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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 44 34 35
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +1
Permanent jobs citing WAN 4 6 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 1.307% 2.765% 2.392%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.547% 17.14% 13.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 5
Average salary £27,750 £30,500 £30,195
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.01% +1.01%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,750 £30,500 £30,004
10% offered a salary of more than £30,750 £30,500 £33,078
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Portsmouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
53 35 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 17.32% 16.13% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 48 34 37
Average salary £37,500 £45,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% +28.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
Hampshire

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 8 (100.00%) LAN
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco
3 6 (75.00%) HP
3 6 (75.00%) VoIP
3 6 (75.00%) VPN
4 5 (62.50%) Windows
4 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
5 4 (50.00%) MS Exchange
6 3 (37.50%) PBX
6 3 (37.50%) SSL
6 3 (37.50%) SLA
6 3 (37.50%) WLAN
6 3 (37.50%) Linux
6 3 (37.50%) MS Excel
6 3 (37.50%) Client/Server
6 3 (37.50%) SQL
6 3 (37.50%) MySQL
6 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
6 3 (37.50%) Citrix Certification
6 3 (37.50%) Dell
6 3 (37.50%) Citrix
6 3 (37.50%) Juniper
6 3 (37.50%) SAN
6 3 (37.50%) MPLS
6 3 (37.50%) Project Management
6 3 (37.50%) Fortinet
6 3 (37.50%) Network Load Balancing
6 3 (37.50%) Firewall
6 3 (37.50%) IPsec
6 3 (37.50%) VMware

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 (12.50%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) LAN
2 6 (75.00%) VoIP
2 6 (75.00%) VPN
3 3 (37.50%) PBX
3 3 (37.50%) SSL
3 3 (37.50%) WLAN
3 3 (37.50%) SAN
3 3 (37.50%) MPLS
3 3 (37.50%) Firewall
3 3 (37.50%) IPsec
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (37.50%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Dutch Language
1 1 (12.50%) French Language
1 1 (12.50%) German Language
1 1 (12.50%) Italian Language
1 1 (12.50%) Romanian Language
1 1 (12.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Client/Server
1 3 (37.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Project Management
1 3 (37.50%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Service Management
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (25.00%) CCA
2 2 (25.00%) CCEA
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) MCSE
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) XenApp
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 6 (75.00%) HP
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (37.50%) Dell
4 3 (37.50%) Citrix
4 3 (37.50%) Juniper
4 3 (37.50%) Fortinet
4 3 (37.50%) VMware
4 3 (37.50%) SonicWALL
4 3 (37.50%) ProCurve
4 3 (37.50%) Exinda
5 1 (12.50%) Remedy
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Supporting the global WAN / LAN infrastructure as well as VOIP solutions all with a Cisco flavour... To apply for this position, candidates must be eligible to live and...
Connectus
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013