Sheffield TCP/IP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the Sheffield 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 21 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 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 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 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 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	30
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	5	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	6.494 %	4.494 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£237
Average daily rate	-	£248
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£305
% change on same period last year	-1.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.67	-
Average hourly rate	£20.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.33	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.50	£26.92
% change on same period last year	-20.12 %
Communications & Networking Sheffield
Matching contract IT job ads	77	89
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.102 %	0.089 %
Daily rates quoted	15	26
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£286
Average daily rate	£331	£307
% change on same period last year	+7.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£343
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.41	£21.46
Average hourly rate	£26.56	£21.96
% change on same period last year	+20.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.72	£22.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.72	£28.70
% change on same period last year	-10.38 %
TCP/IP South Yorkshire

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 Sheffield 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 Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 8 (61.54 %) Windows 2 7 (53.85 %) Linux 2 7 (53.85 %) Active Directory 2 7 (53.85 %) DNS 3 6 (46.15 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (30.77 %) Microsoft 4 4 (30.77 %) HP 4 4 (30.77 %) DHCP 4 4 (30.77 %) NetWare 4 4 (30.77 %) MS Office 4 4 (30.77 %) Novell 4 4 (30.77 %) VMware 4 4 (30.77 %) VMware ESX 5 3 (23.08 %) SSH 5 3 (23.08 %) Oracle Application Server

5 3 (23.08 %) Korn 5 3 (23.08 %) Oracle RAC 5 3 (23.08 %) Oracle RMAN 5 3 (23.08 %) Lotus 5 3 (23.08 %) Solaris 5 3 (23.08 %) Oracle 5 3 (23.08 %) UNIX 5 3 (23.08 %) Lotus Notes 5 3 (23.08 %) Windows XP 5 3 (23.08 %) Oracle 10g 5 3 (23.08 %) NFS 5 3 (23.08 %) SAN 5 3 (23.08 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 3 (23.08 %) OC4J 6 2 (15.38 %) Red Hat Linux

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 3 (23.08 %) OC4J 2 2 (15.38 %) WebServices 2 2 (15.38 %) XML 2 2 (15.38 %) WSRP 2 2 (15.38 %) JSR 168	Application Platforms 1 3 (23.08 %) Oracle Application Server 1 3 (23.08 %) Lotus Notes 2 2 (15.38 %) GroupWise 2 2 (15.38 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (15.38 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 4 (30.77 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 7 (53.85 %) DNS 2 4 (30.77 %) DHCP 3 3 (23.08 %) SSH 3 3 (23.08 %) SAN 4 2 (15.38 %) VPN 4 2 (15.38 %) Ethernet 4 2 (15.38 %) LAN 4 2 (15.38 %) WAN 4 2 (15.38 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (23.08 %) Oracle 10g 2 2 (15.38 %) Oracle 8/8i	General 1 2 (15.38 %) Education 2 1 (7.692 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 4 (30.77 %) Analyst 1 4 (30.77 %) Service Analyst 1 4 (30.77 %) Support Technician 1 4 (30.77 %) Service Desk Analyst 2 2 (15.38 %) Developer 2 2 (15.38 %) Network Technician 2 2 (15.38 %) Active Directory Specialist 2 2 (15.38 %) Network Support Technician 2 2 (15.38 %) Network Support 2 2 (15.38 %) 3rd Line Support 2 2 (15.38 %) Oracle Developer 3 1 (7.692 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 1 (7.692 %) Oracle DBA 3 1 (7.692 %) DBA	Operating Systems 1 8 (61.54 %) Windows 2 7 (53.85 %) Linux 3 6 (46.15 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (30.77 %) NetWare 5 3 (23.08 %) Solaris 5 3 (23.08 %) UNIX 5 3 (23.08 %) Windows XP 5 3 (23.08 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 2 (15.38 %) Red Hat Linux 7 1 (7.692 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (15.38 %) ITIL 1 2 (15.38 %) Disaster Recovery 1 2 (15.38 %) Migration 1 2 (15.38 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (7.692 %) Problem Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (23.08 %) Korn
Qualifications 1 1 (7.692 %) CNE 1 1 (7.692 %) Novell Certification	System Software 1 7 (53.85 %) Active Directory 2 4 (30.77 %) VMware ESX 3 3 (23.08 %) Oracle RAC 3 3 (23.08 %) Oracle RMAN 3 3 (23.08 %) NFS 4 2 (15.38 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 2 (15.38 %) ZENworks 1 2 (15.38 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 4 (30.77 %) Microsoft 1 4 (30.77 %) HP 1 4 (30.77 %) Novell 1 4 (30.77 %) VMware 2 3 (23.08 %) Lotus 2 3 (23.08 %) Oracle 3 2 (15.38 %) Red Hat