Ethernet Job Trends in the Midlands

Ethernet
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Ethernet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 218 198
Rank change year-on-year +14 -20 +120
Permanent jobs citing Ethernet 22 37 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.29% 0.52% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.36% 3.69% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12 27 14
10th Percentile - £37,950 £30,750
25th Percentile £26,750 £48,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% +38.46%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £61,875
90th Percentile £57,250 - £125,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +17.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

Ethernet falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,613 1,003 960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 21.23% 14.02% 20.60%
Number of salaries quoted 445 429 826
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.11% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £51,500 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £66,500 £72,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £50,803
% change year-on-year -25.93% +6.29% -3.23%

Ethernet
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ethernet relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Ethernet job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Ethernet
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Ethernet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Ethernet

Ethernet
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ethernet in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Ethernet in the Midlands

Ethernet
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ethernet within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +33 21 £40,000 -23.81% 12
East Midlands -18 1 £55,000 - 8
Ethernet
England

Ethernet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
1 1 (4.55%) Figma
1 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) DNS
1 12 (54.55%) VoIP
2 10 (45.45%) Wireless
3 9 (40.91%) ADSL
3 9 (40.91%) DHCP
3 9 (40.91%) Internet
3 9 (40.91%) VDSL
3 9 (40.91%) VPN
4 7 (31.82%) Broadband
5 6 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (22.73%) PBX
7 4 (18.18%) Firewall
7 4 (18.18%) LAN
7 4 (18.18%) Profibus
7 4 (18.18%) WAN
8 3 (13.64%) Modbus
8 3 (13.64%) PSTN
9 2 (9.09%) MPLS
10 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
10 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 12 (54.55%) Manufacturing
3 5 (22.73%) Telecoms
4 3 (13.64%) Electronics
5 1 (4.55%) Advertising
5 1 (4.55%) Automotive
5 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Support Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Technical Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Technical Support
2 9 (40.91%) Technical Support Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Control Systems Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Network Support
5 1 (4.55%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) .NET
1 1 (4.55%) Material Design
1 1 (4.55%) WPF
1 1 (4.55%) XML
1 1 (4.55%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Onboarding
2 4 (18.18%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (18.18%) FPGA
2 4 (18.18%) SCADA
3 3 (13.64%) Driving Licence
4 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.55%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (31.82%) Customer Service
3 4 (18.18%) Customer Experience
4 3 (13.64%) Mechatronics
4 3 (13.64%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (13.64%) Validation
5 2 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (4.55%) Agile
6 1 (4.55%) High Availability
6 1 (4.55%) Matrix Organization
6 1 (4.55%) Migration
6 1 (4.55%) Scrum
6 1 (4.55%) Software Testing
6 1 (4.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (4.55%) User Experience
6 1 (4.55%) UX Design
6 1 (4.55%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) Ladder Logic
2 1 (4.55%) C#
2 1 (4.55%) XAML
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
1 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.55%) CCNA
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Panasonic
1 5 (22.73%) Samsung
2 4 (18.18%) Rockwell
2 4 (18.18%) Siemens
3 3 (13.64%) Allen-Bradley
3 3 (13.64%) Fortinet
4 2 (9.09%) Juniper
4 2 (9.09%) VMware
5 1 (4.55%) AVEVA
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco
5 1 (4.55%) Meraki
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft