TCP/IP Contracts in County Antrim

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 27 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 -
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 5 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 3.33% 3.79% 2.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.74% 31.25% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £147 - -
25th Percentile £150 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 - £400
75th Percentile £165 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £160 - £400
% change year-on-year - - +196.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 23 16 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 15.33% 12.12% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 14
10th Percentile £134 £516 £155
25th Percentile £135 £531 £157
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £148 £563 £208
Median % change year-on-year -73.69% +171.08% -45.21%
75th Percentile £163 £569 £400
90th Percentile £196 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £148 £563 £215
% change year-on-year -73.69% +161.63% -33.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.34
25th Percentile £22.50 - £15.86
Median hourly rate £24.18 - £16.72
75th Percentile - - £17.57
90th Percentile - - £18.09
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £24.18 - £16.72

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in County Antrim

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in County Antrim

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in County Antrim

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

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 County Antrim region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Belfast -7 5 £160 - 5
TCP/IP
Northern Ireland

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Support Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) IT Support
3 2 (40.00%) Help Desk Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Help Desk Support
3 2 (40.00%) Help Desk Support Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) IT Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (60.00%) Android
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Apple
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Sun