The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 47 48 44
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -4
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 27 19 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 3.654% 2.186% 1.572%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.52% 15.97% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 4 1
Average daily rate £250 £288 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% +43.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 7
Average hourly rate - £13.63 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -38.06%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -20.00%
All Communications & Networking
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
174 119 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 23.55% 13.69% 9.748%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 55 22
Average daily rate £275 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £235 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £350 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 12
Average hourly rate £34.00 £13.75 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+147.27% -30.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.90 £11.00 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £30.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
TCP/IP
West Yorkshire

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (93.75%) DNS
2 28 (87.50%) DHCP
3 26 (81.25%) Linux
4 24 (75.00%) SSL
5 23 (71.88%) Web Services
5 23 (71.88%) Load Balancing
5 23 (71.88%) Amazon AWS
5 23 (71.88%) Bash shell
6 21 (65.63%) Python
6 21 (65.63%) Client/Server
7 20 (62.50%) Ruby
8 19 (59.38%) Telecoms
8 19 (59.38%) Puppet
8 19 (59.38%) Java
9 18 (56.25%) PHP
9 18 (56.25%) C++
9 18 (56.25%) Oracle
9 18 (56.25%) Apache
10 17 (53.13%) Configuration Management
10 17 (53.13%) MySQL
10 17 (53.13%) MongoDB
10 17 (53.13%) Node.js
10 17 (53.13%) Redis
10 17 (53.13%) Kanban
10 17 (53.13%) Test Automation
10 17 (53.13%) nginx
10 17 (53.13%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (53.13%) Amazon S3
10 17 (53.13%) Route 53
10 17 (53.13%) Amazon RDS

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 23 (71.88%) Web Services
2 17 (53.13%) Node.js
3 3 (9.375%) .NET
4 1 (3.125%) Middleware
4 1 (3.125%) POSIX
4 1 (3.125%) ASP
4 1 (3.125%) J2EE
4 1 (3.125%) LAMP
4 1 (3.125%) WebSphere
4 1 (3.125%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 23 (71.88%) Amazon AWS
2 18 (56.25%) Apache
3 17 (53.13%) nginx
3 17 (53.13%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (53.13%) Amazon S3
3 17 (53.13%) Route 53
4 4 (12.50%) MS Exchange
5 1 (3.125%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (3.125%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (3.125%) WebLogic
5 1 (3.125%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (6.250%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.125%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (93.75%) DNS
2 28 (87.50%) DHCP
3 24 (75.00%) SSL
4 11 (34.38%) Internet
4 11 (34.38%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (9.375%) SAN
5 3 (9.375%) Firewall
6 2 (6.250%) SSH
6 2 (6.250%) HTTP
7 1 (3.125%) VPN
7 1 (3.125%) FTP
7 1 (3.125%) LAN
7 1 (3.125%) WAN
7 1 (3.125%) SMTP
7 1 (3.125%) BIG-IP
7 1 (3.125%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (53.13%) MySQL
1 17 (53.13%) MongoDB
1 17 (53.13%) Redis
1 17 (53.13%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.125%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.125%) Data Mining
2 1 (3.125%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.125%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.125%) SimpleDB
2 1 (3.125%) Couchbase
General
1 19 (59.38%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.125%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 3 (9.375%) Administrator
3 3 (9.375%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Senior Architect
4 2 (6.250%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (6.250%) Senior Technical Architect
4 2 (6.250%) Customer Support Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Customer Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Architect
4 2 (6.250%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.250%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.125%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.125%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.125%) Support Technician
5 1 (3.125%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (3.125%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (3.125%) Graduate
5 1 (3.125%) Server Administrator
5 1 (3.125%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (65.63%) Client/Server
2 2 (6.250%) Open Source
2 2 (6.250%) Social Media
3 1 (3.125%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.125%) Firmware
3 1 (3.125%) Thin Client
3 1 (3.125%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.125%) iPad
3 1 (3.125%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 26 (81.25%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Windows
3 3 (9.375%) Windows 7
4 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (6.250%) Windows XP
4 2 (6.250%) UNIX
5 1 (3.125%) Mac OS X
5 1 (3.125%) HPUX
5 1 (3.125%) Debian
5 1 (3.125%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.125%) CentOS
5 1 (3.125%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.125%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (71.88%) Load Balancing
2 17 (53.13%) Configuration Management
2 17 (53.13%) Kanban
2 17 (53.13%) Test Automation
3 16 (50.00%) Capacity Management
3 16 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 11 (34.38%) Security Testing
5 6 (18.75%) Performance Testing
6 2 (6.250%) ITIL
7 1 (3.125%) B2B
7 1 (3.125%) SOA
7 1 (3.125%) TDD
7 1 (3.125%) ITSM
7 1 (3.125%) Service Management
7 1 (3.125%) Service Delivery
7 1 (3.125%) Network Design
7 1 (3.125%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (3.125%) Problem Management
7 1 (3.125%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (71.88%) Bash shell
2 21 (65.63%) Python
3 20 (62.50%) Ruby
4 19 (59.38%) Java
5 18 (56.25%) PHP
5 18 (56.25%) C++
6 16 (50.00%) Perl
7 2 (6.250%) SQL
8 1 (3.125%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.125%) VBScript
8 1 (3.125%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (6.250%) MCSE
1 2 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.125%) MCP
2 1 (3.125%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (3.125%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.125%) Terminal Services
3 1 (3.125%) Xen
3 1 (3.125%) vSphere
3 1 (3.125%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 19 (59.38%) Puppet
2 1 (3.125%) Nagios
2 1 (3.125%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) Oracle
2 10 (31.25%) Percona
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.375%) VMware
5 2 (6.250%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.250%) Cisco
5 2 (6.250%) Citrix
6 1 (3.125%) Juniper
6 1 (3.125%) HP
6 1 (3.125%) Apple
6 1 (3.125%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.125%) JBoss
6 1 (3.125%) Wyse
6 1 (3.125%) Brocade
6 1 (3.125%) F5
6 1 (3.125%) Syncsort
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