Communications & Computer Network Statistics in Essex

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 16 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Internet	11	Up 34 places+34	£30,000	-	143 12.36%	33
Broadband	39	Up 5 places+5	£42,500	-	34 2.94%	6
Firewall	54	Down -16 places-16	£32,500	+8.33%	19 1.64%	10
TCP/IP	59	Down -14 places-14	£40,500	-10.00%	14 1.21%
VPN	61	Down -22 places-22	£40,500	+35.00%	12 1.04%	3
WAN	63	Down -26 places-26	£31,750	-2.30%	10 0.86%	5
DHCP	64	Down -23 places-23	£42,000	-1.17%	9 0.78%	1
DNS	64	Down -23 places-23	£42,000	-1.17%	9 0.78%	1
LAN	67	Down -31 places-31	£38,250	+17.69%	6 0.52%	5
VoIP	67	New entry-	£32,500	-	6 0.52%	2
FTP	67	Down -30 places-30	£48,750	+2.63%	6 0.52%
Wi-Fi	67	Down -26 places-26	£32,500	+16.07%	6 0.52%	7
Wireless	67	Down -22 places-22	£38,250	-15.00%	6 0.52%	9
SSL	68	Down -23 places-23	£67,500	+119.51%	5 0.43%
Structured Cabling	70	Down -24 places-24	£26,250	-17.96%	3 0.26%
Software-Defined Radio	70	New entry-	£60,000	-	3 0.26%	4
NFC	71	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.17%
Network Security	71	Down -28 places-28	£45,000	+5.88%	2 0.17%	3
Remote Desktop	72	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.086%
HTTP	72	Down -27 places-27	-	-	1 0.086%	1
SAN	72	New entry-	£81,000	-	1 0.086%
VLAN	72	Down -32 places-32	£40,000	+33.33%	1 0.086%	2
Unified Communications	72	New entry-	£27,500	-	1 0.086%
IPsec	72	New entry-	£62,500	-	1 0.086%
Cisco IOS	72	New entry-	£25,500	-	1 0.086%	1
Cisco ISE	72	New entry-	£62,500	-	1 0.086%
LTE	72	New entry-	£80,000	-	1 0.086%	1
MQTT	72	New entry-	-	-	1 0.086%	1
NAS	72	New entry-	£81,000	-	1 0.086%