Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 15 October 2019

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for TCP/IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited TCP/IP over the 6 months to 15 October 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > Midlands
6 months to
15 Oct 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 141 123 148
Rank change year-on-year -18 +25 -16
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 218 337 316
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.93% 2.53% 2.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.05% 14.96% 13.24%
Number of salaries quoted 168 271 258
Midlands median annual salary £32,500 £36,500 £37,000
Median salary % change year-on-year -10.96% -1.35% -1.33%
10th Percentile £19,750 £22,500 £22,363
90th Percentile £53,750 £67,500 £59,300
England median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year - +1.19% -1.18%

TCP/IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,170 2,253 2,386
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 19.21% 16.92% 16.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,587 1,694 1,929
Midlands median annual salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median salary % change year-on-year +3.75% - +2.56%
10th Percentile £24,250 £22,575 £24,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £46,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% -

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for TCP/IP in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing TCP/IP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 October 2019.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 October 2019. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Job
Vacancies
West Midlands +8 155 £32,000 -14.67% 29
East Midlands -48 63 £35,000 - 27
TCP/IP
England

For the 6 months to 15 October 2019, IT jobs citing TCP/IP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region with a requirement for TCP/IP.

1 146 (66.97%) Windows
2 102 (46.79%) DNS
3 96 (44.04%) Microsoft
3 96 (44.04%) Active Directory
4 93 (42.66%) DHCP
5 87 (39.91%) Windows Server
6 75 (34.40%) VMware
7 72 (33.03%) Linux
8 68 (31.19%) Firewall
9 66 (30.28%) WAN
10 57 (26.15%) MS Exchange
11 55 (25.23%) LAN
11 55 (25.23%) Windows Server 2008
12 53 (24.31%) Office 365
12 53 (24.31%) ITIL
13 52 (23.85%) VMware Infrastructure
13 52 (23.85%) Hyper-V
14 51 (23.39%) Windows Server 2012
14 51 (23.39%) Cisco
15 48 (22.02%) Cybersecurity
16 46 (21.10%) Citrix
17 40 (18.35%) SLA
17 40 (18.35%) Microsoft Office
18 39 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
19 35 (16.06%) SIEM
19 35 (16.06%) VLAN
20 31 (14.22%) VPN
20 31 (14.22%) Internet
21 30 (13.76%) Security Operations
22 29 (13.30%) Degree

TCP/IP
Co-occurring IT Skills in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 57 (26.15%) MS Exchange
2 26 (11.93%) Exchange Server 2010
3 19 (8.72%) Exchange Server 2013
4 17 (7.80%) Apache
5 15 (6.88%) IIS
6 11 (5.05%) Exchange Server 2003
7 6 (2.75%) nginx
8 5 (2.29%) SharePoint
9 4 (1.83%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (1.38%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.92%) CMS
11 2 (0.92%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.46%) Documentum
Applications
1 40 (18.35%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.46%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (0.46%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 53 (24.31%) Office 365
2 16 (7.34%) Azure
3 11 (5.05%) AWS
4 3 (1.38%) G Suite
5 2 (0.92%) IaaS
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.46%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.46%) Azure Active Directory
6 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.46%) CloudFront
6 1 (0.46%) GCP
6 1 (0.46%) GitHub
6 1 (0.46%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.46%) Route 53
6 1 (0.46%) Serverless
6 1 (0.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 102 (46.79%) DNS
2 93 (42.66%) DHCP
3 68 (31.19%) Firewall
4 66 (30.28%) WAN
5 55 (25.23%) LAN
6 35 (16.06%) VLAN
7 31 (14.22%) Internet
7 31 (14.22%) VPN
8 29 (13.30%) Network Security
9 22 (10.09%) SAN
10 17 (7.80%) HTTP
10 17 (7.80%) Intrusion Detection
11 10 (4.59%) H.323
11 10 (4.59%) HTTPS
11 10 (4.59%) IPsec
11 10 (4.59%) RS-485
11 10 (4.59%) RTP
12 9 (4.13%) Wireless
13 8 (3.67%) Wireshark
14 7 (3.21%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.39%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.05%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (2.29%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (2.29%) SQL Server 2012
3 5 (2.29%) SQL Server 2014
3 5 (2.29%) SQL Server 2016
4 3 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.38%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.92%) MySQL
5 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.46%) Power BI
6 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.29%) Git (software)
1 5 (2.29%) IDA Disassembler
1 5 (2.29%) OllyDbg
1 5 (2.29%) Visual Studio
2 4 (1.83%) Robot Framework
2 4 (1.83%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 3 (1.38%) Babel
3 3 (1.38%) Maven
3 3 (1.38%) Subversion
3 3 (1.38%) webpack
4 2 (0.92%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.46%) CppUnit
5 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.46%) VectorCAST
General
1 25 (11.47%) Finance
2 17 (7.80%) Telecoms
3 13 (5.96%) Law
4 9 (4.13%) Automotive
5 7 (3.21%) Aerospace
6 4 (1.83%) Legal
7 3 (1.38%) Electronics
7 3 (1.38%) Games
8 2 (0.92%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.92%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.92%) Retail
9 1 (0.46%) Advertising
9 1 (0.46%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.46%) French Language
9 1 (0.46%) German Language
9 1 (0.46%) Marketing
9 1 (0.46%) Portuguese Language
9 1 (0.46%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 58 (26.61%) Analyst
2 32 (14.68%) Support Engineer
3 19 (8.72%) SOC Analyst
4 17 (7.80%) IT Support
5 15 (6.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 15 (6.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (6.88%) IT Engineer
5 15 (6.88%) Support Analyst
6 13 (5.96%) 2nd Line Support
6 13 (5.96%) Administrator
6 13 (5.96%) Systems Administrator
7 12 (5.50%) 3rd Line Support
7 12 (5.50%) Embedded Engineer
7 12 (5.50%) Field Engineer
7 12 (5.50%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (5.05%) Network Engineer
8 11 (5.05%) Software Engineer
9 10 (4.59%) IT Support Engineer
10 9 (4.13%) Consultant
10 9 (4.13%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.83%) 802.1X
1 4 (1.83%) Node.js
1 4 (1.83%) Yocto
2 3 (1.38%) CSS
2 3 (1.38%) GraphQL
2 3 (1.38%) Redux
2 3 (1.38%) REST
2 3 (1.38%) Semantic HTML
2 3 (1.38%) Spring
2 3 (1.38%) Web Services
3 2 (0.92%) .NET
3 2 (0.92%) COM
3 2 (0.92%) HTML
3 2 (0.92%) LAPP Stack
3 2 (0.92%) LDAP
3 2 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.92%) Servlets
3 2 (0.92%) Swing
4 1 (0.46%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (0.46%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.72%) Management Information System
2 17 (7.80%) Security Operations Centre
3 14 (6.42%) Client/Server
4 13 (5.96%) Data Centre
5 12 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.05%) Cyberthreat
7 10 (4.59%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (4.13%) CCTV
8 9 (4.13%) Embedded Systems
8 9 (4.13%) User Experience
9 8 (3.67%) Driving Licence
10 6 (2.75%) CAN bus
10 6 (2.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 6 (2.75%) Cyberattack
11 5 (2.29%) CMDB
12 4 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (1.38%) Smartphone
13 3 (1.38%) Social Media
13 3 (1.38%) Video Conferencing
13 3 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 146 (66.97%) Windows
2 87 (39.91%) Windows Server
3 72 (33.03%) Linux
4 55 (25.23%) Windows Server 2008
5 51 (23.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 23 (10.55%) Windows 7
7 19 (8.72%) Windows 10
8 18 (8.26%) Windows Server 2003
9 12 (5.50%) CentOS
10 9 (4.13%) Fedora
10 9 (4.13%) Ubuntu
10 9 (4.13%) Unix
10 9 (4.13%) Windows 8
11 7 (3.21%) Apple iOS
11 7 (3.21%) Debian
11 7 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (2.75%) FreeRTOS
13 5 (2.29%) SUSE
13 5 (2.29%) Windows XP
14 4 (1.83%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (24.31%) ITIL
2 48 (22.02%) Cybersecurity
3 39 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (16.06%) SIEM
5 30 (13.76%) Security Operations
6 28 (12.84%) Information Security
7 25 (11.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 25 (11.47%) Problem Management
8 24 (11.01%) Change Management
9 19 (8.72%) ITIL V3
10 18 (8.26%) Mentoring
11 17 (7.80%) Incident Management
12 16 (7.34%) Threat Intelligence
13 15 (6.88%) Project Management
13 15 (6.88%) Server Management
14 13 (5.96%) Penetration Testing
14 13 (5.96%) Service Delivery
15 12 (5.50%) Network Monitoring
15 12 (5.50%) Proactive Monitoring
15 12 (5.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (12.39%) SQL
2 18 (8.26%) Python
3 16 (7.34%) C#
3 16 (7.34%) C++
4 15 (6.88%) PowerShell
5 14 (6.42%) C
6 11 (5.05%) Bash Shell
6 11 (5.05%) Java
7 8 (3.67%) Perl
8 6 (2.75%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.75%) Ruby
9 5 (2.29%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.38%) ES6
11 2 (0.92%) PHP
12 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.46%) VBA
12 1 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (13.30%) Degree
2 27 (12.39%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (9.63%) CCNA
4 14 (6.42%) Security Cleared
5 12 (5.50%) CISSP
6 11 (5.05%) CEH
6 11 (5.05%) DBS Check
6 11 (5.05%) SSCP
7 10 (4.59%) GSEC
7 10 (4.59%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (3.67%) SANS
9 6 (2.75%) MCP
10 5 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.29%) MCSE
11 4 (1.83%) CCNP
12 3 (1.38%) CCIE
12 3 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.38%) GIAC
12 3 (1.38%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (18.35%) SLA
2 20 (9.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.13%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (1.38%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.38%) QA
6 2 (0.92%) GDPR
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 96 (44.04%) Active Directory
2 52 (23.85%) Hyper-V
2 52 (23.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (12.39%) XenApp
4 24 (11.01%) XenDesktop
5 17 (7.80%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (5.50%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (4.59%) vSphere
8 8 (3.67%) VirtualBox
9 7 (3.21%) Firmware
10 5 (2.29%) Forefront TMG
11 4 (1.83%) Postfix
11 4 (1.83%) Terminal Server
11 4 (1.83%) Terminal Services
12 3 (1.38%) Docker
12 3 (1.38%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.46%) LXC
Systems Management
1 26 (11.93%) SCCM
2 16 (7.34%) Backup Exec
3 9 (4.13%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 9 (4.13%) FortiGate
4 7 (3.21%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 5 (2.29%) EnCase
5 5 (2.29%) FTK
5 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.29%) Nagios
5 5 (2.29%) QRadar
5 5 (2.29%) WSUS
6 3 (1.38%) AirWatch
6 3 (1.38%) Ansible
6 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 3 (1.38%) SCOM
7 2 (0.92%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.92%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.92%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.46%) Icinga
Vendors
1 96 (44.04%) Microsoft
2 75 (34.40%) VMware
3 51 (23.39%) Cisco
4 46 (21.10%) Citrix
5 23 (10.55%) Veeam
6 18 (8.26%) Symantec
7 16 (7.34%) ArcSight
8 14 (6.42%) Avaya
9 13 (5.96%) Splunk
10 10 (4.59%) Mitel
11 9 (4.13%) Barracuda Networks
11 9 (4.13%) Red Hat
12 8 (3.67%) HP
13 7 (3.21%) CheckPoint
13 7 (3.21%) Darktrace
13 7 (3.21%) Dell
13 7 (3.21%) F5
13 7 (3.21%) Oracle
13 7 (3.21%) Qualys
14 5 (2.29%) Fortinet