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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 40 43 28
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -15
Permanent jobs citing LAN 3 15 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 1.402% 3.713% 4.049%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.000% 13.16% 15.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 8
Average salary £32,500 £55,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.90% +64.17%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £20,000 £31,850
10% offered a salary of more than £40,100 £55,000 £33,950
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Cheltenham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
50 114 66
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheltenham 23.36% 28.22% 26.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47 71 48
Average salary £37,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £28,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
LAN
Gloucestershire

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAN across the Cheltenham region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheltenham LAN Salary Histogram

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) Broadband
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 2 (66.67%) Terminal Services
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) AppSense
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (33.33%) MCITP
3 1 (33.33%) PDA
3 1 (33.33%) Automotive
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Websense
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) CCA
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix Certification

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheltenham 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 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Broadband
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 1st Line Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Project Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 1st Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (33.33%) MCITP
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) CCA
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
1 2 (66.67%) Terminal Services
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 2 (66.67%) AppSense
3 1 (33.33%) Websense
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