The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stevenage region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 23 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 Stevenage region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank - 40 35
Permanent jobs citing WAN 0 4 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage - 2.030% 1.493%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 3.883% 2.500%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 1
Average salary - £28,000 £42,400
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -33.96%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Stevenage
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
30 103 120
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 20.69% 52.28% 59.70%
Number of salaries quoted 16 88 115
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £27,700 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
Hertfordshire

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Stevenage WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 3 (100.00%) MS Office
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Vista
2 2 (66.67%) PBX
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) ISDN
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) MCP
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (33.33%) XenApp
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) WSUS

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) PBX
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) ISDN
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (66.67%) Support Consultant
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Support Consultant
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Account Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Consultant
2 2 (66.67%) Account Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Support
3 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Vista
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix