Communications & Computer Network Statistics in Essex

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Internet	12	Up 35 places+35	£30,000	-	143 11.99%	34
Broadband	42	Up 4 places+4	£42,500	-	36 3.02%	67
Firewall	58	Down -17 places-17	£32,500	+8.33%	19 1.59%	9
TCP/IP	63	Down -16 places-16	£40,500	-10.00%	14 1.17%
VPN	64	Down -23 places-23	£40,000	+33.33%	13 1.09%	2
WAN	66	Down -27 places-27	£36,500	+12.30%	11 0.92%	4
DHCP	68	Down -23 places-23	£42,000	+15.06%	9 0.75%	1
DNS	68	Down -23 places-23	£42,000	+15.06%	9 0.75%	1
Wireless	70	Down -23 places-23	£40,000	-11.11%	7 0.59%	9
LAN	71	Down -33 places-33	£38,250	+17.69%	6 0.50%	4
VoIP	71	New entry-	£32,500	-	6 0.50%	2
FTP	71	Down -32 places-32	£48,750	+2.63%	6 0.50%
Wi-Fi	71	Down -28 places-28	£32,500	+16.07%	6 0.50%	5
SSL	72	Down -25 places-25	£67,500	+119.51%	5 0.42%	7
Software-Defined Radio	74	New entry-	£60,000	-	3 0.25%	4
NFC	74	New entry-	£55,000	-	3 0.25%
Structured Cabling	74	New entry-	£26,250	-	3 0.25%
Network Security	75	Down -30 places-30	£45,000	+5.88%	2 0.17%	2
MQTT	76	New entry-	-	-	1 0.084%	1
NAS	76	New entry-	£81,000	-	1 0.084%
Remote Desktop	76	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.084%
HTTP	76	Down -29 places-29	-	-	1 0.084%	1
SAN	76	New entry-	£81,000	-	1 0.084%
VLAN	76	Down -34 places-34	£40,000	+33.33%	1 0.084%	2
Unified Communications	76	New entry-	£27,500	-	1 0.084%
IPsec	76	New entry-	£62,500	-	1 0.084%
Cisco IOS	76	New entry-	£25,500	-	1 0.084%	1
Cisco ISE	76	New entry-	£62,500	-	1 0.084%
LTE	76	New entry-	£80,000	-	1 0.084%	1