The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newbury region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 17 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 Newbury 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 19 18 13
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -5
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 1 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newbury 0.862% 1.695% 2.000%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.500% 4.444% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £425 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 £308 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.82% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% -2.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £21.50 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-27.90% -16.50%
All Communications & Networking
Newbury
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
40 45 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newbury 34.48% 38.14% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 14 7
Average daily rate £320 £238 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.73% -32.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £200 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
Average hourly rate £24.50 £16.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+48.48% -2.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
TCP/IP
Berkshire

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newbury 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 Newbury region.

Newbury TCP/IP Daily Rate Trend

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 Newbury region.

Newbury TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Vista
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) WLAN
4 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (20.00%) Apache
4 1 (20.00%) LDAP
4 1 (20.00%) MS Office
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (20.00%) MCP
4 1 (20.00%) UNIX
4 1 (20.00%) Remedy
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Lotus
4 1 (20.00%) IPsec
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (20.00%) IPsec
3 1 (20.00%) SSH
3 1 (20.00%) WLAN
3 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Support Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Desktop Support
3 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) 1st Line Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows XP
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Vista
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Project Management
1 1 (20.00%) Workflow
1 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (20.00%) Release Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) MCP
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Lotus
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy