The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 17 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 Somerset 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 24 35 32
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -3
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 8 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 4.372% 1.170% 0.633%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.57% 28.57% 4.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £200 £237 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.70% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 £308 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.82% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £14.58 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £21.50 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-27.90% -16.50%
All Communications & Networking
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
28 7 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 15.30% 4.094% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 15
Average daily rate £200 £240 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -26.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
Average hourly rate £13.95 - £14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
TCP/IP
South West

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bath - 4 - -
Taunton +4 3 £200 -15.70%
TCP/IP
South West

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 7 (58.33%) Windows
1 7 (58.33%) ITIL
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (41.67%) Handset
3 5 (41.67%) IVR
3 5 (41.67%) LAN
3 5 (41.67%) VoIP
3 5 (41.67%) WAN
3 5 (41.67%) DHCP
3 5 (41.67%) Unified Communications
3 5 (41.67%) PABX
4 4 (33.33%) Siemens
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
5 3 (25.00%) HP
5 3 (25.00%) Internet
5 3 (25.00%) DNS
5 3 (25.00%) C
5 3 (25.00%) VMware
5 3 (25.00%) Supplier Management
5 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (16.67%) Mac OS X Server
6 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (16.67%) Git (software)
6 2 (16.67%) XenApp
6 2 (16.67%) nginx
6 2 (16.67%) Open Source
6 2 (16.67%) VMware ESX
6 2 (16.67%) Perl

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 2 (16.67%) MS Exchange
1 2 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (16.67%) nginx
1 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (8.333%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Office
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) LAN
1 5 (41.67%) VoIP
1 5 (41.67%) WAN
1 5 (41.67%) DHCP
1 5 (41.67%) Unified Communications
1 5 (41.67%) PABX
2 3 (25.00%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (8.333%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Subversion
1 2 (16.67%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (8.333%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Support Technician
2 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Support
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Voice Support Technician
4 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Server Support
4 1 (8.333%) Support Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Support
4 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) 2nd Line Support Technician
4 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Technical Support
4 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Handset
1 5 (41.67%) IVR
2 2 (16.67%) Open Source
2 2 (16.67%) Blackberry
3 1 (8.333%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (16.67%) UNIX
3 2 (16.67%) Solaris
3 2 (16.67%) Linux
3 2 (16.67%) FreeBSD
3 2 (16.67%) Windows XP
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (16.67%) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Supplier Management
3 2 (16.67%) Change Control
4 1 (8.333%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C
2 2 (16.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (16.67%) MCSE
3 1 (8.333%) MCP
3 1 (8.333%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (8.333%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) VMware ESX
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) XenApp
3 1 (8.333%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Siemens
3 3 (25.00%) HP
3 3 (25.00%) VMware
4 2 (16.67%) Citrix
5 1 (8.333%) BT