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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 19 38 28
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -10
Permanent jobs citing LAN 8 3 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 4.000% 0.968% 4.407%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.81% 4.762% 20.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 4
Average salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.16% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,250 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.97% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
31 63 64
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 15.50% 20.32% 21.69%
Number of salaries quoted 17 63 39
Average salary £55,000 £55,000 £46,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +18.91%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £40,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £65,250 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
LAN
England

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 21 (100.00%) WAN
2 19 (90.48%) Cisco
3 12 (57.14%) Windows
3 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 12 (57.14%) VMware
3 12 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (52.38%) Lync
4 11 (52.38%) Citrix
5 10 (47.62%) HP
5 10 (47.62%) Finance
5 10 (47.62%) Hyper-V
5 10 (47.62%) XenApp
5 10 (47.62%) XenServer
5 10 (47.62%) XenDesktop
5 10 (47.62%) vSphere
6 9 (42.86%) Firewall
7 8 (38.10%) VPN
7 8 (38.10%) CheckPoint
7 8 (38.10%) Network Security
8 7 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
8 7 (33.33%) Load Balancing
8 7 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (33.33%) TippingPoint
8 7 (33.33%) MPLS
8 7 (33.33%) OSPF
8 7 (33.33%) BGP
8 7 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (33.33%) CCNP
8 7 (33.33%) EIGRP
8 7 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 1 (4.762%) .NET
1 1 (4.762%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 11 (52.38%) Lync
2 1 (4.762%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS Office
1 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 21 (100.00%) WAN
2 9 (42.86%) Firewall
3 8 (38.10%) VPN
3 8 (38.10%) Network Security
4 7 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 7 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
4 7 (33.33%) MPLS
4 7 (33.33%) OSPF
4 7 (33.33%) BGP
4 7 (33.33%) EIGRP
5 2 (9.524%) SAN
5 2 (9.524%) Wireless
6 1 (4.762%) VLAN
6 1 (4.762%) Internet
6 1 (4.762%) DHCP
6 1 (4.762%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.762%) ISDN
6 1 (4.762%) PSTN
6 1 (4.762%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Hudson
General
1 10 (47.62%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Architect
2 10 (47.62%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (38.10%) Network Consultant
3 8 (38.10%) Consultant
3 8 (38.10%) Network Engineer
4 7 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
4 7 (33.33%) Security Consultant
4 7 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 7 (33.33%) Senior Security Consultant
4 7 (33.33%) Senior Security Engineer
4 7 (33.33%) Senior Network Consultant
4 7 (33.33%) Senior Network Security Engineer
4 7 (33.33%) Network Security Consultant
4 7 (33.33%) Senior Network Security Consultant
4 7 (33.33%) Security Engineer
4 7 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.762%) Cisco Specialist
5 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Designer
5 1 (4.762%) Designer
5 1 (4.762%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.524%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (4.762%) Data Integration
2 1 (4.762%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.762%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Windows
2 1 (4.762%) Solaris
2 1 (4.762%) Linux
2 1 (4.762%) Windows 7
2 1 (4.762%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 7 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (4.762%) Network Architecture
2 1 (4.762%) Network Design
2 1 (4.762%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.762%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) CCNP
1 7 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (33.33%) CCSA
System Software
1 12 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (47.62%) Hyper-V
2 10 (47.62%) XenApp
2 10 (47.62%) XenServer
2 10 (47.62%) XenDesktop
2 10 (47.62%) vSphere
3 2 (9.524%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.762%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (90.48%) Cisco
2 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (57.14%) VMware
3 11 (52.38%) Citrix
4 10 (47.62%) HP
5 8 (38.10%) CheckPoint
6 7 (33.33%) TippingPoint
7 1 (4.762%) F5
7 1 (4.762%) WatchGuard
7 1 (4.762%) EMC
7 1 (4.762%) Juniper
7 1 (4.762%) Sun
7 1 (4.762%) IBM