TCP/IP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 177 171
Rank change year-on-year -16 -6 +5
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 207 347 450
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.01% 1.48% 1.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.20% 9.91% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 207 283
10th Percentile £184 £208 £155
25th Percentile £350 £319 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £559 £500
90th Percentile £627 £672 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 41 25
10th Percentile £37.50 £20.93 £20.00
25th Percentile £61.94 £54.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +195.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile - £74.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £68.13 £77.50 £67.98
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.78 £28.50
% change year-on-year +1.92% +123.77% -28.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,339 3,500 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.27% 14.89% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,213 2,635
10th Percentile £200 £213 £185
25th Percentile £343 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £544
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 323 238
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.63
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -9.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
% change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East -12 63 £475 - 54
Midlands +52 44 £500 +48.15% 60
North of England -16 28 £463 -2.63% 62
South West -17 28 £600 +23.08% 35
East Midlands +39 24 £488 +26.62% 28
West Midlands +27 20 £525 +64.06% 32
North West -9 19 £430 -18.09% 43
East of England -20 19 £375 -11.76% 31
Scotland +48 15 £619 +40.84% 12
Yorkshire +15 9 £624 +38.56% 17
Northern Ireland -4 5 - - 5
Wales -5 5 £645 +22.76% 8
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (8.21%) Confluence
2 15 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (5.80%) SharePoint
4 9 (4.35%) IIS
5 6 (2.90%) Apache
5 6 (2.90%) nginx
5 6 (2.90%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.93%) Apache Solr
7 3 (1.45%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.97%) Traefik
9 1 (0.48%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.48%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.90%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 36 (17.39%) Azure
2 31 (14.98%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (14.49%) AWS
4 20 (9.66%) GCP
5 9 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (3.86%) GitHub
7 7 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.90%) Apigee
8 6 (2.90%) Kong
9 5 (2.42%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.93%) IaaS
11 3 (1.45%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (1.45%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.97%) PaaS
12 2 (0.97%) SaaS
13 1 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.48%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 85 (41.06%) DNS
2 57 (27.54%) Firewall
3 50 (24.15%) VPN
4 45 (21.74%) DHCP
5 28 (13.53%) VLAN
6 27 (13.04%) SAN
7 24 (11.59%) HTTP
8 19 (9.18%) WAN
9 18 (8.70%) LAN
10 17 (8.21%) Ethernet
10 17 (8.21%) OSPF
11 16 (7.73%) BGP
12 12 (5.80%) Network Security
13 9 (4.35%) MPLS
13 9 (4.35%) SSL
13 9 (4.35%) VoIP
13 9 (4.35%) Wireless
13 9 (4.35%) Wireshark
14 8 (3.86%) Remote Desktop
15 7 (3.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.31%) MySQL
2 6 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.42%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.93%) Couchbase
4 4 (1.93%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.93%) RDBMS
4 4 (1.93%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.48%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (12.08%) JIRA
2 16 (7.73%) Git
2 16 (7.73%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.31%) Eclipse
3 11 (5.31%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.86%) Bitbucket
4 8 (3.86%) GitLab
5 6 (2.90%) Artifactory
5 6 (2.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (2.90%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.90%) Travis CI
6 3 (1.45%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.97%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.97%) TestRail
8 1 (0.48%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 62 (29.95%) Social Skills
2 21 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (7.73%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.25%) Military
5 13 (6.28%) Finance
5 13 (6.28%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (5.80%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.83%) Legal
8 8 (3.86%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.93%) Banking
9 4 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.45%) Electronics
10 3 (1.45%) Front Office
10 3 (1.45%) Marketing
10 3 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.97%) Automotive
11 2 (0.97%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.48%) Law
12 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (17.87%) Developer
2 30 (14.49%) Python Developer
3 24 (11.59%) Network Engineer
4 23 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (10.14%) Support Engineer
6 15 (7.25%) 2nd Line Support
6 15 (7.25%) Software Engineer
6 15 (7.25%) Technical Support
7 12 (5.80%) IT Support
7 12 (5.80%) Senior
7 12 (5.80%) Support Specialist
8 11 (5.31%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 11 (5.31%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 11 (5.31%) Analyst
8 11 (5.31%) C# Software Engineer
8 11 (5.31%) C++ Software Engineer
9 10 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.35%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 9 (4.35%) Administrator
11 8 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.73%) XML
2 13 (6.28%) Web Services
3 11 (5.31%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (5.31%) Node.js
4 10 (4.83%) .NET
4 10 (4.83%) JSON
4 10 (4.83%) YAML
5 7 (3.38%) REST
6 5 (2.42%) CSS
6 5 (2.42%) SOAP
7 4 (1.93%) LEMP Stack
7 4 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.93%) RESTful
8 3 (1.45%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.45%) SAML
9 2 (0.97%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.97%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.97%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.97%) LDAP
9 2 (0.97%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.83%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.38%) iPad
4 6 (2.90%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.42%) IVR
5 5 (2.42%) PKI
6 4 (1.93%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.93%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.45%) IoT
8 2 (0.97%) Clustering
8 2 (0.97%) CMDB
8 2 (0.97%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.48%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.48%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 92 (44.44%) Windows
2 88 (42.51%) Linux
3 26 (12.56%) Windows 10
4 24 (11.59%) Ubuntu
4 24 (11.59%) Unix
4 24 (11.59%) Windows Server
5 20 (9.66%) Debian
6 14 (6.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (4.83%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (2.90%) CentOS
9 4 (1.93%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.97%) VMS
11 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.48%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.48%) Solaris
12 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (27.54%) Agile
2 34 (16.43%) Customer Service
3 32 (15.46%) ITIL
4 27 (13.04%) CI/CD
5 26 (12.56%) Configuration Management
6 25 (12.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 25 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (12.08%) Software Engineering
7 23 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (11.11%) DevOps
7 23 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (9.66%) Data Modelling
9 19 (9.18%) Change Management
9 19 (9.18%) Migration
9 19 (9.18%) Visualisation
10 18 (8.70%) Project Management
11 17 (8.21%) Data Engineering
11 17 (8.21%) Prototyping
11 17 (8.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 16 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 54 (26.09%) Python
2 27 (13.04%) PowerShell
3 25 (12.08%) C#
4 19 (9.18%) C++
4 19 (9.18%) JavaScript
5 17 (8.21%) Bash
6 15 (7.25%) Java
6 15 (7.25%) SQL
7 6 (2.90%) C
8 5 (2.42%) Perl
9 4 (1.93%) PHP
10 3 (1.45%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.97%) Go
11 2 (0.97%) Ruby
11 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 60 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 40 (19.32%) SC Cleared
3 36 (17.39%) Degree
4 35 (16.91%) DV Cleared
5 21 (10.14%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (7.73%) CCNA
6 16 (7.73%) CCNP
7 12 (5.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (4.35%) MCSE
9 6 (2.90%) CCIE
9 6 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.93%) VCAP
10 4 (1.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.97%) HNC
12 2 (0.97%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.97%) MCSD
12 2 (0.97%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.63%) QA
2 16 (7.73%) SLA
3 15 (7.25%) NIST
4 7 (3.38%) HIPAA
5 6 (2.90%) GDPR
6 5 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.42%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.45%) ISO 9001
7 3 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.97%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 37 (17.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (7.25%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (6.76%) VMware NSX
5 12 (5.80%) vSphere
6 11 (5.31%) Docker
7 9 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (1.93%) Firmware
8 4 (1.93%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.93%) VirtualBox
9 3 (1.45%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.97%) XenApp
11 1 (0.48%) Lustre
11 1 (0.48%) NFS
11 1 (0.48%) Samba
11 1 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.48%) Snort
Systems Management
1 26 (12.56%) Ansible
1 26 (12.56%) SCCM
2 25 (12.08%) Terraform
3 16 (7.73%) Kubernetes
4 13 (6.28%) Grafana
4 13 (6.28%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.35%) Puppet
6 8 (3.86%) Docker Swarm
6 8 (3.86%) Nagios
7 7 (3.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (3.38%) Kibana
7 7 (3.38%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.38%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.90%) logstash
9 5 (2.42%) FortiGate
9 5 (2.42%) Graylog
9 5 (2.42%) SCOM
9 5 (2.42%) WSUS
10 4 (1.93%) Autotask
11 3 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (43.96%) Microsoft
2 66 (31.88%) VMware
3 26 (12.56%) Cisco
3 26 (12.56%) Red Hat
4 17 (8.21%) Splunk
5 15 (7.25%) F5
6 11 (5.31%) SolarWinds
7 9 (4.35%) Palo Alto
7 9 (4.35%) Veeam
8 8 (3.86%) Google
8 8 (3.86%) Remedy
9 7 (3.38%) Fortinet
9 7 (3.38%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.90%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.90%) Avaya
10 6 (2.90%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.90%) HP
11 5 (2.42%) Oracle
11 5 (2.42%) Verint
12 4 (1.93%) LogicMonitor