The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 23 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 Swindon 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 38 35 33
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -2
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 1 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 0.342% 0.829% 1.242%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.222% 4.478% 6.897%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £315 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £314 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.35% +4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £33.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-23.80% -16.00%
All Communications & Networking
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
45 67 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 15.41% 18.51% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 38 16
Average daily rate £440 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £269 £297
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
Average hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.46% +12.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.70 £32.50 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.30 £32.50 £35.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
TCP/IP
Wiltshire

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 2 (100.00%) MCP
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) MCITP
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) WSUS
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (50.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Dell