The first table below looks at the demand for tcpdump skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited tcpdump over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
tcpdump
Rank 122 126 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Permanent jobs citing tcpdump 2 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.107% 0.050% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.580% 0.272% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £41,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £50,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +33.33%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
345 367 468
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 18.54% 18.33% 21.79%
Number of salaries quoted 264 303 415
Average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £30,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £57,500 £53,550
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
tcpdump
Cambridgeshire

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Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing tcpdump across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Cambridge tcpdump Jobs Demand Trend

tcpdump
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing tcpdump across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge tcpdump Salary Trend

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing tcpdump 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 tcpdump.

1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (66.67%) SonicWALL
2 2 (66.67%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (66.67%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (66.67%) CCNP
2 2 (66.67%) SNMP
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WLAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) XMPP
3 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) Debian
3 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
3 1 (33.33%) SSH
3 1 (33.33%) Nmap
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet

tcpdump
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing tcpdump 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 tcpdump. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) XMPP
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (66.67%) SNMP
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WLAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) SSH
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (33.33%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (33.33%) Debian
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (33.33%) Nmap
3 1 (33.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) SonicWALL
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) NetApp
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Dell
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
NOC, network, system administrat*, sysadmin, linux, unix, IP, bash, shell, perl... Basic scripting using bash/shell/perl... Experience of CheckPoint Firewalls... RedHat RHCT/RHCE certification. Cisco CCNA/CCNP...
Creative Personnel
Salary: £30000 to £38000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Basic scripting using bash/shell/perl... Desired: Experience of CheckPoint Firewalls... RedHat RHCT/RHCE certification. Cisco CCNA/CCNP certification... Ability to produce simple web tools using Perl, Python,...
MJH Personnel Associates
Salary: Excellent + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
This is a hands on role where you will be taking responsibility at the early stages of a company working on some complex real world problems A well...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Good Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013