Middlesex WAN Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the Middlesex 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bognor Regis Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gourock Grampian Grangemouth Grays Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Highland Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ilkley Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Keighley Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lytham St Annes Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rochdale Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Saffron Walden Salford Salisbury Scotland Selby Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shropshire Sittingbourne Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Winsford Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	72	46
Rank change on same period last year	-26
Matching permanent IT job ads	26	76
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.034 %
As % of the category below	7.558 %	15.93 %
Salaries quoted	23	67
Average minimum salary	£35,870	£37,604
Average salary	£37,967	£39,757
% change on same period last year	-4.50 %
Average maximum salary	£40,065	£41,910
UK excluding London average salary	£36,171	£37,389
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Communications & Networking Middlesex
Matching permanent IT job ads	344	477
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.169 %	0.211 %
Salaries quoted	288	395
Average minimum salary	£35,089	£39,657
Average salary	£37,690	£41,937
% change on same period last year	-10.12 %
Average maximum salary	£40,291	£44,216
UK excluding London average salary	£37,693	£39,086
% change on same period last year	-3.56 %
WAN South East

WAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing WAN across the Middlesex 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 ads citing WAN across the Middlesex region.

WAN
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the Middlesex region over the past 3 months.

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Middlesex region citing WAN also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WAN.

1 53 (81.54 %) LAN 2 40 (61.54 %) Cisco 3 27 (41.54 %) Firewall 4 25 (38.46 %) Windows 5 24 (36.92 %) Cisco Certification 6 21 (32.31 %) TCP/IP 7 19 (29.23 %) VoIP 7 19 (29.23 %) Active Directory 8 18 (27.69 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 17 (26.15 %) MPLS 9 17 (26.15 %) VPN 10 15 (23.08 %) DNS 10 15 (23.08 %) CCNP 11 14 (21.54 %) CCNA 11 14 (21.54 %) OSPF

12 13 (20.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 12 (18.46 %) DHCP 14 11 (16.92 %) Windows 2000 14 11 (16.92 %) Microsoft Certification 15 10 (15.38 %) Project Management 15 10 (15.38 %) Wireless 15 10 (15.38 %) Backup Exec 15 10 (15.38 %) Juniper 15 10 (15.38 %) CheckPoint 15 10 (15.38 %) Microsoft 15 10 (15.38 %) Nortel 15 10 (15.38 %) SSL 15 10 (15.38 %) MCSE 15 10 (15.38 %) MS Exchange 16 9 (13.85 %) EMC

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Middlesex region citing WAN also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing WAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (4.615 %) SOAP 1 3 (4.615 %) XML 2 2 (3.077 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 18 (27.69 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 13 (20.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 10 (15.38 %) MS Exchange 4 2 (3.077 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (1.538 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 1 (1.538 %) IIS
Applications 1 3 (4.615 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 53 (81.54 %) LAN 2 27 (41.54 %) Firewall 3 21 (32.31 %) TCP/IP 4 19 (29.23 %) VoIP 5 17 (26.15 %) VPN 5 17 (26.15 %) MPLS 6 15 (23.08 %) DNS 7 14 (21.54 %) OSPF 8 12 (18.46 %) DHCP 9 10 (15.38 %) SSL 9 10 (15.38 %) Wireless 10 9 (13.85 %) IPsec 11 7 (10.77 %) BGP 11 7 (10.77 %) Internet 11 7 (10.77 %) Network Security 12 6 (9.231 %) Cisco PIX 12 6 (9.231 %) NetScreen 12 6 (9.231 %) LDAP 13 5 (7.692 %) EIGRP 13 5 (7.692 %) Cisco IOS
General 1 9 (13.85 %) Health 1 9 (13.85 %) Law 2 7 (10.77 %) Telecoms 3 4 (6.154 %) Construction 3 4 (6.154 %) Retail 3 4 (6.154 %) Pensions 4 2 (3.077 %) Advertising	Job Titles 1 18 (27.69 %) Analyst 2 11 (16.92 %) 3rd Line Support 3 9 (13.85 %) Support Analyst 3 9 (13.85 %) Network Engineer 3 9 (13.85 %) Senior Manager 3 9 (13.85 %) Operations Analyst 4 8 (12.31 %) Project Manager 4 8 (12.31 %) Senior Project Manager 5 6 (9.231 %) Security Analyst 5 6 (9.231 %) Security Engineer 6 5 (7.692 %) Support Engineer 7 4 (6.154 %) Architect 8 3 (4.615 %) IT Manager 8 3 (4.615 %) Network Designer 8 3 (4.615 %) Support Specialist 8 3 (4.615 %) Systems Engineer 8 3 (4.615 %) Solutions Designer 8 3 (4.615 %) Network Analyst 8 3 (4.615 %) IT Project Manager 8 3 (4.615 %) Network Support
Miscellaneous 1 4 (6.154 %) Thin Client 1 4 (6.154 %) Fat Client 2 3 (4.615 %) CCTV 3 2 (3.077 %) Computer Science 3 2 (3.077 %) Blackberry 4 1 (1.538 %) Handset	Operating Systems 1 25 (38.46 %) Windows 2 11 (16.92 %) Windows 2000 3 4 (6.154 %) Unix 4 3 (4.615 %) Windows NT 5 2 (3.077 %) Solaris 6 1 (1.538 %) Linux 6 1 (1.538 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (15.38 %) Project Management 2 8 (12.31 %) PRINCE2 3 5 (7.692 %) Stakeholder Management 4 4 (6.154 %) Business Development 5 3 (4.615 %) Load Balancing 6 2 (3.077 %) ITIL 6 2 (3.077 %) UML 6 2 (3.077 %) E-Commerce 6 2 (3.077 %) SOA 6 2 (3.077 %) Service Delivery 7 1 (1.538 %) Change Management 7 1 (1.538 %) Disaster Recovery 7 1 (1.538 %) Service Management 7 1 (1.538 %) Time Management 7 1 (1.538 %) Network Design	Programming Languages 1 2 (3.077 %) Java
Qualifications 1 24 (36.92 %) Cisco Certification 2 15 (23.08 %) CCNP 3 14 (21.54 %) CCNA 4 11 (16.92 %) Microsoft Certification 5 10 (15.38 %) MCSE 6 8 (12.31 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 7 4 (6.154 %) Degree 7 4 (6.154 %) MCP 8 3 (4.615 %) CCDP 8 3 (4.615 %) CCIE 9 2 (3.077 %) Citrix Certification 9 2 (3.077 %) CCIP 9 2 (3.077 %) MCSA 10 1 (1.538 %) MCDBA 10 1 (1.538 %) MCAD 10 1 (1.538 %) CCA 10 1 (1.538 %) CCEA 10 1 (1.538 %) CISSP 10 1 (1.538 %) CCVP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (9.231 %) BS7799
System Software 1 19 (29.23 %) Active Directory 2 10 (15.38 %) Backup Exec 3 6 (9.231 %) ISA Server 4 2 (3.077 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (1.538 %) MetaFrame	Systems Management 1 9 (13.85 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 9 (13.85 %) RepliStor 2 1 (1.538 %) CiscoWorks
Vendors 1 40 (61.54 %) Cisco 2 10 (15.38 %) Microsoft 2 10 (15.38 %) Nortel 2 10 (15.38 %) Juniper 2 10 (15.38 %) CheckPoint 3 9 (13.85 %) NetIQ 3 9 (13.85 %) EMC 4 6 (9.231 %) Blue Coat 4 6 (9.231 %) Citrix 5 2 (3.077 %) Sun 5 2 (3.077 %) VMware 6 1 (1.538 %) Fortinet 6 1 (1.538 %) Symantec