The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 20 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 East Sussex 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 24 33 28
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -5
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 7 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 3.070% 1.538% 1.596%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.00% 20.00% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
Average daily rate £210 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.63% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 £304 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.82% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £15.50 £19.25 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.48% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £21.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-27.90% -18.86%
All Communications & Networking
East Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
25 25 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 10.96% 7.692% 7.447%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 1
Average daily rate £365 £370 £243
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% +52.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 2
Average hourly rate £22.25 £21.50 £11.10
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.48% +93.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.70 £16.75 £11.02
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.00 £23.00 £11.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
TCP/IP
South East

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Sussex 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 Sussex region.

East Sussex 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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

East Sussex 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 Sussex region.

East Sussex TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
Brighton +11 6 £210 -
TCP/IP
South East

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 11 (64.71%) Windows 7
3 9 (52.94%) Firewall
4 8 (47.06%) VMware
4 8 (47.06%) SAN
5 7 (41.18%) Finance
6 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (35.29%) LAN
6 6 (35.29%) Cisco
6 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (29.41%) vSphere
7 5 (29.41%) SharePoint 2010
7 5 (29.41%) MCTS
7 5 (29.41%) MCITP
7 5 (29.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (29.41%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
7 5 (29.41%) CCNA
7 5 (29.41%) DNS
7 5 (29.41%) EMC
7 5 (29.41%) COM+
7 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
7 5 (29.41%) IIS
7 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
7 5 (29.41%) WAN
7 5 (29.41%) DHCP

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 (29.41%) COM+
2 2 (11.76%) WebSphere
3 1 (5.882%) .NET
3 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
1 5 (29.41%) IIS
1 5 (29.41%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (23.53%) Lotus Notes
3 2 (11.76%) MS Exchange
4 1 (5.882%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (5.882%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
1 4 (23.53%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) Firewall
2 8 (47.06%) SAN
3 6 (35.29%) LAN
4 5 (29.41%) DNS
4 5 (29.41%) WAN
4 5 (29.41%) DHCP
4 5 (29.41%) NetScreen
5 4 (23.53%) Internet
5 4 (23.53%) ADSL
6 1 (5.882%) VoIP
6 1 (5.882%) HTTP
6 1 (5.882%) VPN
6 1 (5.882%) MPLS
6 1 (5.882%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Publishing
2 2 (11.76%) Local Government
3 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Architect
2 5 (29.41%) IT Support
3 4 (23.53%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) IT Support Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) Support Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Desktop Support
5 1 (5.882%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) IT Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Blackberry
1 3 (17.65%) Clustering
2 1 (5.882%) Fat Client
2 1 (5.882%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 11 (64.71%) Windows 7
3 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (11.76%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) ITIL
1 4 (23.53%) Migration
2 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
2 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.882%) TDD
3 1 (5.882%) Release Management
3 1 (5.882%) Scrum
3 1 (5.882%) Configuration Management
3 1 (5.882%) Service Delivery
3 1 (5.882%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.882%) C#
1 1 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (29.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (29.41%) MCTS
2 5 (29.41%) MCITP
2 5 (29.41%) CCNA
3 1 (5.882%) MCSE
3 1 (5.882%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (29.41%) vSphere
3 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (17.65%) Backup Exec
3 2 (11.76%) WSUS
3 2 (11.76%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) VMware
2 6 (35.29%) Cisco
3 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 5 (29.41%) EMC
4 4 (23.53%) Lotus
5 3 (17.65%) CheckPoint
5 3 (17.65%) Juniper
5 3 (17.65%) NetApp
5 3 (17.65%) HP
5 3 (17.65%) ProCurve
6 2 (11.76%) F5
6 2 (11.76%) Altiris
7 1 (5.882%) Citrix