The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 36 57 54
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -3
Permanent jobs citing WAN 36 14 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 5.455% 1.835% 2.580%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.27% 14.43% 15.67%
Number of salaries quoted 33 11 20
Average salary £39,000 £24,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+62.50% -15.78%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,500 £22,600 £24,200
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £36,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Communications & Networking
Northamptonshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
132 97 134
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 20.00% 12.71% 16.46%
Number of salaries quoted 111 86 124
Average salary £39,000 £28,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.84% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £22,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
WAN
East Midlands

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Northamptonshire WAN Salary Histogram

WAN
Job Locations

The table below 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 17 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
Northampton +19 28 £40,000 +70.21%
Wellingborough +5 3 £20,000 -44.44%
Daventry - 2 £20,000 -
WAN
East Midlands

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 49 (92.45%) LAN
2 34 (64.15%) Windows
3 24 (45.28%) Cisco
4 22 (41.51%) Linux
5 19 (35.85%) Apache
5 19 (35.85%) Tomcat
5 19 (35.85%) MySQL
5 19 (35.85%) Open Source
5 19 (35.85%) SaaS
5 19 (35.85%) IaaS
6 16 (30.19%) Agile Software Development
7 15 (28.30%) ITIL
7 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
7 15 (28.30%) SLA
8 13 (24.53%) Oracle
8 13 (24.53%) Java
8 13 (24.53%) Google
8 13 (24.53%) hybris
8 13 (24.53%) Google Apps
9 12 (22.64%) Scrum
10 11 (20.75%) Project Management
10 11 (20.75%) Agile Project Management
11 10 (18.87%) Active Directory
11 10 (18.87%) SAN
12 9 (16.98%) MS Office
12 9 (16.98%) UNIX
12 9 (16.98%) Telecoms
13 8 (15.09%) Windows 7
13 8 (15.09%) Wireless
14 7 (13.21%) TCP/IP

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 Platforms
1 19 (35.85%) Apache
1 19 (35.85%) Tomcat
2 5 (9.434%) MS Exchange
3 2 (3.774%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.887%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (1.887%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 13 (24.53%) Google Apps
2 9 (16.98%) MS Office
3 2 (3.774%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 49 (92.45%) LAN
2 10 (18.87%) SAN
3 8 (15.09%) Wireless
4 7 (13.21%) TCP/IP
5 4 (7.547%) DHCP
5 4 (7.547%) Firewall
6 3 (5.660%) VLAN
6 3 (5.660%) Intranet
6 3 (5.660%) Internet
6 3 (5.660%) MPLS
6 3 (5.660%) EIGRP
7 2 (3.774%) PBX
8 1 (1.887%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.85%) MySQL
2 4 (7.547%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.887%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 9 (16.98%) Telecoms
2 3 (5.660%) Law
3 2 (3.774%) Legal
3 2 (3.774%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (37.74%) Analyst
2 16 (30.19%) Infrastructure Designer
2 16 (30.19%) Designer
3 15 (28.30%) Service Analyst
3 15 (28.30%) Service Desk Analyst
4 4 (7.547%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (7.547%) Support Engineer
4 4 (7.547%) Senior Designer
4 4 (7.547%) Technical Services Analyst
4 4 (7.547%) Senior Infrastructure Designer
4 4 (7.547%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (5.660%) Help Desk Support
5 3 (5.660%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 3 (5.660%) 1st Line Support
5 3 (5.660%) Network Analyst
6 2 (3.774%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.887%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (1.887%) Desktop Engineer
7 1 (1.887%) Sales Manager
7 1 (1.887%) Technical Account Manager
Miscellaneous
1 19 (35.85%) Open Source
1 19 (35.85%) SaaS
1 19 (35.85%) IaaS
2 4 (7.547%) Fat Client
2 4 (7.547%) Thin Client
2 4 (7.547%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.660%) Blackberry
4 2 (3.774%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 34 (64.15%) Windows
2 22 (41.51%) Linux
3 9 (16.98%) UNIX
4 8 (15.09%) Windows 7
5 4 (7.547%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (7.547%) Windows XP
6 3 (5.660%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.660%) Windows 8
7 2 (3.774%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (3.774%) Debian
7 2 (3.774%) Fedora
8 1 (1.887%) Windows Vista
8 1 (1.887%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) Agile Software Development
2 15 (28.30%) ITIL
3 12 (22.64%) Scrum
4 11 (20.75%) Agile Project Management
4 11 (20.75%) Project Management
5 5 (9.434%) Problem Management
6 3 (5.660%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (5.660%) Network Design
7 2 (3.774%) Business Analysis
7 2 (3.774%) Incident Management
7 2 (3.774%) Service Delivery
7 2 (3.774%) Analytics
8 1 (1.887%) ITIL V3
8 1 (1.887%) Performance Management
8 1 (1.887%) Change Management
8 1 (1.887%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.53%) Java
2 1 (1.887%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.434%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (7.547%) MCP
3 3 (5.660%) CCNA
3 3 (5.660%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.660%) A+ Certification
4 2 (3.774%) MOS
4 2 (3.774%) Degree
4 2 (3.774%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.774%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.887%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (28.30%) SLA
2 1 (1.887%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (18.87%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.660%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.774%) Samba
4 1 (1.887%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (1.887%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (45.28%) Cisco
2 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
3 13 (24.53%) Oracle
3 13 (24.53%) Google
3 13 (24.53%) hybris
4 6 (11.32%) VMware
5 4 (7.547%) Apple
5 4 (7.547%) Citrix
6 3 (5.660%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.774%) Avaya
7 2 (3.774%) Genesys
8 1 (1.887%) Remedy
8 1 (1.887%) Twitter
Northampton, Northamptonshire
Operating systems including Linux and Windows... Experience in Open Source technologies, including Linux, MySQL, Apache and Tomcat. Cloud platform experience including SaaS and IaaS... Cisco) Additional Website Text.
Travis Perkins Trading Company Limited
Salary: Competitive salary
Posted: 26 April 2013
Northamptonshire
Essential Skills: Networking experience including troubleshooting of TCP/IP, LAN, WAN and DNS... Experience in Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.0. Experience in Server 2003/2008 R1/...
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Salary: £20000.00 - £23500.00 per annum + mileage allowance
Posted: 15 May 2013