TCP/IP Contracts in Scotland

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for TCP/IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TCP/IP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 155 124
Rank change year-on-year +44 -31 +14
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 20 9 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.91% 0.32% 1.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.06% 2.56% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 26
10th Percentile £288 £312 £319
25th Percentile £448 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £440 £400
Median % change year-on-year +40.84% +9.88% +3.23%
75th Percentile £700 £472 £506
90th Percentile £780 £475 £538
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
75th Percentile - - £36.27
90th Percentile - - £44.23
UK median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -27.70% +136.36% -30.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

TCP/IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 248 352 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.24% 12.33% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 223 194
10th Percentile £187 £160 £179
25th Percentile £363 £356 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% +7.14%
75th Percentile £626 £538 £538
90th Percentile £700 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 16
10th Percentile £15.43 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.69 - £41.31
Median hourly rate £22.14 £10.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.23% -77.62% -26.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £35.00 £53.89
90th Percentile £60.75 £58.75 £56.63
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in Scotland

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in Scotland

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Scotland

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in Scotland

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +11 15 £621 +41.24% 4
Edinburgh +44 3 £438 -8.56% 5
South Lanarkshire 0 2 £700 +218.18%
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) EPiServer
1 1 (5.00%) IIS
1 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
1 3 (15.00%) IaaS
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) DNS
1 9 (45.00%) HTTP
1 9 (45.00%) SSL
2 8 (40.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (35.00%) NetScaler
4 5 (25.00%) Firewall
5 3 (15.00%) VLAN
6 2 (10.00%) FabricPath
6 2 (10.00%) LAN
6 2 (10.00%) NX-OS
6 2 (10.00%) VPN
7 1 (5.00%) BIG-IP
7 1 (5.00%) DHCP
7 1 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (5.00%) Internet
7 1 (5.00%) Network Security
7 1 (5.00%) SAN
7 1 (5.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Git
1 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Banking
4 4 (20.00%) Finance
5 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Linux Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Unix Developer
4 2 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 2 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Applications Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Applications Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) VMware Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) REST
2 5 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 5 (25.00%) Twisted
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (10.00%) iPad
2 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Linux
2 9 (45.00%) Unix
3 5 (25.00%) Windows
4 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 9 (45.00%) Migration
3 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (30.00%) Low Latency
6 5 (25.00%) Agile
6 5 (25.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
7 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
7 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Time Management
8 2 (10.00%) Asset Management
8 2 (10.00%) Capacity Management
8 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 2 (10.00%) DevOps
8 2 (10.00%) High Availability
8 2 (10.00%) Kanban
8 2 (10.00%) Load Balancing
8 2 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
8 2 (10.00%) SDLC
8 2 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) Java
2 10 (50.00%) Perl
3 9 (45.00%) Bash
4 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (15.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.00%) Puppet
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) F5
2 7 (35.00%) VMware
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco
5 1 (5.00%) CA