Oxfordshire TCP/IP Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the Oxfordshire 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Accrington Alfreton Altrincham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bicester Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bodmin Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Cheshunt Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cobham Colchester Corby Cornwall Corsham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham Elland Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Flint Flintshire Frome Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grantham Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Ledbury Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughton Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Malvern Manchester Mansfield March Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouth Monmouthshire Nelson Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Perthshire Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Retford Rickmansworth Rochester Rotherham Royston Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Sleaford Slough Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke Mandeville Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Tetbury Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tring Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Usk Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whitstable Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	30
Rank change on same period last year	-22
Matching permanent IT job ads	116	196
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.067 %	0.084 %
As % of the category below	27.95 %	34.51 %
Salaries quoted	103	126
Average minimum salary	£31,218	£29,621
Average salary	£34,021	£31,432
% change on same period last year	+8.23 %
Average maximum salary	£36,825	£33,242
UK excluding London average salary	£33,017	£33,346
% change on same period last year	-0.98 %
Communications & Networking Oxfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	415	568
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.240 %	0.244 %
Salaries quoted	340	467
Average minimum salary	£31,981	£33,539
Average salary	£35,848	£35,413
% change on same period last year	+1.22 %
Average maximum salary	£39,716	£37,287
UK excluding London average salary	£37,928	£38,940
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
TCP/IP South East

TCP/IP
Demand Trend

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

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	-23	66	£34,467	+4.81 %
Abingdon	-3	22	£31,000	-20.51 %
Banbury	+3	8	£44,250	+36.15 %
Bicester	-	7	£25,714	-
Wallingford	-	5	£19,000	-
Thame	-	2	£37,500	-

TCP/IP South East

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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.

1 184 (71.60 %) Windows 2 139 (54.09 %) DNS 3 109 (42.41 %) Linux 4 108 (42.02 %) Windows Server 2003 5 104 (40.47 %) Active Directory 6 94 (36.58 %) Microsoft Certification 7 92 (35.80 %) Cisco 8 90 (35.02 %) Microsoft 9 87 (33.85 %) Windows 2000 10 86 (33.46 %) MCSE 11 79 (30.74 %) Internet 12 69 (26.85 %) Firewall 13 65 (25.29 %) VMware 14 64 (24.90 %) WAN 15 60 (23.35 %) SAN

16 57 (22.18 %) SharePoint 17 54 (21.01 %) CCNA 17 54 (21.01 %) Cisco Certification 18 53 (20.62 %) LAN 19 49 (19.07 %) SQL 20 47 (18.29 %) DHCP 21 46 (17.90 %) MS Exchange 22 45 (17.51 %) MS Excel 22 45 (17.51 %) Education 23 40 (15.56 %) IIS 24 39 (15.18 %) C++ 25 38 (14.79 %) UNIX 26 37 (14.40 %) MCP 26 37 (14.40 %) SQL Server 26 37 (14.40 %) VPN

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (3.502 %) .NET 1 9 (3.502 %) Software Packaging 2 5 (1.946 %) XML 2 5 (1.946 %) HTML 2 5 (1.946 %) MFC 3 3 (1.167 %) ASP 3 3 (1.167 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (1.167 %) STL 3 3 (1.167 %) .NET Framework 4 2 (0.778 %) COM+ 5 1 (0.389 %) CSS 5 1 (0.389 %) J2EE 5 1 (0.389 %) ODBC 5 1 (0.389 %) XHTML 5 1 (0.389 %) WSH 5 1 (0.389 %) OLE DB	Application Platforms 1 57 (22.18 %) SharePoint 2 46 (17.90 %) MS Exchange 3 40 (15.56 %) IIS 4 26 (10.12 %) Apache 5 22 (8.560 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 12 (4.669 %) Tomcat 7 9 (3.502 %) Lotus Notes 8 7 (2.724 %) Commerce Server 9 5 (1.946 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 5 (1.946 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 4 (1.556 %) SharePoint Portal Server 11 2 (0.778 %) WebLogic 11 2 (0.778 %) Office Communications Server 11 2 (0.778 %) Zope 11 2 (0.778 %) Plone
Applications 1 45 (17.51 %) MS Excel 2 23 (8.949 %) MS Office 3 3 (1.167 %) MATLAB 4 1 (0.389 %) Photoshop 4 1 (0.389 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 139 (54.09 %) DNS 2 79 (30.74 %) Internet 3 69 (26.85 %) Firewall 4 64 (24.90 %) WAN 5 60 (23.35 %) SAN 6 53 (20.62 %) LAN 7 47 (18.29 %) DHCP 8 37 (14.40 %) VPN 9 26 (10.12 %) Cisco IOS 10 24 (9.339 %) ADSL 11 23 (8.949 %) SMTP 12 22 (8.560 %) SNMP 13 16 (6.226 %) Cisco PIX 14 14 (5.447 %) Intranet 15 11 (4.280 %) Ethernet 16 9 (3.502 %) VoIP 16 9 (3.502 %) GSM 16 9 (3.502 %) ISDN 17 8 (3.113 %) GPRS 18 7 (2.724 %) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence 1 37 (14.40 %) SQL Server 2 30 (11.67 %) MySQL 3 17 (6.615 %) DB2 4 2 (0.778 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 2 (0.778 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 1 (0.389 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (0.389 %) InterSystems Cache	Development Applications 1 17 (6.615 %) Ant 2 2 (0.778 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (0.778 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (0.389 %) MSI
General 1 45 (17.51 %) Education 2 27 (10.51 %) Telecoms 3 20 (7.782 %) Pensions 4 9 (3.502 %) Health 5 8 (3.113 %) Automotive 6 7 (2.724 %) Back Office 7 6 (2.335 %) Electronics 7 6 (2.335 %) Manufacturing 8 5 (1.946 %) Finance 9 4 (1.556 %) Pharmaceutical 10 2 (0.778 %) Games 10 2 (0.778 %) Retail 10 2 (0.778 %) Insurance 11 1 (0.389 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 65 (25.29 %) Systems Engineer 2 41 (15.95 %) Support Engineer 3 31 (12.06 %) Administrator 4 27 (10.51 %) Systems Administrator 5 26 (10.12 %) Analyst 6 22 (8.560 %) Infrastructure Engineer 6 22 (8.560 %) Support Analyst 7 17 (6.615 %) Systems Support 8 15 (5.837 %) Technical Support 8 15 (5.837 %) IT Support Engineer 9 14 (5.447 %) 3rd Line Support 9 14 (5.447 %) 2nd Line Support 10 12 (4.669 %) Software Engineer 10 12 (4.669 %) Desktop Support 10 12 (4.669 %) Systems Support Engineer 11 10 (3.891 %) Cisco Specialist 11 10 (3.891 %) Server Engineer 11 10 (3.891 %) Server Support 11 10 (3.891 %) Network Specialist 11 10 (3.891 %) Linux Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 16 (6.226 %) Client/Server 2 14 (5.447 %) Blackberry 3 10 (3.891 %) Computer Science 4 6 (2.335 %) Clustering 5 4 (1.556 %) French Language 5 4 (1.556 %) German Language 5 4 (1.556 %) Portuguese Language 6 3 (1.167 %) Spanish Language 6 3 (1.167 %) Fat Client 6 3 (1.167 %) Multithreading 6 3 (1.167 %) MPEG 6 3 (1.167 %) Thin Client 6 3 (1.167 %) DTV 6 3 (1.167 %) Device Driver 7 2 (0.778 %) PKI 8 1 (0.389 %) Handset 8 1 (0.389 %) CLARiiON 8 1 (0.389 %) Cryptography	Operating Systems 1 184 (71.60 %) Windows 2 109 (42.41 %) Linux 3 108 (42.02 %) Windows Server 2003 4 87 (33.85 %) Windows 2000 5 38 (14.79 %) UNIX 6 34 (13.23 %) Windows XP 7 26 (10.12 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 17 (6.615 %) CentOS 9 12 (4.669 %) Windows Server 2008 10 10 (3.891 %) Red Hat Linux 10 10 (3.891 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 11 9 (3.502 %) Windows NT 12 3 (1.167 %) Windows CE 12 3 (1.167 %) VxWorks 12 3 (1.167 %) Windows Vista 13 1 (0.389 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (8.949 %) ITIL 2 14 (5.447 %) Project Management 3 10 (3.891 %) PRINCE2 4 8 (3.113 %) PRINCE 5 7 (2.724 %) OO 5 7 (2.724 %) Disaster Recovery 6 6 (2.335 %) OOD 7 5 (1.946 %) CRM 8 4 (1.556 %) E-business 8 4 (1.556 %) Network Load Balancing 8 4 (1.556 %) Software Engineering 9 3 (1.167 %) Incident Management 9 3 (1.167 %) Risk Analysis 9 3 (1.167 %) E-Commerce 9 3 (1.167 %) Service Delivery 9 3 (1.167 %) Penetration Testing 10 2 (0.778 %) Unit Testing 10 2 (0.778 %) Project Planning 11 1 (0.389 %) Load Balancing 11 1 (0.389 %) User Acceptance Testing	Programming Languages 1 49 (19.07 %) SQL 2 39 (15.18 %) C++ 3 29 (11.28 %) Python 4 23 (8.949 %) Perl 5 21 (8.171 %) PHP 6 19 (7.393 %) C 7 13 (5.058 %) Shell Script 8 11 (4.280 %) C# 9 8 (3.113 %) Java 10 4 (1.556 %) Ruby 10 4 (1.556 %) VBA 11 3 (1.167 %) VC++ 12 2 (0.778 %) VB 13 1 (0.389 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 94 (36.58 %) Microsoft Certification 2 86 (33.46 %) MCSE 3 54 (21.01 %) CCNA 3 54 (21.01 %) Cisco Certification 4 37 (14.40 %) MCP 5 32 (12.45 %) CCNP 6 30 (11.67 %) MCTS 7 22 (8.560 %) Degree 8 21 (8.171 %) RHCT 9 20 (7.782 %) MCITP 9 20 (7.782 %) CCIE 10 17 (6.615 %) MCSA 11 8 (3.113 %) PRINCE2 Certification 12 4 (1.556 %) A+ Certification 13 3 (1.167 %) PhD 14 2 (0.778 %) RHCE 15 1 (0.389 %) ITIL Certification 15 1 (0.389 %) Linux+ Certification 15 1 (0.389 %) MCDST 15 1 (0.389 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.389 %) WCAG 1 1 (0.389 %) WAI
System Software 1 104 (40.47 %) Active Directory 2 23 (8.949 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 18 (7.004 %) VMware ESX 4 17 (6.615 %) Terminal Services 4 17 (6.615 %) ISA Server 5 14 (5.447 %) Backup Exec 6 9 (3.502 %) Squid 7 4 (1.556 %) Terminal Server 8 3 (1.167 %) Snort 9 2 (0.778 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 24 (9.339 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 15 (5.837 %) MOM 3 11 (4.280 %) EMC NetWorker 4 3 (1.167 %) WSUS 5 1 (0.389 %) Nagios 5 1 (0.389 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 92 (35.80 %) Cisco 2 90 (35.02 %) Microsoft 3 65 (25.29 %) VMware 4 27 (10.51 %) Citrix 5 22 (8.560 %) Oracle 6 15 (5.837 %) EMC 7 13 (5.058 %) Intel 7 13 (5.058 %) VERITAS 8 9 (3.502 %) Lotus 8 9 (3.502 %) Red Hat 8 9 (3.502 %) HP 9 6 (2.335 %) CheckPoint 10 4 (1.556 %) Compaq 11 3 (1.167 %) Nokia 11 3 (1.167 %) OPNET 12 2 (0.778 %) BEA 13 1 (0.389 %) Sophos 13 1 (0.389 %) Websense 13 1 (0.389 %) Dell 13 1 (0.389 %) SAP