The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Doncaster 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 Doncaster 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 5 9 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 4 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Doncaster 12.50% 16.67% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% 57.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
Average daily rate £355 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.23% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £314 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.35% +4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-23.80% -16.00%
All Communications & Networking
Doncaster
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
12 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Doncaster 37.50% 29.17% 6.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 0
Average daily rate £378 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.15% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
Average hourly rate £17.75 £24.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.04% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
TCP/IP
South Yorkshire

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Doncaster 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 Doncaster region.

Doncaster 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 Doncaster region.

Doncaster 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 Doncaster 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 7 (87.50%) Cisco
1 7 (87.50%) Network Design
2 6 (75.00%) Network Security
2 6 (75.00%) LAN
2 6 (75.00%) VoIP
2 6 (75.00%) WAN
2 6 (75.00%) SLA
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco UCCX
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco CUCM
3 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (12.50%) Juniper
5 1 (12.50%) CA
5 1 (12.50%) Nokia
5 1 (12.50%) Lotus
5 1 (12.50%) Unicenter
5 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
5 1 (12.50%) Service Management
5 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Electronics
5 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
5 1 (12.50%) Military
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (12.50%) CCSP
5 1 (12.50%) CCNP
5 1 (12.50%) CCNA

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Doncaster 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 Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 5.5
1 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Network Security
1 6 (75.00%) LAN
1 6 (75.00%) VoIP
1 6 (75.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (12.50%) Electronics
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
1 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
1 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Voice Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco Voice Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Voice Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows NT
1 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Network Design
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Information Management
3 1 (12.50%) Communications Security
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CCSP
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) CCSE
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco UCCX
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (12.50%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) CA
2 1 (12.50%) Nokia
2 1 (12.50%) Lotus
2 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) Blue Coat