East Midlands TCP/IP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Angus Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chichester Chippenham City of London Coalville County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hull Inverness Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romsey Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Tayside Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	59	37
Rank change on same period last year	-22
Matching contract IT job ads	32	53
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.056 %
As % of the category below	15.02 %	20.38 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£272	£220
Average daily rate	£296	£233
% change on same period last year	+27.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£246
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£320
% change on same period last year	+3.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.25	£21.91
Average hourly rate	£18.13	£22.18
% change on same period last year	-18.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£22.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.65
% change on same period last year	-7.01 %
Communications & Networking East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	213	260
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.281 %	0.276 %
Daily rates quoted	47	54
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£282
Average daily rate	£338	£295
% change on same period last year	+14.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.70	£23.44
Average hourly rate	£16.53	£24.35
% change on same period last year	-32.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.36	£25.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
TCP/IP England

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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 East Midlands region.

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

TCP/IP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing TCP/IP within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Leicestershire	-4	11	-	-
Nottinghamshire	-10	9	£296	+27.08 %
Northamptonshire	-7	4	-	-
Derbyshire	+10	2	-	-

TCP/IP England

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 29 (51.79 %) Windows 2 17 (30.36 %) Active Directory 3 14 (25.00 %) WAN 3 14 (25.00 %) LAN 4 13 (23.21 %) Microsoft 4 13 (23.21 %) MS Office 5 12 (21.43 %) DNS 6 11 (19.64 %) MS Exchange 6 11 (19.64 %) C++ 6 11 (19.64 %) Windows 2000 7 10 (17.86 %) Firewall 8 9 (16.07 %) VPN 8 9 (16.07 %) Linux 8 9 (16.07 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 8 (14.29 %) SC Cleared

9 8 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 9 8 (14.29 %) SQL Server 10 7 (12.50 %) Lotus Notes 10 7 (12.50 %) Windows XP 10 7 (12.50 %) Government 10 7 (12.50 %) CheckPoint 10 7 (12.50 %) Lotus 11 6 (10.71 %) Finance 11 6 (10.71 %) DHCP 11 6 (10.71 %) UML 11 6 (10.71 %) Unix 11 6 (10.71 %) Java 11 6 (10.71 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 6 (10.71 %) Subversion 12 5 (8.929 %) Perl

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 5 (8.929 %) STL 2 3 (5.357 %) .NET 3 2 (3.571 %) ADO.NET 3 2 (3.571 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (1.786 %) DCOM 4 1 (1.786 %) J2EE 4 1 (1.786 %) Struts 4 1 (1.786 %) WebServices 4 1 (1.786 %) XML 4 1 (1.786 %) XSD 4 1 (1.786 %) XSLT 4 1 (1.786 %) CORBA 4 1 (1.786 %) DAO 4 1 (1.786 %) JSF	Application Platforms 1 11 (19.64 %) MS Exchange 2 9 (16.07 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 7 (12.50 %) Lotus Notes 4 6 (10.71 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 2 (3.571 %) Lotus Domino 6 1 (1.786 %) CICS 6 1 (1.786 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 13 (23.21 %) MS Office 2 3 (5.357 %) MS Excel 3 2 (3.571 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 4 (7.143 %) BASE24 2 2 (3.571 %) BPCS
Communications & Networking 1 14 (25.00 %) LAN 1 14 (25.00 %) WAN 2 12 (21.43 %) DNS 3 10 (17.86 %) Firewall 4 9 (16.07 %) VPN 5 6 (10.71 %) DHCP 6 5 (8.929 %) WINS 7 4 (7.143 %) SAN 8 2 (3.571 %) FTP 8 2 (3.571 %) Wireless 8 2 (3.571 %) VLAN 9 1 (1.786 %) ISDN 9 1 (1.786 %) VoIP 9 1 (1.786 %) NetScreen	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2 3 (5.357 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (3.571 %) SQL Server 7 3 2 (3.571 %) Informix 4 1 (1.786 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (1.786 %) DB2 4 1 (1.786 %) MySQL 4 1 (1.786 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 6 (10.71 %) Subversion 2 5 (8.929 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (8.929 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 7 (12.50 %) Government 2 6 (10.71 %) Finance 3 4 (7.143 %) Retail 4 3 (5.357 %) Banking 5 2 (3.571 %) Back Office 6 1 (1.786 %) Telecoms 6 1 (1.786 %) Automotive 6 1 (1.786 %) Construction 6 1 (1.786 %) Local Government 6 1 (1.786 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 10 (17.86 %) Developer 1 10 (17.86 %) Analyst 2 6 (10.71 %) Administrator 3 5 (8.929 %) C++ Developer 4 4 (7.143 %) 3rd Line Support 5 3 (5.357 %) Service Analyst 5 3 (5.357 %) 2nd Line Support 5 3 (5.357 %) Support Engineer 5 3 (5.357 %) Software Engineer 5 3 (5.357 %) Support Analyst 5 3 (5.357 %) Service Desk Analyst 5 3 (5.357 %) Java Software Engineer 5 3 (5.357 %) Network Support 5 3 (5.357 %) Support Manager 6 2 (3.571 %) Implementation Manager 6 2 (3.571 %) Technical Services Analyst 6 2 (3.571 %) Infrastructure Manager 6 2 (3.571 %) Helpdesk Engineer 6 2 (3.571 %) UNIX Administrator 6 2 (3.571 %) 1st Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 4 (7.143 %) Tandem 2 2 (3.571 %) EPoS 2 2 (3.571 %) Thin Client 2 2 (3.571 %) AS400 2 2 (3.571 %) Fat Client 3 1 (1.786 %) Blackberry 3 1 (1.786 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 29 (51.79 %) Windows 2 11 (19.64 %) Windows 2000 3 9 (16.07 %) Linux 4 7 (12.50 %) Windows XP 5 6 (10.71 %) Unix 6 5 (8.929 %) Windows Server 2003 7 4 (7.143 %) AIX 7 4 (7.143 %) Windows NT 8 2 (3.571 %) OS/400 9 1 (1.786 %) zOS 9 1 (1.786 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 1 8 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (10.71 %) UML 3 5 (8.929 %) OO 3 5 (8.929 %) Configuration Management 3 5 (8.929 %) OOD 4 4 (7.143 %) RDF 5 3 (5.357 %) Data Migration 5 3 (5.357 %) Service Management 5 3 (5.357 %) Migration 6 2 (3.571 %) Incident Management 6 2 (3.571 %) ITIL 6 2 (3.571 %) ERP 6 2 (3.571 %) ISMS 7 1 (1.786 %) CRM 7 1 (1.786 %) Unit Testing
Programming Languages 1 11 (19.64 %) C++ 2 6 (10.71 %) Java 3 5 (8.929 %) Perl 4 4 (7.143 %) PHP 4 4 (7.143 %) Python 5 3 (5.357 %) C# 6 2 (3.571 %) SQL 6 2 (3.571 %) VB 6 2 (3.571 %) Shell Script 6 2 (3.571 %) Korn 7 1 (1.786 %) XPath 7 1 (1.786 %) REXX 7 1 (1.786 %) VB.NET 7 1 (1.786 %) C 7 1 (1.786 %) COBOL	Qualifications 1 4 (7.143 %) MCSE 1 4 (7.143 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (5.357 %) MCP 3 2 (3.571 %) CCNA 3 2 (3.571 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (1.786 %) MCSA 4 1 (1.786 %) CCNP 4 1 (1.786 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (5.357 %) SLA	System Software 1 17 (30.36 %) Active Directory 2 2 (3.571 %) ISA Server 2 2 (3.571 %) Backup Exec 2 2 (3.571 %) NFS 3 1 (1.786 %) MSMQ
Systems Management 1 2 (3.571 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (3.571 %) OpenView Configuration Management 1 2 (3.571 %) BMC PATROL 1 2 (3.571 %) ARCserve 2 1 (1.786 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 13 (23.21 %) Microsoft 2 7 (12.50 %) Lotus 2 7 (12.50 %) CheckPoint 3 5 (8.929 %) IBM 4 4 (7.143 %) Cisco 4 4 (7.143 %) HP 4 4 (7.143 %) VERITAS 5 3 (5.357 %) Citrix 5 3 (5.357 %) CA 6 2 (3.571 %) Novell 6 2 (3.571 %) Symantec 6 2 (3.571 %) VMware 6 2 (3.571 %) Oracle 6 2 (3.571 %) BMC 7 1 (1.786 %) Juniper 7 1 (1.786 %) Alcatel 7 1 (1.786 %) Ensim 7 1 (1.786 %) Red Hat