Northamptonshire TCP/IP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the Northamptonshire 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cowes Crawley Cwmbran Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	20
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	3	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	7.500 %	34.38 %
Daily rates quoted	0	12
Average minimum daily rate	-	£227
Average daily rate	-	£227
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£227
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£291
% change on same period last year	+0.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	-
Average hourly rate	£12.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.11	£26.86
% change on same period last year	-13.96 %
Communications & Networking Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	40	64
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.056 %	0.065 %
Daily rates quoted	13	23
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£272
Average daily rate	£368	£273
% change on same period last year	+34.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£15.68	£20.25
% change on same period last year	-22.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.37	£20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.43	£28.95
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
TCP/IP East Midlands

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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Northampton	-9	2	-	-

TCP/IP East Midlands

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 3 (42.86 %) Windows 1 3 (42.86 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 1 3 (42.86 %) VERITAS 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 2 (28.57 %) IBM 2 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 2 2 (28.57 %) LAN 2 2 (28.57 %) WAN 2 2 (28.57 %) Linux 2 2 (28.57 %) UNIX 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows XP 2 2 (28.57 %) AIX 2 2 (28.57 %) Informix 3 1 (14.29 %) MCSE

3 1 (14.29 %) MCSA 3 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel 3 1 (14.29 %) Solaris 3 1 (14.29 %) C 3 1 (14.29 %) MS Office 3 1 (14.29 %) MCP 3 1 (14.29 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (14.29 %) Ethernet 3 1 (14.29 %) RIP 3 1 (14.29 %) VPN 3 1 (14.29 %) SLA 3 1 (14.29 %) Nortel 3 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (14.29 %) Internet 3 1 (14.29 %) Symantec

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 (42.86 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (14.29 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Office 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) LAN 1 2 (28.57 %) WAN 2 1 (14.29 %) Ethernet 2 1 (14.29 %) RIP 2 1 (14.29 %) VPN 2 1 (14.29 %) Internet 2 1 (14.29 %) OSPF 2 1 (14.29 %) BGP 2 1 (14.29 %) VRRP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (28.57 %) Informix
General 1 1 (14.29 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Analyst 2 2 (28.57 %) Administrator 3 1 (14.29 %) Senior Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Technical Support Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Helpdesk Support 3 1 (14.29 %) Technical Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Service Desk Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Network Support Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Network Support 3 1 (14.29 %) AIX Administrator 3 1 (14.29 %) Network Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Systems Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Support Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Technical Support 3 1 (14.29 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (14.29 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (28.57 %) UNIX 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 2 (28.57 %) AIX 2 2 (28.57 %) Linux 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows XP 3 1 (14.29 %) Solaris 3 1 (14.29 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) Business Continuity 1 1 (14.29 %) Network Planning	Programming Languages 1 1 (14.29 %) C
Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) MCP 1 1 (14.29 %) MCSE 1 1 (14.29 %) MCSA 1 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (14.29 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (14.29 %) Backup Exec	Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) VERITAS 2 2 (28.57 %) IBM 2 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 3 1 (14.29 %) Nortel 3 1 (14.29 %) Lotus 3 1 (14.29 %) Symantec