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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank - 23 -
Permanent jobs citing WAN 0 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newport - 1.724% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 8.696% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 0
Average salary - £35,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Communications & Networking
Newport
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
24 23 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newport 18.05% 19.83% 10.48%
Number of salaries quoted 24 23 11
Average salary £31,000 £32,500 £31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.61% +4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £23,200 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
WAN
South Wales

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newport 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 Newport region.

Newport WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newport 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 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded C
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded C++
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Assembly Language
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (50.00%) TELNET
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Physics
2 1 (50.00%) ZigBee
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) JTAG
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) HSPA
2 1 (50.00%) Atmel
2 1 (50.00%) C

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newport 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 Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) TELNET
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) ZigBee
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) HSPA
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) Bluetooth
2 1 (50.00%) GPRS
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) UMTS
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Support
1 1 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded C
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded C++
1 1 (50.00%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) JTAG
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Atmel