The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 43 34 65
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +31
Permanent jobs citing LAN 21 13 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 3.671% 3.110% 1.213%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.58% 21.67% 10.29%
Number of salaries quoted 21 13 7
Average salary £32,500 £33,000 £46,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.51% -28.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £30,500 £30,200
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,250 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.97% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
113 60 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 19.76% 14.35% 11.79%
Number of salaries quoted 105 57 61
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £24,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £46,775 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
LAN
South Wales

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Salary Histogram

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

Cardiff LAN Salary Histogram

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 27 (90.00%) WAN
2 17 (56.67%) Cisco
3 16 (53.33%) Wireless
4 13 (43.33%) ITIL
4 13 (43.33%) VMware
5 12 (40.00%) Firewall
5 12 (40.00%) Windows
6 10 (33.33%) MS Exchange
6 10 (33.33%) MPLS
7 9 (30.00%) DHCP
8 8 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (23.33%) BGP
9 7 (23.33%) Advertising
9 7 (23.33%) VPN
9 7 (23.33%) CCNP
9 7 (23.33%) Network Design
9 7 (23.33%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (20.00%) Hyper-V
10 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
10 6 (20.00%) CCIE
10 6 (20.00%) DNS
10 6 (20.00%) MS Excel
10 6 (20.00%) Dell
10 6 (20.00%) SAN
11 5 (16.67%) OSPF
11 5 (16.67%) EIGRP
11 5 (16.67%) PRINCE2
11 5 (16.67%) CCDP
11 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
11 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 2 (6.667%) HTML
1 2 (6.667%) .NET
1 2 (6.667%) CSS
1 2 (6.667%) JSP
1 2 (6.667%) XML
1 2 (6.667%) Middleware
2 1 (3.333%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 10 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 4 (13.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 4 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (3.333%) Apache
4 1 (3.333%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.667%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.333%) INSURE/90
Communications & Networking
1 27 (90.00%) WAN
2 16 (53.33%) Wireless
3 12 (40.00%) Firewall
4 10 (33.33%) MPLS
5 9 (30.00%) DHCP
6 7 (23.33%) VPN
6 7 (23.33%) BGP
7 6 (20.00%) DNS
7 6 (20.00%) SAN
8 5 (16.67%) EIGRP
8 5 (16.67%) OSPF
8 5 (16.67%) Cisco PIX
8 5 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (13.33%) Unified Communications
10 3 (10.00%) WLAN
10 3 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (10.00%) Ethernet
11 2 (6.667%) TCP/IP
11 2 (6.667%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (23.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Analyst
1 7 (23.33%) Network Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Design Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Network Design Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Support Team Leader
3 4 (13.33%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Team Leader
3 4 (13.33%) Server Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Service Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Network Support
5 2 (6.667%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Network Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Support Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Network Support Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (13.33%) EqualLogic
2 4 (13.33%) Video Editing
2 4 (13.33%) Blackberry
2 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 4 (13.33%) BBC
3 3 (10.00%) Statistics
4 2 (6.667%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (10.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (10.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) ITIL
2 7 (23.33%) Network Design
3 5 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 5 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 5 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 4 (13.33%) Service Management
4 4 (13.33%) Migration
4 4 (13.33%) Information Security
4 4 (13.33%) Communications Security
5 3 (10.00%) Network Architecture
6 2 (6.667%) Change Management
6 2 (6.667%) Project Management
7 1 (3.333%) Problem Management
7 1 (3.333%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.667%) Java
1 2 (6.667%) JavaScript
1 2 (6.667%) RPG
1 2 (6.667%) SQL
1 2 (6.667%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (23.33%) CCNP
3 6 (20.00%) CCIE
4 5 (16.67%) CCDP
4 5 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (10.00%) CCDA
6 2 (6.667%) CCIP
6 2 (6.667%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (3.333%) CCSA
7 1 (3.333%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) SLA
2 1 (3.333%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.667%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (6.667%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (6.667%) NetBackup
1 2 (6.667%) Backup Exec
1 2 (6.667%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Cisco
2 13 (43.33%) VMware
3 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (20.00%) Dell
4 5 (16.67%) F5
5 4 (13.33%) HP
5 4 (13.33%) Barracuda Networks
6 3 (10.00%) AirMagnet
6 3 (10.00%) Aruba
6 3 (10.00%) Trapeze
6 3 (10.00%) Intel
7 2 (6.667%) Nortel
7 2 (6.667%) Juniper
7 2 (6.667%) Veritas
7 2 (6.667%) Symantec
7 2 (6.667%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.333%) NetApp
8 1 (3.333%) Avaya
8 1 (3.333%) JBoss