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This section looks at the demand for Network Design skills across the UK with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Design over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkNetwork Design
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank386345
Rank change on same period last yearDown-41
Matching permanent IT job ads7781175
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.411 %0.481 %
As % of the category below0.706 %0.863 %
Salaries quoted621967
Average minimum salary£45,696£45,530
Average salary£49,513£49,242
% change on same period last year+0.55 %
Average maximum salary£53,331£52,954
UK excluding London average salary£45,419£45,017
% change on same period last year+0.89 %
IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
UK
Matching permanent IT job ads110192136125
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled58.17 %55.74 %
Salaries quoted90162107360
Average minimum salary£43,035£44,994
Average salary£47,108£49,098
% change on same period last year-4.05 %
Average maximum salary£51,182£53,203
UK excluding London average salary£42,567£44,524
% change on same period last year-4.39 %

Network Design
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Network Design within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Network Design Demand Trend

Network Design
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Network Design within the UK.

Network Design Salary Trend

Network Design
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Network Design over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 within the UK.

Network Design Salary Histogram

Network Design
Top 30 Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Design within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-57731£49,754+0.80 %
LondonDown-21329£54,685-1.68 %
South EastDown-14209£47,892-5.33 %
City of LondonDown-2487£58,112+4.86 %
East of EnglandDown-1064£43,716+11.90 %
BerkshireDown-4660£51,191-0.86 %
HertfordshireUp+545£48,038+11.07 %
West MidlandsDown-5143£45,220+30.15 %
HampshireUp+1941£42,800-9.89 %
OxfordshireUp+329£38,537-16.50 %
South WestUp+129£42,931-19.92 %
SurreyUp+1827£51,944-0.43 %
South WalesUp+3422£45,139+54.76 %
WalesUp+3522£45,139+54.76 %
BuckinghamshireUp+1521£52,095-2.62 %
NewportNew entry-21£44,048-
North WestDown-1020£39,909-8.77 %
OxfordUp+719£36,053-19.88 %
HerefordshireDown-1218£48,533+23.11 %
YorkshireDown-5016£36,667-8.39 %
ManchesterUp+2116£39,857-3.11 %
BasingstokeDown-2516£41,909-11.18 %
ReadingDown-815£46,523-0.66 %
PaddingtonNew entry-15£35,667-
CardiffUp+3014£47,500+72.72 %
BristolDown-412£42,708+2.09 %
East MidlandsUp+412£32,906-1.57 %
West YorkshireDown-1112£36,042-19.22 %
ScotlandUp+811£51,071+20.93 %
BorehamwoodNo change011£38,938+14.89 %

Network Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs within the UK citing Network Design 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 Network Design.

11043 (62.23 %)Cisco
2805 (48.03 %)Cisco Certification
3566 (33.77 %)WAN
4532 (31.74 %)LAN
5494 (29.47 %)CCNP
6470 (28.04 %)Firewall
7407 (24.28 %)MPLS
8341 (20.35 %)VPN
9327 (19.51 %)CCIE
10308 (18.38 %)BGP
11302 (18.02 %)Telecoms
12300 (17.90 %)CCNA
13293 (17.48 %)OSPF
14282 (16.83 %)Windows
15260 (15.51 %)Finance
16259 (15.45 %)TCP/IP
17220 (13.13 %)VoIP
18212 (12.65 %)CheckPoint
19189 (11.28 %)Microsoft
20180 (10.74 %)CCDP
21169 (10.08 %)UNIX
22168 (10.02 %)Project Management
23152 (9.069 %)Juniper
24150 (8.950 %)Internet
25147 (8.771 %)Linux
25147 (8.771 %)Active Directory
25147 (8.771 %)Degree
26145 (8.652 %)CCIP
27144 (8.592 %)Network Security
28135 (8.055 %)Wireless

Network Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs within the UK citing Network Design 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 Network Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
136 (2.148 %)MAPI
217 (1.014 %)J2EE
37 (0.418 %)CSS
46 (0.358 %)XML
55 (0.298 %)OpenGL
55 (0.298 %)Middleware
55 (0.298 %)HTML
64 (0.239 %)WAP
64 (0.239 %)ASP
72 (0.119 %)WebServices
72 (0.119 %)XSLT
72 (0.119 %)Application Packaging
81 (0.060 %)Fusebox
81 (0.060 %)ODBC
81 (0.060 %)CORBA
81 (0.060 %)XHTML
81 (0.060 %)ADSI
81 (0.060 %)CGI
81 (0.060 %)MVC
81 (0.060 %)Ruby on Rails
IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
198 (5.847 %)Exchange Server 2003
297 (5.788 %)MS Exchange
342 (2.506 %)Exchange Server 2000
424 (1.432 %)Exchange Server 2007
519 (1.134 %)Lotus Notes
613 (0.776 %)Apache
711 (0.656 %)IIS
89 (0.537 %)SharePoint
98 (0.477 %)Tomcat
107 (0.418 %)JBoss
107 (0.418 %)Lotus Domino
113 (0.179 %)MTS
121 (0.060 %)Office Communications Server
121 (0.060 %)Exchange Server 5.5
IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
190 (5.370 %)MS Excel
216 (0.955 %)MS Visio
36 (0.358 %)MS Office
45 (0.298 %)AutoCAD
53 (0.179 %)Adobe Illustrator
53 (0.179 %)Fireworks
53 (0.179 %)Photoshop
62 (0.119 %)MS Project
71 (0.060 %)Spreadsheet
IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
15 (0.298 %)Summit
23 (0.179 %)Oracle EBS
IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1566 (33.77 %)WAN
2532 (31.74 %)LAN
3470 (28.04 %)Firewall
4407 (24.28 %)MPLS
5341 (20.35 %)VPN
6308 (18.38 %)BGP
7293 (17.48 %)OSPF
8259 (15.45 %)TCP/IP
9220 (13.13 %)VoIP
10150 (8.950 %)Internet
11144 (8.592 %)Network Security
12135 (8.055 %)Wireless
13128 (7.637 %)DNS
14101 (6.026 %)EIGRP
1595 (5.668 %)Cisco PIX
1691 (5.430 %)IPsec
1782 (4.893 %)Ethernet
1876 (4.535 %)Cisco IOS
1974 (4.415 %)ATM
2072 (4.296 %)VLAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
148 (2.864 %)SQL Server
216 (0.955 %)MySQL
39 (0.537 %)GIS
47 (0.418 %)PostgreSQL
53 (0.179 %)SQL Server 2000
61 (0.060 %)MS Access
61 (0.060 %)Data Mining
IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
11 (0.060 %)Synon
IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1302 (18.02 %)Telecoms
2260 (15.51 %)Finance
3106 (6.325 %)Banking
476 (4.535 %)Health
567 (3.998 %)Pensions
666 (3.938 %)Education
739 (2.327 %)Retail
838 (2.267 %)Auditing
935 (2.088 %)Legal
1031 (1.850 %)Government
1123 (1.372 %)Insurance
1221 (1.253 %)Investment Banking
1317 (1.014 %)Financial Institution
1415 (0.895 %)Aerospace
1415 (0.895 %)Military
1511 (0.656 %)Multimedia
1610 (0.597 %)Automotive
178 (0.477 %)Electronics
178 (0.477 %)Electric
186 (0.358 %)Advertising
IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1456 (27.21 %)Network Engineer
2268 (15.99 %)Design Engineer
3241 (14.38 %)Consultant
4218 (13.01 %)Network Design Engineer
5165 (9.845 %)Architect
6142 (8.473 %)Analyst
7139 (8.294 %)Cisco Engineer
8110 (6.563 %)Network Analyst
995 (5.668 %)Senior Network Engineer
1088 (5.251 %)Network Support
1181 (4.833 %)Network Consultant
1269 (4.117 %)Cisco Network Engineer
1269 (4.117 %)Network Architect
1364 (3.819 %)Support Engineer
1454 (3.222 %)Network Designer
1550 (2.983 %)Presales Consultant
1649 (2.924 %)Network Manager
1745 (2.685 %)Cisco Support
1842 (2.506 %)Sales Consultant
1941 (2.446 %)IT Manager
IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
117 (1.014 %)Mainframe
214 (0.835 %)Data Extraction
313 (0.776 %)Client/Server
411 (0.656 %)Replication
510 (0.597 %)Thin Client
510 (0.597 %)Fat Client
510 (0.597 %)Computer Science
68 (0.477 %)Physics
68 (0.477 %)Derivative
68 (0.477 %)Firmware
77 (0.418 %)IPTV
77 (0.418 %)IBM Mainframe
85 (0.298 %)Social Network
85 (0.298 %)PKI
85 (0.298 %)Blackberry
94 (0.239 %)Web 2.0
94 (0.239 %)CESG
103 (0.179 %)CCTV
103 (0.179 %)Clustering
112 (0.119 %)CLARiiON
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1282 (16.83 %)Windows
2169 (10.08 %)UNIX
3147 (8.771 %)Linux
463 (3.759 %)Windows 2000
558 (3.461 %)Windows Server 2003
653 (3.162 %)Solaris
79 (0.537 %)Windows NT
88 (0.477 %)FreeBSD
96 (0.358 %)Windows XP
104 (0.239 %)HPUX
113 (0.179 %)AIX
122 (0.119 %)Fedora
122 (0.119 %)SUSE
131 (0.060 %)NetBSD
131 (0.060 %)Tru64
131 (0.060 %)VMS
131 (0.060 %)NetWare
IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1168 (10.02 %)Project Management
282 (4.893 %)ITIL
363 (3.759 %)Security Cleared
455 (3.282 %)Information Security
549 (2.924 %)Penetration Testing
643 (2.566 %)Service Management
740 (2.387 %)Benchmarking
740 (2.387 %)CMMI
832 (1.909 %)Load Balancing
927 (1.611 %)Disaster Recovery
1021 (1.253 %)Service Delivery
1021 (1.253 %)Migration
1120 (1.193 %)Validation
1219 (1.134 %)Data Protection
1318 (1.074 %)PRINCE2
1417 (1.014 %)Network Planning
1417 (1.014 %)Incident Management
1417 (1.014 %)Enterprise Architecture
1515 (0.895 %)SC Cleared
1613 (0.776 %)Release Management
IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
146 (2.745 %)SQL
224 (1.432 %)Perl
322 (1.313 %)C
412 (0.716 %)PHP
511 (0.656 %)Java
610 (0.597 %)Shell Script
79 (0.537 %)C++
83 (0.179 %)Embedded C
83 (0.179 %)VBScript
83 (0.179 %)VB
92 (0.119 %)Python
101 (0.060 %)Ruby
101 (0.060 %)JavaScript
101 (0.060 %)C#
101 (0.060 %)Transact-SQL
IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1805 (48.03 %)Cisco Certification
2494 (29.47 %)CCNP
3327 (19.51 %)CCIE
4300 (17.90 %)CCNA
5180 (10.74 %)CCDP
6147 (8.771 %)Degree
7145 (8.652 %)CCIP
8103 (6.146 %)Microsoft Certification
997 (5.788 %)MCSE
1046 (2.745 %)CCSP
1145 (2.685 %)CCDA
1233 (1.969 %)CCVP
1319 (1.134 %)CCSE
1319 (1.134 %)JNCIP
1418 (1.074 %)JNCIA
1418 (1.074 %)MCP
1514 (0.835 %)JNCIE
1613 (0.776 %)MCSA
1711 (0.656 %)CISSP
1810 (0.597 %)ITIL Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
142 (2.506 %)ISO27001
241 (2.446 %)ISO17799
320 (1.193 %)SLA
46 (0.358 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
55 (0.298 %)QA
64 (0.239 %)BS7799
71 (0.060 %)CESG Infosec
IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1147 (8.771 %)Active Directory
240 (2.387 %)NFS
315 (0.895 %)VMware Infrastructure
315 (0.895 %)Terminal Server
411 (0.656 %)ISA Server
57 (0.418 %)Terminal Services
64 (0.239 %)Backup Exec
73 (0.179 %)VMware ESX
82 (0.119 %)Snort
91 (0.060 %)Novell eDirectory
91 (0.060 %)Citrix Presentation Server
IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
151 (3.043 %)CiscoWorks
215 (0.895 %)OpenView
37 (0.418 %)Nagios
46 (0.358 %)Netcool
55 (0.298 %)Legato
63 (0.179 %)NNM
63 (0.179 %)Netcool/Proviso
71 (0.060 %)WSUS
71 (0.060 %)MOM
71 (0.060 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
71 (0.060 %)Novell Identity Manager
71 (0.060 %)DirXML
71 (0.060 %)MIIS
IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
11043 (62.23 %)Cisco
2212 (12.65 %)CheckPoint
3189 (11.28 %)Microsoft
4152 (9.069 %)Juniper
582 (4.893 %)Nortel
650 (2.983 %)Citrix
749 (2.924 %)VMware
846 (2.745 %)Nokia
931 (1.850 %)HP
1030 (1.790 %)Redback
1129 (1.730 %)Alcatel
1223 (1.372 %)IBM
1223 (1.372 %)Red Hat
1319 (1.134 %)Lotus
1418 (1.074 %)EMC
1516 (0.955 %)Symantec
1615 (0.895 %)BT
1615 (0.895 %)Lucent
1714 (0.835 %)Oracle
1812 (0.716 %)CA
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