TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 57 65
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 +25
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 20 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.43% 0.99% 1.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.86% 10.61% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 9
10th Percentile £343 £209 £260
25th Percentile £390 £213 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £306 £350
Median % change year-on-year +39.10% -12.50% +150.00%
75th Percentile £550 £427 £400
90th Percentile £606 £463 £760
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £425 £325
% change year-on-year +5.88% +30.77% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £27.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 112 66 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.21% 9.31% 23.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 37 93
10th Percentile £250 £165 £224
25th Percentile £342 £213 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £385
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -9.09% -4.94%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £650
90th Percentile £575 £699 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -7.69% +14.71% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £44.35 - £16.53
25th Percentile £44.88 £21.25 £51.44
Median hourly rate £47.00 £22.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.89% -65.38% +225.00%
75th Percentile £50.38 £23.75 £67.81
90th Percentile £51.65 - £69.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -18.18% +61.76%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in Birmingham

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Birmingham over the 6 months to 8 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Birmingham

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) Azure
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) SSL
2 11 (55.00%) VPN
3 10 (50.00%) Firewall
4 9 (45.00%) Network Security
5 7 (35.00%) BGP
5 7 (35.00%) DNS
5 7 (35.00%) OSPF
6 6 (30.00%) IPsec
6 6 (30.00%) VLAN
7 3 (15.00%) VoIP
7 3 (15.00%) Wireless
8 2 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (10.00%) LAN
8 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
8 2 (10.00%) SSH
8 2 (10.00%) Unified Communications
8 2 (10.00%) WAN
8 2 (10.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Big Data
1 2 (10.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.00%) Parquet
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (20.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) Fiddler
3 2 (10.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) MLflow
3 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (5.00%) Poetry
4 1 (5.00%) PyCharm
4 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
1 7 (35.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Check Point Expert
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Python Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (15.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Junior
3 2 (10.00%) Junior Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Architect
3 2 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (10.00%) Flask
1 2 (10.00%) NumPy
1 2 (10.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.00%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Check Point GAiA
2 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (10.00%) Mac OS X
4 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) High Availability
1 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (40.00%) SIEM
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (15.00%) ITIL
4 3 (15.00%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (10.00%) ETL
5 2 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (10.00%) Load Balancing
5 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) Groovy
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) CCSE
2 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) CCIE
4 2 (10.00%) CCNA
5 1 (5.00%) CCNP
5 1 (5.00%) Degree
5 1 (5.00%) ISACA
5 1 (5.00%) MCP
5 1 (5.00%) MCSA
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.00%) Snort
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) FortiGate
2 5 (25.00%) Ansible
3 3 (15.00%) Terraform
4 2 (10.00%) Argo
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (10.00%) Istio
4 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) CheckPoint
2 8 (40.00%) Fortinet
3 5 (25.00%) F5
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (20.00%) Cisco
5 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
6 2 (10.00%) Blue Coat
6 2 (10.00%) Cloudera
6 2 (10.00%) McAfee
6 2 (10.00%) Meraki
6 2 (10.00%) NetApp
7 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
7 1 (5.00%) VMware