The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the London 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 22 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Specialist
Rank 572 622 590
Rank change year-on-year
+50 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Specialist 29 27 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.066% 0.050% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.053% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 24 19 34
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +23.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £43,600 £46,700 £36,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,200 £64,000 £59,250
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £43,500 £34,900
% change year-on-year
+14.94% +24.64%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
41114 51159 53446
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.43% 93.93% 93.59%
Number of salaries quoted 34577 44402 45054
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Network Specialist
England

Network Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Network Specialist Salary Trend

Network Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Network Specialist across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 22 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
City of London +23 17 £50,000 -4.76%
Network Specialist
England

Network Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 44 (80.00%) Firewall
2 43 (78.18%) Cisco
3 33 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (58.18%) Network Security
5 31 (56.36%) CCNP
6 27 (49.09%) VPN
7 25 (45.45%) CheckPoint
7 25 (45.45%) Cisco IOS
8 22 (40.00%) Finance
8 22 (40.00%) F5
8 22 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
9 19 (34.55%) Juniper
9 19 (34.55%) LAN
9 19 (34.55%) WAN
10 15 (27.27%) OSPF
10 15 (27.27%) Network Management
11 14 (25.45%) Infoblox
11 14 (25.45%) DHCP
12 13 (23.64%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (21.82%) Blue Coat
13 12 (21.82%) MPLS
13 12 (21.82%) ITIL
13 12 (21.82%) VoIP
14 11 (20.00%) Microsoft
14 11 (20.00%) CCNA
14 11 (20.00%) DNA
14 11 (20.00%) DMZ
14 11 (20.00%) Retail
14 11 (20.00%) Wireless
14 11 (20.00%) Tufin

Network Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 1 (1.818%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.818%) MS Exchange
1 1 (1.818%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (3.636%) MS Excel
1 2 (3.636%) MS Visio
1 2 (3.636%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 44 (80.00%) Firewall
2 32 (58.18%) Network Security
3 27 (49.09%) VPN
4 25 (45.45%) Cisco IOS
5 22 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 19 (34.55%) LAN
6 19 (34.55%) WAN
7 15 (27.27%) OSPF
8 14 (25.45%) DHCP
9 13 (23.64%) Cisco ASA
10 12 (21.82%) MPLS
10 12 (21.82%) VoIP
11 11 (20.00%) DMZ
11 11 (20.00%) Wireless
12 10 (18.18%) EIGRP
12 10 (18.18%) SNMP
12 10 (18.18%) SSL
12 10 (18.18%) WLAN
13 8 (14.55%) BGP
14 7 (12.73%) TCP/IP
General
1 22 (40.00%) Finance
2 11 (20.00%) Retail
3 9 (16.36%) Law
4 7 (12.73%) Banking
5 4 (7.273%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.273%) Advertising
6 1 (1.818%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.818%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.818%) Games
6 1 (1.818%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.273%) Learning Management System
2 2 (3.636%) Cryptography
2 2 (3.636%) Clustering
2 2 (3.636%) Wiki
3 1 (1.818%) Streaming Media
3 1 (1.818%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.818%) SaaS
3 1 (1.818%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.18%) Windows
2 9 (16.36%) Windows 2000
3 6 (10.91%) Linux
4 1 (1.818%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.818%) UNIX
4 1 (1.818%) Solaris
4 1 (1.818%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.818%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.27%) Network Management
2 12 (21.82%) ITIL
3 11 (20.00%) DNA
4 9 (16.36%) PRINCE2
4 9 (16.36%) Workflow
5 7 (12.73%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (9.091%) Load Balancing
6 5 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (9.091%) Change Control
7 4 (7.273%) Business Continuity
7 4 (7.273%) Load Testing
7 4 (7.273%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (7.273%) Configuration Management
8 3 (5.455%) Incident Management
8 3 (5.455%) Knowledge Management
8 3 (5.455%) Network Design
9 2 (3.636%) Security Architecture
9 2 (3.636%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (3.636%) Computer Security
10 1 (1.818%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.636%) C#
1 2 (3.636%) Java
1 2 (3.636%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (56.36%) CCNP
3 11 (20.00%) CCNA
4 10 (18.18%) CCVP
5 9 (16.36%) CCIE
5 9 (16.36%) JNCIA
6 5 (9.091%) JNCIS
7 3 (5.455%) Degree
8 2 (3.636%) CCSE
9 1 (1.818%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.818%) CCIP
9 1 (1.818%) CCDA
9 1 (1.818%) CCDP
9 1 (1.818%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.818%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.636%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.818%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.818%) vSphere
2 1 (1.818%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 9 (16.36%) WhatsUp Gold
1 9 (16.36%) Cisco UCCX
1 9 (16.36%) Cisco CUCM
2 6 (10.91%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (1.818%) Nagios
3 1 (1.818%) SCOM
Vendors
1 43 (78.18%) Cisco
2 25 (45.45%) CheckPoint
3 22 (40.00%) F5
4 19 (34.55%) Juniper
5 14 (25.45%) Infoblox
6 12 (21.82%) Blue Coat
7 11 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 11 (20.00%) Tufin
7 11 (20.00%) Aruba
8 7 (12.73%) SolarWinds
9 5 (9.091%) HP
10 4 (7.273%) Dell
11 3 (5.455%) Citrix
11 3 (5.455%) Riverbed
12 2 (3.636%) VMware
12 2 (3.636%) Oracle
13 1 (1.818%) Nokia
13 1 (1.818%) Red Hat
13 1 (1.818%) Remedy
13 1 (1.818%) Mitel