The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 21 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 Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 52 51 55
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +4
Permanent jobs citing LAN 12 8 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 1.872% 1.766% 0.215%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.63% 17.02% 1.852%
Number of salaries quoted 12 6 1
Average salary £28,750 £31,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.00% -10.71%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
95 47 54
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 14.82% 10.38% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 85 45 50
Average salary £42,500 £30,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+41.66% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £60,250 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
LAN
South West

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAN across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Somerset LAN Salary Histogram

LAN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 21 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
Bath -4 7 £32,500 +4.00%
Cheddar - 3 £22,500 -
Wells - 1 £40,000 -
Bridgwater - 1 £45,000 -
LAN
South West

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 32 (94.12%) WAN
2 26 (76.47%) Cisco
2 26 (76.47%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (73.53%) CCNA
4 19 (55.88%) ITIL
5 17 (50.00%) VPN
5 17 (50.00%) MPLS
6 16 (47.06%) Windows
7 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
7 14 (41.18%) Ethernet
8 13 (38.24%) CCNP
9 12 (35.29%) ADSL
10 11 (32.35%) ISDN
10 11 (32.35%) Active Directory
10 11 (32.35%) TCP/IP
10 11 (32.35%) Firewall
10 11 (32.35%) IPsec
11 10 (29.41%) Telecoms
11 10 (29.41%) 3G
12 9 (26.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (26.47%) OSPF
12 9 (26.47%) BGP
12 9 (26.47%) CCIP
12 9 (26.47%) MCSE
12 9 (26.47%) Root Cause Analysis
13 8 (23.53%) MCSA
13 8 (23.53%) MS Office
13 8 (23.53%) SDH
13 8 (23.53%) EIGRP
13 8 (23.53%) Internet

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 (8.824%) MS Exchange
2 2 (5.882%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 8 (23.53%) MS Office
2 5 (14.71%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 32 (94.12%) WAN
2 17 (50.00%) VPN
2 17 (50.00%) MPLS
3 14 (41.18%) Ethernet
4 12 (35.29%) ADSL
5 11 (32.35%) ISDN
5 11 (32.35%) TCP/IP
5 11 (32.35%) Firewall
5 11 (32.35%) IPsec
6 10 (29.41%) 3G
7 9 (26.47%) OSPF
7 9 (26.47%) BGP
8 8 (23.53%) SDH
8 8 (23.53%) EIGRP
8 8 (23.53%) Internet
9 7 (20.59%) SHDSL
9 7 (20.59%) DNS
10 6 (17.65%) VLAN
10 6 (17.65%) Wireless
11 5 (14.71%) DHCP
General
1 10 (29.41%) Telecoms
2 8 (23.53%) Legal
3 1 (2.941%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Team Leader
2 5 (14.71%) Analyst
2 5 (14.71%) Support Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Network Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (8.824%) Change Manager
4 3 (8.824%) Senior Support Analyst
4 3 (8.824%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (8.824%) Systems Support
5 2 (5.882%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (5.882%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.882%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (5.882%) Systems Support Analyst
5 2 (5.882%) IT Support Analyst
5 2 (5.882%) IT Administrator
5 2 (5.882%) Administrator
5 2 (5.882%) IT Support
5 2 (5.882%) Senior IT Support
5 2 (5.882%) Network Operations Engineer
5 2 (5.882%) Senior IT Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.882%) Clustering
3 2 (5.882%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (5.882%) SaaS
4 1 (2.941%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 16 (47.06%) Windows
2 5 (14.71%) UNIX
3 4 (11.76%) Linux
3 4 (11.76%) Windows 7
4 3 (8.824%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (5.882%) Windows XP
5 2 (5.882%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.941%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) ITIL
2 9 (26.47%) Root Cause Analysis
3 8 (23.53%) Business Continuity
3 8 (23.53%) Change Management
3 8 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (11.76%) Fault Management
4 4 (11.76%) Network Management
5 3 (8.824%) Problem Management
5 3 (8.824%) Time Management
5 3 (8.824%) Process Management
5 3 (8.824%) Data Analysis
5 3 (8.824%) CRM
6 2 (5.882%) Validation
6 2 (5.882%) Performance Management
6 2 (5.882%) High Availability
6 2 (5.882%) WAN Optimisation
7 1 (2.941%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (2.941%) Change Control
7 1 (2.941%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.882%) SQL
2 1 (2.941%) C
Qualifications
1 26 (76.47%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (73.53%) CCNA
3 13 (38.24%) CCNP
4 9 (26.47%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (26.47%) CCIP
4 9 (26.47%) MCSE
5 8 (23.53%) MCSA
6 7 (20.59%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (14.71%) CCDP
8 3 (8.824%) Degree
8 3 (8.824%) HND
9 2 (5.882%) MCTS
9 2 (5.882%) MCITP
9 2 (5.882%) MCPD
10 1 (2.941%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) SLA
2 2 (5.882%) QA
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.824%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.941%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (76.47%) Cisco
2 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
3 5 (14.71%) Citrix
4 4 (11.76%) CheckPoint
4 4 (11.76%) Juniper
5 3 (8.824%) Foundry
5 3 (8.824%) VMware
6 2 (5.882%) Ericsson
6 2 (5.882%) NetApp
6 2 (5.882%) Avaya
6 2 (5.882%) Symantec
6 2 (5.882%) Oracle
6 2 (5.882%) Redback
6 2 (5.882%) Riverbed
6 2 (5.882%) SolarWinds
6 2 (5.882%) Exinda
7 1 (2.941%) McAfee
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