Glasgow TCP/IP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the Glasgow 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford 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 Hayes Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire 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 Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torfaen 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 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	60
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	10	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	8.929 %	7.759 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£315
Average daily rate	£345	£325
% change on same period last year	+6.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£310
% change on same period last year	+1.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	-
Average hourly rate	£45.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.03	£25.94
% change on same period last year	-11.20 %
Communications & Networking Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	112	116
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.149 %	0.117 %
Daily rates quoted	31	26
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£307
Average daily rate	£326	£318
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.29	£18.53
Average hourly rate	£38.75	£19.63
% change on same period last year	+97.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.21	£20.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
TCP/IP Scotland

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 Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

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 Glasgow region.

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 8 (50.00 %) Windows 2 7 (43.75 %) .NET 3 6 (37.50 %) Ethernet 4 5 (31.25 %) HTTP 4 5 (31.25 %) C# 5 4 (25.00 %) WinForms 5 4 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 5 4 (25.00 %) DNS 5 4 (25.00 %) Music 5 4 (25.00 %) UPnP 6 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft 6 3 (18.75 %) SAN 6 3 (18.75 %) UNIX 6 3 (18.75 %) Linux 6 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server

6 3 (18.75 %) Disaster Recovery 6 3 (18.75 %) Red Hat 7 2 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 7 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 7 2 (12.50 %) Shell Script 7 2 (12.50 %) Solaris 7 2 (12.50 %) XML 7 2 (12.50 %) Windows NT 7 2 (12.50 %) VERITAS 7 2 (12.50 %) DHCP 7 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 7 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory 7 2 (12.50 %) Cisco 7 2 (12.50 %) MCSE 7 2 (12.50 %) LDAP

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 7 (43.75 %) .NET 2 4 (25.00 %) WinForms 3 2 (12.50 %) XML 4 1 (6.250 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 1 (6.250 %) IIS 1 1 (6.250 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 6 (37.50 %) Ethernet 2 5 (31.25 %) HTTP 3 4 (25.00 %) DNS 3 4 (25.00 %) UPnP 4 3 (18.75 %) SAN 5 2 (12.50 %) LDAP 5 2 (12.50 %) DHCP 6 1 (6.250 %) Cisco PIX 6 1 (6.250 %) LAN 6 1 (6.250 %) WAN 6 1 (6.250 %) SNMP 6 1 (6.250 %) Firewall 6 1 (6.250 %) Wireless 6 1 (6.250 %) IGMP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 4 (25.00 %) Music 2 1 (6.250 %) Music Industry 2 1 (6.250 %) Health
Job Titles 1 5 (31.25 %) Developer 1 5 (31.25 %) Analyst 2 4 (25.00 %) .NET Developer 2 4 (25.00 %) C# Developer 2 4 (25.00 %) WinForms Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) Applications Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) Senior Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 3 2 (12.50 %) Senior C# Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) Senior .NET Developer 3 2 (12.50 %) Systems Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Applications Support 4 1 (6.250 %) 2nd Line Support 4 1 (6.250 %) Administrator 4 1 (6.250 %) Products Support Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Systems Administrator 4 1 (6.250 %) Systems Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Server Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Product Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) Clustering 2 1 (6.250 %) NHS 2 1 (6.250 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 8 (50.00 %) Windows 2 4 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 3 3 (18.75 %) UNIX 3 3 (18.75 %) Linux 4 2 (12.50 %) Solaris 4 2 (12.50 %) Windows NT 4 2 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (6.250 %) Windows Mobile 5 1 (6.250 %) Windows XP 5 1 (6.250 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (12.50 %) Change Management 3 1 (6.250 %) ITIL 3 1 (6.250 %) Workflow 3 1 (6.250 %) Problem Management 3 1 (6.250 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 5 (31.25 %) C# 2 2 (12.50 %) Shell Script 3 1 (6.250 %) Korn 3 1 (6.250 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (12.50 %) MCSE 1 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 2 (12.50 %) NFS 1 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory 2 1 (6.250 %) ISA Server 2 1 (6.250 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 1 (6.250 %) MOM
Vendors 1 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft 1 3 (18.75 %) Red Hat 2 2 (12.50 %) VERITAS 2 2 (12.50 %) Cisco 3 1 (6.250 %) IBM 3 1 (6.250 %) Sun 3 1 (6.250 %) HP 3 1 (6.250 %) Lotus 3 1 (6.250 %) CheckPoint