Bristol TCP/IP Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 15 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Bristol region.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chorley City of London Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Gatwick Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Malmesbury Malvern Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rotherham Sandwich Scotland Sidcup Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	55	39	44
Rank change year-on-year	-16 +5
Matching contract IT job ads	1	4	14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol	0.152 %	0.753 %	1.469 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category	1.493 %	4.706 %	11.29 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1	6
Average daily rate	-	£500	£238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	- +110.52 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£300	£325
% change year-on-year	+8.330 % -7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1	5
Average hourly rate	-	£10.88	£33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	- -67.53 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.00	£18.75	£27.00
% change year-on-year	+1.330 % -30.55 %
All Communications & Networking Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Communications & Networking category	67	85	124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol	10.21 %	16.01 %	13.01 %
Daily rates quoted	37	15	43
Average daily rate	£325	£413	£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-21.21 % +26.92 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£230	£276	£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£513	£508	£406
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£338	£338
% change year-on-year	-3.700 % -
Hourly rates quoted	3	13	29
Average hourly rate	£16.50	£23.25	£25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-29.03 % -9.700 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.30	£12.10	£17.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£31.30	£37.50	£36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.50	£24.00	£28.50
% change year-on-year	+2.080 % -15.78 %
TCP/IP South West

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.

TCP/IP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing TCP/IP across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend

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

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 (62.50 %) Windows 1 5 (62.50 %) Active Directory 1 5 (62.50 %) Windows Server 2003 2 4 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2005 2 4 (50.00 %) PDA 2 4 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 4 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 4 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2008 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows 7 3 3 (37.50 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (37.50 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (37.50 %) MCP 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows XP 3 3 (37.50 %) DHCP

3 3 (37.50 %) VPN 3 3 (37.50 %) DNS 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows Vista 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows Mobile 3 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (37.50 %) Network+ Certification 4 2 (25.00 %) Firewall 4 2 (25.00 %) Cisco 4 2 (25.00 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (25.00 %) IIS 4 2 (25.00 %) Migration 5 1 (12.50 %) Open Source 5 1 (12.50 %) Network Architecture 5 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2008 5 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 1 (12.50 %) .NET 1 1 (12.50 %) J2EE 1 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (12.50 %) CSS 1 1 (12.50 %) Web Services 1 1 (12.50 %) XML 1 1 (12.50 %) JMS 1 1 (12.50 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 4 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (25.00 %) IIS 3 1 (12.50 %) Apache 3 1 (12.50 %) Tomcat 3 1 (12.50 %) iPlanet 3 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Office 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) VPN 1 3 (37.50 %) DNS 1 3 (37.50 %) DHCP 2 2 (25.00 %) Firewall 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Security 3 1 (12.50 %) LAN 3 1 (12.50 %) Ethernet 3 1 (12.50 %) HTTP 3 1 (12.50 %) SNMP 3 1 (12.50 %) IPv6 3 1 (12.50 %) DMZ 3 1 (12.50 %) Intranet 3 1 (12.50 %) Internet 3 1 (12.50 %) Extranet 3 1 (12.50 %) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (50.00 %) SQL Server 1 4 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2008 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Finance 1 1 (12.50 %) Education 1 1 (12.50 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Analyst 2 3 (37.50 %) Security Analyst 2 3 (37.50 %) Desktop Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Architect 3 1 (12.50 %) .NET Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Network Support 3 1 (12.50 %) IT Technician 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Infrastructure Architect 3 1 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Architect 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 4 (50.00 %) PDA 2 1 (12.50 %) CCTV 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Integration 2 1 (12.50 %) Open Source
Operating Systems 1 5 (62.50 %) Windows 1 5 (62.50 %) Windows Server 2003 2 4 (50.00 %) Windows Server 2008 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows Mobile 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows Vista 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows XP 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows 7 4 1 (12.50 %) Linux 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (12.50 %) Red Hat Linux 4 1 (12.50 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) Migration 1 2 (25.00 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (12.50 %) SOA 2 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 1 (12.50 %) TOGAF 2 1 (12.50 %) Load Balancing 2 1 (12.50 %) Network Architecture
Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (37.50 %) Network+ Certification 1 3 (37.50 %) SC Cleared 1 3 (37.50 %) Security Cleared 1 3 (37.50 %) MCP 2 1 (12.50 %) CCNA 2 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification	System Software 1 5 (62.50 %) Active Directory 2 1 (12.50 %) ISA Server
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (25.00 %) Cisco 3 1 (12.50 %) JBoss 3 1 (12.50 %) Sun 3 1 (12.50 %) Red Hat 3 1 (12.50 %) WatchGuard