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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank 83 77 -
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 7 5 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.656% 0.561% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.724% 2.618% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 0
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +5.71%
All Communications & Networking
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
257 191 103
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 24.09% 21.44% 11.11%
Number of salaries quoted 234 164 100
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £36,000 £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%
VLAN
East of England

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire VLAN Salary Trend

VLAN
Salary Histogram

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

Bedfordshire VLAN Salary Histogram

VLAN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Luton - 2 £45,000 -
VLAN
East of England

VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 23 (74.19%) TCP/IP
2 20 (64.52%) DNS
2 20 (64.52%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (64.52%) Firewall
3 19 (61.29%) VPN
4 18 (58.06%) Cisco
4 18 (58.06%) CCNP
5 17 (54.84%) DHCP
6 16 (51.61%) Microsoft
6 16 (51.61%) LAN
6 16 (51.61%) Network Security
7 14 (45.16%) Change Management
7 14 (45.16%) Windows
7 14 (45.16%) WAN
8 13 (41.94%) MPLS
8 13 (41.94%) VMware
9 12 (38.71%) CEH
9 12 (38.71%) Network Management
9 12 (38.71%) CISA
9 12 (38.71%) CISM
9 12 (38.71%) CISSP
9 12 (38.71%) RIP
9 12 (38.71%) VoIP
10 10 (32.26%) Capacity Planning
11 9 (29.03%) MS Excel
11 9 (29.03%) Active Directory
11 9 (29.03%) SAN
12 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
12 8 (25.81%) MS Exchange
12 8 (25.81%) Network Design

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 Development
1 1 (3.226%) Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
1 8 (25.81%) MS Exchange
1 8 (25.81%) Exchange Server 2010
2 7 (22.58%) Exchange Server 2007
3 6 (19.35%) SharePoint
4 5 (16.13%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (16.13%) IIS
5 1 (3.226%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 9 (29.03%) MS Excel
2 3 (9.677%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.226%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 23 (74.19%) TCP/IP
2 20 (64.52%) DNS
2 20 (64.52%) Firewall
3 19 (61.29%) VPN
4 17 (54.84%) DHCP
5 16 (51.61%) LAN
5 16 (51.61%) Network Security
6 14 (45.16%) WAN
7 13 (41.94%) MPLS
8 12 (38.71%) RIP
8 12 (38.71%) VoIP
9 9 (29.03%) SAN
10 8 (25.81%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (16.13%) IPv6
11 5 (16.13%) SSL
12 4 (12.90%) HTTPS
12 4 (12.90%) HTTP
12 4 (12.90%) NAS
12 4 (12.90%) Wireless
13 3 (9.677%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
2 7 (22.58%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (9.677%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 5 (16.13%) Electronics
2 1 (3.226%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Security Officer
2 6 (19.35%) Network Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Test Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Hardware Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) QA Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Hardware Test Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Network Security Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Data Centre Specialist
4 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 4 (12.90%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.452%) Technical Support
5 2 (6.452%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.452%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.452%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.452%) Data Centre Engineer
5 2 (6.452%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (6.452%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) Network Manager
6 1 (3.226%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 2 (6.452%) Firmware
2 2 (6.452%) Computer Science
2 2 (6.452%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (45.16%) Windows
2 7 (22.58%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (22.58%) Linux
2 7 (22.58%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (16.13%) Windows 7
3 5 (16.13%) Windows Vista
3 5 (16.13%) UNIX
4 3 (9.677%) Windows XP
5 1 (3.226%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Change Management
2 12 (38.71%) Network Management
3 10 (32.26%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (25.81%) Network Design
4 8 (25.81%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 8 (25.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (16.13%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (16.13%) System Testing
5 5 (16.13%) Test Scripting
6 4 (12.90%) Ethical Hacking
6 4 (12.90%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (12.90%) Migration
7 2 (6.452%) ITIL
7 2 (6.452%) Incident Management
7 2 (6.452%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (6.452%) Change Control
8 1 (3.226%) Service Delivery
8 1 (3.226%) Project Management
8 1 (3.226%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.226%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (64.52%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (58.06%) CCNP
3 12 (38.71%) CEH
3 12 (38.71%) CISA
3 12 (38.71%) CISM
3 12 (38.71%) CISSP
4 7 (22.58%) Degree
4 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (22.58%) CCNA
5 6 (19.35%) MCSE
6 4 (12.90%) CCSP
6 4 (12.90%) MCP
6 4 (12.90%) CCDP
7 2 (6.452%) CCIP
7 2 (6.452%) MCITP
8 1 (3.226%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) QA
2 1 (3.226%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Active Directory
2 6 (19.35%) ISA Server
2 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (19.35%) Forefront TMG
3 5 (16.13%) Terminal Services
3 5 (16.13%) UAG
3 5 (16.13%) NFS
4 4 (12.90%) VMware ESX
5 2 (6.452%) Terminal Server
5 2 (6.452%) vSphere
5 2 (6.452%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (3.226%) Backup Exec
1 1 (3.226%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 18 (58.06%) Cisco
2 16 (51.61%) Microsoft
3 13 (41.94%) VMware
4 6 (19.35%) Citrix
5 4 (12.90%) F5
5 4 (12.90%) HP
6 2 (6.452%) SonicWALL
6 2 (6.452%) Twitter
7 1 (3.226%) 3Com
7 1 (3.226%) LANDesk
7 1 (3.226%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.226%) Symantec
7 1 (3.226%) McAfee
7 1 (3.226%) Oracle