TCP/IP Contracts in the East of England

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 59 92 79
Rank change year-on-year +33 -13 +4
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 23 20 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.45% 1.05% 2.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.45% 6.76% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 18
10th Percentile - £313 £254
25th Percentile £225 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £363 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.62% -14.71% -
75th Percentile £500 £453 £642
90th Percentile £575 £550 £676
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +6.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile £29.11 - £58.30
25th Percentile £49.77 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% - +225.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £74.50
90th Percentile - - £74.80
England median hourly rate £54.50 £56.49 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.52% -13.09% +136.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 220 296 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 23.45% 15.51% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 147 199
10th Percentile £225 £199 £202
25th Percentile £344 £261 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £556 £494 £661
90th Percentile £625 £575 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 103 43
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.22 -
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 - £74.35
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the East of England

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the East of England

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the East of England

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the East of England

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the East of England

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England 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
Hertfordshire +23 8 £550 +57.14% 27
Cambridgeshire +15 7 £430 +37.60% 28
Suffolk - 6 £225 - 6
Bedfordshire +1 1 £250 -33.33% 3
Norfolk - 1 - - 1
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) AWS
1 3 (13.04%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 12 (52.17%) DNS
2 9 (39.13%) VPN
3 8 (34.78%) Firewall
4 7 (30.43%) WAN
5 6 (26.09%) LAN
6 4 (17.39%) DHCP
6 4 (17.39%) Ethernet
6 4 (17.39%) NAS
6 4 (17.39%) SAN
7 2 (8.70%) VoIP
7 2 (8.70%) Wireless
8 1 (4.35%) 802.11
8 1 (4.35%) BGP
8 1 (4.35%) HSRP
8 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (4.35%) IPsec
8 1 (4.35%) MPLS
8 1 (4.35%) Network Security
8 1 (4.35%) OSPF
8 1 (4.35%) Structured Cabling
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Eclipse
1 4 (17.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Military
3 4 (17.39%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Administrator
2 4 (17.39%) DevOps Administrator
2 4 (17.39%) Network Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Service Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Service Desk Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) C# Software Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
4 1 (4.35%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Developer
4 1 (4.35%) IT Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) Network Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Support
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) LDAP
1 4 (17.39%) Node.js
1 4 (17.39%) Web Services
2 1 (4.35%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Driving Licence
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (17.39%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.35%) CMDB
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Linux
3 5 (21.74%) Windows Server
4 4 (17.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) ITIL
2 6 (26.09%) ITSM
3 4 (17.39%) Agile
3 4 (17.39%) Change Management
3 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
3 4 (17.39%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (17.39%) DevOps
3 4 (17.39%) Digital Twin
3 4 (17.39%) Incident Management
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (17.39%) Problem Management
3 4 (17.39%) Resource Management
3 4 (17.39%) Synthetic Environment
3 4 (17.39%) TDD
3 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
4 3 (13.04%) Break/Fix
4 3 (13.04%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (13.04%) Verification and Validation
4 3 (13.04%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) C#
1 4 (17.39%) C++
1 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) CCNA
2 3 (13.04%) CCNP
2 3 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.35%) ECDL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) ServiceNow
3 4 (17.39%) Cisco
3 4 (17.39%) NetApp
3 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
4 3 (13.04%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.35%) Aruba
5 1 (4.35%) HP