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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank 113 83 84
Rank change year-on-year
-30 +1
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 3 9 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.179% 0.619% 0.752%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.955% 3.136% 4.065%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 10
Average salary £60,000 £30,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+100.00% -3.22%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,750
% change year-on-year
- -0.66%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
314 287 246
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 18.74% 19.75% 18.50%
Number of salaries quoted 253 247 223
Average salary £41,000 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.14% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
VLAN
West Midlands

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham VLAN Salary Trend

VLAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VLAN across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Birmingham VLAN Salary Histogram

VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 16 (94.12%) Cisco
1 16 (94.12%) Firewall
2 15 (88.24%) DHCP
2 15 (88.24%) DNS
2 15 (88.24%) HP
3 14 (82.35%) Active Directory
3 14 (82.35%) Solaris
3 14 (82.35%) MS Exchange
3 14 (82.35%) VMware
3 14 (82.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (76.47%) Windows Server 2008
4 13 (76.47%) vSphere
4 13 (76.47%) Fibre Channel
4 13 (76.47%) DataCore
4 13 (76.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 13 (76.47%) iSCSI
4 13 (76.47%) Linux
4 13 (76.47%) SQL
4 13 (76.47%) IIS
4 13 (76.47%) Windows
4 13 (76.47%) IBM
4 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
4 13 (76.47%) SAN
4 13 (76.47%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (17.65%) CheckPoint
5 3 (17.65%) OSPF
5 3 (17.65%) BGP
5 3 (17.65%) WAN
5 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (17.65%) SNMP

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 14 (82.35%) MS Exchange
2 13 (76.47%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (94.12%) Firewall
2 15 (88.24%) DHCP
2 15 (88.24%) DNS
3 13 (76.47%) SAN
3 13 (76.47%) iSCSI
3 13 (76.47%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (17.65%) WAN
4 3 (17.65%) OSPF
4 3 (17.65%) BGP
4 3 (17.65%) SNMP
4 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
4 3 (17.65%) VPN
5 2 (11.76%) SSL
5 2 (11.76%) Ethernet
5 2 (11.76%) ISDN
5 2 (11.76%) LAN
5 2 (11.76%) Wireless
5 2 (11.76%) MPLS
5 2 (11.76%) FWSM
6 1 (5.882%) DMVPN
General
1 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.882%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (5.882%) Technical Design Architect
3 1 (5.882%) Citrix Architect
3 1 (5.882%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Solaris
2 13 (76.47%) Linux
2 13 (76.47%) Windows Server 2003
2 13 (76.47%) Windows Server 2008
2 13 (76.47%) Windows
3 1 (5.882%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (17.65%) Migration
1 3 (17.65%) Load Balancing
2 2 (11.76%) Network Design
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL
2 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
2 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL V3
3 1 (5.882%) Change Management
3 1 (5.882%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.76%) HP ASE
2 2 (11.76%) HP MASE
2 2 (11.76%) CCNP
2 2 (11.76%) CCDP
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) Active Directory
1 14 (82.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (76.47%) vSphere
2 13 (76.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) Cacti
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) Cisco
2 15 (88.24%) HP
3 14 (82.35%) VMware
4 13 (76.47%) IBM
4 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
4 13 (76.47%) DataCore
5 3 (17.65%) CheckPoint
6 2 (11.76%) 3Com
6 2 (11.76%) Brocade
6 2 (11.76%) ProCurve
6 2 (11.76%) Aruba
7 1 (5.882%) Citrix
7 1 (5.882%) Juniper
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Extensive Networking Knowledge(Routing Protocols, DNS, DHCP,TCP/IP, VLAN) Experience with Network Security. Enterprise Directory Solutions(Microsoft Active Directory, Novell, Open Directory) Virtualised Environments with specific experience...
Bloxx Ltd
Salary: Dependent on experience - Company Car will be provided
Posted: 7 May 2013