Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 21 September 2018

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 21 September 2018 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
21 Sep 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 149 85 70
Rank change year-on-year -64 -15 -1
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 643 998 1,404
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East 2.17% 3.44% 3.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.71% 19.00% 18.85%
Number of salaries quoted 535 786 1,220
South East median annual salary £39,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median salary % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
10th Percentile £22,750 £22,000 £23,725
90th Percentile £60,950 £63,750 £60,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £41,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year +3.66% -1.20% +3.75%

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 4,690 5,252 7,449
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.85% 18.08% 20.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,709 4,194 6,057
South East median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £44,750
Median salary % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.03% +5.29%
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,750 £25,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a percentage 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

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT 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

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing TCP/IP in the South East over the 6 months to 21 September 2018.

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 21 September 2018. 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 -23 341 £40,000 -11.11% 41
Berkshire -50 179 £42,500 -5.56% 22
Surrey -55 121 £38,750 -7.19% 25
Hampshire -80 116 £32,750 -6.43% 21
Buckinghamshire +40 109 £46,250 +28.47% 11
Oxfordshire +4 53 £34,000 -20.00% 8
East Sussex -1 25 £41,500 +38.33% 4
Kent -11 19 £37,500 +15.38% 10
West Sussex -27 19 £31,500 -30.00% 2
Middlesex +10 1 - -
Isle of Wight - 1 £35,250 -
TCP/IP
England

For the 6 months to 21 September 2018, 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.

1 403 (62.67%) Windows
2 248 (38.57%) Active Directory
3 234 (36.39%) Windows Server
4 213 (33.13%) DNS
5 209 (32.50%) Firewall
6 203 (31.57%) Microsoft
7 195 (30.33%) Linux
8 193 (30.02%) VMware
9 172 (26.75%) Office 365
10 170 (26.44%) DHCP
11 150 (23.33%) WAN
12 145 (22.55%) LAN
13 132 (20.53%) SQL
14 125 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
15 105 (16.33%) SQL Server
15 105 (16.33%) ITIL
16 103 (16.02%) VPN
17 102 (15.86%) Cisco
18 99 (15.40%) Hyper-V
19 98 (15.24%) Python
19 98 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
20 96 (14.93%) Windows 10
21 95 (14.77%) Windows Server 2012
22 89 (13.84%) Citrix
22 89 (13.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
23 88 (13.69%) MS Exchange
24 86 (13.37%) VLAN
25 84 (13.06%) Microsoft Office
26 83 (12.91%) Amazon AWS
27 82 (12.75%) Degree

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 88 (13.69%) MS Exchange
2 58 (9.02%) IIS
3 26 (4.04%) SharePoint
4 23 (3.58%) Apache
5 19 (2.95%) Exchange Server 2010
6 17 (2.64%) WebSphere
7 13 (2.02%) Confluence
8 11 (1.71%) Skype for Business
9 10 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.56%) WebLogic
9 10 (1.56%) WebSphere Application Server
10 9 (1.40%) Exchange Server 2013
10 9 (1.40%) JBoss
10 9 (1.40%) nginx
11 7 (1.09%) BizTalk Server
11 7 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2003
12 5 (0.78%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.62%) SharePoint 2010
13 4 (0.62%) SharePoint 2013
14 3 (0.47%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 84 (13.06%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.71%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.78%) SOLIDWORKS
6 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.47%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.31%) Simulink
9 1 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.31%) assyst
2 2 (0.31%) Workfront
3 1 (0.16%) Salesforce.com CRM
3 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 172 (26.75%) Office 365
2 83 (12.91%) Amazon AWS
3 79 (12.29%) Microsoft Azure
4 27 (4.20%) Cloud Computing
5 19 (2.95%) IaaS
6 13 (2.02%) SaaS
7 12 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (1.87%) Google Cloud Platform
8 10 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (1.56%) Amazon S3
9 9 (1.40%) Amazon ELB
9 9 (1.40%) Amazon Glacier
9 9 (1.40%) Datadog
9 9 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (1.24%) PaaS
11 7 (1.09%) Mimecast
12 6 (0.93%) GitHub
13 5 (0.78%) Serverless
14 3 (0.47%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.47%) G Suite
Communications & Networking
1 213 (33.13%) DNS
2 209 (32.50%) Firewall
3 170 (26.44%) DHCP
4 150 (23.33%) WAN
5 145 (22.55%) LAN
6 103 (16.02%) VPN
7 86 (13.37%) VLAN
8 65 (10.11%) HTTP
9 64 (9.95%) SAN
10 52 (8.09%) Wi-Fi
11 49 (7.62%) Ethernet
12 46 (7.15%) Internet
12 46 (7.15%) Wireless
13 39 (6.07%) Network Security
14 36 (5.60%) VoIP
15 28 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
16 26 (4.04%) MPLS
16 26 (4.04%) Wireshark
17 25 (3.89%) NAS
17 25 (3.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (16.33%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.80%) MySQL
3 14 (2.18%) MongoDB
4 12 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (1.87%) Neo4j
5 9 (1.40%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.24%) Redis
7 6 (0.93%) SQL Server 2012
8 5 (0.78%) Big Data
9 4 (0.62%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.62%) SQL Server 2005
10 3 (0.47%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.47%) SQLite
11 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.16%) GIS
Development Applications
1 28 (4.35%) JIRA
2 24 (3.73%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.42%) Git (software)
4 17 (2.64%) Vagrant
5 14 (2.18%) GitLab
5 14 (2.18%) Subversion
6 7 (1.09%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.78%) Xcode
8 4 (0.62%) AutoIt
8 4 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.47%) Bugzilla
9 3 (0.47%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.47%) CMake
9 3 (0.47%) CppUnit
9 3 (0.47%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.47%) GDB
9 3 (0.47%) Hudson
9 3 (0.47%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.31%) LabVIEW
General
1 75 (11.66%) Finance
2 47 (7.31%) Telecoms
3 37 (5.75%) Legal
4 27 (4.20%) Law
5 26 (4.04%) Banking
6 20 (3.11%) Games
7 18 (2.80%) Retail
8 17 (2.64%) Electronics
9 14 (2.18%) Marketing
10 11 (1.71%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.24%) Automotive
13 6 (0.93%) Back Office
13 6 (0.93%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.78%) Avionics
14 5 (0.78%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.47%) Military
16 2 (0.31%) Billing
16 2 (0.31%) German Language
16 2 (0.31%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 105 (16.33%) Analyst
2 96 (14.93%) Support Engineer
3 73 (11.35%) IT Support
4 62 (9.64%) Developer
5 44 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 43 (6.69%) IT Engineer
7 41 (6.38%) Support Analyst
8 40 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
9 39 (6.07%) Administrator
9 39 (6.07%) Network Engineer
10 33 (5.13%) Senior Developer
11 32 (4.98%) 2nd Line Support
12 28 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support
12 28 (4.35%) IT Support Engineer
12 28 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
13 27 (4.20%) Software Engineer
14 26 (4.04%) Java Developer
14 26 (4.04%) Systems Engineer
15 25 (3.89%) Senior Java Developer
15 25 (3.89%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (9.02%) HTML
2 48 (7.47%) XML
3 36 (5.60%) AngularJS
4 35 (5.44%) .NET
5 33 (5.13%) CSS
6 28 (4.35%) J2EE
7 26 (4.04%) Hibernate
7 26 (4.04%) JDBC
7 26 (4.04%) JMS
7 26 (4.04%) Servlets
7 26 (4.04%) Spring
8 25 (3.89%) DHTML
8 25 (3.89%) JSP
8 25 (3.89%) Struts
9 23 (3.58%) REST
10 20 (3.11%) Middleware
11 17 (2.64%) Node.js
12 15 (2.33%) .NET Framework
13 13 (2.02%) LDAP
13 13 (2.02%) React
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.47%) Data Centre
2 42 (6.53%) Computer Science
2 42 (6.53%) Self-Motivation
3 38 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (4.04%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.27%) Replication
6 18 (2.80%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.64%) Client/Server
8 15 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
9 14 (2.18%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.87%) Device Driver
10 12 (1.87%) Driving Licence
11 11 (1.71%) CAN bus
11 11 (1.71%) Cyberthreat
11 11 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 9 (1.40%) BBC
13 9 (1.40%) Fintech
14 8 (1.24%) Clustering
14 8 (1.24%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 403 (62.67%) Windows
2 234 (36.39%) Windows Server
3 195 (30.33%) Linux
4 96 (14.93%) Windows 10
5 95 (14.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 69 (10.73%) Windows 7
7 51 (7.93%) Windows Server 2008
8 45 (7.00%) Unix
9 20 (3.11%) Windows 8
10 16 (2.49%) Android
10 16 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 14 (2.18%) Apple iOS
12 13 (2.02%) CentOS
13 11 (1.71%) Windows XP
14 9 (1.40%) Mac OS X
15 8 (1.24%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (1.09%) AIX
17 6 (0.93%) Solaris
18 5 (0.78%) Ubuntu
19 4 (0.62%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (16.33%) ITIL
2 98 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (13.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 55 (8.55%) DevOps
5 46 (7.15%) Open Source
6 45 (7.00%) Software Engineering
7 44 (6.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (6.84%) Incident Management
7 44 (6.84%) OO
8 43 (6.69%) Agile Software Development
9 38 (5.91%) Disaster Recovery
10 35 (5.44%) Problem Management
11 30 (4.67%) Information Security
12 29 (4.51%) Configuration Management
13 28 (4.35%) Load Balancing
13 28 (4.35%) Migration
13 28 (4.35%) Network Design
14 27 (4.20%) SIEM
14 27 (4.20%) Software Architecture
14 27 (4.20%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 132 (20.53%) SQL
2 98 (15.24%) Python
3 74 (11.51%) JavaScript
4 64 (9.95%) Bash Shell
5 61 (9.49%) C++
5 61 (9.49%) PowerShell
6 56 (8.71%) Java
7 52 (8.09%) Perl
8 50 (7.78%) C#
9 34 (5.29%) Ruby
10 28 (4.35%) C
11 15 (2.33%) Go
11 15 (2.33%) PHP
12 14 (2.18%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.24%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.09%) XAML
15 6 (0.93%) VB.NET
16 5 (0.78%) VBScript
17 3 (0.47%) Embedded C
17 3 (0.47%) Jython
Qualifications
1 82 (12.75%) Degree
2 65 (10.11%) Cisco Certification
3 51 (7.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 46 (7.15%) CCNA
5 45 (7.00%) Security Cleared
6 37 (5.75%) CCNP
7 36 (5.60%) CISSP
7 36 (5.60%) MCSE
8 25 (3.89%) SC Cleared
9 24 (3.73%) MCP
10 20 (3.11%) MCSA
11 13 (2.02%) JNCIP
12 12 (1.87%) CCSE
12 12 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (1.87%) DV Cleared
13 11 (1.71%) CCDP
13 11 (1.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 10 (1.56%) IISP
14 10 (1.56%) ISSAP
15 7 (1.09%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (4.67%) SLA
3 23 (3.58%) PCI DSS
4 6 (0.93%) GDPR
4 6 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 6 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.78%) GCP
6 4 (0.62%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.47%) JTAG
7 3 (0.47%) MISRA
7 3 (0.47%) QA
8 2 (0.31%) COBIT
8 2 (0.31%) PMO
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 248 (38.57%) Active Directory
2 125 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 99 (15.40%) Hyper-V
4 49 (7.62%) VMware ESXi
4 49 (7.62%) XenApp
5 44 (6.84%) XenDesktop
6 36 (5.60%) vSphere
7 34 (5.29%) Docker
8 14 (2.18%) Firmware
8 14 (2.18%) VirtualBox
9 13 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (1.40%) NFS
10 9 (1.40%) Samba
11 8 (1.24%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 7 (1.09%) vCloud
13 4 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.47%) Citrix Presentation Server
15 2 (0.31%) pfSense
16 1 (0.16%) KVM
Systems Management
1 46 (7.15%) Ansible
2 35 (5.44%) Opscode Chef
3 33 (5.13%) Puppet
4 31 (4.82%) SCCM
5 29 (4.51%) Kubernetes
6 24 (3.73%) SCOM
7 21 (3.27%) Terraform
8 16 (2.49%) Salt
8 16 (2.49%) ZABBIX
9 15 (2.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (1.56%) QRadar
11 9 (1.40%) Grafana
11 9 (1.40%) Norton AntiVirus
11 9 (1.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 8 (1.24%) Backup Exec
12 8 (1.24%) HAProxy
12 8 (1.24%) Kibana
13 7 (1.09%) Nagios
14 6 (0.93%) OPNET
Vendors
1 203 (31.57%) Microsoft
2 193 (30.02%) VMware
3 102 (15.86%) Cisco
4 89 (13.84%) Citrix
5 50 (7.78%) Juniper
6 48 (7.47%) HP
7 37 (5.75%) Oracle
8 32 (4.98%) SolarWinds
9 29 (4.51%) Red Hat
10 27 (4.20%) CheckPoint
11 25 (3.89%) Apple
12 24 (3.73%) ServiceNow
13 21 (3.27%) Riverbed
14 20 (3.11%) Fortinet
15 19 (2.95%) Google
16 18 (2.80%) Dell
16 18 (2.80%) IBM
17 17 (2.64%) Palo Alto
18 16 (2.49%) F5
18 16 (2.49%) Veeam