The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bracknell region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 19 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 Bracknell 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 31 16 21
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +5
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 5 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 1.961% 4.795% 0.719%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.329% 31.82% 3.125%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £321 £225 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £301 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.48% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.75 £17.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+10.29% -24.44%
All Communications & Networking
Bracknell
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
79 22 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 30.98% 15.07% 23.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 6 8
Average daily rate £354 £225 £235
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+57.11% -4.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £147 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £325 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 11
Average hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% -17.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £30.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £68.75 £30.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
TCP/IP
Berkshire

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 13 (65.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) Cisco
3 8 (40.00%) CCNA
3 8 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (40.00%) Internet
3 8 (40.00%) ADSL
3 8 (40.00%) WAN
3 8 (40.00%) Ethernet
3 8 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 8 (40.00%) Migration
4 7 (35.00%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (35.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 7 (35.00%) BGP
4 7 (35.00%) EIGRP
4 7 (35.00%) Frame Relay
4 7 (35.00%) SDH
4 7 (35.00%) LAN
4 7 (35.00%) ATM
4 7 (35.00%) MPLS
4 7 (35.00%) OSPF
4 7 (35.00%) NFS
4 7 (35.00%) RIP
4 7 (35.00%) VPN
4 7 (35.00%) Degree
4 7 (35.00%) QA
5 6 (30.00%) Windows
5 6 (30.00%) CCNP
6 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (20.00%) Embedded Systems

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 (15.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) Internet
1 8 (40.00%) ADSL
1 8 (40.00%) WAN
1 8 (40.00%) Ethernet
2 7 (35.00%) BGP
2 7 (35.00%) EIGRP
2 7 (35.00%) Frame Relay
2 7 (35.00%) SDH
2 7 (35.00%) LAN
2 7 (35.00%) ATM
2 7 (35.00%) MPLS
2 7 (35.00%) OSPF
2 7 (35.00%) RIP
2 7 (35.00%) VPN
3 4 (20.00%) FTP
4 3 (15.00%) DSL
4 3 (15.00%) NAS
4 3 (15.00%) xDSL
4 3 (15.00%) VLAN
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
General
1 8 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Technical Support
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Support
3 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) QA Tester
4 1 (5.000%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.000%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.000%) Systems Tester
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Tester
4 1 (5.000%) IP Network Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Senior QA Tester
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (20.00%) Client/Server
4 2 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) UNIX
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (15.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Migration
2 7 (35.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (20.00%) OO
4 3 (15.00%) Product Management
4 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (15.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
1 4 (20.00%) C
1 4 (20.00%) C++
2 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.000%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) CCNA
2 8 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (35.00%) Degree
4 6 (30.00%) CCNP
5 3 (15.00%) BC Cleared
6 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (5.000%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) NFS
2 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Legato
1 3 (15.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (15.00%) HP
2 3 (15.00%) Veritas
3 2 (10.00%) McAfee
3 2 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (10.00%) Juniper
4 1 (5.000%) Remedy
4 1 (5.000%) Cramer
4 1 (5.000%) BT