Portsmouth TCP/IP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the Portsmouth 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	29
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	11	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	15.71 %	5.882 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£250	-
Average daily rate	£290	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£330	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£310
% change on same period last year	+1.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.50	£23.50
Average hourly rate	£27.25	£24.00
% change on same period last year	+13.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.03	£25.94
% change on same period last year	-11.20 %
Communications & Networking Portsmouth
Matching contract IT job ads	70	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.093 %	0.034 %
Daily rates quoted	7	3
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£270
Average daily rate	£340	£305
% change on same period last year	+11.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.71	£23.45
Average hourly rate	£26.46	£24.33
% change on same period last year	+8.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.20	£25.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
TCP/IP Hampshire

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 Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 10 (45.45 %) Windows 2 8 (36.36 %) Microsoft 2 8 (36.36 %) Active Directory 3 7 (31.82 %) MS Office 3 7 (31.82 %) Windows 2000 3 7 (31.82 %) Windows XP 4 6 (27.27 %) Telecoms 5 5 (22.73 %) Military 5 5 (22.73 %) SSH 5 5 (22.73 %) Cisco 6 4 (18.18 %) Dell 6 4 (18.18 %) ATM 6 4 (18.18 %) Marketing 7 3 (13.64 %) Cisco Certification 7 3 (13.64 %) CCNA

7 3 (13.64 %) VLAN 7 3 (13.64 %) Security Cleared 8 2 (9.091 %) Integration Testing 8 2 (9.091 %) VPN 8 2 (9.091 %) Terminal Services 8 2 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 8 2 (9.091 %) Lotus 8 2 (9.091 %) Nortel 8 2 (9.091 %) Citrix 8 2 (9.091 %) IBM 8 2 (9.091 %) LAN 8 2 (9.091 %) WAN 8 2 (9.091 %) Lotus Notes 8 2 (9.091 %) Windows NT 8 2 (9.091 %) UNIX

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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.

Application Platforms 1 2 (9.091 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 7 (31.82 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 2 (9.091 %) SoftGrid	Communications & Networking 1 5 (22.73 %) SSH 2 4 (18.18 %) ATM 3 3 (13.64 %) VLAN 4 2 (9.091 %) Nortel Meridian 4 2 (9.091 %) VPN 4 2 (9.091 %) LAN 4 2 (9.091 %) WAN 4 2 (9.091 %) TELNET 5 1 (4.545 %) VRRP 5 1 (4.545 %) Firewall 5 1 (4.545 %) IPsec 5 1 (4.545 %) SNMP 5 1 (4.545 %) Internet 5 1 (4.545 %) BGP
General 1 6 (27.27 %) Telecoms 2 5 (22.73 %) Military 3 4 (18.18 %) Marketing 4 2 (9.091 %) Billing 4 2 (9.091 %) Aerospace 4 2 (9.091 %) Government	Job Titles 1 7 (31.82 %) Analyst 1 7 (31.82 %) Systems Engineer 2 6 (27.27 %) 1st Line Support 3 4 (18.18 %) Desktop Support 4 3 (13.64 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 2 (9.091 %) Helpdesk Support 5 2 (9.091 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 5 2 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 5 2 (9.091 %) Senior Systems Engineer 5 2 (9.091 %) Network Engineer 6 1 (4.545 %) Support Engineer 6 1 (4.545 %) 2nd Line Support 6 1 (4.545 %) Administrator 6 1 (4.545 %) Network Analyst 6 1 (4.545 %) Data Analyst 6 1 (4.545 %) Operations Analyst 6 1 (4.545 %) IT Operations Analyst 6 1 (4.545 %) Citrix Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.545 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 10 (45.45 %) Windows 2 7 (31.82 %) Windows 2000 2 7 (31.82 %) Windows XP 3 2 (9.091 %) UNIX 3 2 (9.091 %) Windows NT 3 2 (9.091 %) AIX 3 2 (9.091 %) Solaris 3 2 (9.091 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (13.64 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (9.091 %) Integration Testing 3 1 (4.545 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 1 (4.545 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (13.64 %) CCNA 1 3 (13.64 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (4.545 %) CCSA 3 1 (4.545 %) Degree 3 1 (4.545 %) CCA 3 1 (4.545 %) Citrix Certification 3 1 (4.545 %) MCP 3 1 (4.545 %) MCSE 3 1 (4.545 %) CCNP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.545 %) BS7799
System Software 1 8 (36.36 %) Active Directory 2 2 (9.091 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (4.545 %) Xen 3 1 (4.545 %) Terminal Server	Systems Management 1 2 (9.091 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 8 (36.36 %) Microsoft 2 5 (22.73 %) Cisco 3 4 (18.18 %) Dell 4 2 (9.091 %) Nortel 4 2 (9.091 %) Citrix 4 2 (9.091 %) Lotus 4 2 (9.091 %) IBM 5 1 (4.545 %) AppSense 5 1 (4.545 %) Altiris