TCP/IP Contracts in Berkshire

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 104 69
Rank change year-on-year +18 -35 +33
DemandTrendContract jobs citing TCP/IP 11 8 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.93% 0.48% 2.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.79% 2.67% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 25
10th Percentile £300 £421 £148
25th Percentile - £434 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £350
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +32.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile - £484 £575
90th Percentile £475 £494 £591
South East median daily rate £380 £400 £328
% change year-on-year -5.13% +22.14% -20.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £18.50
25th Percentile - £18.50 £21.50
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -71.21% +175.00%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £70.63
90th Percentile - - £75.95
South East median hourly rate £89.63 £19.00 £41.95
% change year-on-year +371.74% -54.71% +11.87%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

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 requiring communications or computer networking skills in Berkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 190 300 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.05% 17.91% 22.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 124 206
10th Percentile £293 £247 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +13.89% -1.68%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £586
90th Percentile £600 £638 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £459
% change year-on-year - +8.93% -0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 17
10th Percentile £58.25 £56.25 £16.70
25th Percentile £63.13 £71.75 £24.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 £83.50 £72.84
Median % change year-on-year -13.17% +14.64% +273.51%
75th Percentile £83.13 £87.46 £75.67
90th Percentile £88.75 - £76.46
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.20
% change year-on-year -4.10% -1.46% +29.34%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in Berkshire

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing TCP/IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Berkshire over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Berkshire

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing TCP/IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 22 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +27 6 £450 -10.00% 13
Wokingham - 2 £438 - 3
Maidenhead +2 1 £200 - 3
Bracknell - 1 - - 1
TCP/IP
South East

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (9.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Network Security
2 7 (63.64%) BGP
2 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 7 (63.64%) OSPF
3 6 (54.55%) VLAN
3 6 (54.55%) VPN
4 3 (27.27%) DNS
5 2 (18.18%) DHCP
6 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
6 1 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (9.09%) FTP
6 1 (9.09%) HTTP
6 1 (9.09%) LAN
6 1 (9.09%) RIP
6 1 (9.09%) SMTP
6 1 (9.09%) Telnet
6 1 (9.09%) WAN
6 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (9.09%) Wireless
6 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) French Language
2 1 (9.09%) German Language
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Security Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Support
2 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Security Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Support
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Proactive Monitoring
1 6 (54.55%) Security Monitoring
1 6 (54.55%) Security Operations
1 6 (54.55%) SIEM
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Experience
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
4 1 (9.09%) High Availability
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) ITIL
4 1 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) CCNP
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (54.55%) CCSA
2 6 (54.55%) CCSE
2 6 (54.55%) Check Point Certification
3 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) CCIE
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) NFS
1 1 (9.09%) Samba
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) NetBackup
2 1 (9.09%) yum
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco
2 6 (54.55%) CheckPoint
2 6 (54.55%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) 3PAR
3 1 (9.09%) Dell
3 1 (9.09%) HP
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
3 1 (9.09%) Veritas
3 1 (9.09%) VMware