Ethernet
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Ethernet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Ethernet over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 646 721 884
Rank change year-on-year +75 +163 -266
Permanent jobs citing Ethernet 273 241 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.01% 1.55% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 210 157 276
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,750 £32,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £82,500 £77,813
90th Percentile £72,500 £90,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £38,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -23.00% -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Ethernet is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,562 15,535 22,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.13% 15.99% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,412 7,743 11,780
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

Ethernet
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Ethernet in the UK

Ethernet
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ethernet.

Salary trend for Ethernet in the UK

Ethernet
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ethernet over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Ethernet in the UK

Ethernet
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ethernet within the UK over the 6 months to 29 May 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 +102 237 £49,500 +3.13% 147
UK excluding London +62 228 £49,500 +28.57% 133
Work from Home +77 110 £55,000 -31.25% 50
North of England +59 54 £40,000 +6.67% 26
North West +33 43 £40,000 -28.89% 14
London +100 41 £70,000 - 17
South East -22 41 £50,000 +58.73% 37
East of England +29 37 £55,000 +39.24% 13
Midlands -16 34 £35,000 -50.00% 36
West Midlands -3 30 £35,000 -30.00% 19
South West -9 27 £40,000 -27.27% 15
Scotland -40 24 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Wales - 11 £50,000 - 3
Yorkshire +80 10 £50,000 - 7
East Midlands -23 4 £36,500 -47.86% 17
North East -10 1 £79,932 +113.15% 6

Ethernet
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 16 (5.86%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.56%) WinCC
3 2 (0.73%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.37%) Confluence
4 1 (0.37%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (5.13%) OrCAD
2 13 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.56%) Simulink
4 5 (1.83%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.83%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (1.47%) CANalyzer
5 4 (1.47%) Windchill
6 3 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.73%) Abaqus
7 2 (0.73%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.83%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (10.26%) Azure
2 24 (8.79%) AWS
3 20 (7.33%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (5.86%) Entra ID
5 8 (2.93%) GCP
6 6 (2.20%) OneDrive
7 5 (1.83%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (1.83%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.73%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (0.73%) GitHub
8 2 (0.73%) OCI
8 2 (0.73%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.37%) IaaS
9 1 (0.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 86 (31.50%) TCP/IP
2 74 (27.11%) Wi-Fi
3 69 (25.27%) Wireless
4 68 (24.91%) WAN
5 66 (24.18%) LAN
6 53 (19.41%) MPLS
7 51 (18.68%) BGP
8 50 (18.32%) OSPF
9 49 (17.95%) RS-232
10 42 (15.38%) DHCP
11 41 (15.02%) Firewall
12 36 (13.19%) Internet
13 29 (10.62%) VLAN
14 24 (8.79%) DSL
14 24 (8.79%) VPN
15 17 (6.23%) DNS
16 16 (5.86%) SD-WAN
17 13 (4.76%) Profibus
18 11 (4.03%) Unified Communications
19 10 (3.66%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.47%) MySQL
1 4 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.47%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.10%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.37%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 24 (8.79%) Git
2 10 (3.66%) LabVIEW
3 8 (2.93%) Subversion
4 7 (2.56%) Visual Studio
5 6 (2.20%) CANoe
6 5 (1.83%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.83%) JIRA
7 4 (1.47%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.10%) Rational Rhapsody
8 3 (1.10%) Rational Team Concert
9 2 (0.73%) PetaLinux
10 1 (0.37%) GitLab
10 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (22.71%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.34%) Electronics
3 59 (21.61%) Manufacturing
4 34 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (12.45%) Finance
5 18 (6.59%) Automotive
6 15 (5.49%) Aerospace
7 13 (4.76%) Telecoms
8 11 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (3.66%) Military
9 10 (3.66%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (3.30%) Retail
11 8 (2.93%) Law
11 8 (2.93%) Marketing
12 7 (2.56%) Aviation
12 7 (2.56%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.83%) Banking
14 4 (1.47%) Legal
14 4 (1.47%) Multimedia
15 3 (1.10%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 64 (23.44%) Software Engineer
2 61 (22.34%) Network Engineer
3 57 (20.88%) Senior
4 41 (15.02%) Embedded Engineer
5 36 (13.19%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 26 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
7 25 (9.16%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 24 (8.79%) Support Engineer
9 23 (8.42%) Hardware Engineer
10 21 (7.69%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 18 (6.59%) IP Engineer
11 18 (6.59%) IP Network Engineer
12 16 (5.86%) Cisco Engineer
12 16 (5.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 16 (5.86%) Juniper Engineer
12 16 (5.86%) Technical Engineer
13 15 (5.49%) Technical Support
13 15 (5.49%) Technical Support Engineer
14 14 (5.13%) Support Technician
14 14 (5.13%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.59%) Yocto
2 15 (5.49%) .NET
3 6 (2.20%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.83%) Qt
5 4 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web API
5 4 (1.47%) Flash
5 4 (1.47%) WCF
5 4 (1.47%) Web Services
5 4 (1.47%) WinForms
6 3 (1.10%) NETCONF
6 3 (1.10%) POSIX
6 3 (1.10%) RESTCONF
7 2 (0.73%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.73%) CSS
7 2 (0.73%) DPDK
7 2 (0.73%) eBPF
7 2 (0.73%) HTML
7 2 (0.73%) HTML5
7 2 (0.73%) OpenMP
8 1 (0.37%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.62%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (9.89%) PCIe
3 26 (9.52%) FPGA
4 17 (6.23%) Data Centre
4 17 (6.23%) Embedded Systems
5 16 (5.86%) Driving Licence
6 15 (5.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (5.13%) Algorithms
7 14 (5.13%) Device Driver
8 12 (4.40%) Analogue Electronics
8 12 (4.40%) SCADA
9 9 (3.30%) CCTV
9 9 (3.30%) IoT
9 9 (3.30%) Video Conferencing
10 8 (2.93%) VHDL
11 7 (2.56%) Robotics
12 6 (2.20%) Infotainment
13 5 (1.83%) ARM Cortex
13 5 (1.83%) Management Information System
14 4 (1.47%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 62 (22.71%) Linux
2 31 (11.36%) Windows
3 19 (6.96%) Embedded Linux
4 18 (6.59%) VyOS
5 12 (4.40%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.56%) VxWorks
7 6 (2.20%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.83%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.47%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.10%) Android
10 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.73%) Solaris
11 2 (0.73%) SUSE
11 2 (0.73%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.37%) Debian
12 1 (0.37%) Fedora
12 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (34.07%) Software Engineering
2 58 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (13.92%) Customer Service
4 31 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
5 30 (10.99%) Computer Science
6 23 (8.42%) Validation
7 18 (6.59%) Mentoring
7 18 (6.59%) Software Testing
8 16 (5.86%) Customer Requirements
9 15 (5.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (5.49%) Embedded Software Development
9 15 (5.49%) Schematic Capture
10 14 (5.13%) Agile
10 14 (5.13%) Coaching
10 14 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (5.13%) Network Management
11 13 (4.76%) OOD
11 13 (4.76%) Project Management
11 13 (4.76%) UML
12 12 (4.40%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 68 (24.91%) C
2 31 (11.36%) Python
3 27 (9.89%) Embedded C
4 24 (8.79%) C#
4 24 (8.79%) C++
5 13 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 11 (4.03%) SQL
7 8 (2.93%) Bash
8 7 (2.56%) Embedded C++
8 7 (2.56%) MATLAB
8 7 (2.56%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.47%) Java
10 3 (1.10%) Ada
10 3 (1.10%) Assembly Language
10 3 (1.10%) Go
10 3 (1.10%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.73%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.73%) Ladder Logic
11 2 (0.73%) Perl
11 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 92 (33.70%) Degree
2 36 (13.19%) Cisco Certification
3 29 (10.62%) Security Cleared
4 27 (9.89%) CCNA
5 26 (9.52%) JNCIA
6 13 (4.76%) HNC
7 12 (4.40%) SC Cleared
8 11 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (3.30%) CCNP
10 8 (2.93%) Master's Degree
11 7 (2.56%) HND
11 7 (2.56%) JNCIP
12 6 (2.20%) CCDP
13 4 (1.47%) BICSI RCDD
13 4 (1.47%) Chartered Engineer
14 3 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (1.10%) DV Cleared
15 1 (0.37%) JNCIE
15 1 (0.37%) JNCIS
15 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.03%) GDPR
2 8 (2.93%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 8 (2.93%) ISO 13485
2 8 (2.93%) ISO 26262
2 8 (2.93%) JTAG
3 4 (1.47%) AUTOSAR
3 4 (1.47%) MISRA
3 4 (1.47%) PMO
4 3 (1.10%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.10%) SLA
5 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 45 (16.48%) Firmware
2 13 (4.76%) Embedded Firmware
3 10 (3.66%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (2.20%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.10%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.73%) Lustre
7 2 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.37%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.37%) Docker
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (5.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.47%) Functional Safety
3 3 (1.10%) Autotask
3 3 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.10%) FortiGate
3 3 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (1.10%) SCCM
3 3 (1.10%) Wonderware InTouch
4 2 (0.73%) Nagios
4 2 (0.73%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 61 (22.34%) Cisco
2 43 (15.75%) Juniper
3 33 (12.09%) Microsoft
4 31 (11.36%) Nokia
5 26 (9.52%) Fortinet
5 26 (9.52%) Ruckus Wireless
6 18 (6.59%) Vyatta
7 13 (4.76%) EMC
8 12 (4.40%) Siemens
9 10 (3.66%) Meraki
9 10 (3.66%) SolarWinds
9 10 (3.66%) VMware
10 8 (2.93%) Rockwell
11 7 (2.56%) Draytek
11 7 (2.56%) HP
11 7 (2.56%) QNX
11 7 (2.56%) SAP
12 6 (2.20%) Intel
12 6 (2.20%) Sage
12 6 (2.20%) Xilinx