Suffolk WAN Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the Suffolk 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Accrington Alfreton Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop Auckland Blackpool Bodmin Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Caterham Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chigwell Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Keighley Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Lingfield Liverpool London Lothian Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Market Harborough Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Neath Port Talbot New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Aycliffe Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Powys Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Saffron Walden Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shrewsbury Shropshire Skipton Sleaford Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torquay Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whitstable Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	84
Rank change on same period last year	+24
Matching permanent IT job ads	7	8
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	4.965 %	4.878 %
Salaries quoted	7	8
Average minimum salary	£27,429	£24,125
Average salary	£29,214	£26,500
% change on same period last year	+10.24 %
Average maximum salary	£31,000	£28,875
UK excluding London average salary	£36,474	£37,163
% change on same period last year	-1.85 %
Communications & Networking Suffolk
Matching permanent IT job ads	141	164
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.094 %	0.073 %
Salaries quoted	118	125
Average minimum salary	£33,809	£36,248
Average salary	£35,835	£41,173
% change on same period last year	-12.96 %
Average maximum salary	£37,861	£46,098
UK excluding London average salary	£37,772	£38,125
% change on same period last year	-0.92 %
WAN East of England

WAN
Demand Trend

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

WAN
Salary Trend

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

WAN
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

WAN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 2 December 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.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Ipswich	+13	1	£18,000	-17.55 %

WAN East of England

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 14 (87.50 %) LAN 2 12 (75.00 %) Windows 3 9 (56.25 %) Windows Server 2003 4 7 (43.75 %) MS Exchange 5 5 (31.25 %) Cisco 5 5 (31.25 %) Microsoft 5 5 (31.25 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 4 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 3 (18.75 %) Network Security 7 3 (18.75 %) TCP/IP 7 3 (18.75 %) Active Directory 7 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft Certification 7 3 (18.75 %) Firewall 7 3 (18.75 %) Wireless 7 3 (18.75 %) MCDST

7 3 (18.75 %) Exchange Server 5.5 8 2 (12.50 %) Disaster Recovery 8 2 (12.50 %) Manufacturing 8 2 (12.50 %) Telecoms 8 2 (12.50 %) HP 8 2 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 8 2 (12.50 %) VPN 8 2 (12.50 %) DNS 8 2 (12.50 %) SAP 8 2 (12.50 %) MCP 8 2 (12.50 %) CCNP 8 2 (12.50 %) CCNA 8 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 8 2 (12.50 %) VoIP 8 2 (12.50 %) DHCP

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 1 (6.250 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 7 (43.75 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (31.25 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (18.75 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (6.250 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (6.250 %) SharePoint 4 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2007
Business Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) SAP ERP	Communications & Networking 1 14 (87.50 %) LAN 2 3 (18.75 %) Firewall 2 3 (18.75 %) Wireless 2 3 (18.75 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (18.75 %) Network Security 3 2 (12.50 %) VPN 3 2 (12.50 %) DNS 3 2 (12.50 %) VoIP 3 2 (12.50 %) DHCP 3 2 (12.50 %) Ethernet 4 1 (6.250 %) TETRA 4 1 (6.250 %) VPLS 4 1 (6.250 %) Internet 4 1 (6.250 %) MPLS 4 1 (6.250 %) OSPF 4 1 (6.250 %) BGP 4 1 (6.250 %) EIGRP 4 1 (6.250 %) SS7 4 1 (6.250 %) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 1 1 (6.250 %) Datawarehouse	General 1 2 (12.50 %) Telecoms 1 2 (12.50 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (6.250 %) Pensions 2 1 (6.250 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 6 (37.50 %) Analyst 2 3 (18.75 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Technical Support 3 2 (12.50 %) Server Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Systems Administrator 3 2 (12.50 %) Network Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Administrator 3 2 (12.50 %) Network Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Network Infrastructure Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Technical Support Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) C++ Developer 4 1 (6.250 %) Technical Support Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Technical Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Senior Network Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) IT Support Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Network Manager 4 1 (6.250 %) Technical Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Senior C++ Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) Data Protection Act 1 1 (6.250 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 12 (75.00 %) Windows 2 9 (56.25 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 2 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 4 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (6.250 %) Windows NT 5 1 (6.250 %) Windows XP 5 1 (6.250 %) NetWare 5 1 (6.250 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (12.50 %) Disaster Recovery 2 1 (6.250 %) Network Design 2 1 (6.250 %) Investment Management 2 1 (6.250 %) Data Protection 2 1 (6.250 %) ERP 2 1 (6.250 %) Project Management 2 1 (6.250 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 1 (6.250 %) C++ 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL 1 1 (6.250 %) VBScript 1 1 (6.250 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (18.75 %) MCDST 2 2 (12.50 %) MCP 2 2 (12.50 %) CCNP 2 2 (12.50 %) CCNA 2 2 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (6.250 %) MCSE 3 1 (6.250 %) Degree 3 1 (6.250 %) CCENT
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 3 (18.75 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 5 (31.25 %) Cisco 1 5 (31.25 %) Microsoft 2 2 (12.50 %) HP 2 2 (12.50 %) SAP 3 1 (6.250 %) Lotus 3 1 (6.250 %) VMware