TCP/IP Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 20 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 City of London 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 116 103 112
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +9
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 85 128 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.345% 1.639% 1.406%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.23% 12.67% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 90 81
Average daily rate £400 £425 £418
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +1.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £221 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £525 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 £304 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.82% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 18
Average hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £20.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +8.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.10 £20.30 £13.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.90 £24.00 £36.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £21.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-27.90% -18.86%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 831 1010 969
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 13.15% 12.93% 10.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 685 634
Average daily rate £390 £413 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.45% +5.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £275 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 42 69
Average hourly rate £54.00 £22.00 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+145.45% +6.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £17.75 £13.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.25 £41.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
TCP/IP
London

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London TCP/IP Hourly Rate Histogram

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 112 (64.00%) Windows
2 75 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 70 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 44 (25.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 41 (23.43%) Banking
6 40 (22.86%) VMware
6 40 (22.86%) Linux
7 38 (21.71%) MS Exchange
8 37 (21.14%) DNS
9 35 (20.00%) Finance
10 34 (19.43%) Windows Server 2003
10 34 (19.43%) Citrix
11 33 (18.86%) Windows XP
12 32 (18.29%) ITIL
13 31 (17.71%) Exchange Server 2010
14 29 (16.57%) VMware Infrastructure
15 27 (15.43%) Exchange Server 2003
15 27 (15.43%) HP
16 26 (14.86%) SSL
17 25 (14.29%) UNIX
17 25 (14.29%) Blackberry
17 25 (14.29%) Migration
18 23 (13.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
18 23 (13.14%) Project Management
18 23 (13.14%) MS Office
18 23 (13.14%) SMTP
19 22 (12.57%) DHCP
19 22 (12.57%) Firewall
19 22 (12.57%) Investment Banking
20 21 (12.00%) Lotus

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 12 (6.857%) .NET
2 9 (5.143%) HTML
3 7 (4.000%) Web Services
4 6 (3.429%) XML
4 6 (3.429%) Middleware
4 6 (3.429%) SOAP
5 5 (2.857%) Ajax
5 5 (2.857%) ASP
6 4 (2.286%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.714%) REST
7 3 (1.714%) CSS
8 2 (1.143%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.143%) COM
8 2 (1.143%) EJB
8 2 (1.143%) OLE
8 2 (1.143%) LAMP
8 2 (1.143%) Flash
8 2 (1.143%) XHTML
8 2 (1.143%) CSS3
8 2 (1.143%) WebSockets
Application Platforms
1 38 (21.71%) MS Exchange
2 31 (17.71%) Exchange Server 2010
3 27 (15.43%) Exchange Server 2003
4 23 (13.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 20 (11.43%) Lotus Notes
6 12 (6.857%) Lotus Domino
7 11 (6.286%) Apache
8 10 (5.714%) Exchange Server 2007
9 7 (4.000%) Office Communications Server
10 5 (2.857%) MQSeries
11 4 (2.286%) IIS
11 4 (2.286%) Confluence
12 3 (1.714%) WebSphere Message Broker
12 3 (1.714%) Tomcat
12 3 (1.714%) SharePoint
12 3 (1.714%) WebSphere MQ
13 1 (0.571%) WebLogic Portal
13 1 (0.571%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.571%) CICS
13 1 (0.571%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 23 (13.14%) MS Office
2 14 (8.000%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.143%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.571%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.571%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (0.571%) Office 365
4 1 (0.571%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.143%) RMDS
1 2 (1.143%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.571%) Summit
2 1 (0.571%) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking
1 37 (21.14%) DNS
2 26 (14.86%) SSL
3 23 (13.14%) SMTP
4 22 (12.57%) DHCP
4 22 (12.57%) Firewall
5 19 (10.86%) SAN
6 18 (10.29%) VPN
6 18 (10.29%) LDAP
6 18 (10.29%) LAN
6 18 (10.29%) WAN
7 17 (9.714%) Internet
8 16 (9.143%) POP3
9 14 (8.000%) HTTP
10 10 (5.714%) VoIP
11 8 (4.571%) OSPF
12 7 (4.000%) FTP
12 7 (4.000%) IPsec
13 6 (3.429%) VLAN
13 6 (3.429%) HTTPS
14 5 (2.857%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.143%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.000%) MySQL
3 2 (1.143%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (1.143%) Big Data
4 1 (0.571%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (0.571%) SSDT
4 1 (0.571%) DB2
4 1 (0.571%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (0.571%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 6 (3.429%) Subversion
2 5 (2.857%) JIRA
3 3 (1.714%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.714%) Git (software)
4 2 (1.143%) Bugzilla
4 2 (1.143%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.571%) Selenium
5 1 (0.571%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.571%) CppUnit
5 1 (0.571%) NUnit
5 1 (0.571%) CruiseControl
5 1 (0.571%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (0.571%) InstallShield
5 1 (0.571%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.571%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.571%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.571%) JUnit
General
1 41 (23.43%) Banking
2 35 (20.00%) Finance
3 22 (12.57%) Investment Banking
4 9 (5.143%) Legal
5 6 (3.429%) Law
5 6 (3.429%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.714%) Retail
7 2 (1.143%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 46 (26.29%) Analyst
2 19 (10.86%) Desktop Support
3 18 (10.29%) Support Analyst
4 16 (9.143%) Support Engineer
5 15 (8.571%) Administrator
6 13 (7.429%) Systems Administrator
7 11 (6.286%) Test Analyst
7 11 (6.286%) 2nd Line Support
8 10 (5.714%) Consultant
9 8 (4.571%) Developer
9 8 (4.571%) Architect
9 8 (4.571%) Desktop Support Analyst
9 8 (4.571%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 8 (4.571%) Desktop Engineer
9 8 (4.571%) Desktop Analyst
10 7 (4.000%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (4.000%) FPGA Engineer
10 7 (4.000%) IT Support
10 7 (4.000%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.000%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.29%) Blackberry
2 16 (9.143%) Computer Science
3 8 (4.571%) Fixed Income
4 7 (4.000%) VHDL
4 7 (4.000%) Verilog
4 7 (4.000%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 7 (4.000%) ASIC
5 6 (3.429%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.429%) PKI
6 5 (2.857%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.857%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.857%) Mathematics
6 5 (2.857%) Open Source
6 5 (2.857%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (2.286%) Hedge funds
7 4 (2.286%) Credit Derivative
7 4 (2.286%) Derivative
8 3 (1.714%) Clustering
8 3 (1.714%) DataPower
9 2 (1.143%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 112 (64.00%) Windows
2 44 (25.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 40 (22.86%) Linux
4 34 (19.43%) Windows Server 2003
5 33 (18.86%) Windows XP
6 25 (14.29%) UNIX
7 18 (10.29%) Windows 7
8 15 (8.571%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (5.714%) Solaris
10 7 (4.000%) CentOS
11 6 (3.429%) Windows Vista
12 4 (2.286%) Windows 2000 Server
12 4 (2.286%) AIX
13 3 (1.714%) Windows 2000
13 3 (1.714%) Gentoo
14 2 (1.143%) Apple iOS
14 2 (1.143%) Android
14 2 (1.143%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.571%) zOS
15 1 (0.571%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (18.29%) ITIL
2 25 (14.29%) Migration
3 23 (13.14%) Project Management
4 12 (6.857%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (5.714%) OO
5 10 (5.714%) Business Continuity
5 10 (5.714%) Incident Management
5 10 (5.714%) Multithreading
6 8 (4.571%) Configuration Management
7 7 (4.000%) Risk Management
8 6 (3.429%) Information Security
8 6 (3.429%) Regression Testing
8 6 (3.429%) E-Commerce
8 6 (3.429%) Service Management
8 6 (3.429%) Data Protection
9 5 (2.857%) Performance Testing
9 5 (2.857%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (2.857%) Time Management
9 5 (2.857%) Service Delivery
9 5 (2.857%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (11.43%) PowerShell
2 19 (10.86%) SQL
3 18 (10.29%) Perl
3 18 (10.29%) C
3 18 (10.29%) Java
4 11 (6.286%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.143%) PHP
5 9 (5.143%) Python
6 7 (4.000%) Bash shell
7 6 (3.429%) C++
7 6 (3.429%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.286%) C#
9 3 (1.714%) VBScript
9 3 (1.714%) VB
9 3 (1.714%) ActionScript
9 3 (1.714%) Korn
9 3 (1.714%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (1.143%) Lua
10 2 (1.143%) Ruby
10 2 (1.143%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (10.86%) Degree
2 18 (10.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (5.143%) MCP
4 8 (4.571%) MCSE
5 7 (4.000%) RHCE
5 7 (4.000%) ISEB
6 6 (3.429%) CISSP
6 6 (3.429%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.429%) MCSA
7 5 (2.857%) MCITP
8 4 (2.286%) MCDST
8 4 (2.286%) MCTS
8 4 (2.286%) CCNA
9 3 (1.714%) CCNP
9 3 (1.714%) Security Cleared
10 2 (1.143%) PMP
10 2 (1.143%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.143%) CISA
10 2 (1.143%) SCSA
10 2 (1.143%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.571%) ISO 9001
2 6 (3.429%) QA
3 3 (1.714%) ISO/IEC 17799
3 3 (1.714%) SLA
4 2 (1.143%) COBIT
System Software
1 70 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 29 (16.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (7.429%) Hyper-V
4 12 (6.857%) XenApp
5 9 (5.143%) vSphere
5 9 (5.143%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (4.571%) VMware ESX
7 7 (4.000%) XenDesktop
8 6 (3.429%) NFS
9 4 (2.286%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 1 (0.571%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.571%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.571%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.571%) RACF
10 1 (0.571%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.571%) Veritas File System
10 1 (0.571%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.571%) XenServer
10 1 (0.571%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 13 (7.429%) SCOM
2 12 (6.857%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 9 (5.143%) SCCM
4 8 (4.571%) Tivoli
4 8 (4.571%) Norton AntiVirus
5 7 (4.000%) MAILsweeper
6 5 (2.857%) OpenView
6 5 (2.857%) HP SIM
7 4 (2.286%) Puppet
7 4 (2.286%) Nagios
8 3 (1.714%) Backup Exec
9 2 (1.143%) DameWare
9 2 (1.143%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 2 (1.143%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 2 (1.143%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (1.143%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 2 (1.143%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.571%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.571%) MIMEsweeper
10 1 (0.571%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 75 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 40 (22.86%) VMware
3 34 (19.43%) Citrix
4 27 (15.43%) HP
5 21 (12.00%) Lotus
6 20 (11.43%) Cisco
7 18 (10.29%) Red Hat
8 14 (8.000%) Symantec
9 10 (5.714%) Oracle
10 9 (5.143%) Dell
10 9 (5.143%) McAfee
10 9 (5.143%) Juniper
11 8 (4.571%) Reuters
11 8 (4.571%) Bloomberg
12 7 (4.000%) Altera
13 6 (3.429%) EMC
13 6 (3.429%) Sun
14 5 (2.857%) F5
14 5 (2.857%) ArcSight
15 4 (2.286%) Blue Coat
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