Communications & Computer Network Statistics in the North East

Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Broadband	42	+41	£25,087	-49.82%	43 3.67%	6
Firewall	46	-2	£32,500	-18.75%	39 3.32%	11
TCP/IP	60	+16	£29,000	-58.15%	25 2.13%	7
Internet	62	+12	£30,500	-55.99%	23 1.96%	13
DNS	65	+11	£47,500	+35.71%	20 1.71%	10
VPN	68	0	£58,750	+56.66%	17 1.45%	6
VLAN	72	-	£29,000	-	13 1.11%	4
Wi-Fi	73	+7	£48,445	-	12 1.02%	4
Wireless	73	-4	£29,000	-63.75%	12 1.02%	9
VoIP	77	+1	£33,500	-25.55%	8 0.68%	3
LAN	77	-11	£65,000	+46.06%	8 0.68%	5
WAN	78	-10	£65,000	+73.33%	7 0.60%	4
PSTN	79	+4	£33,500	-25.55%	6 0.51%
Asterisk PBX	79	-	£33,500	-	6 0.51%
Network Security	79	-7	£50,000	+17.64%	6 0.51%	2
OSPF	80	+3	-	-	5 0.43%
BGP	80	+3	-	-	5 0.43%
DHCP	80	-3	£26,000	-36.96%	5 0.43%	8
HTTP	80	-	£47,500	-	5 0.43%	1
Cisco Nexus	80	+2	-	-	5 0.43%
WAAS	81	-	-	-	4 0.34%
Cisco Wireless	81	-	-	-	4 0.34%
VXLAN	81	-1	£48,445	-	4 0.34%	1
Wireless Security	81	-	-	-	4 0.34%
Cisco ASA	81	-	-	-	4 0.34%
EIGRP	81	-	-	-	4 0.34%
SNMP	81	-	-	-	4 0.34%
SAN	82	-10	£85,000	+94.28%	3 0.26%	2
Wireshark	82	-2	£48,445	-	3 0.26%
Remote Desktop	82	-1	-	-	3 0.26%
NGFW	82	-2	£48,445	-	3 0.26%
Reverse Proxy	83	-	£45,000	-	2 0.17%	1
STUN	83	-	£45,000	-	2 0.17%	1
DMZ	83	-	£45,000	-	2 0.17%	1
WLAN	84	-2	-	-	1 0.085%	1
IPsec	84	-	-	-	1 0.085%
Spanning Tree	84	-	-	-	1 0.085%
SD-WAN	84	-7	£65,000	+46.06%	1 0.085%	2