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

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank212248195
Rank change year-on-year
Up+36Down-53
Matching permanent IT job ads148311521046
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.230 %0.940 %1.096 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category7.004 %5.969 %7.106 %
Number of salaries quoted12351016894
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£23,500£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£38,000£37,500£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33 %+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 %-

VoIP
Demand Trend

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

VoIP Demand Trend

VoIP
Salary Trend

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

VoIP Salary Trend

VoIP
Salary Histogram

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

VoIP Salary Histogram

VoIP
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VoIP 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+321390£40,000-
LondonUp+63570£47,500+7.95 %
South EastUp+68413£40,000-
City of LondonUp+71185£47,500+5.55 %
BerkshireUp+28133£45,000-
North WestUp+489£36,750+12.21 %
HampshireUp+5085£40,000-13.97 %
YorkshireDown-485£34,500+15.00 %
SurreyDown-177£38,000-30.90 %
East of EnglandDown-1876£36,500-21.50 %
ManchesterUp+1563£37,500+10.29 %
South WestDown-363£40,000+23.07 %
West MidlandsDown-5149£35,000-6.66 %
West YorkshireDown-2544£34,000+4.61 %
BuckinghamshireUp+942£40,000+14.28 %
WalesUp+436£31,250+4.16 %
East MidlandsDown-1036£34,000+21.42 %
SuffolkUp+3133£32,500+8.33 %
East SussexUp+1733£40,000+122.22 %
South WalesUp+733£32,500+8.33 %
North YorkshireUp+2330£40,000-3.03 %
IpswichUp+3128£31,000-27.05 %
GloucestershireUp+528£40,000+31.14 %
ReadingDown-1927£37,500-28.22 %
SloughUp+826£40,000-
Milton KeynesUp+1925£45,000+50.00 %
ScotlandDown-1025£37,500-16.66 %
LeedsDown-1925£30,000-25.00 %
BrightonUp+323£35,000+94.44 %
West SussexNo change019£25,000-9.09 %

VoIP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

11547 (53.92 %)Cisco
21020 (35.55 %)Windows
3807 (28.13 %)Cisco Certification
4771 (26.87 %)WAN
5768 (26.77 %)Firewall
6740 (25.79 %)LAN
7723 (25.20 %)Telecoms
8684 (23.84 %)Microsoft
9617 (21.51 %)Linux
10590 (20.56 %)TCP/IP
11581 (20.25 %)Active Directory
12538 (18.75 %)VPN
13487 (16.97 %)CCNP
14479 (16.70 %)VMware
15474 (16.52 %)MS Exchange
16468 (16.31 %)DNS
17463 (16.14 %)CCNA
18426 (14.85 %)Wireless
19421 (14.67 %)Windows Server 2008
20374 (13.04 %)ITIL
21373 (13.00 %)MS Excel
22367 (12.79 %)SQL
23362 (12.62 %)Avaya
23362 (12.62 %)Finance
24360 (12.55 %)Windows Server 2003
25354 (12.34 %)MPLS
26347 (12.09 %)Degree
27315 (10.98 %)Citrix
28303 (10.56 %)DHCP
29291 (10.14 %)VMware Infrastructure

VoIP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
170 (2.440 %)Web Services
264 (2.231 %).NET
353 (1.847 %)WebSphere
446 (1.603 %)J2EE
446 (1.603 %)HTML
446 (1.603 %)XML
538 (1.325 %)LAMP
636 (1.255 %)CSS
728 (0.976 %)JDBC
728 (0.976 %)SOAP
826 (0.906 %)VXML
924 (0.837 %)Spring
924 (0.837 %)WPF
1022 (0.767 %)Middleware
1022 (0.767 %)STL
1120 (0.697 %)Servlets
1120 (0.697 %)JMS
1120 (0.697 %)Spring MVC
1219 (0.662 %)RESTful
1219 (0.662 %)FreeSWITCH
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1474 (16.52 %)MS Exchange
2214 (7.459 %)Exchange Server 2010
3211 (7.354 %)Exchange Server 2003
4201 (7.006 %)Exchange Server 2007
5130 (4.531 %)SharePoint
6129 (4.496 %)Apache
7122 (4.252 %)IIS
896 (3.346 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
955 (1.917 %)Lync
1050 (1.743 %)CMS
1142 (1.464 %)Tomcat
1239 (1.359 %)Office Communications Server
1327 (0.941 %)Lotus Notes
1419 (0.662 %)WebLogic
1518 (0.627 %)WebSphere Application Server
1518 (0.627 %)IBM HTTP Server
1518 (0.627 %)BizTalk Server
1518 (0.627 %)WebSphere Portal
1615 (0.523 %)GroupWise
1714 (0.488 %)Exchange Server 2000
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1373 (13.00 %)MS Excel
2236 (8.226 %)MS Office
351 (1.778 %)MS Visio
427 (0.941 %)MS PowerPoint
514 (0.488 %)Google Apps
65 (0.174 %)Office 365
73 (0.105 %)MS Project
81 (0.035 %)Photoshop
81 (0.035 %)Spreadsheet
81 (0.035 %)AutoCAD
81 (0.035 %)Maya
81 (0.035 %)Adobe Illustrator
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
114 (0.488 %)Dynamics CRM
27 (0.244 %)GoldMine
36 (0.209 %)Line 500
44 (0.139 %)Line 50
44 (0.139 %)Advent Portfolio Exchange
52 (0.070 %)Summit
52 (0.070 %)Dynamics NAV
61 (0.035 %)Maximo
61 (0.035 %)RMDS
61 (0.035 %)Sage 1000
61 (0.035 %)Google Analytics
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1771 (26.87 %)WAN
2768 (26.77 %)Firewall
3740 (25.79 %)LAN
4590 (20.56 %)TCP/IP
5538 (18.75 %)VPN
6468 (16.31 %)DNS
7426 (14.85 %)Wireless
8354 (12.34 %)MPLS
9303 (10.56 %)DHCP
10287 (10.00 %)Internet
11276 (9.620 %)OSPF
12265 (9.237 %)SAN
13229 (7.982 %)Network Security
14226 (7.877 %)VLAN
15225 (7.842 %)BGP
16210 (7.320 %)Unified Communications
17190 (6.623 %)PBX
18174 (6.065 %)Cisco ASA
19159 (5.542 %)Ethernet
20150 (5.228 %)IP Telephony
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1265 (9.237 %)SQL Server
2162 (5.647 %)MySQL
358 (2.022 %)SQL Server 2005
449 (1.708 %)SQL Server 2008
528 (0.976 %)PostgreSQL
528 (0.976 %)SQL Server 2000
620 (0.697 %)Crystal Reports
620 (0.697 %)SQL Server Integration Services
79 (0.314 %)Data Warehouse
88 (0.279 %)DTS
88 (0.279 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
97 (0.244 %)Oracle Reports
105 (0.174 %)GIS
114 (0.139 %)Oracle 10g
123 (0.105 %)RDBMS
132 (0.070 %)DB2
132 (0.070 %)OLAP
132 (0.070 %)BusinessObjects
132 (0.070 %)EDRMS
132 (0.070 %)Oracle 8/8i
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
149 (1.708 %)Subversion
219 (0.662 %)WebLOAD
219 (0.662 %)Team Foundation Server
317 (0.593 %)Ant
415 (0.523 %)Metasploit
513 (0.453 %)JUnit
513 (0.453 %)Visual Studio
612 (0.418 %)VSS/SourceSafe
711 (0.383 %)GCC
88 (0.279 %)Eclipse
88 (0.279 %)JIRA
96 (0.209 %)TeamCity
105 (0.174 %)Selenium
113 (0.105 %)Git (software)
113 (0.105 %)MSI
113 (0.105 %)GDB
113 (0.105 %)Mercurial
122 (0.070 %)Bugzilla
131 (0.035 %)QuickTest Pro
131 (0.035 %)ProC
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1723 (25.20 %)Telecoms
2362 (12.62 %)Finance
384 (2.928 %)Retail
480 (2.788 %)Banking
563 (2.196 %)Marketing
659 (2.056 %)Law
753 (1.847 %)Legal
837 (1.290 %)Back Office
936 (1.255 %)Electronics
1018 (0.627 %)Financial Institution
1018 (0.627 %)German Language
1115 (0.523 %)Investment Banking
1115 (0.523 %)Advertising
1213 (0.453 %)Publishing
1311 (0.383 %)Billing
1410 (0.349 %)Military
159 (0.314 %)Games
168 (0.279 %)Retail Banking
177 (0.244 %)Local Government
186 (0.209 %)Music
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1444 (15.48 %)Analyst
2370 (12.90 %)Network Engineer
3280 (9.759 %)Support Engineer
4181 (6.309 %)Support Analyst
5172 (5.995 %)Administrator
6159 (5.542 %)Developer
7145 (5.054 %)Architect
8143 (4.984 %)Network Analyst
9135 (4.705 %)Consultant
10111 (3.869 %)Systems Administrator
10111 (3.869 %)Team Leader
10111 (3.869 %)Network Support
1191 (3.172 %)VoIP Engineer
1290 (3.137 %)Voice Engineer
1388 (3.067 %)IT Support
1388 (3.067 %)Cisco Engineer
1388 (3.067 %)Senior Network Engineer
1476 (2.649 %)Senior Analyst
1575 (2.614 %)Systems Engineer
1672 (2.510 %)2nd Line Support
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1179 (6.239 %)Blackberry
2150 (5.228 %)IVR
3107 (3.730 %)Video Conferencing
486 (2.998 %)Computer Science
582 (2.858 %)Clustering
649 (1.708 %)Open Source
737 (1.290 %)Replication
836 (1.255 %)Handset
933 (1.150 %)Cloud Computing
1025 (0.871 %)Mathematics
1025 (0.871 %)Fat Client
1025 (0.871 %)Thin Client
1124 (0.837 %)Statistics
1124 (0.837 %)iPhone
1221 (0.732 %)iSeries
1221 (0.732 %)Management Information System
1320 (0.697 %)Streaming Video
1320 (0.697 %)IPTV
1320 (0.697 %)Hedge funds
1419 (0.662 %)SaaS
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11020 (35.55 %)Windows
2617 (21.51 %)Linux
3421 (14.67 %)Windows Server 2008
4360 (12.55 %)Windows Server 2003
5233 (8.121 %)UNIX
6230 (8.017 %)Windows 7
7223 (7.773 %)Windows XP
8142 (4.949 %)Windows Vista
956 (1.952 %)Windows 2000 Server
1050 (1.743 %)CentOS
1143 (1.499 %)Solaris
1240 (1.394 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1339 (1.359 %)Windows 2000
1435 (1.220 %)Ubuntu
1531 (1.081 %)Debian
1625 (0.871 %)Mac OS
1723 (0.802 %)Mac OS X
1821 (0.732 %)AIX
1821 (0.732 %)Android
1920 (0.697 %)VMS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1374 (13.04 %)ITIL
2169 (5.891 %)Network Design
3163 (5.681 %)Project Management
4145 (5.054 %)Service Delivery
5138 (4.810 %)Disaster Recovery
6135 (4.705 %)Network Management
7122 (4.252 %)Load Balancing
898 (3.416 %)Service Management
992 (3.207 %)Incident Management
1089 (3.102 %)Capacity Planning
1184 (2.928 %)Change Management
1266 (2.300 %)OO
1364 (2.231 %)PRINCE2
1463 (2.196 %)CRM
1553 (1.847 %)Business Development
1651 (1.778 %)Performance Management
1749 (1.708 %)E-Commerce
1846 (1.603 %)Continuous Improvement
1942 (1.464 %)Agile Software Development
2041 (1.429 %)Network Architecture
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1367 (12.79 %)SQL
2118 (4.113 %)Java
3109 (3.799 %)C++
4107 (3.730 %)C
587 (3.032 %)Perl
675 (2.614 %)PHP
675 (2.614 %)C#
758 (2.022 %)JavaScript
758 (2.022 %)Bash shell
845 (1.568 %)Python
943 (1.499 %)Shell Script
1038 (1.325 %)VBScript
1122 (0.767 %)VB
1213 (0.453 %)Tcl
1213 (0.453 %)PowerShell
1213 (0.453 %)TTCN
1310 (0.349 %)Embedded C++
149 (0.314 %)Ruby
158 (0.279 %)VC++
167 (0.244 %)PHP5
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1807 (28.13 %)Cisco Certification
2487 (16.97 %)CCNP
3463 (16.14 %)CCNA
4347 (12.09 %)Degree
5261 (9.097 %)Microsoft Certification
6185 (6.448 %)MCSE
7168 (5.856 %)CCVP
8147 (5.124 %)CCIE
9115 (4.008 %)MCITP
1097 (3.381 %)CCSP
1097 (3.381 %)MCP
1185 (2.963 %)CCDP
1281 (2.823 %)MCSA
1370 (2.440 %)Security Cleared
1462 (2.161 %)CCIP
1557 (1.987 %)ITIL Certification
1646 (1.603 %)CCSA
1736 (1.255 %)SC Cleared
1834 (1.185 %)CCDA
1929 (1.011 %)CISSP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1212 (7.389 %)SLA
241 (1.429 %)QA
325 (0.871 %)ISO/IEC 27001
415 (0.523 %)PCI DSS
514 (0.488 %)ISO 9001
611 (0.383 %)HMG Infosec
72 (0.070 %)BS7799
81 (0.035 %)ISO 9000
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1581 (20.25 %)Active Directory
2291 (10.14 %)VMware Infrastructure
389 (3.102 %)Terminal Services
389 (3.102 %)vSphere
488 (3.067 %)XenApp
550 (1.743 %)Hyper-V
649 (1.708 %)VMware ESX
732 (1.115 %)VMware ESXi
831 (1.081 %)XenDesktop
926 (0.906 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1023 (0.802 %)VMware Workstation
1122 (0.767 %)ISA Server
1122 (0.767 %)XenServer
1218 (0.627 %)NFS
1317 (0.593 %)Terminal Server
1317 (0.593 %)Samba
1415 (0.523 %)Nmap
1514 (0.488 %)VMware Server
1612 (0.418 %)Dovecot
179 (0.314 %)Xen
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
188 (3.067 %)Backup Exec
273 (2.544 %)Cisco CUCM
362 (2.161 %)Cisco IPCC
453 (1.847 %)Cisco UCCX
551 (1.778 %)SCCM
643 (1.499 %)Nagios
732 (1.115 %)CiscoWorks
827 (0.941 %)Tivoli
923 (0.802 %)Cacti
1022 (0.767 %)Puppet
1022 (0.767 %)HP Quality Center
1121 (0.732 %)SCOM
1220 (0.697 %)Norton AntiVirus
1318 (0.627 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
1416 (0.558 %)Munin
1515 (0.523 %)NetBackup
1515 (0.523 %)Nessus
1614 (0.488 %)ARCserve
1614 (0.488 %)SolarWinds Orion
1713 (0.453 %)OpenView
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11547 (53.92 %)Cisco
2684 (23.84 %)Microsoft
3479 (16.70 %)VMware
4362 (12.62 %)Avaya
5315 (10.98 %)Citrix
6230 (8.017 %)Juniper
7217 (7.564 %)HP
8216 (7.529 %)CheckPoint
9132 (4.601 %)Mitel
10110 (3.834 %)Nokia
1198 (3.416 %)F5
1293 (3.242 %)Symantec
1377 (2.684 %)IBM
1474 (2.579 %)Nortel
1571 (2.475 %)Oracle
1666 (2.300 %)Red Hat
1758 (2.022 %)EMC
1847 (1.638 %)Blue Coat
1941 (1.429 %)SolarWinds
2040 (1.394 %)Apple