The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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 50 51 44
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -7
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 17 16 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.345% 1.963% 3.112%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.14% 10.81% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 15
Average daily rate £353 £270 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.55% -15.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £169 £113 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £454 £350 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £301 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.48% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
Average hourly rate £33.25 £14.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+137.50% -50.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.75 £17.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+10.29% -24.44%
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
140 148 200
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 19.31% 18.16% 21.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 68 123
Average daily rate £325 £318 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.36% -9.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £184 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 5
Average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% +92.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.10 £14.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.30 £25.00 £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
TCP/IP
North West

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire TCP/IP Daily Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cheshire TCP/IP Daily Rate Histogram

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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cheshire TCP/IP Hourly Rate Histogram

TCP/IP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Warrington +3 4 £294 +161.11% 1
Chester -1 3 £300 -
Knutsford - 2 - -
Lymm - - - -
Macclesfield - - - -
Nantwich - - - -
Northwich - - - -
Runcorn - - - -
Crewe - - - -
Daresbury - - - -
TCP/IP
North West

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 12 (48.00%) Windows
2 11 (44.00%) Firewall
3 10 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 9 (36.00%) WAN
5 7 (28.00%) Cisco
5 7 (28.00%) DNS
5 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
6 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (20.00%) LAN
7 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (20.00%) SAN
7 5 (20.00%) Windows XP
7 5 (20.00%) Migration
7 5 (20.00%) VMware
8 4 (16.00%) OSPF
8 4 (16.00%) EIGRP
8 4 (16.00%) IGRP
8 4 (16.00%) BGP
8 4 (16.00%) MS Exchange
8 4 (16.00%) MCSE
8 4 (16.00%) Citrix
8 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (16.00%) VPN
8 4 (16.00%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (12.00%) Local Government
9 3 (12.00%) Windows 7
9 3 (12.00%) Network Architecture
9 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
9 3 (12.00%) SNMP

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 2 (8.000%) Spring
1 2 (8.000%) Hibernate
1 2 (8.000%) HTML
1 2 (8.000%) Flash
1 2 (8.000%) .NET
1 2 (8.000%) J2EE
1 2 (8.000%) Apache Flex
2 1 (4.000%) REST
2 1 (4.000%) SOAP
2 1 (4.000%) Web Services
2 1 (4.000%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (16.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (16.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (12.00%) Apache
2 3 (12.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (8.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (8.000%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (4.000%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (8.000%) MS Office
2 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (44.00%) Firewall
2 9 (36.00%) WAN
3 7 (28.00%) DNS
4 5 (20.00%) LAN
4 5 (20.00%) SAN
5 4 (16.00%) OSPF
5 4 (16.00%) EIGRP
5 4 (16.00%) IGRP
5 4 (16.00%) BGP
5 4 (16.00%) VPN
6 3 (12.00%) SNMP
6 3 (12.00%) DHCP
6 3 (12.00%) Ethernet
6 3 (12.00%) PBX
6 3 (12.00%) VoIP
6 3 (12.00%) 3G
7 2 (8.000%) RNC
7 2 (8.000%) 2G
7 2 (8.000%) Wireless
7 2 (8.000%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.000%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.000%) SQL Server
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.000%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Subversion
1 2 (8.000%) JUnit
1 2 (8.000%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (8.000%) Eclipse
1 2 (8.000%) TestNG
1 2 (8.000%) Selenium
2 1 (4.000%) JIRA
2 1 (4.000%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.000%) MyEclipse
2 1 (4.000%) Mercurial
2 1 (4.000%) MSI
General
1 3 (12.00%) Local Government
1 3 (12.00%) Finance
1 3 (12.00%) Banking
2 2 (8.000%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.000%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Architect
1 4 (16.00%) Analyst
1 4 (16.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (8.000%) Embedded C Engineer
2 2 (8.000%) C Software Engineer
2 2 (8.000%) Network Analyst
2 2 (8.000%) Embedded C Software Engineer
2 2 (8.000%) Security Architect
2 2 (8.000%) Java Developer
2 2 (8.000%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 2 (8.000%) Desktop Support
2 2 (8.000%) Software Engineer
2 2 (8.000%) Developer
2 2 (8.000%) Consultant
2 2 (8.000%) Information Architect
2 2 (8.000%) Configuration Engineer
2 2 (8.000%) Information Security Architect
3 1 (4.000%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (4.000%) Messaging Consultant
3 1 (4.000%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (12.00%) IVR
2 2 (8.000%) Client/Server
2 2 (8.000%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (8.000%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 2 (8.000%) SCADA
2 2 (8.000%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.000%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.000%) iPad
3 1 (4.000%) Clustering
3 1 (4.000%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Windows
2 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (20.00%) Windows XP
5 3 (12.00%) Windows 7
6 2 (8.000%) Linux
6 2 (8.000%) Android
6 2 (8.000%) Apple iOS
6 2 (8.000%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (8.000%) Windows Vista
7 1 (4.000%) Windows 8
7 1 (4.000%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) Migration
2 3 (12.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (12.00%) Service Management
2 3 (12.00%) Security Management
2 3 (12.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (8.000%) Information Security
3 2 (8.000%) Software Engineering
3 2 (8.000%) Scrum
3 2 (8.000%) ITIL
3 2 (8.000%) Unit Testing
4 1 (4.000%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (4.000%) Time Management
4 1 (4.000%) Problem Management
4 1 (4.000%) Load Balancing
4 1 (4.000%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.000%) Software Distribution
4 1 (4.000%) Capacity Management
4 1 (4.000%) Software Architecture
4 1 (4.000%) Network Management
4 1 (4.000%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.000%) VB
2 2 (8.000%) C
2 2 (8.000%) Java
2 2 (8.000%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.000%) Perl
2 2 (8.000%) Embedded C
3 1 (4.000%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.000%) C++
3 1 (4.000%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (16.00%) MCSE
2 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) CCNP
3 3 (12.00%) CCNA
4 2 (8.000%) JNCIA
4 2 (8.000%) HND
4 2 (8.000%) CCIE
4 2 (8.000%) Degree
4 2 (8.000%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.000%) BC Cleared
5 1 (4.000%) MCTS
5 1 (4.000%) MCITP
5 1 (4.000%) CNE
5 1 (4.000%) Novell Certification
5 1 (4.000%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.000%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.000%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.000%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (4.000%) vSphere
3 1 (4.000%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.000%) Postfix
3 1 (4.000%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (8.000%) SCCM
2 1 (4.000%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (4.000%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (4.000%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Cisco
2 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.00%) VMware
4 4 (16.00%) Citrix
5 3 (12.00%) HP
5 3 (12.00%) Oracle
6 2 (8.000%) Nortel
6 2 (8.000%) Juniper
6 2 (8.000%) Ericsson
6 2 (8.000%) Adobe
7 1 (4.000%) IronPort
7 1 (4.000%) Hitachi
7 1 (4.000%) NetApp
7 1 (4.000%) Avaya
7 1 (4.000%) EMC
7 1 (4.000%) SAP
7 1 (4.000%) Symantec
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