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This section looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) 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 WAN over the last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkWide Area Network (WAN)
Location
3 months to 9 May 2008Same period last year
Rank77132
Rank change on same period last yearUp+55
Matching permanent IT job ads552257
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.269 %0.115 %
As % of the category below17.90 %12.28 %
Salaries quoted500205
Average minimum salary£47,560£44,941
Average salary£50,824£47,559
% change on same period last year+6.86 %
Average maximum salary£54,087£50,176
UK excluding London average salary£36,318£37,324
% change on same period last year-2.69 %
Communications & Networking City of LondonCommunications & Networking
City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads30842093
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.503 %0.935 %
Salaries quoted27191660
Average minimum salary£45,465£45,887
Average salary£48,989£48,823
% change on same period last year+0.33 %
Average maximum salary£52,512£51,759
UK excluding London average salary£37,741£38,938
% change on same period last year-3.07 %
WAN LondonWAN
London

WAN
Demand Trend

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

City of London WAN Demand Trend

WAN
Salary Trend

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

City of London WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the City of London region over the past 3 months.

City of London WAN Salary Histogram

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the City of London region citing WAN also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WAN.

1708 (76.29 %)LAN
2502 (54.09 %)Cisco
3357 (38.47 %)Finance
4351 (37.82 %)Windows
5341 (36.75 %)Firewall
6257 (27.69 %)Cisco Certification
7241 (25.97 %)VPN
8202 (21.77 %)TCP/IP
9175 (18.86 %)CheckPoint
10155 (16.70 %)CCNP
11141 (15.19 %)Windows Server 2003
12139 (14.98 %)Linux
13129 (13.90 %)Active Directory
13129 (13.90 %)Microsoft
14122 (13.15 %)OSPF
15117 (12.61 %)BGP
16115 (12.39 %)Banking
17113 (12.18 %)MPLS
18111 (11.96 %)Telecoms
19109 (11.75 %)MS Exchange
20107 (11.53 %)VoIP
21103 (11.10 %)CCNA
21103 (11.10 %)Exchange Server 2003
22100 (10.78 %)Unix
2394 (10.13 %)CCIE
2493 (10.02 %)DNS
2584 (9.052 %)MS Office
2677 (8.297 %)SQL
2776 (8.190 %)Cisco IOS
2873 (7.866 %)EIGRP

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the City of London region citing WAN also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
18 (0.862 %)FIX Protocol
26 (0.647 %).NET
33 (0.323 %)EJB
33 (0.323 %)WebSphere
42 (0.216 %)HTML
42 (0.216 %)Hibernate
42 (0.216 %)Spring
42 (0.216 %)J2EE
42 (0.216 %)ASP
42 (0.216 %)JDBC
42 (0.216 %)JSP
51 (0.108 %)WebServices
51 (0.108 %)XML
51 (0.108 %)XSLT
51 (0.108 %)ODBC
51 (0.108 %)XHTML
51 (0.108 %)ADSI
51 (0.108 %)CSS
51 (0.108 %)WMI
Application Platforms
1109 (11.75 %)MS Exchange
2103 (11.10 %)Exchange Server 2003
352 (5.603 %)Exchange Server 2000
437 (3.987 %)IIS
522 (2.371 %)SharePoint
621 (2.263 %)Apache
718 (1.940 %)Exchange Server 2007
83 (0.323 %)Tomcat
83 (0.323 %)JBoss
83 (0.323 %)WebLogic
83 (0.323 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
83 (0.323 %)Exchange Server 5.5
91 (0.108 %)Lotus Notes
91 (0.108 %)TIBCO EMS
Applications
184 (9.052 %)MS Office
268 (7.328 %)MS Excel
37 (0.754 %)MS PowerPoint
43 (0.323 %)MS Project
43 (0.323 %)MS Visio
51 (0.108 %)Acrobat
Business Applications
131 (3.341 %)RMDS
27 (0.754 %)Navision
36 (0.647 %)Bankmaster
36 (0.647 %)FLEXCUBE
42 (0.216 %)Kondor+
42 (0.216 %)Misys Opics
51 (0.108 %)e-Work
Communications & Networking
1708 (76.29 %)LAN
2341 (36.75 %)Firewall
3241 (25.97 %)VPN
4202 (21.77 %)TCP/IP
5122 (13.15 %)OSPF
6117 (12.61 %)BGP
7113 (12.18 %)MPLS
8107 (11.53 %)VoIP
993 (10.02 %)DNS
1076 (8.190 %)Cisco IOS
1173 (7.866 %)EIGRP
1173 (7.866 %)SAN
1271 (7.651 %)Internet
1361 (6.573 %)DHCP
1459 (6.358 %)VLAN
1550 (5.388 %)Network Security
1640 (4.310 %)RIP
1738 (4.095 %)IP Telephony
1837 (3.987 %)Wireless
1936 (3.879 %)Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
164 (6.897 %)SQL Server
219 (2.047 %)SQL Server 2000
317 (1.832 %)SQL Server 2005
413 (1.401 %)SQL Server 7
511 (1.185 %)Oracle 10g
610 (1.078 %)Oracle 9i
79 (0.970 %)DTS
86 (0.647 %)BusinessObjects
94 (0.431 %)MySQL
102 (0.216 %)Crystal Reports
102 (0.216 %)RDBMS
102 (0.216 %)SQLPlus
111 (0.108 %)DB2
111 (0.108 %)ETL
111 (0.108 %)MS Access
Development Applications
12 (0.216 %)Subversion
General
1357 (38.47 %)Finance
2115 (12.39 %)Banking
3111 (11.96 %)Telecoms
448 (5.172 %)Law
546 (4.957 %)Pensions
638 (4.095 %)Investment Banking
734 (3.664 %)Financial Institution
826 (2.802 %)Education
922 (2.371 %)Back Office
1019 (2.047 %)Legal
1019 (2.047 %)Insurance
1118 (1.940 %)Health
127 (0.754 %)Retail
127 (0.754 %)Front Office
134 (0.431 %)Billing
143 (0.323 %)Government
152 (0.216 %)Aerospace
152 (0.216 %)Auditing
161 (0.108 %)Multimedia
161 (0.108 %)Publishing
Job Titles
1214 (23.06 %)Network Engineer
2148 (15.95 %)Analyst
388 (9.483 %)Network Support
486 (9.267 %)Support Analyst
580 (8.621 %)Network Analyst
665 (7.004 %)Architect
757 (6.142 %)Consultant
850 (5.388 %)3rd Line Support
948 (5.172 %)Administrator
1040 (4.310 %)Support Engineer
1136 (3.879 %)Senior Network Engineer
1235 (3.772 %)Network Support Analyst
1333 (3.556 %)Presales Consultant
1432 (3.448 %)Network Architect
1432 (3.448 %)Cisco Engineer
1432 (3.448 %)Systems Engineer
1527 (2.909 %)Sales Consultant
1527 (2.909 %)Project Manager
1626 (2.802 %)Cisco Analyst
1725 (2.694 %)Cisco Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
131 (3.341 %)Clustering
220 (2.155 %)Blackberry
319 (2.047 %)Statistics
415 (1.616 %)Asset Management
513 (1.401 %)Video Conferencing
611 (1.185 %)Derivative
611 (1.185 %)Equities
710 (1.078 %)Replication
89 (0.970 %)PMI
98 (0.862 %)Client/Server
105 (0.539 %)Thin Client
105 (0.539 %)Fat Client
114 (0.431 %)Computer Science
114 (0.431 %)Firmware
123 (0.323 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
123 (0.323 %)DTV
123 (0.323 %)CLARiiON
123 (0.323 %)Symmetrix
123 (0.323 %)EMC Centera
123 (0.323 %)PDA
Operating Systems
1351 (37.82 %)Windows
2141 (15.19 %)Windows Server 2003
3139 (14.98 %)Linux
4100 (10.78 %)Unix
568 (7.328 %)Windows 2000
658 (6.250 %)Solaris
753 (5.711 %)Windows XP
824 (2.586 %)Windows NT
910 (1.078 %)NetWare
109 (0.970 %)HPUX
116 (0.647 %)MVS
123 (0.323 %)Mac OS X
132 (0.216 %)Debian
132 (0.216 %)Mandriva Linux
141 (0.108 %)Windows Mobile
141 (0.108 %)SUSE
141 (0.108 %)AIX
Processes & Methodologies
169 (7.435 %)Network Design
246 (4.957 %)Project Management
338 (4.095 %)ITIL
436 (3.879 %)Service Delivery
532 (3.448 %)Disaster Recovery
627 (2.909 %)PRINCE2
627 (2.909 %)Investment Management
715 (1.616 %)Migration
813 (1.401 %)Configuration Management
911 (1.185 %)Load Balancing
1010 (1.078 %)Time Management
119 (0.970 %)Performance Management
119 (0.970 %)Resource Management
128 (0.862 %)Incident Management
128 (0.862 %)Data Security
128 (0.862 %)Security Management
137 (0.754 %)Service Management
146 (0.647 %)Business Continuity
146 (0.647 %)Project Planning
146 (0.647 %)Business Development
Programming Languages
177 (8.297 %)SQL
229 (3.125 %)Perl
316 (1.724 %)C
412 (1.293 %)Java
59 (0.970 %)C++
59 (0.970 %)VB
68 (0.862 %)Shell Script
75 (0.539 %)C#
83 (0.323 %)PHP
92 (0.216 %)VB.NET
92 (0.216 %)DHTML
92 (0.216 %)PowerHouse
Qualifications
1257 (27.69 %)Cisco Certification
2155 (16.70 %)CCNP
3103 (11.10 %)CCNA
494 (10.13 %)CCIE
549 (5.280 %)Microsoft Certification
645 (4.849 %)MCSE
742 (4.526 %)Degree
835 (3.772 %)CCDP
932 (3.448 %)CCIP
1018 (1.940 %)CCVP
1116 (1.724 %)MBA
1211 (1.185 %)MCP
1310 (1.078 %)CCSP
149 (0.970 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
158 (0.862 %)CCSA
158 (0.862 %)PRINCE2 Certification
167 (0.754 %)CCSE
174 (0.431 %)JNCIA
174 (0.431 %)HND
182 (0.216 %)MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
135 (3.772 %)SLA
21 (0.108 %)QA
21 (0.108 %)PCI DSS
System Software
1129 (13.90 %)Active Directory
221 (2.263 %)VMware ESX
311 (1.185 %)Backup Exec
49 (0.970 %)Oracle RMAN
58 (0.862 %)ISA Server
67 (0.754 %)Citrix Presentation Server
67 (0.754 %)VMware Server
74 (0.431 %)Terminal Services
83 (0.323 %)Terminal Server
83 (0.323 %)NDS
92 (0.216 %)NetBackup
101 (0.108 %)NFS
101 (0.108 %)MetaFrame
Systems Management
138 (4.095 %)OpenView
222 (2.371 %)CiscoWorks
312 (1.293 %)MOM
410 (1.078 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
57 (0.754 %)ZENworks
66 (0.647 %)Nagios
66 (0.647 %)HP Data Protector
75 (0.539 %)Netcool
84 (0.431 %)Tivoli
93 (0.323 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
93 (0.323 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
93 (0.323 %)MAILsweeper
93 (0.323 %)Netcool/Proviso
101 (0.108 %)Norton AntiVirus
101 (0.108 %)AutoSys
101 (0.108 %)BMC PATROL
Vendors
1502 (54.09 %)Cisco
2175 (18.86 %)CheckPoint
3129 (13.90 %)Microsoft
470 (7.543 %)Citrix
569 (7.435 %)HP
666 (7.112 %)Nokia
750 (5.388 %)Nortel
847 (5.065 %)VMware
942 (4.526 %)Reuters
1038 (4.095 %)Juniper
1128 (3.017 %)Oracle
1222 (2.371 %)Bloomberg
1318 (1.940 %)IBM
1318 (1.940 %)EMC
1416 (1.724 %)VERITAS
1515 (1.616 %)Blue Coat
1614 (1.509 %)Concord
1713 (1.401 %)Avaya
1713 (1.401 %)Sun
1811 (1.185 %)Novell
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