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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
Rank 830 808 820
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +12
Permanent jobs citing WAAS 11 58 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.011% 0.051% 0.025%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.056% 0.290% 0.159%
Number of salaries quoted 7 54 26
Average salary £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,800 £37,800 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,500 £76,750 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-42.60% +15.00%
All Communications & Networking
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
19732 19973 18837
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 19.51% 17.62% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 16042 16804 15735
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAAS
UK

WAAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England WAAS Jobs Demand Trend

WAAS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WAAS across the England region.

England WAAS Salary Trend

WAAS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAAS across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England WAAS Salary Histogram

WAAS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAAS within the England 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
London +19 8 £61,250 +2.08%
North West - 2 £32,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £33,000 -
WAAS
UK

WAAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing WAAS 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 WAAS.

1 27 (100.00%) Cisco
2 24 (88.89%) WAN
2 24 (88.89%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (74.07%) Firewall
4 18 (66.67%) Finance
5 16 (59.26%) OSPF
5 16 (59.26%) Cisco Nexus
6 15 (55.56%) LAN
6 15 (55.56%) Cisco ASA
7 14 (51.85%) BGP
8 12 (44.44%) Citrix
8 12 (44.44%) CCNP
8 12 (44.44%) VMware
8 12 (44.44%) MPLS
9 11 (40.74%) Wireless
10 10 (37.04%) CCIE
10 10 (37.04%) VPN
10 10 (37.04%) Juniper
10 10 (37.04%) SAN
10 10 (37.04%) CheckPoint
11 9 (33.33%) ITIL
11 9 (33.33%) Network Management
12 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
12 8 (29.63%) IPsec
13 7 (25.93%) IP Telephony
13 7 (25.93%) Cisco IOS
13 7 (25.93%) SLA
13 7 (25.93%) F5
14 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
14 6 (22.22%) IPv6

WAAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing WAAS 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 WAAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (22.22%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.407%) Office Communications Server
1 2 (7.407%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (7.407%) Lync
2 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (3.704%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.704%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 24 (88.89%) WAN
2 20 (74.07%) Firewall
3 16 (59.26%) OSPF
3 16 (59.26%) Cisco Nexus
4 15 (55.56%) LAN
4 15 (55.56%) Cisco ASA
5 14 (51.85%) BGP
6 12 (44.44%) MPLS
7 11 (40.74%) Wireless
8 10 (37.04%) VPN
8 10 (37.04%) SAN
9 8 (29.63%) IPsec
10 7 (25.93%) IP Telephony
10 7 (25.93%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (22.22%) IPv6
11 6 (22.22%) SSL
12 5 (18.52%) VoIP
13 4 (14.81%) BIG-IP
13 4 (14.81%) VLAN
13 4 (14.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.704%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.407%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 18 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Financial Institution
2 4 (14.81%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Senior Network Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Support Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Network Support Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Network Support
3 5 (18.52%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Support Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Network Support
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Network Support Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Network Operations Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Cisco Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Network Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Network Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Derivative
1 3 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 3 (11.11%) Fixed Income
1 3 (11.11%) Clustering
2 2 (7.407%) PKI
2 2 (7.407%) iPhone
2 2 (7.407%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (7.407%) Blackberry
2 2 (7.407%) iPad
3 1 (3.704%) IaaS
3 1 (3.704%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.704%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
1 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (7.407%) Linux
2 2 (7.407%) UNIX
2 2 (7.407%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) ITIL
1 9 (33.33%) Network Management
2 4 (14.81%) Change Management
2 4 (14.81%) Network Architecture
3 3 (11.11%) ITIL V3
3 3 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 3 (11.11%) Problem Management
3 3 (11.11%) Network Design
4 2 (7.407%) Business Continuity
4 2 (7.407%) Incident Management
4 2 (7.407%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (7.407%) PRINCE2
4 2 (7.407%) BCP
4 2 (7.407%) Service Management
4 2 (7.407%) Service Delivery
4 2 (7.407%) Project Management
4 2 (7.407%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (3.704%) WAN Optimisation
5 1 (3.704%) Fault Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) Perl
1 4 (14.81%) PHP
1 4 (14.81%) Tcl
2 1 (3.704%) C
Qualifications
1 24 (88.89%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (44.44%) CCNP
3 10 (37.04%) CCIE
4 5 (18.52%) CCNA
5 3 (11.11%) CCSE
5 3 (11.11%) CCSA
6 2 (7.407%) CISSP
6 2 (7.407%) CISA
7 1 (3.704%) CCEE
7 1 (3.704%) NCDA
7 1 (3.704%) NCIE
7 1 (3.704%) VTSP
7 1 (3.704%) CCA
7 1 (3.704%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (3.704%) CCSP
7 1 (3.704%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) SLA
2 1 (3.704%) BS7799
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.81%) XenServer
4 2 (7.407%) Snort
5 1 (3.704%) vCloud
5 1 (3.704%) vSphere
5 1 (3.704%) XenDesktop
5 1 (3.704%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) FortiGate
1 4 (14.81%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (7.407%) CiscoWorks
2 2 (7.407%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (3.704%) SCOM
3 1 (3.704%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (3.704%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) Cisco
2 12 (44.44%) Citrix
2 12 (44.44%) VMware
3 10 (37.04%) Juniper
3 10 (37.04%) CheckPoint
4 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
5 7 (25.93%) F5
6 5 (18.52%) Riverbed
7 4 (14.81%) NetScout
7 4 (14.81%) Fortinet
7 4 (14.81%) CA
8 3 (11.11%) Remedy
9 2 (7.407%) BT
9 2 (7.407%) Brocade
9 2 (7.407%) Polycom
9 2 (7.407%) Tandberg
9 2 (7.407%) SolarWinds
9 2 (7.407%) WatchGuard
9 2 (7.407%) HP
9 2 (7.407%) Aruba
City, London
Working knowledge of the following LAN/WAN Protocols & Technologies: (TCP/IP, Multicast, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, MPLS, Spanning Tree, QoS)... *Working knowledge of firewall products including Checkpoint, Fortinet and...
Aston Carter
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + Package and Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013