Midlands TCP/IP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the Midlands 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	64	85
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching permanent IT job ads	17	16
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	9.605 %	6.275 %
Salaries quoted	13	16
Average minimum salary	£24,538	£35,188
Average salary	£26,269	£37,656
% change on same period last year	-30.23 %
Average maximum salary	£28,000	£40,125
UK excluding London average salary	£31,724	£33,636
% change on same period last year	-5.68 %
Communications & Networking Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	177	255
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.093 %	0.104 %
Salaries quoted	128	202
Average minimum salary	£35,319	£42,854
Average salary	£38,858	£46,903
% change on same period last year	-17.15 %
Average maximum salary	£42,397	£50,952
UK excluding London average salary	£37,397	£39,734
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
TCP/IP England

TCP/IP
Demand Trend

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

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 30 (81.08 %) Windows 2 19 (51.35 %) LAN 2 19 (51.35 %) WAN 2 19 (51.35 %) Active Directory 3 15 (40.54 %) Citrix 3 15 (40.54 %) DNS 4 13 (35.14 %) Microsoft Certification 5 12 (32.43 %) DHCP 5 12 (32.43 %) Windows XP 5 12 (32.43 %) MCP 5 12 (32.43 %) MS Office 5 12 (32.43 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 11 (29.73 %) Cisco 7 10 (27.03 %) SAN 7 10 (27.03 %) SQL

8 9 (24.32 %) ITIL 8 9 (24.32 %) MCSE 8 9 (24.32 %) Firewall 9 8 (21.62 %) Pensions 9 8 (21.62 %) VoIP 9 8 (21.62 %) Windows 2000 9 8 (21.62 %) CCNA 9 8 (21.62 %) Project Management 9 8 (21.62 %) Cisco Certification 9 8 (21.62 %) Microsoft 10 7 (18.92 %) Avaya 10 7 (18.92 %) SAP 10 7 (18.92 %) Broadband 10 7 (18.92 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 7 (18.92 %) Asset Management

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 4 (10.81 %) WebSphere 2 3 (8.108 %) XML 3 2 (5.405 %) .NET 4 1 (2.703 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 12 (32.43 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 7 (18.92 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 6 (16.22 %) MS Exchange 4 2 (5.405 %) JBoss 4 2 (5.405 %) Tomcat 5 1 (2.703 %) MQSeries 5 1 (2.703 %) CICS
Applications 1 12 (32.43 %) MS Office 2 6 (16.22 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 6 (16.22 %) Remedy AR System 2 5 (13.51 %) Academy Housing 2 5 (13.51 %) arcHouse
Communications & Networking 1 19 (51.35 %) LAN 1 19 (51.35 %) WAN 2 15 (40.54 %) DNS 3 12 (32.43 %) DHCP 4 10 (27.03 %) SAN 5 9 (24.32 %) Firewall 6 8 (21.62 %) VoIP 7 7 (18.92 %) Broadband 8 5 (13.51 %) VPN 9 2 (5.405 %) BGP 9 2 (5.405 %) IPX 9 2 (5.405 %) IPX/SPX 10 1 (2.703 %) HTTP 10 1 (2.703 %) ISDN 10 1 (2.703 %) SMS 10 1 (2.703 %) SS7 10 1 (2.703 %) Megaco 10 1 (2.703 %) H.323 10 1 (2.703 %) SSL 10 1 (2.703 %) IPv6	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (5.405 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 2 (5.405 %) Subversion	General 1 8 (21.62 %) Pensions 2 3 (8.108 %) Finance 3 2 (5.405 %) Banking 4 1 (2.703 %) Health 4 1 (2.703 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 19 (51.35 %) Analyst 2 12 (32.43 %) Support Analyst 3 7 (18.92 %) Senior Analyst 3 7 (18.92 %) Senior Support Analyst 4 5 (13.51 %) Desktop Analyst 4 5 (13.51 %) Desktop Support Analyst 4 5 (13.51 %) Desktop Support 5 4 (10.81 %) Junior 5 4 (10.81 %) Architect 5 4 (10.81 %) Service Desk Analyst 5 4 (10.81 %) Service Analyst 6 2 (5.405 %) Infrastructure Architect 6 2 (5.405 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 2 (5.405 %) Support Engineer 6 2 (5.405 %) Systems Engineer 6 2 (5.405 %) Software Developer 6 2 (5.405 %) Developer 7 1 (2.703 %) Technical Architect 7 1 (2.703 %) Senior Consultant 7 1 (2.703 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 3 (8.108 %) Mainframe 2 2 (5.405 %) Thin Client 2 2 (5.405 %) Fat Client 3 1 (2.703 %) AS400 3 1 (2.703 %) Handset 3 1 (2.703 %) Pocket PC 3 1 (2.703 %) Dutch Language 3 1 (2.703 %) French Language
Operating Systems 1 30 (81.08 %) Windows 2 12 (32.43 %) Windows XP 3 8 (21.62 %) Windows 2000 4 6 (16.22 %) Windows NT 4 6 (16.22 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (8.108 %) AIX 5 3 (8.108 %) UNIX 6 2 (5.405 %) Linux 7 1 (2.703 %) Solaris 7 1 (2.703 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (24.32 %) ITIL 2 8 (21.62 %) Project Management 3 7 (18.92 %) Asset Management 4 3 (8.108 %) Service Delivery 5 2 (5.405 %) Load Balancing 6 1 (2.703 %) Test Scripting 6 1 (2.703 %) System Testing 6 1 (2.703 %) Computer Security 6 1 (2.703 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (2.703 %) Business Continuity
Programming Languages 1 10 (27.03 %) SQL 2 2 (5.405 %) VB.NET 2 2 (5.405 %) C# 2 2 (5.405 %) C++ 3 1 (2.703 %) Java 3 1 (2.703 %) Tcl	Qualifications 1 13 (35.14 %) Microsoft Certification 2 12 (32.43 %) MCP 3 9 (24.32 %) MCSE 4 8 (21.62 %) CCNA 4 8 (21.62 %) Cisco Certification 5 2 (5.405 %) Degree 6 1 (2.703 %) CCSE 6 1 (2.703 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 6 1 (2.703 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (16.22 %) SLA	System Software 1 19 (51.35 %) Active Directory 2 5 (13.51 %) Backup Exec 2 5 (13.51 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (2.703 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (2.703 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 1 (2.703 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 15 (40.54 %) Citrix 2 11 (29.73 %) Cisco 3 8 (21.62 %) Microsoft 4 7 (18.92 %) Avaya 4 7 (18.92 %) SAP 5 6 (16.22 %) Remedy 6 5 (13.51 %) Orchard 6 5 (13.51 %) IBM 7 4 (10.81 %) Lotus 8 3 (8.108 %) NetApp 9 1 (2.703 %) Sun 9 1 (2.703 %) HP 9 1 (2.703 %) Oracle 9 1 (2.703 %) CheckPoint 9 1 (2.703 %) VMware 9 1 (2.703 %) Mitel