The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN 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 Docklands, London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 16 35 62
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +27
Permanent jobs citing WAN 15 8 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Docklands, London 8.021% 2.817% 1.314%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.27% 10.26% 15.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12 7 6
Average salary £60,000 £42,500 £56,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+41.17% -24.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,900 £30,400 £38,750
10% offered a salary of more than £79,500 £58,000 £95,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Communications & Networking
Docklands, London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
74 78 53
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Docklands, London 39.57% 27.46% 8.703%
Number of salaries quoted 62 71 27
Average salary £55,000 £45,000 £44,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22% +1.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £28,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £68,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
WAN
London

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, London WAN Jobs Demand Trend

WAN
Salary Trend

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

Docklands, London WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Docklands, London WAN Salary Histogram

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Docklands, London region citing WAN 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.

1 31 (81.58%) LAN
2 28 (73.68%) Cisco
3 15 (39.47%) Finance
4 14 (36.84%) Firewall
5 11 (28.95%) PRINCE2
6 10 (26.32%) TCP/IP
6 10 (26.32%) Project Management
7 9 (23.68%) Telecoms
7 9 (23.68%) Migration
7 9 (23.68%) DWDM
7 9 (23.68%) MPLS
8 8 (21.05%) Juniper
8 8 (21.05%) VPN
8 8 (21.05%) DNS
8 8 (21.05%) UNIX
8 8 (21.05%) SDH
8 8 (21.05%) VoIP
8 8 (21.05%) Network Design
8 8 (21.05%) ATM
8 8 (21.05%) Degree
9 7 (18.42%) Marketing
9 7 (18.42%) Mathematics
9 7 (18.42%) Physics
9 7 (18.42%) Product Management
9 7 (18.42%) xDSL
9 7 (18.42%) SS7
9 7 (18.42%) Q.931
9 7 (18.42%) H.323
9 7 (18.42%) Electronics
9 7 (18.42%) Billing

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Docklands, London region citing WAN 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (7.895%) XML
2 1 (2.632%) Application Packaging
2 1 (2.632%) DCOM
2 1 (2.632%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.263%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.632%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (5.263%) MS Office
1 2 (5.263%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) RMDS
2 1 (2.632%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 31 (81.58%) LAN
2 14 (36.84%) Firewall
3 10 (26.32%) TCP/IP
4 9 (23.68%) DWDM
4 9 (23.68%) MPLS
5 8 (21.05%) VPN
5 8 (21.05%) DNS
5 8 (21.05%) SDH
5 8 (21.05%) VoIP
5 8 (21.05%) ATM
6 7 (18.42%) xDSL
6 7 (18.42%) Ethernet
6 7 (18.42%) SS7
6 7 (18.42%) Q.931
6 7 (18.42%) H.323
7 5 (13.16%) Network Security
8 4 (10.53%) SAN
9 2 (5.263%) Internet
9 2 (5.263%) Cisco PIX
10 1 (2.632%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.895%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.632%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.632%) InstallShield
1 1 (2.632%) JIRA
General
1 15 (39.47%) Finance
2 9 (23.68%) Telecoms
3 7 (18.42%) Electronics
3 7 (18.42%) Billing
3 7 (18.42%) Marketing
4 1 (2.632%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.632%) Front Office
4 1 (2.632%) Back Office
4 1 (2.632%) Law
4 1 (2.632%) Legal
4 1 (2.632%) Advertising
4 1 (2.632%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Project Manager
2 7 (18.42%) Voice Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Sales Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Architect
4 5 (13.16%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Service Manager
6 3 (7.895%) Technical Manager
6 3 (7.895%) Technical Services Manager
6 3 (7.895%) Network Engineer
7 2 (5.263%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.263%) Systems Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) Network Security Engineer
8 1 (2.632%) Support Analyst
8 1 (2.632%) Applications Packager
8 1 (2.632%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.632%) Service Analyst
8 1 (2.632%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Streaming Video
1 7 (18.42%) Mathematics
1 7 (18.42%) Physics
2 1 (2.632%) iPhone
2 1 (2.632%) Blackberry
2 1 (2.632%) Clustering
2 1 (2.632%) Equities
2 1 (2.632%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) UNIX
2 7 (18.42%) Windows
3 4 (10.53%) Solaris
4 3 (7.895%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (5.263%) Windows 7
5 2 (5.263%) Linux
5 2 (5.263%) Windows XP
5 2 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.632%) Windows Vista
6 1 (2.632%) Android
6 1 (2.632%) Windows 2000
6 1 (2.632%) Windows NT
6 1 (2.632%) Windows 8
6 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) PRINCE2
2 10 (26.32%) Project Management
3 9 (23.68%) Migration
4 8 (21.05%) Network Design
5 7 (18.42%) Product Management
6 5 (13.16%) Service Management
7 4 (10.53%) ITIL
7 4 (10.53%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (7.895%) Asset Management
8 3 (7.895%) Change Management
8 3 (7.895%) Problem Management
8 3 (7.895%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (7.895%) Business Analytics
8 3 (7.895%) Analytics
8 3 (7.895%) Investment Management
9 2 (5.263%) Network Architecture
9 2 (5.263%) CRM
9 2 (5.263%) Load Balancing
9 2 (5.263%) Incident Management
10 1 (2.632%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.53%) SQL
2 3 (7.895%) PL/SQL
2 3 (7.895%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.263%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.632%) C
4 1 (2.632%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (13.16%) CCIE
3 2 (5.263%) CCSP
3 2 (5.263%) CCNP
3 2 (5.263%) CCNA
3 2 (5.263%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (5.263%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.263%) CCSA
3 2 (5.263%) CCSE
3 2 (5.263%) JNCIE
4 1 (2.632%) MCSE
4 1 (2.632%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.632%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.263%) QA
2 1 (2.632%) SLA
2 1 (2.632%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.895%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.263%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.632%) vSphere
4 1 (2.632%) Forefront TMG
4 1 (2.632%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 3 (7.895%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (7.895%) NetBackup
2 2 (5.263%) SCCM
3 1 (2.632%) SCOM
3 1 (2.632%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (73.68%) Cisco
2 8 (21.05%) Juniper
3 6 (15.79%) CheckPoint
4 5 (13.16%) VMware
5 4 (10.53%) Oracle
6 3 (7.895%) Charles River
6 3 (7.895%) Veritas
6 3 (7.895%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.895%) Riverbed
6 3 (7.895%) Mercator
6 3 (7.895%) Microsoft
7 2 (5.263%) Fidessa
7 2 (5.263%) F5
8 1 (2.632%) Twitter
8 1 (2.632%) Altiris
8 1 (2.632%) HP
8 1 (2.632%) Sun
8 1 (2.632%) Symantec
8 1 (2.632%) Remedy