The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 24 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 Essex 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 32 39 46
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +7
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 15 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 3.731% 1.446% 1.020%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.74% 12.77% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 3
Average daily rate £325 £265 £180
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.64% +47.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £265 £172
10% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £265 £382
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
Average hourly rate £25.00 £13.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+92.30% -43.47%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -20.00%
All Communications & Networking
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
69 47 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 17.16% 11.33% 7.908%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 17 8
Average daily rate £325 £380 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.47% +23.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £146 £174
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 12
Average hourly rate £25.00 £23.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% +34.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.20 £15.10 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £28.70 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
TCP/IP
East of England

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 24 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
Colchester - 4 £258 -
Brentwood - 3 £325 -
Chelmsford - 1 - -
TCP/IP
East of England

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 14 (66.67%) Windows
2 11 (52.38%) HTTP
2 11 (52.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (38.10%) MS Exchange
4 8 (38.10%) Exchange Server 2003
5 7 (33.33%) DHCP
5 7 (33.33%) SharePoint
5 7 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 7 (33.33%) DNS
6 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (28.57%) SAN
6 6 (28.57%) FTP
6 6 (28.57%) MCSE
6 6 (28.57%) IIS
6 6 (28.57%) C
6 6 (28.57%) SQL
6 6 (28.57%) Oracle
7 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
7 5 (23.81%) Linux
7 5 (23.81%) .NET
7 5 (23.81%) WAN
7 5 (23.81%) HP
7 5 (23.81%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (23.81%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (23.81%) Network Load Balancing
7 5 (23.81%) WCF
7 5 (23.81%) Service Delivery

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 (23.81%) .NET
1 5 (23.81%) WCF
2 4 (19.05%) CGI
2 4 (19.05%) ASP.NET
2 4 (19.05%) HTML
3 2 (9.524%) ASP
4 1 (4.762%) Qt
Application Platforms
1 8 (38.10%) MS Exchange
1 8 (38.10%) Exchange Server 2003
2 7 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 6 (28.57%) IIS
4 4 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) MS Office
2 2 (9.524%) MS Excel
2 2 (9.524%) Office 365
3 1 (4.762%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) HTTP
2 7 (33.33%) DHCP
2 7 (33.33%) DNS
3 6 (28.57%) SAN
3 6 (28.57%) FTP
4 5 (23.81%) WAN
4 5 (23.81%) Firewall
4 5 (23.81%) Wireless
5 4 (19.05%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (19.05%) UPnP
5 4 (19.05%) DSL
5 4 (19.05%) 802.11
5 4 (19.05%) TELNET
5 4 (19.05%) Broadband
5 4 (19.05%) 4G
5 4 (19.05%) DLNA
6 2 (9.524%) SSH
6 2 (9.524%) Internet
7 1 (4.762%) BGP
7 1 (4.762%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (19.05%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (19.05%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
1 4 (19.05%) ClearCase
1 4 (19.05%) Trac
General
1 3 (14.29%) Electronics
2 2 (9.524%) Finance
3 1 (4.762%) Automotive
3 1 (4.762%) Law
3 1 (4.762%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Software Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Web Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Web Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Web Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 3 (14.29%) Server Support
3 3 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (9.524%) Network Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) Applications Support Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Server Support Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Server Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) Web Support Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (9.524%) Server Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Clustering
1 4 (19.05%) PACS
2 3 (14.29%) Streaming Media
3 2 (9.524%) iPhone
3 2 (9.524%) iPad
4 1 (4.762%) PKI
4 1 (4.762%) Smartphone
4 1 (4.762%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.762%) Telematics
4 1 (4.762%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) Windows
2 11 (52.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (23.81%) Linux
4 5 (23.81%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (14.29%) Windows XP
6 2 (9.524%) Windows Vista
6 2 (9.524%) Windows 7
7 1 (4.762%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 5 (23.81%) Network Load Balancing
2 5 (23.81%) Service Delivery
3 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (19.05%) Performance Management
4 3 (14.29%) Capacity Management
4 3 (14.29%) ITIL
5 2 (9.524%) Network Planning
5 2 (9.524%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (4.762%) Change Control
6 1 (4.762%) OO
6 1 (4.762%) Incident Management
6 1 (4.762%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) C
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) Embedded C
2 4 (19.05%) VBScript
2 4 (19.05%) VB
2 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.762%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (28.57%) MCSE
2 2 (9.524%) MCP
2 2 (9.524%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (9.524%) CCNP
3 1 (4.762%) MCSA
3 1 (4.762%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.762%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (19.05%) ISA Server
2 4 (19.05%) Forefront TMG
3 2 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.762%) DFS Replication
4 1 (4.762%) vSphere
4 1 (4.762%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Backup Exec
2 2 (9.524%) WSUS
3 1 (4.762%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) Oracle
3 5 (23.81%) HP
4 4 (19.05%) VMware
4 4 (19.05%) Compaq
4 4 (19.05%) Dell
4 4 (19.05%) Cisco
4 4 (19.05%) ADIC
4 4 (19.05%) CommVault
4 4 (19.05%) Veritas
5 2 (9.524%) McAfee
5 2 (9.524%) Juniper
6 1 (4.762%) Citrix
6 1 (4.762%) Clearswift
6 1 (4.762%) LANDesk
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