Manchester TCP/IP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Angus Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chichester Chippenham City of London Coalville County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hull Inverness Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Tayside Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	36
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	62	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.082 %	0.037 %
As % of the category below	29.81 %	21.08 %
Daily rates quoted	10	4
Average minimum daily rate	£409	£200
Average daily rate	£434	£225
% change on same period last year	+92.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£459	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£318
% change on same period last year	+4.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.75	£19.60
Average hourly rate	£18.63	£22.60
% change on same period last year	-17.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.50	£25.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.91	£25.59
% change on same period last year	-6.55 %
Communications & Networking Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	208	166
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.274 %	0.174 %
Daily rates quoted	34	24
Average minimum daily rate	£442	£258
Average daily rate	£461	£277
% change on same period last year	+66.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£480	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.07	£20.38
Average hourly rate	£31.48	£22.27
% change on same period last year	+41.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.90	£24.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.60	£28.49
% change on same period last year	-10.13 %
TCP/IP North West

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 Manchester 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 Manchester region.

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 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 Manchester region.

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

TCP/IP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing TCP/IP within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Salford	-	1	-	-
Ashton-under-Lyne	-	1	-	-

TCP/IP North West

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 50 (52.08 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 48 (50.00 %) Unix 2 48 (50.00 %) AIX 3 47 (48.96 %) Middleware 3 47 (48.96 %) Tivoli 3 47 (48.96 %) HACMP 4 46 (47.92 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 5 42 (43.75 %) Perl 6 37 (38.54 %) VERITAS 7 36 (37.50 %) Solaris 7 36 (37.50 %) Korn 8 35 (36.46 %) SNA 9 32 (33.33 %) HPUX 10 27 (28.13 %) Windows 11 14 (14.58 %) Active Directory

12 12 (12.50 %) LAN 12 12 (12.50 %) C++ 13 11 (11.46 %) Linux 13 11 (11.46 %) Finance 14 9 (9.375 %) Windows 2000 14 9 (9.375 %) WAN 14 9 (9.375 %) Microsoft 14 9 (9.375 %) Citrix 15 8 (8.333 %) DNS 15 8 (8.333 %) MS Office 16 7 (7.292 %) VC++ 16 7 (7.292 %) DHCP 16 7 (7.292 %) Exchange Server 2003 16 7 (7.292 %) Multithreading 17 6 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 47 (48.96 %) Middleware 2 5 (5.208 %) XML 3 4 (4.167 %) MFC 4 3 (3.125 %) ISPF 4 3 (3.125 %) ODBC 5 2 (2.083 %) CORBA 6 1 (1.042 %) ActiveX 6 1 (1.042 %) HTML 6 1 (1.042 %) DCOM 6 1 (1.042 %) STL	Application Platforms 1 7 (7.292 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 5 (5.208 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (3.125 %) IIS 3 3 (3.125 %) CICS 4 1 (1.042 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (1.042 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (1.042 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 8 (8.333 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.042 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 35 (36.46 %) SNA 2 12 (12.50 %) LAN 3 9 (9.375 %) WAN 4 8 (8.333 %) DNS 5 7 (7.292 %) DHCP 6 5 (5.208 %) VPN 7 4 (4.167 %) SAN 8 3 (3.125 %) Firewall 9 2 (2.083 %) WINS 9 2 (2.083 %) Internet 9 2 (2.083 %) Network Security 10 1 (1.042 %) VoIP 10 1 (1.042 %) 802.11 10 1 (1.042 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (5.208 %) SQL Server 2 4 (4.167 %) SQL Server 7 3 3 (3.125 %) DB2 4 1 (1.042 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 1 (1.042 %) Visual Studio
General 1 11 (11.46 %) Finance 2 1 (1.042 %) Insurance 2 1 (1.042 %) Pensions 2 1 (1.042 %) Education 2 1 (1.042 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 24 (25.00 %) Administrator 2 18 (18.75 %) AIX Administrator 3 10 (10.42 %) Software Engineer 4 9 (9.375 %) 2nd Line Support 4 9 (9.375 %) Technical Specialist 5 8 (8.333 %) Systems Administrator 6 7 (7.292 %) Analyst 6 7 (7.292 %) Consultant 6 7 (7.292 %) UNIX Administrator 7 5 (5.208 %) Helpdesk Support 7 5 (5.208 %) UNIX Specialist 8 4 (4.167 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 8 4 (4.167 %) Support Engineer 8 4 (4.167 %) Network Support 9 3 (3.125 %) Linux Engineer 9 3 (3.125 %) Embedded Linux Software Engineer 9 3 (3.125 %) 3rd Line Support 9 3 (3.125 %) Programmer 9 3 (3.125 %) Support Analyst 9 3 (3.125 %) DBA
Miscellaneous 1 47 (48.96 %) HACMP 2 7 (7.292 %) Multithreading 3 4 (4.167 %) Blackberry 3 4 (4.167 %) Mainframe 4 3 (3.125 %) Device Driver 5 2 (2.083 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 6 1 (1.042 %) PDA 6 1 (1.042 %) CCTV 6 1 (1.042 %) IBM Mainframe 6 1 (1.042 %) NHS 6 1 (1.042 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 48 (50.00 %) Unix 1 48 (50.00 %) AIX 2 36 (37.50 %) Solaris 3 32 (33.33 %) HPUX 4 27 (28.13 %) Windows 5 11 (11.46 %) Linux 6 9 (9.375 %) Windows 2000 7 6 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003 7 6 (6.250 %) Windows XP 8 5 (5.208 %) Windows NT 9 3 (3.125 %) Embedded Linux 10 2 (2.083 %) MVS 10 2 (2.083 %) zOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (4.167 %) ITIL 2 3 (3.125 %) Problem Management 3 2 (2.083 %) Disaster Recovery 3 2 (2.083 %) Project Management 4 1 (1.042 %) Document Management 4 1 (1.042 %) Performance Testing 4 1 (1.042 %) Data Modelling 4 1 (1.042 %) Migration 4 1 (1.042 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 42 (43.75 %) Perl 2 36 (37.50 %) Korn 3 12 (12.50 %) C++ 4 7 (7.292 %) VC++ 5 3 (3.125 %) COBOL 5 3 (3.125 %) C 5 3 (3.125 %) Assembly Language 5 3 (3.125 %) JCL 6 2 (2.083 %) Java 6 2 (2.083 %) SQL 7 1 (1.042 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 5 (5.208 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (4.167 %) MCSE 3 2 (2.083 %) CCNA 3 2 (2.083 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (2.083 %) MCP 4 1 (1.042 %) MCSA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.125 %) SLA 2 1 (1.042 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 46 (47.92 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 2 14 (14.58 %) Active Directory 3 4 (4.167 %) MetaFrame 4 1 (1.042 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (1.042 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (1.042 %) ISA Server 4 1 (1.042 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (1.042 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 50 (52.08 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 47 (48.96 %) Tivoli 3 2 (2.083 %) OMEGAMON 4 1 (1.042 %) ServiceCenter 4 1 (1.042 %) ARCserve 4 1 (1.042 %) DameWare
Vendors 1 37 (38.54 %) VERITAS 2 9 (9.375 %) Microsoft 2 9 (9.375 %) Citrix 3 5 (5.208 %) Cisco 3 5 (5.208 %) VMware 4 4 (4.167 %) IBM 5 3 (3.125 %) Avaya 5 3 (3.125 %) Compuware 6 2 (2.083 %) HP 7 1 (1.042 %) Oracle 7 1 (1.042 %) Lotus 7 1 (1.042 %) Red Hat 7 1 (1.042 %) CheckPoint 7 1 (1.042 %) Alcatel 7 1 (1.042 %) CA 7 1 (1.042 %) Dell 7 1 (1.042 %) EMC 7 1 (1.042 %) TIBCO 7 1 (1.042 %) Mitel