The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 17 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 Hampshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 66 38 56
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +18
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 38 62 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 2.455% 3.868% 2.811%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.30% 19.81% 19.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 9
Average daily rate £265 £275 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.63% -3.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £249 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £405 £364
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 £308 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.82% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 25
Average hourly rate £21.25 £36.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.78% +92.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £31.75 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £40.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £21.50 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-27.90% -16.50%
All Communications & Networking
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
309 313 269
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 19.96% 19.53% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 128 83
Average daily rate £339 £360 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.90% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £222 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 55 73
Average hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.81 £21.35 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
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 Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Basingstoke -19 7 £358 -
Southampton +1 5 - -
Aldershot - 2 - -
Eastleigh - 2 £275 -
Gosport - 2 £338 -
Winchester -3 1 - -
Havant - 1 - -
TCP/IP
South East

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 30 (39.47%) Windows
1 30 (39.47%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (36.84%) CCNA
3 27 (35.53%) Cisco
4 26 (34.21%) Telecoms
5 25 (32.89%) LAN
5 25 (32.89%) WAN
6 24 (31.58%) CCNP
7 23 (30.26%) MPLS
8 19 (25.00%) BGP
9 17 (22.37%) EIGRP
9 17 (22.37%) Internet
9 17 (22.37%) VLAN
10 16 (21.05%) UNIX
10 16 (21.05%) Linux
11 14 (18.42%) Firewall
12 13 (17.11%) C++
13 12 (15.79%) Degree
13 12 (15.79%) Multithreading
13 12 (15.79%) Security Cleared
14 11 (14.47%) Oracle
14 11 (14.47%) Ethernet
15 10 (13.16%) DNS
15 10 (13.16%) Wireless
16 9 (11.84%) IP Telephony
16 9 (11.84%) Migration
16 9 (11.84%) HTTP
16 9 (11.84%) SNMP
16 9 (11.84%) WLAN
17 8 (10.53%) Active Directory

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 (6.579%) XML
1 5 (6.579%) XSL
1 5 (6.579%) JMS
1 5 (6.579%) Hibernate
1 5 (6.579%) Lucene
1 5 (6.579%) Spring
1 5 (6.579%) JPA
1 5 (6.579%) Drools
1 5 (6.579%) JDBC
1 5 (6.579%) HTML5
1 5 (6.579%) REST
2 4 (5.263%) JSP
2 4 (5.263%) HTML
2 4 (5.263%) .NET
2 4 (5.263%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.316%) STL
3 1 (1.316%) Boost C++ Libraries
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.579%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (3.947%) MS Exchange
3 2 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.316%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.316%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (6.579%) MS Office
2 3 (3.947%) MS Excel
3 2 (2.632%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.263%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (32.89%) LAN
1 25 (32.89%) WAN
2 23 (30.26%) MPLS
3 19 (25.00%) BGP
4 17 (22.37%) EIGRP
4 17 (22.37%) Internet
4 17 (22.37%) VLAN
5 14 (18.42%) Firewall
6 11 (14.47%) Ethernet
7 10 (13.16%) Wireless
7 10 (13.16%) DNS
8 9 (11.84%) HTTP
8 9 (11.84%) SNMP
8 9 (11.84%) WLAN
8 9 (11.84%) IP Telephony
9 8 (10.53%) OSPF
10 7 (9.211%) DVB
10 7 (9.211%) IPv6
10 7 (9.211%) VPLS
10 7 (9.211%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.579%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.632%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.316%) Cognos Impromptu
3 1 (1.316%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (1.316%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (6.579%) Maven
1 5 (6.579%) Git (software)
1 5 (6.579%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.316%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (1.316%) LoadRunner
General
1 26 (34.21%) Telecoms
2 2 (2.632%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.316%) Multimedia
3 1 (1.316%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (32.89%) Network Engineer
2 17 (22.37%) Network Support
3 14 (18.42%) Analyst
4 13 (17.11%) Support Engineer
5 12 (15.79%) Software Engineer
6 10 (13.16%) Support Analyst
6 10 (13.16%) IP Engineer
7 9 (11.84%) IP Network Engineer
7 9 (11.84%) Network Support Analyst
7 9 (11.84%) Network Analyst
8 8 (10.53%) Network Support Engineer
9 5 (6.579%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (6.579%) Cisco Engineer
9 5 (6.579%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 4 (5.263%) Network Design Engineer
10 4 (5.263%) Design Engineer
10 4 (5.263%) Desktop Support
11 3 (3.947%) Architect
11 3 (3.947%) Systems Engineer
11 3 (3.947%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.211%) Computer Science
2 6 (7.895%) DTV
3 3 (3.947%) MPEG
4 2 (2.632%) Thin Client
4 2 (2.632%) Fat Client
4 2 (2.632%) Handset
5 1 (1.316%) Clustering
5 1 (1.316%) STB
5 1 (1.316%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.316%) iPhone
5 1 (1.316%) SaaS
5 1 (1.316%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.316%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (39.47%) Windows
2 16 (21.05%) Linux
2 16 (21.05%) UNIX
3 7 (9.211%) Windows XP
3 7 (9.211%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (7.895%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (5.263%) Windows 2000
6 3 (3.947%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.632%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.316%) AIX
8 1 (1.316%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (15.79%) Multithreading
2 9 (11.84%) Migration
3 7 (9.211%) Scrum
3 7 (9.211%) Project Management
3 7 (9.211%) Network Design
4 6 (7.895%) Software Engineering
5 5 (6.579%) Service Delivery
6 3 (3.947%) Validation
6 3 (3.947%) Software Testing
7 2 (2.632%) Requirements Management
7 2 (2.632%) Load Balancing
7 2 (2.632%) OOD
7 2 (2.632%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (2.632%) Security Testing
7 2 (2.632%) Test Scripting
7 2 (2.632%) System Testing
7 2 (2.632%) SIEM
7 2 (2.632%) Network Architecture
8 1 (1.316%) Network Management
8 1 (1.316%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.11%) C++
2 6 (7.895%) C
3 5 (6.579%) SQL
3 5 (6.579%) Java
3 5 (6.579%) XPath
4 4 (5.263%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.316%) Perl
5 1 (1.316%) Python
5 1 (1.316%) C#
5 1 (1.316%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 30 (39.47%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (36.84%) CCNA
3 24 (31.58%) CCNP
4 12 (15.79%) Degree
4 12 (15.79%) Security Cleared
5 7 (9.211%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.947%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.632%) CISSP
7 2 (2.632%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.632%) HNC
7 2 (2.632%) GIAC
7 2 (2.632%) GCIA
8 1 (1.316%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.316%) HND
8 1 (1.316%) CCIE
8 1 (1.316%) ISEB
System Software
1 8 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.895%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.947%) Nmap
4 2 (2.632%) Terminal Services
4 2 (2.632%) ProxySG
5 1 (1.316%) Snort
5 1 (1.316%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (6.579%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (2.632%) SCOM
2 2 (2.632%) OpenView
2 2 (2.632%) ARCserve
3 1 (1.316%) Nessus
3 1 (1.316%) SCCM
3 1 (1.316%) CiscoWorks
3 1 (1.316%) MOM
3 1 (1.316%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 27 (35.53%) Cisco
2 11 (14.47%) Oracle
3 8 (10.53%) HP
3 8 (10.53%) VMware
4 7 (9.211%) Microsoft
5 6 (7.895%) Juniper
6 4 (5.263%) Blue Coat
7 3 (3.947%) 3Com
7 3 (3.947%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.947%) Nortel
8 2 (2.632%) Intel
8 2 (2.632%) McAfee
8 2 (2.632%) ArcSight
8 2 (2.632%) Sourcefire
9 1 (1.316%) IronPort
9 1 (1.316%) Qualys
9 1 (1.316%) Polycom
9 1 (1.316%) Tandberg
9 1 (1.316%) Sophos
9 1 (1.316%) Altiris
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