Cheshire Network Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Network Engineer role in IT jobs within the Cheshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Accrington Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Billericay Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Gwent Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hull Hungerford Inverurie Ipswich Isleworth Keighley Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paignton Penrith Plymouth Preston Reading Redhill Rochdale Romford Romsey Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Truro Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	119	121
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	28	22
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.888 %	0.755 %
Salaries quoted	28	20
Average minimum salary	£27,679	£22,300
Average salary	£29,929	£25,025
% change on same period last year	+19.59 %
Average maximum salary	£32,179	£27,750
UK excluding London average salary	£36,204	£35,876
% change on same period last year	+0.91 %
Job Titles Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	3154	2915
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.665 %	1.194 %
Salaries quoted	2846	2573
Average minimum salary	£32,511	£31,772
Average salary	£35,753	£34,366
% change on same period last year	+4.03 %
Average maximum salary	£38,995	£36,961
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Network Engineer across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Network Engineer across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Network Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Warrington	-2	14	£31,429	+52.77 %
Chester	-	10	£28,850	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 39 (69.64 %) Windows 2 38 (67.86 %) Cisco 3 31 (55.36 %) WAN 4 29 (51.79 %) TCP/IP 5 28 (50.00 %) LAN 6 23 (41.07 %) VPN 7 21 (37.50 %) Cisco Certification 7 21 (37.50 %) Firewall 8 19 (33.93 %) Windows 2000 9 18 (32.14 %) Active Directory 10 17 (30.36 %) VoIP 11 15 (26.79 %) Cisco IOS 12 13 (23.21 %) CCNP 13 12 (21.43 %) CCNA 14 11 (19.64 %) Wireless

15 10 (17.86 %) CheckPoint 15 10 (17.86 %) Microsoft 15 10 (17.86 %) IP Telephony 16 9 (16.07 %) Exchange Server 2003 16 9 (16.07 %) Ethernet 16 9 (16.07 %) MS Excel 17 8 (14.29 %) MS Exchange 17 8 (14.29 %) MCSE 17 8 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 18 7 (12.50 %) SQL Server 18 7 (12.50 %) Windows XP 19 6 (10.71 %) IIS 19 6 (10.71 %) MCSA 19 6 (10.71 %) Telecoms 20 5 (8.929 %) Terminal Services

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 Platforms 1 9 (16.07 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 8 (14.29 %) MS Exchange 3 6 (10.71 %) IIS 4 2 (3.571 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (1.786 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (1.786 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (1.786 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server	Applications 1 9 (16.07 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.786 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 31 (55.36 %) WAN 2 29 (51.79 %) TCP/IP 3 28 (50.00 %) LAN 4 23 (41.07 %) VPN 5 21 (37.50 %) Firewall 6 17 (30.36 %) VoIP 7 15 (26.79 %) Cisco IOS 8 11 (19.64 %) Wireless 9 10 (17.86 %) IP Telephony 10 9 (16.07 %) Ethernet 11 5 (8.929 %) Network Security 12 4 (7.143 %) DNS 13 3 (5.357 %) Internet 13 3 (5.357 %) MPLS 13 3 (5.357 %) Cisco PIX 13 3 (5.357 %) Frame Relay 14 2 (3.571 %) IPsec 14 2 (3.571 %) SSL 14 2 (3.571 %) ATM 14 2 (3.571 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.786 %) Crystal Reports
General 1 6 (10.71 %) Telecoms 2 3 (5.357 %) Education 3 2 (3.571 %) Back Office 4 1 (1.786 %) Health 4 1 (1.786 %) Retail	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.786 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 39 (69.64 %) Windows 2 19 (33.93 %) Windows 2000 3 7 (12.50 %) Windows XP 4 4 (7.143 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (7.143 %) Linux 5 3 (5.357 %) Windows NT 5 3 (5.357 %) UNIX 6 1 (1.786 %) OS/400	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (1.786 %) ITIL 1 1 (1.786 %) Project Management 1 1 (1.786 %) Network Design
Programming Languages 1 2 (3.571 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 21 (37.50 %) Cisco Certification 2 13 (23.21 %) CCNP 3 12 (21.43 %) CCNA 4 8 (14.29 %) MCSE 4 8 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 5 6 (10.71 %) MCSA 6 4 (7.143 %) Degree 7 1 (1.786 %) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.786 %) SLA 1 1 (1.786 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 18 (32.14 %) Active Directory 2 5 (8.929 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (1.786 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 1 (1.786 %) OpenView 1 1 (1.786 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 38 (67.86 %) Cisco 2 10 (17.86 %) Microsoft 2 10 (17.86 %) CheckPoint 3 5 (8.929 %) Dell 4 3 (5.357 %) Juniper 4 3 (5.357 %) Nokia 4 3 (5.357 %) Novell 4 3 (5.357 %) Websense 4 3 (5.357 %) IronPort 5 1 (1.786 %) Concord 5 1 (1.786 %) Lotus 5 1 (1.786 %) Red Hat 5 1 (1.786 %) Citrix 5 1 (1.786 %) HP