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

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Rank 149 119 132
Rank change year-on-year
-30 +13
Permanent jobs citing VoIP 42 58 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.983% 1.570% 0.853%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.752% 10.47% 6.193%
Number of salaries quoted 38 49 26
Average salary £25,000 £32,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.07% -5.79%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,500 £21,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
622 554 549
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 14.56% 14.99% 13.78%
Number of salaries quoted 528 478 485
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £21,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £56,000 £75,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
VoIP
North West

VoIP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester VoIP Jobs Demand Trend

VoIP
Salary Trend

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

Manchester VoIP Salary Trend

VoIP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VoIP across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Manchester VoIP Salary Histogram

VoIP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VoIP within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Stockport - 6 £22,000 -
Altrincham - 5 £28,500 - 1
Bolton - 3 £25,000 -
Oldham - 2 £21,500 -
Rochdale +1 1 £45,500 +31.88% 1
Sale - 1 £34,010 - 1
Wigan - 1 £27,300 -
VoIP
North West

VoIP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing VoIP 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 VoIP.

1 54 (51.43%) Windows
2 46 (43.81%) MS Exchange
3 45 (42.86%) Firewall
4 44 (41.90%) Telecoms
5 43 (40.95%) Cisco
6 39 (37.14%) Microsoft
7 37 (35.24%) WAN
7 37 (35.24%) Finance
8 35 (33.33%) Active Directory
9 34 (32.38%) MS Excel
10 33 (31.43%) Linux
10 33 (31.43%) Windows Server 2008
11 32 (30.48%) TCP/IP
11 32 (30.48%) VPN
11 32 (30.48%) LAN
12 30 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
13 28 (26.67%) DNS
14 26 (24.76%) VMware
15 25 (23.81%) Broadband
16 24 (22.86%) Windows XP
17 23 (21.90%) CCNA
17 23 (21.90%) Windows Server 2003
18 22 (20.95%) Microsoft Certification
19 21 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
20 19 (18.10%) HP
21 18 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
22 17 (16.19%) MCSE
22 17 (16.19%) MS Office
23 16 (15.24%) Internet
23 16 (15.24%) Network Design

VoIP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing VoIP 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 VoIP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (3.810%) Web Services
2 3 (2.857%) OpenGL
3 2 (1.905%) Middleware
3 2 (1.905%) TAPI
4 1 (0.952%) Application Packaging
4 1 (0.952%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 46 (43.81%) MS Exchange
2 21 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (9.524%) Exchange Server 2003
4 9 (8.571%) Exchange Server 2007
4 9 (8.571%) Lync
5 8 (7.619%) SharePoint
6 7 (6.667%) Apache
6 7 (6.667%) IIS
7 5 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2000
8 3 (2.857%) Office Communications Server
9 2 (1.905%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 34 (32.38%) MS Excel
2 17 (16.19%) MS Office
3 11 (10.48%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 6 (5.714%) assyst
2 4 (3.810%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.952%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 45 (42.86%) Firewall
2 37 (35.24%) WAN
3 32 (30.48%) TCP/IP
3 32 (30.48%) VPN
3 32 (30.48%) LAN
4 28 (26.67%) DNS
5 25 (23.81%) Broadband
6 16 (15.24%) Internet
7 15 (14.29%) Network Security
7 15 (14.29%) PBX
8 13 (12.38%) SAN
9 12 (11.43%) DHCP
10 11 (10.48%) SSH
10 11 (10.48%) Ethernet
11 10 (9.524%) NAS
12 9 (8.571%) MPLS
12 9 (8.571%) Unified Communications
13 8 (7.619%) SSL
13 8 (7.619%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (6.667%) DMS-100
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 12 (11.43%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (10.48%) SQL Server 2005
3 11 (10.48%) SQL Server 2012
4 7 (6.667%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.714%) MySQL
6 4 (3.810%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 6 (5.714%) Subversion
General
1 44 (41.90%) Telecoms
2 37 (35.24%) Finance
3 6 (5.714%) Billing
4 3 (2.857%) Music Industry
5 2 (1.905%) Marketing
6 1 (0.952%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (15.24%) Support Engineer
2 15 (14.29%) Analyst
3 13 (12.38%) Support Technician
4 11 (10.48%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 9 (8.571%) Senior Analyst
5 9 (8.571%) Windows Systems Administrator
5 9 (8.571%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
5 9 (8.571%) Windows Administrator
5 9 (8.571%) Administrator
5 9 (8.571%) Systems Administrator
6 7 (6.667%) Switch Engineer
6 7 (6.667%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (6.667%) Service Manager
7 5 (4.762%) IT Support
7 5 (4.762%) Technical Manager
7 5 (4.762%) Support Analyst
7 5 (4.762%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.810%) Head of Managed Services
8 4 (3.810%) Consultant
8 4 (3.810%) VoIP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.524%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (4.762%) iPhone
2 5 (4.762%) Replication
2 5 (4.762%) Blackberry
2 5 (4.762%) SWIFT
3 3 (2.857%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 2 (1.905%) iPad
4 2 (1.905%) Open Source
4 2 (1.905%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.905%) IVR
5 1 (0.952%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.952%) PDA
5 1 (0.952%) Clustering
5 1 (0.952%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 54 (51.43%) Windows
2 33 (31.43%) Linux
2 33 (31.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 24 (22.86%) Windows XP
4 23 (21.90%) Windows Server 2003
5 12 (11.43%) UNIX
6 11 (10.48%) Windows Vista
7 10 (9.524%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (7.619%) Windows 7
9 6 (5.714%) AIX
10 5 (4.762%) Android
10 5 (4.762%) Windows 2000 Server
11 3 (2.857%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (2.857%) Windows 8
12 2 (1.905%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (15.24%) Network Design
2 10 (9.524%) ITIL
3 9 (8.571%) Time Management
3 9 (8.571%) Project Management
4 8 (7.619%) Service Delivery
5 7 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (6.667%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (4.762%) Integration Testing
6 5 (4.762%) Migration
7 4 (3.810%) Change Management
7 4 (3.810%) CRM
7 4 (3.810%) Information Security
7 4 (3.810%) Operations Management
8 3 (2.857%) Multithreading
8 3 (2.857%) Load Balancing
8 3 (2.857%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (2.857%) OO
8 3 (2.857%) WAN Optimisation
8 3 (2.857%) Network Management
9 2 (1.905%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.43%) SQL
2 9 (8.571%) C++
3 8 (7.619%) C
4 6 (5.714%) Perl
4 6 (5.714%) PHP
5 3 (2.857%) Embedded C++
6 1 (0.952%) VBScript
6 1 (0.952%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (21.90%) CCNA
3 22 (20.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (16.19%) MCSE
5 13 (12.38%) CCNP
6 6 (5.714%) CCDP
7 5 (4.762%) MCITP
8 4 (3.810%) CCIE
8 4 (3.810%) MCSA
9 3 (2.857%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (2.857%) VCAP
10 2 (1.905%) CCSP
10 2 (1.905%) CCIP
10 2 (1.905%) MCP
10 2 (1.905%) CCSA
10 2 (1.905%) CCVP
10 2 (1.905%) CCDE
11 1 (0.952%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.714%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.762%) ISO 9001
3 4 (3.810%) ISO 14001
3 4 (3.810%) SLA
4 2 (1.905%) ISO 9000
4 2 (1.905%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.952%) QA
System Software
1 35 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 18 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.619%) vSphere
4 7 (6.667%) FreeRADIUS
5 6 (5.714%) SpamAssassin
5 6 (5.714%) Sendmail
5 6 (5.714%) NFS
5 6 (5.714%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (5.714%) Hyper-V
6 4 (3.810%) VMware Workstation
7 3 (2.857%) VMware ESX
8 2 (1.905%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.952%) Xen
9 1 (0.952%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.952%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (9.524%) Backup Exec
2 7 (6.667%) Cacti
2 7 (6.667%) Nagios
3 6 (5.714%) Tivoli
3 6 (5.714%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 6 (5.714%) OpenView
3 6 (5.714%) SolarWinds Orion
4 5 (4.762%) WSUS
5 4 (3.810%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 4 (3.810%) SCCM
5 4 (3.810%) SCOM
6 2 (1.905%) CiscoWorks
6 2 (1.905%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.952%) OpenNMS
Vendors
1 43 (40.95%) Cisco
2 39 (37.14%) Microsoft
3 26 (24.76%) VMware
4 19 (18.10%) HP
5 11 (10.48%) Nortel
5 11 (10.48%) NetApp
6 8 (7.619%) Juniper
6 8 (7.619%) CheckPoint
7 7 (6.667%) SolarWinds
7 7 (6.667%) Mitel
7 7 (6.667%) Ericsson
8 6 (5.714%) IBM
9 5 (4.762%) Veeam
9 5 (4.762%) WatchGuard
10 4 (3.810%) Avaya
10 4 (3.810%) Symantec
10 4 (3.810%) Redback
11 3 (2.857%) Huawei
11 3 (2.857%) Citrix
11 3 (2.857%) 3Com
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Posted: 13 June 2013
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MS Exchange administration Network administration (network design, Cisco, HP, VPN)(interest in) Cloud Computing Junior Windows Systems Administrator (2nd line) sought by this market leading financial services organisation...
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Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + bens
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Salary: 40,000 - 60,000
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With previous experience of VMware View over Thin Clients, it would be desirable if you are competent in SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server administration and have the ability...
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Salary: From £33,137 to £34,882 per annum plus benefits
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Salary: Negotiable
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