The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 17 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 Lancashire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 41 57 51
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -6
Permanent jobs citing LAN 20 7 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 4.132% 1.235% 1.333%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.47% 10.45% 8.929%
Number of salaries quoted 20 7 4
Average salary £33,000 £21,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+53.48% -49.41%
UK excluding London average salary £37,250 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.97% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
89 67 56
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 18.39% 11.82% 14.93%
Number of salaries quoted 76 59 52
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,650 £21,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
LAN
North West

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire LAN Jobs Demand Trend

LAN
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing LAN across the Lancashire region.

Lancashire LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAN across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Lancashire LAN Salary Histogram

LAN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Blackburn +3 2 £37,500 +7.14%
Chorley +2 2 £20,875 +22.79%
Burnley - 2 £21,000 -
Skelmersdale - 2 £19,500 -
Preston +2 1 £28,500 -26.92%
Blackpool - 1 £25,000 -
LAN
North West

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire region citing LAN 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 LAN.

1 32 (88.89%) WAN
2 25 (69.44%) Cisco
3 17 (47.22%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (47.22%) Firewall
4 15 (41.67%) Windows
5 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
5 13 (36.11%) CCNP
6 11 (30.56%) Active Directory
6 11 (30.56%) VLAN
7 10 (27.78%) TCP/IP
7 10 (27.78%) MS Excel
8 9 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (25.00%) MPLS
8 9 (25.00%) Frame Relay
8 9 (25.00%) VMware
8 9 (25.00%) Cisco PIX
8 9 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
9 8 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
9 8 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
9 8 (22.22%) MS Office
9 8 (22.22%) Ethernet
10 7 (19.44%) Citrix
10 7 (19.44%) MS Exchange
10 7 (19.44%) SQL
10 7 (19.44%) SQL Server
11 6 (16.67%) Load Balancing
11 6 (16.67%) FCoE
11 6 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (16.67%) DHCP

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire region citing LAN 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 LAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (5.556%) COM
Application Platforms
1 7 (19.44%) MS Exchange
2 5 (13.89%) Exchange Server 2003
2 5 (13.89%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (5.556%) Lync
4 2 (5.556%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (5.556%) IIS
4 2 (5.556%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (27.78%) MS Excel
2 8 (22.22%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.556%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 32 (88.89%) WAN
2 17 (47.22%) Firewall
3 11 (30.56%) VLAN
4 10 (27.78%) TCP/IP
5 9 (25.00%) MPLS
5 9 (25.00%) Frame Relay
5 9 (25.00%) Cisco PIX
5 9 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (22.22%) Ethernet
7 6 (16.67%) VPN
7 6 (16.67%) DNS
7 6 (16.67%) DHCP
7 6 (16.67%) FCoE
7 6 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (13.89%) SSL
8 5 (13.89%) SAN
9 4 (11.11%) OSPF
9 4 (11.11%) BGP
9 4 (11.11%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (8.333%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 3 (8.333%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.556%) Retail
3 1 (2.778%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Network Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Installations Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.333%) Analyst
5 3 (8.333%) Support Analyst
5 3 (8.333%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (5.556%) 1st Line Support
6 2 (5.556%) 1st Line Support Analyst
6 2 (5.556%) IT Support
6 2 (5.556%) Technical Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.556%) Storage Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.556%) IT Support Engineer
7 1 (2.778%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.556%) Clustering
1 2 (5.556%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (2.778%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.778%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 15 (41.67%) Windows
2 8 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (13.89%) Windows Vista
4 4 (11.11%) Windows XP
5 3 (8.333%) Linux
6 2 (5.556%) Solaris
7 1 (2.778%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 4 (11.11%) ITIL
3 4 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 2 (5.556%) Change Management
4 2 (5.556%) CRM
5 1 (2.778%) Communications Security
5 1 (2.778%) Network Management
5 1 (2.778%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (2.778%) Content Management
5 1 (2.778%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) SQL
2 2 (5.556%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (47.22%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (36.11%) CCNP
3 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (11.11%) CCNA
5 3 (8.333%) MCP
5 3 (8.333%) SC Cleared
5 3 (8.333%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.778%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.333%) SLA
2 1 (2.778%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (30.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.556%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 2 (5.556%) XenApp
2 2 (5.556%) vSphere
3 1 (2.778%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.778%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 2 (5.556%) SCCM
1 2 (5.556%) SCOM
1 2 (5.556%) WhatsUp Gold
1 2 (5.556%) HP SIM
2 1 (2.778%) NetCrunch
Vendors
1 25 (69.44%) Cisco
2 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
3 9 (25.00%) VMware
4 7 (19.44%) Citrix
5 5 (13.89%) Juniper
6 3 (8.333%) HP
6 3 (8.333%) SolarWinds
6 3 (8.333%) CheckPoint
7 2 (5.556%) NetApp
7 2 (5.556%) Avaya
8 1 (2.778%) Intel
8 1 (2.778%) F5
8 1 (2.778%) Blue Coat
Accrington, Lancashire
You will be responsible for advising and maintaining the Cisco Network Systems and any IT Systems it is connected with... Key Skills: LAN. WAN... Cisco. Firewalls... A CCNA...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £40000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 14 May 2013
Accrington, North West
You will be responsible for advising and maintaining the Cisco Network Systems and any IT Systems it is connected with... Key Skills: LAN WAN MAN Cisco Firewalls Routers...
greywood
Salary: £40000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 23 April 2013
Burnley, North West
You will be an excellent communicator, building relationships with users at all levels of the company and will be able to demonstrate practical knowledge of providing desktop support,...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £19000 - £23000 per annum + profit bonus
Posted: 17 May 2013
Burnley, Lancashire
IT support engineer (with good experience of Desktop, Windows, Server / Active Directory, SQL server, etc) sought by this leading eCommerce based organisation... You will be an excellent communicator,...
Applause IT Innovation
Salary: £19000 - £23000 per annum + profit bonus
Posted: 16 May 2013
Accrington, Lancashire
Due to the internal infrastructure expansion, and new sites being added to Group, they are now able to offer an opportunity to join them as a Cisco Network...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 35,000 - 40,000 + benefits
Posted: 12 May 2013
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire
Hardware support including thin client terminals / laptops, iPad / iPhone / BlackBerry, Printers and peripherals. Software and hardware asset management / configuration management... In addition, we also deliver services and solutions...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £24,000 to £28,000 per annum (dep on exp) plus bonus & benefits
Posted: 22 April 2013