Northamptonshire WAN Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the Northamptonshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Accrington Alfreton Alloa Altrincham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Blandford Forum Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clackmannanshire Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gourock Grampian Grangemouth Grays Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Haverhill Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Ilford Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Keighley Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Powys Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shipston-on-Stour Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley Tring Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Wallington Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welshpool Wembley West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	68	53
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching permanent IT job ads	16	33
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	10.53 %	17.28 %
Salaries quoted	12	27
Average minimum salary	£38,333	£33,741
Average salary	£39,583	£35,130
% change on same period last year	+12.67 %
Average maximum salary	£40,833	£36,519
UK excluding London average salary	£35,174	£37,462
% change on same period last year	-6.10 %
Communications & Networking Northamptonshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	152	191
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.080 %	0.078 %
Salaries quoted	130	147
Average minimum salary	£37,976	£32,100
Average salary	£39,857	£33,900
% change on same period last year	+17.57 %
Average maximum salary	£41,739	£35,701
UK excluding London average salary	£37,397	£39,734
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
WAN East Midlands

WAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing WAN across the Northamptonshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

WAN
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WAN across the Northamptonshire region.

WAN
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

WAN
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Northampton	-19	9	£37,778	+11.61 %
Daventry	-	4	-	-

WAN East Midlands

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 40 (90.91 %) LAN 2 26 (59.09 %) ITIL 3 20 (45.45 %) Windows 4 16 (36.36 %) UNIX 5 13 (29.55 %) SLA 6 11 (25.00 %) C 7 10 (22.73 %) PRINCE2 7 10 (22.73 %) Cisco 7 10 (22.73 %) Project Management 8 9 (20.45 %) Problem Management 9 8 (18.18 %) German Language 9 8 (18.18 %) Italian Language 9 8 (18.18 %) Spanish Language 9 8 (18.18 %) Windows XP 9 8 (18.18 %) SQL

10 7 (15.91 %) Citrix 10 7 (15.91 %) Telecoms 10 7 (15.91 %) Internet 10 7 (15.91 %) Service Management 11 6 (13.64 %) Intranet 11 6 (13.64 %) SQL Server 7 11 6 (13.64 %) Active Directory 11 6 (13.64 %) ADSL 11 6 (13.64 %) Oracle 11 6 (13.64 %) SQL Server 11 6 (13.64 %) MS Office 11 6 (13.64 %) AIX 11 6 (13.64 %) Oracle Reports 12 5 (11.36 %) VoIP 13 4 (9.091 %) TCP/IP

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 (2.273 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 4 (9.091 %) SAS 1 4 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 4 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (2.273 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 6 (13.64 %) MS Office 2 2 (4.545 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.273 %) SPSS 3 1 (2.273 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 40 (90.91 %) LAN 2 7 (15.91 %) Internet 3 6 (13.64 %) ADSL 3 6 (13.64 %) Intranet 4 5 (11.36 %) VoIP 5 4 (9.091 %) TCP/IP 6 2 (4.545 %) DHCP 6 2 (4.545 %) DNS 7 1 (2.273 %) Firewall 7 1 (2.273 %) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (13.64 %) SQL Server 1 6 (13.64 %) Oracle Reports 1 6 (13.64 %) SQL Server 7 2 2 (4.545 %) Base SAS 3 1 (2.273 %) Data Mining	General 1 7 (15.91 %) Telecoms 2 3 (6.818 %) Finance 2 3 (6.818 %) Banking 3 1 (2.273 %) Pensions 3 1 (2.273 %) Health 3 1 (2.273 %) Law
Job Titles 1 8 (18.18 %) Operations Manager 2 7 (15.91 %) Technical Manager 2 7 (15.91 %) Technical Operations Manager 3 6 (13.64 %) Infrastructure Manager 3 6 (13.64 %) Technical Specialist 4 4 (9.091 %) Technical Team Leader 4 4 (9.091 %) Team Leader 4 4 (9.091 %) Service Desk Team Leader 5 3 (6.818 %) Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) Consultant 6 2 (4.545 %) Support Engineer 6 2 (4.545 %) ITIL Consultant 7 1 (2.273 %) MI Analyst 7 1 (2.273 %) IT Operations Manager 7 1 (2.273 %) Support Manager 7 1 (2.273 %) Operations Analyst 7 1 (2.273 %) IT Support Manager 7 1 (2.273 %) UNIX Specialist 7 1 (2.273 %) SAS Analyst 7 1 (2.273 %) Infrastructure Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 8 (18.18 %) German Language 1 8 (18.18 %) Italian Language 1 8 (18.18 %) Spanish Language 2 3 (6.818 %) Credit Risk 3 1 (2.273 %) Fat Client 3 1 (2.273 %) Thin Client 3 1 (2.273 %) Blackberry 3 1 (2.273 %) PDA 3 1 (2.273 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 20 (45.45 %) Windows 2 16 (36.36 %) UNIX 3 8 (18.18 %) Windows XP 4 6 (13.64 %) AIX 5 4 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (2.273 %) Mac OS X 6 1 (2.273 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (59.09 %) ITIL 2 10 (22.73 %) PRINCE2 2 10 (22.73 %) Project Management 3 9 (20.45 %) Problem Management 4 7 (15.91 %) Service Management 5 4 (9.091 %) Incident Management 6 2 (4.545 %) Statistical Analysis 7 1 (2.273 %) Fault Management 7 1 (2.273 %) Performance Management 7 1 (2.273 %) Data Protection 7 1 (2.273 %) Service Delivery 7 1 (2.273 %) Disaster Recovery 7 1 (2.273 %) Data Security 7 1 (2.273 %) Risk Management 7 1 (2.273 %) Data Management 7 1 (2.273 %) Data Analysis
Programming Languages 1 11 (25.00 %) C 2 8 (18.18 %) SQL 3 2 (4.545 %) SAS Macro	Qualifications 1 4 (9.091 %) MCSE 1 4 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (6.818 %) MCP 3 1 (2.273 %) Degree 3 1 (2.273 %) MCSA 3 1 (2.273 %) CCNP 3 1 (2.273 %) CCIP 3 1 (2.273 %) CCNA 3 1 (2.273 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (29.55 %) SLA	System Software 1 6 (13.64 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.273 %) Terminal Services 2 1 (2.273 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (2.273 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 1 (2.273 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 10 (22.73 %) Cisco 2 7 (15.91 %) Citrix 3 6 (13.64 %) Oracle 4 4 (9.091 %) Avaya 5 3 (6.818 %) Mitel 6 1 (2.273 %) CheckPoint