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

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank748679
Rank change year-on-year
Up+12Down-7
Matching permanent IT job ads395433862542
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK3.279 %2.761 %2.662 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category18.67 %17.54 %17.27 %
Number of salaries quoted340228532111
Average salary£37,500£37,500£37,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£23,500£23,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£61,400£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£33,000£32,500
% change year-on-year
+6.06 %+1.53 %
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 %-

TCP/IP
Demand Trend

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

TCP/IP Demand Trend

TCP/IP
Salary Trend

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

TCP/IP Salary Trend

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

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

TCP/IP Salary Histogram

TCP/IP
Top 30 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 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
EnglandUp+103660£39,000+4.00 %
LondonUp+201792£45,000-
South EastUp+11960£37,500-
City of LondonUp+12406£45,000-10.00 %
BerkshireUp+9297£40,000-
East of EnglandUp+19246£40,000+23.07 %
SurreyDown-21195£35,000+2.94 %
North WestUp+9184£33,000+10.00 %
YorkshireDown-12176£35,000+16.66 %
HampshireUp+21167£33,000-14.28 %
South WestDown-62114£35,250+8.46 %
CambridgeshireUp+13111£40,000+14.28 %
WalesUp+48106£32,500-
South WalesUp+48102£32,500-
ManchesterNo change095£30,000+7.14 %
ReadingDown-394£37,500-11.76 %
West MidlandsDown-1894£30,000-14.28 %
West YorkshireDown-3991£35,000+16.66 %
CambridgeUp+2385£40,000+14.28 %
ScotlandUp+782£30,000-
East MidlandsNo change082£27,500-15.38 %
OxfordshireUp+4869£35,000+45.83 %
HertfordshireUp+1063£30,000-7.69 %
BuckinghamshireUp+662£34,000-19.04 %
CheshireDown-562£35,000+12.00 %
SloughUp+1356£40,000+15.94 %
LeedsDown-2356£35,000+17.64 %
SouthamptonUp+251£23,000-34.28 %
WiltshireDown-1544£38,000+16.92 %
West SussexDown-1243£35,000+4.47 %

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

14402 (56.33 %)Windows
22827 (36.18 %)Linux
32577 (32.98 %)Active Directory
42576 (32.97 %)Microsoft
52400 (30.71 %)DNS
62242 (28.69 %)Cisco
72078 (26.59 %)Firewall
81825 (23.36 %)Windows Server 2003
81825 (23.36 %)Windows Server 2008
91774 (22.70 %)VMware
101714 (21.93 %)UNIX
111655 (21.18 %)SQL
121458 (18.66 %)MS Exchange
131448 (18.53 %)DHCP
141434 (18.35 %)LAN
151421 (18.19 %)SQL Server
161391 (17.80 %)WAN
171329 (17.01 %)MS Excel
181267 (16.21 %)Finance
191179 (15.09 %)Cisco Certification
201156 (14.79 %)Microsoft Certification
211135 (14.53 %)Degree
221083 (13.86 %)VMware Infrastructure
231075 (13.76 %)VPN
241072 (13.72 %)SAN
251020 (13.05 %)ITIL
26962 (12.31 %)Internet
27929 (11.89 %)Windows XP
28909 (11.63 %)C++
29891 (11.40 %)HTTP

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1605 (7.743 %)XML
2564 (7.218 %).NET
3410 (5.247 %)Web Services
4371 (4.748 %)HTML
5360 (4.607 %)CSS
6256 (3.276 %)J2EE
7238 (3.046 %)ASP.NET
8187 (2.393 %)Middleware
9158 (2.022 %)LAMP
10153 (1.958 %)SOAP
11124 (1.587 %)WebSphere
1294 (1.203 %)STL
1391 (1.165 %)COM
1488 (1.126 %)Servlets
1585 (1.088 %).NET Framework
1682 (1.049 %)HTML5
1781 (1.037 %)WCF
1781 (1.037 %)XSLT
1877 (0.985 %)JSP
1973 (0.934 %)WPF
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11458 (18.66 %)MS Exchange
2827 (10.58 %)Apache
3823 (10.53 %)IIS
4694 (8.881 %)Exchange Server 2007
5619 (7.922 %)Exchange Server 2010
6594 (7.602 %)Exchange Server 2003
7413 (5.285 %)Tomcat
8405 (5.183 %)SharePoint
9223 (2.854 %)WebLogic
10184 (2.355 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1181 (1.037 %)Oracle Coherence
1278 (0.998 %)Lync
1278 (0.998 %)CMS
1374 (0.947 %)Lotus Notes
1462 (0.793 %)SharePoint 2010
1545 (0.576 %)Exchange Server 2000
1644 (0.563 %)nginx
1735 (0.448 %)WebSphere Application Server
1829 (0.371 %)Office Communications Server
1928 (0.358 %)Amazon EC2
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11329 (17.01 %)MS Excel
2783 (10.02 %)MS Office
3127 (1.625 %)MS Visio
470 (0.896 %)MS PowerPoint
526 (0.333 %)Office 365
625 (0.320 %)Google Apps
713 (0.166 %)MATLAB
811 (0.141 %)Photoshop
910 (0.128 %)MS Project
910 (0.128 %)Simulink
107 (0.090 %)Adobe Captivate
115 (0.064 %)GIMP
123 (0.038 %)Acrobat
132 (0.026 %)Doxygen
141 (0.013 %)InfoPath
141 (0.013 %)Final Cut Pro
141 (0.013 %)QuarkXPress
141 (0.013 %)LightWave 3D
141 (0.013 %)Quicktime
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
139 (0.499 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
234 (0.435 %)Dynamics CRM
325 (0.320 %)BASE24
414 (0.179 %)Dynamics NAV
512 (0.154 %)Remedy AR System
611 (0.141 %)SunGard Stream Clearvision
611 (0.141 %)RMDS
710 (0.128 %)Oracle ERP
89 (0.115 %)Oracle BPM
98 (0.102 %)SoftGrid
107 (0.090 %)assyst
116 (0.077 %)Summit
125 (0.064 %)Agresso
125 (0.064 %)SunGard APT
125 (0.064 %)FastVal
125 (0.064 %)3000 Xtra
134 (0.051 %)Advent Portfolio Exchange
134 (0.051 %)Line 500
134 (0.051 %)SalesLogix
134 (0.051 %)Dynamics AX
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12400 (30.71 %)DNS
22078 (26.59 %)Firewall
31448 (18.53 %)DHCP
41434 (18.35 %)LAN
51391 (17.80 %)WAN
61075 (13.76 %)VPN
71072 (13.72 %)SAN
8962 (12.31 %)Internet
9891 (11.40 %)HTTP
10590 (7.551 %)VoIP
11525 (6.719 %)Network Security
12522 (6.680 %)Ethernet
13485 (6.207 %)SSL
14453 (5.797 %)VLAN
15435 (5.567 %)BGP
16425 (5.439 %)OSPF
17397 (5.081 %)Wireless
18389 (4.978 %)SMTP
19321 (4.108 %)NAS
20295 (3.775 %)LDAP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11421 (18.19 %)SQL Server
2520 (6.655 %)MySQL
3278 (3.558 %)SQL Server 2005
4243 (3.110 %)SQL Server 2008
5161 (2.060 %)RDBMS
6102 (1.305 %)SQL Server 2000
781 (1.037 %)Oracle 11g
880 (1.024 %)PostgreSQL
974 (0.947 %)Oracle 8/8i
1072 (0.921 %)Oracle 10g
1159 (0.755 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1236 (0.461 %)Crystal Reports
1333 (0.422 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1424 (0.307 %)Oracle Reports
1424 (0.307 %)MongoDB
1520 (0.256 %)DB2
1619 (0.243 %)NoSQL
1718 (0.230 %)Hadoop
1816 (0.205 %)Informix
1915 (0.192 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1251 (3.212 %)Subversion
284 (1.075 %)Visual Studio
369 (0.883 %)JUnit
464 (0.819 %)Ant
559 (0.755 %)Git (software)
647 (0.601 %)Eclipse
733 (0.422 %)Maven
827 (0.346 %)Team Foundation Server
924 (0.307 %)Selenium
1022 (0.282 %)Bugzilla
1121 (0.269 %)ClearCase
1121 (0.269 %)TeamCity
1218 (0.230 %)JIRA
1317 (0.218 %)TestDirector
1414 (0.179 %)ClearQuest
1414 (0.179 %)Hudson
1513 (0.166 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1513 (0.166 %)SilkTest
1612 (0.154 %)QuickTest Pro
1711 (0.141 %)NetBeans
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11267 (16.21 %)Finance
2585 (7.487 %)Telecoms
3323 (4.134 %)Banking
4198 (2.534 %)German Language
5193 (2.470 %)Games
6158 (2.022 %)Investment Banking
7148 (1.894 %)Back Office
8133 (1.702 %)French Language
9110 (1.408 %)Retail
10104 (1.331 %)Electronics
1199 (1.267 %)Marketing
1288 (1.126 %)Manufacturing
1377 (0.985 %)Law
1472 (0.921 %)Front Office
1567 (0.857 %)Financial Institution
1664 (0.819 %)Advertising
1757 (0.729 %)Publishing
1851 (0.653 %)Legal
1943 (0.550 %)Italian Language
2041 (0.525 %)Spanish Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11196 (15.31 %)Analyst
2968 (12.39 %)Support Engineer
3865 (11.07 %)Administrator
4724 (9.265 %)Systems Administrator
5666 (8.523 %)Developer
6640 (8.190 %)Network Engineer
7627 (8.024 %)Support Analyst
8432 (5.529 %)Technical Support
8432 (5.529 %)Software Engineer
9387 (4.953 %)Systems Engineer
10342 (4.377 %)Consultant
11337 (4.313 %)IT Support
12311 (3.980 %)Linux Administrator
13308 (3.942 %)Infrastructure Engineer
14303 (3.878 %)2nd Line Support
15287 (3.673 %)Linux Systems Administrator
16279 (3.571 %)3rd Line Support
17242 (3.097 %)Technical Engineer
18221 (2.828 %)Desktop Support
19208 (2.662 %)Architect
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1514 (6.578 %)Computer Science
2369 (4.722 %)Clustering
3345 (4.415 %)Blackberry
4305 (3.903 %)Open Source
5164 (2.099 %)Mathematics
6134 (1.715 %)Management Information System
7124 (1.587 %)SaaS
8120 (1.536 %)Hedge funds
9115 (1.472 %)PKI
10113 (1.446 %)Cloud Computing
11112 (1.433 %)Embedded Systems
12100 (1.280 %)Device Driver
1399 (1.267 %)Online Games
1498 (1.254 %)iPhone
1593 (1.190 %)Video Conferencing
1684 (1.075 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1774 (0.947 %)Client/Server
1869 (0.883 %)Fixed Income
1966 (0.845 %)Replication
2061 (0.781 %)Cryptography
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
14402 (56.33 %)Windows
22827 (36.18 %)Linux
31825 (23.36 %)Windows Server 2003
31825 (23.36 %)Windows Server 2008
41714 (21.93 %)UNIX
5929 (11.89 %)Windows XP
6656 (8.395 %)Windows 7
7525 (6.719 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8489 (6.258 %)Solaris
9386 (4.940 %)Windows Vista
10231 (2.956 %)Debian
11214 (2.739 %)CentOS
12179 (2.291 %)Windows 2000
13139 (1.779 %)AIX
14134 (1.715 %)Windows 2000 Server
15128 (1.638 %)Ubuntu
1682 (1.049 %)Embedded Linux
1682 (1.049 %)Android
1779 (1.011 %)Mac OS X
1874 (0.947 %)HPUX
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11020 (13.05 %)ITIL
2377 (4.825 %)Load Balancing
3322 (4.121 %)Service Delivery
4282 (3.609 %)Project Management
4282 (3.609 %)OO
5276 (3.532 %)E-Commerce
5276 (3.532 %)Multithreading
6263 (3.366 %)Agile Software Development
7225 (2.879 %)Disaster Recovery
7225 (2.879 %)Change Management
8222 (2.841 %)Configuration Management
9204 (2.611 %)Network Management
10175 (2.240 %)Software Engineering
11169 (2.163 %)Migration
12164 (2.099 %)Information Security
13142 (1.817 %)Change Control
14141 (1.804 %)Service Management
14141 (1.804 %)Problem Management
15139 (1.779 %)CRM
16138 (1.766 %)Incident Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11655 (21.18 %)SQL
2909 (11.63 %)C++
3866 (11.08 %)Java
4755 (9.662 %)Perl
5653 (8.357 %)C
6538 (6.885 %)C#
7509 (6.514 %)Python
8451 (5.772 %)Shell Script
9402 (5.145 %)Bash shell
10396 (5.068 %)PHP
11321 (4.108 %)JavaScript
12183 (2.342 %)PowerShell
13157 (2.009 %)Ruby
14147 (1.881 %)VBScript
15122 (1.561 %)Korn
16121 (1.549 %)VB
1797 (1.241 %)Embedded C
1890 (1.152 %)T-SQL
1984 (1.075 %)PL/SQL
2079 (1.011 %)AWK
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11179 (15.09 %)Cisco Certification
21156 (14.79 %)Microsoft Certification
31135 (14.53 %)Degree
4821 (10.51 %)MCSE
5818 (10.47 %)CCNA
6473 (6.053 %)CCNP
7440 (5.631 %)MCITP
8384 (4.914 %)MCP
9311 (3.980 %)Security Cleared
10239 (3.059 %)MCSA
11196 (2.508 %)SC Cleared
12180 (2.304 %)CISSP
12180 (2.304 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13164 (2.099 %)RHCE
14114 (1.459 %)CCIE
15112 (1.433 %)MCTS
16100 (1.280 %)MCDST
1778 (0.998 %)Citrix Certification
1872 (0.921 %)DV Cleared
1970 (0.896 %)ISEB
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1371 (4.748 %)SLA
2124 (1.587 %)QA
3102 (1.305 %)ISO/IEC 27001
498 (1.254 %)PCI DSS
576 (0.973 %)ISO 9001
640 (0.512 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
720 (0.256 %)TickIT
815 (0.192 %)BS7799
913 (0.166 %)JTAG
109 (0.115 %)COBIT
117 (0.090 %)ISO 8583
126 (0.077 %)ISO/IEC 17799
126 (0.077 %)ISO 9000
134 (0.051 %)JSP 440
143 (0.038 %)HIPAA
152 (0.026 %)ISO/IEC 14443
161 (0.013 %)ISO/IEC 7816
161 (0.013 %)IEC 61508
161 (0.013 %)HL7
161 (0.013 %)WAI
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12577 (32.98 %)Active Directory
21083 (13.86 %)VMware Infrastructure
3404 (5.170 %)vSphere
4326 (4.172 %)VMware ESX
5312 (3.993 %)Hyper-V
6200 (2.560 %)XenApp
7170 (2.176 %)NFS
8169 (2.163 %)Terminal Services
9121 (1.549 %)Citrix Presentation Server
10110 (1.408 %)Samba
10110 (1.408 %)VMware ESXi
1190 (1.152 %)ISA Server
1289 (1.139 %)Xen
1380 (1.024 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1478 (0.998 %)XenServer
1571 (0.909 %)XenDesktop
1668 (0.870 %)Terminal Server
1746 (0.589 %)MetaFrame
1838 (0.486 %)UAG
1932 (0.410 %)Veritas Cluster Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1265 (3.391 %)SCCM
2233 (2.982 %)Backup Exec
3167 (2.137 %)Nagios
4158 (2.022 %)SCOM
5156 (1.996 %)NetBackup
6121 (1.549 %)Puppet
7102 (1.305 %)WSUS
878 (0.998 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
976 (0.973 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1073 (0.934 %)Tivoli
1171 (0.909 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1264 (0.819 %)WMI
1357 (0.729 %)CiscoWorks
1456 (0.717 %)Norton AntiVirus
1554 (0.691 %)Cacti
1653 (0.678 %)vCenter
1745 (0.576 %)OpenView
1837 (0.474 %)Nessus
1935 (0.448 %)HP SIM
2034 (0.435 %)MOM
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12576 (32.97 %)Microsoft
22242 (28.69 %)Cisco
31774 (22.70 %)VMware
4871 (11.15 %)Oracle
5852 (10.90 %)Citrix
6795 (10.17 %)Red Hat
7587 (7.512 %)HP
8530 (6.783 %)Juniper
9456 (5.836 %)CheckPoint
10268 (3.430 %)F5
11265 (3.391 %)Dell
12257 (3.289 %)JBoss
13249 (3.187 %)Symantec
14245 (3.135 %)Sun
15224 (2.867 %)IBM
16219 (2.803 %)EMC
17183 (2.342 %)Avaya
18174 (2.227 %)NetApp
19147 (1.881 %)Blue Coat
20125 (1.600 %)Veritas