TCP/IP Contracts in Bristol

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 64 82
Rank change year-on-year +13 +18 -14
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 4 10 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.74% 0.95% 1.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.55% 6.58% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile - - £405
25th Percentile £535 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% +53.85%
75th Percentile £595 £643 £618
90th Percentile £613 £725 £641
South West median daily rate £615 £600 £488
% change year-on-year +2.50% +23.08% +21.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - £64.25 -
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% -
75th Percentile - £71.25 £82.00
90th Percentile - £75.30 £86.13
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -0.76% -0.46%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 88 152 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 16.39% 14.38% 16.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 76 97
10th Percentile £235 £230 £200
25th Percentile £250 £355 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £382 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £538 £640 £600
90th Percentile £588 £688 £680
South West median daily rate £548 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 87
10th Percentile £68.00 £12.57 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £38.26 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +563.27% -44.00%
75th Percentile - £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £87.50 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in Bristol

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) OSPF
1 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Twin
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Protective Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Synthetic Environment
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft