Ethernet
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Ethernet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Ethernet over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 646 713 879
Rank change year-on-year +67 +166 -266
Permanent jobs citing Ethernet 275 241 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.03% 1.56% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 212 156 276
10th Percentile £32,525 £30,750 £32,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,438 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £91,250 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £38,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +29.87% -23.00% -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Ethernet is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,526 15,491 22,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.18% 15.91% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,761 11,859
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,900 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

Ethernet
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ethernet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ethernet in the UK

Ethernet
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ethernet.

Salary trend for Ethernet in the UK

Ethernet
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ethernet over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Ethernet in the UK

Ethernet
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ethernet within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +120 240 £50,000 +4.17% 146
UK excluding London +55 229 £50,000 +29.87% 131
Work from Home +88 111 £55,000 -31.25% 50
North of England +77 54 £40,000 +6.67% 27
North West +41 43 £40,000 -28.89% 15
London +145 42 £70,000 - 18
South East -15 41 £50,000 +58.73% 37
East of England +26 37 £55,000 +39.24% 13
Midlands -5 36 £40,000 -42.86% 33
West Midlands +8 32 £40,000 -20.00% 17
South West -17 27 £40,000 -27.27% 15
Scotland -36 23 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Wales - 11 £50,000 - 3
Yorkshire +81 10 £50,000 - 7
East Midlands -13 4 £36,500 -47.86% 16
North East -14 1 £79,932 +113.15% 6

Ethernet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (5.82%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.55%) WinCC
3 2 (0.73%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) IIS
4 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (5.09%) OrCAD
2 13 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.91%) Simulink
4 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (2.18%) CANalyzer
6 5 (1.82%) MS Visio
6 5 (1.82%) SOLIDWORKS
7 4 (1.45%) Windchill
8 3 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (0.73%) Abaqus
9 2 (0.73%) GNU Octave
9 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (10.18%) Azure
2 24 (8.73%) AWS
3 21 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (5.82%) Entra ID
5 8 (2.91%) GCP
6 6 (2.18%) OneDrive
7 5 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (1.82%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.73%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (0.73%) GitHub
8 2 (0.73%) OCI
8 2 (0.73%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.36%) IaaS
9 1 (0.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (31.64%) TCP/IP
2 74 (26.91%) Wi-Fi
3 69 (25.09%) Wireless
4 68 (24.73%) WAN
5 66 (24.00%) LAN
6 53 (19.27%) MPLS
7 51 (18.55%) BGP
8 50 (18.18%) OSPF
9 48 (17.45%) RS-232
10 42 (15.27%) DHCP
11 41 (14.91%) Firewall
12 36 (13.09%) Internet
13 29 (10.55%) VLAN
14 24 (8.73%) DSL
14 24 (8.73%) VPN
15 17 (6.18%) DNS
16 16 (5.82%) SD-WAN
17 13 (4.73%) Profibus
18 11 (4.00%) Unified Communications
19 10 (3.64%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.45%) MySQL
1 4 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.45%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 24 (8.73%) Git
2 10 (3.64%) LabVIEW
3 8 (2.91%) CANoe
3 8 (2.91%) Subversion
4 7 (2.55%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.82%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.82%) JIRA
6 4 (1.45%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.09%) Rational Rhapsody
7 3 (1.09%) Rational Team Concert
8 2 (0.73%) PetaLinux
9 1 (0.36%) GitLab
9 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (23.27%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.18%) Electronics
3 59 (21.45%) Manufacturing
4 34 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (12.36%) Finance
5 20 (7.27%) Automotive
6 15 (5.45%) Aerospace
7 13 (4.73%) Telecoms
8 11 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (3.64%) Law
9 10 (3.64%) Military
9 10 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (3.27%) Retail
11 8 (2.91%) Marketing
12 7 (2.55%) Aviation
12 7 (2.55%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.82%) Banking
13 5 (1.82%) Multimedia
14 4 (1.45%) Legal
15 3 (1.09%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 63 (22.91%) Software Engineer
2 61 (22.18%) Network Engineer
3 56 (20.36%) Senior
4 40 (14.55%) Embedded Engineer
5 35 (12.73%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 25 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (8.73%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 24 (8.73%) Support Engineer
8 23 (8.36%) Hardware Engineer
9 20 (7.27%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 18 (6.55%) IP Engineer
10 18 (6.55%) IP Network Engineer
11 16 (5.82%) Cisco Engineer
11 16 (5.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 16 (5.82%) Juniper Engineer
11 16 (5.82%) Technical Engineer
12 15 (5.45%) Technical Support
12 15 (5.45%) Technical Support Engineer
13 14 (5.09%) Network Support
13 14 (5.09%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.18%) Yocto
2 15 (5.45%) .NET
3 6 (2.18%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.82%) Qt
5 4 (1.45%) ASP.NET Web API
5 4 (1.45%) Flash
5 4 (1.45%) WCF
5 4 (1.45%) Web Services
5 4 (1.45%) WinForms
6 3 (1.09%) NETCONF
6 3 (1.09%) POSIX
6 3 (1.09%) RESTCONF
7 2 (0.73%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.73%) CSS
7 2 (0.73%) DPDK
7 2 (0.73%) eBPF
7 2 (0.73%) HTML
7 2 (0.73%) HTML5
7 2 (0.73%) OpenMP
8 1 (0.36%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.55%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (9.82%) PCIe
3 26 (9.45%) FPGA
4 17 (6.18%) Data Centre
4 17 (6.18%) Embedded Systems
5 16 (5.82%) Driving Licence
6 15 (5.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (5.09%) Algorithms
8 13 (4.73%) Device Driver
9 12 (4.36%) Analogue Electronics
9 12 (4.36%) SCADA
10 9 (3.27%) CCTV
10 9 (3.27%) IoT
10 9 (3.27%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (2.91%) VHDL
12 7 (2.55%) Infotainment
12 7 (2.55%) Robotics
13 5 (1.82%) ARM Cortex
13 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.82%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 61 (22.18%) Linux
2 32 (11.64%) Windows
3 18 (6.55%) Embedded Linux
3 18 (6.55%) VyOS
4 12 (4.36%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.55%) VxWorks
6 6 (2.18%) FreeRTOS
6 6 (2.18%) Windows 10
6 6 (2.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.45%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.09%) Android
8 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.73%) Solaris
9 2 (0.73%) SUSE
9 2 (0.73%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.36%) Debian
10 1 (0.36%) Fedora
10 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (33.45%) Software Engineering
2 60 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (13.82%) Customer Service
4 32 (11.64%) Cybersecurity
5 30 (10.91%) Computer Science
6 23 (8.36%) Validation
7 18 (6.55%) Mentoring
7 18 (6.55%) Software Testing
8 17 (6.18%) Customer Requirements
8 17 (6.18%) Embedded Software Development
9 15 (5.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (5.45%) Schematic Capture
10 14 (5.09%) Agile
10 14 (5.09%) Coaching
10 14 (5.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (5.09%) Network Management
11 13 (4.73%) Design for Manufacturing
11 13 (4.73%) OOD
11 13 (4.73%) Project Management
11 13 (4.73%) UML
Programming Languages
1 70 (25.45%) C
2 33 (12.00%) Python
3 27 (9.82%) Embedded C
4 25 (9.09%) C++
5 24 (8.73%) C#
6 13 (4.73%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.00%) SQL
8 8 (2.91%) Bash
8 8 (2.91%) MATLAB
9 7 (2.55%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.18%) Embedded C++
10 6 (2.18%) Java
11 3 (1.09%) Ada
11 3 (1.09%) Assembly Language
11 3 (1.09%) Go
11 3 (1.09%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.73%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.73%) Perl
12 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.73%) VB
Qualifications
1 94 (34.18%) Degree
2 36 (13.09%) Cisco Certification
3 29 (10.55%) Security Cleared
4 27 (9.82%) CCNA
5 26 (9.45%) JNCIA
6 13 (4.73%) HNC
7 12 (4.36%) SC Cleared
8 11 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (3.27%) CCNP
10 8 (2.91%) Master's Degree
11 7 (2.55%) HND
11 7 (2.55%) JNCIP
12 6 (2.18%) CCDP
13 4 (1.45%) BICSI RCDD
13 4 (1.45%) Chartered Engineer
14 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
15 1 (0.36%) JNCIE
15 1 (0.36%) MCAD
15 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.00%) GDPR
2 10 (3.64%) ISO 26262
3 8 (2.91%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 8 (2.91%) ISO 13485
3 8 (2.91%) JTAG
4 4 (1.45%) AUTOSAR
4 4 (1.45%) MISRA
4 4 (1.45%) PMO
5 3 (1.09%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.09%) SLA
6 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.36%) QA
System Software
1 45 (16.36%) Firmware
2 13 (4.73%) Embedded Firmware
3 11 (4.00%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (2.18%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.09%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.73%) Lustre
7 2 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.36%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.36%) Docker
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.45%) Functional Safety
3 3 (1.09%) Autotask
3 3 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.09%) FortiGate
3 3 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (1.09%) SCCM
3 3 (1.09%) Wonderware InTouch
4 2 (0.73%) Nagios
4 2 (0.73%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 61 (22.18%) Cisco
2 43 (15.64%) Juniper
3 34 (12.36%) Microsoft
4 31 (11.27%) Nokia
5 26 (9.45%) Fortinet
5 26 (9.45%) Ruckus Wireless
6 18 (6.55%) Vyatta
7 13 (4.73%) EMC
8 12 (4.36%) Siemens
9 10 (3.64%) Meraki
9 10 (3.64%) SolarWinds
9 10 (3.64%) VMware
10 8 (2.91%) Rockwell
11 7 (2.55%) Draytek
11 7 (2.55%) HP
11 7 (2.55%) QNX
11 7 (2.55%) SAP
12 6 (2.18%) Intel
12 6 (2.18%) Sage
12 6 (2.18%) Xilinx