Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table looks at the demand for the Network Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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 2 July 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

LinkNetwork Engineer
Location
3 months to
2 Jul 2009
Same period last year
Rank182173
Rank change on the same period last yearDown-9
Matching permanent IT job ads7482212
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.097 %1.122 %
As % of the Job Titles category1.208 %1.224 %
Salaries quoted6191839
Average salary£35,000£37,500
Average salary % change on the same period last year-6.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£57,500£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£33,500£35,000
% change on same period last year-4.280 %
IT Job Market, Job TitlesAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
61909180772
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK90.82 %91.73 %
Salaries quoted51482148363
Average salary£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000

Network Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Network Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Network Engineer Demand Trend

Network Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Network Engineer Salary Trend

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Network Engineer over the 3 months to 2 July 2009 within the UK.

Network Engineer Salary Histogram

Network Engineer
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 2 July 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-10704£35,000-6.66 %
LondonUp+11283£40,000-5.88 %
South EastDown-15197£35,000-6.66 %
West MidlandsUp+4977£33,000+6.45 %
City of LondonUp+766£45,000-5.26 %
BerkshireUp+1661£35,000-
East of EnglandUp+3344£32,000-8.57 %
North WestUp+2938£29,000+1.75 %
ReadingUp+2636£35,000-
SurreyUp+3334£35,500-8.97 %
HampshireDown-1134£40,000+5.26 %
HertfordshireUp+4229£26,000-25.71 %
ManchesterUp+3728£25,000-13.79 %
South WestDown-1025£32,500-
ScotlandUp+5722£32,500-18.75 %
SolihullUp+4021£21,000-30.00 %
BirminghamUp+3421£30,000-6.25 %
KentUp+4520£34,000-6.20 %
North EastUp+4619£30,000+20.00 %
Tyne and WearUp+3117£28,000+12.00 %
South WalesUp+3716£37,500+11.11 %
WalesUp+3416£37,500+33.92 %
EdinburghUp+5914£32,500-27.77 %
StainesUp+4013£45,000+20.00 %
YorkshireUp+2413£28,500-12.30 %
Newcastle Upon TyneUp+2013£26,500-19.69 %
StaffordshireUp+2112£33,000+32.00 %
NewportUp+1312£27,500-21.42 %
East MidlandsUp+3511£32,500+4.83 %
BuckinghamshireUp+511£35,000-12.50 %

Network Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 July 2009, IT jobs within the UK 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.

11193 (69.52 %)Cisco
2934 (54.43 %)Cisco Certification
3710 (41.38 %)Firewall
4652 (38.00 %)LAN
5618 (36.01 %)WAN
6589 (34.32 %)CCNA
7588 (34.27 %)CCNP
8512 (29.84 %)Windows
9368 (21.45 %)VPN
10364 (21.21 %)CheckPoint
11347 (20.22 %)TCP/IP
12306 (17.83 %)Network Security
13301 (17.54 %)Windows Server 2003
14275 (16.03 %)BGP
15272 (15.85 %)Cisco PIX
16264 (15.38 %)MPLS
17258 (15.03 %)Microsoft
18232 (13.52 %)Network Design
19222 (12.94 %)OSPF
20213 (12.41 %)DNS
21208 (12.12 %)VoIP
22207 (12.06 %)Active Directory
23201 (11.71 %)Finance
24196 (11.42 %)Microsoft Certification
25180 (10.49 %)MCSE
26167 (9.732 %)Telecoms
27166 (9.674 %)MS Excel
28164 (9.557 %)Linux
29163 (9.499 %)Juniper
30152 (8.858 %)MS Exchange

Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 July 2009, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
118 (1.049 %)HTML
214 (0.816 %)CGI
38 (0.466 %)Middleware
47 (0.408 %)CSS
55 (0.291 %)XML
64 (0.233 %)WebServices
73 (0.175 %)WebSphere
82 (0.117 %)ADSI
82 (0.117 %)XSLT
82 (0.117 %)ODBC
82 (0.117 %)Flash
82 (0.117 %)WMI
91 (0.058 %)Application Packaging
91 (0.058 %)DHTML
91 (0.058 %).NET
91 (0.058 %)VXML
IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1152 (8.858 %)MS Exchange
281 (4.720 %)Exchange Server 2003
339 (2.273 %)Exchange Server 2007
431 (1.807 %)SharePoint
431 (1.807 %)IIS
520 (1.166 %)Exchange Server 2000
614 (0.816 %)Lotus Notes
710 (0.583 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
85 (0.291 %)Live Communications Server
94 (0.233 %)WebLogic
94 (0.233 %)Apache
103 (0.175 %)Tomcat
112 (0.117 %)Lotus Domino
112 (0.117 %)Exchange Server 5.5
112 (0.117 %)CMS
121 (0.058 %)SharePoint Server 2007
121 (0.058 %)SAS
121 (0.058 %)ColdFusion
121 (0.058 %)GroupWise
IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1166 (9.674 %)MS Excel
273 (4.254 %)MS Office
319 (1.107 %)MS Visio
42 (0.117 %)Photoshop
42 (0.117 %)MS PowerPoint
51 (0.058 %)MS Project
IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
17 (0.408 %)Microsoft CRM
22 (0.117 %)assyst
31 (0.058 %)AWD
31 (0.058 %)Summit
31 (0.058 %)Great Plains
31 (0.058 %)Navision
IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1710 (41.38 %)Firewall
2652 (38.00 %)LAN
3618 (36.01 %)WAN
4368 (21.45 %)VPN
5347 (20.22 %)TCP/IP
6306 (17.83 %)Network Security
7275 (16.03 %)BGP
8272 (15.85 %)Cisco PIX
9264 (15.38 %)MPLS
10222 (12.94 %)OSPF
11213 (12.41 %)DNS
12208 (12.12 %)VoIP
13134 (7.809 %)Cisco ASA
14116 (6.760 %)EIGRP
15114 (6.643 %)Wireless
16110 (6.410 %)Internet
17105 (6.119 %)IPsec
1893 (5.420 %)Ethernet
1985 (4.953 %)DHCP
2080 (4.662 %)VLAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
143 (2.506 %)SQL Server
215 (0.874 %)SQL Server 2005
37 (0.408 %)BusinessObjects
43 (0.175 %)PostgreSQL
43 (0.175 %)MySQL
52 (0.117 %)SQL Server 2000
52 (0.117 %)GIS
61 (0.058 %)BusinessObjects XI
61 (0.058 %)SQL Server 2008
61 (0.058 %)SQL Server 7
61 (0.058 %)FileMaker
IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
12 (0.117 %)TestDirector
12 (0.117 %)StarTeam
21 (0.058 %)Visual Studio
21 (0.058 %)MSI
21 (0.058 %)LoadRunner
21 (0.058 %)WinRunner
IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1201 (11.71 %)Finance
2167 (9.732 %)Telecoms
391 (5.303 %)Pensions
483 (4.837 %)Health
543 (2.506 %)Aerospace
641 (2.389 %)Banking
733 (1.923 %)Government
831 (1.807 %)Insurance
930 (1.748 %)Education
1028 (1.632 %)Games
1124 (1.399 %)Back Office
1218 (1.049 %)Financial Institution
1316 (0.932 %)Retail
1413 (0.758 %)Electric
1512 (0.699 %)Legal
1512 (0.699 %)Military
169 (0.524 %)Investment Banking
178 (0.466 %)Manufacturing
178 (0.466 %)Online Games
187 (0.408 %)Construction
IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
133 (1.923 %)Client/Server
225 (1.457 %)Blackberry
318 (1.049 %)Video Conferencing
417 (0.991 %)Management Information System
513 (0.758 %)German Language
611 (0.641 %)PKI
611 (0.641 %)CCTV
79 (0.524 %)Clustering
79 (0.524 %)NHS
88 (0.466 %)French Language
97 (0.408 %)Spanish Language
97 (0.408 %)IPTV
106 (0.350 %)Thin Client
106 (0.350 %)Statistics
106 (0.350 %)Computer Science
106 (0.350 %)Fat Client
115 (0.291 %)Italian Language
115 (0.291 %)Spread Betting
115 (0.291 %)SecurID
115 (0.291 %)Derivative
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1512 (29.84 %)Windows
2301 (17.54 %)Windows Server 2003
3164 (9.557 %)Linux
4129 (7.517 %)UNIX
588 (5.128 %)Windows 2000
673 (4.254 %)Windows 2000 Server
772 (4.196 %)Windows XP
836 (2.098 %)Windows Server 2008
921 (1.224 %)Solaris
1020 (1.166 %)Windows NT
1020 (1.166 %)Windows Vista
1117 (0.991 %)AIX
127 (0.408 %)Red Hat Linux
127 (0.408 %)Mac OS
134 (0.233 %)Debian
143 (0.175 %)CentOS
143 (0.175 %)Mac OS X
152 (0.117 %)NetWare
152 (0.117 %)FreeBSD
152 (0.117 %)SUSE
IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1232 (13.52 %)Network Design
2104 (6.061 %)ITIL
369 (4.021 %)Load Balancing
451 (2.972 %)Project Management
528 (1.632 %)Change Management
625 (1.457 %)Service Delivery
723 (1.340 %)Time Management
822 (1.282 %)Fault Management
921 (1.224 %)Configuration Management
1018 (1.049 %)Migration
1114 (0.816 %)RUP
1114 (0.816 %)Agile Software Development
1114 (0.816 %)Disaster Recovery
1114 (0.816 %)Validation
1213 (0.758 %)Problem Management
1311 (0.641 %)Performance Management
1311 (0.641 %)Asset Management
1410 (0.583 %)Service Management
159 (0.524 %)CRM
168 (0.466 %)OO
IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
172 (4.196 %)C
258 (3.380 %)SQL
340 (2.331 %)Perl
415 (0.874 %)Tcl
514 (0.816 %)JavaScript
612 (0.699 %)C++
78 (0.466 %)PHP
85 (0.291 %)JCL
94 (0.233 %)Shell Script
94 (0.233 %)VB
102 (0.117 %)Java
111 (0.058 %)Ruby
111 (0.058 %)Python
111 (0.058 %)C#
111 (0.058 %)Embedded C
111 (0.058 %)Embedded C++
IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1934 (54.43 %)Cisco Certification
2589 (34.32 %)CCNA
3588 (34.27 %)CCNP
4196 (11.42 %)Microsoft Certification
5180 (10.49 %)MCSE
6148 (8.625 %)Security Cleared
7123 (7.168 %)Degree
8105 (6.119 %)CCIE
999 (5.769 %)CCDP
1071 (4.138 %)CCSA
1168 (3.963 %)CCSE
1267 (3.904 %)CCIP
1363 (3.671 %)SC Cleared
1456 (3.263 %)CCSP
1551 (2.972 %)CCDA
1648 (2.797 %)MCP
1733 (1.923 %)MCSA
1831 (1.807 %)JNCIA
1929 (1.690 %)JNCIS
2026 (1.515 %)CISSP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
197 (5.653 %)SLA
213 (0.758 %)PCI DSS
38 (0.466 %)QA
47 (0.408 %)ISO9001
53 (0.175 %)ISO17799
53 (0.175 %)ISO9000
53 (0.175 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
53 (0.175 %)BS7799
61 (0.058 %)ISO27001
IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1207 (12.06 %)Active Directory
263 (3.671 %)VMware Infrastructure
320 (1.166 %)VMware ESX
417 (0.991 %)Backup Exec
515 (0.874 %)Terminal Services
612 (0.699 %)NetBackup
612 (0.699 %)Citrix Presentation Server
710 (0.583 %)XenServer
89 (0.524 %)Hyper-V
97 (0.408 %)Snort
106 (0.350 %)Nmap
114 (0.233 %)ISA Server
123 (0.175 %)VMware Workstation
132 (0.117 %)NFS
132 (0.117 %)MetaFrame
132 (0.117 %)Xen
132 (0.117 %)VMware Server
141 (0.058 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
141 (0.058 %)XenApp
141 (0.058 %)Postfix
IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
153 (3.089 %)CiscoWorks
234 (1.981 %)OpenView
234 (1.981 %)Netcool
318 (1.049 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
414 (0.816 %)Netcool/Webtop
57 (0.408 %)MOM
66 (0.350 %)Tivoli
66 (0.350 %)Nagios
66 (0.350 %)ARCserve
66 (0.350 %)Cisco IPCC
74 (0.233 %)HP NNM
83 (0.175 %)WSUS
83 (0.175 %)Nessus
83 (0.175 %)MIMEsweeper
92 (0.117 %)Tivoli NetView
92 (0.117 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
92 (0.117 %)DameWare
92 (0.117 %)SCCM
101 (0.058 %)SCOM
IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
11193 (69.52 %)Cisco
2364 (21.21 %)CheckPoint
3258 (15.03 %)Microsoft
4163 (9.499 %)Juniper
5119 (6.935 %)VMware
6118 (6.876 %)Nokia
7100 (5.828 %)HP
891 (5.303 %)Citrix
975 (4.371 %)Nortel
1052 (3.030 %)Blue Coat
1138 (2.214 %)3Com
1229 (1.690 %)IBM
1325 (1.457 %)Avaya
1420 (1.166 %)Alcatel
1519 (1.107 %)Mitel
1617 (0.991 %)Lucent
1716 (0.932 %)Veritas
1716 (0.932 %)Lotus
1815 (0.874 %)Infoblox
1815 (0.874 %)Remedy