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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank 136 124 116
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -8
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 12 10 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.462% 0.479% 0.216%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.655% 2.793% 1.282%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 4
Average salary £31,000 £26,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.98% -33.75%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Communications & Networking
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
452 358 312
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 17.40% 17.16% 16.86%
Number of salaries quoted 372 281 260
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £46,300
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VLAN
West Yorkshire

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds VLAN Jobs Demand Trend

VLAN
Salary Trend

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

Leeds VLAN Salary Trend

VLAN
Salary Histogram

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

Leeds VLAN Salary Histogram

VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 24 (85.71%) Cisco
2 21 (75.00%) Firewall
3 20 (71.43%) MPLS
4 19 (67.86%) CheckPoint
4 19 (67.86%) VPN
5 18 (64.29%) Juniper
6 17 (60.71%) LAN
7 16 (57.14%) WAN
7 16 (57.14%) Windows
7 16 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (57.14%) Cisco ASA
8 15 (53.57%) Citrix
8 15 (53.57%) VMware
9 13 (46.43%) Wireless
10 12 (42.86%) PKI
10 12 (42.86%) DMZ
10 12 (42.86%) BGP
10 12 (42.86%) CCSP
10 12 (42.86%) CCNP
10 12 (42.86%) VoIP
11 10 (35.71%) TCP/IP
12 9 (32.14%) Active Directory
12 9 (32.14%) Load Balancing
12 9 (32.14%) XenApp
12 9 (32.14%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (28.57%) Forefront TMG
13 8 (28.57%) UAG
13 8 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
13 8 (28.57%) HP
13 8 (28.57%) SAN

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 5 (17.86%) MS Exchange
1 5 (17.86%) Exchange Server 2003
1 5 (17.86%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (7.143%) IIS
4 1 (3.571%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.571%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 21 (75.00%) Firewall
2 20 (71.43%) MPLS
3 19 (67.86%) VPN
4 17 (60.71%) LAN
5 16 (57.14%) WAN
5 16 (57.14%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (46.43%) Wireless
7 12 (42.86%) DMZ
7 12 (42.86%) BGP
7 12 (42.86%) VoIP
8 10 (35.71%) TCP/IP
9 9 (32.14%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (28.57%) SAN
10 8 (28.57%) Internet
11 7 (25.00%) Network Security
12 4 (14.29%) NetScaler
12 4 (14.29%) Cisco PIX
12 4 (14.29%) DNS
13 2 (7.143%) iSCSI
13 2 (7.143%) Fibre Channel
General
1 1 (3.571%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Network Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Security Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Architect
3 7 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 6 (21.43%) Support Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) 3rd Line Technical Support
5 4 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (14.29%) Technical Support
5 4 (14.29%) Technical Support Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.143%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.571%) Data Centre Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) IT Support Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) PKI
2 4 (14.29%) Blackberry
3 2 (7.143%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (7.143%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 16 (57.14%) Windows
2 7 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (7.143%) CentOS
3 2 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.143%) Debian
3 2 (7.143%) Linux
4 1 (3.571%) Windows XP
4 1 (3.571%) Windows 8
4 1 (3.571%) Windows Vista
4 1 (3.571%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Load Balancing
2 8 (28.57%) ITIL
3 4 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
3 4 (14.29%) Project Management
4 3 (10.71%) Data Security
4 3 (10.71%) Cyber Security
4 3 (10.71%) Change Control
5 2 (7.143%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (3.571%) Incident Management
6 1 (3.571%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (42.86%) CCSP
2 12 (42.86%) CCNP
3 5 (17.86%) CCNA
4 4 (14.29%) CCIE
5 1 (3.571%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Active Directory
1 9 (32.14%) XenApp
2 8 (28.57%) Forefront TMG
2 8 (28.57%) UAG
2 8 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (25.00%) Terminal Services
4 4 (14.29%) vSphere
4 4 (14.29%) Hyper-V
5 2 (7.143%) Xen
5 2 (7.143%) XenDesktop
5 2 (7.143%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (85.71%) Cisco
2 19 (67.86%) CheckPoint
3 18 (64.29%) Juniper
4 15 (53.57%) Citrix
4 15 (53.57%) VMware
5 8 (28.57%) HP
6 7 (25.00%) Riverbed
7 6 (21.43%) Avaya
7 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
8 4 (14.29%) EMC
8 4 (14.29%) NetApp
9 2 (7.143%) ProCurve
9 2 (7.143%) Acme Packet
9 2 (7.143%) Red Hat
10 1 (3.571%) Apple
10 1 (3.571%) McAfee