6 6 (7.143%) Technical Analyst
6 6 (7.143%) Support Analyst
7 5 (5.952%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.952%) Technical Engineer
7 5 (5.952%) Architect
8 4 (4.762%) Technical Support Engineer
8 4 (4.762%) Network Analyst
8 4 (4.762%) Security Engineer
8 4 (4.762%) Network Security Engineer
8 4 (4.762%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.571%) Computer Science
1 3 (3.571%) Clustering
2 2 (2.381%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 35 (41.67%) Windows
2 24 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 19 (22.62%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (8.333%) Windows 7
4 7 (8.333%) Linux
5 6 (7.143%) Windows XP
6 3 (3.571%) UNIX
7 2 (2.381%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.381%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (1.190%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (17.86%) Change Management
2 15 (17.86%) Network Management
3 12 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 11 (13.10%) Network Design
4 11 (13.10%) ITIL
5 8 (9.524%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 7 (8.333%) Capacity Management
7 5 (5.952%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (5.952%) Ethical Hacking
8 3 (3.571%) Migration
8 3 (3.571%) Project Management
9 2 (2.381%) Analytics
9 2 (2.381%) Business Analysis
10 1 (1.190%) Load Balancing
10 1 (1.190%) Manual Testing
10 1 (1.190%) Service Delivery
10 1 (1.190%) Data Security
10 1 (1.190%) Security Management
10 1 (1.190%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.71%) SQL
2 5 (5.952%) C
Qualifications
1 46 (54.76%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (32.14%) CCNP
3 26 (30.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 25 (29.76%) CCNA
5 23 (27.38%) MCSE
6 12 (14.29%) CISSP
6 12 (14.29%) CISA
6 12 (14.29%) CISM
6 12 (14.29%) CEH
6 12 (14.29%) Degree
7 10 (11.90%) CCIE
7 10 (11.90%) MCITP
8 7 (8.333%) Security Cleared
8 7 (8.333%) CCDP
9 6 (7.143%) MCP
9 6 (7.143%) SC Cleared
10 5 (5.952%) CCIP
11 4 (4.762%) CCSP
12 1 (1.190%) MCTS
12 1 (1.190%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.48%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (36.90%) Active Directory
2 10 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (10.71%) VMware ESX
4 5 (5.952%) Terminal Server
5 3 (3.571%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.381%) XenApp
7 1 (1.190%) XenDesktop
7 1 (1.190%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.190%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (2.381%) CiscoWorks
2 1 (1.190%) WSUS
2 1 (1.190%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 51 (60.71%) Cisco
2 25 (29.76%) VMware
3 23 (27.38%) Citrix
4 19 (22.62%) Microsoft
5 15 (17.86%) CheckPoint
6 11 (13.10%) F5
7 8 (9.524%) HP
8 7 (8.333%) Juniper
9 6 (7.143%) EMC
10 5 (5.952%) Symantec
11 2 (2.381%) Apple
11 2 (2.381%) Genesys
11 2 (2.381%) Avaya
11 2 (2.381%) SolarWinds
11 2 (2.381%) Twitter
12 1 (1.190%) Brocade
12 1 (1.190%) Fortinet
12 1 (1.190%) Blue Coat
12 1 (1.190%) Mitel
12 1 (1.190%) Oracle
Bedfordshire, South East
In-depth knowledge and practical experience of Microsoft Windows 2003+ and Microsoft Exchange 2010 administration for a medium size commercial organisation. Good knowledge of virtualisation technologies preferable VMware...
montreal
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Yearly Bonus and On call duty Bonus
Posted: 8 May 2013
Luton
Responsibilities include the analysis of network components, upgrades/changes, security procedures, policies management, assessing the Universities current and future LAN/WAN/Wireless/VoIP/Mobile needs, overseeing the design,...
University of Bedfordshire
Salary: c£50,000
Posted: 24 May 2013