The first table below looks at the demand for IPX/SPX skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IPX/SPX over the 3 months to 24 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange (IPX/SPX)
Rank - - 874
Permanent jobs citing IPX/SPX 0 0 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK - - 0.006%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 5
Average salary - - £38,000
UK excluding London average salary - - -
All Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
20871 21174 19668
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 19.31% 17.54% 15.81%
Number of salaries quoted 16834 17640 16289
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,127 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%

IPX/SPX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

IPX/SPX Jobs Demand Trend

IPX/SPX
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing IPX/SPX within the UK.

IPX/SPX Salary Trend

IPX/SPX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing IPX/SPX 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 IPX/SPX.

1 10 (100.00%) IPX
1 10 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 10 (100.00%) VPN
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
2 8 (80.00%) Cisco PIX
2 8 (80.00%) Ethernet
2 8 (80.00%) Cisco
3 7 (70.00%) CCNP
3 7 (70.00%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (70.00%) Windows
4 6 (60.00%) LDAP
4 6 (60.00%) PPP
4 6 (60.00%) POP3
4 6 (60.00%) SMTP
4 6 (60.00%) IMAP
4 6 (60.00%) Fast Ethernet
4 6 (60.00%) Network Design
4 6 (60.00%) Network Planning
5 5 (50.00%) Finance
5 5 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (50.00%) Cacti
5 5 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
5 5 (50.00%) Solaris
5 5 (50.00%) Linux
5 5 (50.00%) OpenView
5 5 (50.00%) HP
5 5 (50.00%) CCSP
6 2 (20.00%) SSL
6 2 (20.00%) SAN
6 2 (20.00%) Nokia

IPX/SPX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing IPX/SPX 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 IPX/SPX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (20.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) IPX
1 10 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 10 (100.00%) VPN
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
2 8 (80.00%) Cisco PIX
2 8 (80.00%) Ethernet
3 6 (60.00%) LDAP
3 6 (60.00%) PPP
3 6 (60.00%) POP3
3 6 (60.00%) SMTP
3 6 (60.00%) IMAP
3 6 (60.00%) Fast Ethernet
4 5 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (20.00%) SSL
5 2 (20.00%) SAN
5 2 (20.00%) Internet
5 2 (20.00%) DWDM
5 2 (20.00%) OSPF
5 2 (20.00%) BGP
5 2 (20.00%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (20.00%) DB2
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Network Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Support
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Support
2 2 (20.00%) Solutions Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Solaris
2 5 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Network Design
1 6 (60.00%) Network Planning
2 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (20.00%) Network Management
2 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) CCNP
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (50.00%) CCSP
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Cacti
1 5 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
1 5 (50.00%) OpenView
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
2 5 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) Nokia
3 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
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