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This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills across the UK 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 last 3 months to 12 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkTransmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location
3 months to 12 May 2008Same period last year
Rank7564
Rank change on same period last yearDown-11
Matching contract IT job ads15231898
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled1.914 %2.133 %
As % of the category below14.85 %15.07 %
Daily rates quoted364380
Average minimum daily rate£315£322
Average daily rate£336£338
% change on same period last year-0.38 %
Average maximum daily rate£358£353
UK excluding London average daily rate£323£315
% change on same period last year+2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted303334
Average minimum hourly rate£23.46£21.27
Average hourly rate£25.28£22.63
% change on same period last year+11.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate£27.11£23.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.59£23.39
% change on same period last year+5.13 %
Communications & Networking UKCommunications & Networking
UK
Matching contract IT job ads1025412596
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled12.88 %14.15 %
Daily rates quoted28042892
Average minimum daily rate£337£341
Average daily rate£357£360
% change on same period last year-0.88 %
Average maximum daily rate£378£379
UK excluding London average daily rate£343£334
% change on same period last year+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted13421504
Average minimum hourly rate£24.74£25.41
Average hourly rate£26.71£26.96
% change on same period last year-0.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate£28.68£28.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate£26.71£27.55
% change on same period last year-3.01 %

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 the 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing TCP/IP across 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 contract IT jobs ads citing TCP/IP across 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 across the UK over the past 3 months.

TCP/IP Daily Rate Histogram

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing TCP/IP across 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 across the UK over the past 3 months.

TCP/IP Hourly Rate Histogram

TCP/IP
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the UK over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank 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
1EnglandDown-91444£337-0.67 %
2LondonDown-20543£348-2.88 %
3South EastDown-5372£312-7.65 %
4City of LondonDown-13155£390-6.15 %
5BerkshireUp+22138£303-12.63 %
6East of EnglandUp+11125£374+28.64 %
7North WestUp+3395£374+180.15 %
8YorkshireDown-586£233-21.58 %
9South WestDown-582£281-4.78 %
10West MidlandsDown-1577£350+31.42 %
11HertfordshireUp+1662£448+49.42 %
12HampshireNo change061£363+5.07 %
13SurreyDown-1060£298-9.46 %
14ManchesterUp+1045£388+158.33 %
15CambridgeshireDown-244£176-30.88 %
16ScotlandDown-1643£308+23.22 %
17West YorkshireUp+838£229-19.60 %
18ReadingDown-134£341+18.44 %
19LeedsUp+1433£229-23.43 %
19North EastUp+2633£110-56.00 %
20CambridgeUp+631£263+7.69 %
21CoventryUp+1025--
22CheshireNo change024£427-
22Docklands, LondonDown-424£352+40.93 %
23North YorkshireDown-623£320-19.97 %
24East MidlandsDown-3722--
25WiltshireDown-1421£350-12.50 %
25OxfordshireDown-221£160-47.75 %
26Tyne and WearUp+2120--
27WarwickshireUp+1617£350+37.79 %

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing TCP/IP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing TCP/IP.

11587 (50.08 %)Windows
2766 (24.17 %)Active Directory
3707 (22.31 %)Microsoft
4668 (21.08 %)Unix
5661 (20.86 %)DNS
6642 (20.26 %)LAN
7634 (20.01 %)Cisco
8589 (18.59 %)Firewall
9553 (17.45 %)MS Office
10547 (17.26 %)WAN
11545 (17.20 %)Linux
12511 (16.12 %)Windows 2000
13432 (13.63 %)MS Exchange
14384 (12.12 %)Windows XP
15382 (12.05 %)Microsoft Certification
16362 (11.42 %)Solaris
17355 (11.20 %)VPN
18353 (11.14 %)Finance
19350 (11.04 %)DHCP
20330 (10.41 %)Cisco Certification
21322 (10.16 %)Exchange Server 2003
22316 (9.972 %)HP
22316 (9.972 %)Internet
23310 (9.782 %)SQL
24304 (9.593 %)Perl
25299 (9.435 %)SAN
26293 (9.246 %)C++
27285 (8.993 %)Windows NT
28281 (8.867 %)MS Excel
29271 (8.552 %)Citrix

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing TCP/IP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing TCP/IP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1177 (5.585 %)XML
2120 (3.787 %).NET
398 (3.092 %)J2EE
485 (2.682 %)WebSphere
576 (2.398 %)HTML
672 (2.272 %)Middleware
756 (1.767 %)WebServices
845 (1.420 %)CGI
944 (1.388 %)MFC
1042 (1.325 %)ASP.NET
1140 (1.262 %)ASP
1234 (1.073 %)CSS
1333 (1.041 %)XSLT
1333 (1.041 %)AJAX
1431 (0.978 %)ODBC
1431 (0.978 %)SOAP
1526 (0.820 %)JSP
1625 (0.789 %)ADO.NET
1724 (0.757 %)WPF
1822 (0.694 %)STL
Application Platforms
1432 (13.63 %)MS Exchange
2322 (10.16 %)Exchange Server 2003
3213 (6.721 %)IIS
4191 (6.027 %)Apache
5170 (5.364 %)Exchange Server 2000
6105 (3.313 %)Lotus Notes
789 (2.808 %)Tomcat
864 (2.020 %)Exchange Server 5.5
940 (1.262 %)Exchange Server 2007
1036 (1.136 %)JBoss
1132 (1.010 %)BizTalk Server
1231 (0.978 %)WebLogic
1324 (0.757 %)WebSphere Application Server
1324 (0.757 %)SharePoint
1417 (0.536 %)iPlanet
1417 (0.536 %)Rendezvous
1417 (0.536 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1515 (0.473 %)CMS
1613 (0.410 %)GroupWise
1711 (0.347 %)CICS
Applications
1553 (17.45 %)MS Office
2281 (8.867 %)MS Excel
355 (1.736 %)MS Project
437 (1.168 %)MS Visio
510 (0.316 %)MS PowerPoint
65 (0.158 %)Acrobat
73 (0.095 %)Photoshop
73 (0.095 %)AutoCAD
81 (0.032 %)S-PLUS
81 (0.032 %)Fireworks
Business Applications
118 (0.568 %)RMDS
28 (0.252 %)BusinessWorks
34 (0.126 %)Summit
43 (0.095 %)TIBCO iProcess
43 (0.095 %)SAP CRM
52 (0.063 %)BASE24
52 (0.063 %)Oracle EBS
52 (0.063 %)Oracle Applications
52 (0.063 %)BPCS
52 (0.063 %)assyst
52 (0.063 %)Line 50
61 (0.032 %)SAP R/3
61 (0.032 %)SoftGrid
61 (0.032 %)MFGPRO
Communications & Networking
1661 (20.86 %)DNS
2642 (20.26 %)LAN
3589 (18.59 %)Firewall
4547 (17.26 %)WAN
5355 (11.20 %)VPN
6350 (11.04 %)DHCP
7316 (9.972 %)Internet
8299 (9.435 %)SAN
9219 (6.911 %)VoIP
10199 (6.280 %)WINS
11198 (6.248 %)Ethernet
12174 (5.491 %)OSPF
13164 (5.175 %)HTTP
14133 (4.197 %)BGP
15132 (4.165 %)SMTP
16111 (3.503 %)Network Security
17110 (3.471 %)FTP
1895 (2.998 %)Cisco PIX
1895 (2.998 %)MPLS
1988 (2.777 %)Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1242 (7.636 %)SQL Server
298 (3.092 %)MySQL
369 (2.177 %)SQL Server 2000
442 (1.325 %)SQL Server 2005
442 (1.325 %)RDBMS
530 (0.947 %)Oracle 10g
624 (0.757 %)SQL Server 7
720 (0.631 %)Oracle 9i
814 (0.442 %)MS Access
913 (0.410 %)BusinessObjects
913 (0.410 %)GIS
1012 (0.379 %)Cognos Impromptu
1110 (0.316 %)DB2
1110 (0.316 %)InterBase
129 (0.284 %)Informix
129 (0.284 %)Oracle 8/8i
138 (0.252 %)TOAD
138 (0.252 %)PostgreSQL
146 (0.189 %)Crystal Reports
155 (0.158 %)BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications
160 (1.893 %)ClearCase
241 (1.294 %)Visual Studio
334 (1.073 %)VSS/SourceSafe
418 (0.568 %)Flash
517 (0.536 %)ClearQuest
616 (0.505 %)Eclipse
616 (0.505 %)LoadRunner
714 (0.442 %)Rational Rose
811 (0.347 %)Ant
811 (0.347 %)MSI
910 (0.316 %)NUnit
109 (0.284 %)JIRA
109 (0.284 %)TestDirector
117 (0.221 %)Subversion
126 (0.189 %)PowerBuilder
126 (0.189 %)WinRunner
135 (0.158 %)QuickTest Pro
135 (0.158 %)Bugzilla
144 (0.126 %)RequisitePro
144 (0.126 %)QARun
General
1353 (11.14 %)Finance
2186 (5.869 %)Banking
3185 (5.838 %)Telecoms
4103 (3.250 %)Government
587 (2.745 %)Investment Banking
653 (1.672 %)Retail
748 (1.515 %)Law
847 (1.483 %)Legal
946 (1.452 %)Auditing
1044 (1.388 %)Health
1140 (1.262 %)Back Office
1239 (1.231 %)Financial Institution
1337 (1.168 %)Front Office
1429 (0.915 %)Military
1527 (0.852 %)Insurance
1621 (0.663 %)Electronics
1717 (0.536 %)Multimedia
1816 (0.505 %)Education
1816 (0.505 %)Marketing
1915 (0.473 %)Games
Job Titles
1590 (18.62 %)Analyst
2316 (9.972 %)Support Analyst
3299 (9.435 %)Administrator
4298 (9.404 %)Support Engineer
5282 (8.899 %)Network Engineer
6233 (7.352 %)Desktop Support
7210 (6.627 %)Developer
8194 (6.122 %)Software Engineer
9180 (5.680 %)2nd Line Support
10153 (4.828 %)Systems Administrator
11123 (3.881 %)Network Support
12104 (3.282 %)3rd Line Support
1392 (2.903 %)Systems Engineer
1491 (2.872 %)Helpdesk Analyst
1590 (2.840 %)Helpdesk Support
1687 (2.745 %)Desktop Analyst
1786 (2.714 %)UNIX Administrator
1884 (2.651 %)Desktop Support Analyst
1977 (2.430 %)Architect
2076 (2.398 %)Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1154 (4.860 %)Blackberry
2112 (3.534 %)Clustering
361 (1.925 %)HACMP
456 (1.767 %)Client/Server
545 (1.420 %)Multithreading
643 (1.357 %)PDA
742 (1.325 %)Replication
841 (1.294 %)Handset
936 (1.136 %)PKI
1030 (0.947 %)Mainframe
1126 (0.820 %)NHS
1126 (0.820 %)French Language
1217 (0.536 %)Video Conferencing
1217 (0.536 %)Device Driver
1315 (0.473 %)Equities
1315 (0.473 %)W3C
1414 (0.442 %)EPoS
1414 (0.442 %)Management Information System
1513 (0.410 %)AS400
1513 (0.410 %)Asset Management
Operating Systems
11587 (50.08 %)Windows
2668 (21.08 %)Unix
3545 (17.20 %)Linux
4511 (16.12 %)Windows 2000
5384 (12.12 %)Windows XP
6362 (11.42 %)Solaris
7285 (8.993 %)Windows NT
8261 (8.236 %)Windows Server 2003
9155 (4.891 %)AIX
1090 (2.840 %)HPUX
1138 (1.199 %)VxWorks
1232 (1.010 %)VMS
1327 (0.852 %)Windows CE
1327 (0.852 %)Windows Mobile
1426 (0.820 %)Embedded Linux
1517 (0.536 %)NetWare
1614 (0.442 %)Debian
1713 (0.410 %)Fedora
1811 (0.347 %)SUSE
197 (0.221 %)FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1266 (8.394 %)ITIL
2116 (3.660 %)UML
399 (3.124 %)OO
496 (3.029 %)Project Management
585 (2.682 %)Migration
684 (2.651 %)Configuration Management
780 (2.524 %)Network Design
873 (2.304 %)Load Balancing
952 (1.641 %)Problem Management
952 (1.641 %)PRINCE2
1049 (1.546 %)Disaster Recovery
1138 (1.199 %)Change Management
1235 (1.104 %)Service Delivery
1333 (1.041 %)RAD
1431 (0.978 %)Software Engineering
1431 (0.978 %)Security Management
1529 (0.915 %)E-Commerce
1627 (0.852 %)OOD
1726 (0.820 %)Service Management
1823 (0.726 %)Scrum
Programming Languages
1310 (9.782 %)SQL
2304 (9.593 %)Perl
3293 (9.246 %)C++
4203 (6.406 %)C
5163 (5.144 %)Shell Script
6154 (4.860 %)Java
7125 (3.944 %)C#
875 (2.367 %)Korn
963 (1.988 %)VB
1059 (1.862 %)Embedded C
1157 (1.799 %)VC++
1252 (1.641 %)VBScript
1349 (1.546 %)PHP
1440 (1.262 %)JavaScript
1533 (1.041 %)Embedded C++
1627 (0.852 %)Python
1723 (0.726 %)VBA
1820 (0.631 %)VB.NET
1919 (0.600 %)VB6
2016 (0.505 %)DCL
Qualifications
1382 (12.05 %)Microsoft Certification
2330 (10.41 %)Cisco Certification
3247 (7.794 %)MCSE
4190 (5.996 %)CCNA
5182 (5.743 %)CCNP
6146 (4.607 %)MCP
785 (2.682 %)Degree
844 (1.388 %)CCIE
938 (1.199 %)CCDP
1033 (1.041 %)CISSP
1033 (1.041 %)CCSA
1131 (0.978 %)MCSA
1228 (0.884 %)CCSE
1322 (0.694 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1417 (0.536 %)CCSP
1417 (0.536 %)Citrix Certification
1516 (0.505 %)CCIP
1516 (0.505 %)CCDA
1516 (0.505 %)CISA
1615 (0.473 %)CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
196 (3.029 %)SLA
227 (0.852 %)QA
315 (0.473 %)ISO9001
47 (0.221 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
56 (0.189 %)BS7799
56 (0.189 %)GCP
65 (0.158 %)ISO9000
65 (0.158 %)ISO27001
74 (0.126 %)WCAG
74 (0.126 %)WAI
74 (0.126 %)GLP
74 (0.126 %)GxP
83 (0.095 %)TickIT
92 (0.063 %)PCI DSS
101 (0.032 %)DICOM
101 (0.032 %)JSP 440
101 (0.032 %)ISO17799
System Software
1766 (24.17 %)Active Directory
286 (2.714 %)NetBackup
360 (1.893 %)Backup Exec
360 (1.893 %)VMware ESX
360 (1.893 %)ISA Server
448 (1.515 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
538 (1.199 %)Citrix Presentation Server
633 (1.041 %)Terminal Services
728 (0.884 %)Terminal Server
728 (0.884 %)NFS
823 (0.726 %)MetaFrame
915 (0.473 %)Samba
109 (0.284 %)VMware Workstation
109 (0.284 %)Xen
116 (0.189 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
116 (0.189 %)Oracle RAC
125 (0.158 %)MSMQ
133 (0.095 %)Oracle RMAN
133 (0.095 %)Novell eDirectory
133 (0.095 %)Squid
Systems Management
184 (2.651 %)Tivoli
278 (2.461 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
278 (2.461 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
374 (2.335 %)OpenView
445 (1.420 %)MOM
539 (1.231 %)CiscoWorks
625 (0.789 %)CA SiteMinder
625 (0.789 %)DameWare
721 (0.663 %)Norton AntiVirus
818 (0.568 %)WSUS
818 (0.568 %)Legato
912 (0.379 %)ZENworks
1011 (0.347 %)OMEGAMON
119 (0.284 %)MAILsweeper
119 (0.284 %)HP Data Protector
128 (0.252 %)ARCserve
137 (0.221 %)CONTROL-M
137 (0.221 %)OpenView Configuration Management
137 (0.221 %)Unicenter
137 (0.221 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1707 (22.31 %)Microsoft
2634 (20.01 %)Cisco
3316 (9.972 %)HP
4271 (8.552 %)Citrix
5270 (8.520 %)Oracle
6207 (6.532 %)VMware
7194 (6.122 %)CheckPoint
8182 (5.743 %)VERITAS
9160 (5.049 %)Sun
10134 (4.228 %)Red Hat
11131 (4.134 %)IBM
12114 (3.597 %)Nokia
13113 (3.566 %)Dell
14109 (3.440 %)Lotus
1567 (2.114 %)Remedy
1662 (1.956 %)NetApp
1755 (1.736 %)Bloomberg
1853 (1.672 %)Symantec
1853 (1.672 %)EMC
1951 (1.609 %)Sybase
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