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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 12 17 10
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -7
Permanent jobs citing LAN 22 11 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 16.18% 11.00% 18.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 44.00% 22.45% 32.20%
Number of salaries quoted 22 9 19
Average salary £25,500 £25,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.00% -50.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Wakefield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
50 49 59
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 36.76% 49.00% 58.42%
Number of salaries quoted 45 35 57
Average salary £26,000 £38,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-32.46% -23.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £25,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
LAN
West Yorkshire

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wakefield 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 Wakefield region.

Wakefield LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Salary Histogram

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

Wakefield LAN Salary Histogram

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield 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 37 (100.00%) WAN
2 20 (54.05%) Windows
3 18 (48.65%) MS Exchange
3 18 (48.65%) Windows Server 2003
4 17 (45.95%) Exchange Server 2010
5 16 (43.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (43.24%) VMware
5 16 (43.24%) MS Office
5 16 (43.24%) Cisco
5 16 (43.24%) SAN
6 15 (40.54%) Active Directory
6 15 (40.54%) TCP/IP
7 14 (37.84%) SQL Server
7 14 (37.84%) SQL Server 2008
7 14 (37.84%) SQL Server 2005
8 13 (35.14%) Windows 2000 Server
9 11 (29.73%) Change Management
9 11 (29.73%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (29.73%) Supplier Management
9 11 (29.73%) Document Management
10 9 (24.32%) CCNA
11 7 (18.92%) Telecoms
12 4 (10.81%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (10.81%) MS Excel
13 3 (8.108%) Windows XP
13 3 (8.108%) ITIL
13 3 (8.108%) Avaya
13 3 (8.108%) Microsoft
13 3 (8.108%) Backup Exec

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield 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 Platforms
1 18 (48.65%) MS Exchange
2 17 (45.95%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (10.81%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (8.108%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (2.703%) Lync
Applications
1 16 (43.24%) MS Office
2 4 (10.81%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.703%) Prophet
Communications & Networking
1 37 (100.00%) WAN
2 16 (43.24%) SAN
3 15 (40.54%) TCP/IP
4 3 (8.108%) Firewall
4 3 (8.108%) Wireless
5 2 (5.405%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (5.405%) Internet
6 1 (2.703%) VPN
6 1 (2.703%) DNS
6 1 (2.703%) DHCP
6 1 (2.703%) Wireshark
6 1 (2.703%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (37.84%) SQL Server
1 14 (37.84%) SQL Server 2005
1 14 (37.84%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (2.703%) Crystal Reports
General
1 7 (18.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Support Engineer
1 17 (45.95%) Technical Engineer
2 16 (43.24%) Network Engineer
2 16 (43.24%) Technical Support
3 15 (40.54%) Analyst
4 14 (37.84%) Support Analyst
4 14 (37.84%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 14 (37.84%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 14 (37.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (37.84%) Technical Support Analyst
4 14 (37.84%) Technical Support Engineer
4 14 (37.84%) Technical Analyst
4 14 (37.84%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 13 (35.14%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (18.92%) Network Support
7 6 (16.22%) Cisco Support
8 2 (5.405%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (5.405%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 2 (5.405%) Network Support Engineer
8 2 (5.405%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.703%) Replication
1 1 (2.703%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 20 (54.05%) Windows
2 18 (48.65%) Windows Server 2003
3 13 (35.14%) Windows 2000 Server
4 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (8.108%) Windows XP
5 3 (8.108%) Windows Vista
6 1 (2.703%) Solaris
6 1 (2.703%) Linux
6 1 (2.703%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Change Management
1 11 (29.73%) Document Management
1 11 (29.73%) Supplier Management
2 3 (8.108%) ITIL
3 1 (2.703%) SIEM
3 1 (2.703%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (2.703%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.703%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (24.32%) CCNA
3 3 (8.108%) MCITP
4 2 (5.405%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.405%) CCA
4 2 (5.405%) MCP
4 2 (5.405%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.405%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (43.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (40.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.703%) Terminal Server
3 1 (2.703%) Snort
3 1 (2.703%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (8.108%) Backup Exec
2 2 (5.405%) ARCserve
3 1 (2.703%) Nessus
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) Cisco
1 16 (43.24%) VMware
2 3 (8.108%) Avaya
2 3 (8.108%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.405%) HP
3 2 (5.405%) CA
3 2 (5.405%) Mitel
3 2 (5.405%) WatchGuard
3 2 (5.405%) Veritas
3 2 (5.405%) CheckPoint
3 2 (5.405%) BT
4 1 (2.703%) Symantec
4 1 (2.703%) SonicWALL
4 1 (2.703%) ProCurve
4 1 (2.703%) Veeam
4 1 (2.703%) ArcSight
4 1 (2.703%) NetApp
4 1 (2.703%) IBM
4 1 (2.703%) Dell
4 1 (2.703%) EMC