Berkshire TCP/IP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) 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 TCP/IP over the 3 months to 23 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 Berkhamsted 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 Doncaster 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 Feltham 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 Leigh-on-Sea 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 Nuneaton 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 Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast 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 Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke Mandeville Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford 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 23 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	24
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching permanent IT job ads	568	821
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.299 %	0.337 %
As % of the category below	21.83 %	24.40 %
Salaries quoted	491	681
Average minimum salary	£32,884	£34,566
Average salary	£35,348	£37,372
% change on same period last year	-5.41 %
Average maximum salary	£37,813	£40,178
UK excluding London average salary	£31,653	£33,605
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Communications & Networking Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2602	3365
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.369 %	1.381 %
Salaries quoted	2212	2664
Average minimum salary	£38,363	£40,031
Average salary	£41,623	£43,396
% change on same period last year	-4.08 %
Average maximum salary	£44,883	£46,761
UK excluding London average salary	£37,420	£39,719
% change on same period last year	-5.78 %
TCP/IP South East

TCP/IP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 July 2008.

TCP/IP
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 July 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.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+10	226	£35,249	+0.65 %
Slough	-11	75	£36,701	-20.15 %
Newbury	+20	26	£25,214	-35.34 %
Maidenhead	-10	24	£34,543	+12.68 %
Bracknell	-7	15	£40,615	+5.02 %
Windsor	-9	5	£34,000	+9.35 %
Thatcham	-	1	£25,000	-

TCP/IP South East

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 July 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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.

1 489 (43.54 %) Windows 2 346 (30.81 %) Cisco 3 276 (24.58 %) UNIX 4 273 (24.31 %) Active Directory 5 258 (22.97 %) Firewall 6 243 (21.64 %) Linux 7 237 (21.10 %) Microsoft 8 231 (20.57 %) DNS 9 219 (19.50 %) WAN 10 213 (18.97 %) LAN 11 194 (17.28 %) MS Excel 12 175 (15.58 %) Internet 13 174 (15.49 %) MS Exchange 14 166 (14.78 %) Microsoft Certification 15 165 (14.69 %) DHCP

15 165 (14.69 %) C 16 159 (14.16 %) SQL 17 154 (13.71 %) Ethernet 18 153 (13.62 %) Perl 19 152 (13.54 %) MCSE 20 148 (13.18 %) Cisco Certification 21 138 (12.29 %) C++ 22 129 (11.49 %) VoIP 23 128 (11.40 %) VPN 24 124 (11.04 %) Windows 2000 25 121 (10.77 %) Solaris 26 119 (10.60 %) MS Office 27 115 (10.24 %) Windows XP 28 108 (9.617 %) CCNA 29 107 (9.528 %) Exchange Server 2003

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 July 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 55 (4.898 %) XML 2 46 (4.096 %) HTML 3 37 (3.295 %) MAPI 4 34 (3.028 %) .NET 5 30 (2.671 %) J2EE 6 28 (2.493 %) Servlets 7 27 (2.404 %) JSP 8 24 (2.137 %) AWT 8 24 (2.137 %) Swing 8 24 (2.137 %) CSS 9 19 (1.692 %) SOAP 10 16 (1.425 %) Middleware 11 15 (1.336 %) WAP 12 12 (1.069 %) XSL 13 10 (0.890 %) STL 14 9 (0.801 %) WebServices 14 9 (0.801 %) XSD 14 9 (0.801 %) UIQ 14 9 (0.801 %) Series 60 15 8 (0.712 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 174 (15.49 %) MS Exchange 2 107 (9.528 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 102 (9.083 %) IIS 4 61 (5.432 %) Apache 5 56 (4.987 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 31 (2.760 %) SharePoint 7 21 (1.870 %) Lotus Notes 8 18 (1.603 %) Tomcat 9 12 (1.069 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 10 8 (0.712 %) Lotus Domino 10 8 (0.712 %) JBoss 10 8 (0.712 %) WebLogic 11 6 (0.534 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 6 (0.534 %) Exchange Server 2007 12 5 (0.445 %) WebSphere Application Server 13 4 (0.356 %) Office Communications Server 14 3 (0.267 %) CMS 14 3 (0.267 %) Live Communications Server 15 2 (0.178 %) ESB 16 1 (0.089 %) CICS
Applications 1 194 (17.28 %) MS Excel 2 119 (10.60 %) MS Office 3 3 (0.267 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.089 %) S-PLUS	Business Applications 1 8 (0.712 %) GoldMine 2 6 (0.534 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 3 2 (0.178 %) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking 1 258 (22.97 %) Firewall 2 231 (20.57 %) DNS 3 219 (19.50 %) WAN 4 213 (18.97 %) LAN 5 175 (15.58 %) Internet 6 165 (14.69 %) DHCP 7 154 (13.71 %) Ethernet 8 129 (11.49 %) VoIP 9 128 (11.40 %) VPN 10 97 (8.638 %) ISDN 11 78 (6.946 %) PBX 12 77 (6.857 %) H.323 13 70 (6.233 %) Network Security 14 65 (5.788 %) MPLS 15 63 (5.610 %) Ethereal 15 63 (5.610 %) Wireshark 16 51 (4.541 %) SMTP 17 49 (4.363 %) HTTP 18 46 (4.096 %) FTP 19 43 (3.829 %) SNMP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 86 (7.658 %) SQL Server 2 20 (1.781 %) RDBMS 3 18 (1.603 %) MySQL 3 18 (1.603 %) InterSystems Cache 4 15 (1.336 %) SQL Server 2000 5 14 (1.247 %) BusinessObjects 6 11 (0.980 %) Oracle 10g 6 11 (0.980 %) Oracle 9i 7 9 (0.801 %) EDMS 8 8 (0.712 %) SQL Server 2005 8 8 (0.712 %) DB2 9 6 (0.534 %) Oracle 11g 10 4 (0.356 %) InterBase 10 4 (0.356 %) Cognos Impromptu 11 3 (0.267 %) Informix 11 3 (0.267 %) SQL Server 7 12 2 (0.178 %) OLAP 13 1 (0.089 %) OLTP 13 1 (0.089 %) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications 1 10 (0.890 %) MSI 2 2 (0.178 %) JUnit 3 1 (0.089 %) Ant 3 1 (0.089 %) NUnit 3 1 (0.089 %) Subversion 3 1 (0.089 %) Selenium	General 1 69 (6.144 %) Telecoms 2 45 (4.007 %) Health 3 41 (3.651 %) Pensions 4 40 (3.562 %) Finance 5 34 (3.028 %) Education 6 26 (2.315 %) Retail 7 12 (1.069 %) Government 8 9 (0.801 %) Back Office 9 8 (0.712 %) Pharmaceutical 10 5 (0.445 %) Automotive 10 5 (0.445 %) Insurance 10 5 (0.445 %) Marketing 11 4 (0.356 %) FMCG 11 4 (0.356 %) Front Office 12 3 (0.267 %) Multimedia 13 2 (0.178 %) Billing 13 2 (0.178 %) Legal 13 2 (0.178 %) Publishing 13 2 (0.178 %) Military 13 2 (0.178 %) Electronics
Job Titles 1 271 (24.13 %) Support Engineer 2 162 (14.43 %) Analyst 3 115 (10.24 %) Network Engineer 4 111 (9.884 %) Consultant 5 109 (9.706 %) Technical Support 6 86 (7.658 %) 2nd Line Support 7 77 (6.857 %) Support Analyst 8 70 (6.233 %) Technical Engineer 9 60 (5.343 %) Technical Support Engineer 9 60 (5.343 %) Network Support 10 55 (4.898 %) Test Engineer 11 48 (4.274 %) Administrator 11 48 (4.274 %) Developer 12 46 (4.096 %) 3rd Line Support 13 43 (3.829 %) Network Support Engineer 14 39 (3.473 %) Software Engineer 15 38 (3.384 %) Desktop Support 16 37 (3.295 %) Systems Engineer 16 37 (3.295 %) Technical Analyst 16 37 (3.295 %) Security Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 77 (6.857 %) German Language 2 66 (5.877 %) Computer Science 3 41 (3.651 %) French Language 4 37 (3.295 %) Mathematics 5 32 (2.850 %) Blackberry 6 21 (1.870 %) Video Conferencing 7 20 (1.781 %) HACMP 7 20 (1.781 %) Client/Server 8 16 (1.425 %) Spanish Language 9 14 (1.247 %) IPTV 10 13 (1.158 %) SecurID 10 13 (1.158 %) MPEG 11 12 (1.069 %) Clustering 11 12 (1.069 %) Italian Language 12 9 (0.801 %) Smartphone 12 9 (0.801 %) Thin Client 12 9 (0.801 %) Fat Client 13 8 (0.712 %) PKI 14 7 (0.623 %) iDTV 15 6 (0.534 %) Handset
Operating Systems 1 489 (43.54 %) Windows 2 276 (24.58 %) UNIX 3 243 (21.64 %) Linux 4 124 (11.04 %) Windows 2000 5 121 (10.77 %) Solaris 6 115 (10.24 %) Windows XP 7 90 (8.014 %) Windows NT 8 63 (5.610 %) Windows Server 2003 9 34 (3.028 %) AIX 10 17 (1.514 %) HPUX 11 12 (1.069 %) Windows Mobile 12 9 (0.801 %) SUSE 13 8 (0.712 %) Debian 14 6 (0.534 %) Mac OS X 14 6 (0.534 %) Windows Vista 15 5 (0.445 %) VMS 16 2 (0.178 %) Tru64 17 1 (0.089 %) OS/390 17 1 (0.089 %) Fedora 17 1 (0.089 %) Ubuntu	Processes & Methodologies 1 54 (4.809 %) Network Design 2 53 (4.720 %) ITIL 3 47 (4.185 %) OO 4 29 (2.582 %) Disaster Recovery 5 20 (1.781 %) Project Management 6 18 (1.603 %) Security Cleared 7 15 (1.336 %) Performance Management 8 14 (1.247 %) UML 9 11 (0.980 %) Web Development 10 10 (0.890 %) SC Cleared 10 10 (0.890 %) CRM 11 9 (0.801 %) E-Commerce 11 9 (0.801 %) Problem Management 12 8 (0.712 %) Change Management 12 8 (0.712 %) Risk Management 12 8 (0.712 %) Document Management 13 7 (0.623 %) Process Management 13 7 (0.623 %) Business Intelligence 13 7 (0.623 %) OOD 13 7 (0.623 %) Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 165 (14.69 %) C 2 159 (14.16 %) SQL 3 153 (13.62 %) Perl 4 138 (12.29 %) C++ 5 91 (8.103 %) Java 6 86 (7.658 %) Python 7 83 (7.391 %) PHP 8 39 (3.473 %) JavaScript 9 33 (2.939 %) VB 10 29 (2.582 %) Korn 11 23 (2.048 %) C# 12 18 (1.603 %) MUMPS 13 15 (1.336 %) VBScript 13 15 (1.336 %) Shell Script 14 10 (0.890 %) Embedded C 14 10 (0.890 %) Delphi 15 6 (0.534 %) AWK 16 4 (0.356 %) DHTML 17 3 (0.267 %) Assembly Language 18 2 (0.178 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 166 (14.78 %) Microsoft Certification 2 152 (13.54 %) MCSE 3 148 (13.18 %) Cisco Certification 4 108 (9.617 %) CCNA 5 100 (8.905 %) Degree 6 69 (6.144 %) MCP 7 64 (5.699 %) CCNP 8 60 (5.343 %) MCSA 9 26 (2.315 %) CCSE 10 22 (1.959 %) CCIP 11 20 (1.781 %) CCSA 12 18 (1.603 %) CCDP 13 13 (1.158 %) RHCE 14 11 (0.980 %) CCIE 15 10 (0.890 %) CCSP 16 8 (0.712 %) HND 16 8 (0.712 %) Network+ Certification 17 5 (0.445 %) ITIL Certification 17 5 (0.445 %) MCDST 17 5 (0.445 %) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 37 (3.295 %) SLA 2 18 (1.603 %) QA 3 8 (0.712 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 2 (0.178 %) ISO17799 5 1 (0.089 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 273 (24.31 %) Active Directory 2 72 (6.411 %) NFS 3 53 (4.720 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 25 (2.226 %) Backup Exec 5 21 (1.870 %) VMware ESX 6 20 (1.781 %) Samba 7 10 (0.890 %) ISA Server 8 9 (0.801 %) NetBackup 9 8 (0.712 %) MetaFrame 9 8 (0.712 %) Terminal Services 10 7 (0.623 %) ProxySG 11 6 (0.534 %) Nmap 12 3 (0.267 %) Squid 13 2 (0.178 %) Snort 13 2 (0.178 %) MSMQ 14 1 (0.089 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management 1 28 (2.493 %) OpenView 2 25 (2.226 %) Netcool 3 23 (2.048 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 22 (1.959 %) Unicenter 5 17 (1.514 %) Tivoli 6 16 (1.425 %) CiscoWorks 7 13 (1.158 %) Legato 8 11 (0.980 %) MOM 8 11 (0.980 %) WSUS 9 10 (0.890 %) MAILsweeper 10 8 (0.712 %) EMC NetWorker 11 7 (0.623 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 12 6 (0.534 %) MIMEsweeper 13 4 (0.356 %) Norton AntiVirus 14 2 (0.178 %) ARCserve 14 2 (0.178 %) Nessus 15 1 (0.089 %) OVSD 15 1 (0.089 %) OpenView Configuration Management 15 1 (0.089 %) BMC PATROL 15 1 (0.089 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 346 (30.81 %) Cisco 2 237 (21.10 %) Microsoft 3 103 (9.172 %) Oracle 4 91 (8.103 %) CheckPoint 5 85 (7.569 %) HP 6 80 (7.124 %) VMware 7 78 (6.946 %) Citrix 8 69 (6.144 %) Red Hat 9 60 (5.343 %) Juniper 10 40 (3.562 %) IBM 11 36 (3.206 %) Blue Coat 12 35 (3.117 %) Nokia 13 27 (2.404 %) EMC 14 25 (2.226 %) Cramer 14 25 (2.226 %) MetaSolv 15 24 (2.137 %) Lotus 16 22 (1.959 %) Intel 17 18 (1.603 %) Sun 17 18 (1.603 %) InterSystems 18 17 (1.514 %) Sophos