Reading TCP/IP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the Reading 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)
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Rank	18	28
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching permanent IT job ads	226	215
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.119 %	0.088 %
As % of the category below	30.79 %	27.08 %
Salaries quoted	211	158
Average minimum salary	£32,275	£31,519
Average salary	£34,948	£34,905
% change on same period last year	+0.12 %
Average maximum salary	£37,621	£38,291
UK excluding London average salary	£31,724	£33,636
% change on same period last year	-5.68 %
Communications & Networking Reading
Matching permanent IT job ads	734	794
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.387 %	0.325 %
Salaries quoted	653	577
Average minimum salary	£37,872	£38,231
Average salary	£41,131	£41,508
% change on same period last year	-0.90 %
Average maximum salary	£44,390	£44,785
UK excluding London average salary	£37,397	£39,734
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
TCP/IP Berkshire

TCP/IP
Demand Trend

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

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Reading 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 Reading 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.

1 176 (43.35 %) Windows 2 136 (33.50 %) Firewall 3 122 (30.05 %) UNIX 4 120 (29.56 %) Active Directory 5 100 (24.63 %) DNS 6 98 (24.14 %) Linux 7 96 (23.65 %) Microsoft Certification 8 93 (22.91 %) Cisco 8 93 (22.91 %) Microsoft 9 91 (22.41 %) MCSE 10 86 (21.18 %) SQL 11 84 (20.69 %) Internet 12 72 (17.73 %) MS Exchange 13 71 (17.49 %) Cisco Certification 14 67 (16.50 %) MS Excel

15 63 (15.52 %) CCNA 16 62 (15.27 %) Perl 17 59 (14.53 %) Windows 2000 17 59 (14.53 %) Solaris 17 59 (14.53 %) WAN 18 58 (14.29 %) VPN 19 55 (13.55 %) CheckPoint 20 53 (13.05 %) LAN 21 52 (12.81 %) DHCP 22 50 (12.32 %) HP 22 50 (12.32 %) Oracle 22 50 (12.32 %) Red Hat 23 48 (11.82 %) German Language 24 46 (11.33 %) VMware 25 43 (10.59 %) Windows XP

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Reading 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 24 (5.911 %) XML 2 9 (2.217 %) XSD 2 9 (2.217 %) XSL 2 9 (2.217 %) WAP 2 9 (2.217 %) HTML 2 9 (2.217 %) CSS 2 9 (2.217 %) UIQ 2 9 (2.217 %) Series 60 3 7 (1.724 %) SOAP 4 6 (1.478 %) .NET 5 4 (0.985 %) J2EE 5 4 (0.985 %) Middleware 6 3 (0.739 %) LAMP 6 3 (0.739 %) AJAX 6 3 (0.739 %) WebSphere 6 3 (0.739 %) SAML 6 3 (0.739 %) STL 6 3 (0.739 %) Servlets 7 2 (0.493 %) WebServices 7 2 (0.493 %) CORBA	Application Platforms 1 72 (17.73 %) MS Exchange 2 42 (10.34 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 41 (10.10 %) IIS 4 34 (8.374 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 14 (3.448 %) SharePoint 6 12 (2.956 %) Apache 7 11 (2.709 %) Lotus Notes 8 4 (0.985 %) Tomcat 8 4 (0.985 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 3 (0.739 %) Lotus Domino 9 3 (0.739 %) WebSphere Application Server 9 3 (0.739 %) WebLogic 10 1 (0.246 %) JBoss 10 1 (0.246 %) GroupWise 10 1 (0.246 %) CMS
Applications 1 67 (16.50 %) MS Excel 2 42 (10.34 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.246 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 8 (1.970 %) GoldMine 2 2 (0.493 %) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking 1 136 (33.50 %) Firewall 2 100 (24.63 %) DNS 3 84 (20.69 %) Internet 4 59 (14.53 %) WAN 5 58 (14.29 %) VPN 6 53 (13.05 %) LAN 7 52 (12.81 %) DHCP 8 39 (9.606 %) Ethernet 9 38 (9.360 %) MPLS 10 30 (7.389 %) Network Security 11 29 (7.143 %) SDH 12 26 (6.404 %) FTP 13 25 (6.158 %) Broadband 14 24 (5.911 %) SNMP 14 24 (5.911 %) TELNET 15 21 (5.172 %) SMTP 16 20 (4.926 %) HTTP 17 19 (4.680 %) Kerberos 18 18 (4.433 %) OSPF 19 16 (3.941 %) Cisco PIX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (4.926 %) SQL Server 2 8 (1.970 %) BusinessObjects 3 6 (1.478 %) Oracle 9i 3 6 (1.478 %) RDBMS 3 6 (1.478 %) Oracle 10g 3 6 (1.478 %) Oracle 11g 4 5 (1.232 %) MySQL 5 3 (0.739 %) SQL Server 7 6 1 (0.246 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (0.246 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (0.246 %) Ant 1 1 (0.246 %) JUnit	General 1 24 (5.911 %) Telecoms 1 24 (5.911 %) Pensions 2 23 (5.665 %) Health 3 22 (5.419 %) Finance 4 11 (2.709 %) Government 5 9 (2.217 %) Retail 6 6 (1.478 %) Back Office 6 6 (1.478 %) Education 7 3 (0.739 %) Front Office 7 3 (0.739 %) Automotive 8 2 (0.493 %) Publishing 8 2 (0.493 %) Military 8 2 (0.493 %) Insurance 9 1 (0.246 %) FMCG 9 1 (0.246 %) Electronics
Job Titles 1 91 (22.41 %) Support Engineer 2 62 (15.27 %) Analyst 3 50 (12.32 %) Network Engineer 4 40 (9.852 %) Technical Support 5 29 (7.143 %) 2nd Line Support 5 29 (7.143 %) Administrator 6 28 (6.897 %) Consultant 6 28 (6.897 %) Technical Engineer 7 27 (6.650 %) Security Engineer 8 26 (6.404 %) Systems Engineer 8 26 (6.404 %) Support Analyst 9 24 (5.911 %) Technical Support Engineer 10 22 (5.419 %) Network Designer 11 19 (4.680 %) AIX Administrator 12 16 (3.941 %) Network Support 13 15 (3.695 %) Desktop Support 14 13 (3.202 %) Software Engineer 14 13 (3.202 %) Desktop Engineer 14 13 (3.202 %) Field Engineer 15 12 (2.956 %) Technical Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 48 (11.82 %) German Language 2 20 (4.926 %) HACMP 2 20 (4.926 %) French Language 3 11 (2.709 %) Computer Science 4 10 (2.463 %) Italian Language 4 10 (2.463 %) Spanish Language 5 9 (2.217 %) Smartphone 6 5 (1.232 %) Portuguese Language 6 5 (1.232 %) SecurID 6 5 (1.232 %) PKI 7 3 (0.739 %) Web 2.0 7 3 (0.739 %) Handset 7 3 (0.739 %) Clustering 8 2 (0.493 %) Blackberry 8 2 (0.493 %) IPTV 9 1 (0.246 %) MPEG 9 1 (0.246 %) Mainframe 9 1 (0.246 %) Punjabi Language 9 1 (0.246 %) Russian Language 9 1 (0.246 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 176 (43.35 %) Windows 2 122 (30.05 %) UNIX 3 98 (24.14 %) Linux 4 59 (14.53 %) Windows 2000 4 59 (14.53 %) Solaris 5 43 (10.59 %) Windows XP 6 42 (10.34 %) Windows NT 7 21 (5.172 %) Windows Server 2003 7 21 (5.172 %) AIX 8 9 (2.217 %) Windows Mobile 9 4 (0.985 %) Windows Vista 9 4 (0.985 %) Debian 9 4 (0.985 %) HPUX 10 3 (0.739 %) SUSE 11 1 (0.246 %) Fedora 11 1 (0.246 %) Ubuntu 11 1 (0.246 %) Tru64	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (5.419 %) ITIL 2 15 (3.695 %) OO 3 13 (3.202 %) Disaster Recovery 4 10 (2.463 %) Project Management 5 9 (2.217 %) UML 5 9 (2.217 %) Security Cleared 6 7 (1.724 %) SC Cleared 6 7 (1.724 %) E-Commerce 7 6 (1.478 %) Process Management 7 6 (1.478 %) Strategic Planning 7 6 (1.478 %) Data Protection 8 5 (1.232 %) Network Design 8 5 (1.232 %) CRM 9 4 (0.985 %) Service Delivery 9 4 (0.985 %) Migration 9 4 (0.985 %) Load Balancing 10 3 (0.739 %) Validation 11 2 (0.493 %) Risk Management 11 2 (0.493 %) Change Management 11 2 (0.493 %) PRINCE
Programming Languages 1 86 (21.18 %) SQL 2 62 (15.27 %) Perl 3 41 (10.10 %) C 4 30 (7.389 %) C++ 5 27 (6.650 %) Java 6 24 (5.911 %) Korn 7 23 (5.665 %) Python 8 10 (2.463 %) JavaScript 9 8 (1.970 %) C# 9 8 (1.970 %) Shell Script 10 7 (1.724 %) VB 11 6 (1.478 %) VBScript 11 6 (1.478 %) Delphi 12 4 (0.985 %) PHP 13 3 (0.739 %) Assembly Language 14 2 (0.493 %) VC++ 15 1 (0.246 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 96 (23.65 %) Microsoft Certification 2 91 (22.41 %) MCSE 3 71 (17.49 %) Cisco Certification 4 63 (15.52 %) CCNA 5 34 (8.374 %) MCSA 6 30 (7.389 %) MCP 7 28 (6.897 %) Degree 8 21 (5.172 %) CCNP 9 19 (4.680 %) CCSE 10 13 (3.202 %) CCSA 10 13 (3.202 %) RHCE 11 11 (2.709 %) CCIP 12 8 (1.970 %) CCIE 12 8 (1.970 %) Network+ Certification 13 7 (1.724 %) CCDP 14 5 (1.232 %) CNA 14 5 (1.232 %) Novell Certification 15 3 (0.739 %) CISSP 15 3 (0.739 %) A+ Certification 15 3 (0.739 %) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 14 (3.448 %) SLA 2 8 (1.970 %) QA 3 2 (0.493 %) ISO17799	System Software 1 120 (29.56 %) Active Directory 2 33 (8.128 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 20 (4.926 %) NFS 3 20 (4.926 %) Samba 4 12 (2.956 %) VMware ESX 5 9 (2.217 %) NetBackup 5 9 (2.217 %) ISA Server 6 7 (1.724 %) MetaFrame 7 5 (1.232 %) ProxySG 8 2 (0.493 %) Snort 8 2 (0.493 %) Squid 8 2 (0.493 %) Terminal Services 8 2 (0.493 %) MSMQ
Systems Management 1 24 (5.911 %) OpenView 1 24 (5.911 %) Netcool 2 22 (5.419 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 11 (2.709 %) MOM 3 11 (2.709 %) WSUS 4 9 (2.217 %) Tivoli 5 6 (1.478 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 6 (1.478 %) Unicenter 6 4 (0.985 %) MIMEsweeper 7 3 (0.739 %) EMC NetWorker 7 3 (0.739 %) Legato 8 1 (0.246 %) OpenView Configuration Management 8 1 (0.246 %) ARCserve 8 1 (0.246 %) MAILsweeper	Vendors 1 93 (22.91 %) Cisco 1 93 (22.91 %) Microsoft 2 55 (13.55 %) CheckPoint 3 50 (12.32 %) Red Hat 3 50 (12.32 %) HP 3 50 (12.32 %) Oracle 4 46 (11.33 %) VMware 5 32 (7.882 %) Juniper 6 24 (5.911 %) MetaSolv 6 24 (5.911 %) Cramer 7 23 (5.665 %) Citrix 7 23 (5.665 %) Blue Coat 8 19 (4.680 %) Intel 9 15 (3.695 %) EMC 10 14 (3.448 %) Sun 10 14 (3.448 %) Lotus 11 13 (3.202 %) Novell 12 12 (2.956 %) Nokia 13 11 (2.709 %) Compaq 14 9 (2.217 %) Symbian