Glasgow WAN Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the Glasgow 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 25 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 Croydon 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 Twickenham 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 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	64	72
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching permanent IT job ads	28	31
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	13.86 %	12.81 %
Salaries quoted	26	17
Average minimum salary	£40,971	£30,000
Average salary	£42,184	£32,471
% change on same period last year	+29.91 %
Average maximum salary	£43,396	£34,941
UK excluding London average salary	£35,174	£37,462
% change on same period last year	-6.10 %
Communications & Networking Glasgow
Matching permanent IT job ads	202	242
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.107 %	0.099 %
Salaries quoted	157	163
Average minimum salary	£36,735	£33,242
Average salary	£39,769	£35,307
% change on same period last year	+12.63 %
Average maximum salary	£42,803	£37,372
UK excluding London average salary	£37,397	£39,734
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
WAN Scotland

WAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing WAN across the Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

WAN
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 60 (100.00 %) LAN 2 29 (48.33 %) Cisco 3 21 (35.00 %) Firewall 4 14 (23.33 %) Cisco Certification 4 14 (23.33 %) Windows 5 13 (21.67 %) Active Directory 6 12 (20.00 %) Network Security 7 11 (18.33 %) Disaster Recovery 7 11 (18.33 %) TCP/IP 8 10 (16.67 %) Microsoft 8 10 (16.67 %) CCIE 8 10 (16.67 %) IP Telephony 9 6 (10.00 %) MS Exchange 9 6 (10.00 %) SQL Server 9 6 (10.00 %) Exchange Server 2003

10 5 (8.333 %) Project Management 10 5 (8.333 %) Pensions 10 5 (8.333 %) UNIX 10 5 (8.333 %) VPN 10 5 (8.333 %) CheckPoint 10 5 (8.333 %) Juniper 11 4 (6.667 %) Microsoft Certification 11 4 (6.667 %) Citrix 11 4 (6.667 %) MCSE 11 4 (6.667 %) IIS 11 4 (6.667 %) Telecoms 12 3 (5.000 %) Finance 12 3 (5.000 %) Health 12 3 (5.000 %) VLAN 12 3 (5.000 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 1 (1.667 %) HTML 1 1 (1.667 %) .NET 1 1 (1.667 %) ASP 1 1 (1.667 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 6 (10.00 %) MS Exchange 1 6 (10.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 4 (6.667 %) IIS 3 2 (3.333 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (1.667 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 3 (5.000 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.667 %) MS Visio 2 1 (1.667 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 60 (100.00 %) LAN 2 21 (35.00 %) Firewall 3 12 (20.00 %) Network Security 4 11 (18.33 %) TCP/IP 5 10 (16.67 %) IP Telephony 6 5 (8.333 %) VPN 7 3 (5.000 %) DNS 7 3 (5.000 %) SMS 7 3 (5.000 %) VLAN 7 3 (5.000 %) DHCP 8 2 (3.333 %) ISDN 8 2 (3.333 %) VoIP 9 1 (1.667 %) WLAN 9 1 (1.667 %) PBX 9 1 (1.667 %) Internet 9 1 (1.667 %) MPLS 9 1 (1.667 %) EIGRP 9 1 (1.667 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (10.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (3.333 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.667 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 2 (3.333 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 5 (8.333 %) Pensions 2 4 (6.667 %) Telecoms 3 3 (5.000 %) Finance 3 3 (5.000 %) Health 4 1 (1.667 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.667 %) Construction 4 1 (1.667 %) Government	Job Titles 1 17 (28.33 %) Architect 2 13 (21.67 %) Analyst 3 12 (20.00 %) Network Architect 4 8 (13.33 %) Support Analyst 5 6 (10.00 %) Network Support 5 6 (10.00 %) Security Analyst 6 5 (8.333 %) Technical Architect 7 4 (6.667 %) Infrastructure Analyst 7 4 (6.667 %) Network Analyst 8 3 (5.000 %) Network Support Analyst 8 3 (5.000 %) Support Engineer 8 3 (5.000 %) Consultant 8 3 (5.000 %) Project Manager 8 3 (5.000 %) Desktop Support 8 3 (5.000 %) Senior Analyst 8 3 (5.000 %) Infrastructure Support Analyst 8 3 (5.000 %) Senior Network Support 8 3 (5.000 %) Senior Infrastructure Analyst 9 2 (3.333 %) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst 9 2 (3.333 %) Senior Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.667 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 14 (23.33 %) Windows 2 5 (8.333 %) UNIX 3 3 (5.000 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (3.333 %) Windows NT 5 1 (1.667 %) Windows XP 5 1 (1.667 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (18.33 %) Disaster Recovery 2 5 (8.333 %) Project Management 3 3 (5.000 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (3.333 %) ITIL 5 1 (1.667 %) Change Management 5 1 (1.667 %) Security Management 5 1 (1.667 %) Load Balancing	Programming Languages 1 2 (3.333 %) Java 2 1 (1.667 %) JavaScript 2 1 (1.667 %) SQL 2 1 (1.667 %) VBScript 2 1 (1.667 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 14 (23.33 %) Cisco Certification 2 10 (16.67 %) CCIE 3 4 (6.667 %) Microsoft Certification 3 4 (6.667 %) MCSE 4 3 (5.000 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 3 (5.000 %) CCNA 5 2 (3.333 %) CCDA 5 2 (3.333 %) CCDP 6 1 (1.667 %) CCVP 6 1 (1.667 %) CCSP 6 1 (1.667 %) CCNP 6 1 (1.667 %) HNC 6 1 (1.667 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.333 %) SLA 2 1 (1.667 %) QA
System Software 1 13 (21.67 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.667 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 2 (3.333 %) Netcool 1 2 (3.333 %) ServiceCenter
Vendors 1 29 (48.33 %) Cisco 2 10 (16.67 %) Microsoft 3 5 (8.333 %) Juniper 3 5 (8.333 %) CheckPoint 4 4 (6.667 %) Citrix 5 3 (5.000 %) Avaya 6 2 (3.333 %) Peregrine 6 2 (3.333 %) Adobe 6 2 (3.333 %) HP 6 2 (3.333 %) Oracle 7 1 (1.667 %) Symantec 7 1 (1.667 %) McAfee Security 7 1 (1.667 %) 3Com 7 1 (1.667 %) Sage