The first table below looks at the demand for WAN Optimisation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN Optimisation over the 3 months to 21 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WAN Optimization
Rank 115 126 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Permanent jobs citing WAN Optimisation 3 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.166% 0.051% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.219% 0.067% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £33,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £29,429 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-34.60% +20.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1369 1493 1122
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 75.93% 76.21% 68.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1056 1313 954
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £60,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
WAN Optimisation
North West

WAN Optimisation
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing WAN Optimisation across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cheshire WAN Optimisation Jobs Demand Trend

WAN Optimisation
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire WAN Optimisation Salary Trend

WAN Optimisation
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing WAN Optimisation 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 Optimisation.

1 8 (100.00%) AIX
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Cognos
1 8 (100.00%) WAN
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
1 8 (100.00%) IBM
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) EMC
1 8 (100.00%) Juniper
1 8 (100.00%) SAN
1 8 (100.00%) Lotus
1 8 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 8 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 8 (100.00%) Service Management
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
1 8 (100.00%) ITSM
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
1 8 (100.00%) Validation
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
1 8 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 8 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 8 (100.00%) Xen
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (100.00%) Riverbed
1 8 (100.00%) Isilon
1 8 (100.00%) High Availability
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus

WAN Optimisation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing WAN Optimisation 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 Optimisation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (100.00%) WebSphere
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) WAN
1 8 (100.00%) SAN
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Consultant
1 8 (100.00%) Sales Consultant
1 8 (100.00%) Technical Consultant
1 8 (100.00%) Pre Sales Consultant
1 8 (100.00%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) AIX
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Service Management
1 8 (100.00%) ITSM
1 8 (100.00%) Validation
1 8 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 8 (100.00%) High Availability
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Xen
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 8 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cognos
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
1 8 (100.00%) IBM
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) EMC
1 8 (100.00%) Juniper
1 8 (100.00%) Lotus
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
1 8 (100.00%) Riverbed
1 8 (100.00%) Isilon