The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 24 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 Canary Wharf region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 41 46 32
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -14
Permanent jobs citing WAN 5 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 1.742% 0.581% 0.521%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.82% 3.922% 11.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
Average salary £65,000 £37,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+75.67% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
39 51 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 13.59% 14.83% 4.688%
Number of salaries quoted 28 48 6
Average salary £52,500 £75,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.00% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £37,000 £60,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £75,000 £100,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
London

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 (100.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Wireless
3 3 (60.00%) F5
3 3 (60.00%) Juniper
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (40.00%) DNS
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco
4 2 (40.00%) CCIE
4 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (40.00%) IP Telephony
4 2 (40.00%) BIG-IP
5 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (20.00%) PKI
5 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) VLAN
5 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (20.00%) Back Office
5 1 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (20.00%) Law
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (20.00%) VMware
5 1 (20.00%) Clustering
5 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (20.00%) Information Security
5 1 (20.00%) WSUS
5 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (20.00%) Release Management
5 1 (20.00%) Network Security

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Wireless
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) IP Telephony
3 2 (40.00%) BIG-IP
4 1 (20.00%) VLAN
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
4 1 (20.00%) SDH
4 1 (20.00%) VoIP
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP
4 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
4 1 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) LDAP
4 1 (20.00%) ISDN
4 1 (20.00%) Internet
4 1 (20.00%) DWDM
4 1 (20.00%) MPLS
4 1 (20.00%) OSPF
4 1 (20.00%) BGP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Back Office
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Services Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Integration Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
1 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (20.00%) Information Security
1 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (20.00%) Release Management
1 1 (20.00%) Investment Management
1 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL V3
1 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (20.00%) Project Management
1 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) CCIE
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (20.00%) MCSE
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) F5
1 3 (60.00%) Juniper
2 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Riverbed
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Avaya