The first table below looks at the demand for WAN Optimisation skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN Optimisation over the 3 months to 24 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WAN Optimization
Rank 238 244 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Permanent jobs citing WAN Optimisation 5 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.070% 0.042% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% 0.058% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% -
UK excluding London average salary £29,859 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-33.64% +20.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5523 5209 4697
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 76.87% 73.39% 68.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4625 4554 4125
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% -5.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,500 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
WAN Optimisation
England

WAN Optimisation
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing WAN Optimisation across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North West WAN Optimisation Jobs Demand Trend

WAN Optimisation
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WAN Optimisation across the North West region.

North West WAN Optimisation Salary Trend

WAN Optimisation
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN Optimisation within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Merseyside - 4 £35,000 -
Cheshire +5 1 - -
WAN Optimisation
England

WAN Optimisation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing WAN Optimisation 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 Optimisation.

1 16 (100.00%) WAN
1 16 (100.00%) Firewall
1 16 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (75.00%) Cisco
3 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
3 11 (68.75%) SAN
4 8 (50.00%) Juniper
4 8 (50.00%) Tivoli
4 8 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 8 (50.00%) ITSM
4 8 (50.00%) Finance
4 8 (50.00%) Validation
4 8 (50.00%) Lotus
4 8 (50.00%) IBM
4 8 (50.00%) EMC
4 8 (50.00%) AIX
4 8 (50.00%) Linux
4 8 (50.00%) Cognos
4 8 (50.00%) Service Management
4 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 8 (50.00%) Riverbed
4 8 (50.00%) Isilon
4 8 (50.00%) High Availability
4 8 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (50.00%) Business Continuity
4 8 (50.00%) WebSphere
4 8 (50.00%) Xen
5 4 (25.00%) WSUS
5 4 (25.00%) WatchGuard

WAN Optimisation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing WAN Optimisation 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 Optimisation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (50.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) WAN
1 16 (100.00%) Firewall
2 11 (68.75%) SAN
3 8 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (25.00%) VLAN
4 4 (25.00%) VoIP
4 4 (25.00%) DHCP
4 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (25.00%) DNS
4 4 (25.00%) SSL
5 1 (6.250%) iSCSI
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Consultant
1 8 (50.00%) Sales Consultant
1 8 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
1 8 (50.00%) Pre Sales Consultant
1 8 (50.00%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Network Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Technical Manager
3 1 (6.250%) Lead Network Engineer
3 1 (6.250%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) AIX
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (25.00%) Windows
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) ITSM
1 8 (50.00%) Validation
1 8 (50.00%) Service Management
1 8 (50.00%) High Availability
1 8 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (18.75%) Project Management
2 3 (18.75%) Project Planning
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (25.00%) CCNA
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (50.00%) Xen
3 4 (25.00%) VMware ESX
3 4 (25.00%) vSphere
3 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 8 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 4 (25.00%) WSUS
2 4 (25.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (75.00%) Cisco
3 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
4 8 (50.00%) Juniper
4 8 (50.00%) Lotus
4 8 (50.00%) IBM
4 8 (50.00%) EMC
4 8 (50.00%) Cognos
4 8 (50.00%) Riverbed
4 8 (50.00%) Isilon
5 4 (25.00%) WatchGuard
5 4 (25.00%) SonicWALL
5 4 (25.00%) Huawei
5 4 (25.00%) Exinda
5 4 (25.00%) HP
5 4 (25.00%) Dell
5 4 (25.00%) 3Com
5 4 (25.00%) Symantec
5 4 (25.00%) NetApp