TCP/IP Contracts in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 128 105 105
Rank change year-on-year -23 0 +9
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 24 71 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.76% 1.95% 1.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.55% 11.04% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 39
10th Percentile - £179 £187
25th Percentile £469 £391 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +21.88% +28.00%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £477
90th Percentile £713 £620 £510
England median daily rate £475 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -5.00% +7.58% +9.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 26 5
10th Percentile £56.49 £36.15 £45.70
25th Percentile £58.31 £57.37 £50.77
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -0.46% +24.15%
75th Percentile £69.69 £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile £74.63 £83.00 £73.82
England median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -27.70% +136.36% -30.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 527 643 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.64% 17.66% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 418 296
10th Percentile £275 £206 £221
25th Percentile £460 £400 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £541
90th Percentile £713 £719 £623
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 128 34
10th Percentile £12.50 - £41.13
25th Percentile £15.75 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +7.57%
75th Percentile £70.66 £62.13 £66.46
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.58 £69.05
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +8 8 £488 -2.50% 13
Dorset +7 7 £488 -
Gloucestershire +9 4 £600 - 3
Somerset -6 2 £319 -32.00% 4
Wiltshire -22 2 £675 +42.11% 6
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (16.67%) Apache Solr
1 4 (16.67%) Confluence
1 4 (16.67%) nginx
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.17%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (8.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) GCP
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 13 (54.17%) DNS
2 8 (33.33%) DHCP
3 6 (25.00%) Firewall
4 5 (20.83%) HTTPS
4 5 (20.83%) IPsec
4 5 (20.83%) VPN
4 5 (20.83%) WAN
5 4 (16.67%) Network Security
6 3 (12.50%) BGP
6 3 (12.50%) OSPF
6 3 (12.50%) SNMP
7 2 (8.33%) Ethernet
7 2 (8.33%) HTTP
7 2 (8.33%) LAN
7 2 (8.33%) Skype
7 2 (8.33%) SMTP
8 1 (4.17%) 4G
8 1 (4.17%) 5G
8 1 (4.17%) FTP
8 1 (4.17%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Couchbase
1 4 (16.67%) MySQL
1 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (8.33%) Eclipse
2 2 (8.33%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Military
3 4 (16.67%) Legal
4 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) C# Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Principal Security Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) JSON
1 4 (16.67%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (16.67%) YAML
2 2 (8.33%) Node.js
2 2 (8.33%) Web Services
3 1 (4.17%) LDAP
3 1 (4.17%) SPML
3 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Linux
2 11 (45.83%) Windows
3 4 (16.67%) CentOS
3 4 (16.67%) Unix
3 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.17%) Mac OS X
5 1 (4.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Agile
2 7 (29.17%) ITIL
3 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
5 4 (16.67%) DevOps
5 4 (16.67%) Information Security
5 4 (16.67%) Microservices
5 4 (16.67%) Migration
5 4 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (16.67%) SDLC
5 4 (16.67%) Software Delivery
5 4 (16.67%) Visualisation
6 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (12.50%) Network Management
6 3 (12.50%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.67%) Bash
2 4 (16.67%) C
2 4 (16.67%) C#
2 4 (16.67%) PHP
2 4 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) C++
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (4.17%) CEH
5 1 (4.17%) CREST Certified
5 1 (4.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) NIST
2 4 (16.67%) GDPR
2 4 (16.67%) HIPAA
2 4 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (16.67%) QA
3 2 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.67%) vSphere
4 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
5 2 (8.33%) Docker
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (4.17%) Samba
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Ansible
1 8 (33.33%) Terraform
2 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (16.67%) SCCM
4 3 (12.50%) FortiGate
5 2 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (8.33%) OPNET
5 2 (8.33%) SCOM
5 2 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) VMware
3 4 (16.67%) Google
4 3 (12.50%) Cisco
4 3 (12.50%) F5
4 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 2 (8.33%) Remedy
5 2 (8.33%) SolarWinds
5 2 (8.33%) Sparx
5 2 (8.33%) Veeam
6 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.17%) Nokia
6 1 (4.17%) Red Hat