Rugby TCP/IP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the Rugby 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 20 August 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 Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon 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 Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire 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 West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	10
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	4	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	28.57 %	33.33 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£350	-
Average daily rate	£400	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£298	£305
% change on same period last year	-2.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£13.50
Average hourly rate	-	£13.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.31	£26.92
% change on same period last year	-17.14 %
Communications & Networking Rugby
Matching contract IT job ads	14	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.006 %
Daily rates quoted	6	4
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£100
Average daily rate	£306	£105
% change on same period last year	+190.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£110
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£343
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£13.50
Average hourly rate	£11.00	£13.50
% change on same period last year	-18.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	£13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.88	£28.72
% change on same period last year	-9.87 %
TCP/IP Warwickshire

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 Rugby 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 Rugby 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 Rugby region.

TCP/IP
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Rugby 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 14 (93.33 %) Oracle 1 14 (93.33 %) UNIX 1 14 (93.33 %) Windows 1 14 (93.33 %) AIX 1 14 (93.33 %) Solaris 1 14 (93.33 %) Linux 1 14 (93.33 %) DNS 1 14 (93.33 %) RDBMS 1 14 (93.33 %) Red Hat 1 14 (93.33 %) Tomcat 1 14 (93.33 %) Firewall 1 14 (93.33 %) WebSphere 2 13 (86.67 %) Red Hat Linux 2 13 (86.67 %) Apache 3 4 (26.67 %) Oracle 8/8i

4 2 (13.33 %) Logistics 5 1 (6.667 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (6.667 %) Pocket PC 5 1 (6.667 %) Windows XP 5 1 (6.667 %) Handset

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Rugby 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 14 (93.33 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 14 (93.33 %) Tomcat 2 13 (86.67 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 14 (93.33 %) DNS 1 14 (93.33 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (93.33 %) RDBMS 2 4 (26.67 %) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles 1 8 (53.33 %) Administrator 1 8 (53.33 %) UNIX Administrator 1 8 (53.33 %) Web Administrator 2 2 (13.33 %) Technical Administrator 3 1 (6.667 %) Technical Engineer 3 1 (6.667 %) Design Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.667 %) Pocket PC 1 1 (6.667 %) Handset
Operating Systems 1 14 (93.33 %) UNIX 1 14 (93.33 %) Windows 1 14 (93.33 %) AIX 1 14 (93.33 %) Solaris 1 14 (93.33 %) Linux 2 13 (86.67 %) Red Hat Linux 3 1 (6.667 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (13.33 %) Logistics 2 1 (6.667 %) Test Scripting
Vendors 1 14 (93.33 %) Oracle 1 14 (93.33 %) Red Hat