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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 85 83 83
Rank change year-on-year
-2 0
Permanent jobs citing WAN 34 32 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 2.015% 1.885% 1.928%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.80% 13.06% 9.677%
Number of salaries quoted 23 22 34
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +18.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,300 £26,850 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £37,500 £45,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
191 245 372
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 11.32% 14.43% 19.93%
Number of salaries quoted 154 208 288
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £26,500 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
South West

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol WAN Jobs Demand Trend

WAN
Salary Trend

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

Bristol WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

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

Bristol WAN Salary Histogram

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 55 (80.88%) LAN
2 40 (58.82%) Windows
3 35 (51.47%) Cisco
3 35 (51.47%) Firewall
4 34 (50.00%) VMware
4 34 (50.00%) VPN
5 32 (47.06%) Microsoft
5 32 (47.06%) Windows Server 2008
6 30 (44.12%) Windows Server 2003
7 29 (42.65%) DNS
8 27 (39.71%) MS Exchange
9 26 (38.24%) VMware Infrastructure
10 25 (36.76%) MPLS
11 24 (35.29%) TCP/IP
11 24 (35.29%) Active Directory
12 23 (33.82%) Exchange Server 2010
13 22 (32.35%) SQL Server
14 21 (30.88%) IIS
15 18 (26.47%) MS Excel
15 18 (26.47%) SharePoint
15 18 (26.47%) Cisco Certification
15 18 (26.47%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (26.47%) iSCSI
16 17 (25.00%) Windows 7
16 17 (25.00%) Telecoms
17 16 (23.53%) MCSE
17 16 (23.53%) MCSA
17 16 (23.53%) SharePoint 2010
17 16 (23.53%) SQL Server 2008
18 15 (22.06%) ISMS

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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.

Application Development
1 6 (8.824%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 27 (39.71%) MS Exchange
2 23 (33.82%) Exchange Server 2010
3 21 (30.88%) IIS
4 18 (26.47%) SharePoint
5 16 (23.53%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (7.353%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 18 (26.47%) MS Excel
2 10 (14.71%) MS Office
3 1 (1.471%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 55 (80.88%) LAN
2 35 (51.47%) Firewall
3 34 (50.00%) VPN
4 29 (42.65%) DNS
5 25 (36.76%) MPLS
6 24 (35.29%) TCP/IP
7 18 (26.47%) iSCSI
8 15 (22.06%) Wireless
9 10 (14.71%) IPsec
10 9 (13.24%) Ethernet
10 9 (13.24%) VoIP
10 9 (13.24%) SAN
10 9 (13.24%) Internet
10 9 (13.24%) DWDM
11 8 (11.76%) DSL
11 8 (11.76%) OSPF
11 8 (11.76%) BGP
12 7 (10.29%) SSL
12 7 (10.29%) IPv4
13 6 (8.824%) BGP-4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (32.35%) SQL Server
2 16 (23.53%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.471%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.471%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 17 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 15 (22.06%) Marketing
3 9 (13.24%) Finance
4 5 (7.353%) Advertising
5 2 (2.941%) Law
6 1 (1.471%) Retail
6 1 (1.471%) Legal
6 1 (1.471%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 21 (30.88%) Systems Engineer
2 15 (22.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (22.06%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 14 (20.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (19.12%) Analyst
5 11 (16.18%) Administrator
6 9 (13.24%) Support Analyst
7 7 (10.29%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (8.824%) Team Leader
8 6 (8.824%) Test Engineer
8 6 (8.824%) Systems Test Engineer
8 6 (8.824%) Cisco Engineer
9 5 (7.353%) Technical Design Authority
9 5 (7.353%) Network Manager
9 5 (7.353%) Network Analyst
10 4 (5.882%) Network Support
10 4 (5.882%) IT Support
11 3 (4.412%) Server Analyst
11 3 (4.412%) Communications Engineer
11 3 (4.412%) Server Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.29%) Clustering
3 5 (7.353%) Blackberry
4 4 (5.882%) FMCG
5 3 (4.412%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.941%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.471%) Mathematics
7 1 (1.471%) Physics
7 1 (1.471%) Firmware
7 1 (1.471%) Handset
7 1 (1.471%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 40 (58.82%) Windows
2 32 (47.06%) Windows Server 2008
3 30 (44.12%) Windows Server 2003
4 17 (25.00%) Windows 7
5 8 (11.76%) Windows XP
6 3 (4.412%) Linux
7 2 (2.941%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.471%) Windows Vista
8 1 (1.471%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.06%) ISMS
1 15 (22.06%) Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.06%) Information Security Management
1 15 (22.06%) Security Management
1 15 (22.06%) Information Security
2 12 (17.65%) Load Balancing
3 9 (13.24%) ITIL
4 6 (8.824%) Problem Management
4 6 (8.824%) Strategic Planning
5 3 (4.412%) SIEM
5 3 (4.412%) Migration
5 3 (4.412%) Configuration Management
5 3 (4.412%) Project Management
5 3 (4.412%) Service Management
5 3 (4.412%) Service Delivery
6 2 (2.941%) PRINCE2
6 2 (2.941%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (2.941%) Change Control
6 2 (2.941%) Project Planning
6 2 (2.941%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.29%) SQL
2 6 (8.824%) Perl
2 6 (8.824%) Python
2 6 (8.824%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (26.47%) Cisco Certification
1 18 (26.47%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (23.53%) MCSE
2 16 (23.53%) MCSA
3 15 (22.06%) MCTS
3 15 (22.06%) MCITP
4 6 (8.824%) CCIE
5 4 (5.882%) CCNP
6 3 (4.412%) CCNA
7 2 (2.941%) CCIP
7 2 (2.941%) MCP
7 2 (2.941%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.471%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.471%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.471%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.471%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.471%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (22.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.941%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (38.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (35.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.824%) Xen
3 6 (8.824%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.941%) Terminal Services
4 2 (2.941%) vSphere
4 2 (2.941%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (1.471%) Sendmail
5 1 (1.471%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (7.353%) WSUS
2 1 (1.471%) SCCM
2 1 (1.471%) CiscoWorks
2 1 (1.471%) MOM
Vendors
1 35 (51.47%) Cisco
2 34 (50.00%) VMware
3 32 (47.06%) Microsoft
4 15 (22.06%) NetSuite
5 13 (19.12%) CheckPoint
5 13 (19.12%) Juniper
6 5 (7.353%) ZTE
6 5 (7.353%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 5 (7.353%) Huawei
6 5 (7.353%) HP
6 5 (7.353%) Siemens
6 5 (7.353%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 5 (7.353%) Nortel
7 4 (5.882%) Citrix
7 4 (5.882%) Dell
8 3 (4.412%) F5
8 3 (4.412%) McAfee
9 2 (2.941%) Symantec
9 2 (2.941%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.941%) Avaya
Bristol, Avon
Participating in operational strategic planning and decision making processes by providing technical assistance and knowledge as a subject matter expert in Routing, Switching, Security, Load Balancing, Wireless, NMS,...
Sanderson
Salary: £32000 - £42000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Aust, Bristol, South West
Networking responsibilities include project planning, design and implementation... Technical Competencies (Required) * Cisco Certified Network Associate (or similar industry recognised network certification) * Experience of implementing and administering Extreme Networks...
Brightside Group
Salary: £28,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Keywords: Data Communications, Data Networks, MPLS, VPLS, DWDM, DS / IPS, SIEM, NAC/NAP, Cisco, Juniper... Suitable candidates will have the following experience: Experience of building, securing and supporting...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £32000 - £38000 per annum + Excellent Benefits Package
Posted: 18 June 2013
Aust, Bristol, South West
Delivers a highly efficient, effective and available platform infrastructure to the business according to agreed business requirements and service levels within specialist area of expertise * Active Directory, Servers...
Brightside Group
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 22 May 2013