West Midlands Network Engineer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Network Engineer role in IT jobs within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Accrington Altrincham Andover Avonmouth Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Flintshire Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gosport Greenford Guildford Gwent Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hull Hungerford Inverurie Ipswich Isleworth Kent Kidlington Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redhill Romsey Royston Rugby Salford Scarborough Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Stoke Mandeville Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	99	86
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching permanent IT job ads	147	176
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.081 %	0.074 %
As % of the category below	1.895 %	2.109 %
Salaries quoted	122	151
Average minimum salary	£31,310	£32,640
Average salary	£33,663	£34,232
% change on same period last year	-1.66 %
Average maximum salary	£36,016	£35,824
UK excluding London average salary	£36,215	£35,748
% change on same period last year	+1.30 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	7756	8345
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.292 %	3.500 %
Salaries quoted	6604	7255
Average minimum salary	£32,846	£33,931
Average salary	£35,714	£36,685
% change on same period last year	-2.64 %
Average maximum salary	£38,583	£39,438
UK excluding London average salary	£38,058	£39,448
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Network Engineer across the West Midlands region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Network Engineer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 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.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	+6	61	£32,877	-0.45 %
Shropshire	-8	24	£41,375	+37.91 %
Herefordshire	-23	21	£33,278	-14.18 %
Solihull	+1	9	£32,938	-10.25 %
Staffordshire	-21	7	£27,857	-29.33 %
Warwickshire	-8	6	£35,833	+57.75 %
Coventry	-10	6	£31,250	+4.51 %
Wolverhampton	-	2	£27,250	-
Dudley	-	1	£22,500	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

1 153 (58.62 %) Cisco 2 126 (48.28 %) Cisco Certification 3 117 (44.83 %) Firewall 4 98 (37.55 %) CCNA 5 93 (35.63 %) WAN 6 85 (32.57 %) LAN 7 83 (31.80 %) CCNP 8 69 (26.44 %) CheckPoint 9 61 (23.37 %) Windows 10 54 (20.69 %) Microsoft 11 48 (18.39 %) Windows Server 2003 12 47 (18.01 %) BGP 13 46 (17.62 %) Network Security 14 45 (17.24 %) OSPF 15 44 (16.86 %) Cisco PIX

16 43 (16.48 %) SLA 17 42 (16.09 %) VPN 18 39 (14.94 %) MS Exchange 19 38 (14.56 %) Windows 2000 Server 20 34 (13.03 %) Load Balancing 20 34 (13.03 %) Network Design 20 34 (13.03 %) BIG-IP 20 34 (13.03 %) Active Directory 20 34 (13.03 %) Microsoft Certification 21 32 (12.26 %) TCP/IP 21 32 (12.26 %) MCSE 22 31 (11.88 %) Pensions 23 30 (11.49 %) MPLS 24 26 (9.962 %) DNS 25 25 (9.579 %) VoIP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

Application Development 1 2 (0.766 %) CSS 2 1 (0.383 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 39 (14.94 %) MS Exchange 2 20 (7.663 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 12 (4.598 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 7 (2.682 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 6 (2.299 %) SharePoint 5 6 (2.299 %) IIS 6 2 (0.766 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 1 (0.383 %) Apache
Applications 1 21 (8.046 %) MS Excel 2 7 (2.682 %) MS Office 3 2 (0.766 %) CA Clarity 4 1 (0.383 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 117 (44.83 %) Firewall 2 93 (35.63 %) WAN 3 85 (32.57 %) LAN 4 47 (18.01 %) BGP 5 46 (17.62 %) Network Security 6 45 (17.24 %) OSPF 7 44 (16.86 %) Cisco PIX 8 42 (16.09 %) VPN 9 34 (13.03 %) BIG-IP 10 32 (12.26 %) TCP/IP 11 30 (11.49 %) MPLS 12 26 (9.962 %) DNS 13 25 (9.579 %) VoIP 14 22 (8.429 %) DHCP 15 15 (5.747 %) SSL 16 11 (4.215 %) Cisco ASA 17 8 (3.065 %) Internet 18 7 (2.682 %) ISDN 18 7 (2.682 %) VLAN 19 6 (2.299 %) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (4.598 %) SQL Server 2 4 (1.533 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (0.766 %) MySQL 4 1 (0.383 %) MS Access	General 1 31 (11.88 %) Pensions 2 25 (9.579 %) Health 3 18 (6.897 %) Government 4 16 (6.130 %) Telecoms 5 13 (4.981 %) Finance 6 11 (4.215 %) Insurance 7 3 (1.149 %) Banking 8 1 (0.383 %) Retail 8 1 (0.383 %) Billing 8 1 (0.383 %) Education 8 1 (0.383 %) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous 1 5 (1.916 %) Blackberry 2 3 (1.149 %) Client/Server 2 3 (1.149 %) Clustering 2 3 (1.149 %) Handset 3 2 (0.766 %) SecurID 4 1 (0.383 %) Pocket PC 4 1 (0.383 %) Computer Science 4 1 (0.383 %) Replication 4 1 (0.383 %) IVR 4 1 (0.383 %) CESG 4 1 (0.383 %) e-Health 4 1 (0.383 %) NHS 4 1 (0.383 %) Mainframe 4 1 (0.383 %) NPfIT	Operating Systems 1 61 (23.37 %) Windows 2 48 (18.39 %) Windows Server 2003 3 38 (14.56 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 22 (8.429 %) Linux 5 18 (6.897 %) UNIX 6 12 (4.598 %) Windows XP 7 6 (2.299 %) Solaris 8 5 (1.916 %) Windows Vista 9 4 (1.533 %) Windows 2000 10 3 (1.149 %) SUSE 11 1 (0.383 %) Debian 11 1 (0.383 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 34 (13.03 %) Network Design 1 34 (13.03 %) Load Balancing 2 25 (9.579 %) Incident Management 3 15 (5.747 %) Migration 4 13 (4.981 %) Service Delivery 5 11 (4.215 %) ITIL 5 11 (4.215 %) Security Cleared 6 6 (2.299 %) B2B 7 4 (1.533 %) Problem Management 8 3 (1.149 %) Disaster Recovery 8 3 (1.149 %) Project Management 9 2 (0.766 %) E-business 9 2 (0.766 %) System Testing 9 2 (0.766 %) Time Management 10 1 (0.383 %) Data Protection 10 1 (0.383 %) SC Cleared 10 1 (0.383 %) Test Management 10 1 (0.383 %) Configuration Management 10 1 (0.383 %) Network Planning 10 1 (0.383 %) Supplier Management	Programming Languages 1 7 (2.682 %) C 2 6 (2.299 %) Perl 3 5 (1.916 %) Shell Script 4 3 (1.149 %) VB 5 2 (0.766 %) VBScript 5 2 (0.766 %) PHP 6 1 (0.383 %) SQL 6 1 (0.383 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 126 (48.28 %) Cisco Certification 2 98 (37.55 %) CCNA 3 83 (31.80 %) CCNP 4 34 (13.03 %) Microsoft Certification 5 32 (12.26 %) MCSE 6 17 (6.513 %) Degree 7 11 (4.215 %) CCSA 8 10 (3.831 %) CCSP 9 9 (3.448 %) CCDA 10 8 (3.065 %) CCDP 11 7 (2.682 %) MCP 12 5 (1.916 %) CCIE 12 5 (1.916 %) CCVP 13 2 (0.766 %) CCSE 13 2 (0.766 %) MOS 13 2 (0.766 %) MCSA 13 2 (0.766 %) CCA 13 2 (0.766 %) Citrix Certification 14 1 (0.383 %) CNE 14 1 (0.383 %) Novell Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 43 (16.48 %) SLA 2 1 (0.383 %) ISO9000
System Software 1 34 (13.03 %) Active Directory 2 13 (4.981 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 8 (3.065 %) MetaFrame 4 7 (2.682 %) Backup Exec 5 2 (0.766 %) Terminal Services 6 1 (0.383 %) ISA Server 6 1 (0.383 %) Squid 6 1 (0.383 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 13 (4.981 %) OpenView 2 6 (2.299 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 1 (0.383 %) NNM 3 1 (0.383 %) CiscoWorks
Vendors 1 153 (58.62 %) Cisco 2 69 (26.44 %) CheckPoint 3 54 (20.69 %) Microsoft 4 25 (9.579 %) Citrix 5 16 (6.130 %) Nokia 6 15 (5.747 %) HP 6 15 (5.747 %) Remedy 7 14 (5.364 %) VERITAS 8 11 (4.215 %) Symantec 9 9 (3.448 %) VMware 10 7 (2.682 %) Mitel 11 5 (1.916 %) Avaya 11 5 (1.916 %) IBM 12 4 (1.533 %) Juniper 12 4 (1.533 %) Blue Coat 13 3 (1.149 %) Fujitsu 13 3 (1.149 %) Sun 14 2 (0.766 %) Dell 14 2 (0.766 %) Nortel 14 2 (0.766 %) BT