TCP/IP Contracts in Cheshire

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for TCP/IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TCP/IP over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 47 48
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -13
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 5 15 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.96% 2.79% 1.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.58% 15.79% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £413 £269 -
25th Percentile £431 £278 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £325 £175
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% +85.71% -59.91%
75th Percentile £503 £359 £228
90th Percentile £513 £363 £290
North West median daily rate £410 £525 £419
% change year-on-year -21.90% +25.37% +6.69%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

TCP/IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 76 95 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.64% 17.66% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 62 49
10th Percentile £65 £264 £163
25th Percentile £199 £331 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £406
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +21.61% +1.50%
75th Percentile £519 £582 £575
90th Percentile £582 £630 £630
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.40% +11.11% +21.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £18.68 - -
25th Percentile £20.11 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% -5.90% -
75th Percentile £24.25 - -
90th Percentile £25.30 - -
North West median hourly rate £26.00 £31.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year -16.80% +68.92% -61.00%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in Cheshire

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in Cheshire

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in Cheshire

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington - 3 £475 - 3
TCP/IP
North West

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) VLAN
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) BGP
3 2 (40.00%) MPLS
3 2 (40.00%) OSPF
3 2 (40.00%) Value-Added Service
3 2 (40.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Migration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Network Design
1 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCIE
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) VCAP
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) LogicMonitor
2 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds