TCP/IP Contracts in the South East

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 126 157
Rank change year-on-year -2 +31 -53
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 63 86 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.15% 1.51% 1.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.20% 9.15% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 56 63
10th Percentile £163 £294 £146
25th Percentile £267 £312 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £260
Median % change year-on-year - +82.69% -42.22%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £425
90th Percentile £550 £644 £586
England median daily rate £488 £488 £463
% change year-on-year - +5.41% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 12
10th Percentile - £20.40 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £46.44 £20.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £62.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.62% +190.93% +7.50%
75th Percentile £19.50 £63.72 £23.31
90th Percentile - £66.00 £54.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.78 £28.00
% change year-on-year +1.92% +127.77% -29.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,211 940 1,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.09% 16.52% 16.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 568 764
10th Percentile £205 £240 £186
25th Percentile £363 £363 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £486 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% +8.06% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £656
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 73 71
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.25 £16.11
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £53.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% +148.84% -37.68%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the South East over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Thames Valley +14 36 £525 -4.55% 25
Buckinghamshire +29 22 £525 -4.55% 4
Surrey +20 20 £350 +12.90% 11
Berkshire -10 13 £150 -69.23% 14
West Sussex +7 5 £450 +5.88% 2
Hampshire -26 1 £400 -15.79% 11
Oxfordshire - 1 £180 - 7
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (9.52%) Confluence
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (9.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.29%) Azure
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (7.94%) AWS
3 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
3 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.17%) GitHub
4 1 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.59%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 20 (31.75%) SAN
2 18 (28.57%) Firewall
3 15 (23.81%) DNS
4 13 (20.63%) DHCP
4 13 (20.63%) VPN
5 11 (17.46%) VLAN
6 10 (15.87%) LAN
6 10 (15.87%) WAN
7 7 (11.11%) VoIP
7 7 (11.11%) Wireless
8 6 (9.52%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (7.94%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (7.94%) iSCSI
10 4 (6.35%) NAS
10 4 (6.35%) SSL
11 3 (4.76%) Network Security
12 2 (3.17%) 4G
12 2 (3.17%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (3.17%) MPLS
13 1 (1.59%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (3.17%) MySQL
1 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
1 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
1 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) JIRA
2 4 (6.35%) Artifactory
2 4 (6.35%) Bitbucket
2 4 (6.35%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.17%) TestRail
General
1 10 (15.87%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.76%) Front Office
3 2 (3.17%) Automotive
3 2 (3.17%) Finance
3 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (38.10%) Developer
2 22 (34.92%) Python Developer
3 11 (17.46%) Support Specialist
4 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) IT Support
5 6 (9.52%) Technical Specialist
5 6 (9.52%) Technical Support
5 6 (9.52%) Technical Support Specialist
6 5 (7.94%) Analyst
6 5 (7.94%) IT Support Specialist
6 5 (7.94%) Network Specialist
6 5 (7.94%) Network Support
6 5 (7.94%) Network Support Specialist
6 5 (7.94%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Development Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Security Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Software Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Software Development Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.52%) .NET
2 4 (6.35%) RESTful
2 4 (6.35%) SOAP
2 4 (6.35%) XML
3 2 (3.17%) 802.1X
3 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.76%) IoT
2 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.59%) CMDB
3 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (50.79%) Linux
2 23 (36.51%) Windows
3 18 (28.57%) Ubuntu
4 15 (23.81%) Debian
5 9 (14.29%) Unix
6 7 (11.11%) Windows 10
7 4 (6.35%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
9 2 (3.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.59%) Android
10 1 (1.59%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.75%) Agile
2 18 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 17 (26.98%) ITIL
4 15 (23.81%) Data Modelling
5 12 (19.05%) Configuration Management
5 12 (19.05%) Data Engineering
5 12 (19.05%) Prototyping
5 12 (19.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 10 (15.87%) Software Engineering
7 9 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
8 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (11.11%) Computer Science
10 6 (9.52%) End-to-End Testing
10 6 (9.52%) Knowledge Management
10 6 (9.52%) Scrum
10 6 (9.52%) Test Automation
11 5 (7.94%) Business Case
11 5 (7.94%) Change Management
11 5 (7.94%) Problem Management
11 5 (7.94%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.86%) Python
2 8 (12.70%) SQL
3 6 (9.52%) C++
4 5 (7.94%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.35%) C#
6 3 (4.76%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.17%) C
7 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (46.03%) Security Cleared
2 23 (36.51%) SC Cleared
3 20 (31.75%) Degree
4 16 (25.40%) DV Cleared
5 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (11.11%) CCNA
6 7 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (7.94%) MCSE
8 4 (6.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (4.76%) CCNP
9 3 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (3.17%) HNC
10 2 (3.17%) ISTQB
10 2 (3.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.59%) BC Cleared
11 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.59%) CCDP
11 1 (1.59%) CCIP
11 1 (1.59%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.05%) SLA
2 5 (7.94%) QA
3 3 (4.76%) ISO 9001
3 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.59%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 13 (20.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (12.70%) vSphere
4 7 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (6.35%) Firmware
5 4 (6.35%) Hyper-V
5 4 (6.35%) VirtualBox
6 2 (3.17%) XenApp
7 1 (1.59%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (11.11%) SCCM
2 4 (6.35%) WSUS
3 3 (4.76%) Nessus
4 2 (3.17%) Ansible
4 2 (3.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (3.17%) Grafana
4 2 (3.17%) Graylog
4 2 (3.17%) Nagios
4 2 (3.17%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.17%) Terraform
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 35 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 34 (53.97%) VMware
3 15 (23.81%) Red Hat
4 7 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 6 (9.52%) HP
6 5 (7.94%) Cisco
7 4 (6.35%) CheckPoint
7 4 (6.35%) Oracle
7 4 (6.35%) Splunk
8 3 (4.76%) Citrix
9 2 (3.17%) Atmel
9 2 (3.17%) Dell
9 2 (3.17%) F5
9 2 (3.17%) Meraki
9 2 (3.17%) Palo Alto
9 2 (3.17%) Qualys
9 2 (3.17%) Remedy
9 2 (3.17%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.59%) Alcatel-Lucent
10 1 (1.59%) Avaya