County Antrim TCP/IP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the County Antrim region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alfreton Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Blandford Forum Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Cheshunt Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cobham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Enfield England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughton Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Morecambe Nantwich Nelson Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Redruth Retford Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Sleaford Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Andrews Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke Mandeville Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Torquay Tring Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	29
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching permanent IT job ads	17	7
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	35.42 %	14.58 %
Salaries quoted	2	5
Average minimum salary	£22,500	£25,600
Average salary	£24,250	£28,300
% change on same period last year	-14.31 %
Average maximum salary	£26,000	£31,000
UK excluding London average salary	£31,921	£33,704
% change on same period last year	-5.28 %
Communications & Networking County Antrim
Matching permanent IT job ads	48	48
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.020 %
Salaries quoted	18	39
Average minimum salary	£53,211	£36,145
Average salary	£54,553	£39,923
% change on same period last year	+36.64 %
Average maximum salary	£55,895	£43,702
UK excluding London average salary	£37,579	£39,546
% change on same period last year	-4.97 %
TCP/IP Northern Ireland

TCP/IP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the County Antrim region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

TCP/IP
Salary Trend

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

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

TCP/IP
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Belfast	+19	17	£24,250	-14.31 %

TCP/IP Northern Ireland

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the County Antrim 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 41 (93.18 %) Windows 2 40 (90.91 %) Windows Server 2003 3 35 (79.55 %) MS Excel 4 33 (75.00 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 15 (34.09 %) Windows 2000 6 14 (31.82 %) Active Directory 7 13 (29.55 %) SAN 7 13 (29.55 %) DHCP 7 13 (29.55 %) DNS 8 11 (25.00 %) UNIX 9 10 (22.73 %) SQL Server 9 10 (22.73 %) Microsoft 9 10 (22.73 %) Security Cleared 10 9 (20.45 %) Change Management 10 9 (20.45 %) MOM

10 9 (20.45 %) CA 11 8 (18.18 %) Cisco 11 8 (18.18 %) VPN 11 8 (18.18 %) MS Exchange 11 8 (18.18 %) MS Office 11 8 (18.18 %) MCP 11 8 (18.18 %) Websense 11 8 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification 11 8 (18.18 %) CheckPoint 11 8 (18.18 %) Firewall 11 8 (18.18 %) SurfControl 11 8 (18.18 %) Clustering 11 8 (18.18 %) Blue Coat 11 8 (18.18 %) Intrusion Detection 11 8 (18.18 %) Cisco PIX

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the County Antrim 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 Platforms 1 8 (18.18 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (6.818 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 2 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 35 (79.55 %) MS Excel 2 8 (18.18 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 13 (29.55 %) DHCP 1 13 (29.55 %) DNS 1 13 (29.55 %) SAN 2 8 (18.18 %) VPN 2 8 (18.18 %) Firewall 2 8 (18.18 %) Intrusion Detection 2 8 (18.18 %) Cisco PIX 2 8 (18.18 %) Network Security 3 1 (2.273 %) ISDN 3 1 (2.273 %) VoIP 3 1 (2.273 %) RTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (22.73 %) SQL Server 2 5 (11.36 %) DTS 2 5 (11.36 %) SQL Server Integration Services
General 1 5 (11.36 %) Banking 2 3 (6.818 %) Investment Banking 3 2 (4.545 %) Insurance 3 2 (4.545 %) Pensions 3 2 (4.545 %) Health 4 1 (2.273 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 10 (22.73 %) Administrator 2 8 (18.18 %) Technical Specialist 2 8 (18.18 %) Security Specialist 2 8 (18.18 %) Server Administrator 3 7 (15.91 %) IT Security Specialist 4 5 (11.36 %) Desktop Support 5 4 (9.091 %) Systems Support 6 3 (6.818 %) Analyst 6 3 (6.818 %) DBA 6 3 (6.818 %) Server Support 7 2 (4.545 %) Systems Administrator 7 2 (4.545 %) Support Technician 7 2 (4.545 %) Support Analyst 7 2 (4.545 %) Senior Support Analyst 7 2 (4.545 %) Senior Analyst 7 2 (4.545 %) Wintel Support 7 2 (4.545 %) UNIX Support 8 1 (2.273 %) Windows Systems Administrator 8 1 (2.273 %) Windows Administrator 8 1 (2.273 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 8 (18.18 %) Clustering 2 5 (11.36 %) Replication 3 1 (2.273 %) VHDL 3 1 (2.273 %) Verilog	Operating Systems 1 41 (93.18 %) Windows 2 40 (90.91 %) Windows Server 2003 3 33 (75.00 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 15 (34.09 %) Windows 2000 5 11 (25.00 %) UNIX 6 7 (15.91 %) Linux 6 7 (15.91 %) Windows XP 7 2 (4.545 %) AIX 7 2 (4.545 %) HPUX 7 2 (4.545 %) Solaris 8 1 (2.273 %) pSOS 8 1 (2.273 %) Embedded Linux 8 1 (2.273 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (22.73 %) Security Cleared 2 9 (20.45 %) Change Management 3 7 (15.91 %) ITIL 4 5 (11.36 %) Service Management 4 5 (11.36 %) ITSM 4 5 (11.36 %) Workflow 4 5 (11.36 %) Migration 4 5 (11.36 %) Network Load Balancing 4 5 (11.36 %) Data Migration 5 4 (9.091 %) Disaster Recovery 6 3 (6.818 %) Time Management 6 3 (6.818 %) Service Delivery 7 2 (4.545 %) Project Management 8 1 (2.273 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 7 (15.91 %) SQL 2 4 (9.091 %) VBScript 3 2 (4.545 %) Korn 3 2 (4.545 %) Perl 4 1 (2.273 %) C 4 1 (2.273 %) C++
Qualifications 1 8 (18.18 %) MCP 1 8 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (6.818 %) MCSE 2 3 (6.818 %) MCDBA	System Software 1 14 (31.82 %) Active Directory 2 6 (13.64 %) NetBackup 3 2 (4.545 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 9 (20.45 %) MOM 2 7 (15.91 %) Unicenter 2 7 (15.91 %) BMC PATROL 3 4 (9.091 %) Tivoli 4 2 (4.545 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 10 (22.73 %) Microsoft 2 9 (20.45 %) CA 3 8 (18.18 %) Cisco 3 8 (18.18 %) CheckPoint 3 8 (18.18 %) Websense 3 8 (18.18 %) SurfControl 3 8 (18.18 %) Blue Coat 4 7 (15.91 %) BMC 4 7 (15.91 %) Peregrine 5 6 (13.64 %) VERITAS 6 3 (6.818 %) VMware 7 2 (4.545 %) HP 7 2 (4.545 %) Citrix 8 1 (2.273 %) Motorola