Ethernet Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Ethernet
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 170 166
Rank change year-on-year -30 -4 +24
Permanent jobs citing Ethernet 8 18 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.37% 0.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.39% 2.92% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 19
10th Percentile £45,625 £38,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £54,063 £43,750 £45,906
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £72,188 £61,250 £77,000
90th Percentile £73,875 £62,500 £105,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% -15.38% +44.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 574 616 696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.55% 12.71% 18.16%
Number of salaries quoted 268 346 492
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £63,750 £64,688 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £74,975
South East median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% - +5.26%

Ethernet
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Ethernet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Ethernet in the Thames Valley

Ethernet
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ethernet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Ethernet

Ethernet
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ethernet in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Ethernet in the Thames Valley

Ethernet
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ethernet within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Oxfordshire +33 6 £66,250 +32.50% 6
Berkshire -24 2 £58,750 +11.90% 7
Ethernet
South East

Ethernet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Internet
2 2 (25.00%) RS-485
3 1 (12.50%) Modbus
3 1 (12.50%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
2 3 (37.50%) Electronics
2 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Marketing
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Advertising
4 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 1 (12.50%) Automotive
4 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Field Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Control Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) FPGA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) FPGA/VHDL Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) VHDL Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) VHDL Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (37.50%) Virtual Team
2 2 (25.00%) FMCG
2 2 (25.00%) IoT
2 2 (25.00%) SCADA
3 1 (12.50%) CAN bus
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (12.50%) FPGA
3 1 (12.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (12.50%) Robotics
3 1 (12.50%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Validation
2 2 (25.00%) Design for Manufacturing
2 2 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (25.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (25.00%) Signal Processing
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Data Collection
3 1 (12.50%) Innovative Thinking
3 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (12.50%) Schematic Capture
3 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Supplier Management
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (12.50%) HNC
3 1 (12.50%) HND
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (25.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) EMC
2 2 (25.00%) Freescale
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Siemens
3 1 (12.50%) Allen-Bradley
3 1 (12.50%) Altera
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (12.50%) AVEVA
3 1 (12.50%) Rockwell