Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below 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 9 September 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

LinkNetwork Engineer
Location
3 months to
9 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank245187167
Rank change year-on-year
Down-58Down-20
Matching permanent IT job ads9957992098
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.919 %1.175 %1.180 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.984 %1.248 %1.258 %
Salaries quoted8676391747
Average salary£40,000£38,500£38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.890 %+1.310 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£27,500£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£55,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,250£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+0.710 %-
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10116464040166804
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK93.44 %94.18 %93.84 %
Salaries quoted8350552739137869
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.250 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£72,500£65,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-

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 9 September 2010 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 9 September 2010. 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-53968£40,000-
LondonDown-113351£45,000-
South EastUp+17293£35,500-5.33 %
City of LondonDown-99112£49,000-2.00 %
North WestDown-484£40,000+18.51 %
West MidlandsDown-1580£36,000+2.85 %
SurreyDown-2677£35,000-17.64 %
BerkshireUp+1171£36,000-5.26 %
East of EnglandDown-7359£35,000+16.66 %
HampshireDown-554£32,000-8.57 %
South WestUp+450£35,000-2.77 %
CheshireUp+1447£45,500+42.18 %
BirminghamDown-1539£40,000+14.28 %
YorkshireDown-2436£34,500+6.15 %
KnutsfordNew entry-36£45,500-
KentUp+135£32,000-
CambridgeshireDown-2230£35,000+16.66 %
West YorkshireDown-2228£35,000+7.69 %
West MallingUp+326£32,250-5.14 %
LeedsDown-1826£35,000-
HertfordshireDown-5525£35,000-22.22 %
CambridgeDown-2824£35,000+20.68 %
MiddlesexDown-523£45,000-
ReadingDown-1522£33,250-12.50 %
ManchesterDown-4222£35,000+7.69 %
GloucestershireUp+421£42,500+11.84 %
West SussexNo change020£52,500+40.00 %
East MidlandsDown-3915£32,500-50.00 %
SloughNew entry-15£43,500-
ChertseyNew entry-14£35,000-

Network Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, 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.

11327 (70.21 %)Cisco
21144 (60.53 %)Cisco Certification
3922 (48.78 %)Firewall
4641 (33.92 %)CCNP
5618 (32.70 %)LAN
6617 (32.65 %)CCNA
7611 (32.33 %)WAN
8472 (24.97 %)CheckPoint
9467 (24.71 %)Juniper
10432 (22.86 %)BGP
11421 (22.28 %)TCP/IP
12406 (21.48 %)Windows
13404 (21.38 %)VPN
14393 (20.79 %)MPLS
15385 (20.37 %)OSPF
16368 (19.47 %)Finance
17365 (19.31 %)Linux
18356 (18.84 %)Cisco ASA
19334 (17.67 %)Network Security
20333 (17.62 %)CCIE
21309 (16.35 %)VoIP
22279 (14.76 %)DNS
23261 (13.81 %)Network Design
24237 (12.54 %)Cisco PIX
25236 (12.49 %)UNIX
26208 (11.01 %)ITIL
27207 (10.95 %)Microsoft
28204 (10.79 %)EIGRP
28204 (10.79 %)Internet
29201 (10.63 %)Telecoms

Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, 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 Development CategoryApplication Development
169 (3.651 %)CSS
214 (0.741 %)HTML
311 (0.582 %)LAMP
47 (0.370 %).NET
56 (0.317 %)COM
56 (0.317 %)Web Services
56 (0.317 %)CGI
65 (0.265 %)XML
65 (0.265 %)FIX Protocol
74 (0.212 %)SOAP
74 (0.212 %)X-Windows
74 (0.212 %)OLE
83 (0.159 %)ASP
92 (0.106 %)ASP.NET
92 (0.106 %)Middleware
101 (0.053 %)XMPP
101 (0.053 %)AJAX
101 (0.053 %)Flash
101 (0.053 %)Java RMI
101 (0.053 %)XSLT
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1110 (5.820 %)MS Exchange
255 (2.910 %)IIS
343 (2.275 %)Exchange Server 2007
343 (2.275 %)Exchange Server 2003
428 (1.481 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
527 (1.429 %)Apache
622 (1.164 %)SharePoint
79 (0.476 %)Office Communications Server
87 (0.370 %)Exchange Server 2000
95 (0.265 %)Lotus Notes
103 (0.159 %)SAS
103 (0.159 %)Tomcat
112 (0.106 %)SharePoint Portal Server
112 (0.106 %)Alfresco
121 (0.053 %)CMS
121 (0.053 %)Lotus Domino
121 (0.053 %)MQSeries
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1115 (6.085 %)MS Excel
244 (2.328 %)MS Office
37 (0.370 %)MS Visio
43 (0.159 %)MATLAB
52 (0.106 %)MS PowerPoint
61 (0.053 %)S-PLUS
61 (0.053 %)MS Project
61 (0.053 %)MicroStation
61 (0.053 %)Spreadsheet
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (0.053 %)Maximo
11 (0.053 %)Summit
11 (0.053 %)Dynamics NAV
11 (0.053 %)Microsoft CRM
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1922 (48.78 %)Firewall
2618 (32.70 %)LAN
3611 (32.33 %)WAN
4432 (22.86 %)BGP
5421 (22.28 %)TCP/IP
6404 (21.38 %)VPN
7393 (20.79 %)MPLS
8385 (20.37 %)OSPF
9356 (18.84 %)Cisco ASA
10334 (17.67 %)Network Security
11309 (16.35 %)VoIP
12279 (14.76 %)DNS
13237 (12.54 %)Cisco PIX
14204 (10.79 %)EIGRP
14204 (10.79 %)Internet
15159 (8.413 %)VLAN
16147 (7.778 %)Wireless
17125 (6.614 %)IPsec
18110 (5.820 %)NetScreen
19109 (5.767 %)DWDM
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
151 (2.698 %)SQL Server
248 (2.540 %)MySQL
312 (0.635 %)PostgreSQL
49 (0.476 %)SQL Server 2005
58 (0.423 %)SQL Server 2000
63 (0.159 %)MS Access
71 (0.053 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
71 (0.053 %)Oracle 8/8i
71 (0.053 %)BusinessObjects XI
71 (0.053 %)SQL Server 2008
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
15 (0.265 %)VSS/SourceSafe
21 (0.053 %)Subversion
21 (0.053 %)StarTeam
21 (0.053 %)Team Foundation Server
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1368 (19.47 %)Finance
2201 (10.63 %)Telecoms
3164 (8.677 %)Pensions
4137 (7.249 %)Banking
5102 (5.397 %)Health
656 (2.963 %)Insurance
747 (2.487 %)Government
831 (1.640 %)Financial Institution
831 (1.640 %)Investment Banking
930 (1.587 %)Education
1026 (1.376 %)Retail
1120 (1.058 %)Marketing
1217 (0.899 %)Back Office
1316 (0.847 %)Games
1316 (0.847 %)Law
1414 (0.741 %)Legal
1512 (0.635 %)Electric
1512 (0.635 %)Advertising
1611 (0.582 %)Electronics
179 (0.476 %)Manufacturing
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
135 (1.852 %)Computer Science
231 (1.640 %)Blackberry
330 (1.587 %)Video Conferencing
427 (1.429 %)Client/Server
524 (1.270 %)Hedge funds
621 (1.111 %)German Language
718 (0.952 %)Open Source
817 (0.899 %)CESG
915 (0.794 %)Management Information System
915 (0.794 %)Cloud Computing
915 (0.794 %)Mathematics
1013 (0.688 %)Clustering
1013 (0.688 %)French Language
1013 (0.688 %)Statistics
1110 (0.529 %)Firmware
129 (0.476 %)Amazon EC2
129 (0.476 %)Derivative
138 (0.423 %)IVR
147 (0.370 %)Thin Client
147 (0.370 %)Fat Client
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1406 (21.48 %)Windows
2365 (19.31 %)Linux
3236 (12.49 %)UNIX
4160 (8.466 %)Windows Server 2003
599 (5.238 %)Windows Server 2008
654 (2.857 %)Windows XP
747 (2.487 %)Solaris
841 (2.169 %)Windows 2000
935 (1.852 %)Red Hat Linux
1025 (1.323 %)Windows Vista
1121 (1.111 %)Debian
1220 (1.058 %)Windows 2000 Server
1317 (0.899 %)Windows 7
1411 (0.582 %)Ubuntu
1411 (0.582 %)Windows NT
159 (0.476 %)CentOS
167 (0.370 %)Fedora
167 (0.370 %)HPUX
175 (0.265 %)SUSE
175 (0.265 %)AIX
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1261 (13.81 %)Network Design
2208 (11.01 %)ITIL
3135 (7.143 %)Load Balancing
476 (4.021 %)Project Management
563 (3.333 %)Service Delivery
656 (2.963 %)Capacity Planning
749 (2.593 %)Change Management
842 (2.222 %)Disaster Recovery
940 (2.116 %)Problem Management
1038 (2.011 %)Information Security
1137 (1.958 %)E-Commerce
1234 (1.799 %)Electronic Trading
1330 (1.587 %)Configuration Management
1427 (1.429 %)Business Continuity
1526 (1.376 %)Penetration Testing
1624 (1.270 %)Migration
1719 (1.005 %)Network Architecture
1818 (0.952 %)Incident Management
1916 (0.847 %)Network Planning
2015 (0.794 %)Validation
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1131 (6.931 %)C
2119 (6.296 %)SQL
3105 (5.556 %)Perl
439 (2.063 %)PHP
532 (1.693 %)Python
625 (1.323 %)Bash shell
719 (1.005 %)Shell Script
816 (0.847 %)C++
913 (0.688 %)C#
1011 (0.582 %)Korn
1110 (0.529 %)VBScript
1110 (0.529 %)Java
128 (0.423 %)PowerShell
135 (0.265 %)JavaScript
144 (0.212 %)VB
152 (0.106 %)VB.NET
161 (0.053 %)Ruby
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11144 (60.53 %)Cisco Certification
2641 (33.92 %)CCNP
3617 (32.65 %)CCNA
4333 (17.62 %)CCIE
5196 (10.37 %)Degree
6156 (8.254 %)Microsoft Certification
7154 (8.148 %)CCSP
8139 (7.354 %)MCSE
999 (5.238 %)CCDP
1088 (4.656 %)Security Cleared
1181 (4.286 %)CCVP
1274 (3.915 %)CCDA
1370 (3.704 %)CCIP
1466 (3.492 %)SC Cleared
1562 (3.280 %)JNCIA
1652 (2.751 %)CCSA
1744 (2.328 %)CCSE
1841 (2.169 %)JNCIS
1940 (2.116 %)MCP
2035 (1.852 %)CISSP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1106 (5.608 %)SLA
233 (1.746 %)ISO 9000
320 (1.058 %)ISO/IEC 27001
416 (0.847 %)ISO 9001
515 (0.794 %)QA
64 (0.212 %)PCI DSS
71 (0.053 %)BS7799
71 (0.053 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
71 (0.053 %)ISO/IEC 17799
71 (0.053 %)ISO/IEC 20000
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1158 (8.360 %)Active Directory
264 (3.386 %)VMware Infrastructure
332 (1.693 %)VMware ESX
419 (1.005 %)ISA Server
518 (0.952 %)vSphere
518 (0.952 %)Terminal Server
617 (0.899 %)Hyper-V
77 (0.370 %)XenApp
85 (0.265 %)Terminal Services
94 (0.212 %)Citrix Presentation Server
94 (0.212 %)MetaFrame
103 (0.159 %)ProxySG
112 (0.106 %)DFS Replication
112 (0.106 %)Veritas Volume Manager
112 (0.106 %)Sendmail
121 (0.053 %)RACF
121 (0.053 %)NDS
121 (0.053 %)XenServer
121 (0.053 %)XenDesktop
121 (0.053 %)Hadoop
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
181 (4.286 %)CiscoWorks
266 (3.492 %)OpenView
326 (1.376 %)Backup Exec
423 (1.217 %)Cisco IPCC
522 (1.164 %)Cacti
621 (1.111 %)Nagios
718 (0.952 %)HP NNM
815 (0.794 %)Norton AntiVirus
914 (0.741 %)SolarWinds Orion
109 (0.476 %)Netcool
118 (0.423 %)Zenoss
127 (0.370 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
134 (0.212 %)Tivoli
134 (0.212 %)NetBackup
143 (0.159 %)Cisco UCCE
143 (0.159 %)SCCM
151 (0.053 %)OVSD
151 (0.053 %)BMC PATROL
151 (0.053 %)MOM
151 (0.053 %)Unicenter
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11327 (70.21 %)Cisco
2472 (24.97 %)CheckPoint
3467 (24.71 %)Juniper
4207 (10.95 %)Microsoft
5164 (8.677 %)HP
6155 (8.201 %)VMware
7145 (7.672 %)Nokia
889 (4.709 %)Citrix
988 (4.656 %)Blue Coat
1061 (3.228 %)Nortel
1154 (2.857 %)Avaya
1253 (2.804 %)IBM
1347 (2.487 %)Foundry
1443 (2.275 %)Fortinet
1542 (2.222 %)McAfee
1640 (2.116 %)IronPort
1640 (2.116 %)TippingPoint
1738 (2.011 %)Red Hat
1837 (1.958 %)Finjan
1935 (1.852 %)BT