Belfast WAN Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the Belfast region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Accrington Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop Auckland Blackpool Bodmin Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Caterham Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chigwell Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Keighley Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Lingfield Liverpool London Lothian Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Market Harborough Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Aycliffe Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Powys Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Saffron Walden Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shrewsbury Shropshire Skipton Sleaford Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whitstable Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	16
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching permanent IT job ads	2	13
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	6.061 %	28.26 %
Salaries quoted	0	13
Average minimum salary	-	£38,846
Average salary	-	£39,808
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	£40,769
UK excluding London average salary	£36,344	£37,130
% change on same period last year	-2.11 %
Communications & Networking Belfast
Matching permanent IT job ads	33	46
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.021 %
Salaries quoted	9	41
Average minimum salary	£25,909	£39,991
Average salary	£29,273	£41,542
% change on same period last year	-29.53 %
Average maximum salary	£32,636	£43,093
UK excluding London average salary	£37,747	£38,108
% change on same period last year	-0.94 %
WAN County Antrim

WAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing WAN across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

WAN
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WAN across the Belfast region.

WAN
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 5 (83.33 %) LAN 1 5 (83.33 %) Cisco 1 5 (83.33 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (66.67 %) OpenView 2 4 (66.67 %) HP 3 3 (50.00 %) CCNA 3 3 (50.00 %) OPNET 3 3 (50.00 %) Health 3 3 (50.00 %) Concord 3 3 (50.00 %) Fault Management 4 2 (33.33 %) Cisco ASA 4 2 (33.33 %) 3Com 4 2 (33.33 %) Firewall 4 2 (33.33 %) OSPF 4 2 (33.33 %) BGP

4 2 (33.33 %) NetScreen 4 2 (33.33 %) Juniper 4 2 (33.33 %) CheckPoint 4 2 (33.33 %) CCIE 4 2 (33.33 %) RIP 5 1 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (16.67 %) VPN 5 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel 5 1 (16.67 %) ISDN 5 1 (16.67 %) MPLS 5 1 (16.67 %) CiscoWorks 5 1 (16.67 %) Network Security 5 1 (16.67 %) Technical Architecture

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT jobs across the Belfast 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.

Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 5 (83.33 %) LAN 2 2 (33.33 %) RIP 2 2 (33.33 %) OSPF 2 2 (33.33 %) BGP 2 2 (33.33 %) NetScreen 2 2 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 2 (33.33 %) Cisco ASA 3 1 (16.67 %) ISDN 3 1 (16.67 %) Network Security 3 1 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (16.67 %) VPN 3 1 (16.67 %) MPLS
General 1 3 (50.00 %) Health	Job Titles 1 4 (66.67 %) Network Engineer 2 2 (33.33 %) Senior Network Engineer 2 2 (33.33 %) Network Support 3 1 (16.67 %) Network Specialist 3 1 (16.67 %) Senior Network Specialist 3 1 (16.67 %) Senior Network Support 3 1 (16.67 %) Network Support Specialist 3 1 (16.67 %) Senior Network Support Specialist 3 1 (16.67 %) Support Specialist
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (50.00 %) Fault Management 2 1 (16.67 %) Technical Architecture	Qualifications 1 5 (83.33 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (50.00 %) CCNA 3 2 (33.33 %) CCIE
Systems Management 1 4 (66.67 %) OpenView 2 1 (16.67 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 5 (83.33 %) Cisco 2 4 (66.67 %) HP 3 3 (50.00 %) OPNET 3 3 (50.00 %) Concord 4 2 (33.33 %) 3Com 4 2 (33.33 %) Juniper 4 2 (33.33 %) CheckPoint