The first table below looks at the demand for VoIP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VoIP over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Rank 97 125 107
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -18
Permanent jobs citing VoIP 25 11 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.359% 0.509% 0.631%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.022% 4.104% 3.073%
Number of salaries quoted 18 10 10
Average salary £26,250 £24,750 £30,435
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% -18.67%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £21,500 £21,100
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £50,150 £36,050
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
356 268 358
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 19.35% 12.40% 20.55%
Number of salaries quoted 279 244 301
Average salary £32,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VoIP
North West

VoIP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire VoIP Salary Trend

VoIP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VoIP across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cheshire VoIP Salary Histogram

VoIP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VoIP within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Macclesfield +1 8 £43,750 -12.50%
Northwich +11 7 £38,500 -
Warrington +18 6 £25,250 +17.44% 1
Runcorn - 4 £25,000 -
Crewe +7 2 £20,000 -10.11%
Chester -13 1 £27,000 +14.89% 1
VoIP
North West

VoIP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 30 (78.95%) Windows
2 28 (73.68%) Cisco
3 18 (47.37%) HP
3 18 (47.37%) VMware
4 17 (44.74%) Windows Server 2008
5 14 (36.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (36.84%) SAN
5 14 (36.84%) Windows Server 2003
5 14 (36.84%) Microsoft
5 14 (36.84%) ITIL
5 14 (36.84%) SQL Server
5 14 (36.84%) SharePoint
5 14 (36.84%) MS Exchange
6 13 (34.21%) MCSE
6 13 (34.21%) Active Directory
6 13 (34.21%) ITIL Certification
6 13 (34.21%) Exchange Server 2003
7 12 (31.58%) Change Control
8 11 (28.95%) Linux
9 10 (26.32%) MS Excel
9 10 (26.32%) LAN
9 10 (26.32%) WAN
9 10 (26.32%) MCITP
9 10 (26.32%) Exchange Server 2010
10 9 (23.68%) SolarWinds
10 9 (23.68%) DNS
10 9 (23.68%) NetApp
10 9 (23.68%) IIS
11 8 (21.05%) ISA Server
11 8 (21.05%) DHCP

VoIP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 Development
1 7 (18.42%) Middleware
2 6 (15.79%) Flash
3 5 (13.16%) OpenAL
3 5 (13.16%) Qt
3 5 (13.16%) BREW
3 5 (13.16%) J2ME
3 5 (13.16%) OpenGL
3 5 (13.16%) SVG
4 1 (2.632%) JSON
4 1 (2.632%) XHTML
4 1 (2.632%) XML
4 1 (2.632%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 14 (36.84%) SharePoint
1 14 (36.84%) MS Exchange
2 13 (34.21%) Exchange Server 2003
3 10 (26.32%) Exchange Server 2010
4 9 (23.68%) IIS
5 7 (18.42%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (7.895%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (2.632%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (26.32%) MS Excel
2 3 (7.895%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 14 (36.84%) SAN
2 10 (26.32%) LAN
2 10 (26.32%) WAN
3 9 (23.68%) DNS
4 8 (21.05%) DHCP
5 7 (18.42%) Firewall
6 6 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (13.16%) NFC
7 5 (13.16%) DVB
7 5 (13.16%) Bluetooth
7 5 (13.16%) GPRS
7 5 (13.16%) GSM
7 5 (13.16%) ISDN
7 5 (13.16%) UMTS
7 5 (13.16%) WLAN
8 4 (10.53%) Ethernet
8 4 (10.53%) SNMP
8 4 (10.53%) TCP/IP
9 3 (7.895%) MPLS
10 2 (5.263%) SHDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (36.84%) SQL Server
2 7 (18.42%) SQL Server 2008
2 7 (18.42%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.632%) MySQL
General
1 5 (13.16%) Electronics
1 5 (13.16%) Multimedia
2 3 (7.895%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.632%) Marketing
3 1 (2.632%) Finance
3 1 (2.632%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Server Engineer
1 8 (21.05%) Senior Server Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Support Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) IT Operations Manager
3 5 (13.16%) Software Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Operations Manager
3 5 (13.16%) Technical Operations Manager
3 5 (13.16%) Technical Manager
3 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (7.895%) Technical Support
5 3 (7.895%) Network Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Windows Support Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (5.263%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.263%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.263%) Analyst
6 2 (5.263%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) iPhone
1 5 (13.16%) Device Driver
1 5 (13.16%) Speech Recognition
1 5 (13.16%) MPEG
2 3 (7.895%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (5.263%) IVR
4 1 (2.632%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 30 (78.95%) Windows
2 17 (44.74%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (36.84%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (28.95%) Linux
5 8 (21.05%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (15.79%) Windows 7
6 6 (15.79%) Android
7 5 (13.16%) Windows Phone 7
7 5 (13.16%) Windows Phone 8
7 5 (13.16%) Windows 8
7 5 (13.16%) Windows Phone
7 5 (13.16%) Windows Mobile
7 5 (13.16%) Nucleus RTOS
8 3 (7.895%) UNIX
9 1 (2.632%) Windows XP
9 1 (2.632%) Solaris
9 1 (2.632%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) ITIL
2 12 (31.58%) Change Control
3 7 (18.42%) Capacity Management
3 7 (18.42%) Performance Management
4 5 (13.16%) Migration
4 5 (13.16%) DRM
4 5 (13.16%) E-Commerce
4 5 (13.16%) Mobile Commerce
5 3 (7.895%) Network Management
5 3 (7.895%) Time Management
6 2 (5.263%) Test Management
6 2 (5.263%) Service Management
6 2 (5.263%) WFM
7 1 (2.632%) Business Development
7 1 (2.632%) Information Security
7 1 (2.632%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (2.632%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) C++
1 6 (15.79%) Java
2 5 (13.16%) C
2 5 (13.16%) SQL
3 1 (2.632%) Ruby
3 1 (2.632%) Python
3 1 (2.632%) C#
3 1 (2.632%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.632%) Perl
3 1 (2.632%) PHP
3 1 (2.632%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 14 (36.84%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (34.21%) MCSE
2 13 (34.21%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (26.32%) MCITP
4 7 (18.42%) MCP
5 4 (10.53%) CCNA
5 4 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (7.895%) MCSA
7 1 (2.632%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.263%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (34.21%) Active Directory
2 8 (21.05%) ISA Server
2 8 (21.05%) vSphere
3 7 (18.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.632%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.632%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) SCCM
2 7 (18.42%) SolarWinds Orion
3 5 (13.16%) Nagios
3 5 (13.16%) MOM
Vendors
1 28 (73.68%) Cisco
2 18 (47.37%) HP
2 18 (47.37%) VMware
3 14 (36.84%) Microsoft
4 9 (23.68%) SolarWinds
4 9 (23.68%) NetApp
5 8 (21.05%) FrontRange
6 7 (18.42%) Avaya
7 5 (13.16%) Citrix
7 5 (13.16%) IBM
8 3 (7.895%) Oracle
9 2 (5.263%) Nortel
10 1 (2.632%) Brocade
10 1 (2.632%) NETGEAR
10 1 (2.632%) Twitter