The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 46 36 49
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +13
Permanent jobs citing WAN 9 10 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 2.752% 3.788% 0.685%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.69% 16.13% 7.407%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 2
Average salary £30,000 £37,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +36.36%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
77 62 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 23.55% 23.48% 9.247%
Number of salaries quoted 68 54 25
Average salary £38,500 £32,500 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.46% +10.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £31,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £38,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
Suffolk

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

Ipswich WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

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

Ipswich WAN Salary Histogram

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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%) LAN
2 14 (82.35%) Active Directory
2 14 (82.35%) Windows
3 10 (58.82%) DNS
3 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
4 9 (52.94%) DHCP
4 9 (52.94%) Linux
5 8 (47.06%) MS Exchange
5 8 (47.06%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (41.18%) Firewall
6 7 (41.18%) Amazon AWS
6 7 (41.18%) UNIX
6 7 (41.18%) Web Services
6 7 (41.18%) Cisco
7 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
7 6 (35.29%) VMware
8 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
8 4 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2003
8 4 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (17.65%) MCITP
9 3 (17.65%) Fortinet
9 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (17.65%) CCNP
9 3 (17.65%) CCNA
9 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (17.65%) MCSE
10 2 (11.76%) JBoss

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 7 (41.18%) Web Services
2 1 (5.882%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 8 (47.06%) MS Exchange
2 7 (41.18%) Amazon AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (11.76%) IIS
4 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Office
2 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (100.00%) LAN
2 10 (58.82%) DNS
3 9 (52.94%) DHCP
4 8 (47.06%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (41.18%) Firewall
6 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
7 2 (11.76%) VoIP
8 1 (5.882%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.882%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Analyst
2 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (11.76%) Head of IT
3 2 (11.76%) Head of Operations
4 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
4 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (5.882%) Exchange Specialist
4 1 (5.882%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (5.882%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Specialist
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Linux
3 7 (41.18%) UNIX
4 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (11.76%) CentOS
5 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.882%) Windows 7
6 1 (5.882%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.76%) ITIL
1 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
1 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
1 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
1 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
1 2 (11.76%) Software Distribution
1 2 (11.76%) Capacity Management
2 1 (5.882%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.882%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.882%) Ruby
1 1 (5.882%) Bash shell
1 1 (5.882%) Perl
1 1 (5.882%) SQL
1 1 (5.882%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (17.65%) MCITP
2 3 (17.65%) CCNP
2 3 (17.65%) CCNA
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (17.65%) MCSE
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
2 4 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (11.76%) VMware ESX
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 7 (41.18%) Cisco
3 6 (35.29%) VMware
4 3 (17.65%) Fortinet
5 2 (11.76%) JBoss
5 2 (11.76%) NetApp
5 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.882%) Citrix