The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Huddersfield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 20 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 Huddersfield region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 21 25 25
Rank change year-on-year
+4 0
Permanent jobs citing WAN 5 2 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Huddersfield 6.173% 1.600% 7.547%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 45.45% 20.00% 35.29%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 10
Average salary £27,500 - £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 - £20,950
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 - £45,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Huddersfield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
11 10 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Huddersfield 13.58% 8.000% 21.38%
Number of salaries quoted 10 4 28
Average salary £27,500 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.42% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £18,000 £20,000 £20,900
10% offered a salary of more than £47,700 £45,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
WAN
West Yorkshire

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Huddersfield 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 Huddersfield region.

Huddersfield WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the Huddersfield region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Huddersfield WAN Salary Histogram

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Huddersfield 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 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) LAN
2 5 (83.33%) MS Exchange
3 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (66.67%) HP
3 4 (66.67%) Firewall
3 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (66.67%) WatchGuard
3 4 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (50.00%) Time Management
4 3 (50.00%) Backup Exec
4 3 (50.00%) Citrix
4 3 (50.00%) Symantec
4 3 (50.00%) Sophos
4 3 (50.00%) Blackberry
4 3 (50.00%) VPN
4 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (50.00%) SSL
4 3 (50.00%) VoIP
4 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (16.67%) Veeam
6 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
6 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (16.67%) SonicWALL

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Huddersfield 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 5 (83.33%) MS Exchange
2 4 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) LAN
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
3 3 (50.00%) VPN
3 3 (50.00%) SSL
3 3 (50.00%) VoIP
4 1 (16.67%) WLAN
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) SAN
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Support
1 3 (50.00%) 1st Line Support
1 3 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Field Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Head of IT
2 1 (16.67%) IT Director
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) Support Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) IT Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Time Management
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) HP
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
1 4 (66.67%) WatchGuard
2 3 (50.00%) Symantec
2 3 (50.00%) Sophos
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) Apple
3 1 (16.67%) Sage
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) SonicWALL
3 1 (16.67%) Veeam