The first table below looks at the demand for tcpdump skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited tcpdump over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
tcpdump
Rank 579 597 588
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -9
Permanent jobs citing tcpdump 28 41 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.064% 0.076% 0.063%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.349% 0.459% 0.464%
Number of salaries quoted 25 33 32
Average salary £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% -16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £35,500 £43,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,500 £59,800 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £50,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +33.33%
All Communications & Networking
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
8022 8939 7757
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 18.25% 16.59% 13.64%
Number of salaries quoted 6603 7586 6554
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 £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
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Jobs Demand Trend

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

London tcpdump Jobs Demand Trend

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Salary Trend

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

London tcpdump Salary Trend

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Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing tcpdump across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London tcpdump Salary Histogram

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing tcpdump within the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +7 11 £60,000 +20.00%
Surbiton - 4 £57,500 -
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England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing tcpdump 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 tcpdump.

1 54 (90.00%) Linux
2 52 (86.67%) TCP/IP
3 51 (85.00%) Perl
4 46 (76.67%) Red Hat
4 46 (76.67%) Bash shell
5 42 (70.00%) Puppet
5 42 (70.00%) VMware
6 41 (68.33%) Wireshark
7 40 (66.67%) SAN
8 39 (65.00%) PHP
9 37 (61.67%) iSCSI
9 37 (61.67%) Ruby
10 34 (56.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 32 (53.33%) Windows
12 30 (50.00%) Juniper
12 30 (50.00%) HP
12 30 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
13 29 (48.33%) NetApp
13 29 (48.33%) Problem Management
14 28 (46.67%) Windows Server 2008
15 24 (40.00%) ITIL
16 23 (38.33%) Finance
17 21 (35.00%) Configuration Management
18 19 (31.67%) Firewall
18 19 (31.67%) VMware ESXi
19 18 (30.00%) Java
19 18 (30.00%) Banking
20 14 (23.33%) SQL
21 13 (21.67%) SSL
21 13 (21.67%) Investment Banking

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing tcpdump 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 tcpdump. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (11.67%) JDBC
2 2 (3.333%) Regular Expression
2 2 (3.333%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (3.333%) Middleware
2 2 (3.333%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 8 (13.33%) Apache
1 8 (13.33%) Tomcat
2 4 (6.667%) Liferay
3 1 (1.667%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (3.333%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (86.67%) TCP/IP
2 41 (68.33%) Wireshark
3 40 (66.67%) SAN
4 37 (61.67%) iSCSI
5 19 (31.67%) Firewall
6 13 (21.67%) SSL
7 9 (15.00%) HTTP
8 8 (13.33%) TELNET
9 7 (11.67%) DNS
9 7 (11.67%) LDAP
9 7 (11.67%) SMTP
9 7 (11.67%) DHCP
10 6 (10.00%) Network Security
11 5 (8.333%) NAS
12 4 (6.667%) IPsec
12 4 (6.667%) SNMP
12 4 (6.667%) VPN
12 4 (6.667%) Ethernet
13 3 (5.000%) Wireless
14 2 (3.333%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.667%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (6.667%) MySQL
2 2 (3.333%) HBase
2 2 (3.333%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (3.333%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Git (software)
1 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.667%) Hudson
3 2 (3.333%) Mockito
3 2 (3.333%) TestNG
3 2 (3.333%) WebDriver
3 2 (3.333%) JMeter
3 2 (3.333%) Subversion
3 2 (3.333%) Maven
3 2 (3.333%) Selenium
3 2 (3.333%) FitNesse
3 2 (3.333%) JUnit
General
1 23 (38.33%) Finance
2 18 (30.00%) Banking
3 13 (21.67%) Investment Banking
4 3 (5.000%) Law
5 2 (3.333%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.333%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Team Leader
2 15 (25.00%) Administrator
3 14 (23.33%) Systems Administrator
4 13 (21.67%) Linux Administrator
5 12 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
5 12 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 7 (11.67%) Senior Linux Administrator
7 6 (10.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
7 6 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 5 (8.333%) Network Engineer
8 5 (8.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (8.333%) Operations Team Leader
9 4 (6.667%) Analyst
10 3 (5.000%) UNIX Team Leader
11 2 (3.333%) Storage Systems Administrator
11 2 (3.333%) Market Data Engineer
11 2 (3.333%) UNIX Systems Administrator
11 2 (3.333%) UNIX Administrator
11 2 (3.333%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Clustering
1 8 (13.33%) Cryptography
2 7 (11.67%) Open Source
3 4 (6.667%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.333%) Digital Media
4 2 (3.333%) Equities
4 2 (3.333%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 54 (90.00%) Linux
2 34 (56.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 32 (53.33%) Windows
4 28 (46.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 12 (20.00%) UNIX
6 5 (8.333%) CentOS
7 2 (3.333%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (48.33%) Problem Management
2 24 (40.00%) ITIL
3 21 (35.00%) Configuration Management
4 9 (15.00%) Load Balancing
5 7 (11.67%) Memory Management
6 4 (6.667%) Service Management
7 3 (5.000%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (3.333%) BDD
8 2 (3.333%) Network Management
8 2 (3.333%) Information Security
8 2 (3.333%) Scrum
8 2 (3.333%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (3.333%) TDD
8 2 (3.333%) Incident Management
8 2 (3.333%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (1.667%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 51 (85.00%) Perl
2 46 (76.67%) Bash shell
3 39 (65.00%) PHP
4 37 (61.67%) Ruby
5 18 (30.00%) Java
6 14 (23.33%) SQL
7 10 (16.67%) AWK
7 10 (16.67%) Shell Script
7 10 (16.67%) sed
8 2 (3.333%) Python
8 2 (3.333%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (18.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 8 (13.33%) MCSE
2 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (13.33%) RHCE
3 6 (10.00%) JNCIA
3 6 (10.00%) Degree
4 3 (5.000%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.333%) CCSE
5 2 (3.333%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.333%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.333%) CCNP
6 1 (1.667%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.667%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.667%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.667%) SLA
2 2 (3.333%) QA
3 1 (1.667%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (31.67%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (13.33%) Nmap
4 6 (10.00%) NFS
5 4 (6.667%) Postfix
5 4 (6.667%) Squid
6 3 (5.000%) Samba
6 3 (5.000%) vSphere
7 2 (3.333%) Snort
7 2 (3.333%) Xen
Systems Management
1 42 (70.00%) Puppet
2 13 (21.67%) SolarWinds Orion
3 5 (8.333%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 4 (6.667%) Nagios
Vendors
1 46 (76.67%) Red Hat
2 42 (70.00%) VMware
3 30 (50.00%) Juniper
3 30 (50.00%) HP
4 29 (48.33%) NetApp
5 13 (21.67%) SolarWinds
6 8 (13.33%) JBoss
7 7 (11.67%) Cisco
8 4 (6.667%) CheckPoint
8 4 (6.667%) EMC
8 4 (6.667%) Oracle
8 4 (6.667%) SAP
9 3 (5.000%) F5
10 2 (3.333%) Reuters
10 2 (3.333%) Microsoft
11 1 (1.667%) Informatica
11 1 (1.667%) 29West
City, London
To develop and maintain operational guidelines for the maintenance and support of the infrastructure - To assist with incident and problem management to resolve issues related to Linux, Network,...
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + Good benefits package
Posted: 20 May 2013
Surbiton, Surrey
Linux systems (preferably RedHat and SLES... Strong bash Shell Scripting skills and basic Perl... Good Apache Web Server knowledge (SSL, vhosts, rewrite rules, mod_jk, mod_proxy, ) Commercial experience with...
Kelway Ltd
Salary: From £55,000 to £60,000 per annum £55,000 - £60,000 + Bonus + Excellen
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
LEAD NETWORK INTRUSION ANALYST - LONDON - To £50k plus bens ( Intrusion / IDS / IPS / Network security ) I'm a dedicated security specialist recruiter, looking to make contact with a highly...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £20000 - £55000 per annum + bens/training etc
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Understanding of Windows operating systems and command line tools, network protocols, TCP/IP fundamentals. Knowledge of network protocols, TCP/IP fundamentals. Knowledge of network based services and Client...
Proprius Recruitment
Salary: From £30,000 to £65,000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013