The first table below looks at the demand for PPP skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PPP over the 3 months to 17 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
Rank 207 207 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Permanent jobs citing PPP 3 8 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.057% 0.145% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.329% 0.861% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 0
Average salary £32,500 £38,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.47% -
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-18.75% -
All Communications & Networking
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
912 929 1016
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 17.38% 16.84% 17.33%
Number of salaries quoted 778 755 838
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
PPP
England

PPP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing PPP across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

South West PPP Jobs Demand Trend

PPP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PPP across the South West region.

South West PPP Salary Trend

PPP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PPP across the South West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South West PPP Salary Histogram

PPP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PPP within the South West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Somerset - 2 £35,375 -
Bristol -1 1 £22,500 -50.00%
PPP
England

PPP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing PPP 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 PPP.

1 10 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 10 (100.00%) IPsec
2 9 (90.00%) VLAN
2 9 (90.00%) VPN
2 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 9 (90.00%) ISDN
2 9 (90.00%) CCNP
2 9 (90.00%) CCNA
2 9 (90.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (90.00%) MPLS
2 9 (90.00%) OSPF
2 9 (90.00%) BGP
3 8 (80.00%) CCIP
3 8 (80.00%) DHCP
4 7 (70.00%) DSL
4 7 (70.00%) EIGRP
4 7 (70.00%) Telecoms
4 7 (70.00%) VRRP
4 7 (70.00%) HSRP
5 5 (50.00%) xDSL
5 5 (50.00%) 3G
5 5 (50.00%) ADSL
6 4 (40.00%) LAN
6 4 (40.00%) WAN
6 4 (40.00%) Ericsson
6 4 (40.00%) Performance Management
6 4 (40.00%) Redback
7 3 (30.00%) Validation
7 3 (30.00%) SLA
7 3 (30.00%) Microsoft

PPP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing PPP 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 PPP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Office
2 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 10 (100.00%) IPsec
2 9 (90.00%) VLAN
2 9 (90.00%) VPN
2 9 (90.00%) MPLS
2 9 (90.00%) OSPF
2 9 (90.00%) BGP
2 9 (90.00%) ISDN
3 8 (80.00%) DHCP
4 7 (70.00%) VRRP
4 7 (70.00%) DSL
4 7 (70.00%) EIGRP
4 7 (70.00%) HSRP
5 5 (50.00%) xDSL
5 5 (50.00%) 3G
5 5 (50.00%) ADSL
6 4 (40.00%) WAN
6 4 (40.00%) LAN
7 3 (30.00%) ATM
8 2 (20.00%) SDH
General
1 7 (70.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Team Leader
1 3 (30.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Implementation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Customer Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Trainer
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Trainer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IP Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Validation
3 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) CCNP
1 9 (90.00%) CCNA
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (80.00%) CCIP
3 1 (10.00%) CCDP
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (10.00%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) SLA
2 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) Ericsson
2 4 (40.00%) Redback
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) VMware
Somerset, South West
This includes MPLS VPN, IP Access and associated overlay services, such as Application Performance Management (APM), and IPSec VPN, delivered over xDSL, EFM (copper and fibre), Leased Line,...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: to £62k + 5% bonus
Posted: 14 May 2013