Kent TCP/IP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the Kent 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 25 July 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 Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blandford Forum Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horley Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kent Kidlington King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughton Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Morecambe Nantwich Nelson Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northolt Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Orpington Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paignton Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Redruth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Andrews St Asaph St Austell St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke Mandeville Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Torquay Tring Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Wirral Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	35
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	70	68
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	20.47 %	23.61 %
Salaries quoted	69	60
Average minimum salary	£31,171	£25,968
Average salary	£32,629	£27,960
% change on same period last year	+16.69 %
Average maximum salary	£34,086	£29,952
UK excluding London average salary	£31,724	£33,636
% change on same period last year	-5.68 %
Communications & Networking Kent
Matching permanent IT job ads	342	288
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.181 %	0.118 %
Salaries quoted	297	241
Average minimum salary	£33,418	£30,459
Average salary	£35,652	£32,488
% change on same period last year	+9.73 %
Average maximum salary	£37,887	£34,517
UK excluding London average salary	£37,397	£39,734
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
TCP/IP South East

TCP/IP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Kent 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 Kent region.

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Tunbridge Wells	-	15	£32,400	-
Maidstone	+5	13	£33,654	+2.56 %
West Malling	-2	6	£27,250	-48.09 %
Dartford	-9	6	£27,333	+12.71 %
Rochester	-	3	£23,000	-
Canterbury	-	1	£20,000	-
Stansted	-	1	£26,500	-
Sevenoaks	-1	1	£35,000	+77.96 %

TCP/IP South East

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Kent 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 82 (55.41 %) Windows 2 73 (49.32 %) Active Directory 3 59 (39.86 %) LAN 4 55 (37.16 %) Cisco 5 51 (34.46 %) WAN 6 48 (32.43 %) Microsoft 7 47 (31.76 %) DNS 7 47 (31.76 %) SQL 8 36 (24.32 %) Linux 9 30 (20.27 %) ITIL 10 29 (19.59 %) PRINCE2 10 29 (19.59 %) UNIX 10 29 (19.59 %) MS Exchange 11 28 (18.92 %) Wireless 12 27 (18.24 %) Windows NT

12 27 (18.24 %) Solaris 13 26 (17.57 %) Windows XP 14 25 (16.89 %) MS Excel 14 25 (16.89 %) Exchange Server 2003 15 24 (16.22 %) Microsoft Certification 16 22 (14.86 %) Internet 17 19 (12.84 %) MCP 17 19 (12.84 %) Firewall 18 18 (12.16 %) MS Office 18 18 (12.16 %) Citrix 19 17 (11.49 %) VoIP 20 16 (10.81 %) Cisco PIX 21 15 (10.14 %) Avaya 21 15 (10.14 %) MPLS 22 13 (8.784 %) Cisco Certification

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Kent 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 6 (4.054 %) ASP 1 6 (4.054 %) WebServices 2 4 (2.703 %) EDI 3 3 (2.027 %) XHTML 3 3 (2.027 %) CSS 3 3 (2.027 %) .NET 4 2 (1.351 %) MFC 4 2 (1.351 %) HTML 5 1 (0.676 %) XML 5 1 (0.676 %) STL 5 1 (0.676 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 29 (19.59 %) MS Exchange 2 25 (16.89 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 11 (7.432 %) IIS 4 9 (6.081 %) Apache 4 9 (6.081 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 4 (2.703 %) Lotus Notes 6 3 (2.027 %) Tomcat 7 2 (1.351 %) ColdFusion 8 1 (0.676 %) Exchange Server 5.5 8 1 (0.676 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 25 (16.89 %) MS Excel 2 18 (12.16 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.676 %) MS Project 3 1 (0.676 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 2 (1.351 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 59 (39.86 %) LAN 2 51 (34.46 %) WAN 3 47 (31.76 %) DNS 4 28 (18.92 %) Wireless 5 22 (14.86 %) Internet 6 19 (12.84 %) Firewall 7 17 (11.49 %) VoIP 8 16 (10.81 %) Cisco PIX 9 15 (10.14 %) MPLS 10 13 (8.784 %) VPN 11 11 (7.432 %) DHCP 12 9 (6.081 %) FTP 13 7 (4.730 %) Network Security 14 6 (4.054 %) Intranet 14 6 (4.054 %) DMZ 15 4 (2.703 %) 3G 15 4 (2.703 %) NetScreen 16 2 (1.351 %) Extranet 16 2 (1.351 %) SNMP 16 2 (1.351 %) Ethernet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (4.054 %) SQL Server 2 4 (2.703 %) MS Access 3 3 (2.027 %) RDBMS 3 3 (2.027 %) PostgreSQL 3 3 (2.027 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 3 (2.027 %) Subversion 2 2 (1.351 %) Flash	General 1 8 (5.405 %) Finance 2 7 (4.730 %) Telecoms 2 7 (4.730 %) Education 3 6 (4.054 %) Pharmaceutical 4 5 (3.378 %) Banking 5 2 (1.351 %) Games 5 2 (1.351 %) Automotive 6 1 (0.676 %) Health
Job Titles 1 23 (15.54 %) Support Engineer 2 20 (13.51 %) Analyst 3 19 (12.84 %) IT Manager 4 16 (10.81 %) Administrator 5 14 (9.459 %) Support Analyst 5 14 (9.459 %) Infrastructure Manager 6 13 (8.784 %) Systems Administrator 7 9 (6.081 %) DBA 7 9 (6.081 %) Technical Support 7 9 (6.081 %) SQL DBA 8 7 (4.730 %) Junior 9 6 (4.054 %) Service Manager 9 6 (4.054 %) Technical Support Analyst 9 6 (4.054 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 9 6 (4.054 %) Technical Analyst 9 6 (4.054 %) UNIX Administrator 9 6 (4.054 %) IT Services Manager 10 5 (3.378 %) Server Engineer 10 5 (3.378 %) Consultant 10 5 (3.378 %) 2nd Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 10 (6.757 %) Management Information System 2 6 (4.054 %) AS400 3 2 (1.351 %) SCADA 3 2 (1.351 %) Multithreading 3 2 (1.351 %) Client/Server 3 2 (1.351 %) Blackberry 4 1 (0.676 %) W3C
Operating Systems 1 82 (55.41 %) Windows 2 36 (24.32 %) Linux 3 29 (19.59 %) UNIX 4 27 (18.24 %) Solaris 4 27 (18.24 %) Windows NT 5 26 (17.57 %) Windows XP 6 6 (4.054 %) Windows 2000 6 6 (4.054 %) SUSE 7 4 (2.703 %) Windows Server 2003 8 1 (0.676 %) Windows CE 8 1 (0.676 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 30 (20.27 %) ITIL 2 29 (19.59 %) PRINCE2 3 11 (7.432 %) Project Management 3 11 (7.432 %) Change Management 4 10 (6.757 %) Security Cleared 5 9 (6.081 %) SC Cleared 6 7 (4.730 %) Disaster Recovery 7 6 (4.054 %) Security Management 7 6 (4.054 %) B2B 7 6 (4.054 %) Penetration Testing 8 4 (2.703 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 9 2 (1.351 %) Performance Management 9 2 (1.351 %) Web Design 10 1 (0.676 %) Network Design 10 1 (0.676 %) Web Development 10 1 (0.676 %) Resource Management 10 1 (0.676 %) PRINCE 10 1 (0.676 %) RAD 10 1 (0.676 %) SEO 10 1 (0.676 %) Business Continuity
Programming Languages 1 47 (31.76 %) SQL 2 6 (4.054 %) Perl 2 6 (4.054 %) C 2 6 (4.054 %) Java 2 6 (4.054 %) Shell Script 3 3 (2.027 %) JavaScript 3 3 (2.027 %) PHP 4 2 (1.351 %) VC++ 4 2 (1.351 %) C++	Qualifications 1 24 (16.22 %) Microsoft Certification 2 19 (12.84 %) MCP 3 13 (8.784 %) Cisco Certification 4 12 (8.108 %) CCNA 5 11 (7.432 %) MCSA 6 7 (4.730 %) MCSE 7 5 (3.378 %) ITIL Certification 8 4 (2.703 %) CCDA 9 3 (2.027 %) PRINCE2 Certification 10 2 (1.351 %) RHCE 10 2 (1.351 %) CCNP 11 1 (0.676 %) CCDP 11 1 (0.676 %) IBM AIX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (3.378 %) SLA	System Software 1 73 (49.32 %) Active Directory 2 6 (4.054 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 5 (3.378 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 4 (2.703 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 3 (2.027 %) Samba 6 2 (1.351 %) Terminal Services 7 1 (0.676 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 10 (6.757 %) OpenView 2 1 (0.676 %) Tivoli 2 1 (0.676 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 55 (37.16 %) Cisco 2 48 (32.43 %) Microsoft 3 18 (12.16 %) Citrix 4 15 (10.14 %) Avaya 5 11 (7.432 %) CheckPoint 6 10 (6.757 %) BMC 7 9 (6.081 %) HP 8 8 (5.405 %) Juniper 9 7 (4.730 %) IBM 10 6 (4.054 %) Oracle 10 6 (4.054 %) Sun 10 6 (4.054 %) Novell 11 4 (2.703 %) Lotus 11 4 (2.703 %) VMware 12 3 (2.027 %) Clearswift 13 2 (1.351 %) Sony 13 2 (1.351 %) Nortel 13 2 (1.351 %) Adobe 14 1 (0.676 %) Nokia 14 1 (0.676 %) Genesys