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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 94 120
Rank change year-on-year -23 +26 -4
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 24 64 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.86% 1.98% 1.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.54% 14.88% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 40 48
10th Percentile £343 £263 £132
25th Percentile £350 £341 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £525 £419
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% +25.37% +6.69%
75th Percentile £522 £638 £638
90th Percentile £575 £650 £650
England median daily rate £475 £520 £463
% change year-on-year -8.65% +12.43% +8.82%
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 £56.49 £62.55 £27.50
% change year-on-year -9.69% +127.45% -14.73%

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 367 430 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.21% 13.32% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 309 341
10th Percentile £199 £288 £181
25th Percentile £322 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +11.11% +21.62%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £575
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +15.56%
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 £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -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 25 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 25 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% 13
Cheshire -5 5 £475 +46.15% 12
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 (25.00%) Apache
1 6 (25.00%) IIS
1 6 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (8.33%) nginx
2 2 (8.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) GCP
3 5 (20.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.33%) IaaS
5 2 (8.33%) PaaS
5 2 (8.33%) SaaS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) DNS
2 6 (25.00%) DHCP
2 6 (25.00%) H.323
2 6 (25.00%) HTTP
3 5 (20.83%) BGP
3 5 (20.83%) VLAN
3 5 (20.83%) VPN
4 4 (16.67%) Firewall
4 4 (16.67%) OSPF
5 2 (8.33%) LAN
5 2 (8.33%) MPLS
5 2 (8.33%) Network Security
5 2 (8.33%) Value-Added Service
5 2 (8.33%) Wireshark
6 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (4.17%) WAN
6 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 5 (20.83%) Finance
4 4 (16.67%) Legal
4 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Electronics
6 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.17%) Marketing
6 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Analyst
2 3 (12.50%) Support Specialist
3 2 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Avaya Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Avaya Specialist
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) C++ Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Developer
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) IT Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) IT Operations Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) IT Support
3 2 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) IT Support Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) cloud-init
1 2 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Management Information System
2 6 (25.00%) IVR
3 2 (8.33%) Clustering
3 2 (8.33%) CMDB
3 2 (8.33%) PKI
3 2 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
1 8 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (29.17%) Windows
3 2 (8.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Change Management
2 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 6 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 5 (20.83%) WFM
4 5 (20.83%) Workforce Optimisation
5 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 3 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
6 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Problem Management
7 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.33%) Containerisation
7 2 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 2 (8.33%) Cost Reduction
7 2 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) Bash
3 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.33%) C++
4 2 (8.33%) Go
4 2 (8.33%) Ruby
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (12.50%) CCIE
2 3 (12.50%) CCNP
3 2 (8.33%) CCNA
3 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) VCAP
4 1 (4.17%) CISM
4 1 (4.17%) CISSP
4 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
1 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) ZABBIX
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Consul
2 2 (8.33%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (8.33%) Graphite
2 2 (8.33%) HAProxy
2 2 (8.33%) Istio
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) linkerd
2 2 (8.33%) Nagios
2 2 (8.33%) Packer
2 2 (8.33%) Podman
2 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.33%) Puppet
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) Avaya
2 6 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 5 (20.83%) Verint
4 3 (12.50%) Google
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco
5 2 (8.33%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (8.33%) PagerDuty
5 2 (8.33%) SAP
5 2 (8.33%) Splunk
5 2 (8.33%) VMware
6 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.17%) Fortinet