Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East 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 North East region.

 Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank313340
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Up+7
Matching contract IT job ads21118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East0.637 %2.326 %2.177 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category4.651 %18.33 %20.22 %
Daily rates quoted026
Average daily rate-£330£319
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-+3.520 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£300£313
% change year-on-year
+8.330 %-4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted006
Average hourly rate--£19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£18.75£27.00
% change year-on-year
+1.330 %-30.55 %
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
436089
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East13.69 %12.68 %10.76 %
Daily rates quoted151821
Average daily rate£105£350£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-70.00 %+16.66 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£325
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %+3.840 %
Hourly rates quoted7817
Average hourly rate£18.00£16.50£15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.090 %+10.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£8.20£10.70
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£25.00£23.25£27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£24.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
+4.160 %-12.72 %
TCP/IP EnglandTCP/IP
England

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 North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

North East TCP/IP Demand Trend

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.

North East TCP/IP Daily Rate Trend

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.

North East TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

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 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.

LocationRank 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
Tyne and WearUp+21--
TCP/IP EnglandTCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

11 (50.00 %)C
11 (50.00 %)C#
11 (50.00 %)C++
11 (50.00 %)VB.NET
11 (50.00 %).NET
11 (50.00 %)Oracle
11 (50.00 %)SQL Server
11 (50.00 %)DB2
11 (50.00 %)UNIX
11 (50.00 %)Windows
11 (50.00 %)Solaris
11 (50.00 %)Linux
11 (50.00 %)Windows 2000
11 (50.00 %)NetWare
11 (50.00 %)Cisco
11 (50.00 %)IBM
11 (50.00 %)Microsoft
11 (50.00 %)Sun
11 (50.00 %)Embedded C
11 (50.00 %)SAN
11 (50.00 %)Assembly Language
11 (50.00 %)Nokia
11 (50.00 %)Novell
11 (50.00 %)zOS
11 (50.00 %)NHS
11 (50.00 %)CheckPoint
11 (50.00 %)Internet
11 (50.00 %)Tivoli
11 (50.00 %)Configuration Management
11 (50.00 %)Disaster Recovery

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

North East IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (50.00 %).NET
11 (50.00 %)WebSphere
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (50.00 %)SAN
11 (50.00 %)Internet
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (50.00 %)SQL Server
11 (50.00 %)DB2
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11 (50.00 %)Software Engineer
11 (50.00 %)Analyst
11 (50.00 %)Support Analyst
11 (50.00 %)Technical Support
11 (50.00 %)Senior Analyst
11 (50.00 %)Technical Support Analyst
11 (50.00 %)Embedded Software Engineer
11 (50.00 %)Technical Analyst
11 (50.00 %)Senior Support Analyst
11 (50.00 %)Senior Technical Analyst
11 (50.00 %)Embedded C Software Engineer
11 (50.00 %)Senior Technical Support
11 (50.00 %)Senior Technical Support Analyst
11 (50.00 %)Embedded C Engineer
11 (50.00 %)C Software Engineer
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (50.00 %)NHS
11 (50.00 %)Mathematics
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (50.00 %)UNIX
11 (50.00 %)Windows
11 (50.00 %)Solaris
11 (50.00 %)Linux
11 (50.00 %)Windows 2000
11 (50.00 %)NetWare
11 (50.00 %)zOS
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11 (50.00 %)Configuration Management
11 (50.00 %)Disaster Recovery
11 (50.00 %)Network Design
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11 (50.00 %)C
11 (50.00 %)C#
11 (50.00 %)C++
11 (50.00 %)VB.NET
11 (50.00 %)Embedded C
11 (50.00 %)Assembly Language
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11 (50.00 %)Degree
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (50.00 %)Tivoli
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11 (50.00 %)Oracle
11 (50.00 %)Cisco
11 (50.00 %)IBM
11 (50.00 %)Microsoft
11 (50.00 %)Sun
11 (50.00 %)Nokia
11 (50.00 %)Novell
11 (50.00 %)CheckPoint