TCP/IP Contracts in the North West

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for TCP/IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TCP/IP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 92 119
Rank change year-on-year -20 +27 -8
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 25 63 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.90% 1.96% 1.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.85% 14.75% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 38 51
10th Percentile £343 £263 £133
25th Percentile £350 £322 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% +23.53% +10.39%
75th Percentile £522 £638 £638
90th Percentile £575 £650 £650
England median daily rate £475 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -5.00% +7.58% +9.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £12.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -56.36% - -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -27.70% +136.36% -30.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

TCP/IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 365 427 527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.21% 13.29% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 303 352
10th Percentile £199 £288 £183
25th Percentile £322 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% +21.62%
75th Percentile £651 £575 £582
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 13
10th Percentile - £17.92 £12.07
25th Percentile £17.72 £19.17 £16.23
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +68.92% -61.00%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £42.20
90th Percentile £89.18 £52.13 £63.75
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the North West.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -5 18 £400 -36.00% 14
Cheshire -4 6 £475 +46.15% 17
Cumbria - 1 £500 - 3
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (24.00%) Apache
1 6 (24.00%) IIS
1 6 (24.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (8.00%) nginx
2 2 (8.00%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) GCP
3 5 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.00%) IaaS
5 2 (8.00%) PaaS
5 2 (8.00%) SaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) DNS
2 6 (24.00%) BGP
2 6 (24.00%) DHCP
2 6 (24.00%) H.323
2 6 (24.00%) HTTP
2 6 (24.00%) VLAN
2 6 (24.00%) VPN
3 5 (20.00%) OSPF
4 4 (16.00%) Firewall
5 3 (12.00%) MPLS
5 3 (12.00%) Value-Added Service
5 3 (12.00%) Wireshark
6 2 (8.00%) LAN
6 2 (8.00%) Network Security
7 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (4.00%) WAN
7 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
1 2 (8.00%) GitLab
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (44.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Telecoms
3 5 (20.00%) Finance
4 4 (16.00%) Legal
4 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Electronics
6 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.00%) Marketing
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Support Specialist
3 2 (8.00%) Avaya Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Avaya Specialist
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) C++ Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Developer
3 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) IT Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) IT Operations Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) IT Support
3 2 (8.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) IT Support Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) cloud-init
1 2 (8.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (24.00%) IVR
3 2 (8.00%) Clustering
3 2 (8.00%) CMDB
3 2 (8.00%) PKI
3 2 (8.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Linux
1 8 (32.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (28.00%) Windows
3 2 (8.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Change Management
2 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (24.00%) Capacity Management
3 6 (24.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 5 (20.00%) WFM
4 5 (20.00%) Workforce Optimisation
5 4 (16.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (12.00%) Incident Response
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) Migration
6 3 (12.00%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (12.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (12.00%) Problem Management
7 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (8.00%) Cost Reduction
7 2 (8.00%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (8.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) Bash
3 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.00%) C++
4 2 (8.00%) Go
4 2 (8.00%) Ruby
5 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (16.00%) CCIE
2 4 (16.00%) CCNP
3 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (12.00%) Degree
3 3 (12.00%) VCAP
4 2 (8.00%) CCNA
4 2 (8.00%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) CISM
5 1 (4.00%) CISSP
5 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) NCSC
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
1 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) ZABBIX
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Consul
2 2 (8.00%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (8.00%) Graphite
2 2 (8.00%) HAProxy
2 2 (8.00%) Istio
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) linkerd
2 2 (8.00%) Nagios
2 2 (8.00%) Packer
2 2 (8.00%) Podman
2 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.00%) Puppet
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) SolarWinds
3 6 (24.00%) Avaya
3 6 (24.00%) Red Hat
4 5 (20.00%) Verint
5 3 (12.00%) Google
5 3 (12.00%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (8.00%) Cisco
6 2 (8.00%) PagerDuty
6 2 (8.00%) SAP
6 2 (8.00%) Splunk
6 2 (8.00%) VMware
7 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
7 1 (4.00%) Fortinet