The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 21 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 Guildford region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 67 47 50
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +3
Permanent jobs citing WAN 18 31 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 1.987% 4.318% 1.831%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.469% 32.63% 14.81%
Number of salaries quoted 14 31 8
Average salary £39,000 £35,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.42% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £19,500 £29,900
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £39,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
241 95 54
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 26.60% 13.23% 12.36%
Number of salaries quoted 180 93 52
Average salary £41,000 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.33% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,286 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
Surrey

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Guildford WAN Salary Histogram

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 20 (62.50%) Cisco
2 17 (53.13%) TCP/IP
3 13 (40.63%) LAN
4 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
5 11 (34.38%) DNS
5 11 (34.38%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (34.38%) Citrix
6 10 (31.25%) Active Directory
6 10 (31.25%) VPN
6 10 (31.25%) MPLS
7 9 (28.13%) CheckPoint
7 9 (28.13%) Linux
8 8 (25.00%) Windows
8 8 (25.00%) SAN
8 8 (25.00%) VoIP
8 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (25.00%) Firewall
8 8 (25.00%) VMware
8 8 (25.00%) IP Telephony
8 8 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
9 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
9 7 (21.88%) Mitel
9 7 (21.88%) HP
9 7 (21.88%) CCDA
9 7 (21.88%) Internet
10 6 (18.75%) Juniper
10 6 (18.75%) CCNA
10 6 (18.75%) Avaya
10 6 (18.75%) DHCP
10 6 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 (9.375%) FIX Protocol
1 3 (9.375%) XML
2 2 (6.250%) Web Services
2 2 (6.250%) .NET
2 2 (6.250%) Application Packaging
3 1 (3.125%) Django
3 1 (3.125%) MAPI
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.250%) IIS
2 2 (6.250%) MS Exchange
2 2 (6.250%) Apache
2 2 (6.250%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (6.250%) Lync
2 2 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (3.125%) nginx
3 1 (3.125%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (3.125%) CMS
3 1 (3.125%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (9.375%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.125%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (3.125%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.250%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 17 (53.13%) TCP/IP
2 13 (40.63%) LAN
3 11 (34.38%) DNS
4 10 (31.25%) VPN
4 10 (31.25%) MPLS
5 8 (25.00%) SAN
5 8 (25.00%) VoIP
5 8 (25.00%) Firewall
5 8 (25.00%) IP Telephony
6 7 (21.88%) Internet
7 6 (18.75%) DHCP
8 4 (12.50%) Extranet
8 4 (12.50%) BGP
8 4 (12.50%) FTP
8 4 (12.50%) Intranet
8 4 (12.50%) VLAN
9 3 (9.375%) Cisco PIX
9 3 (9.375%) MRTG
9 3 (9.375%) NetScaler
9 3 (9.375%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) MySQL
2 3 (9.375%) GIS
3 2 (6.250%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.250%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.250%) Oracle 11g
General
1 5 (15.63%) Telecoms
2 3 (9.375%) Games
3 2 (6.250%) Finance
4 1 (3.125%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Network Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Architect
2 6 (18.75%) Technical Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (12.50%) Administrator
3 4 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Project Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (9.375%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (9.375%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (9.375%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (9.375%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (9.375%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.250%) Consultant
5 2 (6.250%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.250%) Security Consultant
5 2 (6.250%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (6.250%) Technical Specialist
5 2 (6.250%) Help Desk Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 3 (9.375%) PKI
2 3 (9.375%) Computer Science
2 3 (9.375%) SecurID
3 2 (6.250%) Blackberry
3 2 (6.250%) Smartcard
3 2 (6.250%) Thin Client
3 2 (6.250%) Clustering
3 2 (6.250%) IVR
3 2 (6.250%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
2 8 (25.00%) Windows
3 3 (9.375%) UNIX
4 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (6.250%) SUSE
4 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (3.125%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.125%) Windows 8
5 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.125%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (12.50%) ITIL
2 4 (12.50%) Validation
2 4 (12.50%) Information Security
3 3 (9.375%) Network Management
3 3 (9.375%) Change Management
4 2 (6.250%) SOA
4 2 (6.250%) CRM
4 2 (6.250%) Business Continuity
4 2 (6.250%) Migration
4 2 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (6.250%) Service Delivery
4 2 (6.250%) Capacity Management
4 2 (6.250%) WAN Optimisation
4 2 (6.250%) Problem Management
5 1 (3.125%) Network Architecture
5 1 (3.125%) Image Processing
5 1 (3.125%) Network Design
5 1 (3.125%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.250%) PL/SQL
1 2 (6.250%) SQL
1 2 (6.250%) Python
2 1 (3.125%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.125%) Bash shell
2 1 (3.125%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.125%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
3 7 (21.88%) CCDA
4 6 (18.75%) CCNA
5 5 (15.63%) MCSE
5 5 (15.63%) CCNP
6 4 (12.50%) CISSP
6 4 (12.50%) Security+ Certification
6 4 (12.50%) Degree
7 3 (9.375%) CCSE
7 3 (9.375%) CCSA
8 2 (6.250%) Avaya Certification
8 2 (6.250%) SC Cleared
8 2 (6.250%) BC Cleared
8 2 (6.250%) CITP
9 1 (3.125%) MCDST
9 1 (3.125%) MCITP
9 1 (3.125%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (3.125%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.125%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 8 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.50%) VMware ESX
4 2 (6.250%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (3.125%) Xen
5 1 (3.125%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 3 (9.375%) Cacti
2 2 (6.250%) Data Guard
2 2 (6.250%) SCCM
2 2 (6.250%) SCOM
3 1 (3.125%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (62.50%) Cisco
2 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 11 (34.38%) Citrix
4 9 (28.13%) CheckPoint
5 8 (25.00%) VMware
6 7 (21.88%) Mitel
6 7 (21.88%) HP
7 6 (18.75%) Juniper
7 6 (18.75%) Avaya
8 4 (12.50%) NetApp
9 3 (9.375%) Blue Coat
9 3 (9.375%) Websense
10 2 (6.250%) Oracle
10 2 (6.250%) Business Objects
10 2 (6.250%) Sun
11 1 (3.125%) Riverbed
11 1 (3.125%) F5
11 1 (3.125%) Remedy
11 1 (3.125%) Nortel
Guildford, Surrey
A deep understanding of Cisco technologies, MPLS, LAN/WAN design, BGP, VoIP, and protocol analysis are highly desirable... * Provides integration and interaction of all supported systems including Cisco...
Roc Search
Salary: £28000 - £32000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Guildford, South East
Major Technology Consulting firm is looking for a highly experienced Cisco Network Engineer specialising in Cisco devices to join their Guildford based, UK Network Infrastructure Team, that has...
Hudson
Salary: £32000 - £50000 per annum + Package
Posted: 4 May 2013