The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the M4 Corridor region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN 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 M4 Corridor region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 1 6 1
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -5
Permanent jobs citing LAN 23 14 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the M4 Corridor 50.00% 23.73% 23.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 88.46% 40.00% 86.67%
Number of salaries quoted 10 14 13
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
M4 Corridor
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
26 35 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the M4 Corridor 56.52% 59.32% 26.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11 32 15
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
LAN
South East

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing LAN across the M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

M4 Corridor 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 M4 Corridor region.

M4 Corridor LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 39 (97.50%) TCP/IP
1 39 (97.50%) Firewall
1 39 (97.50%) Nmap
1 39 (97.50%) Vulnerability Management
2 22 (55.00%) WAN
3 21 (52.50%) CISSP
3 21 (52.50%) Oracle
3 21 (52.50%) SQL Server
3 21 (52.50%) IIS
3 21 (52.50%) Web Services
3 21 (52.50%) UNIX
3 21 (52.50%) Windows
3 21 (52.50%) Linux
3 21 (52.50%) Apache
3 21 (52.50%) SaaS
3 21 (52.50%) CEH
4 18 (45.00%) Network Design
4 18 (45.00%) Nessus
4 18 (45.00%) Security Architecture
4 18 (45.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 18 (45.00%) Internet
5 15 (37.50%) German Language
6 14 (35.00%) French Language
7 1 (2.500%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (2.500%) Unified Communications

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 21 (52.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 21 (52.50%) IIS
1 21 (52.50%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 39 (97.50%) TCP/IP
1 39 (97.50%) Firewall
2 22 (55.00%) WAN
3 18 (45.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 18 (45.00%) Internet
4 1 (2.500%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (52.50%) SQL Server
General
1 15 (37.50%) German Language
2 14 (35.00%) French Language
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) Support Engineer
2 18 (45.00%) Technical Account Manager
2 18 (45.00%) Technical Manager
2 18 (45.00%) Account Manager
3 6 (15.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Technical Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Technical Support
4 1 (2.500%) Consultant
4 1 (2.500%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 21 (52.50%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 21 (52.50%) UNIX
1 21 (52.50%) Windows
1 21 (52.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (97.50%) Vulnerability Management
2 18 (45.00%) Network Design
2 18 (45.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (2.500%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 21 (52.50%) CISSP
1 21 (52.50%) CEH
System Software
1 39 (97.50%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 18 (45.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 21 (52.50%) Oracle