TCP/IP Contracts in the City of London

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 131 153
Rank change year-on-year +16 +22 -29
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 12 41 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.54% 1.12% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.61% 11.29% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 28 36
10th Percentile £450 £263 £266
25th Percentile £463 £324 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £375
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +53.33% -23.39%
75th Percentile £925 £694 £508
90th Percentile - £822 £583
Central London median daily rate £568 £550 £375
% change year-on-year +3.18% +46.67% -25.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

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 the City of London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 214 363 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.67% 9.93% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 248 323
10th Percentile £215 £244 £313
25th Percentile £350 £447 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £616 £675 £615
90th Percentile £773 £760 £713
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.46 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -46.84% +125.71%
75th Percentile £16.59 £24.64 £61.75
90th Percentile £17.99 £30.86 £64.35
Central London median hourly rate £16.22 £21.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -22.79% -46.84% +125.71%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the City of London

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the City of London

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the City of London

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the City of London

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (25.00%) IBM Domino
1 3 (25.00%) IBM Notes
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) SMTP
2 5 (41.67%) Firewall
3 4 (33.33%) DNS
3 4 (33.33%) FTP
3 4 (33.33%) HTTP
3 4 (33.33%) ICMP
3 4 (33.33%) POP3
3 4 (33.33%) SSH
4 3 (25.00%) Unified Communications
5 2 (16.67%) Network Security
6 1 (8.33%) DHCP
6 1 (8.33%) MQTT
6 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (8.33%) CouchDB
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) Redis
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
3 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.33%) Darcs
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) IntelliJ
3 1 (8.33%) Jaeger
3 1 (8.33%) Maven
3 1 (8.33%) Mercurial
3 1 (8.33%) Selenium
3 1 (8.33%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (83.33%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Aviation
4 1 (8.33%) Back Office
4 1 (8.33%) Front Office
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) ArcSight Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) SIEM Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) CBDC
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (8.33%) Digital Currency
2 1 (8.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (8.33%) Machine to Machine
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Unix
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Android
3 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (41.67%) SIEM
3 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (25.00%) Capacity Management
4 3 (25.00%) Change Control
4 3 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (8.33%) Data Security
5 1 (8.33%) Low Latency
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (8.33%) Microservices
5 1 (8.33%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) SDET
5 1 (8.33%) Secure Coding
5 1 (8.33%) Security Operations
5 1 (8.33%) Threat Detection
5 1 (8.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) C
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) C++
2 1 (8.33%) Go
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SANS
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO 20022
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) iptables
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kibana
1 5 (41.67%) logstash
2 4 (33.33%) QRadar
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Splunk
2 4 (33.33%) ArcSight
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco
3 3 (25.00%) IBM
3 3 (25.00%) Lotus
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Proofpoint
4 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Netskope
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) Zscaler