The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles advertised for the Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Engineer
Rank 97 123 114
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 25 7 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.385% 0.347% 0.596%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.454% 0.360% 0.629%
Number of salaries quoted 20 4 10
Average salary £39,750 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.00% -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £29,800 £36,950
10% offered a salary of more than £48,500 £44,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +8.57%
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1719 1943 2066
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 95.24% 96.19% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1529 1647 1880
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Network Engineer
Cambridgeshire

Network Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Network Engineer across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Cambridge Network Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Network Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge Network Engineer Salary Trend

Network Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Engineer in their job title.

1 36 (83.72%) Cisco
2 28 (65.12%) Firewall
3 18 (41.86%) VPN
4 17 (39.53%) WAN
5 16 (37.21%) PCI DSS
6 15 (34.88%) LAN
7 14 (32.56%) CheckPoint
8 13 (30.23%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (30.23%) VoIP
8 13 (30.23%) Network Security
9 12 (27.91%) Cisco CUCM
10 11 (25.58%) VLAN
10 11 (25.58%) SNMP
10 11 (25.58%) CCNP
11 10 (23.26%) Juniper
11 10 (23.26%) Windows
11 10 (23.26%) Finance
11 10 (23.26%) IPsec
11 10 (23.26%) OSPF
11 10 (23.26%) Nagios
11 10 (23.26%) HSRP
12 9 (20.93%) ITIL
13 8 (18.60%) Active Directory
13 8 (18.60%) Incident Management
13 8 (18.60%) WhatsUp Gold
13 8 (18.60%) Cacti
14 7 (16.28%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (16.28%) NetApp
14 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
14 7 (16.28%) MS Excel

Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.326%) XMPP
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.326%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 7 (16.28%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.651%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 28 (65.12%) Firewall
2 18 (41.86%) VPN
3 17 (39.53%) WAN
4 15 (34.88%) LAN
5 13 (30.23%) VoIP
5 13 (30.23%) Network Security
6 11 (25.58%) VLAN
6 11 (25.58%) SNMP
7 10 (23.26%) IPsec
7 10 (23.26%) OSPF
7 10 (23.26%) HSRP
8 7 (16.28%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (13.95%) NAS
10 4 (9.302%) Cisco PIX
11 2 (4.651%) Internet
11 2 (4.651%) WLAN
11 2 (4.651%) Wireless
11 2 (4.651%) MPLS
11 2 (4.651%) Cisco IPT
11 2 (4.651%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.326%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (2.326%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.326%) RDBMS
General
1 10 (23.26%) Finance
2 5 (11.63%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.326%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.651%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) Windows
2 2 (4.651%) Linux
3 1 (2.326%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (20.93%) ITIL
2 8 (18.60%) Incident Management
3 6 (13.95%) Information Security
3 6 (13.95%) Security Management
3 6 (13.95%) Information Security Management
3 6 (13.95%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (6.977%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (4.651%) E-Commerce
5 2 (4.651%) Load Balancing
5 2 (4.651%) Change Control
6 1 (2.326%) Service Management
6 1 (2.326%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.326%) Bash shell
1 1 (2.326%) Python
1 1 (2.326%) C
1 1 (2.326%) Perl
1 1 (2.326%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (25.58%) CCNP
3 5 (11.63%) CCNA
4 4 (9.302%) CCSE
4 4 (9.302%) JNCIS
5 3 (6.977%) CCIE
6 2 (4.651%) CCIP
7 1 (2.326%) Degree
7 1 (2.326%) RHCT
7 1 (2.326%) CISSP
7 1 (2.326%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (37.21%) PCI DSS
2 6 (13.95%) COBIT
System Software
1 8 (18.60%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.651%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.326%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 12 (27.91%) Cisco CUCM
2 10 (23.26%) Nagios
3 8 (18.60%) WhatsUp Gold
3 8 (18.60%) Cacti
4 2 (4.651%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 36 (83.72%) Cisco
2 14 (32.56%) CheckPoint
3 10 (23.26%) Juniper
4 7 (16.28%) NetApp
4 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
5 4 (9.302%) Blue Coat
5 4 (9.302%) Websense
5 4 (9.302%) F5
6 3 (6.977%) VMware
7 2 (4.651%) Riverbed
8 1 (2.326%) SonicWALL
8 1 (2.326%) Red Hat
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