Surrey TCP/IP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the Surrey region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cowes Crawley Cwmbran Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	62
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	57	57
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.080 %	0.058 %
As % of the category below	22.44 %	13.80 %
Daily rates quoted	5	10
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£238
Average daily rate	£290	£239
% change on same period last year	+21.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£240
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£291
% change on same period last year	+0.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.07	£21.96
Average hourly rate	£27.26	£22.92
% change on same period last year	+18.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.45	£23.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.11	£26.86
% change on same period last year	-13.96 %
Communications & Networking Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	254	413
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.358 %	0.417 %
Daily rates quoted	38	110
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£326
Average daily rate	£326	£335
% change on same period last year	-2.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	82
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.72	£23.49
Average hourly rate	£24.57	£24.49
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.41	£25.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.43	£28.95
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
TCP/IP South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

TCP/IP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing TCP/IP across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing TCP/IP across the Surrey region.

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing TCP/IP across the Surrey region.

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Camberley	+15	4	£325	-
Redhill	+12	4	-	-
Guildford	+7	3	-	-
Woking	-	2	-	-
Chertsey	-	1	-	-
Epsom	0	1	-	-

TCP/IP South East

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 68 (56.20 %) Windows 2 42 (34.71 %) Microsoft 3 36 (29.75 %) DNS 4 35 (28.93 %) LAN 5 32 (26.45 %) WAN 6 30 (24.79 %) Cisco 6 30 (24.79 %) Active Directory 6 30 (24.79 %) Citrix 7 29 (23.97 %) Finance 8 28 (23.14 %) Firewall 8 28 (23.14 %) DHCP 9 26 (21.49 %) Windows Server 2003 10 23 (19.01 %) ITIL 11 22 (18.18 %) MS Office 11 22 (18.18 %) SQL Server

12 20 (16.53 %) MS Exchange 13 19 (15.70 %) ADSL 13 19 (15.70 %) CheckPoint 14 17 (14.05 %) HTTP 14 17 (14.05 %) Windows 2000 14 17 (14.05 %) SQL 15 16 (13.22 %) Exchange Server 2003 16 15 (12.40 %) Telecoms 16 15 (12.40 %) Windows XP 17 14 (11.57 %) XML 18 13 (10.74 %) Windows 2000 Server 18 13 (10.74 %) UNIX 18 13 (10.74 %) Microsoft Certification 19 12 (9.917 %) OO 20 11 (9.091 %) Linux

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 14 (11.57 %) XML 2 11 (9.091 %) MFC 3 5 (4.132 %) COM 3 5 (4.132 %) WebServices 4 4 (3.306 %) ATL 4 4 (3.306 %) WinForms 5 3 (2.479 %) STL 6 2 (1.653 %) .NET 7 1 (0.826 %) ADO.NET 7 1 (0.826 %) ASP.NET 7 1 (0.826 %) COM+ 7 1 (0.826 %) DCOM 7 1 (0.826 %) Windows SharePoint Services 7 1 (0.826 %) .NET Remoting 7 1 (0.826 %) WSH	Application Platforms 1 20 (16.53 %) MS Exchange 2 16 (13.22 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 8 (6.612 %) IIS 4 5 (4.132 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 3 (2.479 %) Lotus Notes 5 3 (2.479 %) SharePoint 6 2 (1.653 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 2 (1.653 %) GroupWise 7 1 (0.826 %) CMS 7 1 (0.826 %) Oracle Application Server 7 1 (0.826 %) Site Server 7 1 (0.826 %) Oracle 10gAS 7 1 (0.826 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 1 (0.826 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 22 (18.18 %) MS Office 2 9 (7.438 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 36 (29.75 %) DNS 2 35 (28.93 %) LAN 3 32 (26.45 %) WAN 4 28 (23.14 %) DHCP 4 28 (23.14 %) Firewall 5 19 (15.70 %) ADSL 6 17 (14.05 %) HTTP 7 8 (6.612 %) VPN 7 8 (6.612 %) Internet 8 7 (5.785 %) FTP 8 7 (5.785 %) VoIP 9 6 (4.959 %) CTI 10 5 (4.132 %) SAN 10 5 (4.132 %) Network Security 10 5 (4.132 %) LDAP 11 3 (2.479 %) Broadband 11 3 (2.479 %) PBX 11 3 (2.479 %) Ethernet 11 3 (2.479 %) VLAN 11 3 (2.479 %) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2 1 (0.826 %) Oracle 9i 2 1 (0.826 %) Adabas 2 1 (0.826 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (0.826 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 3 (2.479 %) Visual Studio 1 3 (2.479 %) NUnit 2 2 (1.653 %) ClearCase
General 1 29 (23.97 %) Finance 2 15 (12.40 %) Telecoms 3 5 (4.132 %) Insurance 4 3 (2.479 %) Banking 4 3 (2.479 %) Retail 4 3 (2.479 %) Investment Banking 5 2 (1.653 %) Education 6 1 (0.826 %) Government 6 1 (0.826 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (0.826 %) Back Office 6 1 (0.826 %) Auditing	Job Titles 1 34 (28.10 %) Analyst 2 27 (22.31 %) 2nd Line Support 3 22 (18.18 %) Support Analyst 4 17 (14.05 %) Support Engineer 4 17 (14.05 %) Network Support 5 14 (11.57 %) Administrator 6 11 (9.091 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 7 10 (8.264 %) Software Engineer 7 10 (8.264 %) Desktop Support 8 8 (6.612 %) 3rd Line Support 8 8 (6.612 %) Network Support Analyst 8 8 (6.612 %) Network Analyst 9 7 (5.785 %) Helpdesk Analyst 9 7 (5.785 %) Systems Administrator 9 7 (5.785 %) Helpdesk Support 10 6 (4.959 %) Developer 10 6 (4.959 %) Service Analyst 11 5 (4.132 %) 1st Line Support 11 5 (4.132 %) Software Developer 11 5 (4.132 %) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 8 (6.612 %) Blackberry 2 7 (5.785 %) NHS 3 6 (4.959 %) Mathematics 3 6 (4.959 %) Physics 3 6 (4.959 %) Computer Science 4 3 (2.479 %) Dutch Language 4 3 (2.479 %) Clustering 4 3 (2.479 %) Video Conferencing 5 2 (1.653 %) EPoS 5 2 (1.653 %) Multithreading 6 1 (0.826 %) Firmware 6 1 (0.826 %) Handset	Operating Systems 1 68 (56.20 %) Windows 2 26 (21.49 %) Windows Server 2003 3 17 (14.05 %) Windows 2000 4 15 (12.40 %) Windows XP 5 13 (10.74 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 13 (10.74 %) UNIX 6 11 (9.091 %) Linux 7 8 (6.612 %) Solaris 8 7 (5.785 %) Windows NT 9 5 (4.132 %) Windows Vista 10 4 (3.306 %) Red Hat Linux 10 4 (3.306 %) NetWare 11 3 (2.479 %) HPUX 12 2 (1.653 %) Windows Server 2008 13 1 (0.826 %) VMS 13 1 (0.826 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (19.01 %) ITIL 2 12 (9.917 %) OO 3 8 (6.612 %) UML 4 7 (5.785 %) OOD 5 6 (4.959 %) WFM 6 5 (4.132 %) Security Cleared 7 4 (3.306 %) SC Cleared 7 4 (3.306 %) Disaster Recovery 8 3 (2.479 %) Migration 8 3 (2.479 %) TDD 8 3 (2.479 %) E-Commerce 8 3 (2.479 %) Change Management 9 2 (1.653 %) Unit Testing 9 2 (1.653 %) PRINCE2 9 2 (1.653 %) Business Intelligence 9 2 (1.653 %) Service Delivery 9 2 (1.653 %) Scrum 10 1 (0.826 %) Problem Management 10 1 (0.826 %) Asset Management 10 1 (0.826 %) Computer Forensics	Programming Languages 1 17 (14.05 %) SQL 2 10 (8.264 %) C++ 3 6 (4.959 %) C# 4 4 (3.306 %) Perl 5 3 (2.479 %) VB 5 3 (2.479 %) VC++ 6 2 (1.653 %) VBScript 6 2 (1.653 %) C 7 1 (0.826 %) Java 7 1 (0.826 %) JavaScript 7 1 (0.826 %) PHP 7 1 (0.826 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (0.826 %) NATURAL 7 1 (0.826 %) DCL 7 1 (0.826 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 13 (10.74 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (6.612 %) MCP 3 6 (4.959 %) Degree 4 5 (4.132 %) Cisco Certification 5 4 (3.306 %) MCSE 6 3 (2.479 %) MCSA 6 3 (2.479 %) CCNA 7 2 (1.653 %) CNE 7 2 (1.653 %) Novell Certification 8 1 (0.826 %) CCIE 8 1 (0.826 %) CCNP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (7.438 %) SLA 2 8 (6.612 %) TickIT 2 8 (6.612 %) ISO9001 3 6 (4.959 %) GCP
System Software 1 30 (24.79 %) Active Directory 2 3 (2.479 %) ISA Server 2 3 (2.479 %) Samba 3 2 (1.653 %) Novell eDirectory 4 1 (0.826 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (0.826 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (0.826 %) MetaFrame 4 1 (0.826 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (0.826 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (0.826 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 5 (4.132 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (2.479 %) ARCserve 3 2 (1.653 %) Unicenter 4 1 (0.826 %) OpenView 4 1 (0.826 %) BMC PATROL 4 1 (0.826 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 42 (34.71 %) Microsoft 2 30 (24.79 %) Cisco 2 30 (24.79 %) Citrix 3 19 (15.70 %) CheckPoint 4 11 (9.091 %) HP 5 6 (4.959 %) Compaq 5 6 (4.959 %) Genesys 6 5 (4.132 %) Novell 6 5 (4.132 %) VERITAS 7 4 (3.306 %) Red Hat 7 4 (3.306 %) VMware 8 3 (2.479 %) Remedy 8 3 (2.479 %) Lotus 8 3 (2.479 %) Avaya 8 3 (2.479 %) Sun 8 3 (2.479 %) Oracle 9 2 (1.653 %) CA 9 2 (1.653 %) NetApp 9 2 (1.653 %) SonicWALL 10 1 (0.826 %) Altiris