Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

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
3 months to
15 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank553944
Rank change year-on-year
Down-16Up+5
Matching contract IT job ads1414
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol0.152 %0.753 %1.469 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category1.493 %4.706 %11.29 %
Daily rates quoted016
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 quoted015
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 %
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6785124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol10.21 %16.01 %13.01 %
Daily rates quoted371543
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 quoted31329
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 WestTCP/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.

Bristol TCP/IP Demand Trend

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.

Bristol TCP/IP Daily Rate Trend

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.

Bristol TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

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.

15 (62.50 %)Windows
15 (62.50 %)Active Directory
15 (62.50 %)Windows Server 2003
24 (50.00 %)SQL Server 2005
24 (50.00 %)PDA
24 (50.00 %)Microsoft
24 (50.00 %)MS Exchange
24 (50.00 %)SQL Server
24 (50.00 %)Windows Server 2008
33 (37.50 %)Windows 7
33 (37.50 %)SC Cleared
33 (37.50 %)Security Cleared
33 (37.50 %)MCP
33 (37.50 %)Windows XP
33 (37.50 %)DHCP
33 (37.50 %)VPN
33 (37.50 %)DNS
33 (37.50 %)Windows Vista
33 (37.50 %)Windows Mobile
33 (37.50 %)Microsoft Certification
33 (37.50 %)Network+ Certification
42 (25.00 %)Firewall
42 (25.00 %)Cisco
42 (25.00 %)E-Commerce
42 (25.00 %)IIS
42 (25.00 %)Migration
51 (12.50 %)Open Source
51 (12.50 %)Network Architecture
51 (12.50 %)SQL Server 2008
51 (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.

Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (12.50 %).NET
11 (12.50 %)J2EE
11 (12.50 %)ASP.NET
11 (12.50 %)CSS
11 (12.50 %)Web Services
11 (12.50 %)XML
11 (12.50 %)JMS
11 (12.50 %).NET Framework
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14 (50.00 %)MS Exchange
22 (25.00 %)IIS
31 (12.50 %)Apache
31 (12.50 %)Tomcat
31 (12.50 %)iPlanet
31 (12.50 %)Exchange Server 2003
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (12.50 %)MS Office
11 (12.50 %)MS Visio
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
13 (37.50 %)VPN
13 (37.50 %)DNS
13 (37.50 %)DHCP
22 (25.00 %)Firewall
31 (12.50 %)Network Security
31 (12.50 %)LAN
31 (12.50 %)Ethernet
31 (12.50 %)HTTP
31 (12.50 %)SNMP
31 (12.50 %)IPv6
31 (12.50 %)DMZ
31 (12.50 %)Intranet
31 (12.50 %)Internet
31 (12.50 %)Extranet
31 (12.50 %)MPLS
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14 (50.00 %)SQL Server
14 (50.00 %)SQL Server 2005
21 (12.50 %)SQL Server 2008
21 (12.50 %)SQL Server 2000
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (12.50 %)Finance
11 (12.50 %)Education
11 (12.50 %)Insurance
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14 (50.00 %)Analyst
23 (37.50 %)Security Analyst
23 (37.50 %)Desktop Analyst
31 (12.50 %)Network Architect
31 (12.50 %).NET Consultant
31 (12.50 %)Senior Network Support
31 (12.50 %)IT Technician
31 (12.50 %)Network Infrastructure Architect
31 (12.50 %)Infrastructure Architect
31 (12.50 %)Network Support
31 (12.50 %)Consultant
31 (12.50 %)Architect
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
14 (50.00 %)PDA
21 (12.50 %)CCTV
21 (12.50 %)Data Integration
21 (12.50 %)Open Source
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15 (62.50 %)Windows
15 (62.50 %)Windows Server 2003
24 (50.00 %)Windows Server 2008
33 (37.50 %)Windows Mobile
33 (37.50 %)Windows Vista
33 (37.50 %)Windows XP
33 (37.50 %)Windows 7
41 (12.50 %)Linux
41 (12.50 %)Windows 2000
41 (12.50 %)Windows 2000 Server
41 (12.50 %)Red Hat Linux
41 (12.50 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12 (25.00 %)Migration
12 (25.00 %)E-Commerce
21 (12.50 %)SOA
21 (12.50 %)ITIL
21 (12.50 %)TOGAF
21 (12.50 %)Load Balancing
21 (12.50 %)Network Architecture
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13 (37.50 %)Microsoft Certification
13 (37.50 %)Network+ Certification
13 (37.50 %)SC Cleared
13 (37.50 %)Security Cleared
13 (37.50 %)MCP
21 (12.50 %)CCNA
21 (12.50 %)Cisco Certification
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
15 (62.50 %)Active Directory
21 (12.50 %)ISA Server
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14 (50.00 %)Microsoft
22 (25.00 %)Cisco
31 (12.50 %)JBoss
31 (12.50 %)Sun
31 (12.50 %)Red Hat
31 (12.50 %)WatchGuard