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The table below looks at the demand for Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IMAP over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkInternet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank228265
Rank change on same period last yearUp+37
Matching permanent IT job ads1221
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.008 %0.009 %
As % of the category below0.562 %0.709 %
Salaries quoted921
Average minimum salary£36,222£40,286
Average salary£39,889£43,714
% change on same period last year-8.75 %
Average maximum salary£43,556£47,143
UK excluding London average salary£32,295£40,782
% change on same period last year-20.81 %
Berkshire IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads21342962
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.377 %1.326 %
Salaries quoted17502330
Average minimum salary£38,859£39,456
Average salary£42,329£42,800
% change on same period last year-1.10 %
Average maximum salary£45,799£46,144
UK excluding London average salary£37,824£38,320
% change on same period last year-1.29 %
IMAP South EastIMAP
South East

IMAP
Demand Trend

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

Berkshire IMAP Demand Trend

IMAP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing IMAP across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire IMAP Salary Trend

IMAP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IMAP across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Berkshire IMAP Salary Histogram

IMAP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IMAP within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
ReadingNew entry-5£38,400-
SloughNew entry-2£35,000-
IMAP South EastIMAP
South East

IMAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing IMAP 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 IMAP.

114 (77.78 %)UNIX
213 (72.22 %)SMTP
312 (66.67 %)Windows
312 (66.67 %)MySQL
312 (66.67 %)Linux
312 (66.67 %)Internet
411 (61.11 %)Wireless
411 (61.11 %)Oracle
411 (61.11 %)Sybase
411 (61.11 %)HTTP
411 (61.11 %)DNS
510 (55.56 %)HTTPS
69 (50.00 %)Sun
69 (50.00 %)Solaris
75 (27.78 %)Telecoms
75 (27.78 %)SMS
84 (22.22 %)LDAP
84 (22.22 %)RTP
84 (22.22 %)H.323
92 (11.11 %)Perl
92 (11.11 %)Cisco
101 (5.556 %)Microsoft
101 (5.556 %)TCP/IP
101 (5.556 %)VPN
101 (5.556 %)WSDL
101 (5.556 %)WAP
101 (5.556 %)OpenVMS
101 (5.556 %)POP3
101 (5.556 %)DHCP
101 (5.556 %)PHP

IMAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing IMAP 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 IMAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Berkshire IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11 (5.556 %)J2EE
11 (5.556 %)XSD
11 (5.556 %)J2SE
11 (5.556 %)WAP
11 (5.556 %)WSDL
Berkshire IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (5.556 %)WebLogic
11 (5.556 %)Apache
11 (5.556 %)Tomcat
11 (5.556 %)MS Exchange
Berkshire IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11 (5.556 %)MS Visio
Berkshire IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
113 (72.22 %)SMTP
212 (66.67 %)Internet
311 (61.11 %)DNS
311 (61.11 %)Wireless
311 (61.11 %)HTTP
410 (55.56 %)HTTPS
55 (27.78 %)SMS
64 (22.22 %)LDAP
64 (22.22 %)RTP
64 (22.22 %)H.323
71 (5.556 %)Wi-Fi
71 (5.556 %)IP Telephony
71 (5.556 %)Cisco IPT
71 (5.556 %)3G
71 (5.556 %)Bluetooth
71 (5.556 %)GPRS
71 (5.556 %)POP3
71 (5.556 %)TCP/IP
71 (5.556 %)VPN
71 (5.556 %)DHCP
Berkshire IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
112 (66.67 %)MySQL
21 (5.556 %)Informix
Berkshire IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
11 (5.556 %)Subversion
Berkshire IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
15 (27.78 %)Telecoms
Berkshire IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
110 (55.56 %)Administrator
26 (33.33 %)Network Administrator
33 (16.67 %)Deployment Engineer
41 (5.556 %)Release Engineer
41 (5.556 %)UNIX Support
41 (5.556 %)Technical Specialist
41 (5.556 %)Technical Support Specialist
41 (5.556 %)UNIX Engineer
41 (5.556 %)UNIX Support Engineer
41 (5.556 %)Software Engineer
41 (5.556 %)Systems Administrator
41 (5.556 %)Technical Support
41 (5.556 %)Support Engineer
41 (5.556 %)Support Specialist
41 (5.556 %)Solutions Designer
Berkshire IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (5.556 %)PDA
Berkshire IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
114 (77.78 %)UNIX
212 (66.67 %)Windows
212 (66.67 %)Linux
39 (50.00 %)Solaris
41 (5.556 %)Windows XP
41 (5.556 %)OpenVMS
41 (5.556 %)Windows Server 2008
41 (5.556 %)Red Hat Linux
Berkshire IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11 (5.556 %)SOA
Berkshire IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12 (11.11 %)Perl
21 (5.556 %)PHP
21 (5.556 %)SQL
21 (5.556 %)Ruby
21 (5.556 %)Java
Berkshire IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
11 (5.556 %)Nagios
11 (5.556 %)Norton AntiVirus
Berkshire IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
111 (61.11 %)Oracle
111 (61.11 %)Sybase
29 (50.00 %)Sun
32 (11.11 %)Cisco
41 (5.556 %)Microsoft
41 (5.556 %)BEA
41 (5.556 %)Red Hat
41 (5.556 %)Symantec