Communications & Computer Network Statistics in Essex

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Internet	11	Up 35 places+35	£30,000	-	143 12.14%	33
Broadband	38	Up 7 places+7	£42,500	-	36 3.06%	7
Firewall	54	Down -15 places-15	£32,500	+8.33%	19 1.61%	11
TCP/IP	59	Down -13 places-13	£40,500	-10.00%	14 1.19%	1
VPN	60	Down -20 places-20	£40,000	+33.33%	13 1.10%	4
WAN	62	Down -24 places-24	£36,500	+12.30%	11 0.93%	5
DHCP	64	Down -21 places-21	£42,000	-1.17%	9 0.76%	2
DNS	64	Down -21 places-21	£42,000	-1.17%	9 0.76%	2
Wireless	66	Down -20 places-20	£40,000	-11.11%	7 0.59%	9
LAN	67	Down -30 places-30	£38,250	+17.69%	6 0.51%	5
VoIP	67	New entry-	£32,500	-	6 0.51%	2
FTP	67	Down -29 places-29	£48,750	+2.63%	6 0.51%
Wi-Fi	67	Down -26 places-26	£32,500	+16.07%	6 0.51%	6
SSL	68	Down -22 places-22	£67,500	+119.51%	5 0.42%
Software-Defined Radio	70	New entry-	£60,000	-	3 0.25%	4
NFC	70	New entry-	£55,000	-	3 0.25%
Structured Cabling	70	New entry-	£26,250	-	3 0.25%
Network Security	71	Down -27 places-27	£45,000	+5.88%	2 0.17%	2
LTE	72	New entry-	£80,000	-	1 0.085%	1
MQTT	72	New entry-	-	-	1 0.085%	1
NAS	72	New entry-	£81,000	-	1 0.085%
Remote Desktop	72	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.085%
HTTP	72	Down -26 places-26	-	-	1 0.085%	1
SAN	72	New entry-	£81,000	-	1 0.085%
VLAN	72	Down -31 places-31	£40,000	+33.33%	1 0.085%	2
Unified Communications	72	New entry-	£27,500	-	1 0.085%
IPsec	72	New entry-	£62,500	-	1 0.085%
Cisco IOS	72	New entry-	£25,500	-	1 0.085%	1
Cisco ISE	72	New entry-	£62,500	-	1 0.085%