The first table below looks at the demand for LAN skills in IT jobs advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAN over the 3 months to 17 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 Warrington region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 40 55 35
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -20
Permanent jobs citing LAN 12 11 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 3.380% 2.231% 2.422%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 25.00% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12 11 7
Average salary £27,500 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.42% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £21,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £30,400 £43,000 £45,600
UK excluding London average salary £37,250 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.97% +8.57%
All Communications & Networking
Warrington
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
78 44 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 21.97% 8.925% 22.49%
Number of salaries quoted 61 39 48
Average salary £29,500 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.71% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £27,500 £17,800
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £52,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
LAN
Cheshire

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington LAN Salary Trend

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington 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 20 (100.00%) WAN
2 16 (80.00%) MS Exchange
2 16 (80.00%) Windows
2 16 (80.00%) Cisco
3 14 (70.00%) Microsoft
4 11 (55.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
5 9 (45.00%) MS Excel
5 9 (45.00%) TCP/IP
6 8 (40.00%) Telecoms
6 8 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (35.00%) VMware
7 7 (35.00%) VoIP
7 7 (35.00%) MS Office
7 7 (35.00%) Citrix
7 7 (35.00%) SLA
8 6 (30.00%) ITIL
8 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
9 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
9 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
9 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (25.00%) Service Delivery
9 5 (25.00%) MCSE
9 5 (25.00%) DNS
9 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (25.00%) Avaya
10 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
10 4 (20.00%) UNIX
10 4 (20.00%) Linux
10 4 (20.00%) SQL Server

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington 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 16 (80.00%) MS Exchange
2 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (20.00%) Lync
4 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 9 (45.00%) MS Excel
2 7 (35.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 20 (100.00%) WAN
2 9 (45.00%) TCP/IP
3 7 (35.00%) VoIP
4 5 (25.00%) DNS
5 3 (15.00%) DHCP
5 3 (15.00%) VPN
5 3 (15.00%) Firewall
6 2 (10.00%) SHDSL
6 2 (10.00%) ADSL2+
6 2 (10.00%) Ethernet
6 2 (10.00%) ADSL
6 2 (10.00%) ISDN
6 2 (10.00%) SAN
6 2 (10.00%) MPLS
6 2 (10.00%) DSL
7 1 (5.000%) NetScreen
7 1 (5.000%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (5.000%) Cisco PIX
7 1 (5.000%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (5.000%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Analyst
1 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Support Technician
3 4 (20.00%) Technical Support
4 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Network Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Technician
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Communications Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Network Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) Windows
2 11 (55.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (20.00%) Linux
4 4 (20.00%) UNIX
5 2 (10.00%) Windows XP
5 2 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) ITIL
2 5 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (20.00%) Network Management
4 3 (15.00%) Time Management
5 2 (10.00%) Migration
6 1 (5.000%) Business Analysis
6 1 (5.000%) Requirements Analysis
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) MCSE
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (15.00%) MCSA
2 3 (15.00%) MCITP
3 2 (10.00%) CCNA
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (10.00%) JNCIA
3 2 (10.00%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Cisco
2 14 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (35.00%) Citrix
3 7 (35.00%) VMware
4 5 (25.00%) Avaya
5 2 (10.00%) Juniper
5 2 (10.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.000%) F5