Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an ICT network administrator can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an ICT network administrator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

ICT network administrators maintain operation of a reliable, secure, and efficient data communications network, including LAN, WAN, intranet, and internet. They perform network address assignment, management and implementation of routing protocols such as ISIS, OSPF, BGP, routing table configurations and certain implementations of authentication. They perform maintenance and administration of servers (file servers, VPN gateways, intrusion detection systems), desktop computers, printers, routers, switches, firewalls, phones, IP communications, personal digital assistants, smartphones, software deployment, security updates and patches as well as a vast array of additional technologies inclusive of both hardware and software.

Also known as network manager, network specialist, network administrators, network support, networks administrator.

Professionals 98 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: numerical tool and process control programmer, 69%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
numerical tool and process co… 69% covered ICT network technician 67% covered computer-aided design operator 62% covered ICT technician 57% covered ICT network engineer 56% covered ICT network administrator You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from ICT network administrator, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an ICT network administrator already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An ICT network administrator needs 34 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • define firewall rules working with computers
  • manage email hosting service working with computers
  • manage ICT virtualisation environments working with computers
  • solution deployment information and communication technologies (icts)
  • adjust ICT system capacity working with computers
  • maintain internet protocol configuration working with computers
  • analyse network bandwidth requirements working with computers
  • forecast future ICT network needs information skills
  • implement ICT network diagnostic tools working with computers
  • apply ICT system usage policies assisting and caring
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an ICT network administrator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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ICT network administrator is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an ICT network administrator’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.