The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Portsmouth 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank - 13 20
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 0 5 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth - 5.000% 8.333%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 29.41% 24.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £265
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 11
Average hourly rate - £33.75 £12.15
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +177.77%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -20.00%
All Communications & Networking
Portsmouth
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
17 17 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 20.24% 17.00% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 6
Average daily rate £325 £347 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.31% +30.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £303 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £387 £359 £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 25
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +71.05%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
TCP/IP
Hampshire

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware