Communications & Computer Network Statistics in Essex

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Internet	13	Up 31 places+31	£30,000	-	142 11.60%	6
Broadband	41	Up 2 places+2	£35,000	-17.64%	39 3.19%	8
Firewall	58	Down -20 places-20	£32,500	+8.33%	21 1.72%	9
VPN	65	Down -27 places-27	£40,000	+33.33%	14 1.14%	2
WAN	66	Down -30 places-30	£36,500	+12.30%	13 1.06%	4
TCP/IP	68	Down -26 places-26	£40,000	-11.11%	11 0.90%	2
Wireless	70	Down -28 places-28	£40,000	-11.11%	9 0.74%	5
VoIP	70	New entry-	£32,500	-	9 0.74%	1
Wi-Fi	71	Down -32 places-32	£32,500	+16.07%	8 0.65%	3
LAN	72	Down -37 places-37	£36,500	+12.30%	7 0.57%	4
DHCP	72	Down -32 places-32	£75,000	+66.66%	7 0.57%	3
DNS	72	Down -32 places-32	£75,000	+66.66%	7 0.57%	3
SSL	74	Down -30 places-30	£67,500	+119.51%	5 0.41%
Software-Defined Radio	75	New entry-	£60,000	-	4 0.33%	1
FTP	75	Down -39 places-39	£48,750	+2.63%	4 0.33%	1
NFC	76	New entry-	£55,000	-	3 0.25%	1
Structured Cabling	76	New entry-	£26,250	-	3 0.25%
Network Security	77	Down -35 places-35	£45,000	+5.88%	2 0.16%	1
Unified Communications	78	New entry-	£27,500	-	1 0.082%
IPsec	78	New entry-	£62,500	-	1 0.082%
Cisco IOS	78	New entry-	£25,500	-	1 0.082%	1
Cisco ISE	78	New entry-	£62,500	-	1 0.082%
LTE	78	New entry-	£80,000	-	1 0.082%
MQTT	78	New entry-	-	-	1 0.082%
NAS	78	New entry-	£81,000	-	1 0.082%
Remote Desktop	78	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.082%
HTTP	78	Down -34 places-34	-	-	1 0.082%	1
SAN	78	New entry-	£81,000	-	1 0.082%
VLAN	78	Down -39 places-39	£40,000	+33.33%	1 0.082%	3