The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TCP/IP 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 50 66 67
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +1
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 80 64 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 4.494% 3.279% 3.008%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.20% 25.81% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 73 60 37
Average salary £29,500 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.71% +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,500 £24,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £44,500 £40,000 £42,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year
+2.85% +6.06%
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
396 248 292
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.25% 12.70% 17.93%
Number of salaries quoted 302 223 244
Average salary £32,250 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £26,600
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £44,400 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
TCP/IP
North West

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire TCP/IP Jobs Demand Trend

TCP/IP
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire TCP/IP Salary Trend

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Cheshire TCP/IP Salary Histogram

TCP/IP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Warrington +20 17 £29,500 -15.71%
Crewe +4 16 £37,500 +7.14%
Macclesfield +6 15 £24,500 -
Runcorn +7 6 £25,750 -24.26%
Daresbury +1 4 £25,750 +28.75%
Chester -13 4 £37,500 +29.31%
Northwich - 4 £37,500 -
Nantwich +1 2 £37,500 -
Knutsford - 1 £32,000 -
TCP/IP
North West

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 71 (51.08%) Windows
2 66 (47.48%) Linux
3 54 (38.85%) Java
4 50 (35.97%) C++
5 46 (33.09%) UNIX
6 45 (32.37%) Microsoft
7 40 (28.78%) C
8 39 (28.06%) Finance
9 35 (25.18%) MS Exchange
10 34 (24.46%) Cisco
11 33 (23.74%) .NET
12 32 (23.02%) WAN
12 32 (23.02%) MS Excel
13 30 (21.58%) Telecoms
13 30 (21.58%) Web Development
14 29 (20.86%) VMware
14 29 (20.86%) LAN
14 29 (20.86%) Windows Server 2008
15 27 (19.42%) MS Office
15 27 (19.42%) Citrix
16 26 (18.71%) Avaya
16 26 (18.71%) Middleware
16 26 (18.71%) ASP.NET
17 24 (17.27%) PHP
17 24 (17.27%) Python
17 24 (17.27%) Fixed Income
17 24 (17.27%) Multithreading
17 24 (17.27%) Google
17 24 (17.27%) HTML5
17 24 (17.27%) Parallel Processing

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 33 (23.74%) .NET
2 26 (18.71%) ASP.NET
2 26 (18.71%) Middleware
3 24 (17.27%) HTML5
4 12 (8.633%) JNI
5 7 (5.036%) HTML
6 6 (4.317%) JSON
6 6 (4.317%) WCF
6 6 (4.317%) WPF
6 6 (4.317%) jQuery
7 5 (3.597%) Web Services
7 5 (3.597%) .NET Framework
7 5 (3.597%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 2 (1.439%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 35 (25.18%) MS Exchange
2 10 (7.194%) Exchange Server 2007
3 6 (4.317%) WebLogic Portal
3 6 (4.317%) Exchange Server 2003
3 6 (4.317%) WebLogic
3 6 (4.317%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.317%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (1.439%) IIS
4 2 (1.439%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.719%) CICS
Applications
1 32 (23.02%) MS Excel
2 27 (19.42%) MS Office
3 6 (4.317%) Office 365
4 3 (2.158%) MS Project
4 3 (2.158%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (1.439%) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking
1 32 (23.02%) WAN
2 29 (20.86%) LAN
3 21 (15.11%) Firewall
4 18 (12.95%) VPN
5 15 (10.79%) DNS
6 12 (8.633%) Wireshark
7 10 (7.194%) LDAP
7 10 (7.194%) IMAP
8 9 (6.475%) DHCP
8 9 (6.475%) Ethernet
8 9 (6.475%) HTTP
9 8 (5.755%) Internet
10 7 (5.036%) SMTP
11 5 (3.597%) ATM
11 5 (3.597%) SMS
11 5 (3.597%) SSL
12 4 (2.878%) VoIP
12 4 (2.878%) Cisco PIX
13 3 (2.158%) HSRP
13 3 (2.158%) IPX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.914%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.036%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (4.317%) RDBMS
4 5 (3.597%) MySQL
4 5 (3.597%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (2.158%) DB2
5 3 (2.158%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.439%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (1.439%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.439%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.719%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (0.719%) MS Access
7 1 (0.719%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.719%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 8 (5.755%) Subversion
2 3 (2.158%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 39 (28.06%) Finance
2 30 (21.58%) Telecoms
3 6 (4.317%) Back Office
4 3 (2.158%) Financial Institution
4 3 (2.158%) Military
5 2 (1.439%) Banking
5 2 (1.439%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.719%) Local Government
6 1 (0.719%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (30.94%) Developer
2 20 (14.39%) Support Technician
3 18 (12.95%) Support Engineer
3 18 (12.95%) Progress Developer
4 15 (10.79%) Analyst
4 15 (10.79%) Software Engineer
5 13 (9.353%) Support Analyst
6 12 (8.633%) Java Developer
6 12 (8.633%) 2nd Line Support
7 11 (7.914%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (6.475%) Network Engineer
9 7 (5.036%) Technical Support
9 7 (5.036%) Applications Support
9 7 (5.036%) Applications Support Analyst
9 7 (5.036%) IT Support
10 6 (4.317%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (4.317%) Embedded C++ Engineer
10 6 (4.317%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (4.317%) IT Support Engineer
10 6 (4.317%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.27%) Fixed Income
2 13 (9.353%) Computer Science
3 8 (5.755%) STB
4 5 (3.597%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.878%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (2.878%) Handset
5 4 (2.878%) SCADA
6 3 (2.158%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (2.158%) Fat Client
6 3 (2.158%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.158%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
7 2 (1.439%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.439%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.439%) IVR
7 2 (1.439%) Mathematics
8 1 (0.719%) EqualLogic
8 1 (0.719%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.719%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 71 (51.08%) Windows
2 66 (47.48%) Linux
3 46 (33.09%) UNIX
4 29 (20.86%) Windows Server 2008
5 22 (15.83%) Windows Server 2003
6 16 (11.51%) Windows XP
7 12 (8.633%) Embedded Linux
7 12 (8.633%) Windows 7
8 11 (7.914%) pSOS
9 5 (3.597%) Windows 8
10 4 (2.878%) Windows 2000 Server
11 2 (1.439%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.439%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.439%) Windows NT
11 2 (1.439%) AIX
11 2 (1.439%) HPUX
11 2 (1.439%) Solaris
12 1 (0.719%) Windows 2000
12 1 (0.719%) zOS
12 1 (0.719%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (21.58%) Web Development
2 24 (17.27%) Multithreading
2 24 (17.27%) Parallel Processing
3 23 (16.55%) ITIL
4 21 (15.11%) Incident Management
5 19 (13.67%) Service Delivery
6 12 (8.633%) Image Processing
7 6 (4.317%) Network Management
7 6 (4.317%) MVC
7 6 (4.317%) Data Analysis
7 6 (4.317%) Software Engineering
7 6 (4.317%) Business Analysis
8 5 (3.597%) Change Management
8 5 (3.597%) Project Management
8 5 (3.597%) OO
9 4 (2.878%) Test Management
10 3 (2.158%) Product Management
10 3 (2.158%) Problem Management
11 2 (1.439%) Release Management
11 2 (1.439%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 54 (38.85%) Java
2 50 (35.97%) C++
3 40 (28.78%) C
4 24 (17.27%) PHP
4 24 (17.27%) Python
5 19 (13.67%) SQL
6 9 (6.475%) Embedded C
7 7 (5.036%) Embedded C++
7 7 (5.036%) C#
8 6 (4.317%) T-SQL
8 6 (4.317%) PL/SQL
9 5 (3.597%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.597%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.719%) JCL
10 1 (0.719%) REXX
Qualifications
1 19 (13.67%) Degree
2 14 (10.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (8.633%) MCP
4 8 (5.755%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (4.317%) MCTS
6 5 (3.597%) CCNP
6 5 (3.597%) CCNA
7 4 (2.878%) MCSA
8 3 (2.158%) BC Cleared
8 3 (2.158%) Security Cleared
8 3 (2.158%) HND
9 2 (1.439%) MCSE
9 2 (1.439%) CISSP
9 2 (1.439%) CISA
9 2 (1.439%) CISM
9 2 (1.439%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.439%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.55%) SLA
2 4 (2.878%) QA
System Software
1 22 (15.83%) Active Directory
2 17 (12.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.317%) vSphere
4 2 (1.439%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.439%) VMware ESX
4 2 (1.439%) VMware Server
5 1 (0.719%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (1.439%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.719%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.719%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (0.719%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.719%) Backup Exec
2 1 (0.719%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (0.719%) SCOM
Vendors
1 45 (32.37%) Microsoft
2 34 (24.46%) Cisco
3 29 (20.86%) VMware
4 27 (19.42%) Citrix
5 26 (18.71%) Avaya
6 24 (17.27%) Google
7 15 (10.79%) Oracle
8 8 (5.755%) TIBCO
9 7 (5.036%) HP
10 6 (4.317%) Business Objects
10 6 (4.317%) Cognos
10 6 (4.317%) Siebel
10 6 (4.317%) Ascential
10 6 (4.317%) Informatica
10 6 (4.317%) MicroStrategy
10 6 (4.317%) Vitria
10 6 (4.317%) MetaSolv
10 6 (4.317%) Convergys
10 6 (4.317%) Ab Initio
10 6 (4.317%) Amdocs
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