Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northern Ireland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Northern Ireland region.

 Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank28521
Rank change year-on-year
Down-23Up+16
Matching permanent IT job ads83822
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland3.239 %19.39 %7.261 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category12.31 %67.86 %23.66 %
Salaries quoted5200
Average salary£40,000£45,000-
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11 %-
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£31,000£30,000
% change year-on-year
+4.830 %+3.330 %
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
Northern Ireland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
655693
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland26.32 %28.57 %30.69 %
Salaries quoted393023
Average salary£40,000£45,000£30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11 %+50.00 %
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
TCP/IP UKTCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Northern Ireland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Northern Ireland TCP/IP Demand Trend

TCP/IP
Salary Trend

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

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
County AntrimDown-137£40,000-
County LondonderryNo change01--
TCP/IP UKTCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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.

116 (94.12 %)UNIX
116 (94.12 %)Linux
210 (58.82 %)SAN
39 (52.94 %)Solaris
48 (47.06 %)AIX
48 (47.06 %)HPUX
48 (47.06 %)HP
57 (41.18 %)EMC
57 (41.18 %)ITIL
57 (41.18 %)Hitachi
57 (41.18 %)Firewall
57 (41.18 %)Service Delivery
57 (41.18 %)CLARiiON
57 (41.18 %)Clustering
66 (35.29 %)NetBackup
66 (35.29 %)Finance
66 (35.29 %)Shell Script
66 (35.29 %)Windows
66 (35.29 %)FTP
74 (23.53 %)VPN
74 (23.53 %)CheckPoint
83 (17.65 %)OSPF
83 (17.65 %)BGP
83 (17.65 %)VRRP
83 (17.65 %)Check Point Certification
83 (17.65 %)RIP
83 (17.65 %)Information Security
83 (17.65 %)Blue Coat
83 (17.65 %)Intrusion Detection
83 (17.65 %)COBIT

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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.

Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (5.882 %).NET
11 (5.882 %)MFC
11 (5.882 %)ATL
11 (5.882 %)STL
11 (5.882 %)XML
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (5.882 %)MS Excel
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
110 (58.82 %)SAN
27 (41.18 %)Firewall
36 (35.29 %)FTP
44 (23.53 %)VPN
53 (17.65 %)Intrusion Detection
53 (17.65 %)RIP
53 (17.65 %)VRRP
53 (17.65 %)OSPF
53 (17.65 %)BGP
61 (5.882 %)MGCP
61 (5.882 %)RTP
61 (5.882 %)HTTP
61 (5.882 %)VoIP
61 (5.882 %)SMTP
61 (5.882 %)NetScreen
61 (5.882 %)SNMP
61 (5.882 %)Wireless
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (5.882 %)Visual Studio
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
16 (35.29 %)Finance
21 (5.882 %)Manufacturing
21 (5.882 %)Pensions
21 (5.882 %)Financial Institution
21 (5.882 %)Telecoms
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
16 (35.29 %)UNIX Specialist
23 (17.65 %)Administrator
32 (11.76 %)Consultant
32 (11.76 %)Information Security Consultant
32 (11.76 %)Security Consultant
41 (5.882 %)Deployment Engineer
41 (5.882 %)UNIX Support
41 (5.882 %)IT Technician
41 (5.882 %)Support Specialist
41 (5.882 %)Software Engineer
41 (5.882 %)Analyst
41 (5.882 %)Security Analyst
41 (5.882 %)Senior Software Engineer
41 (5.882 %)Technical Specialist
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
17 (41.18 %)CLARiiON
17 (41.18 %)Clustering
22 (11.76 %)Management Information System
31 (5.882 %)Computer Science
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
116 (94.12 %)UNIX
116 (94.12 %)Linux
29 (52.94 %)Solaris
38 (47.06 %)AIX
38 (47.06 %)HPUX
46 (35.29 %)Windows
51 (5.882 %)Windows 2000
51 (5.882 %)Windows XP
51 (5.882 %)Windows Server 2003
51 (5.882 %)Red Hat Linux
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
17 (41.18 %)ITIL
17 (41.18 %)Service Delivery
23 (17.65 %)Information Security
31 (5.882 %)Unit Testing
31 (5.882 %)Product Management
31 (5.882 %)Change Management
31 (5.882 %)Migration
31 (5.882 %)Configuration Management
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
16 (35.29 %)Shell Script
22 (11.76 %)C++
31 (5.882 %)Java
31 (5.882 %)Perl
31 (5.882 %)C
31 (5.882 %)C#
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13 (17.65 %)Check Point Certification
13 (17.65 %)GIAC
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (17.65 %)COBIT
21 (5.882 %)SLA
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
16 (35.29 %)NetBackup
21 (5.882 %)OpenView
21 (5.882 %)Unicenter
21 (5.882 %)Tivoli
21 (5.882 %)MOM
21 (5.882 %)Netcool
21 (5.882 %)BMC PATROL
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
18 (47.06 %)HP
27 (41.18 %)EMC
27 (41.18 %)Hitachi
34 (23.53 %)CheckPoint
43 (17.65 %)Blue Coat
51 (5.882 %)Nokia
51 (5.882 %)Red Hat
51 (5.882 %)Juniper
51 (5.882 %)BMC
51 (5.882 %)CA