The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 21 May 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 Belfast 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 29 - 41
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 4 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 1.878% - 0.938%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.53% - 6.522%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
Average daily rate £369 - £265
UK excluding London average daily rate £268 £301 £300
% change year-on-year
-10.98% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £21.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-26.19% -20.75%
All Communications & Networking
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
17 24 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 7.981% 14.72% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 15
Average daily rate £438 £260 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+68.26% -25.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £260 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
Average hourly rate - - £12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
TCP/IP
County Antrim

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast TCP/IP Daily Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Belfast TCP/IP Daily Rate Histogram

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 Belfast region.

Belfast TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 (55.56%) HTTP
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
1 5 (55.56%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
3 3 (33.33%) OO
3 3 (33.33%) DHCP
3 3 (33.33%) J2EE
3 3 (33.33%) CSS
3 3 (33.33%) JDBC
3 3 (33.33%) JSP
3 3 (33.33%) Servlets
3 3 (33.33%) XML
3 3 (33.33%) DHTML
3 3 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) JMS
3 3 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 3 (33.33%) PBX
3 3 (33.33%) Ajax
3 3 (33.33%) JSON
3 3 (33.33%) Lync
3 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) Dojo
4 2 (22.22%) Use Case
4 2 (22.22%) Bash shell
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Cyber Security
4 2 (22.22%) ArcSight

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 Development
1 3 (33.33%) J2EE
1 3 (33.33%) CSS
1 3 (33.33%) JDBC
1 3 (33.33%) JSP
1 3 (33.33%) Servlets
1 3 (33.33%) XML
1 3 (33.33%) DHTML
1 3 (33.33%) JMS
1 3 (33.33%) Ajax
1 3 (33.33%) JSON
1 3 (33.33%) Dojo
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 3 (33.33%) Lync
1 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (22.22%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) HTTP
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) DHCP
2 3 (33.33%) PBX
3 2 (22.22%) SMTP
3 2 (22.22%) HTTPS
3 2 (22.22%) Internet
General
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Security Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Rollout Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Information Security Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Information Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
2 3 (33.33%) OO
3 2 (22.22%) Use Case
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Cyber Security
3 2 (22.22%) SIEM
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (22.22%) Information Security
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Bash shell
2 2 (22.22%) Perl
2 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) ArcSight
2 2 (22.22%) LogLogic
2 2 (22.22%) Q1 Labs
3 1 (11.11%) Symantec