tcpdump Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for tcpdump skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited tcpdump over the 3 months to 21 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.

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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
tcpdump
Rank 534 559 565
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +6
Contract jobs citing tcpdump 6 22 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.038% 0.025%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.087% 0.240% 0.193%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 8
Average daily rate £575 £375 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+53.33% +3.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £575 £375 £263
% change year-on-year
+53.33% +42.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £40.00
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 6868 9171 7760
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.55% 15.69% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3354 4160 3539
Average daily rate £350 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 614 779
Average hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.50 £45.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%

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Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing tcpdump within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

tcpdump Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing tcpdump within the UK.

tcpdump Daily Rate Trend

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Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing tcpdump within the UK.

tcpdump Hourly Rate Trend

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing tcpdump within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank 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
England +34 6 £575 +53.33%
South East - 4 £575 -
London +9 2 - -
Surbiton - 2 - -
Hampshire - 2 £575 -
Farnborough - 1 £575 -
West Sussex - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Southampton - 1 - -
Crawley - 1 - -

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing tcpdump 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 tcpdump.

1 14 (87.50%) TCP/IP
2 12 (75.00%) Linux
3 10 (62.50%) Perl
3 10 (62.50%) Bash shell
4 9 (56.25%) Puppet
4 9 (56.25%) Red Hat
5 8 (50.00%) SQL
5 8 (50.00%) DNS
5 8 (50.00%) SSL
5 8 (50.00%) HTTP
5 8 (50.00%) VMware
6 7 (43.75%) Clustering
6 7 (43.75%) AWK
6 7 (43.75%) Banking
6 7 (43.75%) Cryptography
6 7 (43.75%) Nmap
6 7 (43.75%) Wireshark
6 7 (43.75%) Load Balancing
6 7 (43.75%) Memory Management
6 7 (43.75%) iSCSI
6 7 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (43.75%) sed
6 7 (43.75%) SMTP
6 7 (43.75%) DHCP
6 7 (43.75%) Java
6 7 (43.75%) JDBC
6 7 (43.75%) JBoss
6 7 (43.75%) Apache
6 7 (43.75%) Tomcat
6 7 (43.75%) Shell Script

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing tcpdump 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 tcpdump. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (43.75%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 7 (43.75%) Apache
1 7 (43.75%) Tomcat
2 5 (31.25%) Liferay
3 1 (6.250%) ActiveMQ
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) TCP/IP
2 8 (50.00%) DNS
2 8 (50.00%) SSL
2 8 (50.00%) HTTP
3 7 (43.75%) Wireshark
3 7 (43.75%) iSCSI
3 7 (43.75%) SMTP
3 7 (43.75%) DHCP
3 7 (43.75%) SAN
3 7 (43.75%) TELNET
4 6 (37.50%) LDAP
5 5 (31.25%) SNMP
5 5 (31.25%) NAS
6 3 (18.75%) WAN
6 3 (18.75%) LAN
6 3 (18.75%) Firewall
7 2 (12.50%) Junos
7 2 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (12.50%) IPsec
7 2 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (31.25%) MySQL
3 1 (6.250%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
1 5 (31.25%) Hudson
1 5 (31.25%) Git (software)
General
1 7 (43.75%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.250%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Linux Administrator
1 7 (43.75%) Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Network Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Team Leader
3 2 (12.50%) Network Support
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Network Support Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Automated Test Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Network Team Leader
4 1 (6.250%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Security Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Clustering
1 7 (43.75%) Cryptography
2 1 (6.250%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.250%) Open Source
2 1 (6.250%) SecurID
2 1 (6.250%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
3 4 (25.00%) UNIX
4 2 (12.50%) CentOS
4 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.250%) Solaris
5 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Load Balancing
1 7 (43.75%) Memory Management
1 7 (43.75%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (12.50%) Problem Management
2 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (6.250%) ITIL
3 1 (6.250%) Service Delivery
3 1 (6.250%) Change Management
3 1 (6.250%) SIEM
3 1 (6.250%) Change Control
3 1 (6.250%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (6.250%) Information Assurance
3 1 (6.250%) Use Case
3 1 (6.250%) Performance Management
3 1 (6.250%) Incident Management
3 1 (6.250%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (6.250%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Perl
1 10 (62.50%) Bash shell
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
3 7 (43.75%) AWK
3 7 (43.75%) sed
3 7 (43.75%) Java
3 7 (43.75%) Shell Script
4 3 (18.75%) Ruby
5 2 (12.50%) PHP
6 1 (6.250%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) RHCE
2 1 (6.250%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.250%) CCNA
2 1 (6.250%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Nmap
1 7 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (31.25%) NFS
2 5 (31.25%) Postfix
2 5 (31.25%) Squid
3 2 (12.50%) ProxySG
4 1 (6.250%) Active Directory
4 1 (6.250%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.250%) vSphere
4 1 (6.250%) Snort
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Puppet
2 5 (31.25%) Nagios
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 1 (6.250%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Red Hat
2 8 (50.00%) VMware
3 7 (43.75%) JBoss
4 6 (37.50%) SAP
5 5 (31.25%) Oracle
5 5 (31.25%) Cisco
5 5 (31.25%) EMC
5 5 (31.25%) NetApp
6 3 (18.75%) Blue Coat
7 2 (12.50%) HP
7 2 (12.50%) Juniper
8 1 (6.250%) Nortel
8 1 (6.250%) Microsoft
8 1 (6.250%) Avaya
8 1 (6.250%) CheckPoint
8 1 (6.250%) CA
8 1 (6.250%) McAfee
8 1 (6.250%) Verint
8 1 (6.250%) Sourcefire
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