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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank 80 63 75
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +12
Permanent jobs citing VLAN 6 4 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.584% 0.630% 0.123%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.138% 4.819% 0.781%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 1
Average salary £40,995 £24,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+67.32% -42.35%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Communications & Networking
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
145 83 128
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 14.12% 13.07% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 140 58 103
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £20,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VLAN
Oxfordshire

VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford VLAN Jobs Demand Trend

VLAN
Salary Trend

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

Oxford VLAN Salary Trend

VLAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VLAN across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Oxford VLAN Salary Histogram

VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region citing VLAN 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 VLAN.

1 16 (69.57%) IPsec
2 14 (60.87%) BGP
2 14 (60.87%) Linux
3 13 (56.52%) LAN
3 13 (56.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (47.83%) OSPF
5 10 (43.48%) Business Continuity
5 10 (43.48%) BCP
6 8 (34.78%) VoIP
7 7 (30.43%) Cisco
8 6 (26.09%) Juniper
8 6 (26.09%) WAN
8 6 (26.09%) MPLS
8 6 (26.09%) VMware
9 5 (21.74%) Telecoms
9 5 (21.74%) Network Design
9 5 (21.74%) TCP/IP
9 5 (21.74%) WLAN
9 5 (21.74%) HP
9 5 (21.74%) IPv4
9 5 (21.74%) IPv6
9 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
9 5 (21.74%) Riverbed
10 4 (17.39%) Investment Management
10 4 (17.39%) DHCP
10 4 (17.39%) SQL
10 4 (17.39%) ITIL
10 4 (17.39%) VRRP
10 4 (17.39%) Firewall
11 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2003

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region citing VLAN 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 VLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (8.696%) HTML
Applications
1 2 (8.696%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 16 (69.57%) IPsec
2 14 (60.87%) BGP
3 13 (56.52%) LAN
4 11 (47.83%) OSPF
5 8 (34.78%) VoIP
6 6 (26.09%) WAN
6 6 (26.09%) MPLS
7 5 (21.74%) TCP/IP
7 5 (21.74%) WLAN
7 5 (21.74%) IPv4
7 5 (21.74%) IPv6
8 4 (17.39%) DHCP
8 4 (17.39%) VRRP
8 4 (17.39%) Firewall
9 3 (13.04%) VPN
9 3 (13.04%) DNS
10 2 (8.696%) SAN
10 2 (8.696%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (4.348%) IP Telephony
11 1 (4.348%) EIGRP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (21.74%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.348%) Finance
2 1 (4.348%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Network Specialist
2 6 (26.09%) Network Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Network Design Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Telecoms Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Design Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.696%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (8.696%) Consultant
4 2 (8.696%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.696%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (4.348%) Support Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Support Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Linux Specialist
5 1 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (13.04%) Windows
3 2 (8.696%) UNIX
4 1 (4.348%) Windows XP
4 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.348%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (43.48%) Business Continuity
2 10 (43.48%) BCP
3 5 (21.74%) Network Design
4 4 (17.39%) Investment Management
4 4 (17.39%) ITIL
5 2 (8.696%) PRINCE2
6 1 (4.348%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 2 (8.696%) Perl
2 2 (8.696%) PHP
2 2 (8.696%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.696%) Degree
1 2 (8.696%) CCNP
1 2 (8.696%) CCNA
1 2 (8.696%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.348%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (4.348%) RHCE
2 1 (4.348%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.348%) MCITP
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.696%) XenApp
3 2 (8.696%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (8.696%) Terminal Services
3 2 (8.696%) Samba
4 1 (4.348%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (8.696%) Backup Exec
2 1 (4.348%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Cisco
2 6 (26.09%) Juniper
2 6 (26.09%) VMware
3 5 (21.74%) HP
3 5 (21.74%) Riverbed
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.696%) WatchGuard
5 2 (8.696%) Veeam
5 2 (8.696%) F5
5 2 (8.696%) Citrix
6 1 (4.348%) Blue Coat
6 1 (4.348%) Symantec
6 1 (4.348%) Sophos
6 1 (4.348%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.348%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.348%) Fortinet