The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. 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 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 advertised for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Engineer
Rank 104 140 121
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Engineer 97 50 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.928% 1.083% 1.228%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.011% 1.130% 1.283%
Number of salaries quoted 64 29 42
Average salary £37,500 £34,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.29% +9.67%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £17,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £49,500 £40,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +8.57%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4823 4426 3898
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 95.88% 95.90% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4016 3887 3325
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Network Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Network Engineer
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands Network Engineer Salary Trend

Network Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Network Engineer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands Network Engineer Salary Histogram

Network Engineer
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 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
Birmingham +20 42 £42,500 +19.71%
Shropshire -4 21 £40,000 -3.03%
Warwickshire +12 7 £35,000 +5.26%
Staffordshire -2 7 £28,750 -21.23%
Coventry - 5 £37,500 -
Solihull - 2 £53,750 -
Wednesbury - 1 £35,000 -
Willenhall - 1 £35,000 -
Halesowen - 1 £35,000 -
Network Engineer
England

Network Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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.

1 158 (86.34%) Cisco
2 110 (60.11%) Firewall
3 97 (53.01%) Cisco Certification
4 84 (45.90%) CCNP
5 67 (36.61%) CheckPoint
6 54 (29.51%) Network Security
6 54 (29.51%) Cisco ASA
7 49 (26.78%) Juniper
8 46 (25.14%) Finance
9 45 (24.59%) Windows
9 45 (24.59%) F5
10 44 (24.04%) LAN
10 44 (24.04%) WAN
11 43 (23.50%) VPN
12 39 (21.31%) Cisco PIX
13 38 (20.77%) CCNA
14 37 (20.22%) DNS
15 33 (18.03%) Active Directory
16 32 (17.49%) DHCP
17 31 (16.94%) Windows Server 2008
18 30 (16.39%) Network Design
19 29 (15.85%) Blue Coat
19 29 (15.85%) Telecoms
20 28 (15.30%) BGP
20 28 (15.30%) OSPF
21 27 (14.75%) Windows Server 2003
21 27 (14.75%) CCSE
22 26 (14.21%) NetApp
22 26 (14.21%) ITIL
23 23 (12.57%) JNCIS

Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 Platforms
1 6 (3.279%) Lync
2 3 (1.639%) MS Exchange
3 1 (0.546%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.546%) IIS
3 1 (0.546%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (0.546%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (0.546%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 7 (3.825%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.639%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.093%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.186%) assyst
2 2 (1.093%) Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 110 (60.11%) Firewall
2 54 (29.51%) Network Security
2 54 (29.51%) Cisco ASA
3 44 (24.04%) LAN
3 44 (24.04%) WAN
4 43 (23.50%) VPN
5 39 (21.31%) Cisco PIX
6 37 (20.22%) DNS
7 32 (17.49%) DHCP
8 28 (15.30%) BGP
8 28 (15.30%) OSPF
9 22 (12.02%) MPLS
9 22 (12.02%) IP Telephony
10 21 (11.48%) Wireless
10 21 (11.48%) Cisco IOS
11 17 (9.290%) SAN
12 15 (8.197%) TCP/IP
13 13 (7.104%) VLAN
13 13 (7.104%) VoIP
14 11 (6.011%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 5 (2.732%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 46 (25.14%) Finance
2 29 (15.85%) Telecoms
3 19 (10.38%) Back Office
4 17 (9.290%) Banking
5 13 (7.104%) Advertising
6 3 (1.639%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.639%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 2 (1.093%) Management Information System
2 1 (0.546%) Thin Client
2 1 (0.546%) Statistics
2 1 (0.546%) Computer Science
2 1 (0.546%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 45 (24.59%) Windows
2 31 (16.94%) Windows Server 2008
3 27 (14.75%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (2.186%) Linux
5 3 (1.639%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.093%) Windows Vista
6 2 (1.093%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.093%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (16.39%) Network Design
2 26 (14.21%) ITIL
3 18 (9.836%) Time Management
4 13 (7.104%) Incident Management
4 13 (7.104%) Change Management
5 10 (5.464%) Problem Management
6 9 (4.918%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (4.918%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (4.372%) SIEM
8 7 (3.825%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (3.279%) Network Management
10 5 (2.732%) Network Architecture
11 4 (2.186%) WAN Optimisation
12 3 (1.639%) Business Intelligence
12 3 (1.639%) Disaster Recovery
12 3 (1.639%) Load Balancing
12 3 (1.639%) High Availability
13 2 (1.093%) Change Control
13 2 (1.093%) Risk Management
13 2 (1.093%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.639%) SQL
2 2 (1.093%) Java
2 2 (1.093%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.546%) C
Qualifications
1 97 (53.01%) Cisco Certification
2 84 (45.90%) CCNP
3 38 (20.77%) CCNA
4 27 (14.75%) CCSE
5 23 (12.57%) JNCIS
6 17 (9.290%) CCIE
7 13 (7.104%) CCSA
8 11 (6.011%) Security Cleared
9 9 (4.918%) CCIP
10 8 (4.372%) SC Cleared
10 8 (4.372%) CCDP
11 7 (3.825%) CCDA
11 7 (3.825%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (3.825%) MCSE
11 7 (3.825%) JNCIP
12 4 (2.186%) Check Point Certification
13 2 (1.093%) JNCIA
13 2 (1.093%) Degree
13 2 (1.093%) MCITP
13 2 (1.093%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.464%) SLA
2 4 (2.186%) QA
3 2 (1.093%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.546%) BS7799
System Software
1 33 (18.03%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.279%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.732%) ISA Server
4 3 (1.639%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.546%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.546%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (0.546%) XenApp
5 1 (0.546%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (4.918%) CiscoWorks
2 6 (3.279%) SolarWinds Orion
3 4 (2.186%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.546%) Cisco IPCC
4 1 (0.546%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 158 (86.34%) Cisco
2 67 (36.61%) CheckPoint
3 49 (26.78%) Juniper
4 45 (24.59%) F5
5 29 (15.85%) Blue Coat
6 26 (14.21%) NetApp
7 23 (12.57%) Websense
8 20 (10.93%) Nokia
9 17 (9.290%) McAfee
10 15 (8.197%) Microsoft
11 12 (6.557%) Remedy
12 11 (6.011%) VMware
13 9 (4.918%) HP
13 9 (4.918%) Fortinet
14 8 (4.372%) Citrix
15 7 (3.825%) Riverbed
16 6 (3.279%) LogLogic
16 6 (3.279%) SolarWinds
16 6 (3.279%) IronPort
16 6 (3.279%) Q1 Labs
Birmingham, West Midlands
My South Birmingham based client is seeking a Senior Network / Checkpoint Firewall Engineer to join their growing business and IT team, supporting business IT Operations to a first...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
You will contribute as a technical resource to their project roadmap, both as a technical lead and with planning / network design. This role is suitable for a Network...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Solihull, West Midlands (County)
They provide bespoke IP and Network requirements on a national and international level and due to rapid growth, along with an internal promotion, are currently looking for a...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Solihull, West Midlands (County)
They provide bespoke IP and Network requirements on a national and international level and due to rapid growth, along with an internal promotion, are currently looking for a...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Skills and Experience: Cisco, ASA, ACE, FortiNet, Juniper, Blue Screen network knowledge and experience in a multi-tenant environment Experience of design document production to support commercial bids...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £50K basic + Car Allow + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Skills and Experience: Cisco, ASA, ACE, FortiNet, Juniper, Blue Screen network knowledge and experience in a multi-tenant environment Experience of design document production to support commercial bids...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £50K basic + Car Allow + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013