The first table below looks at the demand for VoIP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VoIP over the 3 months to 24 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Rank 50 37 -
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -
Permanent jobs citing VoIP 1 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.296% 0.641% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.515% 4.545% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Average salary £27,000 £26,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.63% +1.33%
All Communications & Networking
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
66 22 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 19.53% 14.10% 7.143%
Number of salaries quoted 28 21 17
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £42,500 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VoIP
Cheshire

VoIP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester VoIP Salary Trend

VoIP
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) Broadband
2 1 (50.00%) ISDN
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Server
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) iPad
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall

VoIP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) Broadband
2 1 (50.00%) ISDN
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Support
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Server
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix