IEEE 802.1X
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring 802.1X skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited 802.1X over the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 671 676 984
Rank change year-on-year +5 +308 -34
Permanent jobs citing 802.1X 95 54 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.10% 0.073%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.71% 0.39% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 72 51 61
10th Percentile £41,263 £32,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £39,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -20.75% -22.06%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,879 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £35,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year +69.01% -46.42% -22.06%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

802.1X falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 13,294 13,874 39,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.17% 26.19% 32.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,952 10,831 24,077
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,052 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,351 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +0.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £108,750 £106,289 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - - +9.52%

802.1X
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing 802.1X as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 802.1X in the UK

802.1X
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing 802.1X.

Salary trend for 802.1X in the UK

802.1X
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing 802.1X over the 6 months to 8 December 2024.

Salary histogram for 802.1X in the UK

802.1X
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing 802.1X within the UK over the 6 months to 8 December 2024. 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
England -27 82 £60,000 +20.00% 17
UK excluding London -26 69 £60,000 +69.01% 8
South East -12 47 £57,500 +61.97% 1
Work from Home +20 23 £67,500 +35.00% 11
London -27 14 £83,750 +32.38% 11
East of England - 9 £80,000 - 2
Midlands - 9 £45,000 - 2
East Midlands - 6 £45,000 - 1
South West +4 4 £55,000 +10.00%
West Midlands - 3 - - 1
Wales - 1 - - 1

802.1X
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (28.42%) Azure
2 12 (12.63%) Entra ID
3 11 (11.58%) AWS
4 6 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.11%) SaaS
6 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.05%) GCP
6 1 (1.05%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (71.58%) OSPF
2 58 (61.05%) BGP
3 53 (55.79%) VPN
4 47 (49.47%) IPsec
5 41 (43.16%) VLAN
6 40 (42.11%) TCP/IP
7 37 (38.95%) Firewall
8 36 (37.89%) Cisco Firepower
8 36 (37.89%) EIGRP
8 36 (37.89%) Ethernet
8 36 (37.89%) SSL
8 36 (37.89%) VXLAN
9 35 (36.84%) Cisco ASA
9 35 (36.84%) Ethernet VPN
9 35 (36.84%) RIP
9 35 (36.84%) Wireless
10 26 (27.37%) WAN
11 23 (24.21%) 802.11
12 21 (22.11%) DNS
13 20 (21.05%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.32%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (45.26%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.32%) Finance
2 6 (6.32%) Legal
2 6 (6.32%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.05%) Games
4 1 (1.05%) Multimedia
4 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (51.58%) Network Engineer
2 26 (27.37%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 10 (10.53%) Network Support
4 9 (9.47%) Consultant
4 9 (9.47%) Network Consultant
5 8 (8.42%) Analyst
5 8 (8.42%) Azure Consultant
5 8 (8.42%) Cisco Consultant
5 8 (8.42%) Cisco Network Consultant
5 8 (8.42%) Juniper Consultant
6 7 (7.37%) Network Specialist
7 6 (6.32%) Administrator
7 6 (6.32%) Architect
7 6 (6.32%) Network Analyst
7 6 (6.32%) Systems Administrator
8 5 (5.26%) Network Support Analyst
8 5 (5.26%) Senior
8 5 (5.26%) Support Analyst
9 4 (4.21%) Service Analyst
9 4 (4.21%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.32%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.05%) Data Centre
2 10 (10.53%) Driving Licence
3 7 (7.37%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.16%) Clustering
4 3 (3.16%) CMDB
4 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.05%) BYOD
5 1 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.05%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.79%) Windows
2 13 (13.68%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.16%) Linux
3 3 (3.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.37%) Agile
2 22 (23.16%) ITIL
3 21 (22.11%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (18.95%) Network Management
5 16 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (11.58%) Decision-Making
7 11 (11.58%) Roadmaps
8 10 (10.53%) Creative Thinking
8 10 (10.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 10 (10.53%) Mentoring
9 9 (9.47%) Analytics
9 9 (9.47%) Kalman Filter
10 8 (8.42%) Cloud Security
10 8 (8.42%) Technology Roadmap
10 8 (8.42%) WAN Optimisation
11 7 (7.37%) Customer Service
11 7 (7.37%) IT Strategy
12 6 (6.32%) Mobile Device Management
12 6 (6.32%) Stakeholder Identification
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.32%) Python
2 3 (3.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 56 (58.95%) Cisco Certification
2 48 (50.53%) Security Cleared
3 39 (41.05%) CCNA
4 35 (36.84%) DV Cleared
5 27 (28.42%) CCNP
6 11 (11.58%) CCIE
7 9 (9.47%) JNCIA
8 6 (6.32%) CISSP
9 5 (5.26%) SC Cleared
10 4 (4.21%) Degree
11 3 (3.16%) CCIE Wireless
12 2 (2.11%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (2.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (1.05%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 1 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (1.05%) QA
System Software
1 13 (13.68%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.53%) Firmware
3 4 (4.21%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.16%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.05%) KVM
5 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (5.26%) FortiGate
2 3 (3.16%) Ansible
2 3 (3.16%) Cisco CME
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.16%) SCCM
2 3 (3.16%) Terraform
2 3 (3.16%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.05%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 65 (68.42%) Cisco
2 50 (52.63%) Juniper
3 17 (17.89%) Microsoft
4 11 (11.58%) F5
4 11 (11.58%) Palo Alto
5 9 (9.47%) Aruba
5 9 (9.47%) HP
6 8 (8.42%) Arista
6 8 (8.42%) Riverbed
6 8 (8.42%) SolarWinds
7 6 (6.32%) Apple
7 6 (6.32%) Extreme Networks
7 6 (6.32%) Fortinet
8 4 (4.21%) VMware
9 3 (3.16%) Commvault
9 3 (3.16%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (3.16%) Sophos
9 3 (3.16%) Veeam
10 2 (2.11%) WatchGuard
11 1 (1.05%) Avaya