The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford 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 Bradford 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 26 26 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 0.654% 0.667% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.692% 8.333% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -20.00%
All Communications & Networking
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
13 12 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 8.497% 8.000% 6.838%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
Average daily rate £250 £165 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+51.51% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
Average hourly rate £18.71 £32.50 £7.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.43% +356.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £32.50 £6.83
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £32.50 £7.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
TCP/IP
West Yorkshire

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Network Management
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Avaya
3 1 (33.33%) Lotus
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (33.33%) Lotus Domino
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (33.33%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Service Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Network Management
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Avaya
2 1 (33.33%) Lotus
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) SAP