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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 19 28 26
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -2
Permanent jobs citing WAN 8 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Harrow 8.602% 1.754% 0.901%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.53% 11.11% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 1
Average salary £36,500 £45,000 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.88% -40.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Harrow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
34 18 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Harrow 36.56% 15.79% 2.703%
Number of salaries quoted 32 17 2
Average salary £36,500 £37,500 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.66% -50.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £67,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £75,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
London

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Harrow 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 Harrow region.

Harrow WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

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

Harrow WAN Salary Histogram

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Harrow 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 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
3 12 (70.59%) LAN
4 11 (64.71%) Active Directory
5 10 (58.82%) TCP/IP
5 10 (58.82%) MS Exchange
5 10 (58.82%) Wireless
5 10 (58.82%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (41.18%) Windows XP
7 6 (35.29%) Cisco
7 6 (35.29%) Degree
8 5 (29.41%) Strategic Planning
8 5 (29.41%) E-Learning
8 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
8 5 (29.41%) Windows 7
8 5 (29.41%) HP SIM
8 5 (29.41%) CCTV
8 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
8 5 (29.41%) Exchange Server 2007
8 5 (29.41%) Novell eDirectory
8 5 (29.41%) MDaemon
8 5 (29.41%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (29.41%) NetWare
8 5 (29.41%) HP
8 5 (29.41%) Dell
8 5 (29.41%) Citrix
8 5 (29.41%) VoIP
8 5 (29.41%) C
8 5 (29.41%) Novell
8 5 (29.41%) Electronics

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Harrow 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 Platforms
1 10 (58.82%) MS Exchange
2 5 (29.41%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (29.41%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (29.41%) GroupWise
2 5 (29.41%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Communications & Networking
1 12 (70.59%) LAN
2 10 (58.82%) TCP/IP
2 10 (58.82%) Wireless
3 5 (29.41%) VoIP
3 5 (29.41%) Intranet
3 5 (29.41%) Internet
4 4 (23.53%) Firewall
4 4 (23.53%) SMTP
4 4 (23.53%) DHCP
4 4 (23.53%) DNS
4 4 (23.53%) FTP
4 4 (23.53%) HTTP
5 3 (17.65%) Wireshark
5 3 (17.65%) IP Telephony
5 3 (17.65%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (17.65%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (17.65%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (17.65%) SSL
5 3 (17.65%) VPN
5 3 (17.65%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MySQL
General
1 5 (29.41%) Electronics
2 1 (5.882%) Games
2 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.882%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) ICT Manager
1 5 (29.41%) Head of Development
1 5 (29.41%) Network Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Support Technician
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Network Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Network Technician
3 2 (11.76%) Network Support
3 2 (11.76%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Network Support Technician
4 1 (5.882%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) E-Learning
1 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
1 5 (29.41%) CCTV
1 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
1 5 (29.41%) Blackberry
2 2 (11.76%) Firmware
2 2 (11.76%) Thin Client
2 2 (11.76%) Statistics
2 2 (11.76%) Fat Client
3 1 (5.882%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (58.82%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (41.18%) Windows XP
4 5 (29.41%) Windows 7
4 5 (29.41%) NetWare
4 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (17.65%) SUSE
5 3 (17.65%) UNIX
5 3 (17.65%) Linux
5 3 (17.65%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Strategic Planning
2 3 (17.65%) Network Management
2 3 (17.65%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
3 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
4 1 (5.882%) Network Design
4 1 (5.882%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (5.882%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) C
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (23.53%) MCITP
3 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (17.65%) CCNP
3 3 (17.65%) CCNA
4 2 (11.76%) MCSE
4 2 (11.76%) MCSA
4 2 (11.76%) MCP
4 2 (11.76%) MCDST
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (29.41%) Novell eDirectory
2 5 (29.41%) MDaemon
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) HP SIM
1 5 (29.41%) ARCserve
1 5 (29.41%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) Cisco
3 5 (29.41%) HP
3 5 (29.41%) Dell
3 5 (29.41%) Citrix
3 5 (29.41%) Novell
3 5 (29.41%) VMware
4 3 (17.65%) NetScout
4 3 (17.65%) SolarWinds
4 3 (17.65%) Avaya
4 3 (17.65%) Juniper