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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category.

LinkTransmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank1408569
Rank change year-on-year
Down-55Down-16
Matching contract IT job ads4998121699
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK1.140 %1.765 %2.076 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category9.756 %12.10 %15.42 %
Daily rates quoted185166373
Average daily rate£340£300£330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33 %-9.090 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£160£170
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£450£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£300£333
% change year-on-year
+8.330 %-9.770 %
Hourly rates quoted109196337
Average hourly rate£19.00£18.25£21.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.100 %-16.09 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.90£10.00£13.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.50£35.10£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.75£19.00£24.75
% change year-on-year
-6.570 %-23.23 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
5115670911021
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK11.68 %14.59 %13.46 %
Daily rates quoted187616232838
Average daily rate£350£340£365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.940 %-6.840 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£215£205£219
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£475£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£350
% change year-on-year
--7.140 %
Hourly rates quoted5008301498
Average hourly rate£21.00£23.25£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.670 %-7.000 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£12.00£13.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£37.50£42.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.00£24.00£26.50
% change year-on-year
-12.50 %-9.430 %

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.

TCP/IP
Demand Trend

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

TCP/IP Demand Trend

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend

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

TCP/IP Daily Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

TCP/IP Daily Rate Histogram

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

TCP/IP Hourly Rate Histogram

TCP/IP
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-58487£340+13.33 %
LondonDown-46252£375+20.96 %
South EastDown-5191£340+19.92 %
City of LondonDown-5170£375-
South WestDown-439£325-18.75 %
YorkshireUp+2036£322+7.33 %
SurreyUp+1435£330+10.00 %
West YorkshireUp+1825£322+28.80 %
LeedsUp+2824£322-
North WestUp+523£288+171.22 %
WiltshireUp+3320£325-
BerkshireDown-4319£300-25.00 %
East of EnglandDown-617£280-5.08 %
West MidlandsDown-1317£300-6.25 %
HampshireDown-1115£363+70.58 %
SwindonUp+2414£325-
ManchesterDown-414--
North YorkshireUp+310£340-2.85 %
ReadingDown-1410£275-
Canary WharfDown-229£500-
HertfordshireUp+208£296+18.50 %
East MidlandsDown-168--
OxfordshireNo change07£350+46.59 %
KnaresboroughNew entry-7--
GloucestershireUp+106£300-25.00 %
OxfordUp+96£350+45.83 %
CambridgeshireUp+86£280-
LeicestershireUp+36--
ScotlandDown-236£93-66.36 %
UxbridgeUp+75£295-

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1519 (49.29 %)Windows
2275 (26.12 %)Active Directory
3274 (26.02 %)DNS
4266 (25.26 %)Microsoft
5253 (24.03 %)Firewall
6238 (22.60 %)Windows Server 2003
7234 (22.22 %)UNIX
8217 (20.61 %)Linux
9204 (19.37 %)LAN
10201 (19.09 %)Cisco
11200 (18.99 %)WAN
12166 (15.76 %)DHCP
13159 (15.10 %)Finance
14150 (14.25 %)Windows XP
15145 (13.77 %)Banking
16141 (13.39 %)MS Exchange
17126 (11.97 %)Citrix
18125 (11.87 %)Cisco Certification
18125 (11.87 %)MS Office
19119 (11.30 %)SQL
20116 (11.02 %)SQL Server
21114 (10.83 %)Microsoft Certification
22110 (10.45 %)C++
23109 (10.35 %)Solaris
23109 (10.35 %)Security Cleared
2498 (9.307 %)Oracle
2593 (8.832 %)ITIL
2593 (8.832 %)VPN
2593 (8.832 %)SAN
2690 (8.547 %)C

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
159 (5.603 %).NET
244 (4.179 %)XML
334 (3.229 %)J2EE
427 (2.564 %)HTML
526 (2.469 %)WinForms
624 (2.279 %)Web Services
720 (1.899 %)CSS
816 (1.519 %)STL
816 (1.519 %)ASP.NET
914 (1.330 %)Middleware
1013 (1.235 %)WebSphere
1112 (1.140 %)FIX Protocol
129 (0.855 %)AJAX
129 (0.855 %)WMI
129 (0.855 %)JMS
138 (0.760 %)JSP
147 (0.665 %)Boost C++ Libraries
147 (0.665 %)SOAP
156 (0.570 %)Swing
156 (0.570 %)Flash
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1141 (13.39 %)MS Exchange
271 (6.743 %)Exchange Server 2003
365 (6.173 %)IIS
446 (4.368 %)Exchange Server 2007
539 (3.704 %)Apache
636 (3.419 %)SharePoint
727 (2.564 %)Lotus Notes
824 (2.279 %)Rendezvous
917 (1.614 %)WebLogic
1014 (1.330 %)Exchange Server 2000
1111 (1.045 %)Tomcat
1210 (0.950 %)Lotus Domino
1210 (0.950 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
139 (0.855 %)SharePoint Server 2007
139 (0.855 %)MQSeries
147 (0.665 %)GlassFish
156 (0.570 %)iPlanet
156 (0.570 %)WebSphere Application Server
165 (0.475 %)CMS
174 (0.380 %)BizTalk Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1125 (11.87 %)MS Office
270 (6.648 %)MS Excel
319 (1.804 %)MS Visio
411 (1.045 %)MS PowerPoint
510 (0.950 %)MS Project
61 (0.095 %)AutoCAD
61 (0.095 %)QuarkXPress
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
119 (1.804 %)RMDS
24 (0.380 %)3000 Xtra
33 (0.285 %)SoftGrid
41 (0.095 %)SAP Oil and Gas
41 (0.095 %)Dynamics AX
41 (0.095 %)Kondor+
41 (0.095 %)JDE EnterpriseOne
41 (0.095 %)SAP R/3
41 (0.095 %)BusinessWorks
41 (0.095 %)Maximo
41 (0.095 %)Oracle Applications
41 (0.095 %)Microsoft CRM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1274 (26.02 %)DNS
2253 (24.03 %)Firewall
3204 (19.37 %)LAN
4200 (18.99 %)WAN
5166 (15.76 %)DHCP
693 (8.832 %)VPN
693 (8.832 %)SAN
781 (7.692 %)Internet
869 (6.553 %)HTTP
961 (5.793 %)Wireless
1058 (5.508 %)VoIP
1150 (4.748 %)OSPF
1150 (4.748 %)LDAP
1244 (4.179 %)BGP
1342 (3.989 %)SMTP
1438 (3.609 %)SSL
1536 (3.419 %)Ethernet
1536 (3.419 %)MPLS
1634 (3.229 %)3G
1731 (2.944 %)Network Security
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1116 (11.02 %)SQL Server
234 (3.229 %)SQL Server 2005
326 (2.469 %)MySQL
414 (1.330 %)SQL Server 2008
512 (1.140 %)RDBMS
611 (1.045 %)Oracle 8/8i
611 (1.045 %)DB2
710 (0.950 %)SQL Server 2000
88 (0.760 %)Oracle 10g
88 (0.760 %)Datawarehouse
88 (0.760 %)Sybase ASE
97 (0.665 %)ETL
106 (0.570 %)Oracle 9i
115 (0.475 %)SQL Server 7
124 (0.380 %)DTS
133 (0.285 %)Informix
142 (0.190 %)BusinessObjects
151 (0.095 %)BusinessObjects XI
151 (0.095 %)PostgreSQL
151 (0.095 %)Crystal Reports
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
143 (4.084 %)ClearCase
223 (2.184 %)ClearQuest
321 (1.994 %)Visual Studio
412 (1.140 %)TestDirector
412 (1.140 %)NUnit
56 (0.570 %)Eclipse
65 (0.475 %)VSS/SourceSafe
65 (0.475 %)Ant
74 (0.380 %)LoadRunner
83 (0.285 %)TeamCity
83 (0.285 %)JUnit
83 (0.285 %)Dreamweaver
92 (0.190 %)InstallShield
92 (0.190 %)Atlassian Bamboo
92 (0.190 %)FrontPage
92 (0.190 %)Subversion
101 (0.095 %)Maven
101 (0.095 %)Selenium
101 (0.095 %)PEAR
101 (0.095 %)InterDev
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1159 (15.10 %)Finance
2145 (13.77 %)Banking
375 (7.123 %)Telecoms
470 (6.648 %)Investment Banking
541 (3.894 %)Front Office
624 (2.279 %)Government
717 (1.614 %)Legal
816 (1.519 %)Financial Institution
914 (1.330 %)Back Office
914 (1.330 %)Law
1011 (1.045 %)Manufacturing
1110 (0.950 %)Military
1110 (0.950 %)Health
127 (0.665 %)Retail
127 (0.665 %)Insurance
136 (0.570 %)Education
144 (0.380 %)Auditing
144 (0.380 %)Multimedia
153 (0.285 %)Publishing
153 (0.285 %)Aerospace
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1160 (15.19 %)Analyst
2107 (10.16 %)Developer
3103 (9.782 %)Support Engineer
491 (8.642 %)Administrator
585 (8.072 %)Network Engineer
676 (7.217 %)Support Analyst
773 (6.933 %)Software Engineer
854 (5.128 %)Desktop Support
952 (4.938 %)Systems Administrator
1044 (4.179 %)Consultant
1044 (4.179 %)Architect
1138 (3.609 %)C++ Developer
1237 (3.514 %)Systems Engineer
1336 (3.419 %)3rd Line Support
1434 (3.229 %)UNIX Administrator
1531 (2.944 %)Senior Developer
1628 (2.659 %)2nd Line Support
1727 (2.564 %)Senior Software Engineer
1824 (2.279 %)Desktop Analyst
1824 (2.279 %)Java Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
139 (3.704 %)Blackberry
227 (2.564 %)Equities
325 (2.374 %)Clustering
422 (2.089 %)PKI
520 (1.899 %)Video Conferencing
619 (1.804 %)Multithreading
718 (1.709 %)PDA
817 (1.614 %)NHS
915 (1.425 %)HACMP
915 (1.425 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1013 (1.235 %)Derivative
1013 (1.235 %)Fixed Income
1112 (1.140 %)Device Driver
1112 (1.140 %)Computer Science
1211 (1.045 %)Firmware
1310 (0.950 %)Open Source
149 (0.855 %)Field-Programmable Gate Array
149 (0.855 %)Interest Rate Derivative
149 (0.855 %)Replication
149 (0.855 %)Management Information System
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1519 (49.29 %)Windows
2238 (22.60 %)Windows Server 2003
3234 (22.22 %)UNIX
4217 (20.61 %)Linux
5150 (14.25 %)Windows XP
6109 (10.35 %)Solaris
785 (8.072 %)Windows 2000
883 (7.882 %)Red Hat Linux
968 (6.458 %)Windows Server 2008
1067 (6.363 %)Windows Vista
1160 (5.698 %)Windows 2000 Server
1246 (4.368 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1331 (2.944 %)AIX
1426 (2.469 %)HPUX
1522 (2.089 %)Windows NT
169 (0.855 %)Windows Mobile
169 (0.855 %)Windows 7
175 (0.475 %)NetWare
184 (0.380 %)Embedded Linux
193 (0.285 %)Ubuntu
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
193 (8.832 %)ITIL
253 (5.033 %)UML
348 (4.558 %)Configuration Management
447 (4.463 %)Migration
541 (3.894 %)OO
637 (3.514 %)Project Management
733 (3.134 %)Capacity Planning
831 (2.944 %)Network Design
925 (2.374 %)Validation
1022 (2.089 %)OOA/OOD
1121 (1.994 %)Service Delivery
1219 (1.804 %)Load Balancing
1316 (1.519 %)Test Automation
1316 (1.519 %)Requirements Analysis
1415 (1.425 %)Change Management
1415 (1.425 %)Disaster Recovery
1415 (1.425 %)Information Security
1514 (1.330 %)OOD
1613 (1.235 %)Software Engineering
1711 (1.045 %)Performance Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1119 (11.30 %)SQL
2110 (10.45 %)C++
390 (8.547 %)C
487 (8.262 %)Perl
584 (7.977 %)Java
663 (5.983 %)C#
741 (3.894 %)Shell Script
830 (2.849 %)VBScript
923 (2.184 %)Embedded C
1021 (1.994 %)PHP
1120 (1.899 %)Korn
1217 (1.614 %)VB
1315 (1.425 %)Python
1414 (1.330 %)Tcl
1414 (1.330 %)PowerShell
1513 (1.235 %)VC++
1611 (1.045 %)JavaScript
179 (0.855 %)Bash shell
188 (0.760 %)PL/SQL
195 (0.475 %)AWK
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1125 (11.87 %)Cisco Certification
2114 (10.83 %)Microsoft Certification
3109 (10.35 %)Security Cleared
484 (7.977 %)MCSE
572 (6.838 %)CCNA
665 (6.173 %)SC Cleared
760 (5.698 %)CCNP
854 (5.128 %)Degree
950 (4.748 %)MCP
1023 (2.184 %)MCSA
1122 (2.089 %)CCIE
1218 (1.709 %)DV Cleared
1312 (1.140 %)CCSP
1312 (1.140 %)CCVP
1312 (1.140 %)CTC Cleared
1411 (1.045 %)CCSE
158 (0.760 %)CCIP
158 (0.760 %)CCSA
167 (0.665 %)MCDST
167 (0.665 %)CISSP
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
125 (2.374 %)SLA
211 (1.045 %)ISO9001
310 (0.950 %)QA
45 (0.475 %)TickIT
52 (0.190 %)BS7799
52 (0.190 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
52 (0.190 %)ISO27001
61 (0.095 %)ISO9000
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1275 (26.12 %)Active Directory
243 (4.084 %)VMware Infrastructure
324 (2.279 %)VMware ESX
416 (1.519 %)NFS
515 (1.425 %)ISA Server
614 (1.330 %)Terminal Services
614 (1.330 %)Citrix Presentation Server
713 (1.235 %)Oracle RAC
713 (1.235 %)XenApp
812 (1.140 %)MetaFrame
812 (1.140 %)NetBackup
812 (1.140 %)Backup Exec
911 (1.045 %)Veritas File System
911 (1.045 %)Terminal Server
107 (0.665 %)OpenSSO
107 (0.665 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
115 (0.475 %)Nmap
115 (0.475 %)Sendmail
115 (0.475 %)VMware Workstation
124 (0.380 %)XenServer
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
127 (2.564 %)Tivoli
216 (1.519 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
314 (1.330 %)ZENworks
412 (1.140 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
412 (1.140 %)WSUS
59 (0.855 %)Norton AntiVirus
67 (0.665 %)SCCM
76 (0.570 %)ARCserve
76 (0.570 %)McAfee ePO
85 (0.475 %)MSI
94 (0.380 %)CiscoWorks
94 (0.380 %)Legato
94 (0.380 %)Cisco IPCC
94 (0.380 %)OpenView Configuration Management
103 (0.285 %)EMC NetWorker
103 (0.285 %)SCOM
103 (0.285 %)Data Guard
103 (0.285 %)MIMEsweeper
103 (0.285 %)MAILsweeper
103 (0.285 %)DameWare
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1266 (25.26 %)Microsoft
2201 (19.09 %)Cisco
3126 (11.97 %)Citrix
498 (9.307 %)Oracle
584 (7.977 %)VMware
681 (7.692 %)IBM
773 (6.933 %)HP
871 (6.743 %)CheckPoint
965 (6.173 %)Red Hat
1047 (4.463 %)Sun
1141 (3.894 %)Veritas
1239 (3.704 %)Sybase
1337 (3.514 %)NetApp
1337 (3.514 %)Juniper
1435 (3.324 %)Dell
1532 (3.039 %)EMC
1631 (2.944 %)Nokia
1631 (2.944 %)Lotus
1631 (2.944 %)Reuters
1728 (2.659 %)TIBCO