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 remote or hybrid contract work requiring TCP/IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TCP/IP over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 268 286
Rank change year-on-year +32 +18 +13
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 106 194 404
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 0.81% 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.92% 6.92% 9.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 131 251
10th Percentile £245 £263 £275
25th Percentile £350 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +6.38%
75th Percentile £575 £629 £588
90th Percentile £622 £719 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £485 £475
% change year-on-year +0.52% +2.11% +7.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 20
10th Percentile £19.45 £18.50 -
25th Percentile £20.88 £19.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £26.25 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +0.96% -38.82%
75th Percentile £44.38 £55.94 £48.62
90th Percentile £56.75 £65.00 £66.15
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.33 £45.00
% change year-on-year +15.40% +25.17% +13.21%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

TCP/IP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,531 2,803 4,434
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.74% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,872 3,040
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 99 105
10th Percentile £12.53 £19.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.07 £42.50 £26.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.13 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 21 (19.81%) Confluence
2 7 (6.60%) nginx
3 4 (3.77%) Apache Solr
4 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.94%) Apache
5 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.94%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (24.53%) AWS
2 19 (17.92%) Azure
3 18 (16.98%) GCP
4 10 (9.43%) IaaS
5 8 (7.55%) SaaS
6 7 (6.60%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (6.60%) PaaS
7 5 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (4.72%) GitHub
7 5 (4.72%) Nutanix
7 5 (4.72%) Rubrik
8 3 (2.83%) Kong
8 3 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.83%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.89%) Apigee
10 1 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.94%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.94%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 41 (38.68%) DNS
1 41 (38.68%) Firewall
2 27 (25.47%) DHCP
3 26 (24.53%) VPN
4 18 (16.98%) Network Security
4 18 (16.98%) VLAN
5 17 (16.04%) HTTP
6 15 (14.15%) SAN
7 13 (12.26%) BGP
8 12 (11.32%) OSPF
9 10 (9.43%) MPLS
9 10 (9.43%) WAN
10 9 (8.49%) LAN
11 8 (7.55%) IPsec
12 7 (6.60%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (6.60%) Internet
12 7 (6.60%) SNMP
12 7 (6.60%) Wireshark
13 6 (5.66%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (5.66%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.55%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.60%) MySQL
3 4 (3.77%) Apache Hive
3 4 (3.77%) Couchbase
3 4 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.77%) Hadoop
3 4 (3.77%) Tableau
4 3 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.89%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.89%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.89%) Redis
6 1 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.94%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.94%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 23 (21.70%) JIRA
2 17 (16.04%) Git
3 14 (13.21%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.60%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.72%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.77%) CircleCI
6 4 (3.77%) IDA Disassembler
6 4 (3.77%) Travis CI
7 3 (2.83%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.83%) GitLab
7 3 (2.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.94%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.94%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.94%) Maven
8 1 (0.94%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.94%) Selenium
8 1 (0.94%) TestRail
8 1 (0.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.21%) Finance
4 6 (5.66%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.66%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.72%) Legal
5 5 (4.72%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Front Office
8 2 (1.89%) Automotive
8 2 (1.89%) Banking
8 2 (1.89%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Electronics
9 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.94%) Law
9 1 (0.94%) Marketing
9 1 (0.94%) Military
9 1 (0.94%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (16.04%) Network Engineer
2 16 (15.09%) Developer
3 12 (11.32%) Senior
4 11 (10.38%) Python Developer
5 8 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.60%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (6.60%) Analyst
6 7 (6.60%) Consultant
6 7 (6.60%) Support Engineer
6 7 (6.60%) Test Engineer
7 5 (4.72%) Security Analyst
7 5 (4.72%) Support Officer
7 5 (4.72%) Technical Support
7 5 (4.72%) Technical Support Officer
8 4 (3.77%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Backend Developer
8 4 (3.77%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 4 (3.77%) Senior Integration Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.55%) XML
2 7 (6.60%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (6.60%) JSON
2 7 (6.60%) YAML
3 5 (4.72%) LDAP
4 4 (3.77%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (3.77%) OLE
4 4 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.83%) CSS
5 3 (2.83%) REST
5 3 (2.83%) RESTful
5 3 (2.83%) SOAP
6 2 (1.89%) .NET
6 2 (1.89%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.89%) React
6 2 (1.89%) Web Services
7 1 (0.94%) Flask
7 1 (0.94%) GStreamer
7 1 (0.94%) Node.js
7 1 (0.94%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.43%) Clustering
2 6 (5.66%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.72%) Replication
4 4 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (3.77%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.77%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.77%) YARA
5 3 (2.83%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.83%) PKI
6 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.89%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.94%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.94%) IoT
7 1 (0.94%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 43 (40.57%) Linux
2 41 (38.68%) Windows
3 12 (11.32%) Ubuntu
4 10 (9.43%) Debian
5 8 (7.55%) Windows Server
6 5 (4.72%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.72%) Solaris
6 5 (4.72%) Unix
7 4 (3.77%) CentOS
7 4 (3.77%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (3.77%) Windows 10
8 3 (2.83%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.89%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.94%) Android
10 1 (0.94%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (33.96%) Agile
2 22 (20.75%) Infrastructure as Code
2 22 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (19.81%) DevOps
4 19 (17.92%) Customer Service
5 18 (16.98%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (14.15%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (13.21%) CI/CD
7 14 (13.21%) Configuration Management
7 14 (13.21%) Software Engineering
7 14 (13.21%) Vulnerability Management
8 12 (11.32%) Computer Science
8 12 (11.32%) Information Security
8 12 (11.32%) ITIL
8 12 (11.32%) Root Cause Analysis
8 12 (11.32%) SIEM
9 11 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (10.38%) High Availability
9 11 (10.38%) Mentoring
9 11 (10.38%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 36 (33.96%) Python
2 16 (15.09%) Bash
2 16 (15.09%) PowerShell
3 11 (10.38%) C++
4 7 (6.60%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.60%) PHP
4 7 (6.60%) SQL
5 6 (5.66%) C
6 5 (4.72%) Go
7 4 (3.77%) C#
7 4 (3.77%) Java
8 3 (2.83%) Perl
9 2 (1.89%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.89%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.94%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.94%) Ruby
10 1 (0.94%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.04%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (15.09%) SC Cleared
4 15 (14.15%) Degree
5 13 (12.26%) DV Cleared
6 12 (11.32%) CCNA
6 12 (11.32%) CCNP
7 7 (6.60%) CCDP
8 6 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (3.77%) APMP
9 4 (3.77%) CEH
9 4 (3.77%) CISM
9 4 (3.77%) CISSP
9 4 (3.77%) PMP
10 3 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.89%) BC Cleared
11 2 (1.89%) CCIP
11 2 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.94%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.21%) GDPR
2 11 (10.38%) QA
3 10 (9.43%) NIST
4 8 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (4.72%) HIPAA
5 5 (4.72%) PCI DSS
5 5 (4.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.89%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (1.89%) SLA
7 1 (0.94%) COPPA
7 1 (0.94%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 21 (19.81%) Active Directory
2 20 (18.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (15.09%) Docker
4 9 (8.49%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (7.55%) vSphere
6 6 (5.66%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (5.66%) VMware NSX
7 5 (4.72%) Snort
7 5 (4.72%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (2.83%) VirtualBox
9 2 (1.89%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.89%) Squid
9 2 (1.89%) XenApp
10 1 (0.94%) Firmware
10 1 (0.94%) iptables
Systems Management
1 28 (26.42%) Terraform
2 23 (21.70%) Ansible
3 17 (16.04%) Kubernetes
4 11 (10.38%) Kibana
5 5 (4.72%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (4.72%) Grafana
5 5 (4.72%) Nessus
5 5 (4.72%) Netcool
5 5 (4.72%) Puppet
5 5 (4.72%) Tivoli
5 5 (4.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (3.77%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (3.77%) logstash
6 4 (3.77%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.77%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.83%) WSUS
8 2 (1.89%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (1.89%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.89%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.89%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 30 (28.30%) VMware
2 29 (27.36%) Microsoft
3 27 (25.47%) Cisco
4 19 (17.92%) Splunk
5 13 (12.26%) Red Hat
6 12 (11.32%) Google
7 10 (9.43%) Oracle
7 10 (9.43%) Palo Alto
8 8 (7.55%) Qualys
9 6 (5.66%) Arista
9 6 (5.66%) Aruba
9 6 (5.66%) CyberArk
10 5 (4.72%) Atlassian
10 5 (4.72%) Fortinet
10 5 (4.72%) HP
10 5 (4.72%) IBM
10 5 (4.72%) Isilon
10 5 (4.72%) Serena
10 5 (4.72%) ServiceNow
10 5 (4.72%) Zscaler