Wales WAN Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the Wales region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Accrington Alfreton Alloa Altrincham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Avonmouth Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Blandford Forum Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Caterham Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clackmannanshire Clevedon Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Gourock Grampian Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kettering Kidderminster King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Melton Mowbray Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Powys Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ripon Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shipston-on-Stour Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tadworth Telford Thame Thames Valley Tring Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welshpool Wembley West Bromwich West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	58
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching permanent IT job ads	66	58
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	20.82 %	18.41 %
Salaries quoted	60	57
Average minimum salary	£44,338	£36,267
Average salary	£48,162	£37,883
% change on same period last year	+27.13 %
Average maximum salary	£51,986	£39,499
UK excluding London average salary	£35,544	£37,281
% change on same period last year	-4.65 %
Communications & Networking Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	317	315
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.171 %	0.131 %
Salaries quoted	290	266
Average minimum salary	£36,344	£32,994
Average salary	£39,548	£36,325
% change on same period last year	+8.87 %
Average maximum salary	£42,753	£39,656
UK excluding London average salary	£37,579	£39,546
% change on same period last year	-4.97 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing WAN across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WAN across the Wales region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WAN across the Wales region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the Wales region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
South Wales	+23	51	£50,563	+21.47 %
North Wales	+17	10	£33,929	+35.11 %
Mid Wales	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Wales 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.

1 121 (89.63 %) LAN 2 98 (72.59 %) Cisco 3 59 (43.70 %) Wireless 4 57 (42.22 %) Cisco Certification 5 43 (31.85 %) CCNP 6 36 (26.67 %) VoIP 7 35 (25.93 %) Windows 8 31 (22.96 %) Nortel 9 29 (21.48 %) Security Cleared 10 27 (20.00 %) MPLS 11 26 (19.26 %) ISDN 11 26 (19.26 %) DSL 12 25 (18.52 %) Network Design 13 24 (17.78 %) Microsoft 14 21 (15.56 %) Active Directory

14 21 (15.56 %) Firewall 15 20 (14.81 %) Windows Server 2003 15 20 (14.81 %) Microsoft Certification 16 19 (14.07 %) MCSE 17 18 (13.33 %) CCNA 18 16 (11.85 %) Windows 2000 Server 19 15 (11.11 %) Military 20 14 (10.37 %) Telecoms 20 14 (10.37 %) TCP/IP 20 14 (10.37 %) MS Exchange 20 14 (10.37 %) UNIX 21 11 (8.148 %) Linux 21 11 (8.148 %) IIS 22 10 (7.407 %) VPN 22 10 (7.407 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Wales 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 3 (2.222 %) ASP 2 1 (0.741 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 14 (10.37 %) MS Exchange 2 11 (8.148 %) IIS 3 7 (5.185 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 3 (2.222 %) Apache 4 3 (2.222 %) GroupWise 4 3 (2.222 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 2 (1.481 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 1 (0.741 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 8 (5.926 %) MS Excel 2 7 (5.185 %) MS Office 3 3 (2.222 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 4 (2.963 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 121 (89.63 %) LAN 2 59 (43.70 %) Wireless 3 36 (26.67 %) VoIP 4 27 (20.00 %) MPLS 5 26 (19.26 %) ISDN 5 26 (19.26 %) DSL 6 21 (15.56 %) Firewall 7 14 (10.37 %) TCP/IP 8 10 (7.407 %) VPN 9 8 (5.926 %) Internet 10 7 (5.185 %) SAN 11 6 (4.444 %) Cisco PIX 12 4 (2.963 %) Network Security 13 3 (2.222 %) PSTN 14 2 (1.481 %) SMS 14 2 (1.481 %) Broadband 14 2 (1.481 %) DHCP 14 2 (1.481 %) DNS 14 2 (1.481 %) IP Telephony 14 2 (1.481 %) OSPF	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (2.963 %) SQL Server 2 3 (2.222 %) MS Access 2 3 (2.222 %) SQL Server 2000 2 3 (2.222 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 15 (11.11 %) Military 2 14 (10.37 %) Telecoms 3 10 (7.407 %) Finance 4 9 (6.667 %) Government 5 6 (4.444 %) Aerospace 5 6 (4.444 %) Retail 6 3 (2.222 %) Manufacturing 7 2 (1.481 %) Pensions 7 2 (1.481 %) Back Office 8 1 (0.741 %) Electronics 8 1 (0.741 %) Health 8 1 (0.741 %) Automotive 8 1 (0.741 %) Local Government 8 1 (0.741 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (0.741 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 32 (23.70 %) Design Engineer 2 31 (22.96 %) Cisco Engineer 3 16 (11.85 %) Support Engineer 4 14 (10.37 %) Network Engineer 4 14 (10.37 %) IT Manager 5 10 (7.407 %) Project Manager 5 10 (7.407 %) Network Manager 6 9 (6.667 %) Technical Manager 6 9 (6.667 %) Network Project Manager 6 9 (6.667 %) Infrastructure Engineer 6 9 (6.667 %) Telecoms Project Manager 7 8 (5.926 %) Network Support 8 6 (4.444 %) Network Design Engineer 8 6 (4.444 %) UNIX Support 8 6 (4.444 %) Senior Network Design Engineer 8 6 (4.444 %) Administrator 8 6 (4.444 %) Senior Network Engineer 8 6 (4.444 %) Team Leader 9 5 (3.704 %) Technical Support 9 5 (3.704 %) Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 4 (2.963 %) Video Conferencing 2 2 (1.481 %) Fat Client 2 2 (1.481 %) Thin Client 2 2 (1.481 %) PDA 3 1 (0.741 %) Computer Science 3 1 (0.741 %) IPTV	Operating Systems 1 35 (25.93 %) Windows 2 20 (14.81 %) Windows Server 2003 3 16 (11.85 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 14 (10.37 %) UNIX 5 11 (8.148 %) Linux 6 5 (3.704 %) Windows XP 6 5 (3.704 %) Windows Server 2008 6 5 (3.704 %) Red Hat Linux 7 4 (2.963 %) NetWare 7 4 (2.963 %) Solaris 8 3 (2.222 %) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (21.48 %) Security Cleared 2 25 (18.52 %) Network Design 3 3 (2.222 %) E-business 3 3 (2.222 %) Web Development 4 2 (1.481 %) Disaster Recovery 4 2 (1.481 %) Requirements Management 4 2 (1.481 %) ERP 5 1 (0.741 %) Project Management 5 1 (0.741 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (0.741 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 5 (3.704 %) VB 2 4 (2.963 %) SQL 3 2 (1.481 %) Java 4 1 (0.741 %) C 4 1 (0.741 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 57 (42.22 %) Cisco Certification 2 43 (31.85 %) CCNP 3 20 (14.81 %) Microsoft Certification 4 19 (14.07 %) MCSE 5 18 (13.33 %) CCNA 6 7 (5.185 %) MCSA 7 5 (3.704 %) Degree 8 4 (2.963 %) CNE 8 4 (2.963 %) Novell Certification 9 1 (0.741 %) MBA 9 1 (0.741 %) CCVP 9 1 (0.741 %) CCIE 9 1 (0.741 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.481 %) SLA
System Software 1 21 (15.56 %) Active Directory 2 7 (5.185 %) Terminal Services 3 4 (2.963 %) VMware ESX 4 3 (2.222 %) NDS 5 2 (1.481 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 6 1 (0.741 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 1 (0.741 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 1 (0.741 %) CiscoWorks 1 1 (0.741 %) MOM 1 1 (0.741 %) Norton AntiVirus 1 1 (0.741 %) MIIS 1 1 (0.741 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 98 (72.59 %) Cisco 2 31 (22.96 %) Nortel 3 24 (17.78 %) Microsoft 4 8 (5.926 %) HP 4 8 (5.926 %) Oracle 5 6 (4.444 %) VMware 6 5 (3.704 %) Red Hat 6 5 (3.704 %) Dell 7 4 (2.963 %) Citrix 8 1 (0.741 %) VERITAS 8 1 (0.741 %) Lotus 8 1 (0.741 %) Sun 8 1 (0.741 %) CheckPoint 8 1 (0.741 %) Symantec 8 1 (0.741 %) Remedy 8 1 (0.741 %) Sophos 8 1 (0.741 %) Websense 8 1 (0.741 %) Mitel 8 1 (0.741 %) Polycom