Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 21 February 2020

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 21 February 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > Midlands
6 months to
21 Feb 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 129 113 165
Rank change year-on-year -16 +52 -22
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 238 338 288
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.35% 2.76% 1.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.73% 14.82% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 182 213 237
Midlands median annual salary £32,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median salary % change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% -17.65%
10th Percentile £19,800 £25,100 £21,400
90th Percentile £56,000 £70,000 £50,650
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% - +6.25%

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 1,870 2,280 2,159
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.49% 18.63% 14.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,391 1,605 1,684
Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median salary % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
10th Percentile £23,250 £24,000 £23,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +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 21 February 2020.

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 21 February 2020. 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 +43 170 £32,500 -23.53% 57
East Midlands -56 68 £32,500 -13.33% 25
TCP/IP
England

For the 6 months to 21 February 2020, 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.

1 166 (69.75%) Windows
2 122 (51.26%) Microsoft
3 113 (47.48%) DNS
4 107 (44.96%) Active Directory
5 94 (39.50%) DHCP
6 90 (37.82%) VMware
6 90 (37.82%) Windows Server
7 81 (34.03%) WAN
7 81 (34.03%) Office 365
8 78 (32.77%) LAN
9 69 (28.99%) Firewall
10 66 (27.73%) VMware Infrastructure
11 60 (25.21%) VLAN
11 60 (25.21%) MS Exchange
11 60 (25.21%) ITIL
12 57 (23.95%) Linux
13 53 (22.27%) Cisco
14 52 (21.85%) VPN
14 52 (21.85%) Microsoft Office
15 51 (21.43%) Hyper-V
16 45 (18.91%) Citrix
17 44 (18.49%) Windows Server 2012
18 42 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
19 41 (17.23%) SLA
20 37 (15.55%) Change Management
20 37 (15.55%) Azure
21 36 (15.13%) Problem Management
22 34 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
23 33 (13.87%) Windows 10
23 33 (13.87%) Security Operations

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 60 (25.21%) MS Exchange
2 28 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2010
2 28 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2013
3 14 (5.88%) SharePoint
4 12 (5.04%) IIS
5 8 (3.36%) Apache
6 4 (1.68%) Exchange Server 2007
7 3 (1.26%) Documentum
7 3 (1.26%) nginx
8 1 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2000
8 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 52 (21.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 81 (34.03%) Office 365
2 37 (15.55%) Azure
3 22 (9.24%) AWS
4 5 (2.10%) GitHub
4 5 (2.10%) Mimecast
5 4 (1.68%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (1.68%) G Suite
6 3 (1.26%) Azure Active Directory
6 3 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.26%) Datadog
7 2 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (0.84%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.84%) GCP
7 2 (0.84%) Serverless
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon Glacier
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 113 (47.48%) DNS
2 94 (39.50%) DHCP
3 81 (34.03%) WAN
4 78 (32.77%) LAN
5 69 (28.99%) Firewall
6 60 (25.21%) VLAN
7 52 (21.85%) VPN
8 22 (9.24%) Wireless
9 20 (8.40%) Network Security
10 17 (7.14%) Internet
11 15 (6.30%) Wireshark
12 14 (5.88%) HTTP
12 14 (5.88%) VoIP
13 12 (5.04%) SAN
14 11 (4.62%) BGP
14 11 (4.62%) PBX
15 9 (3.78%) OSPF
16 8 (3.36%) ADSL
16 8 (3.36%) IPsec
16 8 (3.36%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.08%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.52%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.10%) MS Access
4 4 (1.68%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.26%) SQL Server 2016
6 2 (0.84%) Big Data
6 2 (0.84%) MySQL
7 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.42%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 6 (2.52%) Babel
1 6 (2.52%) Git (software)
1 6 (2.52%) GitLab
1 6 (2.52%) webpack
2 4 (1.68%) Bitbucket
2 4 (1.68%) CircleCI
2 4 (1.68%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.68%) TeamCity
2 4 (1.68%) Visual Studio
2 4 (1.68%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (0.42%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.42%) Maven
3 1 (0.42%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.42%) VectorCAST
General
1 22 (9.24%) Finance
2 16 (6.72%) Telecoms
3 9 (3.78%) Automotive
4 6 (2.52%) Billing
4 6 (2.52%) Retail
5 4 (1.68%) Electronics
5 4 (1.68%) Law
5 4 (1.68%) Legal
6 3 (1.26%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.26%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.84%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.42%) Advertising
8 1 (0.42%) Back Office
8 1 (0.42%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.42%) French Language
8 1 (0.42%) German Language
8 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.42%) Marketing
8 1 (0.42%) Portuguese Language
8 1 (0.42%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 81 (34.03%) Analyst
2 30 (12.61%) Support Analyst
3 27 (11.34%) Support Engineer
4 24 (10.08%) Network Engineer
5 23 (9.66%) IT Support
6 22 (9.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 22 (9.24%) 3rd Line Support
7 19 (7.98%) Senior Analyst
8 18 (7.56%) 2nd Line Support
8 18 (7.56%) Technical Support
9 16 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (6.30%) Administrator
10 15 (6.30%) IT Engineer
10 15 (6.30%) Systems Administrator
11 13 (5.46%) SOC Analyst
12 12 (5.04%) Technical Analyst
12 12 (5.04%) Technical Support Analyst
13 11 (4.62%) 1st Line Support
13 11 (4.62%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 11 (4.62%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.36%) CSS
2 7 (2.94%) Web Services
3 6 (2.52%) GraphQL
3 6 (2.52%) LAMP
3 6 (2.52%) Redux
3 6 (2.52%) Semantic HTML
4 5 (2.10%) .NET
4 5 (2.10%) REST
5 4 (1.68%) 802.1X
5 4 (1.68%) Node.js
6 3 (1.26%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.26%) JSON
6 3 (1.26%) YAML
7 2 (0.84%) Ajax
7 2 (0.84%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.84%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.84%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (0.84%) HTML
7 2 (0.84%) jQuery
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 19 (7.98%) Greenfield Project
3 15 (6.30%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 11 (4.62%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.78%) CCTV
6 9 (3.78%) Client/Server
7 8 (3.36%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.36%) User Experience
7 8 (3.36%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.94%) Driving Licence
9 6 (2.52%) Cyberthreat
10 5 (2.10%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.26%) CMDB
11 3 (1.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.26%) Social Media
12 2 (0.84%) AS400
12 2 (0.84%) Cyberattack
12 2 (0.84%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 166 (69.75%) Windows
2 90 (37.82%) Windows Server
3 57 (23.95%) Linux
4 44 (18.49%) Windows Server 2012
5 42 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
6 33 (13.87%) Windows 10
7 20 (8.40%) Windows 7
8 10 (4.20%) Windows 8
9 8 (3.36%) CentOS
10 6 (2.52%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (2.10%) Apple iOS
12 4 (1.68%) CatOS
13 3 (1.26%) Fedora
13 3 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (1.26%) Ubuntu
13 3 (1.26%) Unix
13 3 (1.26%) Windows XP
14 2 (0.84%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.84%) OpenVMS
15 1 (0.42%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (25.21%) ITIL
2 37 (15.55%) Change Management
3 36 (15.13%) Problem Management
4 34 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 33 (13.87%) Security Operations
6 30 (12.61%) Information Security
7 28 (11.76%) SIEM
8 27 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 27 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (10.08%) Mentoring
10 23 (9.66%) Incident Management
10 23 (9.66%) Threat Intelligence
11 19 (7.98%) Analytics
11 19 (7.98%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 19 (7.98%) Penetration Testing
12 17 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (6.72%) Project Management
13 16 (6.72%) Tradecraft
14 15 (6.30%) ITIL V3
14 15 (6.30%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.50%) SQL
2 21 (8.82%) PowerShell
3 13 (5.46%) Python
4 11 (4.62%) Bash Shell
5 10 (4.20%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.36%) C#
7 6 (2.52%) C
7 6 (2.52%) ES6
7 6 (2.52%) VBScript
8 4 (1.68%) C++
8 4 (1.68%) Java
9 3 (1.26%) Embedded C
9 3 (1.26%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.84%) KiXtart
10 2 (0.84%) VB
11 1 (0.42%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.42%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (10.08%) CCNA
2 24 (10.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 23 (9.66%) CISSP
4 21 (8.82%) MCSE
5 20 (8.40%) CEH
6 18 (7.56%) GSEC
6 18 (7.56%) MCSA
7 15 (6.30%) SSCP
8 12 (5.04%) Degree
9 10 (4.20%) MCP
9 10 (4.20%) Security Cleared
10 9 (3.78%) SC Cleared
11 7 (2.94%) CCNP
12 6 (2.52%) CCIE
13 4 (1.68%) GCIA
13 4 (1.68%) GCIH
14 3 (1.26%) AWS Certification
14 3 (1.26%) GIAC
14 3 (1.26%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (17.23%) SLA
2 21 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.20%) ISO 9001
4 6 (2.52%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.10%) QA
6 3 (1.26%) GDPR
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.42%) NIST
System Software
1 107 (44.96%) Active Directory
2 66 (27.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (21.43%) Hyper-V
4 24 (10.08%) XenApp
5 21 (8.82%) XenDesktop
6 16 (6.72%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (2.94%) Terminal Server
9 6 (2.52%) Terminal Services
9 6 (2.52%) VirtualBox
10 5 (2.10%) Docker
11 4 (1.68%) vSphere
12 3 (1.26%) Firmware
12 3 (1.26%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (1.26%) Postfix
13 2 (0.84%) GPFS
13 2 (0.84%) Lustre
14 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (7.98%) SCCM
2 8 (3.36%) Backup Exec
2 8 (3.36%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 6 (2.52%) FortiGate
4 5 (2.10%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.68%) CSIRT
5 4 (1.68%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.68%) Nagios
5 4 (1.68%) SCOM
6 3 (1.26%) Ansible
6 3 (1.26%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (1.26%) Opscode Chef
6 3 (1.26%) Puppet
6 3 (1.26%) Terraform
7 2 (0.84%) Grafana
7 2 (0.84%) Icinga
7 2 (0.84%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (0.84%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 122 (51.26%) Microsoft
2 90 (37.82%) VMware
3 53 (22.27%) Cisco
4 45 (18.91%) Citrix
5 17 (7.14%) Avaya
5 17 (7.14%) Darktrace
6 16 (6.72%) ArcSight
6 16 (6.72%) Qualys
7 15 (6.30%) HP
7 15 (6.30%) Veeam
8 12 (5.04%) F5
9 11 (4.62%) Mitel
9 11 (4.62%) Symantec
10 9 (3.78%) CheckPoint
10 9 (3.78%) Oracle
11 8 (3.36%) Barracuda Networks
12 7 (2.94%) Meraki
12 7 (2.94%) Palo Alto
12 7 (2.94%) WatchGuard
13 6 (2.52%) SonicWALL