The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Specialist
Rank 733 798 752
Rank change year-on-year
+65 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Specialist 108 68 98
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.107% 0.060% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.113% 0.063% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 89 53 66
Average salary £50,000 £46,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.52% +9.41%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,100 £31,758 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £59,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £48,500 £43,500 £34,450
% change year-on-year
+11.49% +26.26%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95490 107493 111049
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.41% 94.82% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 80297 92843 94497
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,925 £27,500 £26,250
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Network Specialist
UK

Network Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Network Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Network Specialist
Salary Trend

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

England Network Specialist Salary Trend

Network Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Network Specialist across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Network Specialist Salary Histogram

Network Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Specialist within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South East +28 32 £45,000 +95.65%
London +51 25 £52,500 -
East of England +19 17 £50,000 +40.84%
Yorkshire 0 14 £57,000 +26.66%
West Midlands -10 14 £45,000 +12.50%
North West +5 5 - -
North East - 1 £32,500 -
Network Specialist
UK

Network Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Network Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 150 (71.77%) Cisco
2 125 (59.81%) Firewall
3 98 (46.89%) Cisco Certification
4 83 (39.71%) Juniper
5 73 (34.93%) Network Security
6 71 (33.97%) CheckPoint
6 71 (33.97%) CCNP
7 66 (31.58%) VPN
8 57 (27.27%) OSPF
8 57 (27.27%) BGP
9 49 (23.44%) LAN
10 47 (22.49%) Finance
11 45 (21.53%) F5
12 41 (19.62%) MPLS
12 41 (19.62%) Disaster Recovery
13 39 (18.66%) Windows
14 37 (17.70%) TCP/IP
15 35 (16.75%) WAN
15 35 (16.75%) Linux
16 32 (15.31%) ITIL
17 30 (14.35%) Cisco Nexus
18 29 (13.88%) EIGRP
18 29 (13.88%) Network Management
19 28 (13.40%) Cisco IOS
20 27 (12.92%) Cisco ASA
21 26 (12.44%) Telecoms
21 26 (12.44%) SSL
22 24 (11.48%) SLA
22 24 (11.48%) Blue Coat
23 23 (11.00%) IPsec

Network Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Network Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (3.349%) EDI
2 6 (2.871%) CSS
3 3 (1.435%) HTML
3 3 (1.435%) XML
4 2 (0.957%) Web Services
4 2 (0.957%) Middleware
5 1 (0.478%) XMPP
Application Platforms
1 7 (3.349%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 5 (2.392%) MS Exchange
3 2 (0.957%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.478%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.478%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (8.612%) MS Excel
2 11 (5.263%) MS Office
3 9 (4.306%) MS Project
4 2 (0.957%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 125 (59.81%) Firewall
2 73 (34.93%) Network Security
3 66 (31.58%) VPN
4 57 (27.27%) OSPF
4 57 (27.27%) BGP
5 49 (23.44%) LAN
6 41 (19.62%) MPLS
7 37 (17.70%) TCP/IP
8 35 (16.75%) WAN
9 30 (14.35%) Cisco Nexus
10 29 (13.88%) EIGRP
11 28 (13.40%) Cisco IOS
12 27 (12.92%) Cisco ASA
13 26 (12.44%) SSL
14 23 (11.00%) IPsec
15 22 (10.53%) Wireless
16 18 (8.612%) SNMP
17 17 (8.134%) VoIP
18 16 (7.656%) DHCP
19 15 (7.177%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.914%) MySQL
2 3 (1.435%) SQL Server
General
1 47 (22.49%) Finance
2 26 (12.44%) Telecoms
3 22 (10.53%) Retail
4 9 (4.306%) Law
5 8 (3.828%) Banking
6 4 (1.914%) Advertising
7 1 (0.478%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.478%) Games
7 1 (0.478%) Publishing
7 1 (0.478%) Legal
7 1 (0.478%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.478%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.349%) Computer Science
2 4 (1.914%) Learning Management System
2 4 (1.914%) Visualisation
2 4 (1.914%) SaaS
2 4 (1.914%) PKI
3 2 (0.957%) Wiki
3 2 (0.957%) Cryptography
4 1 (0.478%) Streaming Media
4 1 (0.478%) IVR
4 1 (0.478%) Clustering
4 1 (0.478%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (0.478%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 39 (18.66%) Windows
2 35 (16.75%) Linux
3 17 (8.134%) UNIX
4 9 (4.306%) Windows 2000
5 4 (1.914%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.957%) Solaris
6 2 (0.957%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.478%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.478%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.478%) CentOS
7 1 (0.478%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.478%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (19.62%) Disaster Recovery
2 32 (15.31%) ITIL
3 29 (13.88%) Network Management
4 18 (8.612%) Change Management
5 17 (8.134%) Problem Management
5 17 (8.134%) Business Continuity
6 12 (5.742%) Service Management
6 12 (5.742%) Network Design
7 11 (5.263%) PRINCE2
7 11 (5.263%) DNA
8 10 (4.785%) Capacity Planning
8 10 (4.785%) Migration
8 10 (4.785%) Workflow
9 9 (4.306%) BCP
10 8 (3.828%) Load Balancing
11 7 (3.349%) Technical Architecture
11 7 (3.349%) Configuration Management
11 7 (3.349%) Change Control
12 6 (2.871%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (2.871%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.349%) ActionScript 2.0
1 7 (3.349%) ActionScript
2 5 (2.392%) SQL
3 4 (1.914%) Perl
3 4 (1.914%) PHP
4 3 (1.435%) Java
4 3 (1.435%) Python
5 2 (0.957%) C#
5 2 (0.957%) Bash shell
6 1 (0.478%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.478%) PowerHouse
6 1 (0.478%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 98 (46.89%) Cisco Certification
2 71 (33.97%) CCNP
3 20 (9.569%) CCIE
4 19 (9.091%) CCNA
4 19 (9.091%) Degree
5 17 (8.134%) CISSP
5 17 (8.134%) Security Cleared
6 15 (7.177%) CCSP
7 12 (5.742%) JNCIA
8 10 (4.785%) CCVP
9 6 (2.871%) CCSE
9 6 (2.871%) CEH
10 5 (2.392%) JNCIS
10 5 (2.392%) GIAC
11 3 (1.435%) SCSA
11 3 (1.435%) CCSA
11 3 (1.435%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.435%) CCIP
12 1 (0.478%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.478%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.48%) SLA
2 4 (1.914%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.435%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.957%) QA
System Software
1 11 (5.263%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.828%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.392%) VMware Server
4 4 (1.914%) ProxySG
5 3 (1.435%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.957%) vSphere
7 1 (0.478%) NFS
Systems Management
1 11 (5.263%) Cisco CUCM
2 9 (4.306%) WhatsUp Gold
2 9 (4.306%) MIMEsweeper
2 9 (4.306%) Cisco UCCX
3 8 (3.828%) OpenView
4 6 (2.871%) FortiGate
4 6 (2.871%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.478%) SCOM
Vendors
1 150 (71.77%) Cisco
2 83 (39.71%) Juniper
3 71 (33.97%) CheckPoint
4 45 (21.53%) F5
5 24 (11.48%) Blue Coat
6 22 (10.53%) VMware
7 18 (8.612%) Microsoft
8 15 (7.177%) HP
9 14 (6.699%) Infoblox
10 12 (5.742%) IronPort
11 11 (5.263%) Tufin
11 11 (5.263%) Aruba
11 11 (5.263%) Websense
12 9 (4.306%) Fujitsu
12 9 (4.306%) Avaya
12 9 (4.306%) McAfee
12 9 (4.306%) Symantec
13 6 (2.871%) SolarWinds
14 5 (2.392%) Citrix
14 5 (2.392%) Nokia
Maidenhead, Berkshire
Keywords; Datacentre, Network, MPLS, Nexus Switches, Cisco Firewalls, ASA, Juniper Firewalls, ITIL, Websense, Cisco Call Manager, CUCM, CCIE, Configuration, Implementation, Design, Support, F5 My client, world leading energy...
TEKsystems
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Warrington, Cheshire
The specialist should be experienced in supporting 2 or more of the following Security Products: RSA Envision, Logrhythm, Symantec Endpoint Security, Web and Email security technologies such as...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: offer competitive package
Posted: 24 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Cisco Firewalls including FWSM and ASAs in multiple context modes. Cisco Loadbalancers including ACE and CSS. Checkpoint Firewalls. Fortigate Firewalls. Understanding of routing protocols including OSPF and BGP...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £50K basic + Car Allow + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Must have a strong working knowledge of the following protocols and technologies - ATM, Frame-Relay, MPLS, ADSL, GPRS, TCP/IP, SSL, TLS, ISDN and authentication Protocols... HP Openview,...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Harrogate, Yorkshire
Specifically fundamentals of SNMP and MIBs. HP Openview, BES and CW2000 knowledge advantageous.Must be familiar with using proactive and reactive network analysers and be able to decode...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Norwich, Norfolk
INFORMATION SERVICES DIRECTORATE (Telephony, VoIP)Network Specialist - Ref: ALC359£30,424 to £36,298 per annumLocation: Norwich, NorfolkThis post is part of the network team which is responsible...
University of East Anglia
Salary: £30,424 to £36,298 per annum
Posted: 25 May 2013