Ethernet
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Ethernet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Ethernet over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 632 712 884
Rank change year-on-year +80 +172 -277
Permanent jobs citing Ethernet 266 264 357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.96% 1.64% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 211 172 269
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,375 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £105,000 £86,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £37,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +32.00% -25.00% -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Ethernet is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

Ethernet
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ethernet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ethernet in the UK

Ethernet
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ethernet.

Salary trend for Ethernet in the UK

Ethernet
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ethernet over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Ethernet in the UK

Ethernet
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ethernet within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +71 228 £49,500 +32.00% 168
England +132 227 £45,000 -5.26% 167
Work from Home +107 110 £57,500 -28.13% 45
North of England +72 54 £40,000 +6.67% 23
North West +46 45 £40,000 -15.79% 13
Midlands +9 39 £45,000 +38.46% 41
East of England +42 37 £55,000 +41.94% 27
South East 0 35 £50,000 +58.73% 47
West Midlands +22 34 £45,000 +38.46% 23
London +122 33 £70,000 -6.67% 17
South West +5 26 £40,000 -16.67% 13
Scotland -41 26 £60,000 +50.00% 16
Wales - 11 £50,000 - 3
Yorkshire +88 9 £50,000 +56.25% 5
East Midlands - 5 £52,500 - 18

Ethernet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (5.64%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.88%) WinCC
3 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (4.89%) OrCAD
2 10 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (3.01%) Simulink
4 6 (2.26%) CANalyzer
5 5 (1.88%) SOLIDWORKS
6 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (1.50%) Windchill
7 3 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.75%) Abaqus
8 2 (0.75%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (9.77%) Azure
2 21 (7.89%) AWS
2 21 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (5.64%) Entra ID
4 7 (2.63%) GCP
5 5 (1.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (1.88%) Google Workspace
5 5 (1.88%) OneDrive
6 2 (0.75%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (0.75%) GitHub
6 2 (0.75%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 83 (31.20%) TCP/IP
2 78 (29.32%) Wi-Fi
3 67 (25.19%) WAN
3 67 (25.19%) Wireless
4 65 (24.44%) LAN
5 50 (18.80%) MPLS
6 48 (18.05%) OSPF
7 47 (17.67%) BGP
7 47 (17.67%) RS-232
8 42 (15.79%) DHCP
9 40 (15.04%) Firewall
10 34 (12.78%) Internet
11 28 (10.53%) VLAN
12 25 (9.40%) DSL
13 20 (7.52%) VPN
14 16 (6.02%) DNS
14 16 (6.02%) SD-WAN
15 11 (4.14%) Profibus
16 10 (3.76%) SMTP
16 10 (3.76%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.26%) MySQL
2 4 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.75%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.38%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 23 (8.65%) Git
2 10 (3.76%) LabVIEW
3 8 (3.01%) CANoe
4 7 (2.63%) Subversion
5 4 (1.50%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.13%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.13%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.13%) JIRA
6 3 (1.13%) Rational Rhapsody
6 3 (1.13%) Rational Team Concert
7 2 (0.75%) PetaLinux
8 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (23.68%) Manufacturing
2 61 (22.93%) Electronics
2 61 (22.93%) Social Skills
3 34 (12.78%) Finance
4 33 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.89%) Automotive
6 15 (5.64%) Telecoms
7 14 (5.26%) Aerospace
8 11 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (3.76%) Military
10 9 (3.38%) Marketing
10 9 (3.38%) Retail
11 8 (3.01%) Public Sector
12 7 (2.63%) Aviation
12 7 (2.63%) Law
12 7 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.88%) Banking
13 5 (1.88%) Multimedia
14 4 (1.50%) Legal
15 2 (0.75%) Billing
Job Titles
1 65 (24.44%) Software Engineer
2 59 (22.18%) Senior
3 55 (20.68%) Network Engineer
4 43 (16.17%) Embedded Engineer
5 38 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 27 (10.15%) Senior Software Engineer
7 26 (9.77%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 25 (9.40%) Support Engineer
9 22 (8.27%) Hardware Engineer
9 22 (8.27%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 20 (7.52%) IP Engineer
11 19 (7.14%) IP Network Engineer
12 16 (6.02%) Cisco Engineer
12 16 (6.02%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 16 (6.02%) Juniper Engineer
12 16 (6.02%) Technical Engineer
13 15 (5.64%) Network Support
13 15 (5.64%) Technical Support
13 15 (5.64%) Technical Support Engineer
14 14 (5.26%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.39%) Yocto
2 13 (4.89%) .NET
3 6 (2.26%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.88%) Qt
5 4 (1.50%) ASP.NET Web API
5 4 (1.50%) Flash
5 4 (1.50%) WCF
5 4 (1.50%) Web Services
5 4 (1.50%) WinForms
6 3 (1.13%) POSIX
7 2 (0.75%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.75%) CSS
7 2 (0.75%) DPDK
7 2 (0.75%) eBPF
7 2 (0.75%) HTML
7 2 (0.75%) HTML5
7 2 (0.75%) NETCONF
7 2 (0.75%) OpenMP
7 2 (0.75%) RESTCONF
8 1 (0.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (9.77%) PCIe
3 25 (9.40%) FPGA
4 18 (6.77%) Embedded Systems
5 17 (6.39%) Data Centre
6 15 (5.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (5.26%) Algorithms
7 14 (5.26%) Device Driver
7 14 (5.26%) Driving Licence
8 12 (4.51%) Analogue Electronics
9 9 (3.38%) CCTV
9 9 (3.38%) Video Conferencing
10 8 (3.01%) IoT
10 8 (3.01%) VHDL
11 7 (2.63%) Infotainment
11 7 (2.63%) Robotics
12 6 (2.26%) SCADA
13 5 (1.88%) Smartphone
14 4 (1.50%) CAN bus
14 4 (1.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 59 (22.18%) Linux
2 28 (10.53%) Windows
3 19 (7.14%) VyOS
4 18 (6.77%) Embedded Linux
5 11 (4.14%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.26%) Android
6 6 (2.26%) FreeRTOS
6 6 (2.26%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.50%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.50%) VxWorks
9 3 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.75%) Solaris
10 2 (0.75%) SUSE
10 2 (0.75%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.38%) Debian
11 1 (0.38%) Fedora
11 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.38%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (33.83%) Software Engineering
2 61 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (15.04%) Customer Service
4 34 (12.78%) Cybersecurity
5 28 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 21 (7.89%) Validation
7 17 (6.39%) Embedded Software Development
8 16 (6.02%) Customer Requirements
8 16 (6.02%) Mentoring
8 16 (6.02%) Software Testing
9 15 (5.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (5.64%) Schematic Capture
10 14 (5.26%) Design for Manufacturing
10 14 (5.26%) OOD
11 13 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (4.89%) Project Management
11 13 (4.89%) Software Architecture
11 13 (4.89%) UML
12 12 (4.51%) Business Development
12 12 (4.51%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 71 (26.69%) C
2 32 (12.03%) Python
3 27 (10.15%) Embedded C
4 21 (7.89%) C#
5 19 (7.14%) C++
6 13 (4.89%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.76%) SQL
8 8 (3.01%) Bash
8 8 (3.01%) MATLAB
9 7 (2.63%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.26%) Java
11 5 (1.88%) Embedded C++
12 3 (1.13%) Ada
13 2 (0.75%) Assembly Language
13 2 (0.75%) Go
13 2 (0.75%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.75%) Perl
13 2 (0.75%) PHP
13 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 89 (33.46%) Degree
2 35 (13.16%) Cisco Certification
3 30 (11.28%) Security Cleared
4 28 (10.53%) JNCIA
5 27 (10.15%) CCNA
6 13 (4.89%) HNC
6 13 (4.89%) SC Cleared
7 11 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (3.38%) CCNP
9 8 (3.01%) Master's Degree
10 7 (2.63%) HND
10 7 (2.63%) JNCIP
11 6 (2.26%) CCDP
12 4 (1.50%) BICSI RCDD
12 4 (1.50%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.13%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.38%) CCSP
14 1 (0.38%) MCAD
14 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.76%) GDPR
1 10 (3.76%) ISO 26262
2 8 (3.01%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 8 (3.01%) ISO 13485
2 8 (3.01%) JTAG
3 4 (1.50%) AUTOSAR
3 4 (1.50%) MISRA
3 4 (1.50%) PMO
4 3 (1.13%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.13%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (17.67%) Firmware
2 14 (5.26%) Embedded Firmware
3 10 (3.76%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (2.26%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.75%) Lustre
6 2 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.50%) FortiGate
2 4 (1.50%) Functional Safety
3 3 (1.13%) Autotask
3 3 (1.13%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (1.13%) SCCM
3 3 (1.13%) Wonderware InTouch
4 2 (0.75%) Nagios
4 2 (0.75%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.38%) Ansible
5 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 62 (23.31%) Cisco
2 44 (16.54%) Juniper
3 33 (12.41%) Microsoft
4 32 (12.03%) Nokia
5 30 (11.28%) Fortinet
6 27 (10.15%) Ruckus Wireless
7 19 (7.14%) Vyatta
8 13 (4.89%) EMC
9 12 (4.51%) Meraki
10 10 (3.76%) Siemens
11 9 (3.38%) VMware
12 8 (3.01%) HP
12 8 (3.01%) SAP
12 8 (3.01%) SolarWinds
13 7 (2.63%) Aruba
13 7 (2.63%) QNX
14 6 (2.26%) Apple
14 6 (2.26%) CheckPoint
14 6 (2.26%) Intel
14 6 (2.26%) Xilinx