Lancashire TCP/IP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the Lancashire 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	36	48
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching permanent IT job ads	58	30
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	24.47 %	19.23 %
Salaries quoted	49	25
Average minimum salary	£23,912	£23,240
Average salary	£25,706	£25,700
% change on same period last year	+0.02 %
Average maximum salary	£27,500	£28,160
UK excluding London average salary	£31,724	£33,636
% change on same period last year	-5.68 %
Communications & Networking Lancashire
Matching permanent IT job ads	237	156
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.125 %	0.064 %
Salaries quoted	194	122
Average minimum salary	£25,867	£31,031
Average salary	£27,891	£32,889
% change on same period last year	-15.19 %
Average maximum salary	£29,915	£34,747
UK excluding London average salary	£37,397	£39,734
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
TCP/IP North West

TCP/IP
Demand Trend

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

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Lancashire 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 Lancashire 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
Blackburn	+3	14	£25,750	+3.00 %
Lancaster	+2	8	£29,063	+32.10 %
Preston	-2	7	£19,786	-19.65 %
Skelmersdale	-	4	£22,375	-
Burnley	+3	3	£22,500	-35.71 %
Nelson	-	3	£21,500	-
Morecambe	-	1	£27,500	-
Blackpool	-6	1	£32,000	+125.88 %
Lytham St Annes	-	1	£29,000	-

TCP/IP North West

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 88 (83.02 %) Windows 2 54 (50.94 %) Active Directory 3 51 (48.11 %) Microsoft 4 41 (38.68 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 38 (35.85 %) MS Exchange 6 35 (33.02 %) DNS 7 29 (27.36 %) Microsoft Certification 8 28 (26.42 %) MS Excel 8 28 (26.42 %) Finance 9 27 (25.47 %) Firewall 10 26 (24.53 %) VPN 11 22 (20.75 %) Windows 2000 12 21 (19.81 %) DHCP 13 19 (17.92 %) Citrix 14 18 (16.98 %) MCSE

14 18 (16.98 %) MS Office 15 17 (16.04 %) SQL Server 16 15 (14.15 %) Windows Server 2003 16 15 (14.15 %) Windows XP 17 13 (12.26 %) SQL 17 13 (12.26 %) Oracle 17 13 (12.26 %) Internet 17 13 (12.26 %) Exchange Server 2000 18 12 (11.32 %) LAN 19 10 (9.434 %) WAN 19 10 (9.434 %) Cisco 20 9 (8.491 %) Shell Script 21 8 (7.547 %) Cisco Certification 21 8 (7.547 %) CCNA 21 8 (7.547 %) WebSphere Application Server

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 8 (7.547 %) J2EE 1 8 (7.547 %) WebSphere 2 5 (4.717 %) WSH 3 3 (2.830 %) .NET 3 3 (2.830 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (1.887 %) HTML 5 1 (0.943 %) WebServices 5 1 (0.943 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 41 (38.68 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 38 (35.85 %) MS Exchange 3 13 (12.26 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 8 (7.547 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 6 (5.660 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 4 (3.774 %) IIS 6 4 (3.774 %) WebSphere MQ 7 3 (2.830 %) WPS 8 1 (0.943 %) Exchange Server 5.5 8 1 (0.943 %) IBM HTTP Server
Applications 1 28 (26.42 %) MS Excel 2 18 (16.98 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 35 (33.02 %) DNS 2 27 (25.47 %) Firewall 3 26 (24.53 %) VPN 4 21 (19.81 %) DHCP 5 13 (12.26 %) Internet 6 12 (11.32 %) LAN 7 10 (9.434 %) WAN 8 7 (6.604 %) FTP 9 6 (5.660 %) VoIP 9 6 (5.660 %) X.25 9 6 (5.660 %) VLAN 10 5 (4.717 %) Broadband 11 4 (3.774 %) DSL 11 4 (3.774 %) IP Telephony 12 3 (2.830 %) SAN 12 3 (2.830 %) Intranet 13 2 (1.887 %) ADSL 13 2 (1.887 %) ISDN 13 2 (1.887 %) POP3 13 2 (1.887 %) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (16.04 %) SQL Server 2 7 (6.604 %) DB2 3 5 (4.717 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (1.887 %) MS Access 5 1 (0.943 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 28 (26.42 %) Finance 2 4 (3.774 %) Retail 2 4 (3.774 %) Pensions 3 3 (2.830 %) Telecoms 4 1 (0.943 %) Automotive 4 1 (0.943 %) Legal 4 1 (0.943 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 16 (15.09 %) Analyst 2 15 (14.15 %) Network Engineer 3 11 (10.38 %) Administrator 3 11 (10.38 %) Network Manager 4 10 (9.434 %) Support Analyst 5 8 (7.547 %) WebSphere Administrator 6 7 (6.604 %) Systems Engineer 6 7 (6.604 %) Desktop Support 7 6 (5.660 %) Consultant 8 5 (4.717 %) Operations Manager 8 5 (4.717 %) Technical Analyst 9 4 (3.774 %) 2nd Line Support 9 4 (3.774 %) Helpdesk Consultant 10 3 (2.830 %) IT Support Technician 10 3 (2.830 %) Support Technician 10 3 (2.830 %) Technical Support 11 2 (1.887 %) Senior Systems Engineer 11 2 (1.887 %) Support Assistant 11 2 (1.887 %) Server Support 11 2 (1.887 %) Support Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.774 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 88 (83.02 %) Windows 2 22 (20.75 %) Windows 2000 3 15 (14.15 %) Windows XP 3 15 (14.15 %) Windows Server 2003 4 8 (7.547 %) AIX 5 6 (5.660 %) Linux 6 4 (3.774 %) Mac OS X 7 3 (2.830 %) UNIX 8 1 (0.943 %) Windows NT 8 1 (0.943 %) HPUX 8 1 (0.943 %) Solaris 8 1 (0.943 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (4.717 %) Service Management 1 5 (4.717 %) Service Delivery 1 5 (4.717 %) ITIL 2 3 (2.830 %) ERP 3 2 (1.887 %) Configuration Management 3 2 (1.887 %) Project Management 4 1 (0.943 %) E-business 4 1 (0.943 %) Workflow 4 1 (0.943 %) Business Continuity 4 1 (0.943 %) Systems Analysis 4 1 (0.943 %) Resource Management 4 1 (0.943 %) Performance Testing
Programming Languages 1 13 (12.26 %) SQL 2 9 (8.491 %) Shell Script 3 8 (7.547 %) Java 4 6 (5.660 %) VBScript 5 4 (3.774 %) Jython 6 2 (1.887 %) C 6 2 (1.887 %) C++ 7 1 (0.943 %) Assembly Language	Qualifications 1 29 (27.36 %) Microsoft Certification 2 18 (16.98 %) MCSE 3 8 (7.547 %) CCNA 3 8 (7.547 %) Cisco Certification 4 6 (5.660 %) MCP 5 5 (4.717 %) MCSA 6 2 (1.887 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (4.717 %) SLA	System Software 1 54 (50.94 %) Active Directory 2 7 (6.604 %) ISA Server 3 6 (5.660 %) Backup Exec 3 6 (5.660 %) Terminal Services 4 4 (3.774 %) Terminal Server 5 3 (2.830 %) VMware ESX 6 1 (0.943 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 6 (5.660 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (2.830 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 2 (1.887 %) WSUS 4 1 (0.943 %) ARCserve 4 1 (0.943 %) Legato 4 1 (0.943 %) Tivoli 4 1 (0.943 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 51 (48.11 %) Microsoft 2 19 (17.92 %) Citrix 3 13 (12.26 %) Oracle 4 10 (9.434 %) Cisco 5 7 (6.604 %) IBM 5 7 (6.604 %) VMware 6 6 (5.660 %) Dell 6 6 (5.660 %) Intel 6 6 (5.660 %) VERITAS 7 4 (3.774 %) Avaya 8 3 (2.830 %) Symantec 9 2 (1.887 %) Apple 9 2 (1.887 %) Sage 9 2 (1.887 %) CA 9 2 (1.887 %) Kerridge 9 2 (1.887 %) WatchGuard 10 1 (0.943 %) Altiris 10 1 (0.943 %) NetApp 10 1 (0.943 %) BMC 10 1 (0.943 %) McAfee Security