The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 22 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 92 101 115
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +14
Permanent jobs citing LAN 27 26 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.463% 1.273% 0.659%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.941% 6.933% 3.097%
Number of salaries quoted 25 22 10
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +35.59%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £29,600 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £42,500 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
340 375 452
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 18.42% 18.36% 21.27%
Number of salaries quoted 263 311 399
Average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £30,850 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £57,500 £52,950
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
LAN
Cambridgeshire

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAN across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cambridge LAN Salary Histogram

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 39 (78.00%) WAN
2 23 (46.00%) Cisco
3 20 (40.00%) VPN
4 14 (28.00%) Cisco CUCM
5 13 (26.00%) SNMP
6 12 (24.00%) VoIP
6 12 (24.00%) SQL Server
6 12 (24.00%) Windows
6 12 (24.00%) Firewall
6 12 (24.00%) VLAN
6 12 (24.00%) PCI DSS
7 11 (22.00%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (22.00%) OSPF
8 10 (20.00%) Nagios
8 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
8 10 (20.00%) Linux
8 10 (20.00%) Degree
8 10 (20.00%) IPsec
8 10 (20.00%) HSRP
9 9 (18.00%) Electronics
9 9 (18.00%) SQL
10 8 (16.00%) Perl
10 8 (16.00%) Windows Server 2003
10 8 (16.00%) Cacti
10 8 (16.00%) WhatsUp Gold
11 7 (14.00%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (14.00%) Red Hat
11 7 (14.00%) CCNP
11 7 (14.00%) MS Exchange
12 6 (12.00%) Python

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 Development
1 4 (8.000%) LAMP
2 2 (4.000%) XMPP
3 1 (2.000%) COM
Application Platforms
1 7 (14.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (8.000%) Apache
2 4 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (6.000%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (6.000%) IIS
4 2 (4.000%) Site Server
5 1 (2.000%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) MS Excel
1 6 (12.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.000%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 39 (78.00%) WAN
2 20 (40.00%) VPN
3 13 (26.00%) SNMP
4 12 (24.00%) VoIP
4 12 (24.00%) Firewall
4 12 (24.00%) VLAN
5 11 (22.00%) OSPF
6 10 (20.00%) IPsec
6 10 (20.00%) HSRP
7 4 (8.000%) WLAN
7 4 (8.000%) TCP/IP
7 4 (8.000%) Ethernet
7 4 (8.000%) Internet
7 4 (8.000%) SAN
8 3 (6.000%) NAS
8 3 (6.000%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (6.000%) Wireless
8 3 (6.000%) GPRS
9 2 (4.000%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (4.000%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.00%) GIS
3 4 (8.000%) MySQL
4 3 (6.000%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 9 (18.00%) Electronics
2 3 (6.000%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.000%) Finance
3 2 (4.000%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.000%) Back Office
4 1 (2.000%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) Systems Administrator
2 15 (30.00%) Network Engineer
3 14 (28.00%) Administrator
4 6 (12.00%) Configuration Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
5 5 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 5 (10.00%) Analyst
6 4 (8.000%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.000%) GIS Data Analyst
7 3 (6.000%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (6.000%) GIS Analyst
7 3 (6.000%) Data Analyst
7 3 (6.000%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 3 (6.000%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 2 (4.000%) IT Support Analyst
8 2 (4.000%) Team Leader
8 2 (4.000%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (4.000%) Support Analyst
8 2 (4.000%) IT Support
8 2 (4.000%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.000%) Open Source
1 4 (8.000%) Video Conferencing
1 4 (8.000%) Computer Science
1 4 (8.000%) SaaS
2 2 (4.000%) Biology
3 1 (2.000%) Life Science
3 1 (2.000%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.000%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.00%) Windows
2 10 (20.00%) Linux
3 8 (16.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (14.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (12.00%) Windows XP
5 6 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (12.00%) Windows 7
6 5 (10.00%) Debian
6 5 (10.00%) Ubuntu
6 5 (10.00%) UNIX
7 4 (8.000%) CentOS
8 2 (4.000%) Mac OS X
9 1 (2.000%) Windows 2000 Server
9 1 (2.000%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (12.00%) ITIL
2 3 (6.000%) Time Management
2 3 (6.000%) Service Delivery
2 3 (6.000%) Data Security
2 3 (6.000%) E-Commerce
3 2 (4.000%) Risk Analysis
3 2 (4.000%) System Testing
3 2 (4.000%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (4.000%) ITIL V3
4 1 (2.000%) Workflow
4 1 (2.000%) Load Balancing
4 1 (2.000%) Data Analysis
4 1 (2.000%) Bioinformatics
4 1 (2.000%) Data Management
4 1 (2.000%) Project Management
4 1 (2.000%) DNA
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.00%) SQL
2 8 (16.00%) Perl
3 6 (12.00%) Python
4 5 (10.00%) Bash shell
5 4 (8.000%) PHP
6 3 (6.000%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.000%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (20.00%) Degree
3 7 (14.00%) CCNP
4 6 (12.00%) HNC
4 6 (12.00%) HND
5 4 (8.000%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (8.000%) CISSP
6 3 (6.000%) CCNA
7 2 (4.000%) RHCE
7 2 (4.000%) CCSP
7 2 (4.000%) CISA
7 2 (4.000%) CISM
8 1 (2.000%) RHCA
8 1 (2.000%) CCDP
8 1 (2.000%) CCIE
8 1 (2.000%) MCSE
8 1 (2.000%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.000%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.000%) COBIT
3 1 (2.000%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.000%) XenApp
3 3 (6.000%) NFS
4 2 (4.000%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 2 (4.000%) vSphere
4 2 (4.000%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.000%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (2.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (28.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 10 (20.00%) Nagios
3 8 (16.00%) Cacti
3 8 (16.00%) WhatsUp Gold
4 2 (4.000%) Windows Storage Server
4 2 (4.000%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.000%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (46.00%) Cisco
2 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (14.00%) Red Hat
4 6 (12.00%) HP
4 6 (12.00%) Citrix
5 5 (10.00%) VMware
5 5 (10.00%) Juniper
5 5 (10.00%) Oracle
6 4 (8.000%) NetApp
7 3 (6.000%) EMC
7 3 (6.000%) CheckPoint
8 2 (4.000%) Apple
8 2 (4.000%) Symantec
8 2 (4.000%) Veritas
8 2 (4.000%) SonicWALL
9 1 (2.000%) ProCurve
9 1 (2.000%) Isilon
9 1 (2.000%) F5
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