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

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 56 53 42
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -11
Permanent jobs citing WAN 10 5 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 2.703% 1.238% 1.394%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.76% 8.929% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 4
Average salary £27,000 £29,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.89% -6.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,400 £27,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £30,900 £37,300 £41,400
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
85 56 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 22.97% 13.86% 9.756%
Number of salaries quoted 81 50 27
Average salary £27,000 £32,500 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.92% +12.06%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
Leicestershire

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

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

Leicester WAN Salary Histogram

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 42 (97.67%) LAN
2 20 (46.51%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (44.19%) CCNP
4 18 (41.86%) Retail
5 17 (39.53%) CCNA
6 16 (37.21%) Cisco
6 16 (37.21%) Firewall
7 15 (34.88%) Citrix
8 14 (32.56%) Project Management
9 10 (23.26%) MPLS
9 10 (23.26%) CiscoWorks
9 10 (23.26%) TCP/IP
9 10 (23.26%) Windows
9 10 (23.26%) SolarWinds
9 10 (23.26%) Network Management
10 9 (20.93%) VPN
10 9 (20.93%) MS Exchange
10 9 (20.93%) SLA
11 8 (18.60%) VoIP
11 8 (18.60%) Time Management
12 7 (16.28%) Network Security
12 7 (16.28%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (16.28%) Supplier Management
12 7 (16.28%) xDSL
12 7 (16.28%) Service Delivery
12 7 (16.28%) Security Management
12 7 (16.28%) CCIE
12 7 (16.28%) Internet
12 7 (16.28%) GPRS
12 7 (16.28%) ISDN

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 2 (4.651%) XML
1 2 (4.651%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 9 (20.93%) MS Exchange
2 3 (6.977%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (6.977%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (4.651%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.326%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 3 (6.977%) MS Office
1 3 (6.977%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.651%) SAP Retail
1 2 (4.651%) Retail-J
Communications & Networking
1 42 (97.67%) LAN
2 16 (37.21%) Firewall
3 10 (23.26%) MPLS
3 10 (23.26%) TCP/IP
4 9 (20.93%) VPN
5 8 (18.60%) VoIP
6 7 (16.28%) Network Security
6 7 (16.28%) Cisco IOS
6 7 (16.28%) xDSL
6 7 (16.28%) Internet
6 7 (16.28%) GPRS
6 7 (16.28%) ISDN
6 7 (16.28%) UMTS
7 3 (6.977%) TACACS
7 3 (6.977%) PBX
7 3 (6.977%) DHCP
7 3 (6.977%) PABX
8 2 (4.651%) IP Telephony
8 2 (4.651%) Wireless
9 1 (2.326%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (2.326%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 18 (41.86%) Retail
2 2 (4.651%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Network Engineer
2 8 (18.60%) Administrator
3 7 (16.28%) IT Administrator
3 7 (16.28%) Project Coordinator
3 7 (16.28%) Network Administrator
3 7 (16.28%) Junior
3 7 (16.28%) Analyst
3 7 (16.28%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (16.28%) Coordinator
3 7 (16.28%) Graduate
4 6 (13.95%) Support Analyst
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Network Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Network Analyst
6 4 (9.302%) Network Support
6 4 (9.302%) Network Support Analyst
7 3 (6.977%) Architect
7 3 (6.977%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.977%) Lead Architect
7 3 (6.977%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (4.651%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.651%) IVR
2 1 (2.326%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (2.326%) SaaS
2 1 (2.326%) PaaS
2 1 (2.326%) iPad
2 1 (2.326%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) Windows
2 3 (6.977%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (4.651%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (4.651%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) Project Management
2 10 (23.26%) Network Management
3 8 (18.60%) Time Management
4 7 (16.28%) Supplier Management
4 7 (16.28%) Service Delivery
4 7 (16.28%) Security Management
5 3 (6.977%) ITIL
5 3 (6.977%) Load Balancing
5 3 (6.977%) Migration
6 2 (4.651%) Incident Management
6 2 (4.651%) E-Commerce
6 2 (4.651%) ERP
7 1 (2.326%) Data Security
7 1 (2.326%) Configuration Management
7 1 (2.326%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.302%) SQL
2 2 (4.651%) VBScript
2 2 (4.651%) VB
2 2 (4.651%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (46.51%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (44.19%) CCNP
3 17 (39.53%) CCNA
4 7 (16.28%) CCIE
5 1 (2.326%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.326%) MCSE
5 1 (2.326%) MCSA
5 1 (2.326%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.93%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.977%) Terminal Services
2 3 (6.977%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.326%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) CiscoWorks
2 2 (4.651%) SCCM
3 1 (2.326%) WSUS
3 1 (2.326%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 16 (37.21%) Cisco
2 15 (34.88%) Citrix
3 10 (23.26%) SolarWinds
4 5 (11.63%) HP
4 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
5 4 (9.302%) VMware
6 3 (6.977%) Avaya
7 2 (4.651%) F5
7 2 (4.651%) SAP
7 2 (4.651%) Symantec
7 2 (4.651%) Sophos
8 1 (2.326%) NetApp
8 1 (2.326%) ProCurve