TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.00% - 1.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.30% - 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 - -
75th Percentile £614 - -
90th Percentile £617 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £494 - £223
% change year-on-year - - -47.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate - - £16.00
75th Percentile - - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - - £33.22
% change year-on-year - - +32.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 43 23 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 21.50% 11.86% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 23
10th Percentile £250 £264 £283
25th Percentile £433 £288 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £538
90th Percentile £700 £639 £568
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £545 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -5.22% +21.05% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £63.00 - £16.83
25th Percentile £63.75 £52.50 £18.86
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +175.00% -45.95%
75th Percentile £81.25 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £85.00 - £37.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £30.00 £21.46 £20.00
% change year-on-year +39.79% +7.30% +29.03%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TCP/IP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Cambridge

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Cambridge over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Cambridge

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Grid Computing
1 3 (75.00%) Private Cloud
1 3 (75.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
1 3 (75.00%) GPFS
1 3 (75.00%) Lustre
1 3 (75.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Consul
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Salt
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) VMware