The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 29 33 30
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -3
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 3 2 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.531% 0.752% 4.297%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.375% 4.878% 37.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 4
Average daily rate - £188 £299
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -37.23%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £299
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +0.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £17.75 £22.75
% change year-on-year
+7.04% -21.97%
All Communications & Networking
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
32 41 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 16.33% 15.41% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 11
Average daily rate £325 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £325 £298
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £425 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 - £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
TCP/IP
East of England

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing TCP/IP across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Bedfordshire TCP/IP Jobs Demand Trend

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing TCP/IP across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire TCP/IP Daily Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing TCP/IP across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Luton -3 2 - -
Bedford - - - -
Dunstable - - - -
TCP/IP
East of England

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing TCP/IP 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited TCP/IP.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) MS Office
3 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
3 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (60.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
4 2 (40.00%) WAN
4 2 (40.00%) Adobe
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Firewall
5 1 (20.00%) Wireless
5 1 (20.00%) Legal
5 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (20.00%) VMware
5 1 (20.00%) VMware ESX
5 1 (20.00%) Juniper
5 1 (20.00%) SAN
5 1 (20.00%) Firmware
5 1 (20.00%) DMZ

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing TCP/IP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited TCP/IP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Office
2 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
3 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) DMZ
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) VoIP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Support Technician
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Network Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (60.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Adobe
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
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