The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 24 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 Southampton 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 28 32 18
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -14
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 7 1 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 2.326% 0.424% 4.762%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.22% 3.030% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
Average hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.33% -16.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -20.00%
All Communications & Networking
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
46 33 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 15.28% 13.98% 17.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 5
Average daily rate £325 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £272 £271 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £350 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 15
Average hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +28.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.63 £28.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.75 £37.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
TCP/IP
Hampshire

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Southampton TCP/IP Hourly Rate Histogram

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 (63.64%) Windows
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Multithreading
3 3 (27.27%) Degree
3 3 (27.27%) UNIX
3 3 (27.27%) HTTP
3 3 (27.27%) OOD
3 3 (27.27%) LAN
3 3 (27.27%) WAN
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
4 2 (18.18%) C#
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle
4 2 (18.18%) DNS
4 2 (18.18%) VMware
4 2 (18.18%) Ethernet
4 2 (18.18%) MPEG
4 2 (18.18%) DTV
4 2 (18.18%) DVB
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 1 (9.091%) Software Testing
5 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
5 1 (9.091%) VLAN
5 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (9.091%) XPath
5 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (9.091%) IP Telephony
5 1 (9.091%) Multimedia
5 1 (9.091%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (9.091%) Lucene
5 1 (9.091%) Sourcefire

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 1 (9.091%) Lucene
1 1 (9.091%) Spring
1 1 (9.091%) JPA
1 1 (9.091%) Drools
1 1 (9.091%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 1 (9.091%) HTML5
1 1 (9.091%) REST
1 1 (9.091%) Hibernate
1 1 (9.091%) JMS
1 1 (9.091%) JDBC
1 1 (9.091%) STL
1 1 (9.091%) XML
1 1 (9.091%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (9.091%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (9.091%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) HTTP
1 3 (27.27%) LAN
1 3 (27.27%) WAN
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) Ethernet
2 2 (18.18%) DVB
3 1 (9.091%) VLAN
3 1 (9.091%) IP Telephony
3 1 (9.091%) WAAS
3 1 (9.091%) tcpdump
3 1 (9.091%) Wireshark
3 1 (9.091%) EIGRP
3 1 (9.091%) VPN
3 1 (9.091%) VoIP
3 1 (9.091%) WLAN
3 1 (9.091%) FTP
3 1 (9.091%) SMTP
3 1 (9.091%) Wireless
3 1 (9.091%) IPsec
3 1 (9.091%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Maven
1 1 (9.091%) Git (software)
1 1 (9.091%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (9.091%) Multimedia
1 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
1 1 (9.091%) Law
1 1 (9.091%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Test Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Network Support
4 1 (9.091%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Support
4 1 (9.091%) Network Support Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) MPEG
1 2 (18.18%) DTV
2 1 (9.091%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (9.091%) Computer Science
2 1 (9.091%) Fat Client
2 1 (9.091%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.091%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) UNIX
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (9.091%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Multithreading
2 3 (27.27%) OOD
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.091%) Software Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
4 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (9.091%) Information Assurance
4 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.091%) SIEM
4 1 (9.091%) Change Control
4 1 (9.091%) Test Strategy
4 1 (9.091%) Use Case
4 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery
4 1 (9.091%) Change Management
4 1 (9.091%) Migration
4 1 (9.091%) Business Continuity
4 1 (9.091%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C#
2 1 (9.091%) XPath
2 1 (9.091%) Bash shell
2 1 (9.091%) C
2 1 (9.091%) Python
2 1 (9.091%) C++
2 1 (9.091%) Java
2 1 (9.091%) Perl
2 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (9.091%) CCNP
2 1 (9.091%) ISEB
2 1 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Snort
1 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.091%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (9.091%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.091%) Sourcefire
2 1 (9.091%) Polycom
2 1 (9.091%) Cisco
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) HP
2 1 (9.091%) Intel
2 1 (9.091%) Avaya
2 1 (9.091%) Pegasus
2 1 (9.091%) Red Hat
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