The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 24 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 Berkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 62 68 81
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +13
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 61 72 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 2.547% 2.289% 1.613%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.807% 6.648% 6.987%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 11
Average daily rate £300 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £225 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £406 £475 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 11
Average hourly rate £14.00 £15.50 £33.82
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.67% -54.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.60 £14.50 £26.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.80 £16.50 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -20.00%
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
622 1083 687
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 25.97% 34.44% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 217 195
Average daily rate £285 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 47 57
Average hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £14.50 £15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £148.70 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
TCP/IP
South East

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Reading +17 37 £250 -28.57%
Slough -6 8 £376 +7.50%
Bracknell -17 3 £321 +42.66%
Newbury -3 1 - -
Maidenhead - 1 - -
TCP/IP
South East

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 68 (61.82%) Windows
2 37 (33.64%) WAN
2 37 (33.64%) VPN
3 36 (32.73%) LAN
4 31 (28.18%) Active Directory
4 31 (28.18%) Internet
5 29 (26.36%) VMware
6 28 (25.45%) Telecoms
7 26 (23.64%) MS Office
8 25 (22.73%) Windows Server 2003
8 25 (22.73%) Windows Server 2008
9 24 (21.82%) Windows 7
9 24 (21.82%) Microsoft
9 24 (21.82%) HTTP
10 23 (20.91%) ITIL
10 23 (20.91%) Windows XP
11 22 (20.00%) UNIX
12 21 (19.09%) SQL
12 21 (19.09%) Citrix
13 20 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
14 19 (17.27%) SAN
14 19 (17.27%) Ethernet
14 19 (17.27%) Cisco
14 19 (17.27%) Linux
15 18 (16.36%) SLA
15 18 (16.36%) HP
16 17 (15.45%) DNS
16 17 (15.45%) Apache
17 16 (14.55%) Oracle
18 15 (13.64%) FTP

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 12 (10.91%) Web Services
2 11 (10.00%) .NET
3 8 (7.273%) J2EE
4 7 (6.364%) HTML
5 6 (5.455%) WebSphere
6 5 (4.545%) XHTML
7 4 (3.636%) XML
7 4 (3.636%) Middleware
8 1 (0.909%) LAMP
8 1 (0.909%) Hibernate
8 1 (0.909%) XSL
8 1 (0.909%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.909%) CSS
8 1 (0.909%) JDBC
8 1 (0.909%) REST
8 1 (0.909%) JPA
8 1 (0.909%) Ajax
8 1 (0.909%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 17 (15.45%) Apache
2 13 (11.82%) IIS
3 11 (10.00%) Tomcat
4 10 (9.091%) MS Exchange
4 10 (9.091%) IBM HTTP Server
5 9 (8.182%) WebLogic
6 6 (5.455%) Exchange Server 2003
6 6 (5.455%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 5 (4.545%) WebSphere Application Server
7 5 (4.545%) Lotus Notes
8 4 (3.636%) WebLogic Portal
9 3 (2.727%) FileNet
9 3 (2.727%) CMS
9 3 (2.727%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (2.727%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (1.818%) Lotus Domino
11 1 (0.909%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.909%) WebSphere MQ
11 1 (0.909%) Lync
Applications
1 26 (23.64%) MS Office
2 12 (10.91%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.909%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.909%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.818%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.909%) Minerva
Communications & Networking
1 37 (33.64%) WAN
1 37 (33.64%) VPN
2 36 (32.73%) LAN
3 31 (28.18%) Internet
4 24 (21.82%) HTTP
5 19 (17.27%) SAN
5 19 (17.27%) Ethernet
6 17 (15.45%) DNS
7 15 (13.64%) FTP
8 13 (11.82%) ADSL
8 13 (11.82%) SMTP
9 12 (10.91%) DHCP
10 10 (9.091%) 3G
11 9 (8.182%) Firewall
11 9 (8.182%) MPLS
11 9 (8.182%) ATM
11 9 (8.182%) Network Security
12 8 (7.273%) SSL
13 7 (6.364%) BGP
13 7 (6.364%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.455%) MySQL
2 5 (4.545%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.727%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (2.727%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (1.818%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (0.909%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.909%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (0.909%) Maven
1 1 (0.909%) Subversion
1 1 (0.909%) Ant
1 1 (0.909%) ClearCase
General
1 28 (25.45%) Telecoms
2 15 (13.64%) Finance
3 7 (6.364%) Retail
4 5 (4.545%) Electronics
4 5 (4.545%) Banking
5 3 (2.727%) Back Office
6 1 (0.909%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.909%) Automotive
6 1 (0.909%) Games
6 1 (0.909%) French Language
6 1 (0.909%) German Language
Job Titles
1 24 (21.82%) Analyst
2 13 (11.82%) Support Engineer
3 12 (10.91%) Support Analyst
3 12 (10.91%) Administrator
4 10 (9.091%) Network Engineer
5 8 (7.273%) Service Analyst
5 8 (7.273%) Service Desk Analyst
6 6 (5.455%) 3rd Line Support
7 5 (4.545%) Applications Support
7 5 (4.545%) DBA
7 5 (4.545%) Oracle DBA
7 5 (4.545%) Technical Manager
7 5 (4.545%) Security Engineer
8 4 (3.636%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (3.636%) Desktop Analyst
8 4 (3.636%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (3.636%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 4 (3.636%) Technical Support Engineer
8 4 (3.636%) Architect
8 4 (3.636%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.64%) Clustering
2 7 (6.364%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 6 (5.455%) Client/Server
3 6 (5.455%) Blackberry
4 5 (4.545%) Computer Science
5 4 (3.636%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (2.727%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.818%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.818%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.909%) Statistics
8 1 (0.909%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 68 (61.82%) Windows
2 25 (22.73%) Windows Server 2003
2 25 (22.73%) Windows Server 2008
3 24 (21.82%) Windows 7
4 23 (20.91%) Windows XP
5 22 (20.00%) UNIX
6 19 (17.27%) Linux
7 7 (6.364%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (5.455%) Mac OS X
9 3 (2.727%) Windows Vista
10 2 (1.818%) Windows 2000 Server
10 2 (1.818%) Solaris
10 2 (1.818%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.909%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.909%) AIX
11 1 (0.909%) HPUX
11 1 (0.909%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (20.91%) ITIL
2 11 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (10.00%) Migration
3 10 (9.091%) Workflow
4 9 (8.182%) Fault Management
5 8 (7.273%) Test Scripting
5 8 (7.273%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (7.273%) Content Management
6 7 (6.364%) Product Management
7 6 (5.455%) Software Distribution
8 5 (4.545%) Project Management
8 5 (4.545%) Incident Management
8 5 (4.545%) Problem Management
9 4 (3.636%) WFM
9 4 (3.636%) Time Management
9 4 (3.636%) OO
10 3 (2.727%) Service Delivery
10 3 (2.727%) System Testing
11 2 (1.818%) Performance Management
11 2 (1.818%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.09%) SQL
2 13 (11.82%) Perl
3 9 (8.182%) Python
4 7 (6.364%) PHP
4 7 (6.364%) C++
4 7 (6.364%) Java
4 7 (6.364%) Bash shell
5 6 (5.455%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.545%) PL/SQL
6 5 (4.545%) C
7 2 (1.818%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.818%) C#
8 1 (0.909%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.909%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (11.82%) Degree
2 11 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 11 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 10 (9.091%) CCNA
4 7 (6.364%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (6.364%) CCNP
5 4 (3.636%) MCP
6 3 (2.727%) CCSA
6 3 (2.727%) CCSE
6 3 (2.727%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.727%) CISSP
6 3 (2.727%) BC Cleared
7 2 (1.818%) ACSA
7 2 (1.818%) HNC
7 2 (1.818%) OCP
7 2 (1.818%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.818%) Avaya Certification
7 2 (1.818%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.909%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.36%) SLA
2 9 (8.182%) QA
3 2 (1.818%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 31 (28.18%) Active Directory
2 20 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (10.91%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (7.273%) NFS
5 7 (6.364%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (5.455%) vSphere
7 3 (2.727%) VMware ESX
7 3 (2.727%) NLBS
8 2 (1.818%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.909%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.909%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.909%) Veritas File System
9 1 (0.909%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.909%) Postfix
9 1 (0.909%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.909%) Xen
9 1 (0.909%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 8 (7.273%) HP SIM
2 7 (6.364%) SCCM
3 6 (5.455%) Unicenter
3 6 (5.455%) Foglight
4 3 (2.727%) Legato
4 3 (2.727%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (1.818%) MOM
6 1 (0.909%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.909%) OpenView
6 1 (0.909%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 29 (26.36%) VMware
2 24 (21.82%) Microsoft
3 21 (19.09%) Citrix
4 19 (17.27%) Cisco
5 18 (16.36%) HP
6 16 (14.55%) Oracle
7 11 (10.00%) IBM
7 11 (10.00%) Remedy
8 9 (8.182%) Avaya
9 7 (6.364%) CheckPoint
9 7 (6.364%) Lotus
9 7 (6.364%) Red Hat
9 7 (6.364%) FrontRange
10 6 (5.455%) CA
10 6 (5.455%) Royalblue
11 5 (4.545%) Veritas
11 5 (4.545%) JBoss
12 4 (3.636%) Verint
12 4 (3.636%) Ericsson
13 3 (2.727%) ReadSoft
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