The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 17 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 49 67 58
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -9
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 7 15 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 1.570% 2.226% 3.004%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.45% 13.04% 17.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 10
Average salary £26,500 £37,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.33% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,250 £34,900 £29,600
10% offered a salary of more than £28,550 £42,500 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year
+2.85% +6.06%
All Communications & Networking
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
67 115 82
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 15.02% 17.06% 17.60%
Number of salaries quoted 55 102 62
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +19.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £31,350 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,750 £45,000 £50,750
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
TCP/IP
North West

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside TCP/IP Jobs Demand Trend

TCP/IP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Merseyside region.

Merseyside TCP/IP Salary Trend

TCP/IP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 17 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
Liverpool +19 6 £27,500 -35.29%
Bootle +1 1 £18,000 -
TCP/IP
North West

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (43.75%) DHCP
4 7 (43.75%) DNS
4 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
4 7 (43.75%) Windows XP
5 6 (37.50%) VMware
5 6 (37.50%) Windows 7
6 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (31.25%) LAN
6 5 (31.25%) WAN
6 5 (31.25%) MS Excel
7 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
7 4 (25.00%) VPN
8 3 (18.75%) Firewall
8 3 (18.75%) Cisco
8 3 (18.75%) FTP
8 3 (18.75%) EDI
8 3 (18.75%) ActionScript
8 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
8 3 (18.75%) MS Office
8 3 (18.75%) ITIL
8 3 (18.75%) Android
8 3 (18.75%) iPhone
8 3 (18.75%) ActionScript 2.0
8 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
9 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (12.50%) FFmpeg

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 3 (18.75%) EDI
2 2 (12.50%) JNI
2 2 (12.50%) FFmpeg
3 1 (6.250%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (6.250%) IIS
3 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) MS Excel
2 3 (18.75%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) DHCP
1 7 (43.75%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) LAN
2 5 (31.25%) WAN
3 4 (25.00%) VPN
4 3 (18.75%) FTP
4 3 (18.75%) Firewall
5 2 (12.50%) Network Security
6 1 (6.250%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (12.50%) Electronics
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (18.75%) Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Help Desk Support
3 2 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) IT Support
4 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) IT Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) Network Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) iPhone
2 2 (12.50%) Blackberry
2 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.250%) Fat Client
3 1 (6.250%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (43.75%) Windows XP
4 6 (37.50%) Windows 7
5 3 (18.75%) Android
6 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) ITIL
2 1 (6.250%) Service Delivery
2 1 (6.250%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) ActionScript
1 3 (18.75%) ActionScript 2.0
2 2 (12.50%) C
2 2 (12.50%) C++
2 2 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) MCP
1 2 (12.50%) HND
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (12.50%) MCITP
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.250%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (6.250%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (6.250%) MCTS
2 1 (6.250%) MCSE
2 1 (6.250%) MCSA
2 1 (6.250%) CCNA
2 1 (6.250%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.250%) vSphere
4 1 (6.250%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.250%) Terminal Services
4 1 (6.250%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) VMware
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco
4 2 (12.50%) NetApp
5 1 (6.250%) HP
5 1 (6.250%) Citrix