The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Support 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 Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Support Specialist
Rank 608 639 625
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Support Specialist 1 1 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.002% 0.002% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% 0.002% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
Average salary £28,500 - £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £33,625 - £30,000
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40744 50505 53832
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.41% 93.86% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 34331 43869 45250
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 Support Specialist
England

Network Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Network Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Network Support Specialist
Salary Trend

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

London Network Support Specialist Salary Trend

Network Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Network Support 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 Support Specialist in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) Change Control
2 4 (80.00%) Network Management
2 4 (80.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Wireshark
2 4 (80.00%) Load Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) HP
2 4 (80.00%) Dell
2 4 (80.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (60.00%) Citrix
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Advertising
3 3 (60.00%) Knowledge Management
3 3 (60.00%) SLA
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (60.00%) Riverbed
3 3 (60.00%) NetScaler
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (20.00%) CentOS
4 1 (20.00%) F5
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
4 1 (20.00%) IPsec
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (20.00%) SAN

Network Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Network Support 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 Support Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Wireshark
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (60.00%) NetScaler
4 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
4 1 (20.00%) IPsec
4 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) SSL
4 1 (20.00%) SAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Advertising
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Change Control
2 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (80.00%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Load Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Network Management
3 3 (60.00%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) HP
1 4 (80.00%) Dell
1 4 (80.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (60.00%) Riverbed
2 3 (60.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) F5