The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 21 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 Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 50 62 39
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -23
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 19 3 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 3.183% 0.519% 3.887%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.27% 5.660% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 14 3 18
Average salary £42,500 £23,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+80.85% -32.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,375 £23,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,700 £68,250
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year
+2.85% +6.06%
All Communications & Networking
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
104 53 123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 17.42% 9.170% 21.73%
Number of salaries quoted 94 48 100
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +3.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,100 £27,350
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £62,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
TCP/IP
West Midlands

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire TCP/IP Salary Trend

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Stoke-on-Trent +16 11 £45,000 -
Tamworth - 2 - -
TCP/IP
West Midlands

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 19 (54.29%) Cisco
2 17 (48.57%) DNS
3 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
3 16 (45.71%) Network Security
4 14 (40.00%) Security Management
4 14 (40.00%) LAN
4 14 (40.00%) WAN
4 14 (40.00%) Windows
5 12 (34.29%) Active Directory
6 11 (31.43%) DHCP
6 11 (31.43%) Firewall
7 10 (28.57%) Citrix
8 9 (25.71%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (22.86%) SSL
9 8 (22.86%) CCIE
9 8 (22.86%) CCSP
9 8 (22.86%) CA
9 8 (22.86%) CheckPoint
9 8 (22.86%) Juniper
9 8 (22.86%) McAfee
9 8 (22.86%) Sophos
9 8 (22.86%) Data Protection
9 8 (22.86%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (20.00%) SaaS
11 6 (17.14%) Project Management
11 6 (17.14%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (17.14%) Internet
11 6 (17.14%) Unified Communications
11 6 (17.14%) Mobile App
11 6 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 1 (2.857%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (14.29%) MS Exchange
2 3 (8.571%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (8.571%) IIS
3 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.857%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (2.857%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.857%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (2.857%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) MS Office
2 3 (8.571%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.857%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (2.857%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 17 (48.57%) DNS
2 16 (45.71%) Network Security
3 14 (40.00%) LAN
3 14 (40.00%) WAN
4 11 (31.43%) DHCP
4 11 (31.43%) Firewall
5 8 (22.86%) SSL
6 6 (17.14%) Internet
6 6 (17.14%) Unified Communications
7 2 (5.714%) SAN
7 2 (5.714%) VPN
8 1 (2.857%) NAS
8 1 (2.857%) BGP
8 1 (2.857%) MPLS
8 1 (2.857%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.714%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.857%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (2.857%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 2 (5.714%) Games
1 2 (5.714%) Telecoms
1 2 (5.714%) Finance
2 1 (2.857%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Consultant
2 7 (20.00%) Analyst
2 7 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
2 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) Support Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Network Security Manager
3 6 (17.14%) Network Manager
3 6 (17.14%) Security Manager
4 3 (8.571%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (5.714%) Technical Support
5 2 (5.714%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (5.714%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) Network Support
5 2 (5.714%) Help Desk Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) Help Desk Support
5 2 (5.714%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (5.714%) Technical Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (5.714%) Help Desk Support Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (2.857%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) SaaS
2 6 (17.14%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.714%) Replication
3 2 (5.714%) Statistics
3 2 (5.714%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.714%) EqualLogic
3 2 (5.714%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 14 (40.00%) Windows
2 8 (22.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (17.14%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (11.43%) Windows 7
5 2 (5.714%) Windows XP
6 1 (2.857%) Windows Vista
6 1 (2.857%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.857%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Security Management
2 8 (22.86%) Data Protection
3 6 (17.14%) Project Management
3 6 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (8.571%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (8.571%) Migration
4 3 (8.571%) E-Commerce
4 3 (8.571%) Change Management
5 2 (5.714%) Service Delivery
5 2 (5.714%) ITIL
5 2 (5.714%) Business Continuity
5 2 (5.714%) Security Architecture
5 2 (5.714%) Network Architecture
5 2 (5.714%) Capacity Management
6 1 (2.857%) Load Balancing
6 1 (2.857%) Resource Management
6 1 (2.857%) WAN Optimisation
6 1 (2.857%) Project Planning
6 1 (2.857%) Network Design
6 1 (2.857%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.857%) X++
1 1 (2.857%) VBScript
1 1 (2.857%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (22.86%) CCIE
2 8 (22.86%) CCSP
3 2 (5.714%) CCNP
3 2 (5.714%) CCIP
4 1 (2.857%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.714%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.571%) XenApp
2 3 (8.571%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.571%) vSphere
3 2 (5.714%) VMware ESX
3 2 (5.714%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.714%) XenDesktop
4 1 (2.857%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (2.857%) VMware Server
4 1 (2.857%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (2.857%) Backup Exec
1 1 (2.857%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 19 (54.29%) Cisco
2 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
3 10 (28.57%) Citrix
4 8 (22.86%) CA
4 8 (22.86%) CheckPoint
4 8 (22.86%) Juniper
4 8 (22.86%) McAfee
4 8 (22.86%) Sophos
5 6 (17.14%) VMware
6 2 (5.714%) Veeam
7 1 (2.857%) Altiris
7 1 (2.857%) Nortel
7 1 (2.857%) Avaya
7 1 (2.857%) SAP
7 1 (2.857%) Oracle
7 1 (2.857%) Symantec
7 1 (2.857%) Epicor
7 1 (2.857%) Lotus
7 1 (2.857%) JD Edwards
7 1 (2.857%) Sage
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