The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the South East 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 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Engineer
Rank 117 152 161
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 505 394 324
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 2.282% 1.657% 1.412%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.407% 1.739% 1.495%
Number of salaries quoted 461 363 295
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +8.57%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20978 22652 21667
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.79% 95.25% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 17417 19544 18626
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Network Engineer Salary Trend

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

South East 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 South East 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
Berkshire +37 193 £42,000 -1.17%
Surrey -12 92 £40,000 +5.26%
Hampshire -6 67 £35,000 -
Kent +17 55 £40,000 +14.28%
West Sussex +28 43 £47,500 +10.46%
Buckinghamshire -2 33 £36,750 -16.00%
Oxfordshire -19 9 £30,000 -30.23%
Middlesex -1 6 £42,500 +13.33%
East Sussex -1 2 £50,000 -4.76%
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 783 (76.02%) Cisco
2 652 (63.30%) Cisco Certification
3 462 (44.85%) CCNP
4 436 (42.33%) Firewall
5 398 (38.64%) CCNA
6 379 (36.80%) Juniper
7 340 (33.01%) MPLS
8 297 (28.83%) WAN
9 245 (23.79%) LAN
10 234 (22.72%) CheckPoint
11 226 (21.94%) CCIE
12 221 (21.46%) TCP/IP
13 219 (21.26%) BGP
14 196 (19.03%) Cisco ASA
15 179 (17.38%) Windows
16 177 (17.18%) OSPF
17 172 (16.70%) VPN
18 169 (16.41%) Telecoms
19 165 (16.02%) VoIP
20 158 (15.34%) ITIL
21 155 (15.05%) JNCIA
22 148 (14.37%) Network Security
23 147 (14.27%) CCIP
24 140 (13.59%) JNCIS
25 137 (13.30%) Wireless
26 134 (13.01%) F5
27 129 (12.52%) JNCIP
27 129 (12.52%) Linux
28 116 (11.26%) Ethernet
29 110 (10.68%) Unified Communications

Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 22 (2.136%) CSS
2 7 (0.680%) HTML
2 7 (0.680%) XML
3 5 (0.485%) Middleware
4 3 (0.291%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (0.194%) XMPP
6 1 (0.097%) CGI
6 1 (0.097%) MAPI
6 1 (0.097%) COM
Application Platforms
1 42 (4.078%) MS Exchange
2 17 (1.650%) Exchange Server 2010
3 14 (1.359%) IIS
4 12 (1.165%) Exchange Server 2003
5 11 (1.068%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.680%) SAS
6 7 (0.680%) Apache
6 7 (0.680%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (0.388%) Lync
8 3 (0.291%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.194%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 31 (3.010%) MS Excel
2 20 (1.942%) MS Office
3 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.194%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 436 (42.33%) Firewall
2 340 (33.01%) MPLS
3 297 (28.83%) WAN
4 245 (23.79%) LAN
5 221 (21.46%) TCP/IP
6 219 (21.26%) BGP
7 196 (19.03%) Cisco ASA
8 177 (17.18%) OSPF
9 172 (16.70%) VPN
10 165 (16.02%) VoIP
11 148 (14.37%) Network Security
12 137 (13.30%) Wireless
13 116 (11.26%) Ethernet
14 110 (10.68%) Unified Communications
15 99 (9.612%) DNS
16 92 (8.932%) Cisco PIX
17 89 (8.641%) Cisco IOS
18 83 (8.058%) Internet
19 73 (7.087%) EIGRP
20 66 (6.408%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (2.524%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.291%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (0.194%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (0.194%) Big Data
3 2 (0.194%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (0.097%) Informix
4 1 (0.097%) MySQL
General
1 169 (16.41%) Telecoms
2 35 (3.398%) Finance
3 10 (0.971%) Multimedia
4 7 (0.680%) Financial Institution
5 6 (0.583%) Manufacturing
6 5 (0.485%) Back Office
6 5 (0.485%) French Language
7 4 (0.388%) Law
7 4 (0.388%) Electronics
8 3 (0.291%) Games
8 3 (0.291%) Banking
9 2 (0.194%) Local Government
9 2 (0.194%) Marketing
9 2 (0.194%) Military
9 2 (0.194%) Advertising
10 1 (0.097%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.097%) Front Office
10 1 (0.097%) Legal
10 1 (0.097%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.097%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 19 (1.845%) Computer Science
2 16 (1.553%) Management Information System
3 12 (1.165%) Blackberry
4 11 (1.068%) Video Conferencing
5 10 (0.971%) SaaS
6 7 (0.680%) Firmware
7 6 (0.583%) SecurID
8 5 (0.485%) Open Source
9 4 (0.388%) CCTV
9 4 (0.388%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.194%) CMDB
10 2 (0.194%) IVR
11 1 (0.097%) CESG
11 1 (0.097%) Kindle
11 1 (0.097%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.097%) Data Integration
11 1 (0.097%) Mathematics
11 1 (0.097%) Statistics
11 1 (0.097%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 179 (17.38%) Windows
2 129 (12.52%) Linux
3 83 (8.058%) UNIX
4 56 (5.437%) Windows Server 2003
5 54 (5.243%) Windows Server 2008
6 17 (1.650%) Solaris
7 15 (1.456%) Windows XP
8 11 (1.068%) Windows Vista
9 8 (0.777%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.777%) Windows 2000
10 6 (0.583%) CentOS
10 6 (0.583%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.485%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.291%) Fedora
13 2 (0.194%) Windows 2000 Server
13 2 (0.194%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.097%) Debian
14 1 (0.097%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (15.34%) ITIL
2 99 (9.612%) Network Design
3 65 (6.311%) Network Management
4 58 (5.631%) Load Balancing
5 42 (4.078%) Project Management
6 37 (3.592%) Service Delivery
7 33 (3.204%) Problem Management
8 29 (2.816%) Incident Management
9 22 (2.136%) Network Architecture
10 21 (2.039%) Change Management
11 16 (1.553%) Service Management
12 12 (1.165%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (0.971%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (0.971%) Validation
13 10 (0.971%) CMMI
14 9 (0.874%) Migration
14 9 (0.874%) Information Security
15 8 (0.777%) Fault Management
15 8 (0.777%) Change Control
15 8 (0.777%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 44 (4.272%) SQL
2 9 (0.874%) Perl
3 8 (0.777%) PowerShell
4 7 (0.680%) Java
5 3 (0.291%) Bash shell
6 1 (0.097%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.097%) VBScript
6 1 (0.097%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.097%) C
6 1 (0.097%) Bourne shell
6 1 (0.097%) Korn
Qualifications
1 652 (63.30%) Cisco Certification
2 462 (44.85%) CCNP
3 398 (38.64%) CCNA
4 226 (21.94%) CCIE
5 155 (15.05%) JNCIA
6 147 (14.27%) CCIP
7 140 (13.59%) JNCIS
8 129 (12.52%) JNCIP
9 103 (10.00%) Security Cleared
10 97 (9.417%) JNCIE
11 94 (9.126%) CCSP
12 66 (6.408%) SC Cleared
13 62 (6.019%) CCSA
14 61 (5.922%) CCSE
15 54 (5.243%) Degree
16 42 (4.078%) Microsoft Certification
17 38 (3.689%) CCDA
17 38 (3.689%) CCDP
18 30 (2.913%) MCSE
19 13 (1.262%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.796%) SLA
2 16 (1.553%) ISO 9001
2 16 (1.553%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 14 (1.359%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.165%) QA
4 12 (1.165%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.165%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 62 (6.019%) Active Directory
2 52 (5.049%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.845%) Hyper-V
4 13 (1.262%) vSphere
5 10 (0.971%) ProxySG
6 7 (0.680%) Terminal Services
7 6 (0.583%) XenApp
8 4 (0.388%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 4 (0.388%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.194%) Squid
10 1 (0.097%) VMware ESX
10 1 (0.097%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.097%) NFS
10 1 (0.097%) NDS
10 1 (0.097%) Forefront TMG
10 1 (0.097%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.097%) NLBS
10 1 (0.097%) Snort
Systems Management
1 21 (2.039%) CiscoWorks
2 12 (1.165%) Cisco CUCM
3 11 (1.068%) SolarWinds Orion
4 10 (0.971%) Norton AntiVirus
5 9 (0.874%) Backup Exec
5 9 (0.874%) Netcool
6 5 (0.485%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.388%) Cacti
8 3 (0.291%) MIMEsweeper
8 3 (0.291%) Cisco IPCC
8 3 (0.291%) WSUS
9 2 (0.194%) Cisco UCCX
10 1 (0.097%) OpenView
10 1 (0.097%) SCCM
10 1 (0.097%) SCOM
10 1 (0.097%) WMI
Vendors
1 783 (76.02%) Cisco
2 379 (36.80%) Juniper
3 234 (22.72%) CheckPoint
4 134 (13.01%) F5
5 98 (9.515%) VMware
6 80 (7.767%) Microsoft
7 55 (5.340%) HP
8 50 (4.854%) Blue Coat
9 28 (2.718%) Mitel
10 25 (2.427%) BT
11 23 (2.233%) Twitter
12 21 (2.039%) Citrix
13 20 (1.942%) Nokia
14 18 (1.748%) Avaya
15 17 (1.650%) Riverbed
16 15 (1.456%) Red Hat
16 15 (1.456%) Nortel
16 15 (1.456%) ProCurve
17 14 (1.359%) SolarWinds
17 14 (1.359%) Symantec
Portsmouth, Hampshire
From a security perspective Cisco and Checkpoint are there main vendors... Security experience of Cisco is needed, any checkpoint is desirable along with any knowledge of MPLS and...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £35000 - £40000.00 per annum + Package
Posted: 24 May 2013
Woking, Surrey
You will utilise your Checkpoint and Cisco Network expertise to provide support, maintenance, development and upgrades to a variety of network systems; particularly Checkpoint Firewalls, Email gateways, Web...
Informatiq Consulting
Salary: £Excellent Salary + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Berkshire
Roc Search, Senior Network Engineer, Cisco, CCNP, VoIP, F5, Checkpoint Firewalls, Switches, Routers, Permanent, Berkshire, up to £45k) Roc Search are currently looking to recruit a Senior Network...
Roc Search
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Roc Search, Senior Network Engineer, Cisco, CCNP, VoIP, F5, Checkpoint Firewalls, Switches, Routers, Permanent, Berkshire, up to £45k) Roc Search are currently looking to recruit a Senior Network...
Roc Search
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Kent
Essential Skills: CCNA certified. Good wireless networking. Firewall / WAN management. Excellent understanding of TCP/IP Routing and Switching (OSPF, BGP, MPLS VPNs, IP Multicast) Desirable: CCNP certified... Knowledge...
ComputAppoint
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
You will be responsible for setting up new user accounts using Active directory and DNS, supporting the Windows and Exchange server... Key Skills: -Cisco -Active Directory / DNS -Routers /...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 19 May 2013
Middlesex
Roc Search seek an experienced Senior Network Engineer for our client, immediate opening for an expert CCIE qualified Network Engineer to join a progressive team focused on technical...
Roc Search
Salary: £60000 - £64000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Oxfordshire
A deep understanding of Cisco technologies, MPLS, LAN/WAN design, BGP, VoIP, and protocol analysis are highly desirable... * Provides integration and interaction of all supported systems including Cisco...
Roc Search
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Guildford, South East
Major Technology Consulting firm is looking for a highly experienced Cisco Network Engineer specialising in Cisco devices to join their Guildford based, UK Network Infrastructure Team, that has...
Hudson
Salary: £32000 - £50000 per annum + Package
Posted: 4 May 2013
Southampton, South East
Computer Futures are looking for a Network Operations Engineer to be based at one of out largeSouthamptonbased clients. You would be primarily responsible for layers 2 to 4...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Westerham, Kent
ADSL, with newer Technology such as fibre, bonded Ethernet and satellite... Current CCNA/CCNP certification. Demonstrable knowledge of Cisco switches and routers... Network and Equipment management: VLAN/VPN...
Onwave UK Ltd
Salary: £Neg
Posted: 13 May 2013
Kent
Network and Equipment management: VLAN/VPN configuration, access control, Firewalls and VPN, analysing networks, and core connectivity... Valid UK driver's license Windows Server 2003 & 2008; Exchange and/...
Roc Search
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + benefits, training
Posted: 24 May 2013
Southampton, South East
Work with Cisco, Juniper and Foundry switches/routers, Netscreen and Juniper firewalls, and Foundry load balancers on a daily basis. Participate in projects locally and remotely involving, but...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Crawley, West Sussex
A truly outstanding opportunity has arisen for a Cisco Network Infrastructure Engineer with one of the most well known brands in the UK... You will be Cisco through...
Connectus
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Knowledge of Cisco wireless products. Knowledge of Cisco Unified Communications products... Cisco ASA, Juniper Firewalls... CCNP level with strong routing and switching skills... CCVP... Cisco Works LMS/UOM.....
FT Select
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum plus oncall, overtime and benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Southampton, South East
Strong grasp of TCP/IP, routing, switching, cabling and internet protocols such as BGP, ISIS, OSPF. In depth knowledge of Linux/Unix and Windows environments. Advanced knowledge of...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
South East
ITIL Service Management * Experience and SLA Reporting experience... Skills/Technologies Involved The candidate should have a command of the following technologies: * BGP and OSPF routing * Multi-homed load...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Posted: 23 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
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: 20 May 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
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: 20 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Role: Maintaining and monitoring the Network, including firewalls, VPNs and Avaya based VoIP... Use of Incident and Change management tools (ServiceNOW) Cisco equipment configuration skills including ASA, and...
Coal IT Services
Salary: £45,000 per annum + 10% Bonus + 7% On-Call + Full Bens
Posted: 24 May 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Their flexible, integrated communications services encompass IP and mobile telephony, converged networks, unified communications, contact centres and document solutions. Due to rapid growth they're currently looking for...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Their flexible, integrated communications services encompass IP and mobile telephony, converged networks, unified communications, contact centres and document solutions. Due to rapid growth they're currently looking for...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Cisco IP Network Engineer - CCNP/ CCIP/CCIE to join their team. This is a great opportunity for a high calibre networking...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Firewall Engineer. Juniper/Checkpoint A superb position has become available for a 2nd Line NOC Engineer with one of Europe’s fastest growing and most respected Network & Telecommunications...
Esum
Salary: Unspecified £Excellent + Bonus + Training + Bens
Posted: 24 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
You will have experience of taking ownership of solutions and delivering large corporate, telco or banking networks, and will ideally be Cisco qualified... Key skills: Cisco Switches Routers...
CACI Network Services
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum Bonus, benefits and training
Posted: 22 May 2013