The first table below looks at the demand for Ethernet skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ethernet over the 3 months to 21 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ethernet
Rank 109 97 86
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -11
Permanent jobs citing Ethernet 5 3 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.297% 0.207% 0.386%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.587% 1.060% 2.066%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 5
Average salary £50,000 £30,000 £17,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+66.66% +71.42%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +14.28%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
315 283 242
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 18.68% 19.54% 18.66%
Number of salaries quoted 254 244 219
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -1.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Ethernet
West Midlands

Ethernet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Ethernet Jobs Demand Trend

Ethernet
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Ethernet across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Ethernet Salary Trend

Ethernet
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ethernet across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Birmingham Ethernet Salary Histogram

Ethernet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Ethernet 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 Ethernet.

1 8 (57.14%) TCP/IP
1 8 (57.14%) Service Delivery
2 7 (50.00%) Firewall
2 7 (50.00%) Cisco
3 6 (42.86%) LAN
3 6 (42.86%) WAN
4 4 (28.57%) VPN
4 4 (28.57%) PRINCE2
4 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 4 (28.57%) Internet
4 4 (28.57%) SLA
4 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 4 (28.57%) Change Management
4 4 (28.57%) Service Management
4 4 (28.57%) Finance
4 4 (28.57%) Network Security
4 4 (28.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (21.43%) Advertising
5 3 (21.43%) Network Design
5 3 (21.43%) CCNP
5 3 (21.43%) CCDP
5 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (14.29%) PMP
6 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
6 2 (14.29%) Juniper
6 2 (14.29%) SAN
6 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
6 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
6 2 (14.29%) HP

Ethernet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Ethernet 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 Ethernet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
1 2 (14.29%) Tomcat
1 2 (14.29%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
1 2 (14.29%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) TCP/IP
2 7 (50.00%) Firewall
3 6 (42.86%) LAN
3 6 (42.86%) WAN
4 4 (28.57%) VPN
4 4 (28.57%) Internet
4 4 (28.57%) Network Security
5 2 (14.29%) SAN
5 2 (14.29%) MPLS
5 2 (14.29%) OSPF
5 2 (14.29%) BGP
5 2 (14.29%) ADSL
5 2 (14.29%) ISDN
5 2 (14.29%) DNS
5 2 (14.29%) SSL
5 2 (14.29%) DHCP
5 2 (14.29%) FTP
5 2 (14.29%) HTTP
5 2 (14.29%) SNMP
5 2 (14.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Advertising
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 2 (14.29%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Services Delivery Manager
1 4 (28.57%) Service Manager
1 4 (28.57%) Delivery Manager
1 4 (28.57%) Network Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Network Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Coordinator
3 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Replication
1 2 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Service Delivery
2 4 (28.57%) PRINCE2
2 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
2 4 (28.57%) Change Management
2 4 (28.57%) Service Management
3 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (21.43%) Network Design
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 2 (14.29%) Project Planning
4 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
1 2 (14.29%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 3 (21.43%) CCNP
2 3 (21.43%) CCDP
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (14.29%) PMP
3 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 2 (14.29%) HP ASE
3 2 (14.29%) HP MASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) VMware ESX
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (14.29%) XenServer
1 2 (14.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Juniper
3 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 2 (14.29%) HP
3 2 (14.29%) Citrix
3 2 (14.29%) Brocade
3 2 (14.29%) 3Com
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) Aruba
3 2 (14.29%) ProCurve