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The table below looks at the demand for Local Area Network (LAN) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkLocal Area Network (LAN)
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank9897
Rank change on same period last yearDown-1
Matching permanent IT job ads391350
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.226 %0.151 %
As % of the category below14.67 %15.32 %
Salaries quoted340240
Average minimum salary£45,738£45,644
Average salary£48,908£47,966
% change on same period last year+1.96 %
Average maximum salary£52,078£50,288
UK excluding London average salary£36,152£37,161
% change on same period last year-2.71 %
City of London IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads26662285
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.543 %0.983 %
Salaries quoted23691751
Average minimum salary£45,352£45,327
Average salary£48,985£48,245
% change on same period last year+1.53 %
Average maximum salary£52,618£51,162
UK excluding London average salary£37,928£38,940
% change on same period last year-2.59 %
LAN LondonLAN
London

LAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing LAN across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

City of London LAN Demand Trend

LAN
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing LAN across the City of London region.

City of London LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAN across the City of London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

City of London LAN Salary Histogram

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1710 (86.90 %)WAN
2388 (47.49 %)Cisco
3351 (42.96 %)Windows
4294 (35.99 %)Finance
5257 (31.46 %)Firewall
6216 (26.44 %)Cisco Certification
7185 (22.64 %)TCP/IP
8184 (22.52 %)Active Directory
9158 (19.34 %)CCNP
10156 (19.09 %)Windows Server 2003
11143 (17.50 %)Microsoft
12142 (17.38 %)Banking
13136 (16.65 %)UNIX
14130 (15.91 %)VPN
15123 (15.06 %)MS Exchange
15123 (15.06 %)VoIP
1697 (11.87 %)Linux
1795 (11.63 %)SAN
1892 (11.26 %)Windows XP
1989 (10.89 %)MPLS
2087 (10.65 %)CheckPoint
2184 (10.28 %)OSPF
2184 (10.28 %)SQL Server
2184 (10.28 %)VMware
2282 (10.04 %)Citrix
2381 (9.914 %)CCNA
2479 (9.670 %)Exchange Server 2003
2577 (9.425 %)BGP
2577 (9.425 %)SQL
2577 (9.425 %)Solaris

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

City of London IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
117 (2.081 %)J2EE
214 (1.714 %)XML
313 (1.591 %)HTML
410 (1.224 %).NET
58 (0.979 %)JMS
58 (0.979 %)Application Packaging
67 (0.857 %)FIX Protocol
67 (0.857 %)WebSphere
75 (0.612 %)ASP.NET
75 (0.612 %)CSS
82 (0.245 %)CGI
82 (0.245 %)Middleware
82 (0.245 %)ODBC
91 (0.122 %)Software Packaging
City of London IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1123 (15.06 %)MS Exchange
279 (9.670 %)Exchange Server 2003
328 (3.427 %)IIS
427 (3.305 %)Lotus Notes
427 (3.305 %)Apache
522 (2.693 %)Exchange Server 2007
618 (2.203 %)Tomcat
716 (1.958 %)SharePoint
716 (1.958 %)Exchange Server 2000
86 (0.734 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
94 (0.490 %)Exchange Server 5.5
103 (0.367 %)Lotus Domino
112 (0.245 %)BizTalk Server
121 (0.122 %)Office Communications Server
121 (0.122 %)TIBCO EMS
City of London IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
176 (9.302 %)MS Excel
275 (9.180 %)MS Office
35 (0.612 %)MS Visio
44 (0.490 %)MS PowerPoint
52 (0.245 %)AutoCAD
52 (0.245 %)MS Project
City of London IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
17 (0.857 %)SoftGrid
25 (0.612 %)Dynamics CRM
25 (0.612 %)Microsoft CRM
City of London IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1710 (86.90 %)WAN
2257 (31.46 %)Firewall
3185 (22.64 %)TCP/IP
4130 (15.91 %)VPN
5123 (15.06 %)VoIP
695 (11.63 %)SAN
789 (10.89 %)MPLS
884 (10.28 %)OSPF
977 (9.425 %)BGP
1067 (8.201 %)Network Security
1165 (7.956 %)DNS
1254 (6.610 %)Internet
1353 (6.487 %)RIP
1452 (6.365 %)EIGRP
1546 (5.630 %)VLAN
1644 (5.386 %)Cisco IPT
1742 (5.141 %)IP Telephony
1841 (5.018 %)Wireless
1937 (4.529 %)DHCP
2030 (3.672 %)Cisco PIX
City of London IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
184 (10.28 %)SQL Server
221 (2.570 %)MySQL
317 (2.081 %)SQL Server 2005
415 (1.836 %)SQL Server 2000
510 (1.224 %)RDBMS
63 (0.367 %)OLAP
72 (0.245 %)Crystal Reports
72 (0.245 %)SQLPlus
72 (0.245 %)Sybase ASE
81 (0.122 %)Oracle 9i
81 (0.122 %)DB2
City of London IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
111 (1.346 %)Ant
21 (0.122 %)ClearCase
21 (0.122 %)ClearQuest
21 (0.122 %)MSI
21 (0.122 %)Subversion
21 (0.122 %)JIRA
City of London IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1294 (35.99 %)Finance
2142 (17.38 %)Banking
367 (8.201 %)Telecoms
447 (5.753 %)Investment Banking
545 (5.508 %)Law
635 (4.284 %)Education
731 (3.794 %)Back Office
830 (3.672 %)Legal
922 (2.693 %)Pensions
1021 (2.570 %)Insurance
1021 (2.570 %)Health
1116 (1.958 %)Financial Institution
127 (0.857 %)Marketing
136 (0.734 %)Front Office
136 (0.734 %)Electric
145 (0.612 %)Auditing
154 (0.490 %)Government
154 (0.490 %)Publishing
163 (0.367 %)Retail
163 (0.367 %)Music
City of London IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1157 (19.22 %)Network Engineer
2146 (17.87 %)Analyst
381 (9.914 %)Support Analyst
459 (7.222 %)Consultant
558 (7.099 %)Architect
640 (4.896 %)Administrator
736 (4.406 %)Senior Network Engineer
736 (4.406 %)Support Engineer
832 (3.917 %)Desktop Support
931 (3.794 %)Infrastructure Manager
1028 (3.427 %)Network Support
1127 (3.305 %)IT Manager
1226 (3.182 %)Team Leader
1325 (3.060 %)Cisco Engineer
1325 (3.060 %)Infrastructure Analyst
1424 (2.938 %)Network Analyst
1424 (2.938 %)Project Manager
1424 (2.938 %)Systems Engineer
1424 (2.938 %)Network Specialist
1523 (2.815 %)Senior Analyst
City of London IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
122 (2.693 %)Blackberry
122 (2.693 %)Derivative
218 (2.203 %)Equities
316 (1.958 %)Client/Server
411 (1.346 %)Fixed Income
58 (0.979 %)Clustering
67 (0.857 %)PDA
76 (0.734 %)EMC Centera
85 (0.612 %)Computer Science
85 (0.612 %)Video Conferencing
85 (0.612 %)AS400
94 (0.490 %)Replication
94 (0.490 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
94 (0.490 %)Statistics
94 (0.490 %)Streaming Media
94 (0.490 %)IPTV
102 (0.245 %)Spread Betting
102 (0.245 %)EPoS
102 (0.245 %)CLARiiON
102 (0.245 %)Symmetrix
City of London IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1351 (42.96 %)Windows
2156 (19.09 %)Windows Server 2003
3136 (16.65 %)UNIX
497 (11.87 %)Linux
592 (11.26 %)Windows XP
677 (9.425 %)Solaris
755 (6.732 %)Windows 2000
833 (4.039 %)Windows Vista
921 (2.570 %)Windows 2000 Server
1020 (2.448 %)Red Hat Linux
1110 (1.224 %)HPUX
126 (0.734 %)AIX
133 (0.367 %)Windows Server 2008
133 (0.367 %)NetWare
142 (0.245 %)Windows NT
151 (0.122 %)VMS
151 (0.122 %)Mac OS X
151 (0.122 %)SUSE
151 (0.122 %)Debian
151 (0.122 %)Mandriva Linux
City of London IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
166 (8.078 %)ITIL
246 (5.630 %)Network Design
345 (5.508 %)Disaster Recovery
444 (5.386 %)Service Delivery
543 (5.263 %)Project Management
634 (4.162 %)PRINCE2
724 (2.938 %)Asset Management
822 (2.693 %)Business Continuity
920 (2.448 %)Investment Management
1017 (2.081 %)Service Management
1116 (1.958 %)Load Balancing
1213 (1.591 %)CRM
1311 (1.346 %)Electronic Trading
1410 (1.224 %)Security Management
158 (0.979 %)Incident Management
158 (0.979 %)Configuration Management
158 (0.979 %)Requirements Analysis
158 (0.979 %)Problem Management
167 (0.857 %)Release Management
167 (0.857 %)Document Management
City of London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
177 (9.425 %)SQL
236 (4.406 %)Perl
332 (3.917 %)Shell Script
431 (3.794 %)C
511 (1.346 %)VB
610 (1.224 %)Java
79 (1.102 %)C#
88 (0.979 %)PL/SQL
96 (0.734 %)C++
96 (0.734 %)VBScript
105 (0.612 %)VB.NET
114 (0.490 %)Python
122 (0.245 %)Korn
131 (0.122 %)VBA
131 (0.122 %)Transact-SQL
City of London IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1216 (26.44 %)Cisco Certification
2158 (19.34 %)CCNP
381 (9.914 %)CCNA
474 (9.058 %)Microsoft Certification
571 (8.690 %)Degree
662 (7.589 %)MCSE
760 (7.344 %)CCIE
838 (4.651 %)CCDP
937 (4.529 %)CCIP
1026 (3.182 %)MBA
1122 (2.693 %)CCSP
1215 (1.836 %)CCDA
1313 (1.591 %)MCP
1410 (1.224 %)CISSP
1410 (1.224 %)CCVP
159 (1.102 %)CCSE
168 (0.979 %)MCSA
177 (0.857 %)CISA
177 (0.857 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
186 (0.734 %)CCSA
City of London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
141 (5.018 %)SLA
27 (0.857 %)QA
31 (0.122 %)BS7799
31 (0.122 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
31 (0.122 %)ISO27001
City of London IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1184 (22.52 %)Active Directory
253 (6.487 %)VMware Infrastructure
321 (2.570 %)Backup Exec
413 (1.591 %)VMware ESX
511 (1.346 %)Citrix Presentation Server
67 (0.857 %)Xen
76 (0.734 %)NetBackup
76 (0.734 %)ISA Server
84 (0.490 %)MetaFrame
93 (0.367 %)Terminal Server
102 (0.245 %)NDS
111 (0.122 %)NFS
111 (0.122 %)Samba
111 (0.122 %)VMware Workstation
111 (0.122 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
111 (0.122 %)BlackBerry Internet Service
City of London IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
120 (2.448 %)OpenView
219 (2.326 %)CiscoWorks
314 (1.714 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
48 (0.979 %)HP Data Protector
55 (0.612 %)Norton AntiVirus
64 (0.490 %)MAILsweeper
72 (0.245 %)AutoSys
72 (0.245 %)Tivoli
81 (0.122 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
81 (0.122 %)MOM
81 (0.122 %)BMC PATROL
81 (0.122 %)ARCserve
81 (0.122 %)ZENworks
81 (0.122 %)DameWare
81 (0.122 %)SCCM
81 (0.122 %)MIMEsweeper
City of London IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1388 (47.49 %)Cisco
2143 (17.50 %)Microsoft
387 (10.65 %)CheckPoint
484 (10.28 %)VMware
582 (10.04 %)Citrix
656 (6.854 %)Juniper
755 (6.732 %)HP
850 (6.120 %)Reuters
948 (5.875 %)Oracle
1047 (5.753 %)Bloomberg
1141 (5.018 %)Nortel
1231 (3.794 %)EMC
1231 (3.794 %)IBM
1330 (3.672 %)Lotus
1330 (3.672 %)Blue Coat
1426 (3.182 %)Nokia
1523 (2.815 %)Avaya
1620 (2.448 %)Red Hat
1716 (1.958 %)Sybase
1815 (1.836 %)Symantec