M4 Corridor WAN Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the M4 Corridor region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Accrington Alfreton Altrincham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avonmouth Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bodmin Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Caterham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dunstable Durham Ealing East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edgware Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Gourock Great Yarmouth Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Keighley Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lothian Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Neath Port Talbot New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Pontefract Portsmouth Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ripon Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shipston-on-Stour Shrewsbury Shropshire Skipton Sleaford Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tring Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Bromwich West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Whitstable Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	29
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching permanent IT job ads	11	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	50.00 %	6.818 %
Salaries quoted	11	3
Average minimum salary	£38,182	£50,667
Average salary	£54,545	£51,167
% change on same period last year	+6.60 %
Average maximum salary	£70,909	£51,667
UK excluding London average salary	£36,640	£37,384
% change on same period last year	-1.99 %
Communications & Networking M4 Corridor
Matching permanent IT job ads	22	44
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.019 %
Salaries quoted	22	38
Average minimum salary	£46,633	£39,857
Average salary	£56,480	£43,890
% change on same period last year	+28.68 %
Average maximum salary	£66,327	£47,923
UK excluding London average salary	£37,908	£38,946
% change on same period last year	-2.66 %
WAN South East

WAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing WAN across the M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

WAN
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WAN across the M4 Corridor region.

WAN
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the M4 Corridor region over the 3 months to 8 October 2008.

WAN
Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 16 (94.12 %) MPLS 2 1 (5.882 %) Telecoms 2 1 (5.882 %) Stakeholder Management 2 1 (5.882 %) LAN

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT jobs across the M4 Corridor 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.

Communications & Networking 1 16 (94.12 %) MPLS 2 1 (5.882 %) LAN	General 1 1 (5.882 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 16 (94.12 %) Sales Executive	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (5.882 %) Stakeholder Management