The first table below looks at the demand for WAAS skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAAS over the 3 months to 22 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
Rank 856 844 839
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -5
Permanent jobs citing WAAS 8 56 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.007% 0.046% 0.025%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.038% 0.260% 0.161%
Number of salaries quoted 4 52 26
Average salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.33% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,100 £38,100 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £61,750 £77,950 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-42.60% +15.00%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21011 21540 19275
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 19.32% 17.56% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 16969 17949 15959
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%

WAAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

WAAS Jobs Demand Trend

WAAS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WAAS within the UK.

WAAS Salary Trend

WAAS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAAS over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

WAAS Salary Histogram

WAAS
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAAS within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England -16 8 £55,000 -8.33%
London +14 7 £60,000 -2.04%
City of London -3 2 £61,250 -9.25%
West Midlands - 1 £33,000 -
Warwickshire - 1 £33,000 -
Stratford-upon-Avon - 1 £33,000 -

WAAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing WAAS 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 WAAS.

1 25 (100.00%) Cisco
2 24 (96.00%) WAN
3 22 (88.00%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (72.00%) Firewall
4 18 (72.00%) Finance
5 16 (64.00%) OSPF
6 14 (56.00%) BGP
6 14 (56.00%) LAN
6 14 (56.00%) Cisco ASA
6 14 (56.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 12 (48.00%) VMware
7 12 (48.00%) Citrix
8 11 (44.00%) CCNP
8 11 (44.00%) MPLS
8 11 (44.00%) Wireless
9 10 (40.00%) SAN
10 9 (36.00%) CCIE
10 9 (36.00%) VPN
10 9 (36.00%) ITIL
11 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
11 8 (32.00%) Juniper
11 8 (32.00%) IPsec
11 8 (32.00%) Network Management
12 7 (28.00%) CheckPoint
12 7 (28.00%) SLA
13 6 (24.00%) IPv6
13 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
13 6 (24.00%) IP Telephony
13 6 (24.00%) Riverbed
13 6 (24.00%) F5

WAAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing WAAS 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 WAAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (16.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (8.000%) Office Communications Server
1 2 (8.000%) Lync
2 1 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (4.000%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 24 (96.00%) WAN
2 18 (72.00%) Firewall
3 16 (64.00%) OSPF
4 14 (56.00%) BGP
4 14 (56.00%) LAN
4 14 (56.00%) Cisco ASA
4 14 (56.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 11 (44.00%) MPLS
5 11 (44.00%) Wireless
6 10 (40.00%) SAN
7 9 (36.00%) VPN
8 8 (32.00%) IPsec
9 6 (24.00%) IPv6
9 6 (24.00%) IP Telephony
10 5 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (20.00%) SSL
10 5 (20.00%) VoIP
11 4 (16.00%) NetScaler
11 4 (16.00%) Unified Communications
11 4 (16.00%) FCoE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 18 (72.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Support Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Network Support Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Network Support
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Support Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Network Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Network Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Network Support
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Network Support Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Network Operations Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Consultant
5 2 (8.000%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Fixed Income
1 3 (12.00%) Clustering
1 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (12.00%) Derivative
2 2 (8.000%) Blackberry
2 2 (8.000%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (8.000%) iPhone
2 2 (8.000%) PKI
2 2 (8.000%) iPad
3 1 (4.000%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.000%) IaaS
3 1 (4.000%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
1 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (8.000%) Linux
2 2 (8.000%) UNIX
2 2 (8.000%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) ITIL
2 8 (32.00%) Network Management
3 5 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 4 (16.00%) Change Management
5 3 (12.00%) ITIL V3
5 3 (12.00%) Network Design
5 3 (12.00%) Load Balancing
5 3 (12.00%) Problem Management
6 2 (8.000%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (8.000%) PRINCE2
6 2 (8.000%) BCP
6 2 (8.000%) Project Management
6 2 (8.000%) Service Management
6 2 (8.000%) Service Delivery
6 2 (8.000%) Incident Management
6 2 (8.000%) Business Continuity
6 2 (8.000%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (4.000%) WAN Optimisation
7 1 (4.000%) Fault Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Perl
1 4 (16.00%) PHP
1 4 (16.00%) Tcl
2 1 (4.000%) C
Qualifications
1 22 (88.00%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (44.00%) CCNP
3 9 (36.00%) CCIE
4 5 (20.00%) CCNA
5 3 (12.00%) CCSA
5 3 (12.00%) CCSE
6 2 (8.000%) CISSP
6 2 (8.000%) CISA
7 1 (4.000%) CCEE
7 1 (4.000%) VTSP
7 1 (4.000%) NCDA
7 1 (4.000%) NCIE
7 1 (4.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (4.000%) CCA
7 1 (4.000%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.000%) BS7799
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.00%) XenServer
4 2 (8.000%) Snort
5 1 (4.000%) vCloud
5 1 (4.000%) XenDesktop
5 1 (4.000%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.000%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 3 (12.00%) FortiGate
3 2 (8.000%) CiscoWorks
3 2 (8.000%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (4.000%) Cisco IPCC
4 1 (4.000%) Cisco UCCE
4 1 (4.000%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) Cisco
2 12 (48.00%) VMware
2 12 (48.00%) Citrix
3 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (32.00%) Juniper
4 7 (28.00%) CheckPoint
5 6 (24.00%) Riverbed
5 6 (24.00%) F5
6 3 (12.00%) Aruba
6 3 (12.00%) NetScout
6 3 (12.00%) Fortinet
6 3 (12.00%) Remedy
6 3 (12.00%) CA
7 2 (8.000%) Polycom
7 2 (8.000%) Tandberg
7 2 (8.000%) Brocade
7 2 (8.000%) BT
8 1 (4.000%) 3PAR
8 1 (4.000%) SolarWinds
8 1 (4.000%) Infoblox
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