The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester 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 Chester 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 21 20 19
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -1
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 3 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 2.326% 1.770% 1.460%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 10.53% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £300 - £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £301 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.48% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £14.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.75 £17.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+10.29% -24.44%
All Communications & Networking
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21 19 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 16.28% 16.81% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 9
Average daily rate £275 £450 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.88% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £370 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £530 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Average hourly rate £16.70 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.28% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
TCP/IP
Cheshire

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 (37.50%) SNMP
1 3 (37.50%) SAN
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Information Security
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) Subversion
2 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 2 (25.00%) Local Government
2 2 (25.00%) Security Management
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (25.00%) TELNET
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Adobe
2 2 (25.00%) Embedded C
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) J2EE
2 2 (25.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (25.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (25.00%) C
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
1 2 (25.00%) J2EE
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) Flash
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Flex
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) SNMP
1 3 (37.50%) SAN
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) TELNET
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (12.50%) ADSL
3 1 (12.50%) Broadband
3 1 (12.50%) ISDN
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) SMTP
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) HTTP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Subversion
1 2 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (25.00%) JUnit
1 2 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) TestNG
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) MyEclipse
2 1 (12.50%) Mercurial
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Local Government
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Embedded C Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) C Software Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Information Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Embedded C Software Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Information Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 2 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (25.00%) SCADA
1 2 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Android
1 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Vista
2 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Information Security
1 2 (25.00%) Scrum
1 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (25.00%) Security Management
1 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Network Management
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (12.50%) Change Management
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Embedded C
1 2 (25.00%) C
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Adobe
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Avaya