The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 22 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 South West 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 77 73 78
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +5
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 34 70 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.650% 2.119% 1.521%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.60% 12.70% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 9
Average daily rate £215 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.57% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £130 £240 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £273 £308 £300
% change year-on-year
-11.38% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 11
Average hourly rate £20.50 £27.50 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.45% -27.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.94 £16.20 £21.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.50 £42.20 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.75 £21.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-25.88% -15.00%
All Communications & Networking
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
293 551 371
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 14.22% 16.68% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 284 152
Average daily rate £350 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £249 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 39 53
Average hourly rate £20.50 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.96 £16.50 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £42.50 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West TCP/IP Daily Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the South West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South West TCP/IP Daily Rate Histogram

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 South West region.

South West TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the South West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South West TCP/IP Hourly Rate Histogram

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 South West region over the 3 months to 22 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
Bristol +14 11 £306 -32.01%
Dorset +3 10 £228 -39.33%
Somerset +4 7 £200 -15.70%
Gloucestershire +27 3 £130 -71.11%
Wiltshire -10 2 - -
Devon -4 1 £110 -68.57%
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 62 (81.58%) Windows
2 38 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 34 (44.74%) Active Directory
3 34 (44.74%) VMware
4 32 (42.11%) DNS
4 32 (42.11%) LAN
5 30 (39.47%) Firewall
6 28 (36.84%) DHCP
7 26 (34.21%) Cisco
7 26 (34.21%) WAN
8 19 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 17 (22.37%) Windows XP
9 17 (22.37%) SQL Server
9 17 (22.37%) VPN
10 16 (21.05%) HP
10 16 (21.05%) ITIL
10 16 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
11 15 (19.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (19.74%) Windows Server 2003
12 14 (18.42%) Citrix
12 14 (18.42%) SAN
12 14 (18.42%) VoIP
12 14 (18.42%) UNIX
13 13 (17.11%) Internet
13 13 (17.11%) MPLS
13 13 (17.11%) Blackberry
14 12 (15.79%) Linux
14 12 (15.79%) MCSE
14 12 (15.79%) MS Excel
15 11 (14.47%) Solaris

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 7 (9.211%) Middleware
2 2 (2.632%) ISPF
2 2 (2.632%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.316%) COM
Application Platforms
1 10 (13.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 9 (11.84%) MS Exchange
2 9 (11.84%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (9.211%) WebLogic
3 7 (9.211%) GlassFish
3 7 (9.211%) Oracle Application Server
3 7 (9.211%) Windows Azure
4 6 (7.895%) Amazon AWS
4 6 (7.895%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (7.895%) IIS
5 4 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (5.263%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.632%) nginx
6 2 (2.632%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (2.632%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (15.79%) MS Excel
2 9 (11.84%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 32 (42.11%) DNS
1 32 (42.11%) LAN
2 30 (39.47%) Firewall
3 28 (36.84%) DHCP
4 26 (34.21%) WAN
5 17 (22.37%) VPN
6 14 (18.42%) SAN
6 14 (18.42%) VoIP
7 13 (17.11%) Internet
7 13 (17.11%) MPLS
8 8 (10.53%) BGP
9 7 (9.211%) DMZ
10 6 (7.895%) Wireless
11 5 (6.579%) Unified Communications
11 5 (6.579%) PABX
12 4 (5.263%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (5.263%) Network Security
12 4 (5.263%) SNMP
13 2 (2.632%) Wireshark
13 2 (2.632%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.37%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.211%) Oracle 10g
2 7 (9.211%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (9.211%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (2.632%) MySQL
4 1 (1.316%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (5.263%) Subversion
2 2 (2.632%) Git (software)
2 2 (2.632%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (6.579%) Finance
2 3 (3.947%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.632%) Legal
4 1 (1.316%) Back Office
4 1 (1.316%) Publishing
4 1 (1.316%) Law
4 1 (1.316%) Marketing
4 1 (1.316%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 17 (22.37%) Support Engineer
2 16 (21.05%) Network Engineer
3 11 (14.47%) Desktop Support
4 8 (10.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Desktop Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Architect
4 8 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
5 7 (9.211%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (6.579%) Consultant
6 5 (6.579%) Analyst
6 5 (6.579%) Technical Support
7 4 (5.263%) Network Specialist
7 4 (5.263%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (5.263%) Applications Consultant
8 3 (3.947%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.947%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (3.947%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.947%) Support Technician
9 2 (2.632%) C++ Software Engineer
9 2 (2.632%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.11%) Blackberry
2 10 (13.16%) Handset
3 7 (9.211%) IaaS
3 7 (9.211%) PaaS
4 5 (6.579%) Clustering
4 5 (6.579%) IVR
5 4 (5.263%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.632%) Statistics
6 2 (2.632%) iPhone
6 2 (2.632%) DataPower
6 2 (2.632%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.632%) Open Source
6 2 (2.632%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.316%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.316%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 62 (81.58%) Windows
2 19 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 17 (22.37%) Windows XP
4 15 (19.74%) Windows Server 2003
5 14 (18.42%) UNIX
6 12 (15.79%) Linux
7 11 (14.47%) Solaris
7 11 (14.47%) Windows 7
8 7 (9.211%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (2.632%) Mac OS X Server
9 2 (2.632%) Windows XP Embedded
9 2 (2.632%) FreeBSD
9 2 (2.632%) HPUX
9 2 (2.632%) zOS
10 1 (1.316%) SUSE
10 1 (1.316%) Mac OS X
10 1 (1.316%) AIX
10 1 (1.316%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.316%) Windows Vista
10 1 (1.316%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.05%) ITIL
2 11 (14.47%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (9.211%) Load Balancing
4 5 (6.579%) Change Control
5 4 (5.263%) Network Management
5 4 (5.263%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (5.263%) Information Management
5 4 (5.263%) Scrum
6 3 (3.947%) Service Management
6 3 (3.947%) Configuration Management
6 3 (3.947%) Supplier Management
6 3 (3.947%) Problem Management
7 2 (2.632%) Embedded Software Development
7 2 (2.632%) OOD
7 2 (2.632%) UML
7 2 (2.632%) OO
7 2 (2.632%) Business Continuity
8 1 (1.316%) Migration
8 1 (1.316%) Software Deployment
8 1 (1.316%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.211%) C
2 5 (6.579%) SQL
3 4 (5.263%) Perl
4 2 (2.632%) REXX
4 2 (2.632%) C++
4 2 (2.632%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.632%) JCL
5 1 (1.316%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (19.74%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (15.79%) MCSE
3 8 (10.53%) MCITP
4 6 (7.895%) MCTS
5 5 (6.579%) MCSA
5 5 (6.579%) Security Cleared
6 4 (5.263%) DV Cleared
6 4 (5.263%) MCP
7 3 (3.947%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.947%) CCNA
7 3 (3.947%) MCDST
8 2 (2.632%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.632%) CCNP
9 1 (1.316%) HND
9 1 (1.316%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.316%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.211%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.947%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (44.74%) Active Directory
2 16 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (13.16%) vSphere
4 7 (9.211%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (9.211%) Forefront TMG
5 6 (7.895%) ISA Server
6 5 (6.579%) Terminal Services
7 3 (3.947%) NFS
7 3 (3.947%) VMware ESX
8 2 (2.632%) XenApp
9 1 (1.316%) Terminal Server
9 1 (1.316%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 4 (5.263%) OpenView
2 3 (3.947%) WSUS
3 2 (2.632%) SolarWinds Orion
3 2 (2.632%) HP SIM
3 2 (2.632%) Puppet
3 2 (2.632%) CiscoWorks
3 2 (2.632%) Tivoli
3 2 (2.632%) Netcool
3 2 (2.632%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 2 (2.632%) Nagios
3 2 (2.632%) MIMEsweeper
3 2 (2.632%) Backup Exec
3 2 (2.632%) DameWare
Vendors
1 38 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 34 (44.74%) VMware
3 26 (34.21%) Cisco
4 16 (21.05%) HP
5 14 (18.42%) Citrix
6 11 (14.47%) SolarWinds
7 10 (13.16%) Avaya
7 10 (13.16%) Siemens
8 9 (11.84%) Juniper
9 8 (10.53%) Red Hat
10 7 (9.211%) BT
10 7 (9.211%) Oracle
10 7 (9.211%) Sun
11 4 (5.263%) Compuware
11 4 (5.263%) IBM
11 4 (5.263%) OPNET
12 3 (3.947%) CheckPoint
13 2 (2.632%) NetScout
13 2 (2.632%) ProCurve
13 2 (2.632%) M86 Security
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