The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stockport region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 24 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 Stockport region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 37 32 31
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -1
Permanent jobs citing LAN 6 6 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 2.956% 3.000% 2.793%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 23.08% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 5
Average salary £27,000 £29,000 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.89% +11.53%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Stockport
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
36 26 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 17.73% 13.00% 17.88%
Number of salaries quoted 35 19 30
Average salary £35,000 £29,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.68% +1.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £18,000 £18,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £38,500 £36,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
LAN
Manchester

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stockport 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 Stockport region.

Stockport LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAN across the Stockport region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Stockport LAN Salary Histogram

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 13 (100.00%) WAN
2 6 (46.15%) Client/Server
2 6 (46.15%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) UNIX
2 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 6 (46.15%) Apache
2 6 (46.15%) Tomcat
2 6 (46.15%) Cisco
2 6 (46.15%) Red Hat
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (30.77%) MS Excel
3 4 (30.77%) Windows
3 4 (30.77%) MS Exchange
4 3 (23.08%) VoIP
4 3 (23.08%) DHCP
4 3 (23.08%) MCSE
4 3 (23.08%) MCSA
4 3 (23.08%) HP
4 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (23.08%) CCIE
4 3 (23.08%) CCNP
4 3 (23.08%) CCNA
4 3 (23.08%) VPN
4 3 (23.08%) DNS
4 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (23.08%) MPLS
4 3 (23.08%) Time Management
4 3 (23.08%) MCITP

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 Development
1 1 (7.692%) COM
Application Platforms
1 6 (46.15%) Apache
1 6 (46.15%) Tomcat
2 4 (30.77%) MS Exchange
3 3 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (23.08%) VoIP
2 3 (23.08%) DHCP
2 3 (23.08%) VPN
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) MPLS
3 1 (7.692%) Network Security
3 1 (7.692%) HTTP
3 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
1 3 (23.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Support Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) UNIX Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) UNIX Support Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) UNIX Support
1 6 (46.15%) Linux Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Linux Support
1 6 (46.15%) Linux Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Sales Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Technical Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Pre Sales Consultant
3 1 (7.692%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) UNIX
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
4 1 (7.692%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Time Management
1 3 (23.08%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) MCSE
1 3 (23.08%) MCSA
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (23.08%) CCIE
1 3 (23.08%) CCNP
1 3 (23.08%) CCNA
1 3 (23.08%) MCITP
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco
1 6 (46.15%) Red Hat
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) HP
4 1 (7.692%) Sage