The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham 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 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Nottingham region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 29 29 25
Rank change year-on-year
0 -4
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 6 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.974% 0.897% 2.058%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.955% 9.524% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
Average daily rate £363 - £305
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 - £229
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 - £381
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £301 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.48% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £11.50 £13.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.53% -36.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.75 £17.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+10.29% -24.44%
All Communications & Networking
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
67 21 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 22.04% 9.417% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 4 21
Average daily rate £300 £238 £306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.31% -22.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £208 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £475 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
Average hourly rate £13.25 £13.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.92% -38.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
TCP/IP
Nottinghamshire

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing TCP/IP across the Nottingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Nottingham TCP/IP Jobs Demand Trend

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing TCP/IP across the Nottingham region.

Nottingham TCP/IP Daily Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing TCP/IP across the Nottingham region.

Nottingham TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 10 (62.50%) Cisco
2 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 6 (37.50%) Internet
2 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 6 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (31.25%) BGP
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (31.25%) CCNP
3 5 (31.25%) DNS
3 5 (31.25%) SMTP
3 5 (31.25%) HTTP
4 4 (25.00%) LAN
4 4 (25.00%) Juniper
4 4 (25.00%) VMware
4 4 (25.00%) Cisco PIX
4 4 (25.00%) BIG-IP
4 4 (25.00%) F5
5 3 (18.75%) FWSM
5 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
5 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (18.75%) Wireless
5 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
5 3 (18.75%) WAN
5 3 (18.75%) OSPF
5 3 (18.75%) Linux
5 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
5 3 (18.75%) HP
6 2 (12.50%) EMC
6 2 (12.50%) Windows XP

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 1 (6.250%) Managed Extensibility Framework
1 1 (6.250%) .NET Framework
1 1 (6.250%) WCF
1 1 (6.250%) WPF
1 1 (6.250%) LINQ
1 1 (6.250%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
1 1 (6.250%) Web Services
1 1 (6.250%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
1 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (6.250%) IIS
2 1 (6.250%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Internet
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (31.25%) BGP
2 5 (31.25%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) SMTP
2 5 (31.25%) HTTP
3 4 (25.00%) LAN
3 4 (25.00%) Cisco PIX
3 4 (25.00%) BIG-IP
4 3 (18.75%) FWSM
4 3 (18.75%) Wireless
4 3 (18.75%) WAN
4 3 (18.75%) OSPF
5 2 (12.50%) PBX
6 1 (6.250%) NetScaler
6 1 (6.250%) VLAN
6 1 (6.250%) Network Security
6 1 (6.250%) EIGRP
6 1 (6.250%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2012
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Visual Studio
1 1 (6.250%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 2 (12.50%) Banking
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Centre Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) IT Support
4 1 (6.250%) Test Leader
4 1 (6.250%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Design Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Network Technician
4 1 (6.250%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Network Support
4 1 (6.250%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (6.250%) Celerra
2 1 (6.250%) iPhone
2 1 (6.250%) EMC Centera
2 1 (6.250%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Windows XP
3 2 (12.50%) HPUX
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.250%) MVS
4 1 (6.250%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (6.250%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (6.250%) Project Planning
1 1 (6.250%) Load Balancing
1 1 (6.250%) Multithreading
1 1 (6.250%) Incident Management
1 1 (6.250%) Data Analysis
1 1 (6.250%) MVVM
1 1 (6.250%) Service Delivery
1 1 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (6.250%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.250%) C#
1 1 (6.250%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (31.25%) CCNP
2 1 (6.250%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) QA
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Tivoli
1 2 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (12.50%) Control-M
1 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (6.250%) DameWare
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Cisco
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 4 (25.00%) Juniper
3 4 (25.00%) VMware
3 4 (25.00%) F5
4 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
4 3 (18.75%) HP
5 2 (12.50%) EMC
5 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
5 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
6 1 (6.250%) ProCurve
6 1 (6.250%) Lotus
6 1 (6.250%) Oracle