The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 17 June 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 East of England 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 82 63 88
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +25
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 41 84 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.828% 2.796% 1.586%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.43% 14.07% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 26 18
Average daily rate £263 £325 £296
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.23% +9.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £95 £208 £174
10% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £375 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £310 £299
% change year-on-year
-11.29% +3.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 9
Average hourly rate £20.00 £25.00 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £42.00 £35.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £17.75 £22.75
% change year-on-year
+7.04% -21.97%
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
393 597 385
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.52% 19.87% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 199 108
Average daily rate £320 £325 £299
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.54% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 67 78
Average hourly rate £25.00 £29.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.25% +7.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £12.00 £11.04
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £50.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

East of England TCP/IP Hourly Rate Histogram

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 East of England region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Essex -1 17 £325 +20.37% 8
Cambridgeshire +6 13 £95 -67.24% 13
Hertfordshire -4 8 £288 -17.85% 12
Bedfordshire +4 3 - - 2
Norfolk - - - - 1
Suffolk - - - - 1
East Anglia - - - -
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 58 (74.36%) Windows
2 44 (56.41%) Microsoft
3 40 (51.28%) DNS
4 36 (46.15%) Active Directory
5 35 (44.87%) DHCP
6 25 (32.05%) Windows Server 2008
7 24 (30.77%) MS Exchange
7 24 (30.77%) Linux
8 18 (23.08%) Windows XP
8 18 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
9 17 (21.79%) MS Office
9 17 (21.79%) Windows 7
9 17 (21.79%) Exchange Server 2003
10 16 (20.51%) VMware
10 16 (20.51%) SQL
10 16 (20.51%) HTTP
11 15 (19.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (17.95%) SAN
12 14 (17.95%) WAN
12 14 (17.95%) SQL Server
13 13 (16.67%) IIS
13 13 (16.67%) MCSE
14 12 (15.38%) Citrix
14 12 (15.38%) ITIL
14 12 (15.38%) MS Excel
14 12 (15.38%) HP
14 12 (15.38%) Cisco
15 11 (14.10%) LAN
15 11 (14.10%) UNIX
15 11 (14.10%) Oracle

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 6 (7.692%) .NET
2 5 (6.410%) ASP.NET
2 5 (6.410%) Flash
2 5 (6.410%) WCF
3 4 (5.128%) CGI
3 4 (5.128%) Web Services
3 4 (5.128%) HTML
4 3 (3.846%) HTML5
4 3 (3.846%) Middleware
4 3 (3.846%) Silverlight
5 2 (2.564%) ASP
6 1 (1.282%) Qt
6 1 (1.282%) Memcached
6 1 (1.282%) Gearman
Application Platforms
1 24 (30.77%) MS Exchange
2 17 (21.79%) Exchange Server 2003
3 13 (16.67%) IIS
4 11 (14.10%) Exchange Server 2010
5 8 (10.26%) Apache
5 8 (10.26%) SharePoint
6 7 (8.974%) Exchange Server 2007
7 6 (7.692%) Tomcat
8 4 (5.128%) Amazon AWS
9 1 (1.282%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 17 (21.79%) MS Office
2 12 (15.38%) MS Excel
3 2 (2.564%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.564%) Office 365
3 2 (2.564%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 40 (51.28%) DNS
2 35 (44.87%) DHCP
3 16 (20.51%) HTTP
4 14 (17.95%) SAN
4 14 (17.95%) WAN
5 11 (14.10%) LAN
5 11 (14.10%) Firewall
6 9 (11.54%) Wireless
7 8 (10.26%) FTP
8 7 (8.974%) VPN
8 7 (8.974%) Broadband
9 6 (7.692%) BIG-IP
10 5 (6.410%) VLAN
11 4 (5.128%) UPnP
11 4 (5.128%) TELNET
11 4 (5.128%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (5.128%) 802.11
11 4 (5.128%) DSL
11 4 (5.128%) VoIP
11 4 (5.128%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.95%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.974%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (7.692%) SQL Server 2000
3 6 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (2.564%) MySQL
5 1 (1.282%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (6.410%) ClearCase
2 4 (5.128%) JIRA
2 4 (5.128%) Trac
3 2 (2.564%) Subversion
4 1 (1.282%) Redmine
4 1 (1.282%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.282%) ClearQuest
General
1 5 (6.410%) Retail
2 4 (5.128%) Finance
3 3 (3.846%) Electronics
4 2 (2.564%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.564%) Legal
5 1 (1.282%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.282%) Publishing
5 1 (1.282%) Back Office
5 1 (1.282%) Automotive
5 1 (1.282%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (17.95%) Analyst
1 14 (17.95%) Systems Administrator
2 13 (16.67%) Administrator
3 9 (11.54%) Support Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) Consultant
5 7 (8.974%) Service Analyst
6 6 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (7.692%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 6 (7.692%) Linux Administrator
7 5 (6.410%) Service Desk Analyst
8 4 (5.128%) Developer
8 4 (5.128%) Network Engineer
8 4 (5.128%) Software Developer
8 4 (5.128%) IT Support
9 3 (3.846%) Web Engineer
9 3 (3.846%) Web Support Engineer
9 3 (3.846%) Web Analyst
9 3 (3.846%) Architect
9 3 (3.846%) Server Support
9 3 (3.846%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.10%) Clustering
2 7 (8.974%) PACS
3 6 (7.692%) Streaming Media
4 4 (5.128%) Fat Client
4 4 (5.128%) Thin Client
4 4 (5.128%) iPhone
5 2 (2.564%) iPad
5 2 (2.564%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.282%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.282%) PKI
6 1 (1.282%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.282%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.282%) CMDB
6 1 (1.282%) Firmware
6 1 (1.282%) Telematics
6 1 (1.282%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 58 (74.36%) Windows
2 25 (32.05%) Windows Server 2008
3 24 (30.77%) Linux
4 18 (23.08%) Windows XP
4 18 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
5 17 (21.79%) Windows 7
6 11 (14.10%) UNIX
7 5 (6.410%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (5.128%) Windows 2000 Server
9 2 (2.564%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (2.564%) Windows Vista
9 2 (2.564%) Debian
10 1 (1.282%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.282%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (15.38%) ITIL
2 11 (14.10%) Configuration Management
3 8 (10.26%) Service Delivery
3 8 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (7.692%) Performance Management
4 6 (7.692%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (6.410%) Change Control
5 5 (6.410%) Load Balancing
5 5 (6.410%) Network Load Balancing
6 4 (5.128%) Release Management
6 4 (5.128%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (5.128%) E-Commerce
6 4 (5.128%) Capacity Management
6 4 (5.128%) Build Automation
7 3 (3.846%) Benchmarking
7 3 (3.846%) Migration
7 3 (3.846%) Test Automation
7 3 (3.846%) Network Planning
8 2 (2.564%) Software Deployment
8 2 (2.564%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.51%) SQL
2 9 (11.54%) Perl
3 8 (10.26%) Shell Script
3 8 (10.26%) Java
4 7 (8.974%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.692%) C
5 6 (7.692%) VBScript
5 6 (7.692%) VB
6 4 (5.128%) C++
6 4 (5.128%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.128%) Python
6 4 (5.128%) Embedded C
7 2 (2.564%) Bash shell
8 1 (1.282%) Korn
8 1 (1.282%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (19.23%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (16.67%) MCSE
3 8 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (7.692%) CCNP
5 3 (3.846%) CCNA
5 3 (3.846%) Citrix Certification
5 3 (3.846%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.846%) CCEE
6 2 (2.564%) MCP
7 1 (1.282%) MCDST
7 1 (1.282%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 9 (11.54%) XenApp
3 8 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (8.974%) ISA Server
4 7 (8.974%) Forefront TMG
5 6 (7.692%) vSphere
5 6 (7.692%) Hyper-V
6 5 (6.410%) XenDesktop
7 4 (5.128%) XenServer
8 3 (3.846%) IAG
9 2 (2.564%) Terminal Services
10 1 (1.282%) VMware ESX
10 1 (1.282%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (1.282%) Postfix
10 1 (1.282%) Varnish
10 1 (1.282%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (1.282%) Cygwin
10 1 (1.282%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (1.282%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 7 (8.974%) Backup Exec
2 5 (6.410%) SCOM
2 5 (6.410%) Puppet
3 2 (2.564%) WSUS
3 2 (2.564%) Nagios
3 2 (2.564%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.282%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 44 (56.41%) Microsoft
2 16 (20.51%) VMware
3 12 (15.38%) HP
3 12 (15.38%) Cisco
3 12 (15.38%) Citrix
4 11 (14.10%) Veritas
4 11 (14.10%) Oracle
5 7 (8.974%) Compaq
5 7 (8.974%) Dell
5 7 (8.974%) ADIC
5 7 (8.974%) CommVault
5 7 (8.974%) AppSense
6 6 (7.692%) JBoss
7 5 (6.410%) Adobe
7 5 (6.410%) Red Hat
8 4 (5.128%) Wyse
9 3 (3.846%) Akamai
9 3 (3.846%) NetApp
9 3 (3.846%) Juniper
10 2 (2.564%) McAfee
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