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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 639 740 877
Rank change year-on-year +101 +137 -268
Permanent jobs citing Ethernet 271 255 359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.99% 1.60% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 215 166 269
10th Percentile £31,000 £30,750 £32,400
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £62,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £105,000 £86,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £37,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -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 13,628 15,972 20,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.82% 15.39% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,500 8,150 11,820
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -

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 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Ethernet in the UK

Ethernet
Top 15 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 3 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 +118 231 £45,000 -5.26% 156
UK excluding London +84 231 £50,000 +33.33% 153
Work from Home +116 114 £57,500 -28.13% 53
North of England +74 54 £40,000 +6.67% 21
North West +42 45 £40,000 -15.79% 11
Midlands +17 39 £45,000 +20.00% 39
East of England +45 37 £55,000 +41.94% 22
South East -16 37 £50,000 +58.73% 46
London +114 35 £70,000 -6.67% 17
West Midlands +15 34 £45,000 +20.00% 21
Scotland -39 27 £60,000 +34.08% 15
South West -15 26 £40,000 -13.42% 12
Wales - 11 £50,000 - 1
Yorkshire +76 9 £50,000 +56.25% 5
East Midlands - 5 £52,500 - 18

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 15 (5.54%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.85%) WinCC
3 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
Applications
1 15 (5.54%) OrCAD
2 10 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.95%) Simulink
4 6 (2.21%) CANalyzer
5 5 (1.85%) SOLIDWORKS
6 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (1.48%) Windchill
7 3 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.74%) Abaqus
8 2 (0.74%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (9.59%) Azure
2 21 (7.75%) AWS
2 21 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (5.54%) Entra ID
4 7 (2.58%) GCP
5 5 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (1.85%) Google Workspace
5 5 (1.85%) OneDrive
6 2 (0.74%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (0.74%) GitHub
6 2 (0.74%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 84 (31.00%) TCP/IP
2 79 (29.15%) Wi-Fi
3 69 (25.46%) Wireless
4 68 (25.09%) WAN
5 66 (24.35%) LAN
6 51 (18.82%) MPLS
7 49 (18.08%) OSPF
7 49 (18.08%) RS-232
8 47 (17.34%) BGP
9 42 (15.50%) DHCP
10 40 (14.76%) Firewall
11 34 (12.55%) Internet
12 29 (10.70%) VLAN
13 25 (9.23%) DSL
14 20 (7.38%) VPN
15 17 (6.27%) SD-WAN
16 16 (5.90%) DNS
17 11 (4.06%) Profibus
18 10 (3.69%) SMTP
18 10 (3.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.21%) MySQL
2 4 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.48%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.74%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.74%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.37%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 23 (8.49%) Git
2 10 (3.69%) LabVIEW
3 8 (2.95%) CANoe
4 7 (2.58%) Subversion
5 4 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.48%) JIRA
5 4 (1.48%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.11%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.11%) Rational Rhapsody
6 3 (1.11%) Rational Team Concert
7 2 (0.74%) PetaLinux
8 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (23.99%) Manufacturing
2 62 (22.88%) Electronics
3 61 (22.51%) Social Skills
4 35 (12.92%) Finance
5 34 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (7.75%) Automotive
7 16 (5.90%) Telecoms
8 14 (5.17%) Aerospace
9 11 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (3.69%) Marketing
10 10 (3.69%) Military
11 9 (3.32%) Public Sector
11 9 (3.32%) Retail
12 8 (2.95%) Law
13 7 (2.58%) Aviation
13 7 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.85%) Banking
14 5 (1.85%) Multimedia
15 4 (1.48%) Legal
16 2 (0.74%) Billing
Job Titles
1 67 (24.72%) Software Engineer
2 61 (22.51%) Senior
3 57 (21.03%) Network Engineer
4 45 (16.61%) Embedded Engineer
5 40 (14.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 29 (10.70%) Senior Software Engineer
7 28 (10.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 25 (9.23%) Support Engineer
9 24 (8.86%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 23 (8.49%) Hardware Engineer
11 19 (7.01%) IP Engineer
11 19 (7.01%) IP Network Engineer
12 16 (5.90%) Cisco Engineer
12 16 (5.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 16 (5.90%) Juniper Engineer
12 16 (5.90%) Technical Engineer
13 15 (5.54%) Network Support
13 15 (5.54%) Technical Support
13 15 (5.54%) Technical Support Engineer
14 14 (5.17%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.01%) Yocto
2 13 (4.80%) .NET
3 6 (2.21%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.85%) Qt
5 4 (1.48%) ASP.NET Web API
5 4 (1.48%) Flash
5 4 (1.48%) WCF
5 4 (1.48%) Web Services
5 4 (1.48%) WinForms
6 3 (1.11%) POSIX
7 2 (0.74%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.74%) CSS
7 2 (0.74%) DPDK
7 2 (0.74%) eBPF
7 2 (0.74%) HTML
7 2 (0.74%) HTML5
7 2 (0.74%) NETCONF
7 2 (0.74%) OpenMP
7 2 (0.74%) RESTCONF
8 1 (0.37%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.70%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (9.96%) PCIe
3 26 (9.59%) FPGA
4 19 (7.01%) Embedded Systems
5 17 (6.27%) Data Centre
6 15 (5.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (5.54%) Device Driver
7 14 (5.17%) Algorithms
7 14 (5.17%) Driving Licence
8 12 (4.43%) Analogue Electronics
9 9 (3.32%) CCTV
9 9 (3.32%) IoT
9 9 (3.32%) Video Conferencing
10 8 (2.95%) VHDL
11 7 (2.58%) Infotainment
11 7 (2.58%) Robotics
11 7 (2.58%) SCADA
12 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.85%) Smartphone
13 4 (1.48%) CAN bus
Operating Systems
1 61 (22.51%) Linux
2 28 (10.33%) Windows
3 20 (7.38%) Embedded Linux
4 19 (7.01%) VyOS
5 11 (4.06%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.21%) Android
6 6 (2.21%) FreeRTOS
6 6 (2.21%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.48%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.48%) VxWorks
9 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.74%) Solaris
10 2 (0.74%) SUSE
10 2 (0.74%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.37%) Debian
11 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.37%) Windows NT
11 1 (0.37%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (34.32%) Software Engineering
2 61 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (14.76%) Customer Service
4 34 (12.55%) Cybersecurity
5 28 (10.33%) Computer Science
6 22 (8.12%) Validation
7 17 (6.27%) Embedded Software Development
8 16 (5.90%) Customer Requirements
8 16 (5.90%) Mentoring
8 16 (5.90%) Schematic Capture
8 16 (5.90%) Software Testing
9 15 (5.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (5.54%) OOD
10 14 (5.17%) Design for Manufacturing
10 14 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (4.80%) Project Management
11 13 (4.80%) Software Architecture
11 13 (4.80%) UML
12 12 (4.43%) Agile
12 12 (4.43%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (26.57%) C
2 33 (12.18%) Python
3 28 (10.33%) Embedded C
4 22 (8.12%) C#
5 20 (7.38%) C++
6 13 (4.80%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.69%) SQL
8 8 (2.95%) Bash
8 8 (2.95%) MATLAB
9 7 (2.58%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.21%) Java
11 5 (1.85%) Embedded C++
12 3 (1.11%) Ada
12 3 (1.11%) Assembly Language
13 2 (0.74%) Go
13 2 (0.74%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.74%) Ladder Logic
13 2 (0.74%) Perl
13 2 (0.74%) PHP
13 2 (0.74%) VB
Qualifications
1 90 (33.21%) Degree
2 35 (12.92%) Cisco Certification
3 30 (11.07%) Security Cleared
4 28 (10.33%) JNCIA
5 27 (9.96%) CCNA
6 13 (4.80%) HNC
6 13 (4.80%) SC Cleared
7 11 (4.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (3.32%) CCNP
9 8 (2.95%) Master's Degree
10 7 (2.58%) HND
10 7 (2.58%) JNCIP
11 6 (2.21%) CCDP
12 4 (1.48%) BICSI RCDD
12 4 (1.48%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.11%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.37%) JNCIE
14 1 (0.37%) JNCIS
14 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.69%) GDPR
1 10 (3.69%) ISO 26262
2 8 (2.95%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 8 (2.95%) ISO 13485
2 8 (2.95%) JTAG
3 4 (1.48%) AUTOSAR
3 4 (1.48%) MISRA
3 4 (1.48%) PMO
4 3 (1.11%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.11%) SLA
5 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 48 (17.71%) Firmware
2 15 (5.54%) Embedded Firmware
3 10 (3.69%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (2.21%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.74%) Lustre
6 2 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.37%) Docker
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.48%) FortiGate
2 4 (1.48%) Functional Safety
3 3 (1.11%) Autotask
3 3 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (1.11%) SCCM
3 3 (1.11%) Wonderware InTouch
4 2 (0.74%) Nagios
4 2 (0.74%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 63 (23.25%) Cisco
2 43 (15.87%) Juniper
3 33 (12.18%) Microsoft
4 31 (11.44%) Nokia
5 30 (11.07%) Fortinet
6 27 (9.96%) Ruckus Wireless
7 19 (7.01%) Vyatta
8 14 (5.17%) EMC
9 12 (4.43%) Meraki
10 10 (3.69%) Siemens
11 9 (3.32%) SAP
11 9 (3.32%) SolarWinds
11 9 (3.32%) VMware
12 8 (2.95%) HP
13 7 (2.58%) Aruba
13 7 (2.58%) QNX
14 6 (2.21%) Draytek
14 6 (2.21%) Rockwell
14 6 (2.21%) Xilinx
14 6 (2.21%) Yealink