The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester 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 19 June 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Engineer
Rank 154 146 128
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 33 30 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.785% 0.798% 0.925%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.822% 0.832% 0.969%
Number of salaries quoted 28 28 36
Average salary £38,750 £40,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.12% +45.45%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +8.57%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4013 3607 3819
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 95.43% 95.98% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3458 3202 3491
Average salary £35,000 £34,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Network Engineer
North West

Network Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Network Engineer Salary Trend

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Network Engineer across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Manchester Network Engineer Salary Histogram

Network Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cheadle - 10 £45,000 - 4
Wigan +5 3 £37,500 -6.25%
Oldham -1 1 £27,500 +37.50%
Bolton -10 1 £23,500 -41.25%
Network Engineer
North West

Network Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 67 (79.76%) Cisco
2 58 (69.05%) Cisco Certification
3 56 (66.67%) Firewall
4 54 (64.29%) CCNP
5 36 (42.86%) Juniper
6 30 (35.71%) CCNA
7 29 (34.52%) CheckPoint
7 29 (34.52%) Network Security
8 25 (29.76%) Cisco ASA
9 24 (28.57%) Cisco PIX
9 24 (28.57%) JNCIS
9 24 (28.57%) MPLS
10 23 (27.38%) Telecoms
11 19 (22.62%) F5
12 18 (21.43%) Blue Coat
13 16 (19.05%) Finance
13 16 (19.05%) CCIE
13 16 (19.05%) LAN
14 15 (17.86%) Websense
14 15 (17.86%) CCSE
15 13 (15.48%) BGP
16 12 (14.29%) ITIL
17 11 (13.10%) WAN
17 11 (13.10%) Microsoft
17 11 (13.10%) VPN
18 10 (11.90%) CCIP
18 10 (11.90%) VLAN
19 9 (10.71%) JNCIP
19 9 (10.71%) TCP/IP
20 8 (9.524%) CCSP

Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 5 (5.952%) CSS
2 1 (1.190%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.190%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (1.190%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (1.190%) MS Exchange
1 1 (1.190%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (4.762%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.190%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 56 (66.67%) Firewall
2 29 (34.52%) Network Security
3 25 (29.76%) Cisco ASA
4 24 (28.57%) Cisco PIX
4 24 (28.57%) MPLS
5 16 (19.05%) LAN
6 13 (15.48%) BGP
7 11 (13.10%) WAN
7 11 (13.10%) VPN
8 10 (11.90%) VLAN
9 9 (10.71%) TCP/IP
10 8 (9.524%) Internet
10 8 (9.524%) Wireless
11 7 (8.333%) EIGRP
11 7 (8.333%) OSPF
11 7 (8.333%) Unified Communications
12 6 (7.143%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (7.143%) RIP
13 5 (5.952%) VoIP
13 5 (5.952%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.190%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (5.952%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 23 (27.38%) Telecoms
2 16 (19.05%) Finance
3 7 (8.333%) Legal
4 1 (1.190%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.381%) Clustering
2 1 (1.190%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.762%) Windows
2 1 (1.190%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (1.190%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (1.190%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (14.29%) ITIL
2 5 (5.952%) Change Management
3 4 (4.762%) PRINCE2
4 2 (2.381%) Network Architecture
4 2 (2.381%) Capacity Management
4 2 (2.381%) High Availability
4 2 (2.381%) Project Management
4 2 (2.381%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (2.381%) PRINCE
4 2 (2.381%) Incident Management
4 2 (2.381%) Load Balancing
4 2 (2.381%) Business Continuity
5 1 (1.190%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (1.190%) Problem Management
5 1 (1.190%) BCP
5 1 (1.190%) Security Management
5 1 (1.190%) E-Commerce
5 1 (1.190%) SIEM
5 1 (1.190%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (1.190%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.190%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 58 (69.05%) Cisco Certification
2 54 (64.29%) CCNP
3 30 (35.71%) CCNA
4 24 (28.57%) JNCIS
5 16 (19.05%) CCIE
6 15 (17.86%) CCSE
7 10 (11.90%) CCIP
8 9 (10.71%) JNCIP
9 8 (9.524%) CCSP
10 7 (8.333%) JNCIE
11 6 (7.143%) Security Cleared
11 6 (7.143%) JNCIA
12 4 (4.762%) SC Cleared
13 3 (3.571%) Degree
13 3 (3.571%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (3.571%) CCDP
14 1 (1.190%) HP ASE
14 1 (1.190%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.190%) QA
1 1 (1.190%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (7.143%) NFS
3 3 (3.571%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.381%) vSphere
5 1 (1.190%) VMware ESX
5 1 (1.190%) ProxySG
5 1 (1.190%) ISA Server
5 1 (1.190%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 3 (3.571%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 67 (79.76%) Cisco
2 36 (42.86%) Juniper
3 29 (34.52%) CheckPoint
4 19 (22.62%) F5
5 18 (21.43%) Blue Coat
6 15 (17.86%) Websense
7 11 (13.10%) Microsoft
8 8 (9.524%) VMware
9 7 (8.333%) NetApp
10 4 (4.762%) Exinda
10 4 (4.762%) Aruba
11 2 (2.381%) HP
11 2 (2.381%) Fortinet
12 1 (1.190%) 3Com
12 1 (1.190%) LANDesk
12 1 (1.190%) Huawei
12 1 (1.190%) ProCurve
12 1 (1.190%) Avaya
12 1 (1.190%) Oracle
12 1 (1.190%) Nortel
Cheadle, Cheshire
Our client is one of the largest service providers in the UK. They have customers in both the private and public sector around the UK. Due to recent...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cheadle, Cheshire
To apply for one of our 3 / 4 Tier Network Engineer positions you will need to have the majority of the below: * ELIGIBILITY FOR SECURITY CLEARANCE * Expert knowledge...
Capita Resourcing - Jobs at Capita
Salary: £40000.00 - £48500.00 per annum
Posted: 30 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
CCNA/TCP/IP/DNS/DHCP Search Consultancy are currently looking to recruit a Senior Network Engineer for a start up company based in Manchester City Centre... Experience of...
Search Consultancy
Posted: 13 June 2013
Cheadle, Cheshire
Experience with firewall platforms (fortigate, cisco, netscreen and checkpoint) Experience with user remote access technology (we use Juniper SSL VPN)... Experience in setting up and troubleshooting VPNs (Cisco...
BMI
Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Cheadle, Cheshire
Our client is one of the largest service providers in the UK. They have customers in both the private and public sector around the UK. Due to recent...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013