Leeds TCP/IP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the Leeds 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cowes Crawley Cwmbran Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	63	35
Rank change on same period last year	-28
Matching contract IT job ads	14	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	10.29 %	25.14 %
Daily rates quoted	4	7
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£265
Average daily rate	£350	£279
% change on same period last year	+25.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£292
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£291
% change on same period last year	+0.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.00	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£14.25	£30.75
% change on same period last year	-53.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.50	£34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.11	£26.86
% change on same period last year	-13.96 %
Communications & Networking Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	136	179
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.191 %	0.181 %
Daily rates quoted	17	42
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£328
Average daily rate	£390	£337
% change on same period last year	+15.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.93	£26.39
Average hourly rate	£19.05	£28.33
% change on same period last year	-32.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.17	£30.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.43	£28.95
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
TCP/IP West Yorkshire

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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 Leeds region.

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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 37 (82.22 %) Windows 2 17 (37.78 %) Active Directory 3 16 (35.56 %) Windows XP 4 15 (33.33 %) Microsoft 4 15 (33.33 %) Firewall 5 14 (31.11 %) Windows Server 2003 5 14 (31.11 %) Internet 6 13 (28.89 %) UNIX 6 13 (28.89 %) MS Office 7 10 (22.22 %) Linux 7 10 (22.22 %) DNS 8 8 (17.78 %) Citrix 8 8 (17.78 %) Windows 2000 8 8 (17.78 %) Windows Vista 9 7 (15.56 %) WAN

9 7 (15.56 %) IBM 10 6 (13.33 %) VPN 10 6 (13.33 %) Cisco 11 5 (11.11 %) Government 11 5 (11.11 %) Debian 11 5 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification 11 5 (11.11 %) HTTP 11 5 (11.11 %) LAN 11 5 (11.11 %) Perl 12 4 (8.889 %) C 12 4 (8.889 %) Dell 12 4 (8.889 %) SSL 12 4 (8.889 %) Shell Script 12 4 (8.889 %) Telecoms 12 4 (8.889 %) Network Design

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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 3 (6.667 %) .NET 1 3 (6.667 %) .NET Framework 2 2 (4.444 %) WCF 2 2 (4.444 %) WebServices 2 2 (4.444 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 3 (6.667 %) IIS 2 2 (4.444 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (4.444 %) WebSphere MQ 3 1 (2.222 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (2.222 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (2.222 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (2.222 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (2.222 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 13 (28.89 %) MS Office 2 2 (4.444 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 15 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 14 (31.11 %) Internet 3 10 (22.22 %) DNS 4 7 (15.56 %) WAN 5 6 (13.33 %) VPN 6 5 (11.11 %) LAN 6 5 (11.11 %) HTTP 7 4 (8.889 %) SSL 8 3 (6.667 %) DHCP 8 3 (6.667 %) Broadband 9 2 (4.444 %) VoIP 9 2 (4.444 %) FTP 9 2 (4.444 %) ATM 9 2 (4.444 %) SAN 9 2 (4.444 %) OSPF 9 2 (4.444 %) X.509 9 2 (4.444 %) IPX 9 2 (4.444 %) Kerberos 9 2 (4.444 %) RIP 9 2 (4.444 %) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2 2 (4.444 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (2.222 %) MySQL 3 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 3 (6.667 %) WebLOAD 2 1 (2.222 %) Subversion
General 1 5 (11.11 %) Government 2 4 (8.889 %) Telecoms 3 3 (6.667 %) Finance 3 3 (6.667 %) Education 3 3 (6.667 %) Banking 4 2 (4.444 %) Health 5 1 (2.222 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 8 (17.78 %) Analyst 2 7 (15.56 %) Administrator 3 6 (13.33 %) Systems Administrator 3 6 (13.33 %) Support Analyst 3 6 (13.33 %) Desktop Support 4 5 (11.11 %) Infrastructure Engineer 5 4 (8.889 %) Desktop Support Analyst 5 4 (8.889 %) Desktop Analyst 5 4 (8.889 %) Systems Integrator 6 3 (6.667 %) UNIX Engineer 6 3 (6.667 %) Linux Systems Administrator 6 3 (6.667 %) Linux Administrator 6 3 (6.667 %) Support Technician 6 3 (6.667 %) 2nd Line Support 6 3 (6.667 %) Support Engineer 6 3 (6.667 %) Network Engineer 7 2 (4.444 %) Systems Engineer 7 2 (4.444 %) Architect 7 2 (4.444 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 7 2 (4.444 %) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.667 %) Clustering 2 2 (4.444 %) PDA 2 2 (4.444 %) Social Network 2 2 (4.444 %) Video Conferencing 2 2 (4.444 %) Client/Server 3 1 (2.222 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 37 (82.22 %) Windows 2 16 (35.56 %) Windows XP 3 14 (31.11 %) Windows Server 2003 4 13 (28.89 %) UNIX 5 10 (22.22 %) Linux 6 8 (17.78 %) Windows 2000 6 8 (17.78 %) Windows Vista 7 5 (11.11 %) Debian 8 3 (6.667 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 3 (6.667 %) SUSE 9 2 (4.444 %) Solaris 9 2 (4.444 %) Red Hat Linux 9 2 (4.444 %) Windows Mobile 10 1 (2.222 %) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (8.889 %) Network Design 1 4 (8.889 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (6.667 %) Load Balancing 3 2 (4.444 %) SOA 4 1 (2.222 %) Service Management 4 1 (2.222 %) ITSM 4 1 (2.222 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 5 (11.11 %) Perl 2 4 (8.889 %) Shell Script 2 4 (8.889 %) C
Qualifications 1 5 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (6.667 %) MCSE 2 3 (6.667 %) RHCT 3 2 (4.444 %) MCP 4 1 (2.222 %) CCNA 4 1 (2.222 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (2.222 %) Network+ Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.444 %) PCI DSS 2 1 (2.222 %) QA
System Software 1 17 (37.78 %) Active Directory 2 3 (6.667 %) Terminal Services 2 3 (6.667 %) NetBackup 2 3 (6.667 %) Oracle RAC 3 1 (2.222 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 1 (2.222 %) ZENworks 1 1 (2.222 %) DameWare
Vendors 1 15 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 8 (17.78 %) Citrix 3 7 (15.56 %) IBM 4 6 (13.33 %) Cisco 5 4 (8.889 %) Dell 6 3 (6.667 %) Oracle 6 3 (6.667 %) VERITAS 6 3 (6.667 %) Remedy 7 2 (4.444 %) Red Hat 7 2 (4.444 %) HP 7 2 (4.444 %) Novell 8 1 (2.222 %) Nortel 8 1 (2.222 %) Sun 8 1 (2.222 %) Apple 8 1 (2.222 %) CheckPoint 8 1 (2.222 %) McAfee Security 8 1 (2.222 %) VMware 8 1 (2.222 %) Lotus 8 1 (2.222 %) Nokia