West Yorkshire TCP/IP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) skills within the West Yorkshire region 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 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Cramlington Crawley Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	63	37
Rank change on same period last year	-26
Matching contract IT job ads	29	61
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.062 %
As % of the category below	13.94 %	22.10 %
Daily rates quoted	9	10
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£280
Average daily rate	£306	£285
% change on same period last year	+7.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£289
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£310
% change on same period last year	+1.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.40	£17.03
Average hourly rate	£26.10	£18.76
% change on same period last year	+39.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.80	£20.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.12	£25.87
% change on same period last year	-10.60 %
Communications & Networking West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	208	276
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.277 %	0.280 %
Daily rates quoted	50	47
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£327
Average daily rate	£297	£333
% change on same period last year	-11.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£311	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.31	£26.69
Average hourly rate	£24.57	£28.29
% change on same period last year	-13.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.84	£29.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.60
% change on same period last year	-9.75 %
TCP/IP Yorkshire

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 a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing TCP/IP across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend

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

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

TCP/IP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank 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
Leeds	-21	26	£306	+3.38 %
Bradford	+4	3	-	-
Wakefield	0	1	-	-

TCP/IP Yorkshire

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 47 (78.33 %) Windows 2 32 (53.33 %) Active Directory 3 25 (41.67 %) Microsoft 4 23 (38.33 %) Windows XP 5 22 (36.67 %) MS Office 6 14 (23.33 %) VPN 7 13 (21.67 %) DNS 8 11 (18.33 %) Internet 9 10 (16.67 %) Firewall 10 9 (15.00 %) Windows Server 2003 10 9 (15.00 %) Health 10 9 (15.00 %) SQL Server 10 9 (15.00 %) Broadband 10 9 (15.00 %) UNIX 11 8 (13.33 %) WAN

12 7 (11.67 %) DHCP 12 7 (11.67 %) MCP 12 7 (11.67 %) Citrix 12 7 (11.67 %) Microsoft Certification 13 6 (10.00 %) MS Exchange 13 6 (10.00 %) Government 13 6 (10.00 %) SQL Server 2005 14 5 (8.333 %) VoIP 14 5 (8.333 %) LAN 14 5 (8.333 %) Perl 14 5 (8.333 %) Dell 14 5 (8.333 %) HTTP 14 5 (8.333 %) Cisco 14 5 (8.333 %) IBM 14 5 (8.333 %) NHS

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 3 (5.000 %) .NET 2 2 (3.333 %) WebServices 2 2 (3.333 %) WebSphere 2 2 (3.333 %) .NET Framework 2 2 (3.333 %) WCF 3 1 (1.667 %) Swing 3 1 (1.667 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 6 (10.00 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (6.667 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (5.000 %) GroupWise 3 3 (5.000 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 2 (3.333 %) WebSphere MQ 5 1 (1.667 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (1.667 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 22 (36.67 %) MS Office 2 3 (5.000 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 14 (23.33 %) VPN 2 13 (21.67 %) DNS 3 11 (18.33 %) Internet 4 10 (16.67 %) Firewall 5 9 (15.00 %) Broadband 6 8 (13.33 %) WAN 7 7 (11.67 %) DHCP 8 5 (8.333 %) VoIP 8 5 (8.333 %) LAN 8 5 (8.333 %) HTTP 9 4 (6.667 %) SSL 10 3 (5.000 %) LDAP 11 2 (3.333 %) ATM 11 2 (3.333 %) FTP 11 2 (3.333 %) SAN 11 2 (3.333 %) Kerberos 11 2 (3.333 %) RIP 11 2 (3.333 %) OSPF 11 2 (3.333 %) X.509 11 2 (3.333 %) Frame Relay
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (15.00 %) SQL Server 2 6 (10.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (6.667 %) SQL Server 7 3 4 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (1.667 %) Visual Studio
General 1 9 (15.00 %) Health 2 6 (10.00 %) Government 3 4 (6.667 %) Telecoms 4 3 (5.000 %) Education 5 2 (3.333 %) Finance 6 1 (1.667 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (1.667 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 18 (30.00 %) Analyst 2 16 (26.67 %) Support Analyst 3 14 (23.33 %) Desktop Support 4 10 (16.67 %) Support Engineer 4 10 (16.67 %) Desktop Support Analyst 4 10 (16.67 %) Desktop Analyst 5 6 (10.00 %) Desktop Engineer 6 5 (8.333 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 4 (6.667 %) 2nd Line Support 7 4 (6.667 %) Systems Integrator 8 3 (5.000 %) Windows Server Engineer 8 3 (5.000 %) Server Engineer 8 3 (5.000 %) Network Support 8 3 (5.000 %) Rollout Engineer 8 3 (5.000 %) Server Support Engineer 8 3 (5.000 %) Administrator 8 3 (5.000 %) Server Support 8 3 (5.000 %) Support Technician 8 3 (5.000 %) Network Engineer 9 2 (3.333 %) Developer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (8.333 %) NHS 2 2 (3.333 %) PDA 2 2 (3.333 %) Video Conferencing 2 2 (3.333 %) Client/Server 3 1 (1.667 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 47 (78.33 %) Windows 2 23 (38.33 %) Windows XP 3 9 (15.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 9 (15.00 %) UNIX 4 4 (6.667 %) Windows Mobile 4 4 (6.667 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (5.000 %) Solaris 5 3 (5.000 %) Linux 6 2 (3.333 %) Windows NT 7 1 (1.667 %) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (6.667 %) Network Design 1 4 (6.667 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (5.000 %) Project Management 3 2 (3.333 %) Service Management 3 2 (3.333 %) ITSM 3 2 (3.333 %) ITIL 3 2 (3.333 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (3.333 %) SOA 3 2 (3.333 %) Supplier Management 3 2 (3.333 %) Network Load Balancing 4 1 (1.667 %) MOF 4 1 (1.667 %) ERP 4 1 (1.667 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 5 (8.333 %) Perl 2 4 (6.667 %) C 2 4 (6.667 %) Shell Script 3 2 (3.333 %) SQL 4 1 (1.667 %) VB 4 1 (1.667 %) C# 4 1 (1.667 %) Java 4 1 (1.667 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 7 (11.67 %) MCP 1 7 (11.67 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (5.000 %) Network+ Certification 3 2 (3.333 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 1 (1.667 %) Novell Certification 4 1 (1.667 %) CCNA 4 1 (1.667 %) Cisco Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.333 %) PCI DSS
System Software 1 32 (53.33 %) Active Directory 2 2 (3.333 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (1.667 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 3 (5.000 %) ZENworks 2 1 (1.667 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 25 (41.67 %) Microsoft 2 7 (11.67 %) Citrix 3 5 (8.333 %) Cisco 3 5 (8.333 %) IBM 3 5 (8.333 %) Dell 4 4 (6.667 %) HP 5 3 (5.000 %) Remedy 5 3 (5.000 %) Novell 6 2 (3.333 %) VERITAS 7 1 (1.667 %) Symantec 7 1 (1.667 %) Sun 7 1 (1.667 %) Nortel