The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 20 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 56 53 52
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -1
Permanent jobs citing LAN 9 8 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 1.633% 1.351% 1.296%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.429% 10.81% 5.983%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 6
Average salary £25,500 £23,500 £36,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.51% -35.17%
90% offered a salary of more than £18,160 £22,500 £26,750
10% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £26,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Tyne and Wear
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
140 74 117
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 25.41% 12.50% 21.67%
Number of salaries quoted 127 63 105
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £26,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
LAN
North East

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAN across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Tyne and Wear LAN Salary Histogram

LAN
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 20 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -6 6 £26,500 +12.76%
Tyneside - 2 £18,200 -
South Shields - 1 £18,000 -
LAN
North East

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 29 (90.63%) WAN
2 16 (50.00%) CCNA
2 16 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (37.50%) Cisco
3 12 (37.50%) Windows
4 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
4 11 (34.38%) Firewall
5 10 (31.25%) CCNP
6 8 (25.00%) SLA
6 8 (25.00%) Active Directory
7 7 (21.88%) ITIL
7 7 (21.88%) Problem Management
7 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Management
8 6 (18.75%) Network Management
8 6 (18.75%) MS Office
8 6 (18.75%) MS Exchange
8 6 (18.75%) MS Excel
9 5 (15.63%) DHCP
9 5 (15.63%) PRINCE2
9 5 (15.63%) DNS
10 4 (12.50%) VPN
10 4 (12.50%) Citrix
10 4 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 4 (12.50%) UNIX
10 4 (12.50%) VoIP
10 4 (12.50%) Linux
10 4 (12.50%) Service Delivery
10 4 (12.50%) OSPF
10 4 (12.50%) CheckPoint
10 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 (3.125%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 6 (18.75%) MS Exchange
2 2 (6.250%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 6 (18.75%) MS Office
1 6 (18.75%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.125%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 29 (90.63%) WAN
2 11 (34.38%) Firewall
3 5 (15.63%) DHCP
3 5 (15.63%) DNS
4 4 (12.50%) VoIP
4 4 (12.50%) VPN
4 4 (12.50%) OSPF
4 4 (12.50%) BGP
4 4 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (9.375%) TCP/IP
6 2 (6.250%) Wireless
6 2 (6.250%) VLAN
6 2 (6.250%) DSL
6 2 (6.250%) MPLS
7 1 (3.125%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (3.125%) Network Security
7 1 (3.125%) PABX
7 1 (3.125%) SSL
7 1 (3.125%) SAN
7 1 (3.125%) Internet
General
1 2 (6.250%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Team Leader
3 4 (12.50%) Network Technician
3 4 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 3 (9.375%) Support Analyst
4 3 (9.375%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (9.375%) Service Analyst
4 3 (9.375%) Technical Specialist
5 2 (6.250%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
5 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 2 (6.250%) Network Team Leader
5 2 (6.250%) Help Desk Support
5 2 (6.250%) Network Support
5 2 (6.250%) Support Team Leader
5 2 (6.250%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (6.250%) Network Analyst
5 2 (6.250%) Technical Support
5 2 (6.250%) Network Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.250%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.125%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Windows
2 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (12.50%) Windows 7
2 4 (12.50%) UNIX
3 2 (6.250%) Windows 8
3 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (6.250%) Windows XP
3 2 (6.250%) Solaris
4 1 (3.125%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) ITIL
1 7 (21.88%) Problem Management
1 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Management
2 6 (18.75%) Network Management
3 5 (15.63%) PRINCE2
4 4 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 4 (12.50%) Data Management
4 4 (12.50%) Network Design
5 3 (9.375%) Service Management
6 2 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.250%) Performance Management
6 2 (6.250%) Risk Management
7 1 (3.125%) Workflow
7 1 (3.125%) Migration
7 1 (3.125%) Asset Management
7 1 (3.125%) E-Commerce
7 1 (3.125%) Configuration Management
7 1 (3.125%) Project Management
7 1 (3.125%) Data Protection
7 1 (3.125%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 16 (50.00%) CCNA
1 16 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (31.25%) CCNP
3 4 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 3 (9.375%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (3.125%) MCP
5 1 (3.125%) MCSE
5 1 (3.125%) MCSA
5 1 (3.125%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.125%) MCDST
5 1 (3.125%) MCITP
5 1 (3.125%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.250%) XenServer
3 1 (3.125%) vSphere
3 1 (3.125%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.125%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.250%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Cisco
2 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.50%) Citrix
3 4 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 3 (9.375%) VMware
5 2 (6.250%) Remedy
6 1 (3.125%) Riverbed
6 1 (3.125%) F5
6 1 (3.125%) Apple
6 1 (3.125%) Sun
6 1 (3.125%) Oracle