The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 23 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 Crawley 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 21 - 20
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 4 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 2.778% - 5.645%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.79% - 18.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £314 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.35% +4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-23.80% -16.00%
All Communications & Networking
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
29 17 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 20.14% 6.137% 29.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 5
Average daily rate £390 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £140 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £425 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
TCP/IP
West Sussex

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) XenApp
2 4 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) vSphere
2 4 (66.67%) Mobile Device Management
2 4 (66.67%) IPsec
2 4 (66.67%) SSL
2 4 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 4 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix
2 4 (66.67%) Avaya
2 4 (66.67%) Juniper
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 4 (66.67%) LAN
2 4 (66.67%) MS Exchange
3 2 (33.33%) Wireless
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (33.33%) OSPF
3 2 (33.33%) Sophos

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 4 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 4 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (33.33%) Apache
2 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (33.33%) IIS
2 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (33.33%) Zimbra
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) IPsec
2 4 (66.67%) SSL
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 4 (66.67%) LAN
3 2 (33.33%) Wireless
3 2 (33.33%) OSPF
3 2 (33.33%) BGP
3 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 2 (33.33%) IP Telephony
3 2 (33.33%) ADSL
3 2 (33.33%) Broadband
3 2 (33.33%) ISDN
3 2 (33.33%) WLAN
3 2 (33.33%) SMTP
3 2 (33.33%) HTTP
3 2 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (33.33%) Team Leader
2 2 (33.33%) Network Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Support Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Support Team Leader
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) IT Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) IVR
1 2 (33.33%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 2 (33.33%) UNIX
3 2 (33.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) XenApp
1 4 (66.67%) vSphere
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware ESX
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco IPCC
1 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix
2 4 (66.67%) Avaya
2 4 (66.67%) Juniper
3 2 (33.33%) Sophos
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) CA
3 2 (33.33%) CommVault
3 2 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (33.33%) Nortel
3 2 (33.33%) Verint