The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 19 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 Gloucestershire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 25 44 45
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +1
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 5 8 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 2.083% 1.587% 1.333%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.51% 9.195% 8.451%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
Average daily rate £130 £360 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-63.88% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £301 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.48% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £20.25 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.75 £17.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+10.29% -24.44%
All Communications & Networking
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
37 87 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 15.42% 17.26% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 53 27
Average daily rate £450 £413 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% +17.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £360 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
Average hourly rate £21.25 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.00 £20.00 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.60 £20.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
TCP/IP
South West

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 19 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
Cirencester - 3 £130 -
Gloucester +14 1 £300 -7.69% 2
Tewkesbury - - - -
Cheltenham - - - - 4
TCP/IP
South West

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 13 (86.67%) Windows
1 13 (86.67%) VMware
2 10 (66.67%) DNS
2 10 (66.67%) DHCP
3 9 (60.00%) UNIX
3 9 (60.00%) SAN
3 9 (60.00%) Solaris
3 9 (60.00%) Linux
4 8 (53.33%) Cisco
4 8 (53.33%) Red Hat
4 8 (53.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (46.67%) Windows Azure
5 7 (46.67%) PaaS
5 7 (46.67%) IaaS
5 7 (46.67%) Oracle Application Server
5 7 (46.67%) Load Balancing
5 7 (46.67%) Oracle RAC
5 7 (46.67%) Oracle 11g
5 7 (46.67%) GlassFish
5 7 (46.67%) Middleware
5 7 (46.67%) MPLS
5 7 (46.67%) Firewall
5 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
5 7 (46.67%) Oracle 10g
5 7 (46.67%) Sun
5 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
5 7 (46.67%) WebLogic
5 7 (46.67%) Oracle
6 6 (40.00%) SQL Server

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 (46.67%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 7 (46.67%) Windows Azure
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle Application Server
1 7 (46.67%) GlassFish
1 7 (46.67%) WebLogic
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (6.667%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) DNS
1 10 (66.67%) DHCP
2 9 (60.00%) SAN
3 7 (46.67%) MPLS
3 7 (46.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle 11g
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle 10g
2 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Architect
1 7 (46.67%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Support
3 2 (13.33%) UNIX Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) PaaS
1 7 (46.67%) IaaS
2 5 (33.33%) Blackberry
3 3 (20.00%) Clustering
4 2 (13.33%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) UNIX
2 9 (60.00%) Solaris
2 9 (60.00%) Linux
3 7 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (33.33%) Windows 7
5 3 (20.00%) Apple iOS
5 3 (20.00%) Mac OS X
5 3 (20.00%) Windows XP
6 2 (13.33%) HPUX
6 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (6.667%) Ubuntu
7 1 (6.667%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Load Balancing
2 4 (26.67%) Scrum
3 2 (13.33%) Service Management
4 1 (6.667%) Business Continuity
4 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) C
1 2 (13.33%) Perl
1 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.667%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (46.67%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
3 6 (40.00%) vSphere
4 2 (13.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) VMware
2 8 (53.33%) Cisco
2 8 (53.33%) Red Hat
3 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (46.67%) Sun
3 7 (46.67%) Oracle
4 5 (33.33%) Citrix
5 2 (13.33%) AppSense
6 1 (6.667%) HP
Gloucester, South West
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