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The first part of the 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 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 Yorkshire region.

 Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank526468
Rank change year-on-year
Up+12Up+4
Matching contract IT job ads261965
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire1.705 %1.253 %1.847 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category24.53 %13.01 %15.01 %
Daily rates quoted15310
Average daily rate£324£325£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.300 %+8.330 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£257£265£105
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£359£345£353
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£300£313
% change year-on-year
+8.330 %-4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted414
Average hourly rate£12.00£11.00£15.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.090 %-30.15 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.00£11.00£12.78
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.10£11.00£17.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£18.75£27.00
% change year-on-year
+1.330 %-30.55 %
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
106146433
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire6.951 %9.631 %12.30 %
Daily rates quoted371879
Average daily rate£324£325£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.300 %-7.140 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£267£250£260
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£380£363£425
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£325
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %+3.840 %
Hourly rates quoted132080
Average hourly rate£15.00£22.50£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33 %+12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.00£12.20£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£25.97£38.33£32.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£24.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
+4.160 %-12.72 %
TCP/IP EnglandTCP/IP
England

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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire TCP/IP Daily Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TCP/IP across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Yorkshire TCP/IP Daily Rate Histogram

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 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 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
West YorkshireUp+622£325+30.00 %
South YorkshireUp+23£236-
North YorkshireDown-21--
TCP/IP EnglandTCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

149 (84.48 %)Windows
244 (75.86 %)Active Directory
339 (67.24 %)Windows XP
435 (60.34 %)DNS
534 (58.62 %)Windows Server 2003
629 (50.00 %)Microsoft
727 (46.55 %)LAN
727 (46.55 %)WAN
822 (37.93 %)MS Exchange
822 (37.93 %)MS Office
822 (37.93 %)VMware
921 (36.21 %)SharePoint
921 (36.21 %)VMware Infrastructure
1020 (34.48 %)ITIL
1117 (29.31 %)Exchange Server 2007
1216 (27.59 %)NetApp
1315 (25.86 %)SAN
1414 (24.14 %)SQL
1512 (20.69 %)Firewall
1512 (20.69 %)NHS
1611 (18.97 %)DHCP
1611 (18.97 %)ZENworks
1611 (18.97 %)NAS
1710 (17.24 %)Windows Vista
1710 (17.24 %)Oracle
187 (12.07 %)MCSE
187 (12.07 %)Citrix
187 (12.07 %)Microsoft Certification
187 (12.07 %)Kaseya
196 (10.34 %)IBM

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12 (3.448 %)WebSphere
21 (1.724 %).NET
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
122 (37.93 %)MS Exchange
221 (36.21 %)SharePoint
317 (29.31 %)Exchange Server 2007
45 (8.621 %)Exchange Server 2003
53 (5.172 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
53 (5.172 %)SharePoint Server 2007
62 (3.448 %)WebSphere MQ
62 (3.448 %)WebSphere Application Server
62 (3.448 %)WebLogic
62 (3.448 %)IIS
62 (3.448 %)Apache
71 (1.724 %)Lotus Notes
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
122 (37.93 %)MS Office
22 (3.448 %)MS Excel
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
15 (8.621 %)Microsoft CRM
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
135 (60.34 %)DNS
227 (46.55 %)LAN
227 (46.55 %)WAN
315 (25.86 %)SAN
412 (20.69 %)Firewall
511 (18.97 %)DHCP
511 (18.97 %)NAS
65 (8.621 %)HTTP
73 (5.172 %)LDAP
73 (5.172 %)SMTP
82 (3.448 %)SMS
82 (3.448 %)FTP
82 (3.448 %)HTTPS
82 (3.448 %)Wireless
91 (1.724 %)NetScreen
91 (1.724 %)Internet
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (5.172 %)SQL Server
22 (3.448 %)Oracle 8/8i
31 (1.724 %)MySQL
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13 (5.172 %)Manufacturing
22 (3.448 %)Telecoms
22 (3.448 %)Government
22 (3.448 %)Health
31 (1.724 %)Finance
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
119 (32.76 %)3rd Line Support
213 (22.41 %)Support Engineer
213 (22.41 %)Desktop Support
310 (17.24 %)Analyst
310 (17.24 %)Server Support
49 (15.52 %)Technical Support
56 (10.34 %)Support Analyst
56 (10.34 %)Senior Technical Support Engineer
56 (10.34 %)Senior Support Engineer
56 (10.34 %)Senior Technical Support
56 (10.34 %)Technical Support Engineer
56 (10.34 %)Technical Engineer
56 (10.34 %)Infrastructure Manager
64 (6.897 %)IT Support
64 (6.897 %)Infrastructure Analyst
73 (5.172 %)Architect
73 (5.172 %)Systems Support
73 (5.172 %)Systems Analyst
73 (5.172 %)Systems Architect
73 (5.172 %)IT Support Engineer
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
112 (20.69 %)NHS
24 (6.897 %)Blackberry
33 (5.172 %)Video Conferencing
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
149 (84.48 %)Windows
239 (67.24 %)Windows XP
334 (58.62 %)Windows Server 2003
410 (17.24 %)Windows Vista
55 (8.621 %)Windows 2000 Server
64 (6.897 %)Windows Server 2008
73 (5.172 %)UNIX
82 (3.448 %)Red Hat Linux
82 (3.448 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
82 (3.448 %)Solaris
82 (3.448 %)Linux
91 (1.724 %)Windows NT
91 (1.724 %)AIX
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
120 (34.48 %)ITIL
25 (8.621 %)CRM
33 (5.172 %)Problem Management
42 (3.448 %)Validation
51 (1.724 %)Service Delivery
51 (1.724 %)Disaster Recovery
51 (1.724 %)Project Management
51 (1.724 %)Configuration Management
51 (1.724 %)BCP
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
114 (24.14 %)SQL
22 (3.448 %)C
22 (3.448 %)VB
31 (1.724 %)Shell Script
31 (1.724 %)Java
31 (1.724 %)VBScript
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
17 (12.07 %)MCSE
17 (12.07 %)Microsoft Certification
25 (8.621 %)Degree
34 (6.897 %)Security Cleared
34 (6.897 %)MCSA
43 (5.172 %)SC Cleared
52 (3.448 %)MCP
52 (3.448 %)MCDST
61 (1.724 %)Cisco Certification
61 (1.724 %)CCNA
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (3.448 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
144 (75.86 %)Active Directory
221 (36.21 %)VMware Infrastructure
36 (10.34 %)ISA Server
45 (8.621 %)Citrix Presentation Server
53 (5.172 %)XenApp
53 (5.172 %)XenDesktop
61 (1.724 %)Terminal Services
61 (1.724 %)Sendmail
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
111 (18.97 %)ZENworks
24 (6.897 %)Norton AntiVirus
33 (5.172 %)WSUS
33 (5.172 %)Backup Exec
42 (3.448 %)MSI
Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
129 (50.00 %)Microsoft
222 (37.93 %)VMware
316 (27.59 %)NetApp
410 (17.24 %)Oracle
57 (12.07 %)Citrix
57 (12.07 %)Kaseya
66 (10.34 %)IBM
75 (8.621 %)Dell
84 (6.897 %)Symantec
93 (5.172 %)Altiris
93 (5.172 %)Avaya
93 (5.172 %)Adobe
102 (3.448 %)Red Hat
102 (3.448 %)JBoss
111 (1.724 %)Lotus
111 (1.724 %)Juniper
111 (1.724 %)Cisco
111 (1.724 %)Sun
111 (1.724 %)HP