East of England TCP/IP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the East of England 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 last 3 months to 12 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Baldock Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Billericay Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carnforth Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Crewe Croydon Dagenham Darlington Dartford Daventry Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham Elland Ellesmere Port Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Folkestone Frome Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Great Yarmouth Greenford Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Highland Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ilkley Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leigh-on-Sea Leominster Lewes Lewisham Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughton Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northolt Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Pershore Perthshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Ringwood Rochdale Romford Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Austell Staffordshire Staines Stanford-le-Hope Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 12 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	37
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching permanent IT job ads	501	551
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.241 %	0.245 %
As % of the category below	19.01 %	20.94 %
Salaries quoted	452	462
Average minimum salary	£30,888	£33,385
Average salary	£33,410	£35,739
% change on same period last year	-6.51 %
Average maximum salary	£35,931	£38,093
UK excluding London average salary	£31,936	£33,552
% change on same period last year	-4.81 %
Communications & Networking East of England
Matching permanent IT job ads	2635	2631
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.270 %	1.169 %
Salaries quoted	2212	2174
Average minimum salary	£35,554	£35,393
Average salary	£38,216	£38,770
% change on same period last year	-1.42 %
Average maximum salary	£40,878	£42,146
UK excluding London average salary	£37,694	£38,927
% change on same period last year	-3.16 %
TCP/IP England

TCP/IP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing TCP/IP across the East of England 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 ads citing TCP/IP across the East of England region.

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the East of England region over the past 3 months.

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 East of England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Hertfordshire	-11	171	£33,416	-10.08 %
2	Cambridgeshire	-26	169	£34,027	-10.98 %
3	Essex	-2	94	£32,385	+22.68 %
4	Bedfordshire	+11	37	£33,241	+16.18 %
5	Suffolk	-15	27	£35,077	+26.89 %
6	Norfolk	-11	6	£26,000	-20.00 %

TCP/IP England

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the East of England region citing TCP/IP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing TCP/IP.

1 476 (49.84 %) Windows 2 255 (26.70 %) Linux 3 238 (24.92 %) Unix 4 234 (24.50 %) WAN 5 227 (23.77 %) LAN 6 215 (22.51 %) Active Directory 7 197 (20.63 %) DNS 8 191 (20.00 %) SQL Server 9 186 (19.48 %) Microsoft 10 180 (18.85 %) Cisco 11 171 (17.91 %) C++ 12 150 (15.71 %) SQL 13 146 (15.29 %) Firewall 14 137 (14.35 %) Oracle 15 136 (14.24 %) C

16 133 (13.93 %) DHCP 17 132 (13.82 %) MS Office 18 130 (13.61 %) VPN 19 122 (12.77 %) MS Excel 20 115 (12.04 %) MS Exchange 21 110 (11.52 %) Microsoft Certification 22 109 (11.41 %) Windows 2000 23 106 (11.10 %) Windows Server 2003 23 106 (11.10 %) Telecoms 24 105 (10.99 %) Solaris 25 97 (10.16 %) C# 26 94 (9.843 %) Exchange Server 2003 27 91 (9.529 %) .NET 27 91 (9.529 %) SMTP 28 90 (9.424 %) Internet

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the East of England region citing TCP/IP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing TCP/IP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 91 (9.529 %) .NET 2 33 (3.455 %) XML 3 30 (3.141 %) MFC 4 28 (2.932 %) ASP.NET 5 27 (2.827 %) HTML 6 21 (2.199 %) STL 7 20 (2.094 %) ASP 7 20 (2.094 %) .NET Framework 8 18 (1.885 %) WinForms 9 17 (1.780 %) SOAP 10 15 (1.571 %) ADO.NET 10 15 (1.571 %) J2EE 10 15 (1.571 %) AJAX 11 12 (1.257 %) POSIX 12 9 (0.942 %) WebServices 12 9 (0.942 %) LINQ 13 8 (0.838 %) XSLT 14 7 (0.733 %) XSD 14 7 (0.733 %) Struts 14 7 (0.733 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 115 (12.04 %) MS Exchange 2 94 (9.843 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 74 (7.749 %) IIS 4 52 (5.445 %) Apache 5 41 (4.293 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 37 (3.874 %) Tomcat 7 18 (1.885 %) Lotus Domino 8 17 (1.780 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 12 (1.257 %) BizTalk Server 10 11 (1.152 %) Lotus Notes 11 10 (1.047 %) SharePoint 12 9 (0.942 %) ColdFusion 13 8 (0.838 %) Exchange Server 2007 14 7 (0.733 %) Oracle Application Server 14 7 (0.733 %) WebSphere Application Server 14 7 (0.733 %) WebLogic 14 7 (0.733 %) MQSeries 15 6 (0.628 %) Mule 16 4 (0.419 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 16 4 (0.419 %) CICS
Applications 1 132 (13.82 %) MS Office 2 122 (12.77 %) MS Excel 3 14 (1.466 %) MS Visio 4 10 (1.047 %) MS Project 5 8 (0.838 %) Photoshop 6 7 (0.733 %) MS PowerPoint 7 2 (0.209 %) CorelDRAW 8 1 (0.105 %) S-PLUS	Business Applications 1 1 (0.105 %) Oracle Financials 1 1 (0.105 %) BASE24 1 1 (0.105 %) Minerva
Communications & Networking 1 234 (24.50 %) WAN 2 227 (23.77 %) LAN 3 197 (20.63 %) DNS 4 146 (15.29 %) Firewall 5 133 (13.93 %) DHCP 6 130 (13.61 %) VPN 7 91 (9.529 %) SMTP 8 90 (9.424 %) Internet 9 85 (8.901 %) VoIP 10 74 (7.749 %) Wireless 11 67 (7.016 %) Ethernet 12 53 (5.550 %) BGP 13 38 (3.979 %) OSPF 13 38 (3.979 %) WINS 14 35 (3.665 %) HTTP 15 32 (3.351 %) VLAN 16 31 (3.246 %) EIGRP 17 29 (3.037 %) SAN 18 28 (2.932 %) 2G 18 28 (2.932 %) Cisco PIX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 191 (20.00 %) SQL Server 2 75 (7.853 %) MySQL 3 36 (3.770 %) RDBMS 3 36 (3.770 %) SQL Server 2000 3 36 (3.770 %) SQL Server 2005 3 36 (3.770 %) DB2 4 28 (2.932 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 13 (1.361 %) Oracle 10g 6 12 (1.257 %) Oracle 9i 7 8 (0.838 %) Crystal Reports 8 7 (0.733 %) Oracle Reports 8 7 (0.733 %) SQL Server 7 9 6 (0.628 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 4 (0.419 %) MS Access 11 2 (0.209 %) Ingres 11 2 (0.209 %) BusinessObjects 12 1 (0.105 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 12 1 (0.105 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 31 (3.246 %) Visual Studio 2 22 (2.304 %) Subversion 3 11 (1.152 %) NUnit 4 8 (0.838 %) PVCS 4 8 (0.838 %) ClearCase 5 7 (0.733 %) Dreamweaver 6 6 (0.628 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 5 (0.524 %) JIRA 8 3 (0.314 %) FrontPage 8 3 (0.314 %) Rational Rose 9 2 (0.209 %) RequisitePro 10 1 (0.105 %) LabVIEW 10 1 (0.105 %) WinRunner 10 1 (0.105 %) QuickTest Pro 10 1 (0.105 %) Flash	General 1 106 (11.10 %) Telecoms 2 49 (5.131 %) Finance 3 35 (3.665 %) Multimedia 4 33 (3.455 %) Retail 5 30 (3.141 %) Pensions 5 30 (3.141 %) Health 6 19 (1.990 %) Marketing 7 15 (1.571 %) Education 8 13 (1.361 %) Construction 8 13 (1.361 %) Electronics 9 12 (1.257 %) Pharmaceutical 10 9 (0.942 %) Government 11 8 (0.838 %) Games 11 8 (0.838 %) Back Office 12 5 (0.524 %) Manufacturing 12 5 (0.524 %) Banking 13 4 (0.419 %) Insurance 14 2 (0.209 %) Billing 14 2 (0.209 %) Financial Institution 14 2 (0.209 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 137 (14.35 %) Analyst 2 130 (13.61 %) Support Engineer 3 119 (12.46 %) Administrator 4 117 (12.25 %) Software Engineer 5 93 (9.738 %) Systems Administrator 6 83 (8.691 %) Technical Support 7 82 (8.586 %) Support Analyst 8 64 (6.702 %) Developer 9 59 (6.178 %) Consultant 10 56 (5.864 %) Systems Engineer 11 52 (5.445 %) Network Engineer 12 45 (4.712 %) Technical Engineer 13 44 (4.607 %) Technical Support Engineer 14 39 (4.084 %) Network Support 15 29 (3.037 %) Embedded Software Engineer 16 28 (2.932 %) Helpdesk Support 16 28 (2.932 %) UNIX Engineer 16 28 (2.932 %) UNIX Support 17 27 (2.827 %) Systems Support 17 27 (2.827 %) Desktop Support	Miscellaneous 1 26 (2.723 %) Computer Science 2 24 (2.513 %) Device Driver 3 20 (2.094 %) Clustering 4 16 (1.675 %) MPEG 5 14 (1.466 %) Data Extraction 6 11 (1.152 %) Client/Server 7 10 (1.047 %) Dutch Language 7 10 (1.047 %) French Language 8 9 (0.942 %) Multithreading 9 8 (0.838 %) Data Protection Act 9 8 (0.838 %) AS400 10 7 (0.733 %) EPoS 10 7 (0.733 %) Grid Computing 10 7 (0.733 %) IPTV 11 6 (0.628 %) DTV 11 6 (0.628 %) Asset Management 11 6 (0.628 %) STB 12 5 (0.524 %) Cryptography 12 5 (0.524 %) Mainframe 12 5 (0.524 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 476 (49.84 %) Windows 2 255 (26.70 %) Linux 3 238 (24.92 %) Unix 4 109 (11.41 %) Windows 2000 5 106 (11.10 %) Windows Server 2003 6 105 (10.99 %) Solaris 7 77 (8.063 %) Windows XP 8 57 (5.969 %) Windows NT 9 33 (3.455 %) AIX 10 16 (1.675 %) VxWorks 11 10 (1.047 %) Embedded Linux 12 8 (0.838 %) Mac OS X 13 6 (0.628 %) OS/400 14 5 (0.524 %) HPUX 14 5 (0.524 %) pSOS 15 4 (0.419 %) zOS 15 4 (0.419 %) Windows Vista 15 4 (0.419 %) Windows Mobile 15 4 (0.419 %) MVS 16 3 (0.314 %) Nucleus RTOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 55 (5.759 %) OO 2 42 (4.398 %) Project Management 3 38 (3.979 %) UML 4 32 (3.351 %) Service Delivery 5 31 (3.246 %) OOD 5 31 (3.246 %) Network Design 6 29 (3.037 %) ITIL 7 28 (2.932 %) E-Commerce 8 23 (2.408 %) Change Management 9 20 (2.094 %) Release Management 10 17 (1.780 %) RAD 10 17 (1.780 %) OOP 10 17 (1.780 %) Configuration Management 11 15 (1.571 %) Scrum 11 15 (1.571 %) WFM 12 13 (1.361 %) Web Design 13 11 (1.152 %) Unit Testing 14 9 (0.942 %) Disaster Recovery 14 9 (0.942 %) CRM 15 8 (0.838 %) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages 1 171 (17.91 %) C++ 2 150 (15.71 %) SQL 3 136 (14.24 %) C 4 97 (10.16 %) C# 5 68 (7.120 %) Java 6 48 (5.026 %) Perl 7 37 (3.874 %) Embedded C 8 31 (3.246 %) VC++ 9 22 (2.304 %) Embedded C++ 10 19 (1.990 %) PHP 11 15 (1.571 %) Assembly Language 12 14 (1.466 %) VBA 13 13 (1.361 %) VB 13 13 (1.361 %) JavaScript 14 12 (1.257 %) VB.NET 15 11 (1.152 %) Shell Script 16 7 (0.733 %) Pascal 16 7 (0.733 %) Python 17 6 (0.628 %) PL/SQL 18 4 (0.419 %) COBOL	Qualifications 1 110 (11.52 %) Microsoft Certification 2 89 (9.319 %) Degree 3 78 (8.168 %) MCSE 4 64 (6.702 %) Cisco Certification 5 50 (5.236 %) CCNA 6 42 (4.398 %) MCP 7 37 (3.874 %) CCNP 8 20 (2.094 %) MCSA 9 19 (1.990 %) CCVP 10 10 (1.047 %) PhD 11 8 (0.838 %) A+ Certification 11 8 (0.838 %) Network+ Certification 12 7 (0.733 %) ITIL Certification 13 4 (0.419 %) CCDA 14 3 (0.314 %) CCDP 14 3 (0.314 %) CCIP 14 3 (0.314 %) MCDST 15 2 (0.209 %) GSEC 15 2 (0.209 %) CCSE 15 2 (0.209 %) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (0.628 %) ISO9001 1 6 (0.628 %) SLA 2 4 (0.419 %) QA 3 1 (0.105 %) PCI DSS 3 1 (0.105 %) ISO8583 3 1 (0.105 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 215 (22.51 %) Active Directory 2 14 (1.466 %) Terminal Services 3 9 (0.942 %) Backup Exec 4 7 (0.733 %) ISA Server 5 6 (0.628 %) MetaFrame 6 5 (0.524 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 4 (0.419 %) Terminal Server 7 4 (0.419 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 8 3 (0.314 %) VMware ESX 9 2 (0.209 %) Samba 9 2 (0.209 %) NFS 10 1 (0.105 %) NetBackup 10 1 (0.105 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 15 (1.571 %) OpenView 2 8 (0.838 %) Tivoli 3 5 (0.524 %) ARCserve 4 4 (0.419 %) OMEGAMON 5 3 (0.314 %) Tivoli Monitoring 5 3 (0.314 %) CONTROL-M 6 2 (0.209 %) Netcool 6 2 (0.209 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 6 2 (0.209 %) Unicenter 7 1 (0.105 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 7 1 (0.105 %) Nagios 7 1 (0.105 %) ServiceCenter 7 1 (0.105 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 186 (19.48 %) Microsoft 2 180 (18.85 %) Cisco 3 137 (14.35 %) Oracle 4 45 (4.712 %) Citrix 5 40 (4.188 %) HP 6 30 (3.141 %) Sun 7 26 (2.723 %) Lotus 8 25 (2.618 %) CheckPoint 9 22 (2.304 %) IBM 10 21 (2.199 %) Red Hat 11 20 (2.094 %) VERITAS 12 17 (1.780 %) Dell 13 15 (1.571 %) Nokia 14 9 (0.942 %) Juniper 14 9 (0.942 %) Adobe 14 9 (0.942 %) Symantec 15 8 (0.838 %) McAfee Security 15 8 (0.838 %) Altiris 16 7 (0.733 %) Huawei 16 7 (0.733 %) QNX