TCP/IP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for TCP/IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TCP/IP over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 268 295
Rank change year-on-year +39 +27 -23
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 113 209 372
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.75% 0.83% 0.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.21% 7.25% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 133 215
10th Percentile £300 £263 £300
25th Percentile £405 £350 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £568 £618 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £463
% change year-on-year +2.46% +5.51% +6.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 20
10th Percentile £19.93 £27.60 -
25th Percentile £22.06 £56.63 £20.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.08% +150.00% -19.38%
75th Percentile £34.81 - £48.62
90th Percentile £52.93 £68.30 £66.15
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.55 £28.00
% change year-on-year +3.92% +123.39% -32.12%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

TCP/IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,567 2,884 4,286
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.39% 11.50% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,020 1,907 2,899
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 94 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.10 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £26.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +15.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.19 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

TCP/IP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

TCP/IP trend for jobs with a WFH option

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing TCP/IP.

TCP/IP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

TCP/IP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing TCP/IP.

TCP/IP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

TCP/IP hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (19.47%) Confluence
2 7 (6.19%) nginx
3 4 (3.54%) Apache Solr
4 3 (2.65%) Apache
4 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.65%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.77%) IIS
5 2 (1.77%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.88%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (24.78%) AWS
2 23 (20.35%) Azure
3 19 (16.81%) GCP
4 13 (11.50%) IaaS
5 11 (9.73%) SaaS
6 10 (8.85%) PaaS
7 8 (7.08%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (6.19%) Nutanix
8 7 (6.19%) Rubrik
9 5 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.54%) GitHub
10 4 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.65%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.77%) Apigee
12 2 (1.77%) Kong
12 2 (1.77%) Mimecast
13 1 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (38.05%) DNS
2 39 (34.51%) Firewall
3 28 (24.78%) DHCP
4 25 (22.12%) SAN
5 23 (20.35%) VPN
6 18 (15.93%) VLAN
7 16 (14.16%) HTTP
8 15 (13.27%) Network Security
9 14 (12.39%) BGP
10 13 (11.50%) OSPF
11 10 (8.85%) WAN
12 9 (7.96%) Internet
12 9 (7.96%) MPLS
12 9 (7.96%) SNMP
13 8 (7.08%) Kerberos
13 8 (7.08%) LAN
13 8 (7.08%) Wireshark
14 7 (6.19%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (6.19%) IPsec
14 7 (6.19%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.96%) MySQL
2 7 (6.19%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.42%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.54%) Apache Hive
4 4 (3.54%) Couchbase
4 4 (3.54%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.54%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.54%) Tableau
5 3 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.77%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.77%) Redis
6 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.88%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 23 (20.35%) JIRA
2 17 (15.04%) Git
3 15 (13.27%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.19%) Bitbucket
4 7 (6.19%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.54%) IDA Disassembler
6 3 (2.65%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.65%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.65%) Travis CI
7 2 (1.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.77%) GitLab
8 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.88%) Darcs
8 1 (0.88%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.88%) Maven
8 1 (0.88%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.88%) Selenium
8 1 (0.88%) TestRail
8 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (22.12%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.50%) Finance
4 8 (7.08%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.19%) Telecoms
6 6 (5.31%) Legal
7 5 (4.42%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Automotive
9 2 (1.77%) Front Office
9 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Retail
10 1 (0.88%) Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Electronics
10 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Law
10 1 (0.88%) Marketing
10 1 (0.88%) Military
10 1 (0.88%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 21 (18.58%) Developer
2 18 (15.93%) Network Engineer
3 17 (15.04%) Python Developer
4 14 (12.39%) Senior
5 8 (7.08%) Analyst
5 8 (7.08%) Consultant
5 8 (7.08%) Test Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.31%) Security Analyst
7 6 (5.31%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Support Officer
8 5 (4.42%) Technical Support
8 5 (4.42%) Technical Support Officer
9 4 (3.54%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 4 (3.54%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.54%) Senior Integration Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Senior Python Developer
9 4 (3.54%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.08%) LDAP
1 8 (7.08%) XML
2 7 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.31%) JSON
3 6 (5.31%) YAML
4 5 (4.42%) REST
4 5 (4.42%) SOAP
5 4 (3.54%) .NET
5 4 (3.54%) CSS
5 4 (3.54%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (3.54%) OLE
5 4 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (3.54%) Web Services
6 3 (2.65%) RESTful
7 2 (1.77%) HTML
8 1 (0.88%) Ajax
8 1 (0.88%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.88%) GStreamer
8 1 (0.88%) Node.js
8 1 (0.88%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.62%) Clustering
2 7 (6.19%) Replication
3 6 (5.31%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.54%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (3.54%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (3.54%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.54%) PKI
4 4 (3.54%) YARA
5 3 (2.65%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.65%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.77%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) CMDB
7 1 (0.88%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) IoT
7 1 (0.88%) IVR
7 1 (0.88%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 56 (49.56%) Linux
2 43 (38.05%) Windows
3 19 (16.81%) Ubuntu
4 17 (15.04%) Debian
5 10 (8.85%) Windows Server
6 8 (7.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (6.19%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (6.19%) Solaris
8 6 (5.31%) Unix
9 5 (4.42%) CentOS
10 4 (3.54%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (1.77%) Apple iOS
11 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.88%) Android
12 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.88%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (38.05%) Agile
2 24 (21.24%) DevOps
3 23 (20.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (18.58%) Customer Service
5 20 (17.70%) Configuration Management
5 20 (17.70%) ITIL
5 20 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (15.04%) Continuous Integration
6 17 (15.04%) Data Modelling
7 16 (14.16%) Cybersecurity
7 16 (14.16%) Data Engineering
8 15 (13.27%) Vulnerability Management
9 14 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (12.39%) Matrix Organization
9 14 (12.39%) Prototyping
9 14 (12.39%) Root Cause Analysis
9 14 (12.39%) Software Engineering
9 14 (12.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 13 (11.50%) High Availability
11 12 (10.62%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 43 (38.05%) Python
2 18 (15.93%) PowerShell
3 17 (15.04%) Bash
4 11 (9.73%) C++
5 8 (7.08%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.08%) SQL
6 7 (6.19%) PHP
7 6 (5.31%) C
8 5 (4.42%) Go
8 5 (4.42%) Java
9 4 (3.54%) C#
10 3 (2.65%) Perl
11 2 (1.77%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.77%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.88%) Ruby
12 1 (0.88%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (27.43%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.35%) SC Cleared
3 18 (15.93%) DV Cleared
4 15 (13.27%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (13.27%) Degree
5 11 (9.73%) CCNP
6 10 (8.85%) CCNA
7 8 (7.08%) CCDP
8 6 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (3.54%) APMP
9 4 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (3.54%) CEH
9 4 (3.54%) CISM
9 4 (3.54%) CISSP
9 4 (3.54%) PMP
10 3 (2.65%) BC Cleared
10 3 (2.65%) CCIP
11 2 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.88%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.16%) GDPR
2 13 (11.50%) QA
3 10 (8.85%) NIST
4 7 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (6.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (4.42%) HIPAA
5 5 (4.42%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.77%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (1.77%) SLA
7 1 (0.88%) COPPA
7 1 (0.88%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 21 (18.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (15.93%) Active Directory
3 17 (15.04%) Docker
4 8 (7.08%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (6.19%) vSphere
6 6 (5.31%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (5.31%) VMware NSX
7 5 (4.42%) Snort
7 5 (4.42%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (2.65%) VirtualBox
9 2 (1.77%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.77%) Squid
9 2 (1.77%) XenApp
10 1 (0.88%) Firmware
10 1 (0.88%) iptables
10 1 (0.88%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 33 (29.20%) Terraform
2 28 (24.78%) Ansible
3 18 (15.93%) Kubernetes
4 10 (8.85%) Kibana
5 7 (6.19%) EMC NetWorker
5 7 (6.19%) Netcool
5 7 (6.19%) Tivoli
5 7 (6.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 6 (5.31%) Grafana
7 4 (3.54%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.54%) Puppet
8 3 (2.65%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (2.65%) logstash
8 3 (2.65%) Nagios
8 3 (2.65%) Nessus
8 3 (2.65%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.65%) WSUS
9 2 (1.77%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (1.77%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.77%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 38 (33.63%) Microsoft
1 38 (33.63%) VMware
2 27 (23.89%) Cisco
3 21 (18.58%) Red Hat
4 20 (17.70%) Splunk
5 12 (10.62%) Google
5 12 (10.62%) Oracle
6 10 (8.85%) Palo Alto
7 9 (7.96%) Qualys
8 8 (7.08%) CyberArk
8 8 (7.08%) HP
8 8 (7.08%) ServiceNow
9 7 (6.19%) Dell
9 7 (6.19%) EMC
9 7 (6.19%) IBM
9 7 (6.19%) Isilon
9 7 (6.19%) Serena
10 6 (5.31%) Arista
10 6 (5.31%) Aruba
11 5 (4.42%) Fortinet