The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TCP/IP over the 3 months to 21 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 Yorkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 68 80 75
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -5
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 43 36 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 2.255% 1.576% 1.233%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.48% 12.86% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 9 3
Average daily rate £250 £300 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £128 £126 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £350 £362
UK excluding London average daily rate £268 £301 £300
% change year-on-year
-10.98% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 11
Average hourly rate £15.50 £12.75 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.56% -42.04%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £21.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-26.19% -20.75%
All Communications & Networking
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
319 280 190
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 16.73% 12.26% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 142 77
Average daily rate £300 £280 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £201 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 35 31
Average hourly rate £16.50 £15.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -52.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £35.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing TCP/IP across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire TCP/IP Daily Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Yorkshire TCP/IP Daily Rate Histogram

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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
West Yorkshire +12 36 £250 -16.66%
South Yorkshire -4 4 £355 +13.60%
North Yorkshire +3 3 £325 +261.11%
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 32 (54.24%) DNS
2 31 (52.54%) Linux
3 29 (49.15%) DHCP
4 25 (42.37%) SSL
5 24 (40.68%) Load Balancing
6 23 (38.98%) Amazon AWS
6 23 (38.98%) Bash shell
6 23 (38.98%) Web Services
7 22 (37.29%) Oracle
8 21 (35.59%) Python
8 21 (35.59%) Client/Server
8 21 (35.59%) Telecoms
9 20 (33.90%) Ruby
10 19 (32.20%) Incident Management
10 19 (32.20%) Puppet
10 19 (32.20%) Java
11 18 (30.51%) C++
11 18 (30.51%) PHP
11 18 (30.51%) Windows
11 18 (30.51%) Apache
12 17 (28.81%) MySQL
12 17 (28.81%) Configuration Management
12 17 (28.81%) MongoDB
12 17 (28.81%) Node.js
12 17 (28.81%) Redis
12 17 (28.81%) Route 53
12 17 (28.81%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (28.81%) Kanban
12 17 (28.81%) Test Automation
12 17 (28.81%) nginx

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 23 (38.98%) Web Services
2 17 (28.81%) Node.js
3 4 (6.780%) WebSphere
4 3 (5.085%) XML
4 3 (5.085%) .NET
5 1 (1.695%) Java EE
5 1 (1.695%) Middleware
5 1 (1.695%) LAMP
5 1 (1.695%) J2EE
5 1 (1.695%) ASP
5 1 (1.695%) POSIX
Application Platforms
1 23 (38.98%) Amazon AWS
2 18 (30.51%) Apache
3 17 (28.81%) Route 53
3 17 (28.81%) nginx
3 17 (28.81%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (28.81%) Amazon S3
4 6 (10.17%) MS Exchange
5 4 (6.780%) Lotus Notes
6 3 (5.085%) WebSphere MQ
6 3 (5.085%) Lotus Domino
6 3 (5.085%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (5.085%) IIS
6 3 (5.085%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.695%) Exchange Server 5.5
7 1 (1.695%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (1.695%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (1.695%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (1.695%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (13.56%) MS Excel
2 3 (5.085%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (54.24%) DNS
2 29 (49.15%) DHCP
3 25 (42.37%) SSL
4 11 (18.64%) Internet
4 11 (18.64%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (16.95%) WAN
5 10 (16.95%) LAN
6 6 (10.17%) VoIP
6 6 (10.17%) Network Security
7 5 (8.475%) SAN
7 5 (8.475%) Firewall
7 5 (8.475%) FTP
8 3 (5.085%) VLAN
9 2 (3.390%) HTTP
9 2 (3.390%) VPN
9 2 (3.390%) Wireless
9 2 (3.390%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (3.390%) iSCSI
9 2 (3.390%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (3.390%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (28.81%) MySQL
1 17 (28.81%) MongoDB
1 17 (28.81%) Redis
1 17 (28.81%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.390%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.695%) SimpleDB
3 1 (1.695%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.695%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.695%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.695%) Data Mining
General
1 21 (35.59%) Telecoms
2 2 (3.390%) Finance
2 2 (3.390%) Back Office
3 1 (1.695%) Retail
3 1 (1.695%) Military
3 1 (1.695%) Aerospace
3 1 (1.695%) Legal
3 1 (1.695%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 11 (18.64%) Operations Engineer
2 8 (13.56%) Network Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) Support Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Analyst
4 6 (10.17%) Voice Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Cisco Voice Engineer
5 5 (8.475%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (6.780%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (6.780%) Desktop Support
7 3 (5.085%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (5.085%) Voice Network Engineer
7 3 (5.085%) Architect
7 3 (5.085%) Support Analyst
7 3 (5.085%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.085%) Administrator
8 2 (3.390%) Customer Engineer
8 2 (3.390%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.390%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 2 (3.390%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 21 (35.59%) Client/Server
2 3 (5.085%) Blackberry
3 2 (3.390%) Open Source
3 2 (3.390%) Social Media
3 2 (3.390%) iPad
3 2 (3.390%) iPhone
4 1 (1.695%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.695%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.695%) Firmware
4 1 (1.695%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 31 (52.54%) Linux
2 18 (30.51%) Windows
3 7 (11.86%) Windows 7
3 7 (11.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (11.86%) Windows XP
4 6 (10.17%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (8.475%) UNIX
6 3 (5.085%) Windows 8
7 1 (1.695%) CentOS
7 1 (1.695%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.695%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.695%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.695%) Debian
7 1 (1.695%) Windows NT
7 1 (1.695%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.68%) Load Balancing
2 19 (32.20%) Incident Management
3 17 (28.81%) Configuration Management
3 17 (28.81%) Kanban
3 17 (28.81%) Test Automation
4 16 (27.12%) Capacity Management
5 11 (18.64%) Security Testing
6 8 (13.56%) ITIL
6 8 (13.56%) Network Design
7 6 (10.17%) Service Management
7 6 (10.17%) Performance Testing
8 5 (8.475%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (6.780%) Problem Management
10 3 (5.085%) Time Management
11 2 (3.390%) Service Delivery
11 2 (3.390%) Project Management
11 2 (3.390%) Analytics
11 2 (3.390%) Root Cause Analysis
12 1 (1.695%) Information Management
12 1 (1.695%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.98%) Bash shell
2 21 (35.59%) Python
3 20 (33.90%) Ruby
4 19 (32.20%) Java
5 18 (30.51%) C++
5 18 (30.51%) PHP
6 16 (27.12%) Perl
7 2 (3.390%) SQL
7 2 (3.390%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.695%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.695%) VBScript
8 1 (1.695%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (6.780%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.390%) CCSP
2 2 (3.390%) CCNP
2 2 (3.390%) CCNA
2 2 (3.390%) MCSE
2 2 (3.390%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.390%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.695%) CCSE
3 1 (1.695%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (1.695%) JNCIS
3 1 (1.695%) Degree
3 1 (1.695%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.695%) CISSP
3 1 (1.695%) MCP
3 1 (1.695%) CCDA
3 1 (1.695%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) SLA
2 2 (3.390%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (23.73%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.475%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.085%) Xen
4 2 (3.390%) NFS
4 2 (3.390%) VMware ESX
4 2 (3.390%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.695%) ProxySG
5 1 (1.695%) XenServer
5 1 (1.695%) vSphere
5 1 (1.695%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 19 (32.20%) Puppet
2 6 (10.17%) Cisco CUCM
2 6 (10.17%) Cisco UCCX
3 2 (3.390%) NetBackup
3 2 (3.390%) Backup Exec
3 2 (3.390%) ARCserve
4 1 (1.695%) PureDisk
4 1 (1.695%) Unicenter
4 1 (1.695%) MOM
4 1 (1.695%) Nagios
4 1 (1.695%) DameWare
Vendors
1 22 (37.29%) Oracle
2 13 (22.03%) Cisco
3 12 (20.34%) Microsoft
4 10 (16.95%) Percona
5 7 (11.86%) VMware
6 5 (8.475%) Citrix
7 4 (6.780%) Avaya
7 4 (6.780%) Lotus
8 3 (5.085%) CheckPoint
9 2 (3.390%) Cognos
9 2 (3.390%) HP
9 2 (3.390%) EMC
9 2 (3.390%) NetApp
9 2 (3.390%) Red Hat
9 2 (3.390%) Juniper
9 2 (3.390%) F5
9 2 (3.390%) Blue Coat
10 1 (1.695%) Brocade
10 1 (1.695%) Syncsort
10 1 (1.695%) CA
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