North West VLAN Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Virtual LAN (VLAN) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VLAN over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Location Andover Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Crawley Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ilford Keighley Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Rochdale Scotland Sheffield Slough South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Stirling Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	252	279
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching permanent IT job ads	24	13
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	1.016 %	0.626 %
Salaries quoted	24	12
Average minimum salary	£37,458	£31,000
Average salary	£38,625	£32,438
% change on same period last year	+19.07 %
Average maximum salary	£39,792	£33,875
UK excluding London average salary	£37,218	£37,335
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
Communications & Networking North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	2362	2076
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.158 %	0.919 %
Salaries quoted	2033	1807
Average minimum salary	£31,167	£32,904
Average salary	£33,606	£35,377
% change on same period last year	-5.00 %
Average maximum salary	£36,046	£37,851
UK excluding London average salary	£37,693	£39,086
% change on same period last year	-3.56 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing VLAN across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing VLAN across the North West region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VLAN across the North West region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the North West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Manchester	+23	15	£38,867	+118.96 %
2	Merseyside	-9	4	£45,625	+46.00 %
3	Cheshire	-2	3	£30,000	-12.62 %
4	Lancashire	-	2	£35,750	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West region citing VLAN 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 VLAN.

1 46 (85.19 %) Firewall 2 42 (77.78 %) Windows 3 38 (70.37 %) VPN 3 38 (70.37 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 34 (62.96 %) Cisco 5 25 (46.30 %) MCSE 5 25 (46.30 %) Microsoft Certification 6 24 (44.44 %) SQL Server 7 23 (42.59 %) CCNA 7 23 (42.59 %) Active Directory 7 23 (42.59 %) TCP/IP 7 23 (42.59 %) Cisco Certification 8 20 (37.04 %) Windows XP 8 20 (37.04 %) MS Exchange 8 20 (37.04 %) WAN

9 19 (35.19 %) Microsoft 9 19 (35.19 %) Windows 2000 9 19 (35.19 %) Wireless 9 19 (35.19 %) Cisco PIX 10 17 (31.48 %) Finance 10 17 (31.48 %) CCNP 10 17 (31.48 %) MS Excel 11 15 (27.78 %) SQL 12 14 (25.93 %) VERITAS 13 13 (24.07 %) Windows Server 2003 13 13 (24.07 %) Internet 14 12 (22.22 %) IPsec 14 12 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 2000 15 10 (18.52 %) Pensions 15 10 (18.52 %) NetBackup

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the North West region citing VLAN 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 VLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.852 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 38 (70.37 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 20 (37.04 %) MS Exchange 3 12 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 4 (7.407 %) IIS 4 4 (7.407 %) Apache 4 4 (7.407 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 17 (31.48 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.852 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 46 (85.19 %) Firewall 2 38 (70.37 %) VPN 3 23 (42.59 %) TCP/IP 4 20 (37.04 %) WAN 5 19 (35.19 %) Wireless 5 19 (35.19 %) Cisco PIX 6 13 (24.07 %) Internet 7 12 (22.22 %) IPsec 8 10 (18.52 %) Broadband 9 8 (14.81 %) SAN 10 6 (11.11 %) VoIP 11 5 (9.259 %) LAN 12 3 (5.556 %) ISDN 12 3 (5.556 %) Ethernet 12 3 (5.556 %) SNMP 13 2 (3.704 %) DNS 14 1 (1.852 %) NetScreen 14 1 (1.852 %) Intrusion Detection 14 1 (1.852 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (44.44 %) SQL Server 2 4 (7.407 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.852 %) SQL Server 7	General 1 17 (31.48 %) Finance 2 10 (18.52 %) Pensions 3 2 (3.704 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 25 (46.30 %) Network Engineer 2 20 (37.04 %) Systems Engineer 2 20 (37.04 %) Senior Systems Engineer 3 19 (35.19 %) Senior Network Engineer 4 12 (22.22 %) Network Manager 5 8 (14.81 %) Analyst 6 5 (9.259 %) Infrastructure Analyst 7 4 (7.407 %) Infrastructure Manager 7 4 (7.407 %) Systems Support 7 4 (7.407 %) Support Analyst 8 2 (3.704 %) Support Engineer 8 2 (3.704 %) Senior Support Engineer 8 2 (3.704 %) Security Engineer 8 2 (3.704 %) Systems Support Engineer 9 1 (1.852 %) IT Manager 9 1 (1.852 %) Support Manager 9 1 (1.852 %) IT Support Manager 9 1 (1.852 %) Infrastructure Engineer 9 1 (1.852 %) Technical Engineer 9 1 (1.852 %) Infrastructure Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 9 (16.67 %) Management Information System 2 4 (7.407 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 42 (77.78 %) Windows 2 20 (37.04 %) Windows XP 3 19 (35.19 %) Windows 2000 4 13 (24.07 %) Windows Server 2003 5 4 (7.407 %) Unix 5 4 (7.407 %) Solaris 6 2 (3.704 %) Windows NT 7 1 (1.852 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (3.704 %) Information Security 2 1 (1.852 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 15 (27.78 %) SQL 2 1 (1.852 %) VB 2 1 (1.852 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 25 (46.30 %) MCSE 1 25 (46.30 %) Microsoft Certification 2 23 (42.59 %) CCNA 2 23 (42.59 %) Cisco Certification 3 17 (31.48 %) CCNP 4 2 (3.704 %) Degree
System Software 1 23 (42.59 %) Active Directory 2 10 (18.52 %) NetBackup 2 10 (18.52 %) Backup Exec 3 4 (7.407 %) ISA Server 4 1 (1.852 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 2 (3.704 %) MOM
Vendors 1 34 (62.96 %) Cisco 2 19 (35.19 %) Microsoft 3 14 (25.93 %) VERITAS 4 8 (14.81 %) Citrix 5 5 (9.259 %) VMware 6 4 (7.407 %) Sun 6 4 (7.407 %) HP