The first table below looks at the demand for PPP skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PPP over the 3 months to 20 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
Rank 596 621 609
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -12
Permanent jobs citing PPP 1 20 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.002% 0.037% 0.016%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.013% 0.224% 0.117%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 7
Average salary £37,000 £57,500 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-35.65% -8.00%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-18.75% -
All Communications & Networking
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
7938 8931 7698
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 18.25% 16.59% 13.58%
Number of salaries quoted 6541 7592 6504
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £30,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
PPP
England

PPP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London PPP Jobs Demand Trend

PPP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PPP across the London region.

London PPP Salary Trend

PPP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing PPP 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 PPP.

1 11 (84.62%) Windows
1 11 (84.62%) Cisco
1 11 (84.62%) TCP/IP
2 10 (76.92%) Firewall
2 10 (76.92%) Finance
2 10 (76.92%) VPN
2 10 (76.92%) SMTP
3 9 (69.23%) Linux
4 7 (53.85%) Ethernet
4 7 (53.85%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (53.85%) Network Design
5 6 (46.15%) Network Planning
5 6 (46.15%) IMAP
5 6 (46.15%) Cisco PIX
5 6 (46.15%) Fast Ethernet
5 6 (46.15%) HP
5 6 (46.15%) IPX
5 6 (46.15%) IPX/SPX
5 6 (46.15%) POP3
5 6 (46.15%) VoIP
5 6 (46.15%) LDAP
6 5 (38.46%) Solaris
6 5 (38.46%) DHCP
6 5 (38.46%) SNMP
6 5 (38.46%) FTP
6 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
6 5 (38.46%) OpenView
6 5 (38.46%) CCSP
6 5 (38.46%) CCNP
6 5 (38.46%) MPLS

PPP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing PPP 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 PPP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (30.77%) CSS
2 1 (7.692%) J2SE
2 1 (7.692%) JMS
2 1 (7.692%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) MS Office
2 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (84.62%) TCP/IP
2 10 (76.92%) VPN
2 10 (76.92%) SMTP
2 10 (76.92%) Firewall
3 7 (53.85%) Ethernet
4 6 (46.15%) IPX
4 6 (46.15%) IPX/SPX
4 6 (46.15%) POP3
4 6 (46.15%) LDAP
4 6 (46.15%) VoIP
4 6 (46.15%) IMAP
4 6 (46.15%) Cisco PIX
4 6 (46.15%) Fast Ethernet
5 5 (38.46%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (38.46%) IPsec
5 5 (38.46%) Network Security
5 5 (38.46%) MPLS
5 5 (38.46%) OSPF
5 5 (38.46%) BGP
5 5 (38.46%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 10 (76.92%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.692%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.692%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Network Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Cisco Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (7.692%) IP Network Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) IP Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) Linux
3 5 (38.46%) Solaris
4 4 (30.77%) Windows 2000
4 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Network Design
2 6 (46.15%) Network Planning
3 5 (38.46%) Network Architecture
4 4 (30.77%) Load Balancing
4 4 (30.77%) Logistics
5 1 (7.692%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (7.692%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) C#
1 1 (7.692%) Java
1 1 (7.692%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (38.46%) CCSP
2 5 (38.46%) CCNP
3 2 (15.38%) JNCIA
3 2 (15.38%) JNCIS
4 1 (7.692%) MCITP
4 1 (7.692%) CCDE
4 1 (7.692%) CCIP
4 1 (7.692%) CCNA
4 1 (7.692%) CCIE
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.692%) XenApp
2 1 (7.692%) XenDesktop
2 1 (7.692%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) OpenView
1 5 (38.46%) Cacti
1 5 (38.46%) SolarWinds Orion
2 4 (30.77%) CiscoWorks
2 4 (30.77%) Nagios
2 4 (30.77%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Cisco
2 6 (46.15%) HP
3 4 (30.77%) Juniper
3 4 (30.77%) SAP
3 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.692%) TIBCO
4 1 (7.692%) Remedy
4 1 (7.692%) VMware
4 1 (7.692%) ProCurve
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle
4 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.692%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 1 (7.692%) Citrix
London
Routing Protocols: RIP , RIP2 , OSPF and BGPv4 , PPP; Application Protocol: SNMP, FTP, SFTP , XML , HTTP(S) & EDI Over The Air: GPRS/3G, NFC; Banking protocol: APACS (40/50/...
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Posted: 15 May 2013