North West TCP/IP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the North West 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford 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 Hayes Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford 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 Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torfaen 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 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	63
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	124	80
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.165 %	0.081 %
As % of the category below	20.53 %	14.90 %
Daily rates quoted	26	18
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£261
Average daily rate	£381	£271
% change on same period last year	+40.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£281
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£310
% change on same period last year	+1.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.12	£27.31
Average hourly rate	£18.85	£28.92
% change on same period last year	-34.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.59	£30.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.03	£25.94
% change on same period last year	-11.20 %
Communications & Networking North West
Matching contract IT job ads	604	537
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.805 %	0.543 %
Daily rates quoted	107	100
Average minimum daily rate	£353	£289
Average daily rate	£374	£300
% change on same period last year	+24.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	79	65
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.15	£21.67
Average hourly rate	£26.47	£23.06
% change on same period last year	+14.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.80	£24.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
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 West 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 West region.

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 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 North West 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 West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

TCP/IP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 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
Manchester	+3	51	£438	+94.60 %
Cheshire	+16	49	£375	+51.12 %
Merseyside	+6	10	£106	-68.91 %
Lancashire	+8	4	-	-
Cumbria	-	2	-	-

TCP/IP England

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 104 (50.73 %) UNIX 2 90 (43.90 %) AIX 3 87 (42.44 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 83 (40.49 %) Tivoli 5 82 (40.00 %) HACMP 5 82 (40.00 %) Middleware 6 81 (39.51 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 7 74 (36.10 %) Perl 8 71 (34.63 %) Solaris 9 66 (32.20 %) SNA 10 63 (30.73 %) Korn 11 62 (30.24 %) VERITAS 12 61 (29.76 %) Windows 13 58 (28.29 %) HPUX 14 34 (16.59 %) LAN

15 29 (14.15 %) WAN 15 29 (14.15 %) Active Directory 16 27 (13.17 %) Finance 17 24 (11.71 %) Microsoft 18 22 (10.73 %) DNS 18 22 (10.73 %) MS Office 19 21 (10.24 %) Linux 19 21 (10.24 %) DHCP 20 19 (9.268 %) VMware 21 18 (8.780 %) Citrix 21 18 (8.780 %) Cisco 21 18 (8.780 %) C++ 22 17 (8.293 %) Windows 2000 22 17 (8.293 %) Windows Server 2003 23 16 (7.805 %) SAN

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 82 (40.00 %) Middleware 2 7 (3.415 %) MFC 2 7 (3.415 %) XML 3 3 (1.463 %) CORBA 4 2 (0.976 %) HTML 5 1 (0.488 %) .NET 5 1 (0.488 %) J2EE 5 1 (0.488 %) XSLT 5 1 (0.488 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (0.488 %) EJB 5 1 (0.488 %) SOAP 5 1 (0.488 %) STL 5 1 (0.488 %) Java RMI 5 1 (0.488 %) JMX 5 1 (0.488 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (0.488 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 9 (4.390 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (3.902 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 5 (2.439 %) IIS 3 5 (2.439 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (0.976 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (0.488 %) JBoss 5 1 (0.488 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (0.488 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 1 (0.488 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 22 (10.73 %) MS Office 2 13 (6.341 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.488 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (0.488 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 66 (32.20 %) SNA 2 34 (16.59 %) LAN 3 29 (14.15 %) WAN 4 22 (10.73 %) DNS 5 21 (10.24 %) DHCP 6 16 (7.805 %) SAN 7 8 (3.902 %) Firewall 7 8 (3.902 %) Ethernet 8 7 (3.415 %) VoIP 9 6 (2.927 %) ATM 9 6 (2.927 %) VPN 10 5 (2.439 %) ISDN 11 4 (1.951 %) SNMP 11 4 (1.951 %) LDAP 11 4 (1.951 %) Frame Relay 12 3 (1.463 %) IP Telephony 12 3 (1.463 %) BGP 12 3 (1.463 %) EIGRP 12 3 (1.463 %) Internet 13 2 (0.976 %) SMPP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (2.439 %) SQL Server 2 4 (1.951 %) SQL Server 7 3 2 (0.976 %) MySQL 4 1 (0.488 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 3 (1.463 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.488 %) Rational Rose 2 1 (0.488 %) JMeter 2 1 (0.488 %) JUnit
General 1 27 (13.17 %) Finance 2 7 (3.415 %) Government 3 5 (2.439 %) Telecoms 4 4 (1.951 %) Banking 5 3 (1.463 %) Insurance 6 2 (0.976 %) Aerospace 7 1 (0.488 %) Education 7 1 (0.488 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (0.488 %) Billing 7 1 (0.488 %) Military 7 1 (0.488 %) Local Government 7 1 (0.488 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 62 (30.24 %) Administrator 2 37 (18.05 %) AIX Administrator 3 36 (17.56 %) Systems Administrator 4 21 (10.24 %) Analyst 5 18 (8.780 %) UNIX Administrator 6 14 (6.829 %) Software Engineer 7 11 (5.366 %) Consultant 8 10 (4.878 %) 2nd Line Support 8 10 (4.878 %) Technical Specialist 8 10 (4.878 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 9 9 (4.390 %) Support Engineer 10 8 (3.902 %) Programmer 11 7 (3.415 %) Network Engineer 11 7 (3.415 %) Helpdesk Analyst 11 7 (3.415 %) Helpdesk Support 11 7 (3.415 %) C++ Programmer 12 6 (2.927 %) Network Support 12 6 (2.927 %) Cisco Engineer 12 6 (2.927 %) Infrastructure Specialist 12 6 (2.927 %) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 82 (40.00 %) HACMP 2 11 (5.366 %) Multithreading 3 5 (2.439 %) Blackberry 4 3 (1.463 %) Device Driver 4 3 (1.463 %) PDA 5 2 (0.976 %) NHS 5 2 (0.976 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 5 2 (0.976 %) Mainframe 6 1 (0.488 %) NPfIT 6 1 (0.488 %) Management Information System 6 1 (0.488 %) Clustering 6 1 (0.488 %) CCTV	Operating Systems 1 104 (50.73 %) UNIX 2 90 (43.90 %) AIX 3 71 (34.63 %) Solaris 4 61 (29.76 %) Windows 5 58 (28.29 %) HPUX 6 21 (10.24 %) Linux 7 17 (8.293 %) Windows 2000 7 17 (8.293 %) Windows Server 2003 8 15 (7.317 %) Windows NT 9 10 (4.878 %) Windows XP 10 3 (1.463 %) Embedded Linux 11 2 (0.976 %) Windows CE 11 2 (0.976 %) VMS 12 1 (0.488 %) OS/2
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (3.415 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (2.927 %) SC Cleared 2 6 (2.927 %) ITIL 3 5 (2.439 %) UML 3 5 (2.439 %) Configuration Management 4 4 (1.951 %) Project Management 4 4 (1.951 %) Unit Testing 5 3 (1.463 %) Integration Testing 5 3 (1.463 %) BC Cleared 5 3 (1.463 %) Service Delivery 6 2 (0.976 %) Service Management 6 2 (0.976 %) Data Management 6 2 (0.976 %) Migration 6 2 (0.976 %) Incident Management 6 2 (0.976 %) Problem Management 6 2 (0.976 %) System Testing 6 2 (0.976 %) OOD 7 1 (0.488 %) Information Security 7 1 (0.488 %) Document Management 7 1 (0.488 %) Penetration Testing	Programming Languages 1 74 (36.10 %) Perl 2 63 (30.73 %) Korn 3 18 (8.780 %) C++ 4 12 (5.854 %) C 5 7 (3.415 %) SQL 6 6 (2.927 %) Shell Script 7 5 (2.439 %) VC++ 8 4 (1.951 %) Java 9 1 (0.488 %) C# 9 1 (0.488 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 15 (7.317 %) CCNA 1 15 (7.317 %) Cisco Certification 2 9 (4.390 %) Microsoft Certification 3 8 (3.902 %) MCSE 4 3 (1.463 %) CCNP 5 2 (0.976 %) MCP 5 2 (0.976 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 5 2 (0.976 %) Degree 6 1 (0.488 %) MCSA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (2.927 %) SLA 2 1 (0.488 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (0.488 %) QA
System Software 1 81 (39.51 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 2 29 (14.15 %) Active Directory 3 9 (4.390 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 4 (1.951 %) MetaFrame 5 3 (1.463 %) VMware Workstation 6 2 (0.976 %) Backup Exec 6 2 (0.976 %) VMware ESX 7 1 (0.488 %) MSMQ 7 1 (0.488 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 1 (0.488 %) Terminal Services 7 1 (0.488 %) ISA Server 7 1 (0.488 %) RACF	Systems Management 1 87 (42.44 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 83 (40.49 %) Tivoli 3 4 (1.951 %) CiscoWorks 4 3 (1.463 %) OpenView 5 1 (0.488 %) Legato 5 1 (0.488 %) ARCserve 5 1 (0.488 %) DameWare 5 1 (0.488 %) WSUS 5 1 (0.488 %) ServiceCenter
Vendors 1 62 (30.24 %) VERITAS 2 24 (11.71 %) Microsoft 3 19 (9.268 %) VMware 4 18 (8.780 %) Citrix 4 18 (8.780 %) Cisco 5 8 (3.902 %) NetApp 6 6 (2.927 %) HP 6 6 (2.927 %) Red Hat 7 5 (2.439 %) Lotus 7 5 (2.439 %) IBM 7 5 (2.439 %) Avaya 8 4 (1.951 %) Sun 9 3 (1.463 %) Novell 9 3 (1.463 %) Oracle 9 3 (1.463 %) Nortel 10 2 (0.976 %) Mitel 10 2 (0.976 %) CheckPoint 10 2 (0.976 %) Sybase 11 1 (0.488 %) Symbian 11 1 (0.488 %) Dell