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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 39 35 28
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -7
Permanent jobs citing LAN 3 3 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in County Antrim 1.224% 1.523% 4.878%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.762% 6.818% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 0
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
County Antrim
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
63 44 42
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in County Antrim 25.71% 22.34% 20.49%
Number of salaries quoted 22 20 8
Average salary £42,500 £30,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+41.66% -25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £15,500 £37,800
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
LAN
Northern Ireland

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

County Antrim 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 County Antrim region.

County Antrim LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Belfast -5 3 £35,000 -
LAN
Northern Ireland

LAN
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the County Antrim 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 5 (100.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) ArcSight
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) GCIA
3 1 (20.00%) Internet
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) HTTP
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the County Antrim 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 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) Internet
3 1 (20.00%) HTTP
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Information Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) GCIA
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (80.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat