North East TCP/IP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the North East 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall Coventry Cowes Crawley Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dronfield Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Huddersfield Isle of Wight Kent Kilmarnock Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Thirsk Tidworth Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	51
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	4	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	5.195 %	11.11 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£110
Average daily rate	-	£110
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£110
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£308
% change on same period last year	-0.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.00	£16.80
Average hourly rate	£11.75	£17.10
% change on same period last year	-31.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.50	£17.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£24.33
% change on same period last year	-4.29 %
Communications & Networking North East
Matching contract IT job ads	77	99
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.106 %
Daily rates quoted	15	30
Average minimum daily rate	£215	£260
Average daily rate	£231	£264
% change on same period last year	-12.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£248	£268
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£337
% change on same period last year	+2.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.63	£19.43
Average hourly rate	£15.95	£20.04
% change on same period last year	-20.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.26	£20.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.82	£28.43
% change on same period last year	-2.12 %
TCP/IP England

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 North East 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 North East 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 North East region.

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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 North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Tyne and Wear	+7	3	-	-
Durham	-	1	-	-

TCP/IP England

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 5 (45.45 %) Windows 1 5 (45.45 %) Windows XP 2 4 (36.36 %) Cisco 2 4 (36.36 %) Active Directory 2 4 (36.36 %) Government 3 3 (27.27 %) Telecoms 3 3 (27.27 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (27.27 %) DNS 3 3 (27.27 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 3 3 (27.27 %) WAN 3 3 (27.27 %) C 4 2 (18.18 %) MS Excel 4 2 (18.18 %) Embedded C 4 2 (18.18 %) CCNP

4 2 (18.18 %) ICMP 4 2 (18.18 %) Blackberry 4 2 (18.18 %) Cisco Certification 4 2 (18.18 %) MS Office 4 2 (18.18 %) VPN 4 2 (18.18 %) IP Telephony 5 1 (9.091 %) Firewall 5 1 (9.091 %) AS400 5 1 (9.091 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (9.091 %) VMware 5 1 (9.091 %) Local Government 5 1 (9.091 %) WatchGuard 5 1 (9.091 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (9.091 %) iSeries

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 Platforms 1 3 (27.27 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 2 1 (9.091 %) IIS 2 1 (9.091 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 2 (18.18 %) MS Office 1 2 (18.18 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 3 (27.27 %) WAN 1 3 (27.27 %) DNS 2 2 (18.18 %) ICMP 2 2 (18.18 %) VPN 2 2 (18.18 %) IP Telephony 3 1 (9.091 %) Firewall 3 1 (9.091 %) Internet 3 1 (9.091 %) DHCP 3 1 (9.091 %) Ethernet 3 1 (9.091 %) LAN 3 1 (9.091 %) VoIP	General 1 4 (36.36 %) Government 2 3 (27.27 %) Telecoms 3 1 (9.091 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (9.091 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 3 (27.27 %) Analyst 1 3 (27.27 %) Support Analyst 1 3 (27.27 %) Network Support 2 2 (18.18 %) Software Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) Systems Support Analyst 2 2 (18.18 %) Systems Analyst 2 2 (18.18 %) Systems Support 2 2 (18.18 %) Support Technician 2 2 (18.18 %) Support Specialist 2 2 (18.18 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Administrator 3 1 (9.091 %) Network Technician 3 1 (9.091 %) Technical Support Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Embedded Software Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Technical Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Network Administrator 3 1 (9.091 %) Technical Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Embedded C Software Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Network Specialist 3 1 (9.091 %) Network Support Technician	Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) Blackberry 2 1 (9.091 %) AS400 2 1 (9.091 %) iSeries 2 1 (9.091 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 5 (45.45 %) Windows 1 5 (45.45 %) Windows XP 2 3 (27.27 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 3 (27.27 %) C 2 2 (18.18 %) Embedded C	Qualifications 1 2 (18.18 %) CCNP 1 2 (18.18 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (9.091 %) CCNA
System Software 1 4 (36.36 %) Active Directory 2 1 (9.091 %) ISA Server	Vendors 1 4 (36.36 %) Cisco 2 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 3 1 (9.091 %) Nortel 3 1 (9.091 %) Citrix 3 1 (9.091 %) Lotus 3 1 (9.091 %) VMware 3 1 (9.091 %) WatchGuard 3 1 (9.091 %) Cognos