The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 20 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 53 72 61
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -11
Permanent jobs citing WAN 35 16 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 3.915% 1.739% 1.674%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.42% 9.524% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 33 16 11
Average salary £45,000 £38,750 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.12% -3.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £30,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £56,600 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
190 168 88
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 21.25% 18.26% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 178 154 83
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% +1.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £22,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
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 Southampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Southampton WAN Salary Histogram

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 70 (92.11%) LAN
2 50 (65.79%) Windows
3 41 (53.95%) TCP/IP
4 40 (52.63%) Microsoft
5 37 (48.68%) Linux
6 36 (47.37%) MS Exchange
6 36 (47.37%) Firewall
7 35 (46.05%) SIEM
8 33 (43.42%) Internet
9 32 (42.11%) Security Cleared
9 32 (42.11%) SC Cleared
10 27 (35.53%) LDAP
10 27 (35.53%) FTP
10 27 (35.53%) HTTP
10 27 (35.53%) SMTP
10 27 (35.53%) Information Security
11 26 (34.21%) CESG
11 26 (34.21%) Solaris
11 26 (34.21%) DNS
11 26 (34.21%) Incident Management
12 25 (32.89%) DV Cleared
12 25 (32.89%) Information Assurance
12 25 (32.89%) tcpdump
12 25 (32.89%) Cisco
13 24 (31.58%) GCIA
13 24 (31.58%) Change Control
14 23 (30.26%) GIAC
14 23 (30.26%) MS Excel
14 23 (30.26%) Client/Server
15 21 (27.63%) Management Information System

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 17 (22.37%) JSP
2 1 (1.316%) SAP Basis
Application Platforms
1 36 (47.37%) MS Exchange
2 10 (13.16%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (6.579%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (6.579%) IIS
4 1 (1.316%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.316%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 23 (30.26%) MS Excel
2 3 (3.947%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 70 (92.11%) LAN
2 41 (53.95%) TCP/IP
3 36 (47.37%) Firewall
4 33 (43.42%) Internet
5 27 (35.53%) LDAP
5 27 (35.53%) FTP
5 27 (35.53%) HTTP
5 27 (35.53%) SMTP
6 26 (34.21%) DNS
7 25 (32.89%) tcpdump
8 19 (25.00%) Wireshark
9 15 (19.74%) Intrusion Detection
10 10 (13.16%) SSL
10 10 (13.16%) VPN
11 8 (10.53%) IPsec
12 6 (7.895%) DHCP
12 6 (7.895%) SAN
12 6 (7.895%) Network Security
13 4 (5.263%) VoIP
14 3 (3.947%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.211%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.947%) MySQL
3 1 (1.316%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (1.316%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.316%) Cognos Impromptu
3 1 (1.316%) Crystal Reports
General
1 10 (13.16%) Telecoms
2 4 (5.263%) Finance
2 4 (5.263%) Manufacturing
3 3 (3.947%) Dutch Language
3 3 (3.947%) French Language
3 3 (3.947%) German Language
3 3 (3.947%) Italian Language
3 3 (3.947%) Romanian Language
3 3 (3.947%) Spanish Language
4 2 (2.632%) Back Office
5 1 (1.316%) Advertising
5 1 (1.316%) Law
Job Titles
1 42 (55.26%) Analyst
2 34 (44.74%) Security Analyst
3 22 (28.95%) Systems Analyst
4 11 (14.47%) Team Leader
4 11 (14.47%) Support Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (9.211%) Security Engineer
7 6 (7.895%) Infrastructure Team Leader
8 5 (6.579%) Architect
9 4 (5.263%) Support Analyst
9 4 (5.263%) Consultant
9 4 (5.263%) Infrastructure Architect
9 4 (5.263%) IT Architect
9 4 (5.263%) Operations Analyst
9 4 (5.263%) IT Security Analyst
9 4 (5.263%) Security Operations Analyst
10 3 (3.947%) Security Operations Manager
10 3 (3.947%) Operations Team Leader
10 3 (3.947%) Forensic Analyst
10 3 (3.947%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 26 (34.21%) CESG
2 23 (30.26%) Client/Server
3 21 (27.63%) Management Information System
4 14 (18.42%) Firmware
5 8 (10.53%) Clustering
6 7 (9.211%) Cryptography
7 6 (7.895%) Thin Client
7 6 (7.895%) Fat Client
8 5 (6.579%) PKI
9 4 (5.263%) Digital Media
10 2 (2.632%) Blackberry
10 2 (2.632%) Open Source
10 2 (2.632%) SaaS
11 1 (1.316%) CMDB
11 1 (1.316%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 50 (65.79%) Windows
2 37 (48.68%) Linux
3 26 (34.21%) Solaris
4 8 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (7.895%) UNIX
6 5 (6.579%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (5.263%) Windows XP
7 4 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.632%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.316%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (46.05%) SIEM
2 27 (35.53%) Information Security
3 26 (34.21%) Incident Management
4 25 (32.89%) Information Assurance
5 24 (31.58%) Change Control
6 21 (27.63%) Ethical Hacking
7 20 (26.32%) Penetration Testing
8 18 (23.68%) Security Testing
9 15 (19.74%) ITIL
10 5 (6.579%) ITIL V3
10 5 (6.579%) Fault Management
11 4 (5.263%) Service Management
11 4 (5.263%) Service Delivery
11 4 (5.263%) Change Management
11 4 (5.263%) Computer Forensics
11 4 (5.263%) Load Balancing
12 3 (3.947%) Root Cause Analysis
12 3 (3.947%) Data Protection
12 3 (3.947%) Disaster Recovery
13 2 (2.632%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.84%) SQL
2 1 (1.316%) C
Qualifications
1 32 (42.11%) Security Cleared
1 32 (42.11%) SC Cleared
2 25 (32.89%) DV Cleared
3 24 (31.58%) GCIA
4 23 (30.26%) GIAC
5 12 (15.79%) GCIH
6 7 (9.211%) CEH
7 5 (6.579%) Degree
8 4 (5.263%) Citrix Certification
9 3 (3.947%) CCA
9 3 (3.947%) CCNP
9 3 (3.947%) CCNA
9 3 (3.947%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (2.632%) MCSE
10 2 (2.632%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.632%) CCEA
10 2 (2.632%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (1.316%) GPEN
11 1 (1.316%) CCAA
11 1 (1.316%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.37%) JSP 440
2 11 (14.47%) SLA
3 1 (1.316%) QA
System Software
1 21 (27.63%) Snort
2 15 (19.74%) Active Directory
3 10 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (7.895%) vSphere
5 3 (3.947%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.947%) XenApp
5 3 (3.947%) XenServer
5 3 (3.947%) Terminal Services
6 2 (2.632%) VMware ESX
6 2 (2.632%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.316%) XenDesktop
7 1 (1.316%) PowerConvert
Systems Management
1 4 (5.263%) Backup Exec
2 2 (2.632%) WSUS
3 1 (1.316%) SCCM
3 1 (1.316%) SCOM
3 1 (1.316%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 40 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 25 (32.89%) Cisco
3 11 (14.47%) VMware
4 8 (10.53%) Citrix
5 7 (9.211%) Sourcefire
5 7 (9.211%) HP
5 7 (9.211%) Sun
6 5 (6.579%) Juniper
7 4 (5.263%) Symantec
7 4 (5.263%) Oracle
7 4 (5.263%) Red Hat
7 4 (5.263%) Dell
7 4 (5.263%) Google
8 3 (3.947%) SonicWALL
8 3 (3.947%) Remedy
9 1 (1.316%) Barracuda Networks
9 1 (1.316%) Veeam
9 1 (1.316%) PlateSpin
9 1 (1.316%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.316%) Intel
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