Lancashire VLAN Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Virtual LAN (VLAN) skills within the Lancashire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VLAN over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Location Abingdon Accrington Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Coulsdon Crewe Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Huntingdon Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull South Croydon South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stirling Stockport Surbiton Surrey Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wakefield West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	11	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	5.046 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	11	0
Average minimum salary	£30,545	-
Average salary	£32,727	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£34,909	-
UK excluding London average salary	£35,894	£37,702
% change on same period last year	-4.79 %
Communications & Networking Lancashire
Matching permanent IT job ads	218	225
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.121 %	0.094 %
Salaries quoted	179	169
Average minimum salary	£25,836	£28,782
Average salary	£28,287	£29,817
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
Average maximum salary	£30,738	£30,852
UK excluding London average salary	£37,602	£39,396
% change on same period last year	-4.55 %
VLAN North West

VLAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VLAN across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

VLAN
Salary Trend

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

VLAN
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VLAN across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

VLAN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Accrington	-	3	£38,000	-

VLAN North West

VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Lancashire region citing VLAN 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 VLAN.

1 13 (100.00 %) VoIP 1 13 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 11 (84.62 %) Firewall 3 9 (69.23 %) Windows Server 2003 3 9 (69.23 %) Windows 4 8 (61.54 %) SQL 4 8 (61.54 %) MS Office 4 8 (61.54 %) MS Excel 4 8 (61.54 %) MS Exchange 4 8 (61.54 %) Microsoft 4 8 (61.54 %) TCP/IP 4 8 (61.54 %) VPN 4 8 (61.54 %) Active Directory 4 8 (61.54 %) VERITAS 4 8 (61.54 %) Backup Exec

4 8 (61.54 %) IP Telephony 4 8 (61.54 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 8 (61.54 %) Windows Server 2008 5 5 (38.46 %) LAN 6 4 (30.77 %) Cisco Certification 7 3 (23.08 %) Disaster Recovery 7 3 (23.08 %) Avaya 7 3 (23.08 %) MPLS 7 3 (23.08 %) Wireless 7 3 (23.08 %) Frame Relay 7 3 (23.08 %) CCNP 7 3 (23.08 %) WAN 7 3 (23.08 %) Cisco PIX 7 3 (23.08 %) Communications Security 7 3 (23.08 %) Cisco ASA

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Lancashire region citing VLAN 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 VLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 8 (61.54 %) MS Exchange 1 8 (61.54 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 8 (61.54 %) MS Office 1 8 (61.54 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 13 (100.00 %) VoIP 2 11 (84.62 %) Firewall 3 8 (61.54 %) IP Telephony 3 8 (61.54 %) TCP/IP 3 8 (61.54 %) VPN 4 5 (38.46 %) LAN 5 3 (23.08 %) Cisco PIX 5 3 (23.08 %) Cisco ASA 5 3 (23.08 %) MPLS 5 3 (23.08 %) WAN 5 3 (23.08 %) Wireless 5 3 (23.08 %) Frame Relay 6 1 (7.692 %) Intrusion Detection	Job Titles 1 4 (30.77 %) Network Engineer 1 4 (30.77 %) Support Engineer 1 4 (30.77 %) Infrastructure Engineer 1 4 (30.77 %) Infrastructure Support Engineer 2 2 (15.38 %) Senior Cisco Engineer 2 2 (15.38 %) Senior Cisco Network Engineer 2 2 (15.38 %) Senior Network Engineer 2 2 (15.38 %) Cisco Engineer 2 2 (15.38 %) Cisco Network Engineer 2 2 (15.38 %) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.692 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 9 (69.23 %) Windows 1 9 (69.23 %) Windows Server 2003 2 8 (61.54 %) Windows Server 2008 3 1 (7.692 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (23.08 %) Disaster Recovery 1 3 (23.08 %) Communications Security 2 2 (15.38 %) Information Security	Programming Languages 1 8 (61.54 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (30.77 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (23.08 %) CCNP 3 1 (7.692 %) CCNA 3 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (7.692 %) MCSE	System Software 1 8 (61.54 %) Active Directory 1 8 (61.54 %) Backup Exec
Vendors 1 13 (100.00 %) Cisco 2 8 (61.54 %) Microsoft 2 8 (61.54 %) VERITAS 3 3 (23.08 %) Avaya