The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 19 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 Peterborough region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 42 33 36
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +3
Permanent jobs citing WAN 7 14 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 1.966% 4.459% 4.230%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.94% 35.90% 22.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5 14 9
Average salary £35,000 £32,250 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.52% -3.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,300 £20,000 £22,200
10% offered a salary of more than £37,100 £45,000 £39,200
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Peterborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
64 39 62
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 17.98% 12.42% 18.73%
Number of salaries quoted 48 33 44
Average salary £35,000 £44,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.45% +18.91%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £20,000 £24,900
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
Cambridgeshire

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the Peterborough region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Peterborough WAN Salary Histogram

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough 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 18 (100.00%) LAN
2 10 (55.56%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Cisco
2 10 (55.56%) VPN
2 10 (55.56%) VMware
3 7 (38.89%) TCP/IP
4 6 (33.33%) Citrix
4 6 (33.33%) Wireless
5 4 (22.22%) Firewall
5 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 4 (22.22%) CCNP
5 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
5 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
5 4 (22.22%) MS Exchange
5 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (16.67%) SIEM
6 3 (16.67%) DMVPN
6 3 (16.67%) PKI
6 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (16.67%) IronPort
6 3 (16.67%) Network Security
6 3 (16.67%) PCI DSS
6 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 3 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (16.67%) FTP
6 3 (16.67%) HTTP
6 3 (16.67%) VoIP
6 3 (16.67%) SMTP

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough 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 (22.22%) MS Exchange
2 2 (11.11%) IIS
2 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 18 (100.00%) LAN
2 10 (55.56%) VPN
3 7 (38.89%) TCP/IP
4 6 (33.33%) Wireless
5 4 (22.22%) Firewall
6 3 (16.67%) DMVPN
6 3 (16.67%) Network Security
6 3 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (16.67%) FTP
6 3 (16.67%) HTTP
6 3 (16.67%) VoIP
6 3 (16.67%) SMTP
6 3 (16.67%) DNS
6 3 (16.67%) SSL
6 3 (16.67%) IP Telephony
6 3 (16.67%) OSPF
6 3 (16.67%) BGP
7 2 (11.11%) SAN
8 1 (5.556%) DHCP
8 1 (5.556%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (5.556%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Support Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Systems Integrator
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Systems Integrator
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Security Specialist
3 3 (16.67%) Network Specialist
3 3 (16.67%) Network Security Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Support
4 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Support Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (5.556%) Computer Science
2 1 (5.556%) FMCG
2 1 (5.556%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (11.11%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.556%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (16.67%) SIEM
1 3 (16.67%) Information Security
1 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
1 3 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (5.556%) Network Management
2 1 (5.556%) Capacity Management
2 1 (5.556%) ITIL
2 1 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.556%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (22.22%) CCNP
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) CISSP
3 2 (11.11%) HND
3 2 (11.11%) MCTS
3 2 (11.11%) MCITP
4 1 (5.556%) Degree
4 1 (5.556%) MCP
4 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) ProxySG
3 2 (11.11%) XenApp
3 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.556%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) WSUS
1 1 (5.556%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Cisco
1 10 (55.56%) VMware
2 6 (33.33%) Citrix
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 3 (16.67%) IronPort
4 3 (16.67%) Blue Coat
4 3 (16.67%) Juniper
5 2 (11.11%) Avaya
5 2 (11.11%) Nortel
6 1 (5.556%) Brocade
6 1 (5.556%) HP
Peterborough, East of England
Ideally CCNA/CCNP qualified, you'll have a strong background in financial services and your technical knowledge should cover Cisco Switching & Routing, Checkpoint Firewall and WAN network support...
Aldermore
Salary: Up to £45k + banking benefits
Posted: 10 June 2013