The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 17 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 Coventry region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 43 49 47
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -2
Permanent jobs citing LAN 22 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 3.661% 1.120% 1.050%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.03% 10.26% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 22 4 4
Average salary £27,000 £33,750 £36,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% -8.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,100 £26,500 £27,650
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £42,750 £50,050
UK excluding London average salary £37,250 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.97% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Coventry
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
122 39 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 20.30% 10.92% 7.874%
Number of salaries quoted 104 35 28
Average salary £35,000 £28,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.80% -43.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £24,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £48,800 £57,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
LAN
West Midlands

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAN across the Coventry region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Coventry LAN Salary Histogram

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 42 (89.36%) WAN
2 22 (46.81%) Windows
3 19 (40.43%) Citrix
3 19 (40.43%) Firewall
4 16 (34.04%) Service Delivery
5 13 (27.66%) TCP/IP
5 13 (27.66%) Cisco
6 11 (23.40%) DNS
6 11 (23.40%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (23.40%) CCNP
6 11 (23.40%) CCNA
7 10 (21.28%) Active Directory
7 10 (21.28%) SLA
7 10 (21.28%) VMware
8 9 (19.15%) Retail
8 9 (19.15%) VPN
9 8 (17.02%) Project Management
9 8 (17.02%) MS Exchange
9 8 (17.02%) ITIL
9 8 (17.02%) Service Management
9 8 (17.02%) Supplier Management
9 8 (17.02%) Network Security
10 7 (14.89%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (14.89%) Requirements Analysis
10 7 (14.89%) xDSL
10 7 (14.89%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (14.89%) DHCP
10 7 (14.89%) GPRS
10 7 (14.89%) ISDN
10 7 (14.89%) UMTS

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 Development
1 5 (10.64%) .NET
2 1 (2.128%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 8 (17.02%) MS Exchange
2 5 (10.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.128%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (2.128%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (2.128%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (10.64%) MS Excel
2 3 (6.383%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 42 (89.36%) WAN
2 19 (40.43%) Firewall
3 13 (27.66%) TCP/IP
4 11 (23.40%) DNS
5 9 (19.15%) VPN
6 8 (17.02%) Network Security
7 7 (14.89%) xDSL
7 7 (14.89%) DHCP
7 7 (14.89%) GPRS
7 7 (14.89%) ISDN
7 7 (14.89%) UMTS
7 7 (14.89%) Internet
7 7 (14.89%) MPLS
8 6 (12.77%) Ethernet
8 6 (12.77%) Wireless
9 3 (6.383%) SAN
10 2 (4.255%) 3G
10 2 (4.255%) DECT
10 2 (4.255%) PBX
10 2 (4.255%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.128%) DB2
General
1 9 (19.15%) Retail
2 2 (4.255%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.255%) Automotive
2 2 (4.255%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (19.15%) Coordinator
1 9 (19.15%) Analyst
2 8 (17.02%) Project Coordinator
3 7 (14.89%) IT Administrator
3 7 (14.89%) Network Administrator
3 7 (14.89%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (14.89%) Graduate
3 7 (14.89%) Junior
3 7 (14.89%) Support Analyst
3 7 (14.89%) Administrator
4 4 (8.511%) Network Analyst
4 4 (8.511%) Network Support Analyst
4 4 (8.511%) Network Engineer
4 4 (8.511%) Network Support
4 4 (8.511%) Designer
5 3 (6.383%) Technical Designer
6 2 (4.255%) IT Support
6 2 (4.255%) IT Support Analyst
6 2 (4.255%) Help Desk Analyst
6 2 (4.255%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Clustering
2 2 (4.255%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.128%) EPoS
3 1 (2.128%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.128%) SaaS
3 1 (2.128%) PaaS
3 1 (2.128%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 22 (46.81%) Windows
2 7 (14.89%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (14.89%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (10.64%) Solaris
3 5 (10.64%) Linux
4 2 (4.255%) Windows 7
4 2 (4.255%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.04%) Service Delivery
2 8 (17.02%) ITIL
2 8 (17.02%) Project Management
2 8 (17.02%) Service Management
2 8 (17.02%) Supplier Management
3 7 (14.89%) Requirements Analysis
3 7 (14.89%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (10.64%) Network Design
5 4 (8.511%) Network Management
5 4 (8.511%) Technical Architecture
6 3 (6.383%) Incident Management
7 1 (2.128%) Change Management
7 1 (2.128%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (2.128%) Data Security
7 1 (2.128%) Asset Management
7 1 (2.128%) Release Management
7 1 (2.128%) Load Testing
7 1 (2.128%) Time Management
7 1 (2.128%) QMS
7 1 (2.128%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.64%) Java
2 2 (4.255%) SQL
3 1 (2.128%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) CCNP
1 11 (23.40%) CCNA
1 11 (23.40%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (14.89%) CCIE
3 2 (4.255%) Degree
3 2 (4.255%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.128%) MCITP
4 1 (2.128%) MCP
4 1 (2.128%) MCSE
4 1 (2.128%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.28%) SLA
2 7 (14.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (8.511%) QA
4 1 (2.128%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.255%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.255%) vSphere
3 2 (4.255%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (4.255%) ARCserve
1 2 (4.255%) SCCM
2 1 (2.128%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 19 (40.43%) Citrix
2 13 (27.66%) Cisco
3 10 (21.28%) VMware
4 6 (12.77%) HP
4 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
5 5 (10.64%) Sun
5 5 (10.64%) IBM
6 4 (8.511%) Twitter
7 2 (4.255%) Dell
7 2 (4.255%) EMC
7 2 (4.255%) BT
7 2 (4.255%) Juniper
7 2 (4.255%) NetApp
8 1 (2.128%) Lotus