The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 54 50 48
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -2
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 9 20 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.413% 2.047% 1.826%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.826% 10.05% 7.583%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
Average daily rate £288 £305 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.73% +8.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £249 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £361 £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 4
Average hourly rate £15.00 £17.22 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.86% -48.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -20.00%
All Communications & Networking
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
115 199 211
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 18.05% 20.37% 24.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 46 62
Average daily rate £300 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +9.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £208 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £401 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 28
Average hourly rate £15.00 £21.50 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.23% -34.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.75 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £35.25 £42.65
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 Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire TCP/IP Daily Rate Trend

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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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
Hemel Hempstead - 4 - -
Stevenage -1 1 £250 -
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 Hertfordshire 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 6 (60.00%) Linux
1 6 (60.00%) DNS
2 5 (50.00%) Retail
2 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) DHCP
2 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (40.00%) Veritas
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
3 4 (40.00%) UNIX
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Clustering
3 4 (40.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (30.00%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (30.00%) SLA
4 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
5 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
5 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
5 2 (20.00%) HP
5 2 (20.00%) Java
5 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (20.00%) Flash
5 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
5 2 (20.00%) Terminal Services
5 2 (20.00%) Debian
5 2 (20.00%) VMware
5 2 (20.00%) Subversion

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (20.00%) Flash
2 1 (10.00%) Gearman
2 1 (10.00%) Memcached
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) DNS
2 5 (50.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Subversion
2 1 (10.00%) Redmine
2 1 (10.00%) ClearQuest
2 1 (10.00%) ClearCase
2 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
General
1 5 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
1 6 (60.00%) Administrator
2 5 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 5 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Service Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (20.00%) Services Delivery Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Clustering
2 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (20.00%) iPhone
3 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
3 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (40.00%) UNIX
3 4 (40.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
5 2 (20.00%) Debian
5 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
5 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (10.00%) Change Control
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (10.00%) Build Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Office Management
3 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (10.00%) Release Management
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (10.00%) Korn
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCEE
2 1 (10.00%) MCSE
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Terminal Services
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Cygwin
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) Postfix
3 1 (10.00%) XenApp
3 1 (10.00%) XenServer
3 1 (10.00%) XenDesktop
3 1 (10.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (10.00%) vSphere
3 1 (10.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (10.00%) SCOM
2 1 (10.00%) SCVMM
2 1 (10.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (40.00%) Veritas
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) Percona
4 1 (10.00%) AppSense
4 1 (10.00%) Wyse
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) IBM