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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 107 56 69
Rank change year-on-year
-51 +13
Permanent jobs citing WAN 15 54 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.818% 3.668% 2.284%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.747% 22.69% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 15 49 30
Average salary £50,000 £35,000 £51,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+42.85% -31.37%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,100 £26,800 £28,700
10% offered a salary of more than £55,600 £42,000 £56,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
All Communications & Networking
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
316 238 209
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 17.24% 16.17% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 293 208 179
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
WAN
South East

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -27 5 £37,500 +7.14%
Thame - 1 £26,000 -
Abingdon - 1 £32,500 -
WAN
South East

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 60 (92.31%) LAN
2 38 (58.46%) Cisco
3 30 (46.15%) Windows
4 25 (38.46%) ITIL
4 25 (38.46%) Active Directory
5 24 (36.92%) Juniper
6 23 (35.38%) Microsoft
6 23 (35.38%) Windows Server 2008
7 19 (29.23%) VoIP
7 19 (29.23%) HP
8 18 (27.69%) VMware
8 18 (27.69%) Network Design
9 17 (26.15%) Telecoms
9 17 (26.15%) Windows Server 2003
10 16 (24.62%) SAN
10 16 (24.62%) WLAN
10 16 (24.62%) TCP/IP
11 15 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (21.54%) MPLS
12 14 (21.54%) OSPF
12 14 (21.54%) BGP
12 14 (21.54%) MS Excel
13 13 (20.00%) MS Office
13 13 (20.00%) MS Exchange
13 13 (20.00%) Project Management
13 13 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (20.00%) CCNP
13 13 (20.00%) Firewall
13 13 (20.00%) Windows 7
14 12 (18.46%) F5

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (1.538%) XMPP
Application Platforms
1 13 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 8 (12.31%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (6.154%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (4.615%) Apache
6 2 (3.077%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (1.538%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (21.54%) MS Excel
2 13 (20.00%) MS Office
3 1 (1.538%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 60 (92.31%) LAN
2 19 (29.23%) VoIP
3 16 (24.62%) WLAN
3 16 (24.62%) TCP/IP
3 16 (24.62%) SAN
4 14 (21.54%) MPLS
4 14 (21.54%) OSPF
4 14 (21.54%) BGP
5 13 (20.00%) Firewall
6 12 (18.46%) Internet
7 11 (16.92%) VLAN
7 11 (16.92%) Cisco Nexus
8 10 (15.38%) DNS
9 9 (13.85%) EIGRP
10 6 (9.231%) IPsec
10 6 (9.231%) IPv4
10 6 (9.231%) IPv6
11 5 (7.692%) IP Telephony
12 4 (6.154%) BIG-IP
12 4 (6.154%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.538%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.538%) Big Data
General
1 17 (26.15%) Telecoms
2 6 (9.231%) Finance
3 2 (3.077%) Publishing
3 2 (3.077%) Multimedia
4 1 (1.538%) Automotive
4 1 (1.538%) Legal
4 1 (1.538%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 24 (36.92%) Network Engineer
2 11 (16.92%) Support Engineer
2 11 (16.92%) Network Manager
3 9 (13.85%) Analyst
3 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Senior Network Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Network Support Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Network Support
5 5 (7.692%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (7.692%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 5 (7.692%) Engineering Manager
5 5 (7.692%) Systems Analyst
6 4 (6.154%) Support Analyst
6 4 (6.154%) Design Engineer
6 4 (6.154%) Telecoms Engineer
6 4 (6.154%) Network Design Engineer
6 4 (6.154%) IT Support
7 3 (4.615%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (4.615%) Lead Network Engineer
7 3 (4.615%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Blackberry
2 2 (3.077%) IVR
2 2 (3.077%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (3.077%) iPad
3 1 (1.538%) Mobile Computing
3 1 (1.538%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 30 (46.15%) Windows
2 23 (35.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 17 (26.15%) Windows Server 2003
4 13 (20.00%) Windows 7
5 10 (15.38%) Windows XP
6 4 (6.154%) Windows Vista
6 4 (6.154%) Linux
7 3 (4.615%) UNIX
7 3 (4.615%) Solaris
8 1 (1.538%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (38.46%) ITIL
2 18 (27.69%) Network Design
3 13 (20.00%) Project Management
4 7 (10.77%) Network Management
5 6 (9.231%) Incident Management
5 6 (9.231%) Problem Management
5 6 (9.231%) Service Management
6 5 (7.692%) Business Continuity
7 3 (4.615%) WAN Optimisation
8 2 (3.077%) Analytics
8 2 (3.077%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (3.077%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (3.077%) Business Analysis
8 2 (3.077%) Risk Assessment
8 2 (3.077%) Change Management
9 1 (1.538%) Disaster Recovery
9 1 (1.538%) Validation
9 1 (1.538%) Migration
9 1 (1.538%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (1.538%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.692%) SQL
2 2 (3.077%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (20.00%) CCNP
3 9 (13.85%) MCSE
4 6 (9.231%) CCIE
4 6 (9.231%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (7.692%) Degree
5 5 (7.692%) MCSA
5 5 (7.692%) CCNA
6 4 (6.154%) CCVP
6 4 (6.154%) MCITP
7 3 (4.615%) RHCE
7 3 (4.615%) CCDA
7 3 (4.615%) CCDP
8 1 (1.538%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.538%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 11 (16.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.615%) VMware ESX
4 1 (1.538%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (6.154%) Backup Exec
1 4 (6.154%) Cisco CUCM
2 3 (4.615%) FortiGate
2 3 (4.615%) WSUS
2 3 (4.615%) Puppet
2 3 (4.615%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (1.538%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 38 (58.46%) Cisco
2 24 (36.92%) Juniper
3 23 (35.38%) Microsoft
4 19 (29.23%) HP
5 18 (27.69%) VMware
6 12 (18.46%) F5
7 11 (16.92%) Riverbed
8 5 (7.692%) Symantec
8 5 (7.692%) Dell
8 5 (7.692%) NetApp
9 3 (4.615%) Red Hat
9 3 (4.615%) SolarWinds
9 3 (4.615%) 3PAR
9 3 (4.615%) Sophos
10 2 (3.077%) Genesys
10 2 (3.077%) Citrix
10 2 (3.077%) Avaya
11 1 (1.538%) Sage
11 1 (1.538%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.538%) Remedy
Oxford, Oxfordshire
A Web Systems Engineer with strong knowledge of Internet WAN technologies (proxies, web caches, DNS, POP3/SMTP) and related network infrastructure (IP routing, OSPF, BGP) is required by...
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Salary: £0 - 35k per year + On-call Allowance and Pension
Posted: 13 May 2013