The first table below looks at the demand for Fast Ethernet skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Fast Ethernet over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Communications & Networking category.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fast Ethernet
Rank - 905 861
Permanent jobs citing Fast Ethernet 0 7 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK - 0.006% 0.002%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.033% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 3
Average salary - £25,550 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -17.58%
UK excluding London average salary - £25,550 £31,000
% change year-on-year
- -17.58%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
20799 21237 19051
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 19.37% 17.54% 15.65%
Number of salaries quoted 16821 17708 15778
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%

Fast Ethernet
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Fast Ethernet within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Fast Ethernet Jobs Demand Trend

Fast Ethernet
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Fast Ethernet within the UK.

Fast Ethernet Salary Trend

Fast Ethernet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Fast Ethernet also 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 that cited Fast Ethernet.

1 10 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 10 (100.00%) VPN
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
1 10 (100.00%) Network Design
2 9 (90.00%) Finance
3 6 (60.00%) Network Planning
3 6 (60.00%) IPX
3 6 (60.00%) IPX/SPX
3 6 (60.00%) PPP
3 6 (60.00%) POP3
3 6 (60.00%) SMTP
3 6 (60.00%) LDAP
3 6 (60.00%) IMAP
3 6 (60.00%) Cisco PIX
3 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (50.00%) Cacti
4 5 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
4 5 (50.00%) Windows
4 5 (50.00%) Solaris
4 5 (50.00%) Linux
4 5 (50.00%) CCSP
4 5 (50.00%) CCNP
4 5 (50.00%) OpenView
4 5 (50.00%) HP
4 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (40.00%) Juniper
5 4 (40.00%) MPLS
5 4 (40.00%) VRRP

Fast Ethernet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Fast Ethernet also 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 that cited Fast Ethernet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) VPN
1 10 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (60.00%) IMAP
2 6 (60.00%) Cisco PIX
2 6 (60.00%) LDAP
2 6 (60.00%) POP3
2 6 (60.00%) SMTP
2 6 (60.00%) IPX
2 6 (60.00%) IPX/SPX
2 6 (60.00%) PPP
3 5 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (40.00%) Junos
4 4 (40.00%) Gigabit Ethernet
4 4 (40.00%) VRRP
4 4 (40.00%) MPLS
5 2 (20.00%) OSPF
5 2 (20.00%) BGP-4
6 1 (10.00%) TELNET
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
1 5 (50.00%) Solaris
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Network Design
2 6 (60.00%) Network Planning
3 3 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) CCSP
1 5 (50.00%) CCNP
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (40.00%) JNCIE
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) OpenView
1 5 (50.00%) Cacti
1 5 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (50.00%) HP
3 4 (40.00%) Juniper