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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 50 62 55
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -7
Permanent jobs citing WAN 3 9 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 0.820% 1.779% 0.633%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.122% 11.69% 3.390%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 2
Average salary £31,000 £40,000 £38,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.50% +4.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £36,300 £32,850
10% offered a salary of more than £34,200 £42,600 £43,650
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
49 77 59
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 13.39% 15.22% 18.67%
Number of salaries quoted 40 71 42
Average salary £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,750 £33,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £48,500 £60,000 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
Merseyside

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (75.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (50.00%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) BCP
3 2 (50.00%) VMware ESX
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Management

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (50.00%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) WAN Optimisation
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (50.00%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Symantec
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) WatchGuard
3 1 (25.00%) SonicWALL
3 1 (25.00%) Exinda