Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 19 March 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 for the Wiltshire region.

 Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank395751
Rank change year-on-year
Up+18Down-6
Matching contract IT job ads13216
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire2.200 %0.280 %1.385 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category12.62 %2.778 %6.838 %
Daily rates quoted602
Average daily rate£325-£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£300£313
% change year-on-year
+8.330 %-4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted206
Average hourly rate£14.75-£37.50
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£14.15-£31.25
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.35-£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£18.75£27.00
% change year-on-year
+1.330 %-30.55 %
Wiltshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
10372234
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire17.43 %10.08 %20.26 %
Daily rates quoted441858
Average daily rate£325£325£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-+8.330 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£263£225£235
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£350£425£488
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£325
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %+3.840 %
Hourly rates quoted171454
Average hourly rate£14.00£21.00£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33 %-40.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.00£15.40£22.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.50£45.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£24.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
+4.160 %-12.72 %
TCP/IP South WestTCP/IP
South West

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

Wiltshire 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 across the Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire TCP/IP Daily Rate Trend

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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 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
SwindonNew entry-6£325-
MalmesburyNew entry-1--
TCP/IP South WestTCP/IP
South West

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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.

125 (89.29 %)DHCP
125 (89.29 %)DNS
125 (89.29 %)Firewall
224 (85.71 %)ClearCase
323 (82.14 %)3G
422 (78.57 %)ClearQuest
521 (75.00 %)Configuration Management
521 (75.00 %)UNIX
521 (75.00 %)3GPP
620 (71.43 %)Wireless
719 (67.86 %)Windows
818 (64.29 %)Test Automation
916 (57.14 %)NetHawk
916 (57.14 %)Wireshark
916 (57.14 %)UTRAN
916 (57.14 %)Tcl
1012 (42.86 %)Requirements Analysis
118 (28.57 %)C++
127 (25.00 %)Perl
127 (25.00 %)C
135 (17.86 %)RNC
135 (17.86 %)TestDirector
135 (17.86 %)MySQL
144 (14.29 %)Telecoms
153 (10.71 %)Linux
162 (7.143 %)OOP
162 (7.143 %)OO
162 (7.143 %)LDAP
162 (7.143 %)Active Directory
162 (7.143 %)IBM

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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.

Wiltshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (3.571 %)Exchange Server 5.5
11 (3.571 %)Exchange Server 2000
11 (3.571 %)Exchange Server 2003
11 (3.571 %)MS Exchange
11 (3.571 %)IIS
Wiltshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
125 (89.29 %)DHCP
125 (89.29 %)DNS
125 (89.29 %)Firewall
223 (82.14 %)3G
321 (75.00 %)3GPP
420 (71.43 %)Wireless
516 (57.14 %)Wireshark
516 (57.14 %)UTRAN
65 (17.86 %)RNC
72 (7.143 %)LDAP
72 (7.143 %)SSH
81 (3.571 %)iSCSI
81 (3.571 %)Intranet
81 (3.571 %)Internet
81 (3.571 %)WAN
81 (3.571 %)LAN
Wiltshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
15 (17.86 %)MySQL
Wiltshire IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
124 (85.71 %)ClearCase
222 (78.57 %)ClearQuest
35 (17.86 %)TestDirector
Wiltshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14 (14.29 %)Telecoms
21 (3.571 %)Education
21 (3.571 %)Manufacturing
Wiltshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
116 (57.14 %)Test Engineer
26 (21.43 %)Software Engineer
32 (7.143 %)C++ Software Engineer
32 (7.143 %)Systems Engineer
41 (3.571 %)Development Engineer
41 (3.571 %)Technical Support
41 (3.571 %)Senior Systems Engineer
41 (3.571 %)Support Engineer
41 (3.571 %)Service Analyst
41 (3.571 %)Analyst
41 (3.571 %)Service Desk Analyst
41 (3.571 %)Project Engineer
41 (3.571 %)Technical Engineer
41 (3.571 %)Software Development Engineer
41 (3.571 %)Linux Engineer
41 (3.571 %)Technical Support Engineer
Wiltshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (3.571 %)Blackberry
11 (3.571 %)Device Driver
Wiltshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
121 (75.00 %)UNIX
219 (67.86 %)Windows
33 (10.71 %)Linux
42 (7.143 %)Windows Server 2003
42 (7.143 %)Red Hat Linux
51 (3.571 %)Windows 7
51 (3.571 %)Windows 2000 Server
51 (3.571 %)Windows Vista
51 (3.571 %)Embedded Linux
51 (3.571 %)Windows NT
51 (3.571 %)Windows XP
51 (3.571 %)Windows 2000
Wiltshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
121 (75.00 %)Configuration Management
218 (64.29 %)Test Automation
312 (42.86 %)Requirements Analysis
42 (7.143 %)OOP
42 (7.143 %)OO
Wiltshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
116 (57.14 %)Tcl
28 (28.57 %)C++
37 (25.00 %)Perl
37 (25.00 %)C
42 (7.143 %)Shell Script
51 (3.571 %)Embedded C
51 (3.571 %)Embedded C++
Wiltshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (7.143 %)Security Cleared
21 (3.571 %)Degree
21 (3.571 %)SC Cleared
Wiltshire IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (3.571 %)SLA
Wiltshire IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (7.143 %)Active Directory
21 (3.571 %)Citrix Presentation Server
Wiltshire IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (3.571 %)Backup Exec
Wiltshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
116 (57.14 %)NetHawk
22 (7.143 %)IBM
22 (7.143 %)Microsoft
22 (7.143 %)Red Hat
31 (3.571 %)Cisco
31 (3.571 %)HP
31 (3.571 %)Citrix
31 (3.571 %)Juniper
31 (3.571 %)Siebel
31 (3.571 %)SAP