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

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wide Area Network (WAN)
Rank 24 13 22
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +9
Permanent jobs citing WAN 3 7 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Telford 2.439% 7.955% 3.947%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.667% 23.33% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Communications & Networking
Telford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
45 30 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Telford 36.59% 34.09% 17.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12 20 11
Average salary £32,500 £30,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% -25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
WAN
Shropshire

WAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Telford 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 Telford region.

Telford WAN Salary Trend

WAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Telford 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 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (83.33%) Nokia
2 5 (83.33%) CheckPoint
2 5 (83.33%) LAN
2 5 (83.33%) VPN
2 5 (83.33%) DNS
2 5 (83.33%) CCNP
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) VLAN
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco IOS
2 5 (83.33%) IronPort
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco PIX
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (83.33%) Riverbed
2 5 (83.33%) SolarWinds
2 5 (83.33%) SolarWinds Orion
3 3 (50.00%) WAN Optimisation
3 3 (50.00%) QA
3 3 (50.00%) CCSA
3 3 (50.00%) McAfee
3 3 (50.00%) VoIP
3 3 (50.00%) ISA Server
4 2 (33.33%) MPLS
4 2 (33.33%) DHCP
4 2 (33.33%) CCNA
5 1 (16.67%) CCDA
5 1 (16.67%) CCDP
5 1 (16.67%) Juniper
5 1 (16.67%) CCIE

WAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Telford 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.

Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) LAN
1 5 (83.33%) VPN
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
1 5 (83.33%) VLAN
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco IOS
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco PIX
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (50.00%) VoIP
3 2 (33.33%) MPLS
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Team Leader
1 3 (50.00%) Network Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Network Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) WAN Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (83.33%) CCNP
2 3 (50.00%) CCSA
3 2 (33.33%) CCNA
4 1 (16.67%) CCDA
4 1 (16.67%) CCDP
4 1 (16.67%) CCIE
4 1 (16.67%) JNCIP
4 1 (16.67%) JNCIE
4 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) Nokia
2 5 (83.33%) CheckPoint
2 5 (83.33%) IronPort
2 5 (83.33%) Riverbed
2 5 (83.33%) SolarWinds
3 3 (50.00%) McAfee
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) Twitter