The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Internet over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 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.

Internet
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank615653
Rank change year-on-year
Down-5Down-3
Matching permanent IT job ads463347273691
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK3.842 %3.855 %3.866 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category21.88 %24.49 %25.08 %
Number of salaries quoted392239633080
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,000£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£67,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
211741929914719
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK17.56 %15.74 %15.42 %
Number of salaries quoted176421597812153
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£61,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66 %-

Internet
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Internet within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Internet Demand Trend

Internet
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Internet within the UK.

Internet Salary Trend

Internet
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Internet over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Internet Salary Histogram

Internet
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. 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
EnglandDown-54399£42,500+6.25 %
LondonUp+22090£50,000+5.26 %
South EastUp+4987£40,000+6.66 %
City of LondonUp+3409£52,500+10.52 %
East of EnglandDown-10351£40,000+6.66 %
BerkshireUp+24297£40,000+10.34 %
North WestDown-13285£35,000+16.66 %
YorkshireDown-9221£33,500-0.74 %
HampshireUp+19187£40,000+14.28 %
ManchesterUp+6181£34,250+24.54 %
SurreyDown-44181£40,000-
HertfordshireUp+16176£37,500-16.66 %
South WestDown-9163£26,500-18.46 %
West MidlandsDown-17143£35,000+7.69 %
East MidlandsDown-15140£30,000-3.22 %
West YorkshireDown-12134£32,500+3.17 %
LeedsDown-4111£31,500+5.00 %
CambridgeshireDown-19104£40,000+14.28 %
ScotlandUp+14102£35,000+7.69 %
BuckinghamshireUp+1386£38,500+2.66 %
CambridgeDown-1480£40,000+14.28 %
OxfordshireUp+1379£35,000-6.66 %
BristolDown-374£26,500-24.28 %
SouthamptonUp+2469£32,500+25.00 %
ReadingDown-2369£47,500+17.28 %
West SussexDown-267£33,500+3.07 %
CheshireDown-3867£37,500-6.25 %
South WalesUp+2365£33,500-18.54 %
WalesUp+1065£33,500-16.25 %
BirminghamUp+562£35,000-4.10 %

Internet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Internet 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 Internet.

12149 (24.14 %)Windows
22031 (22.81 %)Linux
32027 (22.77 %)Microsoft
41975 (22.18 %)JavaScript
51859 (20.88 %)HTML
61792 (20.13 %)SQL Server
71779 (19.98 %)SQL
81753 (19.69 %).NET
91699 (19.08 %)Java
101620 (18.20 %)CSS
111470 (16.51 %)Finance
121401 (15.74 %)C#
131348 (15.14 %)Degree
141281 (14.39 %)XML
151254 (14.09 %)UNIX
161205 (13.53 %)E-Commerce
171138 (12.78 %)ASP.NET
181127 (12.66 %)Firewall
191098 (12.33 %)Cisco
20986 (11.07 %)MS Excel
21975 (10.95 %)MySQL
22971 (10.91 %)PHP
23962 (10.81 %)TCP/IP
24924 (10.38 %)Oracle
25892 (10.02 %)Agile Software Development
26838 (9.413 %)VMware
27824 (9.255 %)Ajax
28807 (9.064 %)Web Services
29794 (8.918 %)Apache
30764 (8.581 %)Project Management

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11859 (20.88 %)HTML
21753 (19.69 %).NET
31620 (18.20 %)CSS
41281 (14.39 %)XML
51138 (12.78 %)ASP.NET
6824 (9.255 %)Ajax
7807 (9.064 %)Web Services
8738 (8.289 %)jQuery
9619 (6.953 %)J2EE
10480 (5.391 %)XHTML
11450 (5.054 %)WCF
12410 (4.605 %)HTML5
13328 (3.684 %)WebSphere
13328 (3.684 %)ASP
14312 (3.504 %)LAMP
15308 (3.460 %)Spring
16307 (3.448 %)ASP.NET MVC
17285 (3.201 %)SOAP
18272 (3.055 %)JSP
18272 (3.055 %).NET Framework
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1794 (8.918 %)Apache
2744 (8.357 %)IIS
3551 (6.189 %)SharePoint
4435 (4.886 %)MS Exchange
5392 (4.403 %)Tomcat
6375 (4.212 %)CMS
7200 (2.246 %)Exchange Server 2007
8186 (2.089 %)Exchange Server 2010
9151 (1.696 %)WebSphere Application Server
10139 (1.561 %)WebLogic
11138 (1.550 %)Drupal
12135 (1.516 %)Exchange Server 2003
13105 (1.179 %)SharePoint 2010
1493 (1.045 %)Umbraco
1588 (0.988 %)nginx
1687 (0.977 %)WordPress
1775 (0.842 %)SharePoint Server
1872 (0.809 %)ESB
1958 (0.651 %)BizTalk Server
2049 (0.550 %)Jetty
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1986 (11.07 %)MS Excel
2480 (5.391 %)MS Office
3368 (4.133 %)MS Visio
4220 (2.471 %)Photoshop
5117 (1.314 %)MS PowerPoint
667 (0.753 %)MS Project
761 (0.685 %)Adobe Illustrator
844 (0.494 %)Google Apps
938 (0.427 %)Fireworks
1030 (0.337 %)Spreadsheet
1126 (0.292 %)InDesign
1224 (0.270 %)Office 365
1317 (0.191 %)Acrobat
1414 (0.157 %)DOC1
1510 (0.112 %)InfoPath
169 (0.101 %)PrintSoft PReS
178 (0.090 %)OmniGraffle
186 (0.067 %)MATLAB
195 (0.056 %)Paint Shop Pro
195 (0.056 %)RoboHelp
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
174 (0.831 %)Dynamics CRM
269 (0.775 %)Google Analytics
344 (0.494 %)SAP CRM
438 (0.427 %)SAP APO
535 (0.393 %)SAP EBP
535 (0.393 %)SiteCatalyst
626 (0.292 %)SAP PM
722 (0.247 %)Optimost
818 (0.202 %)Tridion
917 (0.191 %)Oracle ERP
1014 (0.157 %)Oracle EBS
1014 (0.157 %)BASE24
1112 (0.135 %)Oracle 11i
1211 (0.124 %)Dynamics NAV
1211 (0.124 %)Oracle EBS R12
1310 (0.112 %)Dynamics AX
1310 (0.112 %)GoldMine
149 (0.101 %)Pivotal CRM
149 (0.101 %)Exstream
149 (0.101 %)Oracle Applications
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11127 (12.66 %)Firewall
2962 (10.81 %)TCP/IP
3763 (8.570 %)DNS
4586 (6.582 %)Intranet
5570 (6.402 %)HTTP
6562 (6.312 %)LAN
7487 (5.470 %)WAN
8431 (4.841 %)VPN
9417 (4.684 %)SAN
10336 (3.774 %)DHCP
11287 (3.224 %)VoIP
12274 (3.078 %)Network Security
13270 (3.033 %)SMTP
14268 (3.010 %)Wireless
15202 (2.269 %)FTP
16200 (2.246 %)MPLS
17184 (2.067 %)OSPF
18176 (1.977 %)SSL
19175 (1.966 %)VLAN
20171 (1.921 %)Broadband
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11792 (20.13 %)SQL Server
2975 (10.95 %)MySQL
3524 (5.886 %)SQL Server 2008
4310 (3.482 %)SQL Server 2005
5303 (3.403 %)RDBMS
6160 (1.797 %)DB2
7159 (1.786 %)Data Warehouse
8141 (1.584 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
9133 (1.494 %)SQL Server Integration Services
10110 (1.236 %)NoSQL
11101 (1.134 %)PostgreSQL
1279 (0.887 %)ETL
1375 (0.842 %)MongoDB
1470 (0.786 %)Oracle 10g
1470 (0.786 %)SQL Server 2000
1566 (0.741 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1660 (0.674 %)Apache Cassandra
1660 (0.674 %)Oracle Reports
1759 (0.663 %)Crystal Reports
1759 (0.663 %)Informix
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1585 (6.571 %)Subversion
2497 (5.582 %)Visual Studio
3232 (2.606 %)Selenium
4212 (2.381 %)Ant
5194 (2.179 %)NUnit
6171 (1.921 %)JUnit
7163 (1.831 %)Maven
8152 (1.707 %)Eclipse
9151 (1.696 %)Team Foundation Server
10140 (1.573 %)Git (software)
11101 (1.134 %)JIRA
1297 (1.090 %)Rhino Mocks
1368 (0.764 %)CruiseControl
1458 (0.651 %)TestNG
1556 (0.629 %)Cucumber
1653 (0.595 %)Dreamweaver
1752 (0.584 %)LoadRunner
1850 (0.562 %)QuickTest Pro
1850 (0.562 %)TortoiseSVN
1945 (0.505 %)TeamCity
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11470 (16.51 %)Finance
2751 (8.435 %)Marketing
3662 (7.436 %)Telecoms
4650 (7.301 %)Banking
5642 (7.211 %)Games
6500 (5.616 %)Retail
7185 (2.078 %)Advertising
8172 (1.932 %)Publishing
9158 (1.775 %)German Language
10132 (1.483 %)Music
11130 (1.460 %)Back Office
12119 (1.337 %)Law
12119 (1.337 %)Legal
13111 (1.247 %)French Language
14100 (1.123 %)Online Betting
1596 (1.078 %)Investment Banking
1672 (0.809 %)Manufacturing
1771 (0.797 %)Front Office
1862 (0.696 %)Electronics
1961 (0.685 %)Billing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12821 (31.69 %)Developer
21057 (11.87 %)Analyst
3642 (7.211 %).NET Developer
4586 (6.582 %)Web Developer
5546 (6.133 %)Architect
6483 (5.425 %)Java Developer
7431 (4.841 %)Consultant
8383 (4.302 %)Support Engineer
9377 (4.235 %)C# Developer
10372 (4.178 %)Administrator
11365 (4.100 %)Project Manager
12346 (3.886 %)C# .NET Developer
13318 (3.572 %)Senior Developer
14316 (3.549 %)ASP.NET Developer
15309 (3.471 %)Support Analyst
16293 (3.291 %)Network Engineer
17289 (3.246 %)PHP Developer
18270 (3.033 %)Systems Administrator
19269 (3.021 %)Business Analyst
20243 (2.729 %)Software Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1441 (4.953 %)Computer Science
2357 (4.010 %)Open Source
3297 (3.336 %)Social Media
4293 (3.291 %)RIA
5291 (3.269 %)Management Information System
6216 (2.426 %)Online Games
7210 (2.359 %)Clustering
8184 (2.067 %)SaaS
9182 (2.044 %)Client/Server
10173 (1.943 %)Digital Media
11171 (1.921 %)Online Banking
12163 (1.831 %)Blackberry
13153 (1.719 %)Cloud Computing
14148 (1.662 %)iPhone
15143 (1.606 %)Mathematics
16139 (1.561 %)Social Network
17130 (1.460 %)W3C
18107 (1.202 %)Web 2.0
1995 (1.067 %)New Media
2086 (0.966 %)N-Tier
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12149 (24.14 %)Windows
22031 (22.81 %)Linux
31254 (14.09 %)UNIX
4662 (7.436 %)Windows Server 2008
5616 (6.919 %)Windows Server 2003
6330 (3.707 %)Solaris
7256 (2.875 %)Windows XP
8220 (2.471 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9219 (2.460 %)Windows 7
10159 (1.786 %)Android
11147 (1.651 %)CentOS
12117 (1.314 %)AIX
13113 (1.269 %)Debian
14102 (1.146 %)Apple iOS
1597 (1.090 %)Windows Vista
1679 (0.887 %)Ubuntu
1764 (0.719 %)Windows 2000
1855 (0.618 %)Windows 2000 Server
1945 (0.505 %)Mac OS X
2036 (0.404 %)Windows NT
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11205 (13.53 %)E-Commerce
2892 (10.02 %)Agile Software Development
3764 (8.581 %)Project Management
4752 (8.447 %)OO
5699 (7.851 %)Scrum
6654 (7.346 %)ITIL
7649 (7.290 %)TDD
8614 (6.897 %)MVC
9609 (6.840 %)Web Development
10417 (4.684 %)Content Management
11351 (3.942 %)SEO
11351 (3.942 %)CRM
12338 (3.796 %)PRINCE2
13331 (3.718 %)UML
14287 (3.224 %)Business Analysis
15285 (3.201 %)Service Delivery
16261 (2.932 %)Load Balancing
17243 (2.729 %)Web Application Development
18232 (2.606 %)Disaster Recovery
19218 (2.449 %)Unit Testing
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11975 (22.18 %)JavaScript
21779 (19.98 %)SQL
31699 (19.08 %)Java
41401 (15.74 %)C#
5971 (10.91 %)PHP
6563 (6.324 %)Perl
7469 (5.268 %)Python
8411 (4.616 %)C++
9377 (4.235 %)C
10297 (3.336 %)VB.NET
11285 (3.201 %)T-SQL
12244 (2.741 %)Ruby
13211 (2.370 %)VB
14199 (2.235 %)Bash shell
15182 (2.044 %)Shell Script
16135 (1.516 %)ActionScript
17105 (1.179 %)VBScript
18100 (1.123 %)PL/SQL
1992 (1.033 %)PHP5
2065 (0.730 %)ActionScript 3.0
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11348 (15.14 %)Degree
2665 (7.469 %)Microsoft Certification
3570 (6.402 %)Cisco Certification
4376 (4.223 %)CCNA
5363 (4.077 %)MCP
6328 (3.684 %)MCSE
7308 (3.460 %)CCNP
8203 (2.280 %)MCTS
9191 (2.145 %)MCSD
10187 (2.100 %)MCAD
11169 (1.898 %)Security Cleared
12137 (1.539 %)ISEB
13134 (1.505 %)MCITP
14127 (1.426 %)CISSP
1596 (1.078 %)SC Cleared
1695 (1.067 %)RHCE
1792 (1.033 %)CCIE
1887 (0.977 %)CCSA
1979 (0.887 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2078 (0.876 %)MCSA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1496 (5.571 %)QA
2274 (3.078 %)SLA
3103 (1.157 %)ISO/IEC 27001
471 (0.797 %)ISO 9001
567 (0.753 %)PCI DSS
641 (0.461 %)WCAG
733 (0.371 %)WAI
830 (0.337 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
921 (0.236 %)Data Quality
1014 (0.157 %)HMG Infosec
1014 (0.157 %)BS7799
1111 (0.124 %)ISO 9000
129 (0.101 %)COBIT
136 (0.067 %)ISO/IEC 17799
136 (0.067 %)TickIT
144 (0.045 %)JSP 440
153 (0.034 %)HIPAA
162 (0.022 %)Basel III
171 (0.011 %)Solvency II
171 (0.011 %)Basel II
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1742 (8.334 %)Active Directory
2477 (5.358 %)VMware Infrastructure
3257 (2.887 %)vSphere
4229 (2.572 %)VMware ESX
579 (0.887 %)Hyper-V
663 (0.708 %)XenApp
753 (0.595 %)Squid
852 (0.584 %)Varnish
852 (0.584 %)VMware ESXi
943 (0.483 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1042 (0.472 %)XenDesktop
1139 (0.438 %)NFS
1237 (0.416 %)ISA Server
1336 (0.404 %)Snort
1434 (0.382 %)Sendmail
1531 (0.348 %)Xen
1531 (0.348 %)Samba
1627 (0.303 %)Terminal Services
1725 (0.281 %)MetaFrame
1822 (0.247 %)VMware Workstation
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
194 (1.056 %)Puppet
280 (0.899 %)Nagios
378 (0.876 %)SCCM
472 (0.809 %)Tivoli
569 (0.775 %)NetBackup
667 (0.753 %)Backup Exec
755 (0.618 %)SCOM
850 (0.562 %)HP Quality Center
934 (0.382 %)WSUS
1030 (0.337 %)ZABBIX
1030 (0.337 %)Cisco UCCX
1129 (0.326 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1226 (0.292 %)CiscoWorks
1325 (0.281 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1423 (0.258 %)Sysprep
1521 (0.236 %)Plesk
1521 (0.236 %)Nessus
1619 (0.213 %)Red Hat Spacewalk
1718 (0.202 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
1816 (0.180 %)Cisco IPCC
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12027 (22.77 %)Microsoft
21098 (12.33 %)Cisco
3924 (10.38 %)Oracle
4838 (9.413 %)VMware
5385 (4.324 %)Red Hat
6358 (4.021 %)Citrix
7343 (3.853 %)HP
8306 (3.437 %)Juniper
9293 (3.291 %)JBoss
10266 (2.988 %)CheckPoint
11214 (2.404 %)Google
12205 (2.303 %)IBM
13184 (2.067 %)SAP
14162 (1.820 %)Sun
15152 (1.707 %)Adobe
16134 (1.505 %)F5
17125 (1.404 %)Blue Coat
18106 (1.191 %)EMC
19102 (1.146 %)Zend
2094 (1.056 %)Nokia