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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 33 20 16
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -4
Permanent jobs citing LAN 4 17 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bolton 3.333% 13.08% 13.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 38.64% 53.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4 17 8
Average salary £25,000 £40,000 £27,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-37.50% +44.14%
UK excluding London average salary £37,250 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.97% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Bolton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
28 44 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bolton 23.33% 33.85% 25.42%
Number of salaries quoted 23 44 15
Average salary £27,500 £40,000 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.25% +42.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £30,000 £25,750
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
LAN
Manchester

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bolton 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 Bolton region.

Bolton LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bolton 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) VoIP
2 3 (75.00%) MCSE
2 3 (75.00%) MCSA
2 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) MCITP
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) Time Management
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Apple
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bolton 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 Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) VoIP
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) MCSE
1 3 (75.00%) MCSA
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (75.00%) MCITP
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
Bolton, North West
Day-to-day support, includes: 1st - 3rd line trouble-shooting and configuration Desktop support of Microsoft Windows XP/Windows 7 desktop operating systems and associated applications (MS Office...
greywood
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + bens
Posted: 23 April 2013
Bolton, Lancashire
Desktop support of Microsoft Windows XP/Windows 7 desktop operating systems and associated applications (MS Office 2007/2010) Experience supporting Windows 2003 or 2008 Active Directory and the...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + bens
Posted: 15 May 2013