The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Manager role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Manager
Rank 615 718 694
Rank change year-on-year
+103 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Manager 252 182 176
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.232% 0.148% 0.144%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.245% 0.157% 0.153%
Number of salaries quoted 192 151 144
Average salary £65,000 £55,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.18% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £42,500 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £65,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+18.18% +10.00%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102708 116230 115193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 85414 99672 97379
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Network Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Network Manager within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Network Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Network Manager
Salary Trend

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

Network Manager Salary Trend

Network Manager
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Network Manager over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

Network Manager Salary Histogram

Network Manager
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 Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +103 246 £65,000 +18.18%
London +81 107 £65,000 +18.18%
East of England +63 62 £65,000 +8.33%
Bedfordshire - 52 £65,000 -
South East -11 43 £65,000 +13.04%
Berkshire +2 27 £55,000 -8.33%
City of London +21 20 £63,000 -3.07%
Dunstable - 20 £63,750 -
Yorkshire +1 16 £55,000 +7.84%
Reading +4 14 £45,000 -25.00%
Slough - 10 £65,000 -
Hertfordshire +13 8 £75,000 -
West Yorkshire - 8 £55,000 -
West Midlands -10 7 £48,750 -18.75%
Luton - 7 £50,000 -
Leeds - 6 £55,000 -
South West - 6 £50,000 -
Bristol - 5 £46,250 -
Staffordshire - 5 £51,250 -
Surrey +17 4 £69,000 +72.50%
Hull -2 4 £26,000 -
East Yorkshire -2 4 £26,000 -49.01%
Buckinghamshire -11 4 - -
Milton Keynes -15 4 - -
Harrogate - 4 £65,000 -
North Yorkshire - 4 £65,000 -
Oxfordshire - 4 £37,500 -
Nottinghamshire +5 3 £45,000 -23.72%
South Wales +3 3 £45,000 -
Wales +3 3 £45,000 -

Network Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Network Manager 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 Manager in their job title.

1 316 (67.52%) Cisco
2 186 (39.74%) Firewall
3 162 (34.62%) Cisco Certification
4 156 (33.33%) Network Security
5 132 (28.21%) WAN
6 130 (27.78%) LAN
7 120 (25.64%) Finance
8 118 (25.21%) CCNP
9 113 (24.15%) Telecoms
10 109 (23.29%) Juniper
11 101 (21.58%) CheckPoint
12 98 (20.94%) DNS
13 85 (18.16%) TCP/IP
14 81 (17.31%) ITIL
15 77 (16.45%) Cisco ASA
16 74 (15.81%) Wireless
17 71 (15.17%) Project Management
17 71 (15.17%) VPN
18 60 (12.82%) SLA
18 60 (12.82%) Cisco IOS
19 59 (12.61%) CCNA
20 58 (12.39%) OSPF
20 58 (12.39%) BGP
21 57 (12.18%) Supplier Management
22 56 (11.97%) Load Balancing
22 56 (11.97%) VoIP
23 55 (11.75%) Change Management
24 54 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
24 54 (11.54%) PRINCE2
25 50 (10.68%) Network Design

Network Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Network Manager 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 Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (1.068%) HTML5
2 1 (0.214%) LAMP
2 1 (0.214%) Middleware
2 1 (0.214%) COM
2 1 (0.214%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 24 (5.128%) MS Exchange
2 12 (2.564%) Exchange Server 2003
3 11 (2.350%) IIS
3 11 (2.350%) SharePoint Server
4 10 (2.137%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (2.137%) Exchange Server 2007
5 8 (1.709%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.496%) Lync
7 5 (1.068%) Rendezvous
8 3 (0.641%) Apache
9 1 (0.214%) GroupWise
9 1 (0.214%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.214%) SAS
9 1 (0.214%) Office Communications Server
9 1 (0.214%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 17 (3.632%) MS Office
2 14 (2.991%) MS Excel
3 9 (1.923%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.855%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.855%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.214%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.282%) RMDS
2 1 (0.214%) Sage 200
Communications & Networking
1 186 (39.74%) Firewall
2 156 (33.33%) Network Security
3 132 (28.21%) WAN
4 130 (27.78%) LAN
5 98 (20.94%) DNS
6 85 (18.16%) TCP/IP
7 77 (16.45%) Cisco ASA
8 74 (15.81%) Wireless
9 71 (15.17%) VPN
10 60 (12.82%) Cisco IOS
11 58 (12.39%) OSPF
11 58 (12.39%) BGP
12 56 (11.97%) VoIP
13 47 (10.04%) Internet
14 39 (8.333%) EIGRP
15 31 (6.624%) Cisco PIX
15 31 (6.624%) Intrusion Detection
15 31 (6.624%) DHCP
15 31 (6.624%) MPLS
16 20 (4.274%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.350%) OLTP
2 7 (1.496%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.427%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (0.427%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.427%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.214%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (0.214%) MySQL
4 1 (0.214%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (0.214%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (0.214%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (0.214%) NoSQL
General
1 120 (25.64%) Finance
2 113 (24.15%) Telecoms
3 17 (3.632%) Legal
4 15 (3.205%) Banking
5 14 (2.991%) Marketing
6 10 (2.137%) Retail
7 8 (1.709%) Advertising
8 7 (1.496%) Law
8 7 (1.496%) Games
8 7 (1.496%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.068%) Publishing
10 2 (0.427%) French Language
10 2 (0.427%) Billing
11 1 (0.214%) Military
11 1 (0.214%) Back Office
11 1 (0.214%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.214%) Electronics
11 1 (0.214%) German Language
11 1 (0.214%) Portuguese Language
11 1 (0.214%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.983%) Management Information System
2 5 (1.068%) Blackberry
2 5 (1.068%) Computer Science
2 5 (1.068%) Statistics
2 5 (1.068%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (0.855%) FMCG
3 4 (0.855%) Economics
3 4 (0.855%) PMI
3 4 (0.855%) IVR
4 3 (0.641%) SecurID
4 3 (0.641%) SaaS
4 3 (0.641%) Digital Media
5 2 (0.427%) Online Games
5 2 (0.427%) Replication
6 1 (0.214%) Clustering
6 1 (0.214%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.214%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.120%) Windows
2 27 (5.769%) Linux
3 23 (4.915%) Windows Server 2008
4 16 (3.419%) Windows Server 2003
5 9 (1.923%) Windows 7
6 8 (1.709%) UNIX
7 7 (1.496%) Windows XP
8 4 (0.855%) Windows Vista
8 4 (0.855%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.641%) Solaris
9 3 (0.641%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.427%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.427%) CentOS
10 2 (0.427%) Debian
11 1 (0.214%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (17.31%) ITIL
2 71 (15.17%) Project Management
3 57 (12.18%) Supplier Management
4 56 (11.97%) Load Balancing
5 55 (11.75%) Change Management
6 54 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
6 54 (11.54%) PRINCE2
7 50 (10.68%) Network Design
8 47 (10.04%) Service Delivery
9 45 (9.615%) Network Management
10 37 (7.906%) Capacity Planning
11 34 (7.265%) PRINCE
12 33 (7.051%) E-Commerce
13 29 (6.197%) Service Management
13 29 (6.197%) Performance Management
14 22 (4.701%) Security Management
15 17 (3.632%) Strategic Planning
16 16 (3.419%) Migration
16 16 (3.419%) Agile Software Development
17 15 (3.205%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 14 (2.991%) SQL
2 4 (0.855%) C
3 1 (0.214%) Java
Qualifications
1 162 (34.62%) Cisco Certification
2 118 (25.21%) CCNP
3 59 (12.61%) CCNA
4 49 (10.47%) Degree
5 48 (10.26%) CCIE
6 37 (7.906%) CCDP
7 20 (4.274%) PMI Certification
8 18 (3.846%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 18 (3.846%) CCDA
9 16 (3.419%) PMP
10 13 (2.778%) CCSP
10 13 (2.778%) Security Cleared
11 8 (1.709%) CCIP
11 8 (1.709%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.496%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (1.282%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (1.282%) MCSE
13 6 (1.282%) CISSP
14 5 (1.068%) HND
14 5 (1.068%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.82%) SLA
2 18 (3.846%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.068%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.427%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.214%) QA
System Software
1 21 (4.487%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.632%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.282%) XenApp
3 6 (1.282%) vSphere
4 5 (1.068%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.855%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.855%) Terminal Services
5 4 (0.855%) VMware ESX
6 2 (0.427%) XenServer
6 2 (0.427%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.214%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.214%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.214%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 9 (1.923%) WSUS
2 7 (1.496%) Cisco UCCE
3 6 (1.282%) Backup Exec
4 4 (0.855%) Cisco CUCM
4 4 (0.855%) CiscoWorks
5 2 (0.427%) SolarWinds Orion
5 2 (0.427%) ZABBIX
5 2 (0.427%) Sysprep
5 2 (0.427%) Nagios
6 1 (0.214%) OpenView
Vendors
1 316 (67.52%) Cisco
2 109 (23.29%) Juniper
3 101 (21.58%) CheckPoint
4 40 (8.547%) VMware
5 32 (6.838%) Infoblox
6 27 (5.769%) F5
7 26 (5.556%) Microsoft
8 21 (4.487%) HP
9 18 (3.846%) SolarWinds
10 17 (3.632%) Citrix
11 14 (2.991%) Blue Coat
12 12 (2.564%) Aruba
13 10 (2.137%) Riverbed
14 8 (1.709%) Nortel
14 8 (1.709%) Avaya
15 7 (1.496%) Radware
15 7 (1.496%) Dell
15 7 (1.496%) McAfee
15 7 (1.496%) Twitter
16 6 (1.282%) WatchGuard
Bradford, Yorkshire
You will have vast technical experience within a network environment, and hopefully have some CCTV / Physical security experience... Our client is looking for someone to come on board...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Network & Communications ManagerCurrently we are recruiting for a Network and Communications Manager for a blue-chip company in Central London.Network & Communications ManagerThe key objective of this role...
E-Resourcing
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Overtime + On Call
Posted: 18 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
The Network Manager will have strong network and security experience covering Cisco Networking and Firewalls (Checkpoint, ASA, PIX) , and strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £Excellent Salary and £Excellent Benefits!
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
This organisation is going through vast amounts of change and they are looking for someone to come in to manage the Network and Telephony system as they introduce...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
London, England
Solid switching and routing skills and experience supporting both Layer 2 networks, and a Layer 3 LAN that closely integrates with the MAN and WAN network using BGP...
Queen Mary University of London
Salary: £42,601 - £47,559
Posted: 22 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
The role requires a detailed level of technical knowledge including Cisco routing and switching, Juniper/Checkpoint firewalls, Cisco Call Manager, Cisco Unified Contact centre Enterprise and Bosch IP...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + pension and healthcare
Posted: 30 April 2013
Crewe, North West
Supporting Managed Services across network and IT infrastructure, experienced within a Cisco environment is preferred but not essential... There will be future internal opportunities to move into mid-...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £33000 - £40000 per annum + + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 8 May 2013
South West London
CISCO NETWORK TEAM LEAD / NETWORK LEAD - LAN / WAN / WIFI / VOIP / ROUTING / SWITCHING... Networking skills at CCNP level. Experience of Cisco hardware and configuration (IOS/CatOS)... Essential experience: Proven...
Reed Business Information Ltd
Salary: From £50,000 to £60,000 per annum + 29 days holiday + pension + share
Posted: 8 May 2013
City, London
The objective of this role is to support, manage and lead their globally dispersed voice, data and wireless networks and of course the services that depend on it.....
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits + 20% bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
You must be able to understand and manage change and understand the business impact of change.Essential skills/knowledge required:- Proven Network operations management skills preferably with an...
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + bonus and bens
Posted: 11 May 2013
Richmond upon Thames, South East
This includes managing the local UK network team to drive system availability, capacity planning, security controls, monitoring, reporting and service improvement plans. Key Responsibilities:*BAU OperationsoManage the core...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £65000 - £70000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
Plan and implement LAN, WAN, comms, voice and wireless network solutions in accordance with the agreed design. Work closely with Programme Streams to design and implement secure and...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Skilled in Cisco and Checkpoint firewall administration and management... + Knowledge of Cisco UCS / VSG + Experience with Juniper WAN Accelerators, wireless technologies, VPN (client and LAN to LAN) and...
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + 20% bonus potential + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Harrogate, Yorkshire
The Network Manager is responsible for their teams ability to provide 2nd & 3rd line technical support to the Business spanning incident resolution and project related issues covering live &...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Responsible for ensuring smooth hand-off between the Network Architecture team... Ensure effective supplier management via regular review process... In addition, delivery experience in at least two of...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
West London
A Technical Support Manager is a key component in the Fanatical Support Service offering.You’ll be responsible for the line management of a team of highly skilled...
Rackspace
Salary: Unspecified Competitive
Posted: 30 April 2013
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Must have a practical working knowledge of the network security products and techniques, namely Cisco and Juniper firewalls along with knowledge of access lists and intrusion detection devices.....
SPS Resourcing
Salary: From £60,000 to £65,000 per annum Excellent Bonus & Benefits Package
Posted: 16 May 2013
Holborn, London
You have a demonstrable record of extensive and successful experience in WAN / LAN technologies (including large multi-site internetwork implementations), Networking Protocols, Network Management Tools and Network Security...
University of the Arts London
Salary: £41,790 - £50,350 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Luton
Responsibilities include the analysis of network components, upgrades/changes, security procedures, policies management, assessing the Universities current and future LAN/WAN/Wireless/VoIP/Mobile needs, overseeing the design,...
University of Bedfordshire
Salary: c£50,000
Posted: 22 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
We are looking for an Network and Security Infrastructure Architect who has a solid and recent experience as an Infrastructure Architect, with CCNA and CCNP qualifications... CCNA and...
Venturi
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + bonus/benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
BSc Computer Science, MCSE, MCITP, CCNP) the successful IT Manager must have an excellent understanding of a variety of technologies including: * Windows Server 2008 R2 , Active Directory, Exchange...
Reed Technology
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Keywords: Data Communications, Data Networks, MPLS, VPLS, DWDM, DS / IPS, SIEM, NAC/NAP, Team Leading, Cisco, Juniper... Suitable candidates will have the following experience: Proven Team Leader Experience...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £38000 - £42000 per annum + Excellent Benefits Package
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
The role incorporates man management, service management, risk management, systems management (including monitoring) and reporting. Network technical skills are essential with firewall skills (internet and extranet) and network...
Aston Carter
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Network Security Operations... As the Network Security Manager you will ensure the services provided are meeting agreed Service Levels and Business Partner levels of expectation. A large part...
William Hill
Salary: Excellent + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 25 April 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit an experienced Network & Security Operations Manager... Reporting into the Head of Infrastructure, the Network and Security Operations Manager will : - Manage key...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
It would also be beneficial to have Multi-site (circa 200) switch refresh experience and be a PRINCE 2 Practitioner. The role will involve delivering an extensive LAN...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: Competitive salary on application
Posted: 16 May 2013
Southwark, London
GOS Systems are currently recruiting for a Senior Network Architect/Manager (linux, network manager, network architect, asterisk, mysql)Salary: Competitive Salary with BenefitsLocation: Southwark, London, United Kingdom.GOS...
GOS Systems
Salary: Competitive Salary with Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
UK
Product Management discipline allows us to deliver transparency and predictability to our customers and partners through a defined list of products with an agreed set of capabilities and...
Credit Suisse
Posted: 15 May 2013
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Pay Range 5 (£24,412 - £26,516) Full-Time, 37 hours per week. For July 2013. Aylesbury High School is an 11-18 girls’ selective school with 1284...
Aylesbury High School
Salary: Pay Range 5 (£24,412 - £26,516)
Posted: 8 May 2013