The first table below looks at the demand for VoIP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VoIP over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Rank 102 117 108
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -9
Permanent jobs citing VoIP 20 11 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.082% 0.550% 0.654%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.865% 2.989% 2.991%
Number of salaries quoted 20 8 11
Average salary £37,500 £46,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.35% +32.85%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +1.33%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
341 368 468
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 18.45% 18.41% 21.87%
Number of salaries quoted 259 302 415
Average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.62% +8.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,300 £30,950 £29,800
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £57,500 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
VoIP
Cambridgeshire

VoIP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge VoIP Jobs Demand Trend

VoIP
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge VoIP Salary Trend

VoIP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VoIP across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Cambridge VoIP Salary Histogram

VoIP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing VoIP 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 VoIP.

1 28 (80.00%) Cisco
2 18 (51.43%) Windows
3 16 (45.71%) Linux
4 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 13 (37.14%) VLAN
6 12 (34.29%) TCP/IP
6 12 (34.29%) LAN
6 12 (34.29%) WAN
7 11 (31.43%) VPN
8 10 (28.57%) SNMP
8 10 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (28.57%) Nagios
8 10 (28.57%) OSPF
8 10 (28.57%) IPsec
8 10 (28.57%) PCI DSS
8 10 (28.57%) Cisco CUCM
8 10 (28.57%) HSRP
9 8 (22.86%) Cisco ASA
9 8 (22.86%) Cacti
9 8 (22.86%) WhatsUp Gold
9 8 (22.86%) Internet
10 7 (20.00%) Firewall
10 7 (20.00%) Active Directory
10 7 (20.00%) DNS
10 7 (20.00%) CCNP
10 7 (20.00%) DHCP
10 7 (20.00%) MS Office
11 6 (17.14%) ITIL
11 6 (17.14%) Apache
11 6 (17.14%) IIS

VoIP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 6 (17.14%) IIS
1 6 (17.14%) Apache
2 5 (14.29%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.857%) CMS
3 1 (2.857%) Lync
3 1 (2.857%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (20.00%) MS Office
2 5 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (37.14%) VLAN
2 12 (34.29%) TCP/IP
2 12 (34.29%) LAN
2 12 (34.29%) WAN
3 11 (31.43%) VPN
4 10 (28.57%) SNMP
4 10 (28.57%) OSPF
4 10 (28.57%) IPsec
4 10 (28.57%) HSRP
5 8 (22.86%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (22.86%) Internet
6 7 (20.00%) DHCP
6 7 (20.00%) DNS
6 7 (20.00%) Firewall
7 6 (17.14%) SAN
8 4 (11.43%) H.323
9 3 (8.571%) Unified Communications
9 3 (8.571%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (5.714%) Wireless
11 1 (2.857%) MGCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.857%) RDBMS
General
1 6 (17.14%) Telecoms
2 3 (8.571%) Manufacturing
2 3 (8.571%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Network Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Consultant
3 6 (17.14%) Support Consultant
4 5 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Technical Support
5 4 (11.43%) IT Technician
5 4 (11.43%) Network Support
6 3 (8.571%) Technical Support Consultant
6 3 (8.571%) VoIP Engineer
6 3 (8.571%) Voice Engineer
6 3 (8.571%) Field Service Engineer
6 3 (8.571%) Network Consultant
6 3 (8.571%) Technical Consultant
6 3 (8.571%) Field Engineer
7 1 (2.857%) Technical Support Engineer
7 1 (2.857%) Network Support Engineer
7 1 (2.857%) Network Administrator
7 1 (2.857%) Administrator
7 1 (2.857%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (2.857%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.857%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (51.43%) Windows
2 16 (45.71%) Linux
3 6 (17.14%) Mac OS X
4 4 (11.43%) Windows Vista
4 4 (11.43%) Windows XP
5 2 (5.714%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.14%) ITIL
2 3 (8.571%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (8.571%) Change Control
3 2 (5.714%) Project Management
3 2 (5.714%) E-Commerce
3 2 (5.714%) Incident Management
4 1 (2.857%) Resource Management
4 1 (2.857%) Time Management
4 1 (2.857%) Network Management
4 1 (2.857%) PRINCE
4 1 (2.857%) PRINCE2
4 1 (2.857%) Service Management
4 1 (2.857%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.571%) C
2 1 (2.857%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (20.00%) CCNP
3 6 (17.14%) Degree
4 3 (8.571%) MCDST
4 3 (8.571%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (8.571%) HNC
4 3 (8.571%) HND
4 3 (8.571%) MCSE
5 2 (5.714%) CCIE
5 2 (5.714%) CCNA
5 2 (5.714%) CCDP
5 2 (5.714%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.857%) PMP
6 1 (2.857%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.857%) CCVP
6 1 (2.857%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.857%) SLA
2 1 (2.857%) QA
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (17.14%) VMware ESX
2 6 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (17.14%) Hyper-V
3 3 (8.571%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) Nagios
1 10 (28.57%) Cisco CUCM
2 8 (22.86%) Cacti
2 8 (22.86%) WhatsUp Gold
3 3 (8.571%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (2.857%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 28 (80.00%) Cisco
2 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (17.14%) CheckPoint
3 6 (17.14%) VMware
4 2 (5.714%) NetApp
5 1 (2.857%) AirMagnet
5 1 (2.857%) Avaya
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