Midlands Network Support Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Network Support role in IT jobs within the Midlands 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 Support in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Network Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Avonmouth Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Billericay Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cornwall Corsham Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Deeside Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dunstable East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Egham England Essex Exeter Farnham Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Grimsby Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Huddersfield Hungerford Isleworth Keighley Kent Kidlington Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Milton Newbury Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nuneaton Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Reading Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rotherham Rugby Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Truro Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	73	91
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching permanent IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.104 %	0.054 %
Salaries quoted	1	1
Average minimum salary	£25,000	£17,000
Average salary	£25,000	£21,500
% change on same period last year	+16.27 %
Average maximum salary	£25,000	£26,000
UK excluding London average salary	£30,963	£30,530
% change on same period last year	+1.41 %
Job Titles Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	966	1860
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.520 %	0.775 %
Salaries quoted	708	1458
Average minimum salary	£43,560	£41,711
Average salary	£49,626	£48,475
% change on same period last year	+2.37 %
Average maximum salary	£55,692	£55,239
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Network Support England

Network Support
Demand Trend

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

Network Support
Salary Trend

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

Network Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands region that cited Network Support 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 in their job title.

1 11 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 10 (90.91 %) Cisco 3 8 (72.73 %) LAN 3 8 (72.73 %) WAN 3 8 (72.73 %) CheckPoint 3 8 (72.73 %) Firewall 4 7 (63.64 %) CCNP 4 7 (63.64 %) CCNA 5 4 (36.36 %) Network Design 6 3 (27.27 %) Finance 6 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 6 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft Certification 6 3 (27.27 %) MCSE 7 2 (18.18 %) VPN 7 2 (18.18 %) Cisco PIX

7 2 (18.18 %) Degree 7 2 (18.18 %) Dutch Language 7 2 (18.18 %) French Language 8 1 (9.091 %) WatchGuard 8 1 (9.091 %) VLAN 8 1 (9.091 %) Network Security 8 1 (9.091 %) ProCurve 8 1 (9.091 %) Cisco ASA 8 1 (9.091 %) 3Com 8 1 (9.091 %) Service Delivery 8 1 (9.091 %) Internet 8 1 (9.091 %) MPLS 8 1 (9.091 %) OSPF 8 1 (9.091 %) BGP 8 1 (9.091 %) EIGRP

Network Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands region that cited Network Support 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 in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 8 (72.73 %) LAN 1 8 (72.73 %) WAN 1 8 (72.73 %) Firewall 2 2 (18.18 %) Cisco PIX 2 2 (18.18 %) VPN 3 1 (9.091 %) Internet 3 1 (9.091 %) MPLS 3 1 (9.091 %) OSPF 3 1 (9.091 %) BGP 3 1 (9.091 %) EIGRP 3 1 (9.091 %) NetScreen 3 1 (9.091 %) RIP 3 1 (9.091 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (9.091 %) Network Security 3 1 (9.091 %) Cisco ASA 3 1 (9.091 %) VLAN 3 1 (9.091 %) ISDN	General 1 3 (27.27 %) Finance
Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) Dutch Language 1 2 (18.18 %) French Language	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (36.36 %) Network Design 2 1 (9.091 %) Service Delivery
Qualifications 1 11 (100.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 7 (63.64 %) CCNP 2 7 (63.64 %) CCNA 3 3 (27.27 %) MCSE 3 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft Certification 4 2 (18.18 %) Degree 5 1 (9.091 %) MCP	System Software 1 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 10 (90.91 %) Cisco 2 8 (72.73 %) CheckPoint 3 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 4 1 (9.091 %) HP 4 1 (9.091 %) Nokia 4 1 (9.091 %) 3Com 4 1 (9.091 %) WatchGuard 4 1 (9.091 %) ProCurve