England WAN Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the England 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 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Accrington Alfreton Alloa Altrincham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Blandford Forum Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clackmannanshire Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gourock Grampian Grangemouth Grays Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Haverhill Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Ilford Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Keighley Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Powys Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shipston-on-Stour Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley Tring Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Wallington Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welshpool Wembley West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	73	73
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	4899	5992
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.580 %	2.458 %
As % of the category below	15.61 %	15.87 %
Salaries quoted	4291	5035
Average minimum salary	£35,750	£37,212
Average salary	£38,120	£39,687
% change on same period last year	-3.94 %
Average maximum salary	£40,490	£42,163
UK excluding London average salary	£35,236	£37,466
% change on same period last year	-5.95 %
Communications & Networking England
Matching permanent IT job ads	31375	37752
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	16.52 %	15.48 %
Salaries quoted	26810	30601
Average minimum salary	£37,512	£39,254
Average salary	£40,394	£42,242
% change on same period last year	-4.37 %
Average maximum salary	£43,277	£45,230
UK excluding London average salary	£37,394	£39,723
% change on same period last year	-5.86 %
WAN UK

WAN
Demand Trend

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

WAN
Salary Trend

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

WAN
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

WAN
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	-15	1680	£46,034	+5.77 %
South East	-9	1228	£37,929	-6.68 %
Yorkshire	0	372	£29,837	-8.26 %
West Midlands	-12	362	£32,699	-2.46 %
North West	+10	354	£33,968	-10.33 %
East of England	-9	328	£33,869	-7.39 %
South West	+47	316	£31,794	+3.72 %
East Midlands	+5	217	£28,055	-11.58 %
North East	+12	52	£43,159	+33.82 %
Midlands	+2	29	£40,891	-9.83 %

WAN UK

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 8759 (82.66 %) LAN 2 4894 (46.18 %) Cisco 3 4640 (43.79 %) Windows 4 3466 (32.71 %) TCP/IP 5 3294 (31.08 %) Firewall 6 2947 (27.81 %) Cisco Certification 7 2705 (25.53 %) Active Directory 8 2513 (23.71 %) Microsoft 9 2400 (22.65 %) VPN 10 1862 (17.57 %) MS Exchange 11 1790 (16.89 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 1754 (16.55 %) Microsoft Certification 13 1664 (15.70 %) VoIP 14 1633 (15.41 %) CCNA 15 1558 (14.70 %) CCNP

16 1484 (14.00 %) Finance 17 1455 (13.73 %) MCSE 18 1428 (13.48 %) MPLS 19 1365 (12.88 %) Windows 2000 20 1358 (12.81 %) SQL 21 1334 (12.59 %) MS Excel 22 1269 (11.98 %) Citrix 23 1247 (11.77 %) DNS 24 1190 (11.23 %) UNIX 25 1175 (11.09 %) Telecoms 26 1098 (10.36 %) Linux 27 1068 (10.08 %) Exchange Server 2000 28 1005 (9.484 %) Windows XP 29 974 (9.191 %) MS Office 30 972 (9.172 %) SQL Server

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 1 149 (1.406 %) XML 2 143 (1.349 %) .NET 3 114 (1.076 %) HTML 4 78 (0.736 %) J2EE 5 61 (0.576 %) CSS 6 49 (0.462 %) ASP.NET 7 42 (0.396 %) WebServices 8 36 (0.340 %) MAPI 9 35 (0.330 %) ASP 10 33 (0.311 %) WebSphere 11 25 (0.236 %) SAP Basis 11 25 (0.236 %) Middleware 11 25 (0.236 %) XSLT 12 23 (0.217 %) Application Packaging 13 19 (0.179 %) AJAX 13 19 (0.179 %) MFC 13 19 (0.179 %) JSP 14 18 (0.170 %) .NET Framework 15 17 (0.160 %) ActiveX 16 16 (0.151 %) ODBC	Application Platforms 1 1862 (17.57 %) MS Exchange 2 1790 (16.89 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1068 (10.08 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 549 (5.181 %) IIS 5 311 (2.935 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 265 (2.501 %) SharePoint 7 239 (2.255 %) Lotus Notes 8 178 (1.680 %) Apache 9 131 (1.236 %) Lotus Domino 10 125 (1.180 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 91 (0.859 %) SAS 12 72 (0.679 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 13 71 (0.670 %) Tomcat 14 25 (0.236 %) CMS 15 24 (0.226 %) JBoss 16 20 (0.189 %) BizTalk Server 17 18 (0.170 %) WebLogic 17 18 (0.170 %) GroupWise 18 12 (0.113 %) Office Communications Server 19 7 (0.066 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 1334 (12.59 %) MS Excel 2 974 (9.191 %) MS Office 3 94 (0.887 %) MS Visio 4 50 (0.472 %) MS PowerPoint 5 44 (0.415 %) MS Project 6 23 (0.217 %) SPSS 7 15 (0.142 %) AutoCAD 7 15 (0.142 %) Spreadsheet 8 4 (0.038 %) Windchill 9 2 (0.019 %) Photoshop 9 2 (0.019 %) CA Clarity 10 1 (0.009 %) MATLAB 10 1 (0.009 %) 3ds Max 10 1 (0.009 %) Adobe Illustrator 10 1 (0.009 %) InDesign 10 1 (0.009 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 33 (0.311 %) Microsoft CRM 2 28 (0.264 %) RMDS 3 17 (0.160 %) Remedy AR System 4 8 (0.075 %) SAP Business One 5 7 (0.066 %) Oracle Applications 6 6 (0.057 %) SoftGrid 6 6 (0.057 %) Navision 6 6 (0.057 %) e-Work 7 5 (0.047 %) SAP ERP 7 5 (0.047 %) Line 100 7 5 (0.047 %) Sage MMS 7 5 (0.047 %) Line 50 7 5 (0.047 %) Bankmaster 7 5 (0.047 %) FLEXCUBE 8 4 (0.038 %) Dynamics CRM 9 3 (0.028 %) Summit 9 3 (0.028 %) SAP CO 9 3 (0.028 %) SAP FI/CO 9 3 (0.028 %) Oracle Financials 9 3 (0.028 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 8759 (82.66 %) LAN 2 3466 (32.71 %) TCP/IP 3 3294 (31.08 %) Firewall 4 2400 (22.65 %) VPN 5 1664 (15.70 %) VoIP 6 1428 (13.48 %) MPLS 7 1247 (11.77 %) DNS 8 971 (9.163 %) Internet 9 947 (8.936 %) BGP 10 921 (8.691 %) OSPF 11 856 (8.078 %) SAN 12 681 (6.426 %) DHCP 13 671 (6.332 %) Network Security 14 615 (5.804 %) Wireless 15 497 (4.690 %) VLAN 16 482 (4.548 %) EIGRP 17 460 (4.341 %) Cisco PIX 18 411 (3.878 %) Ethernet 19 393 (3.709 %) IP Telephony 20 314 (2.963 %) Frame Relay	Database & Business Intelligence 1 972 (9.172 %) SQL Server 2 282 (2.661 %) SQL Server 2000 3 202 (1.906 %) SQL Server 2005 4 118 (1.114 %) MySQL 5 98 (0.925 %) RDBMS 6 80 (0.755 %) SQL Server 7 7 63 (0.595 %) Cognos Impromptu 8 62 (0.585 %) Oracle 9i 9 61 (0.576 %) InterBase 10 56 (0.528 %) MS Access 11 50 (0.472 %) Datawarehouse 12 49 (0.462 %) Oracle 10g 13 38 (0.359 %) Crystal Reports 14 28 (0.264 %) DB2 15 26 (0.245 %) Base SAS 16 25 (0.236 %) Informix 17 21 (0.198 %) Oracle 8/8i 18 20 (0.189 %) Oracle Reports 19 16 (0.151 %) DTS 20 15 (0.142 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 39 (0.368 %) Flash 2 29 (0.274 %) Visual Studio 3 28 (0.264 %) ClearCase 4 20 (0.189 %) Ant 5 18 (0.170 %) MSI 6 17 (0.160 %) AdminStudio 7 10 (0.094 %) Subversion 8 9 (0.085 %) Oracle Forms 9 7 (0.066 %) Oracle Designer/2000 10 6 (0.057 %) JIRA 10 6 (0.057 %) ClearQuest 11 4 (0.038 %) Synon 11 4 (0.038 %) ARTiSAN 12 1 (0.009 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 1484 (14.00 %) Finance 2 1175 (11.09 %) Telecoms 3 463 (4.369 %) Pensions 4 424 (4.001 %) Banking 5 400 (3.775 %) Health 6 244 (2.303 %) Education 7 187 (1.765 %) Law 8 146 (1.378 %) Insurance 9 142 (1.340 %) Government 10 133 (1.255 %) Retail 11 130 (1.227 %) Back Office 12 121 (1.142 %) Legal 13 103 (0.972 %) Marketing 14 98 (0.925 %) Manufacturing 15 97 (0.915 %) Investment Banking 16 95 (0.896 %) Financial Institution 17 65 (0.613 %) Construction 18 38 (0.359 %) Pharmaceutical 19 34 (0.321 %) Front Office 20 27 (0.255 %) Games
Job Titles 1 1635 (15.43 %) Analyst 2 1579 (14.90 %) Network Engineer 3 1090 (10.29 %) Support Engineer 4 914 (8.625 %) Consultant 5 733 (6.917 %) Support Analyst 6 642 (6.058 %) Network Support 7 595 (5.615 %) Administrator 8 503 (4.747 %) Architect 9 487 (4.596 %) Network Analyst 10 477 (4.501 %) Cisco Engineer 11 357 (3.369 %) Technical Support 12 346 (3.265 %) Project Manager 13 341 (3.218 %) Systems Administrator 14 337 (3.180 %) 3rd Line Support 15 322 (3.039 %) Systems Engineer 16 291 (2.746 %) 2nd Line Support 17 280 (2.642 %) IT Manager 18 251 (2.369 %) Senior Network Engineer 19 243 (2.293 %) IT Support Engineer 20 238 (2.246 %) Network Manager	Miscellaneous 1 209 (1.972 %) Clustering 2 194 (1.831 %) Blackberry 3 125 (1.180 %) Client/Server 4 114 (1.076 %) Video Conferencing 5 92 (0.868 %) Thin Client 5 92 (0.868 %) Fat Client 6 85 (0.802 %) Replication 7 74 (0.698 %) Computer Science 8 69 (0.651 %) AS400 9 62 (0.585 %) German Language 10 58 (0.547 %) Mainframe 11 54 (0.510 %) Management Information System 12 51 (0.481 %) French Language 13 50 (0.472 %) Credit Risk 14 44 (0.415 %) IVR 15 41 (0.387 %) Spanish Language 16 35 (0.330 %) PDA 16 35 (0.330 %) PMI 17 33 (0.311 %) EPoS 17 33 (0.311 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 4640 (43.79 %) Windows 2 1365 (12.88 %) Windows 2000 3 1190 (11.23 %) UNIX 4 1098 (10.36 %) Linux 5 1005 (9.484 %) Windows XP 6 895 (8.446 %) Windows Server 2003 7 502 (4.737 %) Windows NT 8 436 (4.114 %) Solaris 9 189 (1.784 %) AIX 10 81 (0.764 %) NetWare 11 68 (0.642 %) HPUX 12 33 (0.311 %) Fedora 12 33 (0.311 %) Windows Vista 13 31 (0.293 %) Debian 14 25 (0.236 %) SUSE 14 25 (0.236 %) Mac OS X 15 18 (0.170 %) OS/400 16 10 (0.094 %) FreeBSD 17 9 (0.085 %) VMS 18 8 (0.075 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 778 (7.342 %) ITIL 2 636 (6.002 %) Project Management 3 536 (5.058 %) Network Design 4 365 (3.444 %) PRINCE2 5 315 (2.973 %) Disaster Recovery 6 248 (2.340 %) Service Delivery 7 226 (2.133 %) Load Balancing 8 207 (1.953 %) Security Cleared 9 140 (1.321 %) Service Management 10 132 (1.246 %) Migration 11 127 (1.198 %) CRM 12 124 (1.170 %) Incident Management 13 116 (1.095 %) E-Commerce 14 108 (1.019 %) Configuration Management 15 104 (0.981 %) ERP 16 102 (0.963 %) Change Management 17 91 (0.859 %) Business Development 18 85 (0.802 %) Document Management 19 78 (0.736 %) Business Continuity 20 77 (0.727 %) Asset Management
Programming Languages 1 1358 (12.81 %) SQL 2 188 (1.774 %) C 3 182 (1.717 %) Perl 4 144 (1.359 %) Java 5 136 (1.283 %) Shell Script 6 100 (0.944 %) VB 7 84 (0.793 %) C# 8 72 (0.679 %) C++ 8 72 (0.679 %) PHP 9 49 (0.462 %) VBA 10 40 (0.377 %) VB.NET 11 37 (0.349 %) Python 12 22 (0.208 %) SAS Macro 13 21 (0.198 %) VBScript 14 18 (0.170 %) Korn 15 17 (0.160 %) JavaScript 16 15 (0.142 %) PL/SQL 17 13 (0.123 %) COBOL 18 10 (0.094 %) DHTML 19 9 (0.085 %) AWK	Qualifications 1 2947 (27.81 %) Cisco Certification 2 1754 (16.55 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1633 (15.41 %) CCNA 4 1558 (14.70 %) CCNP 5 1455 (13.73 %) MCSE 6 730 (6.889 %) CCIE 7 679 (6.407 %) MCP 8 645 (6.087 %) Degree 9 441 (4.162 %) CCDP 10 419 (3.954 %) MCSA 11 366 (3.454 %) CCIP 12 311 (2.935 %) CCVP 13 253 (2.387 %) CCSP 14 102 (0.963 %) CCSE 15 99 (0.934 %) Citrix Certification 16 97 (0.915 %) CCDA 17 94 (0.887 %) ITIL Certification 17 94 (0.887 %) CCSA 18 74 (0.698 %) PRINCE2 Certification 19 73 (0.689 %) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 492 (4.643 %) SLA 2 45 (0.425 %) QA 3 28 (0.264 %) ISO27001 4 24 (0.226 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 12 (0.113 %) BS7799 6 6 (0.057 %) PCI DSS 7 5 (0.047 %) Basel II 8 4 (0.038 %) ISO9001 9 3 (0.028 %) ISO9000 10 2 (0.019 %) CESG Infosec 10 2 (0.019 %) JSP 440 10 2 (0.019 %) BS25999 11 1 (0.009 %) ISO17799 11 1 (0.009 %) GAMP	System Software 1 2705 (25.53 %) Active Directory 2 322 (3.039 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 296 (2.793 %) Backup Exec 4 265 (2.501 %) ISA Server 5 255 (2.406 %) Terminal Services 6 163 (1.538 %) VMware ESX 7 151 (1.425 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 67 (0.632 %) MetaFrame 9 61 (0.576 %) Terminal Server 10 60 (0.566 %) NFS 11 58 (0.547 %) NetBackup 12 30 (0.283 %) VMware Server 13 13 (0.123 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 13 13 (0.123 %) Oracle RMAN 14 10 (0.094 %) Squid 14 10 (0.094 %) Xen 15 9 (0.085 %) MailMarshal 16 7 (0.066 %) Snort 16 7 (0.066 %) NDS 17 6 (0.057 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 185 (1.746 %) OpenView 2 173 (1.633 %) CiscoWorks 3 92 (0.868 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 65 (0.613 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 58 (0.547 %) Tivoli 5 58 (0.547 %) MOM 6 46 (0.434 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 44 (0.415 %) WSUS 8 38 (0.359 %) Netcool 9 35 (0.330 %) HP Data Protector 10 30 (0.283 %) ZENworks 11 29 (0.274 %) Nagios 12 24 (0.226 %) ARCserve 13 14 (0.132 %) Unicenter 13 14 (0.132 %) MAILsweeper 14 13 (0.123 %) AutoSys 15 11 (0.104 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 16 9 (0.085 %) BMC PATROL 17 8 (0.075 %) Legato 18 6 (0.057 %) OVSD	Vendors 1 4894 (46.18 %) Cisco 2 2513 (23.71 %) Microsoft 3 1269 (11.98 %) Citrix 4 898 (8.474 %) CheckPoint 5 892 (8.417 %) VMware 6 620 (5.851 %) HP 7 598 (5.643 %) Oracle 8 471 (4.445 %) Juniper 9 322 (3.039 %) Nortel 10 308 (2.906 %) Nokia 11 302 (2.850 %) Avaya 12 273 (2.576 %) Lotus 13 229 (2.161 %) Red Hat 14 169 (1.595 %) VERITAS 15 161 (1.519 %) Symantec 15 161 (1.519 %) IBM 16 112 (1.057 %) Sun 17 111 (1.047 %) Altiris 18 110 (1.038 %) Blue Coat 19 105 (0.991 %) Mitel