The first table below looks at the demand for WAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 59 46 61
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +15
Permanent jobs citing WAN 19 17 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 2.746% 3.085% 2.118%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.38% 18.28% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 19 14 14
Average salary £30,000 £37,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +36.36%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,400 £23,875 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £42,500 £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
142 93 86
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 20.52% 16.88% 13.01%
Number of salaries quoted 134 82 81
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £43,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
East of England

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Suffolk WAN Salary Histogram

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 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Ipswich -10 9 £30,000 -20.00%
Bury St Edmunds -6 1 £18,000 +12.50%
WAN
East of England

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 31 (100.00%) LAN
2 27 (87.10%) Active Directory
2 27 (87.10%) Windows
3 20 (64.52%) Microsoft
4 18 (58.06%) DNS
5 17 (54.84%) Firewall
6 16 (51.61%) Linux
7 14 (45.16%) DHCP
7 14 (45.16%) UNIX
8 13 (41.94%) TCP/IP
8 13 (41.94%) MS Exchange
9 12 (38.71%) VMware
10 11 (35.48%) Cisco
11 10 (32.26%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (29.03%) Web Services
12 9 (29.03%) Amazon AWS
12 9 (29.03%) Exchange Server 2010
13 7 (22.58%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (22.58%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (16.13%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (16.13%) Business Continuity
15 5 (16.13%) ITIL
15 5 (16.13%) Citrix
15 5 (16.13%) SLA
15 5 (16.13%) Exchange Server 2003
15 5 (16.13%) Exchange Server 2007
15 5 (16.13%) Document Management
16 4 (12.90%) VMware ESX
16 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 9 (29.03%) Web Services
2 1 (3.226%) XML
2 1 (3.226%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 13 (41.94%) MS Exchange
2 9 (29.03%) Amazon AWS
2 9 (29.03%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (16.13%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (16.13%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (12.90%) SharePoint
5 3 (9.677%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (6.452%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (6.452%) MS Office
2 1 (3.226%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 31 (100.00%) LAN
2 18 (58.06%) DNS
3 17 (54.84%) Firewall
4 14 (45.16%) DHCP
5 13 (41.94%) TCP/IP
6 10 (32.26%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (12.90%) SAN
8 3 (9.677%) VPN
8 3 (9.677%) VoIP
9 1 (3.226%) MPLS
9 1 (3.226%) ADSL
9 1 (3.226%) Ethernet
9 1 (3.226%) RIP
9 1 (3.226%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (3.226%) Network Security
9 1 (3.226%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.452%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (6.452%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (6.452%) MySQL
General
1 2 (6.452%) Telecoms
1 2 (6.452%) Finance
2 1 (3.226%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Analyst
2 14 (45.16%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (6.452%) Head of IT
3 2 (6.452%) Head of Operations
3 2 (6.452%) Support Specialist
3 2 (6.452%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (6.452%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (6.452%) Systems Manager
4 1 (3.226%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (3.226%) IT Support Technician
4 1 (3.226%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (3.226%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.226%) Citrix Engineer
4 1 (3.226%) Support Technician
4 1 (3.226%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (3.226%) Support Analyst
4 1 (3.226%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.226%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
4 1 (3.226%) Storage Systems Administrator
4 1 (3.226%) Microsoft Specialist
Operating Systems
1 27 (87.10%) Windows
2 16 (51.61%) Linux
3 14 (45.16%) UNIX
4 7 (22.58%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (22.58%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (12.90%) Windows 7
6 2 (6.452%) CentOS
6 2 (6.452%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.226%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.13%) Business Continuity
1 5 (16.13%) ITIL
1 5 (16.13%) Document Management
2 4 (12.90%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (6.452%) Load Balancing
3 2 (6.452%) Problem Management
3 2 (6.452%) Capacity Management
3 2 (6.452%) Software Distribution
3 2 (6.452%) Migration
3 2 (6.452%) Service Delivery
4 1 (3.226%) Service Management
4 1 (3.226%) Change Management
4 1 (3.226%) Network Management
4 1 (3.226%) Ethical Hacking
4 1 (3.226%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.226%) Perl
1 1 (3.226%) SQL
1 1 (3.226%) VBScript
1 1 (3.226%) Python
1 1 (3.226%) Bash shell
1 1 (3.226%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.226%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (16.13%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (12.90%) CCNP
4 3 (9.677%) MCSE
4 3 (9.677%) CCNA
4 3 (9.677%) MCITP
5 2 (6.452%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (3.226%) CISA
6 1 (3.226%) CISM
6 1 (3.226%) CCDP
6 1 (3.226%) CISSP
6 1 (3.226%) CEH
6 1 (3.226%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (87.10%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.90%) VMware ESX
2 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.90%) Hyper-V
2 4 (12.90%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (9.677%) Terminal Services
4 2 (6.452%) ISA Server
5 1 (3.226%) VMFS
5 1 (3.226%) vSphere
5 1 (3.226%) XenServer
5 1 (3.226%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 20 (64.52%) Microsoft
2 12 (38.71%) VMware
3 11 (35.48%) Cisco
4 5 (16.13%) Citrix
5 4 (12.90%) NetApp
6 3 (9.677%) Fortinet
7 2 (6.452%) JBoss
7 2 (6.452%) Red Hat
8 1 (3.226%) F5
Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
Beneficial to have commercial experience in this area with LAN / WAN / Wi-Fi / ADSL... You will be supporting a Windows environment, you will deal with Network issues such...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £16000 - £20000 per annum
Posted: 19 May 2013