Dorset TCP/IP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the Dorset 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cowes Crawley Cwmbran Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	8
Rank change on same period last year	-28
Matching contract IT job ads	9	49
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.050 %
As % of the category below	17.65 %	38.89 %
Daily rates quoted	5	7
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£307
Average daily rate	£269	£314
% change on same period last year	-14.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£277	£321
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£291
% change on same period last year	+0.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.00	£30.34
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+6.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.00	£35.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.11	£26.86
% change on same period last year	-13.96 %
Communications & Networking Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	51	126
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.072 %	0.127 %
Daily rates quoted	15	45
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£316
Average daily rate	£290	£330
% change on same period last year	-11.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£305	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.81	£30.84
Average hourly rate	£28.25	£33.61
% change on same period last year	-15.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.69	£36.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.43	£28.95
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
TCP/IP South West

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 Dorset 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 Dorset region.

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 Dorset region.

TCP/IP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Poole	-12	6	£270	-14.28 %

TCP/IP South West

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 13 (92.86 %) Windows 2 8 (57.14 %) Microsoft 2 8 (57.14 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (50.00 %) LAN 3 7 (50.00 %) WAN 3 7 (50.00 %) Firewall 3 7 (50.00 %) Clustering 4 6 (42.86 %) MS Exchange 5 5 (35.71 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 5 (35.71 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 4 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 4 (28.57 %) Wi-Fi 6 4 (28.57 %) Migration 6 4 (28.57 %) Active Directory 6 4 (28.57 %) Microsoft Certification

6 4 (28.57 %) VPN 6 4 (28.57 %) MCSE 7 3 (21.43 %) MCSA 7 3 (21.43 %) SharePoint 7 3 (21.43 %) DHCP 7 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 7 3 (21.43 %) COM+ 7 3 (21.43 %) SOAP 7 3 (21.43 %) WebServices 7 3 (21.43 %) ITIL 7 3 (21.43 %) MCP 7 3 (21.43 %) DNS 7 3 (21.43 %) SSL 7 3 (21.43 %) IBM 7 3 (21.43 %) SAN

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 3 (21.43 %) COM+ 1 3 (21.43 %) SOAP 1 3 (21.43 %) WebServices 1 3 (21.43 %) Windows SharePoint Services 2 2 (14.29 %) .NET Framework 2 2 (14.29 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 6 (42.86 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (35.71 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 3 (21.43 %) SharePoint 4 3 (21.43 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 2 (14.29 %) SharePoint Portal Server 5 2 (14.29 %) IIS 5 2 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2000
Communications & Networking 1 7 (50.00 %) LAN 1 7 (50.00 %) WAN 1 7 (50.00 %) Firewall 2 4 (28.57 %) Wi-Fi 2 4 (28.57 %) VPN 3 3 (21.43 %) DNS 3 3 (21.43 %) SSL 3 3 (21.43 %) SAN 3 3 (21.43 %) DHCP 4 1 (7.143 %) Ethernet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 1 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2000 1 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 3 (21.43 %) FrontPage	General 1 2 (14.29 %) Finance 2 1 (7.143 %) Government
Job Titles 1 6 (42.86 %) Analyst 2 5 (35.71 %) Systems Engineer 3 3 (21.43 %) Software Engineer 4 2 (14.29 %) Support Analyst 4 2 (14.29 %) Messaging Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Support Engineer 5 1 (7.143 %) Support Specialist 5 1 (7.143 %) Design Engineer 5 1 (7.143 %) Senior Support Engineer 5 1 (7.143 %) Messaging Support Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Exchange Engineer 5 1 (7.143 %) Developer 5 1 (7.143 %) Senior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 7 (50.00 %) Clustering 2 3 (21.43 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 13 (92.86 %) Windows 2 8 (57.14 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (35.71 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (28.57 %) Migration 2 3 (21.43 %) Release Management 2 3 (21.43 %) ITIL 3 1 (7.143 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (7.143 %) Data Analysis
Programming Languages 1 2 (14.29 %) SQL 2 1 (7.143 %) VBScript 2 1 (7.143 %) VB	Qualifications 1 4 (28.57 %) MCSE 1 4 (28.57 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (21.43 %) MCTS 2 3 (21.43 %) MCSA 2 3 (21.43 %) MCP
System Software 1 4 (28.57 %) Active Directory 2 3 (21.43 %) MailMarshal	Systems Management 1 3 (21.43 %) Tivoli 1 3 (21.43 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 3 (21.43 %) MAILsweeper 1 3 (21.43 %) ServiceCenter
Vendors 1 8 (57.14 %) Microsoft 2 3 (21.43 %) Peregrine 2 3 (21.43 %) IBM