Docklands, London TCP/IP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the Docklands, London region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cramlington Crawley Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	45
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	12	58
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.058 %
As % of the category below	14.12 %	31.87 %
Daily rates quoted	2	22
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£442
Average daily rate	£476	£457
% change on same period last year	+4.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£503	£472
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£305
% change on same period last year	-1.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.00
Average hourly rate	-	£17.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.50	£26.92
% change on same period last year	-20.12 %
Communications & Networking Docklands, London
Matching contract IT job ads	85	182
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.112 %	0.181 %
Daily rates quoted	36	72
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£398
Average daily rate	£374	£420
% change on same period last year	-11.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£389	£443
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£343
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	£22.67
Average hourly rate	£24.00	£24.17
% change on same period last year	-0.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.00	£25.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.72	£28.70
% change on same period last year	-10.38 %
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 Docklands, 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 Docklands, 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 Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Docklands, London region.

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 23 (67.65 %) Perl 2 21 (61.76 %) Oracle 3 20 (58.82 %) HTML 4 16 (47.06 %) SQL 4 16 (47.06 %) XML 5 15 (44.12 %) Windows 5 15 (44.12 %) Apache 5 15 (44.12 %) Oracle 9i 5 15 (44.12 %) LAN 5 15 (44.12 %) WAN 6 14 (41.18 %) Solaris 6 14 (41.18 %) J2EE 6 14 (41.18 %) Shell Script 7 13 (38.24 %) Oracle 10g 7 13 (38.24 %) Tomcat

8 12 (35.29 %) ODBC 8 12 (35.29 %) IIS 8 12 (35.29 %) JavaScript 8 12 (35.29 %) CSS 8 12 (35.29 %) W3C 8 12 (35.29 %) Altova 9 11 (32.35 %) XSL 9 11 (32.35 %) C++ 9 11 (32.35 %) UML 9 11 (32.35 %) RUP 10 10 (29.41 %) Swing 10 10 (29.41 %) UNIX 10 10 (29.41 %) OOA/OOD 10 10 (29.41 %) CGI 10 10 (29.41 %) Eclipse

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 20 (58.82 %) HTML 2 16 (47.06 %) XML 3 14 (41.18 %) J2EE 4 12 (35.29 %) ODBC 4 12 (35.29 %) CSS 5 11 (32.35 %) XSL 6 10 (29.41 %) Swing 6 10 (29.41 %) CGI 6 10 (29.41 %) JDBC 6 10 (29.41 %) EJB 7 9 (26.47 %) JSP 8 7 (20.59 %) Struts 8 7 (20.59 %) WebServices 8 7 (20.59 %) CORBA 9 6 (17.65 %) SOAP 10 5 (14.71 %) WebSphere 11 2 (5.882 %) ActiveX 11 2 (5.882 %) ASP 11 2 (5.882 %) DCOM 12 1 (2.941 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 15 (44.12 %) Apache 2 13 (38.24 %) Tomcat 3 12 (35.29 %) IIS 4 5 (14.71 %) Rendezvous 5 2 (5.882 %) Documentum 6 1 (2.941 %) WebSphere MQ 6 1 (2.941 %) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications 1 8 (23.53 %) MS Project 2 2 (5.882 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 4 (11.76 %) RMDS
Communications & Networking 1 15 (44.12 %) LAN 1 15 (44.12 %) WAN 2 7 (20.59 %) IIOP 3 5 (14.71 %) Internet 3 5 (14.71 %) DHCP 4 4 (11.76 %) SNMP 5 3 (8.824 %) HTTP 6 2 (5.882 %) LDAP 6 2 (5.882 %) IPX 6 2 (5.882 %) SSL 6 2 (5.882 %) OSPF 7 1 (2.941 %) H.323 7 1 (2.941 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (44.12 %) Oracle 9i 2 13 (38.24 %) Oracle 10g 3 9 (26.47 %) TOAD 4 7 (20.59 %) MS Access 5 5 (14.71 %) SQL Server 6 4 (11.76 %) MySQL 7 3 (8.824 %) Oracle Reports 8 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server 2000 8 1 (2.941 %) DTS 8 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server 2005 8 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 10 (29.41 %) Eclipse 2 7 (20.59 %) PowerBuilder 2 7 (20.59 %) ClearQuest 3 5 (14.71 %) ClearCase 3 5 (14.71 %) JIRA 4 3 (8.824 %) RequisitePro 4 3 (8.824 %) Rational Rose 5 2 (5.882 %) Visual Studio	General 1 4 (11.76 %) Finance 2 3 (8.824 %) Banking 3 2 (5.882 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (2.941 %) Front Office 4 1 (2.941 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 10 (29.41 %) Project Manager 1 10 (29.41 %) Administrator 2 5 (14.71 %) DBA 3 4 (11.76 %) Internet Administrator 3 4 (11.76 %) Oracle DBA 4 2 (5.882 %) Oracle Project Manager 4 2 (5.882 %) PL/SQL Developer 4 2 (5.882 %) Cisco Engineer 4 2 (5.882 %) Support Engineer 4 2 (5.882 %) Oracle Developer 4 2 (5.882 %) VB Developer 4 2 (5.882 %) SQL Developer 4 2 (5.882 %) Design Engineer 4 2 (5.882 %) Developer 5 1 (2.941 %) Consultant 5 1 (2.941 %) Systems Administrator 5 1 (2.941 %) Infrastructure Engineer 5 1 (2.941 %) SQL DBA 5 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server DBA 5 1 (2.941 %) Test Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 12 (35.29 %) W3C 2 5 (14.71 %) Clustering 3 1 (2.941 %) Cryptography 3 1 (2.941 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 15 (44.12 %) Windows 2 14 (41.18 %) Solaris 3 10 (29.41 %) UNIX 4 5 (14.71 %) Linux 4 5 (14.71 %) Windows XP 5 1 (2.941 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (2.941 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (32.35 %) UML 1 11 (32.35 %) RUP 2 10 (29.41 %) OOA/OOD 3 5 (14.71 %) OO 3 5 (14.71 %) ITIL 4 4 (11.76 %) Unified Process 5 3 (8.824 %) Project Management 5 3 (8.824 %) Risk Analysis 6 2 (5.882 %) OOD 7 1 (2.941 %) Change Management 7 1 (2.941 %) Asset Management 7 1 (2.941 %) EAI 7 1 (2.941 %) Incident Management 7 1 (2.941 %) Stress Testing
Programming Languages 1 23 (67.65 %) Perl 2 16 (47.06 %) SQL 3 14 (41.18 %) Shell Script 4 12 (35.29 %) JavaScript 5 11 (32.35 %) C++ 6 10 (29.41 %) Java 6 10 (29.41 %) C 6 10 (29.41 %) VB 7 9 (26.47 %) VBA 7 9 (26.47 %) PL/SQL 8 8 (23.53 %) VB6 9 1 (2.941 %) C# 9 1 (2.941 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 2 (5.882 %) Cisco Certification 1 2 (5.882 %) CCIE 1 2 (5.882 %) CCNP 1 2 (5.882 %) CCDP 2 1 (2.941 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (26.47 %) ISO9001 2 4 (11.76 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (5.882 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.941 %) NetBackup
Vendors 1 21 (61.76 %) Oracle 2 12 (35.29 %) Altova 3 10 (29.41 %) Sybase 4 9 (26.47 %) Macromedia 5 8 (23.53 %) Cisco 6 6 (17.65 %) Remedy 7 5 (14.71 %) TIBCO 7 5 (14.71 %) Reuters 7 5 (14.71 %) Bloomberg 7 5 (14.71 %) IBM 7 5 (14.71 %) Microsoft 7 5 (14.71 %) VERITAS 8 4 (11.76 %) Telerate 9 1 (2.941 %) Intel 9 1 (2.941 %) Sun