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This section looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkWide Area Network (WAN)
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank6455
Rank change on same period last yearDown-9
Matching permanent IT job ads12161597
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.642 %0.654 %
As % of the category below14.67 %15.93 %
Salaries quoted10871340
Average minimum salary£35,191£37,745
Average salary£37,853£40,689
% change on same period last year-6.97 %
Average maximum salary£40,514£43,633
UK excluding London average salary£35,174£37,462
% change on same period last year-6.10 %
South East IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
South East
Matching permanent IT job ads828910027
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled4.376 %4.106 %
Salaries quoted69928033
Average minimum salary£36,647£38,926
Average salary£39,714£42,113
% change on same period last year-5.69 %
Average maximum salary£42,781£45,301
UK excluding London average salary£37,397£39,734
% change on same period last year-5.88 %
WAN EnglandWAN
England

WAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing WAN across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

South East WAN Demand Trend

WAN
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WAN across the South East region.

South East WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

South East WAN Salary Histogram

WAN
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
BerkshireDown-12344£39,324-2.70 %
SurreyDown-12216£36,248-8.28 %
HampshireUp+16154£34,757-6.68 %
BuckinghamshireUp+20146£33,720-11.88 %
OxfordshireDown-2126£34,812-18.51 %
West SussexUp+1869£37,717+20.00 %
KentUp+147£39,605+20.75 %
MiddlesexDown-2340£34,703-21.01 %
East SussexUp+2027£36,577+9.63 %
Thames ValleyDown-111£60,818+25.85 %
M4 CorridorUp+88£52,500-1.56 %
Home CountiesDown-283£28,000-47.69 %
SussexDown-62£37,000-15.12 %
WAN EnglandWAN
England

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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.

12199 (79.70 %)LAN
21470 (53.28 %)Cisco
31006 (36.46 %)Windows
4933 (33.82 %)TCP/IP
5919 (33.31 %)Cisco Certification
6788 (28.56 %)Firewall
7618 (22.40 %)Active Directory
8593 (21.49 %)Microsoft
9566 (20.51 %)VPN
10517 (18.74 %)CCNA
11489 (17.72 %)CCNP
12486 (17.62 %)Microsoft Certification
13476 (17.25 %)VoIP
14425 (15.40 %)Exchange Server 2003
15414 (15.01 %)MCSE
16411 (14.90 %)MPLS
17402 (14.57 %)MS Exchange
18391 (14.17 %)MS Excel
19328 (11.89 %)Telecoms
20301 (10.91 %)DNS
20301 (10.91 %)Linux
21298 (10.80 %)Internet
22268 (9.714 %)BGP
23264 (9.569 %)MS Office
24247 (8.953 %)Windows 2000
25244 (8.844 %)SQL
25244 (8.844 %)Exchange Server 2000
26242 (8.771 %)UNIX
27222 (8.046 %)Wireless
28221 (8.010 %)VMware

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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.

South East IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
149 (1.776 %).NET
236 (1.305 %)MAPI
327 (0.979 %)CSS
418 (0.652 %)MFC
517 (0.616 %)XML
614 (0.507 %)EDI
713 (0.471 %)WebServices
811 (0.399 %)HTML
910 (0.362 %)ASP
910 (0.362 %)ASP.NET
109 (0.326 %)J2EE
109 (0.326 %)Middleware
118 (0.290 %)AJAX
125 (0.181 %)SOAP
125 (0.181 %)XSLT
133 (0.109 %)ActiveX
133 (0.109 %)JSP
133 (0.109 %)WebSphere
133 (0.109 %)ASP.NET 2.0
142 (0.072 %)COM+
South East IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1425 (15.40 %)Exchange Server 2003
2402 (14.57 %)MS Exchange
3244 (8.844 %)Exchange Server 2000
4131 (4.748 %)IIS
594 (3.407 %)Exchange Server 2007
638 (1.377 %)SharePoint
734 (1.232 %)Lotus Notes
832 (1.160 %)Apache
925 (0.906 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1020 (0.725 %)Lotus Domino
1112 (0.435 %)GroupWise
129 (0.326 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
138 (0.290 %)CMS
146 (0.217 %)Tomcat
154 (0.145 %)Commerce Server
163 (0.109 %)Oracle Application Server
172 (0.072 %)BizTalk Server
172 (0.072 %)JBoss
172 (0.072 %)SAS
172 (0.072 %)ColdFusion
South East IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1391 (14.17 %)MS Excel
2264 (9.569 %)MS Office
312 (0.435 %)MS Visio
410 (0.362 %)MS Project
58 (0.290 %)Spreadsheet
65 (0.181 %)MS PowerPoint
71 (0.036 %)AutoCAD
South East IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
16 (0.217 %)Microsoft CRM
16 (0.217 %)Remedy AR System
23 (0.109 %)Dynamics CRM
32 (0.072 %)Oracle ERP
41 (0.036 %)Summit
41 (0.036 %)ResourceLink
South East IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
12199 (79.70 %)LAN
2933 (33.82 %)TCP/IP
3788 (28.56 %)Firewall
4566 (20.51 %)VPN
5476 (17.25 %)VoIP
6411 (14.90 %)MPLS
7301 (10.91 %)DNS
8298 (10.80 %)Internet
9268 (9.714 %)BGP
10222 (8.046 %)Wireless
11221 (8.010 %)OSPF
12172 (6.234 %)SAN
13164 (5.944 %)DHCP
14159 (5.763 %)Network Security
15154 (5.582 %)VLAN
16153 (5.545 %)Cisco PIX
17145 (5.256 %)EIGRP
18142 (5.147 %)Ethernet
19140 (5.074 %)Frame Relay
20125 (4.531 %)ATM
South East IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1187 (6.778 %)SQL Server
244 (1.595 %)SQL Server 2005
342 (1.522 %)SQL Server 2000
420 (0.725 %)MySQL
516 (0.580 %)Crystal Reports
615 (0.544 %)Oracle 10g
714 (0.507 %)RDBMS
813 (0.471 %)Datawarehouse
910 (0.362 %)SQL Server 7
910 (0.362 %)Oracle 8/8i
109 (0.326 %)PostgreSQL
118 (0.290 %)Oracle 9i
118 (0.290 %)MS Access
124 (0.145 %)Cognos Impromptu
124 (0.145 %)InterBase
133 (0.109 %)BusinessObjects
142 (0.072 %)IDOL
142 (0.072 %)OLAP
142 (0.072 %)Base SAS
142 (0.072 %)SAS Enterprise Guide
South East IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
120 (0.725 %)Visual Studio
213 (0.471 %)Flash
South East IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1328 (11.89 %)Telecoms
2178 (6.452 %)Finance
3139 (5.038 %)Pensions
4126 (4.567 %)Health
576 (2.755 %)Education
647 (1.704 %)Government
739 (1.414 %)Manufacturing
833 (1.196 %)Insurance
833 (1.196 %)Banking
927 (0.979 %)Retail
1014 (0.507 %)Marketing
1110 (0.362 %)Back Office
129 (0.326 %)Financial Institution
129 (0.326 %)Advertising
138 (0.290 %)Pharmaceutical
138 (0.290 %)Electronics
147 (0.254 %)Automotive
156 (0.217 %)Multimedia
165 (0.181 %)Billing
165 (0.181 %)Investment Banking
South East IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1436 (15.80 %)Network Engineer
2354 (12.83 %)Consultant
3349 (12.65 %)Support Engineer
4341 (12.36 %)Analyst
5190 (6.887 %)Support Analyst
6162 (5.872 %)Cisco Engineer
7148 (5.364 %)Network Support
8144 (5.219 %)Technical Support
9137 (4.966 %)Administrator
10112 (4.059 %)2nd Line Support
11109 (3.951 %)Systems Engineer
1293 (3.371 %)Technical Consultant
1387 (3.153 %)Network Specialist
1485 (3.081 %)Network Consultant
1582 (2.972 %)3rd Line Support
1679 (2.863 %)Network Support Engineer
1778 (2.827 %)Project Manager
1778 (2.827 %)Systems Administrator
1871 (2.573 %)Architect
1871 (2.573 %)Team Leader
South East IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
164 (2.320 %)Clustering
254 (1.957 %)Blackberry
349 (1.776 %)Video Conferencing
447 (1.704 %)German Language
536 (1.305 %)Computer Science
631 (1.124 %)Client/Server
725 (0.906 %)French Language
822 (0.797 %)PKI
920 (0.725 %)Spanish Language
1019 (0.689 %)AS400
1111 (0.399 %)Thin Client
1111 (0.399 %)Italian Language
1111 (0.399 %)Fat Client
1210 (0.362 %)PDA
1210 (0.362 %)IVR
1210 (0.362 %)Mainframe
139 (0.326 %)Replication
139 (0.326 %)PMI
148 (0.290 %)EPoS
157 (0.254 %)EMC Centera
South East IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11006 (36.46 %)Windows
2301 (10.91 %)Linux
3247 (8.953 %)Windows 2000
4242 (8.771 %)UNIX
5202 (7.321 %)Windows XP
6190 (6.887 %)Windows Server 2003
7180 (6.524 %)Windows NT
8142 (5.147 %)Solaris
963 (2.283 %)AIX
1022 (0.797 %)HPUX
1120 (0.725 %)NetWare
128 (0.290 %)Debian
137 (0.254 %)Fedora
137 (0.254 %)OS/400
137 (0.254 %)SUSE
145 (0.181 %)Windows Vista
145 (0.181 %)FreeBSD
154 (0.145 %)Ubuntu
154 (0.145 %)Mac OS X
161 (0.036 %)OS/2
South East IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1202 (7.321 %)ITIL
2158 (5.727 %)Project Management
3150 (5.437 %)Network Design
4105 (3.806 %)Security Cleared
584 (3.045 %)PRINCE2
672 (2.610 %)Load Balancing
769 (2.501 %)Disaster Recovery
855 (1.993 %)Service Delivery
941 (1.486 %)Change Management
1035 (1.269 %)E-Commerce
1133 (1.196 %)SC Cleared
1230 (1.087 %)Business Development
1322 (0.797 %)ERP
1421 (0.761 %)Incident Management
1421 (0.761 %)Project Planning
1520 (0.725 %)CRM
1520 (0.725 %)Performance Management
1520 (0.725 %)Fault Management
1618 (0.652 %)Service Management
1717 (0.616 %)Risk Management
South East IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1244 (8.844 %)SQL
240 (1.450 %)C
337 (1.341 %)VB
435 (1.269 %)C++
517 (0.616 %)Java
517 (0.616 %)Perl
616 (0.580 %)Shell Script
713 (0.471 %)C#
810 (0.362 %)VBA
98 (0.290 %)Python
98 (0.290 %)PHP
107 (0.254 %)VBScript
116 (0.217 %)Progress 4GL
116 (0.217 %)VB.NET
125 (0.181 %)PL/SQL
132 (0.072 %)Transact-SQL
132 (0.072 %)JavaScript
132 (0.072 %)VC++
132 (0.072 %)SAS Macro
141 (0.036 %)Tcl
South East IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1919 (33.31 %)Cisco Certification
2517 (18.74 %)CCNA
3489 (17.72 %)CCNP
4486 (17.62 %)Microsoft Certification
5414 (15.01 %)MCSE
6193 (6.995 %)CCIE
7171 (6.198 %)CCDP
8169 (6.125 %)MCP
9130 (4.712 %)Degree
10110 (3.987 %)CCIP
1188 (3.190 %)MCSA
1188 (3.190 %)CCVP
1273 (2.646 %)CCSP
1336 (1.305 %)ITIL Certification
1434 (1.232 %)Citrix Certification
1531 (1.124 %)CCDA
1624 (0.870 %)JNCIS
1723 (0.834 %)JNCIE
1822 (0.797 %)JNCIA
1920 (0.725 %)CCA
South East IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1151 (5.473 %)SLA
217 (0.616 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
316 (0.580 %)QA
47 (0.254 %)BS7799
52 (0.072 %)JSP 440
61 (0.036 %)ISO9001
South East IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1618 (22.40 %)Active Directory
285 (3.081 %)VMware Infrastructure
374 (2.682 %)Terminal Services
465 (2.356 %)Backup Exec
553 (1.921 %)ISA Server
652 (1.885 %)NFS
723 (0.834 %)VMware ESX
723 (0.834 %)Citrix Presentation Server
816 (0.580 %)Terminal Server
911 (0.399 %)MetaFrame
1010 (0.362 %)NetBackup
1010 (0.362 %)Squid
117 (0.254 %)Snort
126 (0.217 %)Nmap
126 (0.217 %)VMware Server
133 (0.109 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
141 (0.036 %)ProxySG
South East IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
164 (2.320 %)CiscoWorks
241 (1.486 %)OpenView
241 (1.486 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
331 (1.124 %)Norton AntiVirus
430 (1.087 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
527 (0.979 %)MOM
624 (0.870 %)WSUS
722 (0.797 %)Tivoli
813 (0.471 %)Netcool
99 (0.326 %)MAILsweeper
107 (0.254 %)Unicenter
107 (0.254 %)Legato
107 (0.254 %)ARCserve
116 (0.217 %)Nagios
125 (0.181 %)EMC NetWorker
133 (0.109 %)SCCM
142 (0.072 %)SCOM
142 (0.072 %)OpenView Configuration Management
142 (0.072 %)RepliStor
142 (0.072 %)Nessus
South East IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
11470 (53.28 %)Cisco
2593 (21.49 %)Microsoft
3221 (8.010 %)VMware
4216 (7.829 %)Citrix
5171 (6.198 %)Juniper
6157 (5.690 %)CheckPoint
7142 (5.147 %)HP
8117 (4.241 %)Oracle
995 (3.443 %)Red Hat
1068 (2.465 %)Avaya
1161 (2.211 %)Nortel
1257 (2.066 %)VERITAS
1354 (1.957 %)Altiris
1354 (1.957 %)Nokia
1445 (1.631 %)Blue Coat
1543 (1.559 %)EMC
1642 (1.522 %)Novell
1739 (1.414 %)Symantec
1837 (1.341 %)Lotus
1933 (1.196 %)IBM
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