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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)
Rank 843 866 875
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +9
Permanent jobs citing Gigabit Ethernet 19 33 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.018% 0.027% 0.005%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.091% 0.156% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 12 29 5
Average salary £50,000 £57,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.04% +43.75%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -12.50%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
20871 21174 19668
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 19.31% 17.54% 15.81%
Number of salaries quoted 16834 17640 16289
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,127 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%

Gigabit Ethernet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gigabit Ethernet Jobs Demand Trend

Gigabit Ethernet
Salary Trend

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

Gigabit Ethernet Salary Trend

Gigabit Ethernet
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Gigabit Ethernet over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Gigabit Ethernet Salary Histogram

Gigabit Ethernet
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Gigabit Ethernet within the UK 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
England +11 19 £50,000 -13.04%
South East +13 10 £50,000 +14.94%
Berkshire - 7 £50,000 -
Reading - 7 £50,000 -
London +30 5 £40,000 -56.75%
City of London +1 4 £40,000 -20.00%
Surrey +7 3 - -
Guildford -3 3 - -
South West - 3 - -
Gloucestershire - 3 - -
Gloucester - 3 - -

Gigabit Ethernet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Gigabit 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 Gigabit Ethernet.

1 47 (100.00%) Ethernet
2 23 (48.94%) VPN
2 23 (48.94%) Juniper
2 23 (48.94%) MPLS
3 22 (46.81%) Cisco
4 21 (44.68%) OSPF
5 19 (40.43%) BGP
5 19 (40.43%) EIGRP
6 18 (38.30%) CheckPoint
6 18 (38.30%) SSL
6 18 (38.30%) WAN
6 18 (38.30%) TCP/IP
6 18 (38.30%) LAN
6 18 (38.30%) Blue Coat
6 18 (38.30%) Infoblox
6 18 (38.30%) Imperva
6 18 (38.30%) Network Management
7 17 (36.17%) VRRP
7 17 (36.17%) Firewall
8 16 (34.04%) Linux
8 16 (34.04%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
9 13 (27.66%) F5
9 13 (27.66%) Cisco Nexus
9 13 (27.66%) C
9 13 (27.66%) Manufacturing
10 12 (25.53%) Wireless
10 12 (25.53%) TACACS
10 12 (25.53%) DNS
10 12 (25.53%) CiscoWorks
10 12 (25.53%) Extranet

Gigabit Ethernet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Gigabit 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 Gigabit Ethernet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 7 (14.89%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (100.00%) Ethernet
2 23 (48.94%) VPN
2 23 (48.94%) MPLS
3 21 (44.68%) OSPF
4 19 (40.43%) BGP
4 19 (40.43%) EIGRP
5 18 (38.30%) SSL
5 18 (38.30%) WAN
5 18 (38.30%) TCP/IP
5 18 (38.30%) LAN
6 17 (36.17%) VRRP
6 17 (36.17%) Firewall
7 13 (27.66%) Cisco Nexus
8 12 (25.53%) Wireless
8 12 (25.53%) TACACS
8 12 (25.53%) DNS
8 12 (25.53%) Extranet
8 12 (25.53%) HSRP
8 12 (25.53%) FWSM
8 12 (25.53%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.255%) HBase
1 2 (4.255%) Hadoop
1 2 (4.255%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.255%) RDBMS
1 2 (4.255%) MySQL
General
1 13 (27.66%) Manufacturing
2 8 (17.02%) Electronics
3 7 (14.89%) Telecoms
3 7 (14.89%) Finance
4 5 (10.64%) Banking
5 4 (8.511%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (44.68%) Network Engineer
2 18 (38.30%) Support Engineer
3 17 (36.17%) Network Support
3 17 (36.17%) Network Support Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Hardware Engineer
5 7 (14.89%) Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Digital Hardware Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Software Engineer
7 4 (8.511%) Cisco Support
7 4 (8.511%) Cisco Support Engineer
7 4 (8.511%) Cisco Engineer
8 3 (6.383%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 2 (4.255%) Junior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.255%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 2 (4.255%) Linux Administrator
9 2 (4.255%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 2 (4.255%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.255%) Systems Administrator
9 2 (4.255%) 2nd Line Support
9 2 (4.255%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.04%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 8 (17.02%) VHDL
3 7 (14.89%) ASIC
3 7 (14.89%) CUDA
4 4 (8.511%) Device Driver
5 3 (6.383%) Open Source
6 2 (4.255%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (38.30%) Network Management
2 9 (19.15%) Network Design
3 7 (14.89%) Project Management
4 6 (12.77%) Multithreading
4 6 (12.77%) Load Balancing
5 5 (10.64%) Service Delivery
6 3 (6.383%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (4.255%) Software Testing
7 2 (4.255%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (4.255%) Configuration Management
8 1 (2.128%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.66%) C
2 7 (14.89%) C++
3 2 (4.255%) Tcl
3 2 (4.255%) Java
3 2 (4.255%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (14.89%) CCNP
1 7 (14.89%) CCNA
2 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) JNCIE
4 1 (2.128%) Degree
4 1 (2.128%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.255%) QA
System Software
1 12 (25.53%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) CiscoWorks
2 2 (4.255%) FortiGate
2 2 (4.255%) Puppet
2 2 (4.255%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 23 (48.94%) Juniper
2 22 (46.81%) Cisco
3 18 (38.30%) CheckPoint
3 18 (38.30%) Blue Coat
3 18 (38.30%) Infoblox
3 18 (38.30%) Imperva
4 13 (27.66%) F5
5 12 (25.53%) McAfee
6 8 (17.02%) Intel
7 7 (14.89%) Xilinx
7 7 (14.89%) Altera
8 5 (10.64%) BT
9 1 (2.128%) EMC
9 1 (2.128%) Twitter
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