The first table below looks at the demand for snoop skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited snoop 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems snoop
Rank 847 865 855
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -10
Permanent jobs citing snoop 13 22 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.012% 0.018% 0.013%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.062% 0.104% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 12 18 12
Average salary £55,000 £50,000 £59,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% -15.96%
90% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 £52,500 -
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -
All Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21033 21229 19145
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 19.36% 17.52% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 17006 17692 15862
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £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%

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

snoop Jobs Demand Trend

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Salary Trend

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

snoop Salary Trend

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Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing snoop over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

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Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing snoop within the UK 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
England 0 13 £55,000 +10.00%
London +17 6 £47,500 -5.00%
Berkshire +14 6 £60,000 +14.28%
Reading +5 6 £60,000 +14.28%
South East +1 6 £60,000 +14.28%
City of London +2 2 £50,000 -
East of England - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
Surbiton - 1 £47,000 -
St Albans - 1 - -

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing snoop 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 snoop.

1 17 (77.27%) Cisco
1 17 (77.27%) Sun
2 16 (72.73%) Solaris
2 16 (72.73%) VMware
3 15 (68.18%) Red Hat
3 15 (68.18%) Wireshark
3 15 (68.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (68.18%) ITIL
4 14 (63.64%) Windows
4 14 (63.64%) Degree
4 14 (63.64%) tcpdump
5 13 (59.09%) F5
5 13 (59.09%) Perl
5 13 (59.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (59.09%) Project Management
6 12 (54.55%) Service Delivery
6 12 (54.55%) Java
6 12 (54.55%) Apache
6 12 (54.55%) HP
7 11 (50.00%) Nortel
7 11 (50.00%) Juniper
7 11 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 11 (50.00%) XML
7 11 (50.00%) MS Excel
7 11 (50.00%) SAS
7 11 (50.00%) HTML
7 11 (50.00%) IIS
7 11 (50.00%) Change Management
7 11 (50.00%) Firmware
7 11 (50.00%) Microsoft

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing snoop 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 snoop. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (50.00%) XML
1 11 (50.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 12 (54.55%) Apache
2 11 (50.00%) SAS
2 11 (50.00%) IIS
3 1 (4.545%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 11 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (9.091%) MS Visio
2 2 (9.091%) MS Office
3 1 (4.545%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 15 (68.18%) Wireshark
2 14 (63.64%) tcpdump
3 11 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 11 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 11 (50.00%) FWSM
4 5 (22.73%) SAN
5 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
6 3 (13.64%) LDAP
6 3 (13.64%) BGP
6 3 (13.64%) Firewall
7 2 (9.091%) NetScreen
7 2 (9.091%) SSH
7 2 (9.091%) VLAN
7 2 (9.091%) Network Security
7 2 (9.091%) DNS
7 2 (9.091%) FTP
7 2 (9.091%) IPv4
7 2 (9.091%) IPv6
7 2 (9.091%) WAN
7 2 (9.091%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.545%) MySQL
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Law
3 2 (9.091%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.091%) Banking
4 1 (4.545%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Network Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) UNIX Administrator
2 4 (18.18%) Administrator
3 2 (9.091%) Security Specialist
3 2 (9.091%) Network Security Specialist
3 2 (9.091%) Senior UNIX Administrator
3 2 (9.091%) Network Specialist
3 2 (9.091%) Lead Network Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.545%) Network Consultant
4 1 (4.545%) Consultant
4 1 (4.545%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.545%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Customer Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (4.545%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.545%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.545%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (4.545%) iSeries
2 1 (4.545%) Derivative
2 1 (4.545%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (4.545%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.545%) Equities
2 1 (4.545%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 16 (72.73%) Solaris
2 15 (68.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (63.64%) Windows
4 11 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (40.91%) UNIX
6 6 (27.27%) Linux
7 5 (22.73%) Ubuntu
8 4 (18.18%) SUSE
8 4 (18.18%) AIX
9 2 (9.091%) CentOS
10 1 (4.545%) FreeBSD
10 1 (4.545%) Windows NT
10 1 (4.545%) Debian
10 1 (4.545%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) ITIL
2 13 (59.09%) Project Management
3 12 (54.55%) Service Delivery
4 11 (50.00%) Change Management
4 11 (50.00%) Problem Management
4 11 (50.00%) Web Development
5 4 (18.18%) Incident Management
6 2 (9.091%) Load Balancing
7 1 (4.545%) Analytics
7 1 (4.545%) ITIL V3
7 1 (4.545%) High Availability
7 1 (4.545%) Change Control
7 1 (4.545%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (4.545%) Network Management
7 1 (4.545%) CAD
7 1 (4.545%) Configuration Management
7 1 (4.545%) Investment Management
7 1 (4.545%) Time Management
7 1 (4.545%) Electronic Trading
7 1 (4.545%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Perl
2 12 (54.55%) Java
3 11 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
5 2 (9.091%) C
5 2 (9.091%) C++
6 1 (4.545%) SQL
6 1 (4.545%) Python
6 1 (4.545%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Degree
2 7 (31.82%) MCSE
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (22.73%) CCNP
4 3 (13.64%) Sun Certification
4 3 (13.64%) IBM Certification
5 2 (9.091%) CCSE
5 2 (9.091%) CCDA
5 2 (9.091%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (59.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.545%) NFS
2 1 (4.545%) Postfix
2 1 (4.545%) Sendmail
2 1 (4.545%) Squid
2 1 (4.545%) Nmap
2 1 (4.545%) VMware ESX
2 1 (4.545%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) Puppet
1 1 (4.545%) Nagios
1 1 (4.545%) Cacti
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) Cisco
1 17 (77.27%) Sun
2 16 (72.73%) VMware
3 15 (68.18%) Red Hat
4 13 (59.09%) F5
5 12 (54.55%) HP
6 11 (50.00%) Nortel
6 11 (50.00%) Juniper
6 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
6 11 (50.00%) Egenera
6 11 (50.00%) Foundry
7 6 (27.27%) Oracle
8 5 (22.73%) IBM
9 2 (9.091%) CheckPoint
10 1 (4.545%) 3PAR
10 1 (4.545%) Dell
10 1 (4.545%) CommVault
10 1 (4.545%) NetApp
10 1 (4.545%) Lotus
10 1 (4.545%) Brocade