The first table below looks at the demand for VLAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VLAN over the 3 months to 17 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank 184 155 153
Rank change year-on-year
-29 -2
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 10 20 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.246% 0.552% 0.507%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.686% 3.350% 3.697%
Number of salaries quoted 9 18 20
Average salary £35,000 £33,750 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.70% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,700 £26,850 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £42,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,750
% change year-on-year
- -0.66%
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
593 597 541
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 14.61% 16.46% 13.71%
Number of salaries quoted 491 534 470
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £23,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £75,000 £52,050
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
VLAN
North West

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester VLAN Salary Trend

VLAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VLAN across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester VLAN Salary Histogram

VLAN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Wigan - 1 £37,500 -
VLAN
North West

VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 15 (78.95%) Cisco
2 10 (52.63%) VPN
2 10 (52.63%) VMware
3 9 (47.37%) Firewall
3 9 (47.37%) Network Security
4 8 (42.11%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (36.84%) MPLS
5 7 (36.84%) CCNA
5 7 (36.84%) MS Exchange
6 6 (31.58%) Windows
6 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
6 6 (31.58%) LAN
6 6 (31.58%) WAN
7 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP
7 5 (26.32%) SSL
7 5 (26.32%) CCNP
7 5 (26.32%) IPsec
8 4 (21.05%) Clustering
8 4 (21.05%) Change Management
8 4 (21.05%) HP
8 4 (21.05%) IIS
8 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (21.05%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (21.05%) Fortinet
8 4 (21.05%) High Availability
9 3 (15.79%) WAN Optimisation
9 3 (15.79%) HSRP
9 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (15.79%) FortiGate
9 3 (15.79%) Huawei

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 Development
1 2 (10.53%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 7 (36.84%) MS Exchange
2 4 (21.05%) IIS
3 3 (15.79%) Lync
3 3 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (10.53%) Apache
4 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
4 2 (10.53%) nginx
5 1 (5.263%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (5.263%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Office
2 1 (5.263%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) VPN
2 9 (47.37%) Firewall
2 9 (47.37%) Network Security
3 7 (36.84%) MPLS
4 6 (31.58%) LAN
4 6 (31.58%) WAN
5 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP
5 5 (26.32%) SSL
5 5 (26.32%) IPsec
6 4 (21.05%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (15.79%) EIGRP
7 3 (15.79%) Cisco PIX
7 3 (15.79%) HSRP
7 3 (15.79%) Wireless
7 3 (15.79%) OSPF
7 3 (15.79%) DNS
7 3 (15.79%) VoIP
7 3 (15.79%) WLAN
8 2 (10.53%) SMTP
8 2 (10.53%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) MySQL
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (5.263%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Network Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Security Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Network Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Lead Network Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Field Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Clustering
2 2 (10.53%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (10.53%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Change Management
1 4 (21.05%) High Availability
2 3 (15.79%) WAN Optimisation
3 2 (10.53%) ITIL
4 1 (5.263%) PRINCE2
4 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.263%) BCP
4 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.263%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.263%) Business Continuity
4 1 (5.263%) Asset Management
4 1 (5.263%) Load Balancing
4 1 (5.263%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (36.84%) CCNA
3 5 (26.32%) CCNP
4 1 (5.263%) MCP
4 1 (5.263%) MCSE
4 1 (5.263%) CCIE
4 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.263%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) ISO 9001
1 1 (5.263%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (15.79%) vSphere
2 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Terminal Services
2 3 (15.79%) VMware ESX
3 2 (10.53%) Xen
4 1 (5.263%) Forefront TMG
4 1 (5.263%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Cisco
2 10 (52.63%) VMware
3 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
4 4 (21.05%) HP
4 4 (21.05%) Fortinet
5 3 (15.79%) Huawei
5 3 (15.79%) 3Com
5 3 (15.79%) Juniper
5 3 (15.79%) NetApp
6 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
6 2 (10.53%) Sun
6 2 (10.53%) Dell
7 1 (5.263%) EMC
7 1 (5.263%) Citrix
7 1 (5.263%) ProCurve
Bolton, North West
Day-to-day support, includes: 1st - 3rd line trouble-shooting and configuration Desktop support of Microsoft Windows XP/Windows 7 desktop operating systems and associated applications (MS Office...
greywood
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + bens
Posted: 23 April 2013
Bolton, Lancashire
Desktop support of Microsoft Windows XP/Windows 7 desktop operating systems and associated applications (MS Office 2007/2010) Experience supporting Windows 2003 or 2008 Active Directory and the...
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + bens
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bolton, North West
Windows Server / Active Directory / Network / TCP/IP / DNS / Group Policy / DHCP / Exchange 2010 / SAN / NSA / VMware / VLAN / SharePoint / SQL Server My client are looking to recruit an IT...
greywood
Salary: £30000 - £33000 per annum + bens
Posted: 11 May 2013