City of London TCP/IP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Angus Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chichester Chippenham City of London Coalville County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hull Inverness Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romsey Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Tayside Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	103	60
Rank change on same period last year	-43
Matching contract IT job ads	126	176
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.166 %	0.187 %
As % of the category below	13.22 %	22.19 %
Daily rates quoted	58	68
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£384
Average daily rate	£378	£406
% change on same period last year	-6.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£405	£428
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£320
% change on same period last year	+3.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.15	£18.75
Average hourly rate	£25.73	£20.47
% change on same period last year	+25.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.30	£22.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.65
% change on same period last year	-7.01 %
Communications & Networking City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	953	793
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.257 %	0.841 %
Daily rates quoted	441	310
Average minimum daily rate	£377	£401
Average daily rate	£399	£422
% change on same period last year	-5.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£422	£444
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	70	67
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.44	£20.76
Average hourly rate	£28.15	£21.83
% change on same period last year	+28.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.85	£22.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
TCP/IP London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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 City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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 City of London region.

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 4 July 2008.

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 City of London region.

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The 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 4 July 2008.

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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.

1 157 (55.09 %) Windows 2 99 (34.74 %) DNS 3 84 (29.47 %) Active Directory 4 77 (27.02 %) Firewall 5 70 (24.56 %) Banking 6 66 (23.16 %) Unix 7 62 (21.75 %) Finance 8 59 (20.70 %) Windows 2000 8 59 (20.70 %) Microsoft 9 52 (18.25 %) Cisco 9 52 (18.25 %) MS Office 10 50 (17.54 %) HP 11 47 (16.49 %) DHCP 12 46 (16.14 %) Investment Banking 13 44 (15.44 %) MS Exchange

14 43 (15.09 %) Linux 15 42 (14.74 %) WAN 16 39 (13.68 %) LAN 17 38 (13.33 %) Microsoft Certification 18 37 (12.98 %) Citrix 19 36 (12.63 %) SQL 20 34 (11.93 %) SAN 20 34 (11.93 %) VMware 21 33 (11.58 %) VPN 21 33 (11.58 %) MCSE 22 32 (11.23 %) WINS 22 32 (11.23 %) Internet 23 29 (10.18 %) Windows XP 23 29 (10.18 %) Exchange Server 2003 24 28 (9.825 %) SQL Server

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 15 (5.263 %) .NET 2 11 (3.860 %) XML 3 10 (3.509 %) HTML 3 10 (3.509 %) J2EE 4 7 (2.456 %) Middleware 4 7 (2.456 %) WebSphere 5 5 (1.754 %) ASP 5 5 (1.754 %) COM+ 6 4 (1.404 %) MFC 6 4 (1.404 %) WebServices 6 4 (1.404 %) FIX Protocol 7 3 (1.053 %) ASP.NET 8 2 (0.702 %) ATL 8 2 (0.702 %) JSP 8 2 (0.702 %) POSIX 8 2 (0.702 %) STL 9 1 (0.351 %) ODBC 9 1 (0.351 %) WinForms 9 1 (0.351 %) SOAP 9 1 (0.351 %) DCOM	Application Platforms 1 44 (15.44 %) MS Exchange 2 29 (10.18 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 21 (7.368 %) IIS 4 20 (7.018 %) Apache 5 15 (5.263 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 14 (4.912 %) Lotus Notes 7 10 (3.509 %) SharePoint 8 9 (3.158 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 7 (2.456 %) TIBCO EMS 10 6 (2.105 %) Tomcat 11 4 (1.404 %) Rendezvous 12 3 (1.053 %) Exchange Server 5.5 12 3 (1.053 %) WebSphere Application Server 13 2 (0.702 %) JBoss 13 2 (0.702 %) Oracle Application Server 14 1 (0.351 %) SharePoint Portal Server 14 1 (0.351 %) SAP Web AS 14 1 (0.351 %) iPlanet 14 1 (0.351 %) WebLogic 14 1 (0.351 %) Office Communications Server
Applications 1 52 (18.25 %) MS Office 2 24 (8.421 %) MS Excel 3 10 (3.509 %) MS Project 4 6 (2.105 %) MS Visio 5 3 (1.053 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.351 %) Photoshop 6 1 (0.351 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 7 (2.456 %) BusinessWorks 2 4 (1.404 %) RMDS 3 3 (1.053 %) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking 1 99 (34.74 %) DNS 2 77 (27.02 %) Firewall 3 47 (16.49 %) DHCP 4 42 (14.74 %) WAN 5 39 (13.68 %) LAN 6 34 (11.93 %) SAN 7 33 (11.58 %) VPN 8 32 (11.23 %) WINS 8 32 (11.23 %) Internet 9 19 (6.667 %) BGP 10 18 (6.316 %) OSPF 10 18 (6.316 %) Ethernet 11 17 (5.965 %) SMTP 12 16 (5.614 %) SNMP 13 15 (5.263 %) SSL 14 14 (4.912 %) EIGRP 15 11 (3.860 %) Intranet 16 9 (3.158 %) Extranet 16 9 (3.158 %) VoIP 16 9 (3.158 %) IPsec	Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (9.825 %) SQL Server 2 9 (3.158 %) SQL Server 2000 3 6 (2.105 %) MySQL 4 4 (1.404 %) PostgreSQL 4 4 (1.404 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (0.702 %) GIS 5 2 (0.702 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (0.702 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 2 (0.702 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (0.351 %) DTS 6 1 (0.351 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (0.351 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 7 (2.456 %) LoadRunner 2 5 (1.754 %) NUnit 3 4 (1.404 %) Oracle Forms 4 3 (1.053 %) Visual Studio 5 1 (0.351 %) ClearCase	General 1 70 (24.56 %) Banking 2 62 (21.75 %) Finance 3 46 (16.14 %) Investment Banking 4 18 (6.316 %) Law 5 16 (5.614 %) Insurance 6 15 (5.263 %) Legal 7 14 (4.912 %) Financial Institution 8 13 (4.561 %) Front Office 9 10 (3.509 %) Telecoms 10 8 (2.807 %) Government 11 5 (1.754 %) Health 12 4 (1.404 %) Publishing 13 3 (1.053 %) Auditing 14 2 (0.702 %) Retail 14 2 (0.702 %) Pensions 14 2 (0.702 %) Back Office 15 1 (0.351 %) Advertising 15 1 (0.351 %) Retail Banking 15 1 (0.351 %) FMCG
Job Titles 1 59 (20.70 %) Analyst 2 38 (13.33 %) Administrator 3 26 (9.123 %) Support Analyst 4 23 (8.070 %) Systems Administrator 4 23 (8.070 %) Network Engineer 5 19 (6.667 %) Support Engineer 6 18 (6.316 %) Desktop Support 7 15 (5.263 %) DBA 7 15 (5.263 %) Security Engineer 8 13 (4.561 %) Developer 9 10 (3.509 %) Systems Engineer 9 10 (3.509 %) Sybase DBA 10 9 (3.158 %) Server Engineer 10 9 (3.158 %) Desktop Analyst 10 9 (3.158 %) Senior Security Engineer 10 9 (3.158 %) 2nd Line Support 10 9 (3.158 %) Desktop Support Analyst 11 8 (2.807 %) Security Analyst 11 8 (2.807 %) Helpdesk Support 11 8 (2.807 %) 3rd Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 20 (7.018 %) Clustering 2 13 (4.561 %) Blackberry 3 11 (3.860 %) Replication 3 11 (3.860 %) PKI 4 7 (2.456 %) Equities 5 6 (2.105 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 6 (2.105 %) Derivative 5 6 (2.105 %) Fixed Income 6 4 (1.404 %) Multithreading 7 3 (1.053 %) Japanese Language 7 3 (1.053 %) Management Information System 7 3 (1.053 %) IVR 7 3 (1.053 %) Asset Management 8 2 (0.702 %) Client/Server 8 2 (0.702 %) Mainframe 8 2 (0.702 %) W3C 8 2 (0.702 %) Firmware 9 1 (0.351 %) Thin Client 9 1 (0.351 %) Cryptography 9 1 (0.351 %) SecurID
Operating Systems 1 157 (55.09 %) Windows 2 66 (23.16 %) Unix 3 59 (20.70 %) Windows 2000 4 43 (15.09 %) Linux 5 29 (10.18 %) Windows XP 6 27 (9.474 %) Solaris 7 23 (8.070 %) Windows NT 8 20 (7.018 %) Windows Server 2003 9 5 (1.754 %) Debian 9 5 (1.754 %) HPUX 10 3 (1.053 %) Fedora 11 2 (0.702 %) Windows Mobile 11 2 (0.702 %) VMS 11 2 (0.702 %) Mac OS X 11 2 (0.702 %) AIX 11 2 (0.702 %) FreeBSD	Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (7.018 %) ITIL 2 12 (4.211 %) Load Balancing 3 11 (3.860 %) Information Security 3 11 (3.860 %) Project Management 4 10 (3.509 %) Disaster Recovery 4 10 (3.509 %) Migration 5 9 (3.158 %) Workflow 5 9 (3.158 %) PRINCE2 6 8 (2.807 %) Security Cleared 7 7 (2.456 %) Data Security 7 7 (2.456 %) Risk Management 8 6 (2.105 %) Service Delivery 8 6 (2.105 %) Scrum 8 6 (2.105 %) Risk Assessment 8 6 (2.105 %) Systems Analysis 8 6 (2.105 %) Problem Management 8 6 (2.105 %) Project Planning 9 5 (1.754 %) Investment Management 9 5 (1.754 %) SC Cleared 9 5 (1.754 %) Network Design
Programming Languages 1 36 (12.63 %) SQL 2 21 (7.368 %) Perl 3 17 (5.965 %) Java 4 13 (4.561 %) Shell Script 5 10 (3.509 %) C++ 6 9 (3.158 %) C 7 6 (2.105 %) PHP 7 6 (2.105 %) Python 8 5 (1.754 %) VBScript 8 5 (1.754 %) C# 9 3 (1.053 %) Transact-SQL 9 3 (1.053 %) AWK 10 2 (0.702 %) Ruby 10 2 (0.702 %) Korn 10 2 (0.702 %) PHP5 10 2 (0.702 %) JCL 11 1 (0.351 %) VC++ 11 1 (0.351 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 38 (13.33 %) Microsoft Certification 2 33 (11.58 %) MCSE 3 22 (7.719 %) Cisco Certification 4 18 (6.316 %) MCP 5 17 (5.965 %) CISSP 6 11 (3.860 %) CCNA 6 11 (3.860 %) CISA 6 11 (3.860 %) CISM 7 10 (3.509 %) Degree 8 8 (2.807 %) CCNP 9 5 (1.754 %) CCIE 9 5 (1.754 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 10 2 (0.702 %) JNCIA 10 2 (0.702 %) CCSE 11 1 (0.351 %) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP) 11 1 (0.351 %) CNA 11 1 (0.351 %) CNE 11 1 (0.351 %) Novell Certification 11 1 (0.351 %) RHCE 11 1 (0.351 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 12 (4.211 %) SLA 2 7 (2.456 %) BS7799 3 3 (1.053 %) ISO9001 4 2 (0.702 %) ISO17799 4 2 (0.702 %) QA 5 1 (0.351 %) DICOM 5 1 (0.351 %) JSP 440 5 1 (0.351 %) TickIT	System Software 1 84 (29.47 %) Active Directory 2 19 (6.667 %) VMware ESX 3 14 (4.912 %) NetBackup 4 11 (3.860 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 6 (2.105 %) NFS 6 4 (1.404 %) Terminal Services 6 4 (1.404 %) ISA Server 7 3 (1.053 %) Backup Exec 7 3 (1.053 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 2 (0.702 %) Squid 8 2 (0.702 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 8 2 (0.702 %) Oracle RAC 9 1 (0.351 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 9 (3.158 %) OpenView 2 7 (2.456 %) CiscoWorks 2 7 (2.456 %) MOM 3 5 (1.754 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 5 (1.754 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 5 (1.754 %) DameWare 4 4 (1.404 %) CA SiteMinder 4 4 (1.404 %) ARCserve 5 3 (1.053 %) Legato 5 3 (1.053 %) RepliStor 6 2 (0.702 %) Tivoli NetView 6 2 (0.702 %) Nagios 7 1 (0.351 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 59 (20.70 %) Microsoft 2 52 (18.25 %) Cisco 3 50 (17.54 %) HP 4 37 (12.98 %) Citrix 5 34 (11.93 %) VMware 6 27 (9.474 %) CheckPoint 7 20 (7.018 %) VERITAS 8 19 (6.667 %) Oracle 9 15 (5.263 %) Bloomberg 10 14 (4.912 %) Nokia 10 14 (4.912 %) Lotus 11 13 (4.561 %) Sybase 11 13 (4.561 %) Reuters 12 11 (3.860 %) IBM 12 11 (3.860 %) EMC 13 10 (3.509 %) TIBCO 14 9 (3.158 %) Dell 15 8 (2.807 %) Sun 15 8 (2.807 %) Red Hat 15 8 (2.807 %) Altiris