Aberdeen TCP/IP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the Aberdeen region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alfreton Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Blandford Forum Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Cheshunt Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham Elland Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horley Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughton Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Nantwich Nelson Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northolt Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paignton Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Redruth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Andrews St Asaph St Austell St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke Mandeville Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Torquay Tring Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Wirral Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	28
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching permanent IT job ads	10	13
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	10.99 %	20.00 %
Salaries quoted	7	8
Average minimum salary	£29,857	£36,000
Average salary	£31,143	£40,113
% change on same period last year	-22.36 %
Average maximum salary	£32,429	£44,225
UK excluding London average salary	£31,724	£33,636
% change on same period last year	-5.68 %
Communications & Networking Aberdeen
Matching permanent IT job ads	91	65
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.048 %	0.027 %
Salaries quoted	48	41
Average minimum salary	£42,624	£32,348
Average salary	£44,589	£35,271
% change on same period last year	+26.41 %
Average maximum salary	£46,554	£38,195
UK excluding London average salary	£37,397	£39,734
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
TCP/IP Scotland

TCP/IP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

TCP/IP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Aberdeen region.

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing TCP/IP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited TCP/IP.

1 31 (83.78 %) Windows 2 27 (72.97 %) Linux 3 21 (56.76 %) SCADA 4 20 (54.05 %) C++ 5 10 (27.03 %) Active Directory 6 7 (18.92 %) Cisco Certification 6 7 (18.92 %) VMware 6 7 (18.92 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 7 (18.92 %) CCNA 6 7 (18.92 %) Firewall 7 6 (16.22 %) VERITAS 8 5 (13.51 %) Telecoms 8 5 (13.51 %) MCDST 8 5 (13.51 %) Windows 2000 8 5 (13.51 %) Exchange Server 2000

8 5 (13.51 %) VMware Infrastructure 9 4 (10.81 %) Microsoft Certification 10 3 (8.108 %) Windows Server 2003 10 3 (8.108 %) WAN 10 3 (8.108 %) Cisco 10 3 (8.108 %) MCSE 10 3 (8.108 %) MCP 11 2 (5.405 %) UNIX 11 2 (5.405 %) Oracle 11 2 (5.405 %) SQL Server 11 2 (5.405 %) Perl 11 2 (5.405 %) Solaris 11 2 (5.405 %) Windows NT 11 2 (5.405 %) HTTP 11 2 (5.405 %) SAN

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing TCP/IP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited TCP/IP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.703 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 7 (18.92 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 5 (13.51 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (2.703 %) Apache 3 1 (2.703 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (2.703 %) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications 1 1 (2.703 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 7 (18.92 %) Firewall 2 3 (8.108 %) WAN 3 2 (5.405 %) HTTP 3 2 (5.405 %) LAN 3 2 (5.405 %) SAN 4 1 (2.703 %) VPN 4 1 (2.703 %) DNS 4 1 (2.703 %) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (5.405 %) SQL Server 2 1 (2.703 %) RDBMS	General 1 5 (13.51 %) Telecoms 2 1 (2.703 %) Insurance 2 1 (2.703 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 13 (35.14 %) Developer 1 13 (35.14 %) C++ Developer 2 7 (18.92 %) Junior Software Engineer 2 7 (18.92 %) Junior 2 7 (18.92 %) Software Engineer 3 5 (13.51 %) Field Engineer 4 4 (10.81 %) Support Analyst 4 4 (10.81 %) Administrator 4 4 (10.81 %) Analyst 5 3 (8.108 %) Network Administrator 6 2 (5.405 %) IT Support Analyst 6 2 (5.405 %) Network Engineer 6 2 (5.405 %) Infrastructure Engineer 7 1 (2.703 %) PC Support 7 1 (2.703 %) Server Administrator 7 1 (2.703 %) UNIX Support 7 1 (2.703 %) Linux Support	Miscellaneous 1 21 (56.76 %) SCADA 2 1 (2.703 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 31 (83.78 %) Windows 2 27 (72.97 %) Linux 3 5 (13.51 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (8.108 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (5.405 %) UNIX 5 2 (5.405 %) Solaris 5 2 (5.405 %) Windows NT 6 1 (2.703 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (2.703 %) Resource Management
Programming Languages 1 20 (54.05 %) C++ 2 2 (5.405 %) Perl 3 1 (2.703 %) SQL 3 1 (2.703 %) VB 3 1 (2.703 %) Python 3 1 (2.703 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 7 (18.92 %) CCNA 1 7 (18.92 %) Cisco Certification 2 5 (13.51 %) MCDST 3 4 (10.81 %) Microsoft Certification 4 3 (8.108 %) MCP 4 3 (8.108 %) MCSE 5 2 (5.405 %) CCNP 6 1 (2.703 %) Degree
System Software 1 10 (27.03 %) Active Directory 2 5 (13.51 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (2.703 %) NFS 3 1 (2.703 %) Samba 3 1 (2.703 %) NetBackup 3 1 (2.703 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 1 (2.703 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 7 (18.92 %) VMware 2 6 (16.22 %) VERITAS 3 3 (8.108 %) Cisco 4 2 (5.405 %) Citrix 4 2 (5.405 %) Novell 4 2 (5.405 %) Red Hat 4 2 (5.405 %) Oracle 5 1 (2.703 %) Symantec 5 1 (2.703 %) Microsoft