The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 17 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 Cambridge 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 32 37 24
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -13
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 9 12 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 2.632% 2.871% 3.200%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.84% 16.44% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
Average daily rate £263 £225 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -32.83%
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 £308 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.82% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
Average hourly rate £19.50 £38.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-49.67% +10.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £21.50 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-27.90% -16.50%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
76 73 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.22% 17.46% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 19
Average daily rate £285 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.80% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £213 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £375 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 21 11
Average hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.94% +14.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £10.70 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
TCP/IP
Cambridgeshire

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 17 (89.47%) DNS
2 14 (73.68%) DHCP
2 14 (73.68%) Windows
3 11 (57.89%) Linux
4 8 (42.11%) Perl
4 8 (42.11%) UNIX
4 8 (42.11%) Shell Script
5 7 (36.84%) BIG-IP
5 7 (36.84%) Java
5 7 (36.84%) IIS
5 7 (36.84%) JBoss
5 7 (36.84%) Apache
5 7 (36.84%) Tomcat
5 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (31.58%) LAN
6 6 (31.58%) WAN
6 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
6 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
6 6 (31.58%) VMware
7 5 (26.32%) Cisco
7 5 (26.32%) ITIL
7 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (26.32%) VLAN
8 4 (21.05%) NAS
8 4 (21.05%) Ethernet
8 4 (21.05%) VoIP
8 4 (21.05%) VPN
8 4 (21.05%) Firewall
8 4 (21.05%) Wireless

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 4 (21.05%) Middleware
2 3 (15.79%) Silverlight
2 3 (15.79%) HTML5
2 3 (15.79%) Web Services
2 3 (15.79%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 7 (36.84%) IIS
1 7 (36.84%) Apache
1 7 (36.84%) Tomcat
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (10.53%) MS Exchange
3 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 17 (89.47%) DNS
2 14 (73.68%) DHCP
3 7 (36.84%) BIG-IP
4 6 (31.58%) LAN
4 6 (31.58%) WAN
5 5 (26.32%) VLAN
6 4 (21.05%) Ethernet
6 4 (21.05%) NAS
6 4 (21.05%) VoIP
6 4 (21.05%) SAN
6 4 (21.05%) DMZ
6 4 (21.05%) Firewall
6 4 (21.05%) Wireless
6 4 (21.05%) VPN
7 3 (15.79%) Broadband
7 3 (15.79%) xDSL
7 3 (15.79%) HTTP
8 1 (5.263%) Cisco PIX
8 1 (5.263%) Cisco ASA
General
1 1 (5.263%) Finance
1 1 (5.263%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Administrator
1 8 (42.11%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 1 (5.263%) Analyst
3 1 (5.263%) Network Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (5.263%) Network Analyst
3 1 (5.263%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (5.263%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (5.263%) Cisco Network Analyst
3 1 (5.263%) Cisco Analyst
3 1 (5.263%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) Desktop Technician
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Streaming Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Windows
2 11 (57.89%) Linux
3 8 (42.11%) UNIX
4 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (5.263%) Windows XP
5 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (26.32%) ITIL
3 3 (15.79%) Benchmarking
3 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
3 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.263%) Project Management
4 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.263%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Perl
1 8 (42.11%) Shell Script
2 7 (36.84%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) C++
3 3 (15.79%) Python
4 1 (5.263%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.263%) CCNP
2 1 (5.263%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.263%) XenApp
3 1 (5.263%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Puppet
2 1 (5.263%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) JBoss
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (31.58%) VMware
3 5 (26.32%) Cisco
4 4 (21.05%) NetApp
4 4 (21.05%) BT
5 3 (15.79%) Akamai
5 3 (15.79%) Adobe
6 1 (5.263%) Citrix
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