Remote IT Employment Market Trends Analysis

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Firewall	107	Up 15 places+15	£50,000	-8.25%	635 2.48%	242
DNS	180	Up 24 places+24	£45,000	+12.50%	379 1.48%	162
VPN	190	Down 90 places-90	£47,500	-9.52%	356 1.39%	127
Network Security	192	Up 36 places+36	£65,000	-	343 1.34%	145
WAN	208	Down 23 places-23	£60,000	+4.34%	318 1.24%	97
LAN	218	Down 4 places-4	£55,000	-5.17%	301 1.18%	66
TCP/IP	226	Up 4 places+4	£40,000	-1.23%	290 1.13%	120
DHCP	233	Up 14 places+14	£42,250	+17.36%	276 1.08%	95
Broadband	257	Down 67 places-67	£55,000	+119.23%	234 0.91%	20
Wireless	268	Down 11 places-11	£57,500	+12.74%	219 0.86%	105
VLAN	281	Up 55 places+55	£50,000	+23.45%	201 0.79%	63
Wi-Fi	288	Down 19 places-19	£47,500	-5.00%	193 0.75%	72
Internet	315	Up 11 places+11	£53,750	+45.27%	158 0.62%	95
5G	356	Up 24 places+24	£85,000	-	113 0.44%	24
BGP	365	Down 20 places-20	£72,500	+5.07%	101 0.39%	41
SD-WAN	387	Down 125 places-125	£75,000	+3.44%	79 0.31%	48
VoIP	392	Down 67 places-67	£37,500	+1.35%	74 0.29%	36
HTTP	398	Down 20 places-20	£72,500	+68.60%	68 0.27%	36
Ethernet	400	Down 39 places-39	£56,250	-16.66%	66 0.26%	52
Unified Communications	408	Down 50 places-50	£65,000	+4.00%	58 0.23%	9
SMS	410	Down 16 places-16	£38,500	+28.33%	56 0.22%	12
SSL	413	Down 60 places-60	£68,500	+19.13%	53 0.21%	21
OSPF	415	Down 53 places-53	£78,000	+4.00%	51 0.20%	24
Modbus	419	Down 35 places-35	£54,000	-10.00%	47 0.18%	20
Cisco Nexus	421	Down 32 places-32	£80,000	+6.66%	45 0.18%	17
WLAN	421	Down 39 places-39	£65,576	-12.56%	45 0.18%	14
MPLS	423	Down 49 places-49	£72,500	+5.07%	43 0.17%	8
Intrusion Detection	426	Down 54 places-54	£55,000	-29.03%	40 0.16%	16
Intranet	432	Down 46 places-46	£50,000	+61.29%	34 0.13%	10
VXLAN	433	Down 38 places-38	£80,000	+1.58%	33 0.13%	6
SAN	436	Down 73 places-73	£53,050	+11.68%	30 0.12%	40
Cisco ISE	436	Down 43 places-43	£73,500	-2.00%	30 0.12%	13
Profibus	437	Down 41 places-41	£52,500	-34.37%	29 0.11%	7
Bluetooth	440	Down 55 places-55	£54,000	+5.88%	26 0.10%	7
LTE	441	Down 44 places-44	£54,000	-16.92%	25 0.098%	10
Ethernet VPN	442	New entry-	£71,538	-	24 0.094%	6
TETRA	442	Down 44 places-44	£47,208	-	24 0.094%	1
Cisco ASA	446	Down 66 places-66	£100,000	+42.85%	20 0.078%	8
FTP	447	Down 51 places-51	£72,500	+19.63%	19 0.074%	4
Structured Cabling	448	Down 53 places-53	£60,000	+33.33%	18 0.070%	29
NGFW	448	Down 50 places-50	£65,576	+38.05%	18 0.070%	4
Remote Desktop	449	Down 101 places-101	£37,500	+25.00%	17 0.066%	4
SSH	449	Down 59 places-59	£72,500	+24.22%	17 0.066%	11
Cisco Firepower	449	Down 64 places-64	£55,000	-15.38%	17 0.066%	8
SNMP	450	Down 58 places-58	£72,500	+19.63%	16 0.063%	8
AMQP	450	Down 52 places-52	£60,000	-5.88%	16 0.063%	1
EIGRP	451	Down 63 places-63	£55,000	-29.03%	15 0.059%	6
IPsec	451	Down 67 places-67	£72,500	+5.07%	15 0.059%	8
4G	452	Down 53 places-53	£100,000	-	14 0.055%	9
IP Telephony	453	Down 68 places-68	£28,500	-43.00%	13 0.051%	3