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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 107 94
Rank change year-on-year -19 -13 +21
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 28 60 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.88% 1.69% 2.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.41% 9.82% 15.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 30 41
10th Percentile - £163 £188
25th Percentile £469 £347 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +21.88% +56.10%
75th Percentile £625 £525 £479
90th Percentile £713 £624 £525
England median daily rate £488 £481 £463
% change year-on-year +1.44% +3.90% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 6
10th Percentile £56.49 £20.14 £46.55
25th Percentile £63.75 £55.46 £51.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.63
Median % change year-on-year - +7.22% +14.39%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile £72.60 £79.45 £72.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.55 £28.50
% change year-on-year +3.92% +119.47% -28.30%

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 518 611 477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.27% 17.24% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 394 291
10th Percentile £290 £205 £218
25th Percentile £463 £400 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £506 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% +12.50% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £637 £550
90th Percentile £700 £719 £619
England median daily rate £498 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.24% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 119 28
10th Percentile £12.55 - £41.65
25th Percentile £15.75 - £46.60
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.67
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.66% +8.96%
75th Percentile £68.46 £59.54 £68.30
90th Percentile £83.60 £76.29 £69.05
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 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 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
Bristol +9 12 £488 -2.50% 10
Dorset +5 7 £488 - 2
Gloucestershire +2 4 £600 - 2
Somerset -8 2 £319 -32.00% 1
Wiltshire -12 2 £675 +42.11% 8
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 (14.29%) Apache Solr
1 4 (14.29%) Confluence
1 4 (14.29%) nginx
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.57%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (7.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) GCP
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.57%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 14 (50.00%) DNS
2 8 (28.57%) DHCP
3 6 (21.43%) Firewall
4 5 (17.86%) Ethernet
4 5 (17.86%) HTTPS
4 5 (17.86%) IPsec
4 5 (17.86%) VPN
4 5 (17.86%) WAN
5 4 (14.29%) Network Security
6 3 (10.71%) BGP
6 3 (10.71%) OSPF
6 3 (10.71%) SNMP
7 2 (7.14%) HTTP
7 2 (7.14%) LAN
7 2 (7.14%) Skype
7 2 (7.14%) SMTP
8 1 (3.57%) 4G
8 1 (3.57%) 5G
8 1 (3.57%) FTP
8 1 (3.57%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Couchbase
1 4 (14.29%) MySQL
1 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Eclipse
1 5 (17.86%) Visual Studio
2 4 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 4 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (7.14%) Artifactory
3 2 (7.14%) Rational DOORS
General
1 17 (60.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Military
3 5 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) C# Software Engineer
1 5 (17.86%) C++ Software Engineer
1 5 (17.86%) Senior
1 5 (17.86%) Software Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Principal Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) Node.js
1 5 (17.86%) Web Services
2 4 (14.29%) JSON
2 4 (14.29%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (14.29%) YAML
3 1 (3.57%) LDAP
3 1 (3.57%) SPML
3 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 4 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.14%) PKI
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (60.71%) Linux
2 14 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (14.29%) CentOS
3 4 (14.29%) Unix
3 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.14%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.57%) Mac OS X
5 1 (3.57%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Agile
2 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.00%) ITIL
3 7 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.86%) Configuration Management
5 5 (17.86%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (17.86%) Digital Twin
5 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
5 5 (17.86%) Synthetic Environment
5 5 (17.86%) TDD
5 5 (17.86%) Unit Testing
5 5 (17.86%) Validation
5 5 (17.86%) Verification and Validation
6 4 (14.29%) Information Security
6 4 (14.29%) Migration
6 4 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) C#
2 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 5 (17.86%) C++
3 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.29%) Bash
4 4 (14.29%) C
4 4 (14.29%) PHP
4 4 (14.29%) Python
5 2 (7.14%) Java
5 2 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 4 (14.29%) Degree
5 2 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (3.57%) CEH
6 1 (3.57%) CREST Certified
6 1 (3.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) NIST
2 4 (14.29%) GDPR
2 4 (14.29%) HIPAA
2 4 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (14.29%) QA
3 2 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (21.43%) VMware NSX
2 5 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.29%) vSphere
4 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
5 2 (7.14%) Docker
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (3.57%) Samba
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Ansible
1 8 (28.57%) Terraform
2 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (14.29%) SCCM
4 3 (10.71%) FortiGate
5 2 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (7.14%) OPNET
5 2 (7.14%) SCOM
5 2 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) Atlassian
3 5 (17.86%) VMware
4 4 (14.29%) Google
5 3 (10.71%) Cisco
5 3 (10.71%) F5
5 3 (10.71%) Fortinet
6 2 (7.14%) Remedy
6 2 (7.14%) SolarWinds
6 2 (7.14%) Sparx
6 2 (7.14%) Veeam
7 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.57%) Nokia
7 1 (3.57%) Red Hat