England TCP/IP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the England 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	69
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	1411	2094
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.907 %	2.065 %
As % of the category below	14.86 %	16.13 %
Daily rates quoted	401	543
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£345
Average daily rate	£343	£359
% change on same period last year	-4.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£292
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	221	365
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.30	£24.45
Average hourly rate	£22.71	£26.08
% change on same period last year	-12.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.12	£27.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.14	£27.30
% change on same period last year	-18.87 %
Communications & Networking England
Matching contract IT job ads	9495	12982
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	12.83 %	12.80 %
Daily rates quoted	2801	3479
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£355
Average daily rate	£363	£372
% change on same period last year	-2.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£389
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£341
% change on same period last year	+1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	1179	1684
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.02	£26.35
Average hourly rate	£25.61	£28.36
% change on same period last year	-9.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.20	£30.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.70	£28.54
% change on same period last year	-9.93 %
TCP/IP UK

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 England 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 England region.

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the England region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 England region.

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the England region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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 England region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
London	-8	606	£361	-10.48 %
South East	+10	343	£293	-9.18 %
East of England	+3	112	£290	+10.87 %
South West	+10	95	£307	+9.22 %
Yorkshire	0	74	£366	+25.17 %
West Midlands	+24	69	£320	+34.39 %
North West	-15	63	£344	+24.53 %
East Midlands	-23	36	£295	+28.90 %
North East	+2	5	£220	+22.22 %
Midlands	-15	2	-	-

TCP/IP UK

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 1462 (51.35 %) Windows 2 720 (25.29 %) UNIX 3 671 (23.57 %) Active Directory 4 668 (23.46 %) DNS 5 649 (22.80 %) Windows Server 2003 6 613 (21.53 %) Microsoft 7 583 (20.48 %) Firewall 8 576 (20.23 %) Cisco 9 539 (18.93 %) Linux 10 522 (18.34 %) LAN 11 504 (17.70 %) WAN 12 467 (16.40 %) MS Office 13 449 (15.77 %) Windows XP 14 408 (14.33 %) Solaris 15 393 (13.80 %) DHCP

16 352 (12.36 %) Perl 17 345 (12.12 %) MS Exchange 18 341 (11.98 %) Windows 2000 19 329 (11.56 %) HP 20 319 (11.20 %) Finance 21 306 (10.75 %) Citrix 22 305 (10.71 %) SQL 23 283 (9.940 %) Oracle 24 281 (9.870 %) Cisco Certification 25 273 (9.589 %) SAN 26 258 (9.062 %) VPN 27 249 (8.746 %) SQL Server 28 232 (8.149 %) ITIL 28 232 (8.149 %) MS Excel 28 232 (8.149 %) Internet

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 1 122 (4.285 %) .NET 1 122 (4.285 %) XML 2 117 (4.110 %) Middleware 3 102 (3.583 %) HTML 4 79 (2.775 %) WebSphere 5 57 (2.002 %) J2EE 6 52 (1.826 %) WebServices 7 41 (1.440 %) ASP.NET 8 33 (1.159 %) CSS 9 31 (1.089 %) SOAP 10 30 (1.054 %) AJAX 11 29 (1.019 %) .NET Framework 11 29 (1.019 %) COM+ 12 28 (0.983 %) ASP 13 26 (0.913 %) XSLT 14 24 (0.843 %) JSP 15 20 (0.702 %) MFC 15 20 (0.702 %) ODBC 16 19 (0.667 %) XSL 16 19 (0.667 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 345 (12.12 %) MS Exchange 2 188 (6.603 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 173 (6.077 %) IIS 4 155 (5.444 %) Apache 5 114 (4.004 %) Lotus Notes 6 86 (3.021 %) Tomcat 7 48 (1.686 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 47 (1.651 %) SharePoint 9 38 (1.335 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 34 (1.194 %) WebSphere Application Server 11 29 (1.019 %) Exchange Server 5.5 12 23 (0.808 %) BizTalk Server 13 17 (0.597 %) Rendezvous 14 16 (0.562 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 15 15 (0.527 %) SAP Web AS 16 13 (0.457 %) CMS 16 13 (0.457 %) SharePoint Server 2007 17 12 (0.421 %) MQSeries 18 10 (0.351 %) JBoss 18 10 (0.351 %) iPlanet
Applications 1 467 (16.40 %) MS Office 2 232 (8.149 %) MS Excel 3 48 (1.686 %) MS Project 4 29 (1.019 %) MS Visio 5 18 (0.632 %) MS PowerPoint 6 7 (0.246 %) Photoshop 7 6 (0.211 %) Acrobat 8 5 (0.176 %) Shockwave 8 5 (0.176 %) Spreadsheet 8 5 (0.176 %) MATLAB 9 3 (0.105 %) AutoCAD 10 1 (0.035 %) Simulink 10 1 (0.035 %) S-PLUS 10 1 (0.035 %) QuarkXPress	Business Applications 1 21 (0.738 %) BASE24 2 18 (0.632 %) RMDS 3 7 (0.246 %) Summit 3 7 (0.246 %) BusinessWorks 4 6 (0.211 %) SoftGrid 5 3 (0.105 %) WebTrends 5 3 (0.105 %) TIBCO iProcess 6 2 (0.070 %) assyst 6 2 (0.070 %) Oracle Applications 6 2 (0.070 %) Oracle EBS 7 1 (0.035 %) Movex 7 1 (0.035 %) Decalog 7 1 (0.035 %) Line 50 7 1 (0.035 %) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking 1 668 (23.46 %) DNS 2 583 (20.48 %) Firewall 3 522 (18.34 %) LAN 4 504 (17.70 %) WAN 5 393 (13.80 %) DHCP 6 273 (9.589 %) SAN 7 258 (9.062 %) VPN 8 232 (8.149 %) Internet 9 165 (5.796 %) Ethernet 10 149 (5.234 %) HTTP 11 131 (4.601 %) BGP 12 127 (4.461 %) OSPF 13 123 (4.320 %) VoIP 14 112 (3.934 %) Cisco PIX 15 111 (3.899 %) MPLS 16 104 (3.653 %) SMTP 17 102 (3.583 %) FTP 18 100 (3.512 %) SSL 19 96 (3.372 %) SNMP 20 95 (3.337 %) SNA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 249 (8.746 %) SQL Server 2 68 (2.388 %) MySQL 3 41 (1.440 %) SQL Server 2005 4 39 (1.370 %) SQL Server 2000 5 34 (1.194 %) Oracle 10g 6 32 (1.124 %) RDBMS 7 28 (0.983 %) Cognos Impromptu 7 28 (0.983 %) InterBase 8 27 (0.948 %) Oracle 9i 9 16 (0.562 %) MS Access 10 15 (0.527 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 15 (0.527 %) BusinessObjects 11 12 (0.421 %) DTS 12 11 (0.386 %) DB2 12 11 (0.386 %) GIS 13 10 (0.351 %) Informix 13 10 (0.351 %) Oracle Reports 14 8 (0.281 %) Crystal Reports 14 8 (0.281 %) TOAD 15 7 (0.246 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 58 (2.037 %) ClearCase 2 39 (1.370 %) ClearQuest 3 30 (1.054 %) Visual Studio 4 27 (0.948 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 25 (0.878 %) TestDirector 5 25 (0.878 %) Subversion 6 23 (0.808 %) LoadRunner 7 21 (0.738 %) JIRA 8 17 (0.597 %) StarTeam 9 16 (0.562 %) Eclipse 10 11 (0.386 %) Flash 11 10 (0.351 %) NUnit 12 9 (0.316 %) Ant 13 7 (0.246 %) Oracle Forms 13 7 (0.246 %) PVCS 14 6 (0.211 %) PowerBuilder 14 6 (0.211 %) Selenium 14 6 (0.211 %) FitNesse 15 5 (0.176 %) Rational Rose 16 4 (0.140 %) FrontPage	General 1 319 (11.20 %) Finance 2 200 (7.025 %) Telecoms 3 196 (6.884 %) Banking 4 128 (4.496 %) Government 5 109 (3.829 %) Investment Banking 6 47 (1.651 %) Legal 7 46 (1.616 %) Law 8 45 (1.581 %) Financial Institution 9 40 (1.405 %) Retail 10 31 (1.089 %) Front Office 11 30 (1.054 %) Health 12 26 (0.913 %) Back Office 13 24 (0.843 %) Education 14 22 (0.773 %) Insurance 14 22 (0.773 %) Games 15 17 (0.597 %) Pharmaceutical 15 17 (0.597 %) Electronics 16 16 (0.562 %) Auditing 17 15 (0.527 %) Military 18 14 (0.492 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 555 (19.49 %) Analyst 2 330 (11.59 %) Administrator 3 269 (9.449 %) Support Analyst 4 209 (7.341 %) Support Engineer 5 205 (7.201 %) Network Engineer 6 189 (6.639 %) Systems Administrator 7 147 (5.163 %) 2nd Line Support 8 144 (5.058 %) Desktop Support 9 130 (4.566 %) Developer 10 118 (4.145 %) Software Engineer 11 116 (4.074 %) Network Support 12 100 (3.512 %) Consultant 13 93 (3.267 %) Helpdesk Analyst 14 81 (2.845 %) UNIX Administrator 15 79 (2.775 %) 3rd Line Support 16 78 (2.740 %) Helpdesk Support 17 68 (2.388 %) Systems Engineer 17 68 (2.388 %) Architect 18 65 (2.283 %) 1st Line Support 19 63 (2.213 %) Network Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 127 (4.461 %) Clustering 2 119 (4.180 %) HACMP 3 82 (2.880 %) Blackberry 4 46 (1.616 %) Replication 5 39 (1.370 %) PKI 6 32 (1.124 %) Client/Server 6 32 (1.124 %) NHS 7 27 (0.948 %) Device Driver 8 24 (0.843 %) Multithreading 9 23 (0.808 %) Tandem 10 20 (0.702 %) W3C 10 20 (0.702 %) PDA 11 19 (0.667 %) Equities 12 17 (0.597 %) CLARiiON 12 17 (0.597 %) Fixed Income 13 16 (0.562 %) French Language 14 15 (0.527 %) Video Conferencing 14 15 (0.527 %) AS400 15 14 (0.492 %) Mainframe 16 12 (0.421 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 1462 (51.35 %) Windows 2 720 (25.29 %) UNIX 3 649 (22.80 %) Windows Server 2003 4 539 (18.93 %) Linux 5 449 (15.77 %) Windows XP 6 408 (14.33 %) Solaris 7 341 (11.98 %) Windows 2000 8 202 (7.095 %) AIX 9 193 (6.779 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 156 (5.479 %) HPUX 11 133 (4.672 %) Red Hat Linux 12 106 (3.723 %) Windows NT 13 76 (2.669 %) Windows Vista 14 30 (1.054 %) Debian 15 22 (0.773 %) VxWorks 16 19 (0.667 %) Windows Mobile 16 19 (0.667 %) Windows Server 2008 17 18 (0.632 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 18 16 (0.562 %) Embedded Linux 18 16 (0.562 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 232 (8.149 %) ITIL 2 191 (6.709 %) Security Cleared 3 96 (3.372 %) SC Cleared 4 89 (3.126 %) Configuration Management 5 79 (2.775 %) Network Design 6 74 (2.599 %) OO 7 72 (2.529 %) Load Balancing 8 68 (2.388 %) UML 8 68 (2.388 %) Project Management 9 67 (2.353 %) Migration 10 58 (2.037 %) Disaster Recovery 11 44 (1.545 %) PRINCE2 12 43 (1.510 %) Service Management 13 41 (1.440 %) Performance Management 14 37 (1.300 %) Change Management 14 37 (1.300 %) E-Commerce 15 33 (1.159 %) Security Management 16 32 (1.124 %) Service Delivery 16 32 (1.124 %) Software Engineering 17 31 (1.089 %) Information Security
Programming Languages 1 352 (12.36 %) Perl 2 305 (10.71 %) SQL 3 192 (6.744 %) C 4 186 (6.533 %) C++ 5 176 (6.182 %) Shell Script 6 142 (4.988 %) Java 7 102 (3.583 %) Korn 8 91 (3.196 %) C# 9 76 (2.669 %) VBScript 10 56 (1.967 %) VB 11 42 (1.475 %) JavaScript 11 42 (1.475 %) Python 12 41 (1.440 %) Embedded C 12 41 (1.440 %) PHP 13 23 (0.808 %) Embedded C++ 13 23 (0.808 %) AWK 14 21 (0.738 %) VC++ 15 15 (0.527 %) VB.NET 16 14 (0.492 %) VB6 17 12 (0.421 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 281 (9.870 %) Cisco Certification 2 213 (7.482 %) Microsoft Certification 3 159 (5.585 %) MCSE 4 158 (5.550 %) CCNA 5 143 (5.023 %) CCNP 6 93 (3.267 %) Degree 7 90 (3.161 %) MCP 8 56 (1.967 %) CISSP 9 52 (1.826 %) CCIE 10 35 (1.229 %) CCDP 11 34 (1.194 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 12 27 (0.948 %) CCDA 13 24 (0.843 %) MCSA 14 23 (0.808 %) IBM Certification 15 22 (0.773 %) CISM 15 22 (0.773 %) ISEB 16 21 (0.738 %) CISA 17 16 (0.562 %) Citrix Certification 18 15 (0.527 %) CCA 19 12 (0.421 %) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 97 (3.407 %) SLA 2 41 (1.440 %) QA 3 18 (0.632 %) ISO9001 4 14 (0.492 %) BS7799 4 14 (0.492 %) ISO27001 5 11 (0.386 %) TickIT 6 6 (0.211 %) ISO8583 6 6 (0.211 %) GCP 6 6 (0.211 %) PCI DSS 7 4 (0.140 %) ISO17799 7 4 (0.140 %) WCAG 7 4 (0.140 %) WAI 7 4 (0.140 %) GLP 7 4 (0.140 %) GxP 8 3 (0.105 %) ISO9000 8 3 (0.105 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 8 3 (0.105 %) DICOM 8 3 (0.105 %) JTAG 9 1 (0.035 %) HL7	System Software 1 671 (23.57 %) Active Directory 2 108 (3.793 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 3 97 (3.407 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 88 (3.091 %) VMware ESX 5 67 (2.353 %) NFS 6 56 (1.967 %) NetBackup 7 50 (1.756 %) Backup Exec 7 50 (1.756 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 41 (1.440 %) ISA Server 9 35 (1.229 %) Terminal Server 10 24 (0.843 %) Terminal Services 11 21 (0.738 %) MetaFrame 12 14 (0.492 %) Samba 13 12 (0.421 %) Oracle RAC 14 7 (0.246 %) VMware Workstation 15 6 (0.211 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 16 4 (0.140 %) Novell eDirectory 16 4 (0.140 %) ClearTrust 17 3 (0.105 %) MailMarshal 17 3 (0.105 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 158 (5.550 %) Tivoli 2 144 (5.058 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 84 (2.950 %) OpenView 4 43 (1.510 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 40 (1.405 %) CiscoWorks 6 30 (1.054 %) HP Data Protector 7 25 (0.878 %) OpenView Configuration Management 8 24 (0.843 %) MOM 9 20 (0.702 %) Norton AntiVirus 10 18 (0.632 %) CONTROL-M 11 16 (0.562 %) Legato 12 15 (0.527 %) ZENworks 12 15 (0.527 %) Nagios 12 15 (0.527 %) CA SiteMinder 13 11 (0.386 %) ARCserve 13 11 (0.386 %) MAILsweeper 13 11 (0.386 %) WSUS 14 9 (0.316 %) BMC Performance Manager 14 9 (0.316 %) SCCM 15 8 (0.281 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 613 (21.53 %) Microsoft 2 576 (20.23 %) Cisco 3 329 (11.56 %) HP 4 306 (10.75 %) Citrix 5 283 (9.940 %) Oracle 6 223 (7.833 %) VERITAS 7 216 (7.587 %) VMware 8 182 (6.393 %) IBM 9 166 (5.831 %) CheckPoint 10 132 (4.636 %) Red Hat 11 116 (4.074 %) Lotus 12 115 (4.039 %) Sun 13 100 (3.512 %) Nokia 14 79 (2.775 %) Dell 15 60 (2.107 %) NetApp 16 58 (2.037 %) EMC 16 58 (2.037 %) Sybase 16 58 (2.037 %) Bloomberg 17 52 (1.826 %) Altiris 18 50 (1.756 %) Symantec