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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 22 March 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
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank215170148
Rank change year-on-year
Down-45Down-22
Matching permanent IT job ads7919642737
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.914 %1.132 %1.345 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.981 %1.208 %1.424 %
Salaries quoted6638122397
Average salary£40,000£35,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28 %-6.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£57,500£50,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£32,500£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.690 %-7.140 %
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
8061279798192141
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK93.19 %93.74 %94.40 %
Salaries quoted6665865582156878
Average salary£41,500£38,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.790 %-3.750 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£36,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.850 %-

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 22 March 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 22 March 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-42750£40,000+14.28 %
LondonDown-32328£50,000+25.00 %
South EastDown-28210£40,000+14.28 %
City of LondonDown-3099£45,000+9.75 %
West MidlandsUp+1363£37,500-6.25 %
HampshireDown-2556£37,500+9.48 %
North WestDown-446£33,750+9.75 %
BuckinghamshireUp+2340£26,000-22.38 %
BerkshireDown-2338£42,000+5.00 %
YorkshireUp+234£25,500-7.27 %
East of EnglandDown-2530£32,500+8.33 %
Milton KeynesUp+2527£21,000-34.37 %
WalesUp+727£32,500-2.98 %
South WalesUp+126£32,500-2.98 %
BirminghamUp+1125£33,000-5.71 %
South WestDown-2125£30,500-6.15 %
CheshireUp+1424£35,500+14.51 %
SurreyDown-1124£50,000+53.84 %
West YorkshireUp+2222£28,000-
WiltshireDown-721£32,000-1.53 %
West SussexUp+1420£45,000+16.88 %
ManchesterDown-519£34,500+11.29 %
HertfordshireUp+416£32,500-27.77 %
SolihullDown-115£40,000-
OxfordshireDown-115£44,000+46.66 %
MiddlesexUp+2314£45,000+16.12 %
ReadingUp+813£50,000+31.57 %
East MidlandsDown-3313£34,000+13.33 %
NewportUp+2812£33,750+3.84 %
PortsmouthUp+1112£40,000+17.64 %

Network Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 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.

11090 (72.04 %)Cisco
2810 (53.54 %)Cisco Certification
3599 (39.59 %)Firewall
4495 (32.72 %)CCNP
5415 (27.43 %)CCNA
6410 (27.10 %)LAN
7398 (26.31 %)WAN
8324 (21.41 %)BGP
9318 (21.02 %)OSPF
10315 (20.82 %)VPN
11288 (19.04 %)CheckPoint
12279 (18.44 %)Windows
13273 (18.04 %)Network Design
14270 (17.85 %)Juniper
15266 (17.58 %)VoIP
15266 (17.58 %)CCIE
16263 (17.38 %)MPLS
17247 (16.33 %)Network Security
18241 (15.93 %)Finance
19226 (14.94 %)TCP/IP
20219 (14.47 %)Cisco ASA
21208 (13.75 %)Linux
22182 (12.03 %)Cisco PIX
23167 (11.04 %)Telecoms
24162 (10.71 %)Microsoft
25146 (9.650 %)EIGRP
26132 (8.724 %)Wireless
27130 (8.592 %)DNS
28129 (8.526 %)UNIX
29117 (7.733 %)VLAN

Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 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
110 (0.661 %)CSS
22 (0.132 %)Web Services
22 (0.132 %)XMPP
31 (0.066 %)HTML
31 (0.066 %)XML
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
169 (4.560 %)MS Exchange
227 (1.785 %)Exchange Server 2003
323 (1.520 %)Exchange Server 2007
419 (1.256 %)SharePoint
514 (0.925 %)IIS
66 (0.397 %)Apache
75 (0.330 %)Office Communications Server
83 (0.198 %)Tomcat
83 (0.198 %)WebLogic
83 (0.198 %)Exchange Server 2000
92 (0.132 %)SAS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
159 (3.900 %)MS Excel
222 (1.454 %)MS Office
317 (1.124 %)MS Visio
46 (0.397 %)MS PowerPoint
53 (0.198 %)MS Project
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (0.132 %)Microsoft CRM
12 (0.132 %)AWD
12 (0.132 %)Loanet
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1599 (39.59 %)Firewall
2410 (27.10 %)LAN
3398 (26.31 %)WAN
4324 (21.41 %)BGP
5318 (21.02 %)OSPF
6315 (20.82 %)VPN
7266 (17.58 %)VoIP
8263 (17.38 %)MPLS
9247 (16.33 %)Network Security
10226 (14.94 %)TCP/IP
11219 (14.47 %)Cisco ASA
12182 (12.03 %)Cisco PIX
13146 (9.650 %)EIGRP
14132 (8.724 %)Wireless
15130 (8.592 %)DNS
16117 (7.733 %)VLAN
17115 (7.601 %)Internet
1887 (5.750 %)SSL
1974 (4.891 %)Ethernet
2073 (4.825 %)NetScreen
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
132 (2.115 %)SQL Server
28 (0.529 %)MySQL
36 (0.397 %)SQL Server 2000
36 (0.397 %)SQL Server 2005
43 (0.198 %)Essbase
43 (0.198 %)MS Access
51 (0.066 %)Oracle 8/8i
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
16 (0.397 %)QuickTest Pro
23 (0.198 %)StarTeam
32 (0.132 %)WebLOAD
32 (0.132 %)Visual Studio
32 (0.132 %)VSS/SourceSafe
41 (0.066 %)Subversion
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1241 (15.93 %)Finance
2167 (11.04 %)Telecoms
385 (5.618 %)Banking
441 (2.710 %)Pensions
539 (2.578 %)Health
635 (2.313 %)Games
734 (2.247 %)Government
833 (2.181 %)Education
927 (1.785 %)Investment Banking
1024 (1.586 %)Retail
1114 (0.925 %)Insurance
1213 (0.859 %)Aerospace
1312 (0.793 %)Financial Institution
1410 (0.661 %)Legal
159 (0.595 %)Manufacturing
167 (0.463 %)Electronics
167 (0.463 %)Marketing
176 (0.397 %)Back Office
176 (0.397 %)Advertising
176 (0.397 %)Construction
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
136 (2.379 %)Computer Science
231 (2.049 %)Open Source
324 (1.586 %)Mathematics
419 (1.256 %)PKI
514 (0.925 %)Blackberry
613 (0.859 %)Physics
712 (0.793 %)Cloud Computing
89 (0.595 %)Video Conferencing
98 (0.529 %)French Language
107 (0.463 %)Clustering
107 (0.463 %)Spanish Language
116 (0.397 %)Firmware
125 (0.330 %)German Language
134 (0.264 %)Dutch Language
134 (0.264 %)Spread Betting
134 (0.264 %)Client/Server
134 (0.264 %)Replication
143 (0.198 %)Fixed Income
143 (0.198 %)Thin Client
143 (0.198 %)Derivative
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1279 (18.44 %)Windows
2208 (13.75 %)Linux
3129 (8.526 %)UNIX
4102 (6.742 %)Windows Server 2003
545 (2.974 %)Windows Server 2008
631 (2.049 %)Windows XP
730 (1.983 %)Red Hat Linux
819 (1.256 %)Solaris
916 (1.058 %)Windows NT
916 (1.058 %)Windows Vista
1013 (0.859 %)Windows 2000 Server
1013 (0.859 %)VMS
1111 (0.727 %)Windows 2000
1210 (0.661 %)NetWare
135 (0.330 %)Mac OS X
144 (0.264 %)Fedora
153 (0.198 %)SUSE
153 (0.198 %)Mac OS X Server
162 (0.132 %)Debian
162 (0.132 %)HPUX
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1273 (18.04 %)Network Design
299 (6.543 %)Load Balancing
383 (5.486 %)ITIL
449 (3.239 %)Project Management
546 (3.040 %)E-Commerce
636 (2.379 %)Problem Management
732 (2.115 %)Capacity Planning
823 (1.520 %)Network Architecture
823 (1.520 %)Validation
919 (1.256 %)Information Security
1017 (1.124 %)Configuration Management
1115 (0.991 %)Change Management
1115 (0.991 %)Disaster Recovery
1214 (0.925 %)Migration
1214 (0.925 %)Incident Management
1313 (0.859 %)Electronic Trading
1411 (0.727 %)Service Delivery
1510 (0.661 %)Asset Management
169 (0.595 %)Business Continuity
169 (0.595 %)Network Planning
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
185 (5.618 %)C
238 (2.512 %)SQL
314 (0.925 %)Perl
47 (0.463 %)PHP
56 (0.397 %)Java
65 (0.330 %)Bash shell
74 (0.264 %)C#
83 (0.198 %)VBScript
83 (0.198 %)Shell Script
92 (0.132 %)Ruby
92 (0.132 %)VB
92 (0.132 %)C++
101 (0.066 %)Python
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1810 (53.54 %)Cisco Certification
2495 (32.72 %)CCNP
3415 (27.43 %)CCNA
4266 (17.58 %)CCIE
5112 (7.403 %)Degree
6100 (6.609 %)Microsoft Certification
799 (6.543 %)CCSP
799 (6.543 %)Security Cleared
888 (5.816 %)CCDP
975 (4.957 %)MCSE
1062 (4.098 %)CCIP
1150 (3.305 %)CCSE
1243 (2.842 %)SC Cleared
1336 (2.379 %)CCSA
1434 (2.247 %)CCDA
1533 (2.181 %)CCVP
1630 (1.983 %)JNCIA
1725 (1.652 %)JNCIS
1823 (1.520 %)MCITP
1921 (1.388 %)MCP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
134 (2.247 %)SLA
216 (1.058 %)QA
35 (0.330 %)ISO9000
35 (0.330 %)ISO27001
43 (0.198 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
43 (0.198 %)PCI DSS
52 (0.132 %)ISO/IEC 20000
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
197 (6.411 %)Active Directory
268 (4.494 %)VMware Infrastructure
320 (1.322 %)VMware ESX
412 (0.793 %)XenApp
59 (0.595 %)vSphere
59 (0.595 %)Hyper-V
59 (0.595 %)MetaFrame
68 (0.529 %)Citrix Presentation Server
68 (0.529 %)ISA Server
68 (0.529 %)XenServer
76 (0.397 %)Terminal Services
82 (0.132 %)Terminal Server
82 (0.132 %)Hadoop
91 (0.066 %)Postfix
91 (0.066 %)Sendmail
91 (0.066 %)NFS
91 (0.066 %)VMware Server
91 (0.066 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
159 (3.900 %)CiscoWorks
230 (1.983 %)OpenView
318 (1.190 %)ZENworks
417 (1.124 %)Backup Exec
512 (0.793 %)Nagios
68 (0.529 %)Novell Identity Manager
77 (0.463 %)Netcool
86 (0.397 %)Norton AntiVirus
86 (0.397 %)Cisco IPCC
94 (0.264 %)Cacti
94 (0.264 %)SolarWinds Orion
103 (0.198 %)SCOM
103 (0.198 %)ARCserve
112 (0.132 %)OpenView Configuration Management
112 (0.132 %)Tivoli
112 (0.132 %)HP Quality Center
121 (0.066 %)Zenoss
121 (0.066 %)Tivoli NetView
121 (0.066 %)MOM
121 (0.066 %)Unicenter
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11090 (72.04 %)Cisco
2288 (19.04 %)CheckPoint
3270 (17.85 %)Juniper
4162 (10.71 %)Microsoft
5115 (7.601 %)VMware
693 (6.147 %)Citrix
776 (5.023 %)Nortel
776 (5.023 %)Nokia
871 (4.693 %)Blue Coat
965 (4.296 %)HP
1042 (2.776 %)TippingPoint
1136 (2.379 %)Red Hat
1235 (2.313 %)Avaya
1322 (1.454 %)Novell
1322 (1.454 %)Foundry
1421 (1.388 %)BT
1519 (1.256 %)Aruba
1616 (1.058 %)Riverbed
1616 (1.058 %)SolarWinds
1616 (1.058 %)Websense