The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT jobs advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 24 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 North East region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 22 40 44
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +4
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 55 33 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 7.971% 3.833% 3.415%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.16% 30.84% 17.01%
Number of salaries quoted 49 25 22
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,800 £25,520 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £38,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.85% +7.69%
All Communications & Networking
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
171 107 147
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 24.78% 12.43% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 152 91 126
Average salary £40,000 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £24,250 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East TCP/IP Salary Trend

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the North East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North East TCP/IP Salary Histogram

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 North East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Tyne and Wear +5 42 £35,000 +7.69%
Durham +9 4 £45,000 +76.47%
Cleveland - 4 £35,000 -
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 52 (69.33%) Linux
2 30 (40.00%) QA
3 26 (34.67%) Windows
4 25 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 17 (22.67%) C
6 16 (21.33%) MS Exchange
6 16 (21.33%) VMware
7 15 (20.00%) DNS
7 15 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 14 (18.67%) DHCP
9 13 (17.33%) SLA
9 13 (17.33%) Active Directory
9 13 (17.33%) Windows Server 2003
9 13 (17.33%) Software Testing
9 13 (17.33%) Windows Server 2008
10 12 (16.00%) Degree
10 12 (16.00%) Scrum
11 11 (14.67%) SAN
11 11 (14.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (14.67%) Cisco
11 11 (14.67%) RAD
11 11 (14.67%) MCSE
11 11 (14.67%) ISTQB
11 11 (14.67%) Automation Testing
12 10 (13.33%) Hyper-V
12 10 (13.33%) Open Source
12 10 (13.33%) MS Excel
12 10 (13.33%) SQL
12 10 (13.33%) Selenium
12 10 (13.33%) VMware ESX

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 9 (12.00%) .NET
1 9 (12.00%) WPF
2 7 (9.333%) soapUI
3 6 (8.000%) WCF
4 5 (6.667%) SOAP
5 4 (5.333%) Windows SharePoint Services
6 3 (4.000%) HTML
7 2 (2.667%) XML
7 2 (2.667%) ASP
7 2 (2.667%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.667%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 16 (21.33%) MS Exchange
2 8 (10.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 8 (10.67%) Exchange Server 2003
3 6 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (5.333%) SharePoint
4 4 (5.333%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (2.667%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 10 (13.33%) MS Excel
2 6 (8.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 15 (20.00%) DNS
2 14 (18.67%) DHCP
3 11 (14.67%) SAN
4 10 (13.33%) Firewall
5 9 (12.00%) Wireless
5 9 (12.00%) VLAN
6 8 (10.67%) Modbus
7 7 (9.333%) LAN
7 7 (9.333%) VoIP
7 7 (9.333%) WAN
7 7 (9.333%) NAS
8 6 (8.000%) iSCSI
9 5 (6.667%) VPN
10 4 (5.333%) SMTP
10 4 (5.333%) Internet
11 2 (2.667%) GPRS
11 2 (2.667%) ZigBee
12 1 (1.333%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (1.333%) SNMP
12 1 (1.333%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.333%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.667%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Selenium
General
1 10 (13.33%) Telecoms
2 6 (8.000%) Manufacturing
3 5 (6.667%) German Language
4 4 (5.333%) Italian Language
4 4 (5.333%) French Language
4 4 (5.333%) Back Office
5 2 (2.667%) Electronics
5 2 (2.667%) Finance
6 1 (1.333%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (25.33%) QA Manager
2 17 (22.67%) Support Engineer
3 11 (14.67%) Test Engineer
4 7 (9.333%) Technical Support Engineer
4 7 (9.333%) Technical Engineer
4 7 (9.333%) Technical Support
4 7 (9.333%) 2nd Line Support
4 7 (9.333%) Software Engineer
4 7 (9.333%) Test Manager
4 7 (9.333%) QA Test Manager
5 6 (8.000%) Field Engineer
5 6 (8.000%) Field Service Engineer
5 6 (8.000%) QA Engineer
6 4 (5.333%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (5.333%) Network Support
6 4 (5.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.333%) Analyst
7 3 (4.000%) Tester
8 2 (2.667%) Software Developer
8 2 (2.667%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) Open Source
2 8 (10.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (5.333%) Fat Client
3 4 (5.333%) Thin Client
3 4 (5.333%) Blackberry
3 4 (5.333%) Replication
3 4 (5.333%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.667%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.333%) BBC
5 1 (1.333%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 52 (69.33%) Linux
2 26 (34.67%) Windows
3 13 (17.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 13 (17.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (10.67%) UNIX
5 4 (5.333%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.667%) Windows 8
6 2 (2.667%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.667%) Windows XP
6 2 (2.667%) Fedora
7 1 (1.333%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (17.33%) Software Testing
2 12 (16.00%) Scrum
3 11 (14.67%) RAD
3 11 (14.67%) Automation Testing
4 9 (12.00%) Test Management
5 6 (8.000%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (8.000%) Unit Testing
5 6 (8.000%) Web Testing
5 6 (8.000%) Multithreading
5 6 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (8.000%) Software Engineering
6 5 (6.667%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (5.333%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (4.000%) Project Management
8 3 (4.000%) ITIL
8 3 (4.000%) Risk Analysis
9 2 (2.667%) Document Management
10 1 (1.333%) Load Balancing
10 1 (1.333%) Automated Testing
10 1 (1.333%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.67%) C
2 10 (13.33%) SQL
3 9 (12.00%) C#
4 5 (6.667%) Java
5 2 (2.667%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.667%) C++
5 2 (2.667%) Python
5 2 (2.667%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) Degree
2 11 (14.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (14.67%) MCSE
2 11 (14.67%) ISTQB
3 8 (10.67%) HND
4 7 (9.333%) MCDST
5 6 (8.000%) HNC
6 5 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (6.667%) MCSA
7 4 (5.333%) CCNA
7 4 (5.333%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.667%) ISEB
9 1 (1.333%) MCITP
9 1 (1.333%) CCNP
9 1 (1.333%) MCP
9 1 (1.333%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.333%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (40.00%) QA
2 13 (17.33%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (17.33%) Active Directory
3 10 (13.33%) Hyper-V
3 10 (13.33%) VMware ESX
4 6 (8.000%) NFS
5 5 (6.667%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (5.333%) Forefront TMG
6 4 (5.333%) ISA Server
7 1 (1.333%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (5.333%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 25 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (21.33%) VMware
3 11 (14.67%) Cisco
4 6 (8.000%) Symantec
5 4 (5.333%) Sophos
6 2 (2.667%) Lotus
6 2 (2.667%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.667%) Remedy
7 1 (1.333%) Citrix
7 1 (1.333%) Juniper
7 1 (1.333%) HP
7 1 (1.333%) Apple
7 1 (1.333%) F5
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
2nd Line IT Support Technician - Newcastle Upon Tyne - Windows, Server, Active Directory, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP - £15,000 - £20,000. A Windows, Server, Active Directory, TCP/IP, DNS,...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £15000 - £20000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Durham, County Durham
Monitor the helpdesk for new cases during office hours - Assist with answering the helpdesk phone - Resolve helpdesk requests - Update the IT management databases - Respond to system failures - Mange...
Northern Recruitment Group
Salary: From £9.62 to £9.62 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Innovative, rapidly expanding global leader in the provision of communication solutions to its target markets, delivering some of the most interesting and challenging systems projects around, requires an...
Catalyst
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Newcastle, Staffordshire
Citrix, XenApp, XenDesktop CCA, VMware, vSphere, ESX, Veeam, Windows Server, SAN, Equallogic, TCP/IP, Exchange, AD... You will have proven skills in the support of both Citrix (XenApp,...
Millshill Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £20,000 to £25,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Billingham, Cleveland
To design, develop, test and support software using the latest Microsoft .NET technology (C#, WPF)... Degree or equivalent in Software Engineering or Computer Science. Demonstrable experience in C#...
Catalyst
Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013