Leicestershire TCP/IP Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire 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 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Leicestershire region.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chorley City of London Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Gatwick Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Malmesbury Malvern Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rotherham Sandwich Scotland Sidcup Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	18	17	28
Rank change year-on-year	-1 +11
Matching contract IT job ads	3	1	5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire	2.239 %	0.917 %	1.684 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category	16.67 %	5.000 %	17.24 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0	1
Average daily rate	-	-	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£300	£313
% change year-on-year	+8.330 % -4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	2
Average hourly rate	-	-	£19.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.00	£18.75	£27.00
% change year-on-year	+1.330 % -30.55 %
All Communications & Networking Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Communications & Networking category	18	20	29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire	13.43 %	18.35 %	9.764 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3	7
Average daily rate	£425	£325	£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+30.76 % +8.330 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£338	£325
% change year-on-year	-3.700 % +3.840 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	3	10
Average hourly rate	£7.50	£15.00	£12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-50.00 % +25.00 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.00	£24.00	£27.50
% change year-on-year	+4.160 % -12.72 %
TCP/IP East Midlands

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.

TCP/IP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing TCP/IP across the Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

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 Leicestershire region.

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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. 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	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
Loughborough	-	1	-	-

TCP/IP East Midlands

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 (85.71 %) DNS 2 4 (57.14 %) Active Directory 2 4 (57.14 %) CA 2 4 (57.14 %) Windows 2 4 (57.14 %) Windows XP 2 4 (57.14 %) LAN 2 4 (57.14 %) WAN 2 4 (57.14 %) VPN 2 4 (57.14 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (42.86 %) Perl 4 2 (28.57 %) Apache 4 2 (28.57 %) Tomcat 4 2 (28.57 %) MS Excel 4 2 (28.57 %) Solaris 4 2 (28.57 %) Linux

4 2 (28.57 %) VB 4 2 (28.57 %) IIS 4 2 (28.57 %) CSS 4 2 (28.57 %) UNIX 4 2 (28.57 %) Red Hat 4 2 (28.57 %) CheckPoint 4 2 (28.57 %) Citrix 4 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 4 2 (28.57 %) Sun 4 2 (28.57 %) CA SiteMinder 4 2 (28.57 %) ARCserve 4 2 (28.57 %) Middleware 4 2 (28.57 %) iPlanet 4 2 (28.57 %) Red Hat Linux 4 2 (28.57 %) Firewall

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 (28.57 %) CSS 1 2 (28.57 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 2 (28.57 %) Apache 1 2 (28.57 %) Tomcat 1 2 (28.57 %) IIS 1 2 (28.57 %) iPlanet 2 1 (14.29 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (14.29 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 6 (85.71 %) DNS 2 4 (57.14 %) LAN 2 4 (57.14 %) WAN 2 4 (57.14 %) VPN 3 2 (28.57 %) Firewall 3 2 (28.57 %) BIG-IP
General 1 1 (14.29 %) Finance 1 1 (14.29 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 2 (28.57 %) Analyst 1 2 (28.57 %) Middleware Specialist 2 1 (14.29 %) Senior Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Products Support Specialist 2 1 (14.29 %) Technical Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Senior Technical Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Product Specialist 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Specialist 2 1 (14.29 %) 2nd Line Support
Operating Systems 1 4 (57.14 %) Windows 1 4 (57.14 %) Windows XP 1 4 (57.14 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (28.57 %) Solaris 2 2 (28.57 %) Linux 2 2 (28.57 %) UNIX 2 2 (28.57 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (28.57 %) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 3 (42.86 %) Perl 2 2 (28.57 %) VB 2 2 (28.57 %) Korn 3 1 (14.29 %) VBScript	System Software 1 4 (57.14 %) Active Directory 2 1 (14.29 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 2 (28.57 %) CA SiteMinder 1 2 (28.57 %) ARCserve 2 1 (14.29 %) BMC PATROL 2 1 (14.29 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 4 (57.14 %) CA 2 2 (28.57 %) Red Hat 2 2 (28.57 %) CheckPoint 2 2 (28.57 %) Citrix 2 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 2 2 (28.57 %) Sun 3 1 (14.29 %) VMware 3 1 (14.29 %) Symantec 3 1 (14.29 %) Remedy 3 1 (14.29 %) BMC 3 1 (14.29 %) Lotus