The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 84 54 62
Rank change year-on-year
-30 +8
Permanent jobs citing LAN 4 10 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.393% 1.468% 2.000%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.532% 12.66% 11.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 7
Average salary £41,250 £25,000 £45,150
Average salary % change year-on-year
+65.00% -44.62%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £21,000 £27,800
10% offered a salary of more than £52,700 £35,250 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
158 79 143
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 15.54% 11.60% 16.82%
Number of salaries quoted 152 55 111
Average salary £44,000 £35,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.71% -17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £20,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
LAN
Oxfordshire

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford LAN Jobs Demand Trend

LAN
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing LAN across the Oxford region.

Oxford LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAN across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Oxford LAN Salary Histogram

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region citing LAN 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 LAN.

1 26 (81.25%) WAN
2 18 (56.25%) Cisco
3 15 (46.88%) Juniper
4 13 (40.63%) ITIL
4 13 (40.63%) OSPF
4 13 (40.63%) BGP
5 12 (37.50%) Telecoms
6 11 (34.38%) Network Design
7 10 (31.25%) VLAN
7 10 (31.25%) Linux
7 10 (31.25%) VoIP
8 9 (28.13%) IPsec
9 8 (25.00%) Riverbed
9 8 (25.00%) WLAN
9 8 (25.00%) TCP/IP
9 8 (25.00%) HP
10 7 (21.88%) MPLS
11 6 (18.75%) BCP
11 6 (18.75%) Project Management
11 6 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (18.75%) Business Continuity
11 6 (18.75%) F5
12 5 (15.63%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (15.63%) Problem Management
12 5 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (15.63%) CCNP
12 5 (15.63%) Windows
13 4 (12.50%) UNIX
13 4 (12.50%) Solaris
13 4 (12.50%) Active Directory

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region citing LAN 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 LAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.375%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.125%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 26 (81.25%) WAN
2 13 (40.63%) OSPF
2 13 (40.63%) BGP
3 10 (31.25%) VoIP
3 10 (31.25%) VLAN
4 9 (28.13%) IPsec
5 8 (25.00%) WLAN
5 8 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 7 (21.88%) MPLS
7 5 (15.63%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (9.375%) BIG-IP
8 3 (9.375%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (9.375%) EIGRP
8 3 (9.375%) Firewall
8 3 (9.375%) IPv4
8 3 (9.375%) IPv6
8 3 (9.375%) SAN
9 2 (6.250%) PBX
10 1 (3.125%) SONET
10 1 (3.125%) DHCP
General
1 12 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.125%) Finance
2 1 (3.125%) Legal
2 1 (3.125%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Network Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Network Manager
3 6 (18.75%) Network Specialist
3 6 (18.75%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Administrator
4 4 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
5 3 (9.375%) Design Engineer
5 3 (9.375%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (9.375%) Network Design Engineer
5 3 (9.375%) Telecoms Engineer
5 3 (9.375%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (9.375%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (6.250%) 2nd Line Support
7 1 (3.125%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.125%) Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) Consultant
7 1 (3.125%) UNIX Consultant
7 1 (3.125%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (3.125%) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.250%) IVR
2 1 (3.125%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Windows
3 4 (12.50%) UNIX
3 4 (12.50%) Solaris
4 1 (3.125%) AIX
4 1 (3.125%) HPUX
4 1 (3.125%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) ITIL
2 11 (34.38%) Network Design
3 6 (18.75%) BCP
3 6 (18.75%) Project Management
3 6 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (18.75%) Business Continuity
4 5 (15.63%) Problem Management
5 4 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 4 (12.50%) Service Management
6 2 (6.250%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.250%) Analytics
6 2 (6.250%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (6.250%) Business Analysis
7 1 (3.125%) Network Management
7 1 (3.125%) Change Management
7 1 (3.125%) Asset Management
7 1 (3.125%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) CCNP
1 5 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (9.375%) RHCE
2 3 (9.375%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.250%) Degree
3 2 (6.250%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.125%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.375%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (9.375%) Puppet
2 1 (3.125%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) Cisco
2 15 (46.88%) Juniper
3 8 (25.00%) HP
3 8 (25.00%) Riverbed
4 6 (18.75%) F5
5 4 (12.50%) VMware
6 3 (9.375%) 3PAR
6 3 (9.375%) Red Hat
7 2 (6.250%) Genesys
7 2 (6.250%) Avaya
8 1 (3.125%) Microsoft
8 1 (3.125%) BMC
8 1 (3.125%) CheckPoint
8 1 (3.125%) Symantec
8 1 (3.125%) Blue Coat
8 1 (3.125%) Fortinet
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