TCP/IP Contracts in the Thames Valley

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 114 124
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 -21
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 32 31 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.22% 1.10% 1.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.71% 6.94% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 21 24
10th Percentile £148 £415 £145
25th Percentile £343 £481 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £300
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +80.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £505
90th Percentile £550 £560 £585
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £260
% change year-on-year -5.26% +82.69% -35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £28.00 £29.20
25th Percentile £18.50 £42.25 £34.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £66.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.21% +45.05% +97.83%
75th Percentile £19.50 - £57.25
90th Percentile - - £63.40
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £62.55 £21.50
% change year-on-year -69.62% +190.93% +7.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 560 447 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 21.33% 15.91% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 274 347
10th Percentile £205 £300 £200
25th Percentile £335 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £467
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +4.39% +16.75%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £553
90th Percentile £638 £650 £642
South East median daily rate £484 £481 £450
% change year-on-year +0.72% +6.79% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 15 20
10th Percentile £17.36 £18.90 £12.23
25th Percentile £23.36 £22.25 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +288.24% -40.87%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £20.00
90th Percentile £87.48 £81.22 £30.60
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +9.24% +144.19% -37.68%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the Thames Valley

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the Thames Valley

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the Thames Valley

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the Thames Valley

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 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
Buckinghamshire +31 18 £525 -4.55% 4
Berkshire -10 13 £150 -69.23% 11
Oxfordshire - 1 £180 - 3
TCP/IP
South East

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (18.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 2 (6.25%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) SAN
2 9 (28.13%) LAN
2 9 (28.13%) WAN
3 6 (18.75%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (15.63%) Firewall
5 3 (9.38%) VPN
6 2 (6.25%) DNS
7 1 (3.13%) ADSL
7 1 (3.13%) BGP
7 1 (3.13%) DHCP
7 1 (3.13%) DSL
7 1 (3.13%) Ethernet
7 1 (3.13%) Internet
7 1 (3.13%) IPsec
7 1 (3.13%) MPLS
7 1 (3.13%) OSPF
7 1 (3.13%) PPP
7 1 (3.13%) RIP
7 1 (3.13%) SNMP
7 1 (3.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (6.25%) MySQL
1 2 (6.25%) RDBMS
1 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
1 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (62.50%) Developer
2 18 (56.25%) Python Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Support Specialist
3 6 (18.75%) Technical Specialist
3 6 (18.75%) Technical Support
3 6 (18.75%) Technical Support Specialist
4 4 (12.50%) Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Backend Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Analyst Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Developer Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Linux Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Programmer
5 3 (9.38%) Python Programmer
5 3 (9.38%) Security Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) DBA
6 2 (6.25%) Head of Information Security
6 2 (6.25%) Head of Operations
6 2 (6.25%) Head of Security
6 2 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) .NET
1 2 (6.25%) 802.1X
1 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET
1 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) IoT
2 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (43.75%) Linux
2 11 (34.38%) Debian
2 11 (34.38%) Ubuntu
2 11 (34.38%) Windows
3 6 (18.75%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Customer Service
2 11 (34.38%) Data Modelling
3 10 (31.25%) Agile
3 10 (31.25%) ITIL
4 9 (28.13%) Configuration Management
4 9 (28.13%) Data Engineering
4 9 (28.13%) Prototyping
4 9 (28.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 6 (18.75%) Knowledge Management
5 6 (18.75%) Matrix Organization
5 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 2 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (6.25%) Data Protection
6 2 (6.25%) DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
6 2 (6.25%) Embedded Software Development
6 2 (6.25%) Information Security
6 2 (6.25%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (6.25%) Statistics
6 2 (6.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) Python
2 2 (6.25%) C
2 2 (6.25%) C#
2 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 12 (37.50%) DV Cleared
4 6 (18.75%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) BC Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.13%) CCDP
5 1 (3.13%) CCIP
5 1 (3.13%) CCNA
5 1 (3.13%) CCNP
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) SLA
2 3 (9.38%) QA
3 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.25%) XenApp
4 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) SCCM
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (6.25%) Grafana
2 2 (6.25%) Graylog
2 2 (6.25%) Nagios
2 2 (6.25%) Nessus
2 2 (6.25%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (65.63%) VMware
2 20 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 11 (34.38%) Red Hat
4 6 (18.75%) HP
4 6 (18.75%) ServiceNow
5 4 (12.50%) Splunk
6 3 (9.38%) Cisco
7 2 (6.25%) Atmel
7 2 (6.25%) CheckPoint
7 2 (6.25%) Citrix
7 2 (6.25%) Remedy
8 1 (3.13%) ADVA
8 1 (3.13%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 1 (3.13%) Juniper