Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 28 May 2020

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 28 May 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > South East
6 months to
28 May 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 133 104 149
Rank change year-on-year -29 +45 -71
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 360 756 693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.21% 2.90% 2.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.11% 17.66% 13.59%
Number of salaries quoted 309 595 543
Median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median salary % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £23,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
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 South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,747 4,281 5,099
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.87% 16.43% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,107 3,336 3,951
Median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median salary % change year-on-year +5.56% +4.65% +1.18%
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £24,000
90th Percentile £72,900 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% +5.56%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the South East.

Salary trend for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the South East over the 6 months to 28 May 2020.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Thames Valley -54 110 £50,000 +25.00% 8
Surrey +32 93 £50,000 +17.65% 7
Hampshire +3 90 £36,500 -7.01% 2
Berkshire -50 69 £52,500 +31.25% 6
West Sussex -4 31 £42,500 -5.56% 2
Kent +10 23 £33,000 -9.59% 2
Buckinghamshire +3 23 £48,750 +26.62% 1
Oxfordshire -4 17 £45,000 - 1
East Sussex +19 11 £32,500 -23.53% 3
TCP/IP
England

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 South East region with a requirement for TCP/IP.

1 179 (49.72%) Windows
2 169 (46.94%) Firewall
3 128 (35.56%) Active Directory
4 118 (32.78%) DNS
5 111 (30.83%) Microsoft
6 107 (29.72%) Cisco
7 97 (26.94%) WAN
8 92 (25.56%) Linux
9 90 (25.00%) DHCP
10 89 (24.72%) LAN
11 73 (20.28%) Office 365
12 70 (19.44%) VPN
13 68 (18.89%) BGP
14 67 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
15 65 (18.06%) Azure
15 65 (18.06%) Cisco Certification
16 64 (17.78%) OSPF
17 62 (17.22%) VMware
18 58 (16.11%) Finance
19 57 (15.83%) Windows Server
20 56 (15.56%) Windows 10
21 53 (14.72%) Cybersecurity
22 52 (14.44%) VLAN
23 51 (14.17%) Data Centre
24 50 (13.89%) Python
25 48 (13.33%) ITIL
25 48 (13.33%) SQL
25 48 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
26 45 (12.50%) CCNP
26 45 (12.50%) PowerShell

TCP/IP
Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East 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 30 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 27 (7.50%) MS Exchange
3 12 (3.33%) Tomcat
4 11 (3.06%) Apache
4 11 (3.06%) Exchange Server 2013
4 11 (3.06%) Skype for Business
5 7 (1.94%) IIS
5 7 (1.94%) nginx
6 6 (1.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 5 (1.39%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.83%) CMS
8 3 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.56%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.56%) Confluence
9 2 (0.56%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.28%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 48 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.83%) Simulink
2 3 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.56%) Adobe Premiere
3 2 (0.56%) Avid Media Composer
3 2 (0.56%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.11%) assyst
3 3 (0.83%) Exchequer
3 3 (0.83%) Line 50
3 3 (0.83%) Pegasus Opera
3 3 (0.83%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.28%) Salesforce.com CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (20.28%) Office 365
2 65 (18.06%) Azure
3 41 (11.39%) AWS
4 10 (2.78%) SaaS
5 6 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (1.39%) Azure Active Directory
6 5 (1.39%) GCP
7 4 (1.11%) IaaS
7 4 (1.11%) OneDrive
7 4 (1.11%) PaaS
7 4 (1.11%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.11%) PowerApps
8 3 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (0.56%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.56%) Route 53
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (0.28%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 169 (46.94%) Firewall
2 118 (32.78%) DNS
3 97 (26.94%) WAN
4 90 (25.00%) DHCP
5 89 (24.72%) LAN
6 70 (19.44%) VPN
7 68 (18.89%) BGP
8 64 (17.78%) OSPF
9 52 (14.44%) VLAN
10 41 (11.39%) Network Security
11 40 (11.11%) Internet
12 37 (10.28%) Cisco ASA
13 35 (9.72%) Wireless
14 34 (9.44%) SAN
15 32 (8.89%) HTTP
16 29 (8.06%) Wi-Fi
17 24 (6.67%) NAS
17 24 (6.67%) VoIP
18 19 (5.28%) Ethernet
18 19 (5.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.17%) MySQL
3 10 (2.78%) Hadoop
3 10 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.22%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.22%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.94%) HBase
7 6 (1.67%) Apache Hive
7 6 (1.67%) DB2
8 4 (1.11%) Big Data
9 3 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.56%) InfluxDB
10 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.56%) SQL Server 2016
10 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.56%) SQLite
11 1 (0.28%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.28%) Redis
11 1 (0.28%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 23 (6.39%) Git (software)
2 13 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.94%) JIRA
4 6 (1.67%) Subversion
5 5 (1.39%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.83%) Bower
6 3 (0.83%) Grunt
6 3 (0.83%) Jasmine
6 3 (0.83%) Karma Test Runner
6 3 (0.83%) Protractor
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.56%) Xcode
8 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.28%) JUnit
8 1 (0.28%) Mockito
8 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.28%) Selenium
8 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (16.11%) Finance
2 41 (11.39%) Telecoms
3 18 (5.00%) Electronics
4 16 (4.44%) Manufacturing
5 10 (2.78%) Banking
6 9 (2.50%) Legal
7 7 (1.94%) Aerospace
7 7 (1.94%) Marketing
8 6 (1.67%) Law
8 6 (1.67%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.39%) Retail
10 3 (0.83%) Military
10 3 (0.83%) Norwegian Language
10 3 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.56%) Automotive
11 2 (0.56%) Games
12 1 (0.28%) Advertising
12 1 (0.28%) Billing
12 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.28%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 79 (21.94%) Network Engineer
2 50 (13.89%) Support Engineer
3 32 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (8.06%) IT Support
5 28 (7.78%) Analyst
6 24 (6.67%) IT Engineer
7 21 (5.83%) Desktop Engineer
8 20 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
9 19 (5.28%) Developer
10 18 (5.00%) Desktop Support
10 18 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 16 (4.44%) 2nd Line Support
12 15 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
13 13 (3.61%) Software Engineer
14 12 (3.33%) IT Support Engineer
15 11 (3.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 11 (3.06%) 3rd Line Support
15 11 (3.06%) SOC Analyst
16 10 (2.78%) Applications Support
16 10 (2.78%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.17%) .NET
2 12 (3.33%) LDAP
3 11 (3.06%) Node.js
4 10 (2.78%) Web Services
5 9 (2.50%) AngularJS
5 9 (2.50%) CSS
5 9 (2.50%) Kafka
5 9 (2.50%) LAMP
6 7 (1.94%) ASP.NET
6 7 (1.94%) HTML
6 7 (1.94%) jQuery
6 7 (1.94%) WebSockets
7 6 (1.67%) COM
7 6 (1.67%) REST
8 5 (1.39%) Middleware
8 5 (1.39%) RESTful
9 4 (1.11%) ASP.NET MVC 5
9 4 (1.11%) WebRTC
9 4 (1.11%) XML
10 3 (0.83%) Vue.js
Miscellaneous
1 51 (14.17%) Data Centre
2 40 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (7.22%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (6.11%) DataPower
5 15 (4.17%) Driving Licence
5 15 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 14 (3.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 11 (3.06%) N-Tier
8 8 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.22%) Wiki
9 7 (1.94%) PKI
9 7 (1.94%) Security Operations Centre
9 7 (1.94%) Smartphone
10 6 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.67%) Clustering
10 6 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.11%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.11%) iPad
11 4 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.11%) User Experience
Operating Systems
1 179 (49.72%) Windows
2 92 (25.56%) Linux
3 57 (15.83%) Windows Server
4 56 (15.56%) Windows 10
5 38 (10.56%) Windows 7
6 31 (8.61%) Windows Server 2012
7 28 (7.78%) Unix
8 24 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 22 (6.11%) Windows Server 2008
10 13 (3.61%) Mac OS
11 11 (3.06%) Windows Server 2003
12 9 (2.50%) Apple iOS
12 9 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (1.67%) CentOS
13 6 (1.67%) Windows 8
14 5 (1.39%) Mac OS X
15 4 (1.11%) Windows XP
16 3 (0.83%) Android
16 3 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (14.72%) Cybersecurity
3 48 (13.33%) ITIL
4 45 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 35 (9.72%) Agile Software Development
6 29 (8.06%) Information Security
7 28 (7.78%) Computer Science
8 25 (6.94%) DevOps
9 24 (6.67%) Load Balancing
9 24 (6.67%) Penetration Testing
10 23 (6.39%) Software Engineering
11 22 (6.11%) Change Management
11 22 (6.11%) Scrum
12 20 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (5.00%) Security Operations
14 16 (4.44%) Time Management
15 15 (4.17%) Continuous Integration
15 15 (4.17%) Network Monitoring
15 15 (4.17%) Root Cause Analysis
16 14 (3.89%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.89%) Python
2 48 (13.33%) SQL
3 45 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 35 (9.72%) JavaScript
5 34 (9.44%) C++
6 31 (8.61%) Bash Shell
6 31 (8.61%) Java
7 25 (6.94%) Perl
8 20 (5.56%) C
9 17 (4.72%) C#
10 14 (3.89%) PHP
11 13 (3.61%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.94%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.67%) AWK
13 6 (1.67%) Korn
13 6 (1.67%) sed
14 5 (1.39%) Go
15 4 (1.11%) VB
16 3 (0.83%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (18.06%) Cisco Certification
2 45 (12.50%) CCNP
3 43 (11.94%) Degree
4 29 (8.06%) CCNA
5 27 (7.50%) Security Cleared
6 18 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.72%) SC Cleared
8 14 (3.89%) JNCIS
8 14 (3.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (3.61%) CISSP
9 13 (3.61%) JNCIA
10 10 (2.78%) CISA
10 10 (2.78%) CISM
11 9 (2.50%) CCIE
11 9 (2.50%) MCP
12 8 (2.22%) A+ Certification
13 7 (1.94%) CCSA
14 5 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (1.39%) HNC
14 5 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.33%) SLA
2 23 (6.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.06%) GDPR
4 9 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.11%) QA
7 3 (0.83%) GxP
7 3 (0.83%) NIST
8 1 (0.28%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 128 (35.56%) Active Directory
2 43 (11.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (11.39%) Hyper-V
4 17 (4.72%) Docker
5 16 (4.44%) vSphere
6 12 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.22%) KVM
7 8 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.94%) Terminal Services
9 4 (1.11%) Firmware
9 4 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.83%) NFS
11 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.56%) Squid
11 2 (0.56%) XenApp
11 2 (0.56%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.28%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 32 (8.89%) SCCM
2 22 (6.11%) Ansible
3 15 (4.17%) Kubernetes
4 13 (3.61%) WSUS
5 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (2.50%) Puppet
6 7 (1.94%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.94%) Opscode Chef
6 7 (1.94%) PowerCLI
7 6 (1.67%) Backup Exec
7 6 (1.67%) Terraform
8 5 (1.39%) Icinga
9 4 (1.11%) Amdocs OSS
9 4 (1.11%) Cisco Prime
9 4 (1.11%) Observium
10 3 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.83%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (0.83%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (0.83%) SCOM
Vendors
1 111 (30.83%) Microsoft
2 107 (29.72%) Cisco
3 62 (17.22%) VMware
4 39 (10.83%) Palo Alto
4 39 (10.83%) SolarWinds
5 34 (9.44%) Juniper
6 26 (7.22%) Meraki
7 24 (6.67%) IBM
8 23 (6.39%) Aruba
9 22 (6.11%) Citrix
10 21 (5.83%) Apple
10 21 (5.83%) CheckPoint
10 21 (5.83%) Oracle
11 18 (5.00%) Brocade
12 13 (3.61%) Red Hat
13 11 (3.06%) Foundry
13 11 (3.06%) Splunk
14 10 (2.78%) F5
14 10 (2.78%) HP
15 9 (2.50%) Salesforce.com