TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 4.67% - 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.86% - 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £401 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 - £500
75th Percentile £520 - £550
90th Percentile £524 - -
North West median daily rate £555 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +48.00% -21.05% -9.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 59 124 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 39.33% 56.11% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 48 71
10th Percentile £455 £400 £478
25th Percentile £475 £436 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% -12.50% +41.01%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £646
90th Percentile £632 £638 £672
North West median daily rate £500 £455 £495
% change year-on-year +9.89% -8.08% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £38.39
Median hourly rate - - £41.23
75th Percentile - - £44.07
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £24.67 £26.00
% change year-on-year +69.99% -5.11% +7.87%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Cumbria

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

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

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Cumbria over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Cumbria

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

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

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 6 £403 - 1
TCP/IP
North West

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) LAN
2 4 (57.14%) VLAN
2 4 (57.14%) WAN
2 4 (57.14%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (57.14%) Wireless
3 3 (42.86%) SNMP
3 3 (42.86%) VPN
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
1 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
1 3 (42.86%) Dashboard Development
1 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
1 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (42.86%) Performance Monitoring
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (42.86%) Server Building
1 3 (42.86%) User Experience
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Network Optimisation
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Application Security
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Network Design
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash
1 3 (42.86%) Perl
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) CCNA
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (42.86%) CCNP
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Aruba
1 4 (57.14%) CheckPoint
1 4 (57.14%) Ekahau
1 4 (57.14%) Palo Alto
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Juniper
2 3 (42.86%) VMware