The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 45 47 42
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -5
Permanent jobs citing WAN 7 5 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.573% 1.053% 1.804%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.609% 7.692% 8.333%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 7
Average salary £32,500 £26,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.64% -17.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,700 £26,500 £30,200
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £42,950 £39,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
92 65 84
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 20.67% 13.68% 21.65%
Number of salaries quoted 82 55 77
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £26,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
Tyne and Wear

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne WAN Jobs Demand Trend

WAN
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WAN across the Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the Newcastle upon Tyne region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Newcastle upon Tyne WAN Salary Histogram

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 23 (71.88%) Cisco
2 21 (65.63%) LAN
3 19 (59.38%) Firewall
4 17 (53.13%) Microsoft
5 14 (43.75%) Network Design
5 14 (43.75%) Cisco IOS
5 14 (43.75%) Network Management
6 12 (37.50%) VPN
6 12 (37.50%) MS Excel
6 12 (37.50%) Solaris
7 11 (34.38%) Oracle
7 11 (34.38%) CCNA
7 11 (34.38%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (34.38%) SAN
8 10 (31.25%) HP
8 10 (31.25%) MS Visio
8 10 (31.25%) Capacity Planning
8 10 (31.25%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (31.25%) Hyper-V
8 10 (31.25%) Fibre Channel
8 10 (31.25%) Cisco PIX
8 10 (31.25%) VLAN
9 8 (25.00%) Windows
10 7 (21.88%) CCNP
11 6 (18.75%) Problem Management
12 5 (15.63%) MS Exchange
12 5 (15.63%) Service Delivery
13 4 (12.50%) OSPF
13 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
13 4 (12.50%) CheckPoint

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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.

Application Platforms
1 5 (15.63%) MS Exchange
2 2 (6.250%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (3.125%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (3.125%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 12 (37.50%) MS Excel
2 10 (31.25%) MS Visio
3 3 (9.375%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 21 (65.63%) LAN
2 19 (59.38%) Firewall
3 14 (43.75%) Cisco IOS
4 12 (37.50%) VPN
5 11 (34.38%) SAN
6 10 (31.25%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (31.25%) Fibre Channel
6 10 (31.25%) Cisco PIX
6 10 (31.25%) VLAN
7 4 (12.50%) OSPF
7 4 (12.50%) BGP
8 2 (6.250%) MPLS
8 2 (6.250%) DSL
8 2 (6.250%) VoIP
8 2 (6.250%) DHCP
8 2 (6.250%) TCP/IP
8 2 (6.250%) DNS
9 1 (3.125%) Network Security
9 1 (3.125%) PABX
9 1 (3.125%) SSL
General
1 1 (3.125%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Administrator
2 4 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (12.50%) Network Technician
2 4 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (9.375%) Team Leader
3 3 (9.375%) Technical Specialist
3 3 (9.375%) Analyst
4 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
4 2 (6.250%) Support Team Leader
4 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 1 (3.125%) Technical Services Analyst
5 1 (3.125%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Services Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.125%) Service Manager
5 1 (3.125%) Network Administrator
5 1 (3.125%) Help Desk Support
5 1 (3.125%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (3.125%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.250%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Solaris
2 8 (25.00%) Windows
3 4 (12.50%) Linux
4 3 (9.375%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (9.375%) Windows 7
4 3 (9.375%) UNIX
4 3 (9.375%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (3.125%) Windows 8
5 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.125%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Network Design
1 14 (43.75%) Network Management
2 10 (31.25%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (18.75%) Problem Management
4 5 (15.63%) Service Delivery
5 4 (12.50%) Data Management
6 3 (9.375%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (6.250%) Service Management
7 2 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (6.250%) ITIL
7 2 (6.250%) Performance Management
8 1 (3.125%) Requirements Analysis
8 1 (3.125%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (3.125%) Business Development
8 1 (3.125%) Data Protection
8 1 (3.125%) Asset Management
8 1 (3.125%) Network Architecture
8 1 (3.125%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (3.125%) Capacity Management
8 1 (3.125%) PRINCE2
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) CCNA
1 11 (34.38%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (21.88%) CCNP
3 3 (9.375%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (3.125%) JNCIP
4 1 (3.125%) JNCIE
4 1 (3.125%) MCDST
4 1 (3.125%) MCITP
4 1 (3.125%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.125%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.125%) CCSA
4 1 (3.125%) CCDA
4 1 (3.125%) CCDP
4 1 (3.125%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.125%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (3.125%) CCIE
4 1 (3.125%) MCP
4 1 (3.125%) MCSE
4 1 (3.125%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Hyper-V
2 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.250%) XenServer
4 1 (3.125%) vSphere
4 1 (3.125%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (6.250%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (71.88%) Cisco
2 17 (53.13%) Microsoft
3 11 (34.38%) Oracle
4 10 (31.25%) HP
5 4 (12.50%) CheckPoint
6 3 (9.375%) Citrix
7 2 (6.250%) VMware
8 1 (3.125%) Riverbed
8 1 (3.125%) F5
8 1 (3.125%) Twitter
8 1 (3.125%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.125%) Juniper
8 1 (3.125%) Sun
8 1 (3.125%) Remedy
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
Responsibilities includes: Strategy & Planning * Participate in and support capacity planning and the development of long-term Strategic goals for systems and software in conjunction with end-users and...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £25000.00 - £30000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Seeking applicants with the following: * Good understanding and working knowledge of Juniper, Wan, MPLS * Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining servers and software... * Familiarity with TCP/IP protocols, firewall...
Capita Resourcing - Jobs at Capita
Salary: £25000.00 - £30000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013