The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 24 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 for the Warrington region.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 17 17 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 4 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 3.279% 1.064% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.00% 14.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £294 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -20.00%
All Communications & Networking
Warrington
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
20 7 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 16.39% 7.447% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 2
Average daily rate £458 £323 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.86% -24.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £25.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +92.30%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
TCP/IP
Cheshire

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing TCP/IP across the Warrington region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Warrington TCP/IP Jobs Demand Trend

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing TCP/IP across the Warrington region.

Warrington TCP/IP Daily Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Warrington region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Warrington TCP/IP Daily Rate Histogram

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing TCP/IP across the Warrington region.

Warrington TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington region 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.

1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (40.00%) ATM
2 2 (40.00%) WCDMA
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) 3G
2 2 (40.00%) SS7
2 2 (40.00%) Ericsson
2 2 (40.00%) 2G
2 2 (40.00%) RANAP
2 2 (40.00%) NBAP
2 2 (40.00%) RNC
2 2 (40.00%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) LTE
3 1 (20.00%) XenApp
3 1 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Hitachi
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington region 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.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) ATM
1 2 (40.00%) WCDMA
1 2 (40.00%) 3G
1 2 (40.00%) SS7
1 2 (40.00%) 2G
1 2 (40.00%) RANAP
1 2 (40.00%) NBAP
1 2 (40.00%) RNC
1 2 (40.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (20.00%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Service Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Time Management
1 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (20.00%) Service Management
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C++
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) VB
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (20.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) XenApp
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Ericsson
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Hitachi
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) SAP