The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, 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 22 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 Docklands, 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 28 29 56
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +27
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 3 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 1.744% 1.389% 0.680%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 15.00% 8.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
Average daily rate £350 £425 £391
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +8.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £425 £358
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £425 £424
UK excluding London average daily rate £273 £308 £300
% change year-on-year
-11.38% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +13.04%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.75 £21.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-25.88% -15.00%
All Communications & Networking
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21 20 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 12.21% 9.259% 8.503%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 28
Average daily rate £375 £455 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.58% +7.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £220 £329
10% offered a daily rate of more than £497 £625 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £47.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +106.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
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 Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Docklands, 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, 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 Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Docklands, 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) HP
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
3 3 (42.86%) MS Office
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (42.86%) SAN
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (28.57%) OWASP
4 2 (28.57%) XenApp
4 2 (28.57%) XenServer
4 2 (28.57%) XenDesktop
4 2 (28.57%) ISEB Practitioner
4 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
4 2 (28.57%) Windows 7
4 2 (28.57%) SIEM
4 2 (28.57%) NetScaler
4 2 (28.57%) Software Distribution
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Vista
4 2 (28.57%) Selenium
4 2 (28.57%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 2 (28.57%) SCCM
4 2 (28.57%) SCOM
4 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (28.57%) WinRunner

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (14.29%) GemFire
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Office
2 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) NetScaler
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Ethernet
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) WinRunner
1 2 (28.57%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (28.57%) LoadRunner
1 2 (28.57%) MSI
1 2 (28.57%) InstallShield
1 2 (28.57%) Bugzilla
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Front Office
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Information Security Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Information Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Front Office Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Grid Computing
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
1 1 (14.29%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (28.57%) Windows 7
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Vista
4 2 (28.57%) Windows NT
4 2 (28.57%) Windows 2000
5 1 (14.29%) UNIX
5 1 (14.29%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) OWASP
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Software Distribution
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
2 2 (28.57%) Information Security
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
3 1 (14.29%) Monte Carlo Method
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) C++
1 1 (14.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) ISEB Practitioner
1 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (28.57%) ISEB
1 2 (28.57%) CCA
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix Certification
1 2 (28.57%) MCSE
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) CISA
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) XenApp
1 2 (28.57%) XenServer
1 2 (28.57%) XenDesktop
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
1 2 (28.57%) SCOM
1 2 (28.57%) Tivoli
1 2 (28.57%) MOM
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) HP
2 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
2 2 (28.57%) NetApp
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
2 2 (28.57%) Compaq
2 2 (28.57%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) EMC
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Veritas
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) DataSynapse