TCP/IP Contracts in London

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for TCP/IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TCP/IP over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 256 308
Rank change year-on-year -28 +52 -33
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 110 255 329
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.62% 0.97% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.55% 9.80% 9.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 163 229
10th Percentile £275 £257 £219
25th Percentile £350 £345 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +1.43% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £638
90th Percentile £675 £806 £763
England median daily rate £488 £488 £463
% change year-on-year - +5.41% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 7
10th Percentile - £31.25 £25.95
25th Percentile £16.00 £35.50 £26.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £50.42 £43.74
Median % change year-on-year -60.33% +15.27% -22.24%
75th Percentile - - £47.54
90th Percentile £22.25 £56.94 £56.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.55 £28.50
% change year-on-year +3.92% +119.47% -28.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

TCP/IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,679 2,602 3,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.52% 9.92% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,830 2,518
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 53 81
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.04 £21.00
25th Percentile £16.86 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.50 £46.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.91% +31.43% -26.32%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £47.44
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in London.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in London.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the London region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +9 12 £550 - 10
West London +12 2 £80 -86.58% 6
East London 0 2 - - 4
South London +2 1 £675 +154.72% 5
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (9.09%) Confluence
2 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.64%) Apache
3 4 (3.64%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.73%) IBM Domino
4 3 (2.73%) IBM Notes
4 3 (2.73%) MQSeries
4 3 (2.73%) nginx
5 2 (1.82%) IIS
6 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.91%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.91%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (28.18%) AWS
2 30 (27.27%) Azure
3 17 (15.45%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (14.55%) GCP
5 13 (11.82%) Cloud Computing
5 13 (11.82%) PaaS
6 10 (9.09%) SaaS
7 9 (8.18%) IaaS
7 9 (8.18%) Nutanix
8 8 (7.27%) Rubrik
9 5 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.73%) Datadog
11 3 (2.73%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.73%) GitHub
11 3 (2.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 63 (57.27%) DNS
2 48 (43.64%) Firewall
3 47 (42.73%) DHCP
4 41 (37.27%) HTTP
5 22 (20.00%) VPN
6 21 (19.09%) BGP
6 21 (19.09%) Network Security
7 19 (17.27%) WAN
8 18 (16.36%) LAN
9 17 (15.45%) SSL
10 16 (14.55%) OSPF
10 16 (14.55%) VLAN
11 12 (10.91%) NAS
11 12 (10.91%) SAN
11 12 (10.91%) SMTP
11 12 (10.91%) Wireshark
12 11 (10.00%) FTP
12 11 (10.00%) SNMP
12 11 (10.00%) SSH
13 10 (9.09%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.64%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (3.64%) MySQL
2 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.73%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.82%) Redis
4 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.91%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.91%) Power BI
5 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (21.82%) Jenkins
2 21 (19.09%) Git
3 12 (10.91%) JIRA
4 8 (7.27%) TeamCity
5 7 (6.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.91%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.91%) Darcs
6 1 (0.91%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.91%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.91%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.91%) Maven
6 1 (0.91%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.91%) Selenium
6 1 (0.91%) Travis CI
General
1 25 (22.73%) Finance
2 13 (11.82%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.91%) Telecoms
4 6 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.45%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.55%) Banking
5 5 (4.55%) Electronics
5 5 (4.55%) Mandarin Language
5 5 (4.55%) Marketing
6 3 (2.73%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.73%) German Language
6 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.82%) Cantonese Language
7 2 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.82%) Retail
8 1 (0.91%) Back Office
8 1 (0.91%) Front Office
8 1 (0.91%) Law
8 1 (0.91%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 24 (21.82%) Network Engineer
2 14 (12.73%) Linux Engineer
3 11 (10.00%) Linux Server Engineer
3 11 (10.00%) Server Engineer
3 11 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 8 (7.27%) Senior
5 7 (6.36%) IT Support
6 6 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.45%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Analyst
7 5 (4.55%) Architect
7 5 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Consultant
7 5 (4.55%) Developer
8 4 (3.64%) ArcSight Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Security Architect
8 4 (3.64%) SIEM Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) IT Support Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.45%) LDAP
2 8 (7.27%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.45%) .NET
3 6 (5.45%) JSON
4 4 (3.64%) SAML
5 3 (2.73%) OAuth
5 3 (2.73%) OpenID
5 3 (2.73%) REST
5 3 (2.73%) Web Services
6 2 (1.82%) NETCONF
6 2 (1.82%) RESTful
6 2 (1.82%) SOAP
6 2 (1.82%) SPML
7 1 (0.91%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.91%) CSS
7 1 (0.91%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.91%) HTML
7 1 (0.91%) LAMP
7 1 (0.91%) Spring
7 1 (0.91%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.27%) Data Centre
2 16 (14.55%) Clustering
3 8 (7.27%) Replication
4 6 (5.45%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.45%) PKI
5 5 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.73%) CCTV
6 3 (2.73%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.91%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.91%) IoT
8 1 (0.91%) Machine to Machine
8 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.91%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 36 (32.73%) Linux
2 33 (30.00%) Windows
3 16 (14.55%) Windows Server
4 14 (12.73%) Unix
5 8 (7.27%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (7.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (7.27%) Solaris
6 6 (5.45%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.73%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.82%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.91%) Android
9 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.91%) CentOS
9 1 (0.91%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (20.00%) DevOps
2 20 (18.18%) Agile
3 19 (17.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (16.36%) CI/CD
5 17 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (13.64%) High Availability
7 12 (10.91%) Continuous Integration
7 12 (10.91%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (10.91%) SIEM
8 11 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (10.00%) Data Security
8 11 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 10 (9.09%) Configuration Management
9 10 (9.09%) Customer Service
9 10 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
9 10 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (8.18%) Computer Science
10 9 (8.18%) ITIL
10 9 (8.18%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (29.09%) Python
2 20 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 10 (9.09%) Bash
3 10 (9.09%) Java
4 6 (5.45%) C#
4 6 (5.45%) Go
5 5 (4.55%) Perl
5 5 (4.55%) SQL
6 3 (2.73%) C++
6 3 (2.73%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.73%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.82%) C
7 2 (1.82%) PHP
8 1 (0.91%) Ruby
8 1 (0.91%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.55%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (11.82%) CCNP
3 13 (11.82%) Degree
4 11 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 8 (7.27%) CCNA
6 6 (5.45%) CCDP
6 6 (5.45%) CISSP
7 4 (3.64%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.73%) CISA
8 3 (2.73%) CISM
8 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.73%) GIAC
9 2 (1.82%) CEH
9 2 (1.82%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.82%) GCIA
9 2 (1.82%) GCIH
9 2 (1.82%) JNCIA
9 2 (1.82%) JNCIS
9 2 (1.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.18%) GDPR
2 8 (7.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.73%) NIST
4 3 (2.73%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.91%) COPPA
6 1 (0.91%) ISA99
6 1 (0.91%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.91%) NCSC
6 1 (0.91%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.91%) QA
6 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (26.36%) Active Directory
2 17 (15.45%) Docker
2 17 (15.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.55%) NFS
4 4 (3.64%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.64%) Samba
4 4 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.64%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.82%) iptables
6 2 (1.82%) Squid
6 2 (1.82%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.82%) XenApp
7 1 (0.91%) Firmware
7 1 (0.91%) KVM
7 1 (0.91%) Lustre
7 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.91%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.91%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (20.00%) Terraform
2 21 (19.09%) Ansible
3 16 (14.55%) Kubernetes
4 15 (13.64%) Puppet
5 12 (10.91%) Progress Chef
6 8 (7.27%) EMC NetWorker
6 8 (7.27%) Kibana
6 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (7.27%) Netcool
6 8 (7.27%) Tivoli
6 8 (7.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 5 (4.55%) logstash
8 4 (3.64%) QRadar
8 4 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.73%) FortiGate
9 3 (2.73%) HAProxy
9 3 (2.73%) Nmap
9 3 (2.73%) SCCM
10 2 (1.82%) SCOM
10 2 (1.82%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (36.36%) Cisco
2 25 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 18 (16.36%) VMware
4 16 (14.55%) Splunk
5 12 (10.91%) IBM
6 11 (10.00%) Oracle
6 11 (10.00%) Palo Alto
7 10 (9.09%) Dell
7 10 (9.09%) ServiceNow
8 9 (8.18%) HP
9 8 (7.27%) CyberArk
9 8 (7.27%) EMC
9 8 (7.27%) Isilon
9 8 (7.27%) Qualys
9 8 (7.27%) Serena
9 8 (7.27%) Zscaler
10 7 (6.36%) Arista
10 7 (6.36%) Aruba
11 6 (5.45%) Meraki
11 6 (5.45%) Nokia