The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northern Ireland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 23 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 Northern Ireland region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 38 39 25
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -14
Permanent jobs citing WAN 4 3 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 1.556% 1.200% 6.410%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.250% 5.455% 24.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 0
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Northern Ireland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
64 55 62
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 24.90% 22.00% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 22 28 9
Average salary £41,500 £32,500 £45,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.69% -28.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £21,000 £39,100
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £70,000 £39,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
UK

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland WAN Salary Trend

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 Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 23 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
County Antrim +2 4 £35,000 -36.36%
WAN
UK

WAN
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 5 (100.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) ArcSight
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) GCIA
3 1 (20.00%) Internet
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) HTTP
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) Internet
3 1 (20.00%) HTTP
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Information Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) GCIA
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (80.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat