The first 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 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 Wiltshire 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 50 33 42
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +9
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 2 20 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 0.438% 3.263% 1.633%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.899% 16.13% 9.278%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 3
Average daily rate - £333 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +90.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £33.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -32.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -20.00%
All Communications & Networking
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
69 124 97
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 15.10% 20.23% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 49 37
Average daily rate £425 £388 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.67% +0.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £298 £263 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £466 £450 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 15
Average hourly rate £26.50 £22.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.77% -22.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.70 £22.50 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.30 £42.50 £33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
TCP/IP
South West

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire TCP/IP Daily Rate Trend

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 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 24 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
Swindon 0 1 - -
TCP/IP
South West

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) VMware
3 5 (45.45%) DHCP
3 5 (45.45%) DNS
4 4 (36.36%) HP
4 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
5 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (27.27%) UNIX
5 3 (27.27%) Firewall
5 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
5 3 (27.27%) Cisco
5 3 (27.27%) Juniper
5 3 (27.27%) SAN
5 3 (27.27%) LAN
5 3 (27.27%) WAN
5 3 (27.27%) SQL
5 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
6 2 (18.18%) MS Office
6 2 (18.18%) ITIL
6 2 (18.18%) MCP
6 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
6 2 (18.18%) SMTP
6 2 (18.18%) HTTP
6 2 (18.18%) Terminal Services
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
6 2 (18.18%) S/MIME
6 2 (18.18%) Compuware
6 2 (18.18%) OpenView
6 2 (18.18%) Telecoms

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (9.091%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Office
1 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) DHCP
1 5 (45.45%) DNS
2 3 (27.27%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) SAN
2 3 (27.27%) LAN
2 3 (27.27%) WAN
3 2 (18.18%) SMTP
3 2 (18.18%) HTTP
3 2 (18.18%) S/MIME
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (9.091%) NAS
4 1 (9.091%) Wireshark
4 1 (9.091%) SNMP
4 1 (9.091%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.091%) Marketing
2 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Design Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (9.091%) UNIX Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) UNIX Support
3 1 (9.091%) VMware Architect
3 1 (9.091%) AIX Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Support
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.091%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (27.27%) UNIX
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
3 1 (9.091%) AIX
3 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) ITIL
1 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (9.091%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (9.091%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) MCP
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.091%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (9.091%) MCITP
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (18.18%) Terminal Services
3 2 (18.18%) vSphere
4 1 (9.091%) PowerHA
4 1 (9.091%) VMware ESX
4 1 (9.091%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) OpenView
1 2 (18.18%) MIMEsweeper
2 1 (9.091%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (9.091%) WSUS
2 1 (9.091%) CiscoWorks
2 1 (9.091%) Tivoli
2 1 (9.091%) Netcool
2 1 (9.091%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 1 (9.091%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) HP
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) Juniper
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) Compuware
4 2 (18.18%) OPNET
4 2 (18.18%) Citrix
4 2 (18.18%) McAfee
4 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
4 2 (18.18%) M86 Security
5 1 (9.091%) F5
5 1 (9.091%) NetScout
5 1 (9.091%) Dell
5 1 (9.091%) IBM
5 1 (9.091%) BMC
5 1 (9.091%) CA