TCP/IP Contracts in Edinburgh

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 61 69 111
Rank change year-on-year +8 +42 -3
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 6 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.96% 0.37% 0.077%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.68% 3.53% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £438 £479
Median % change year-on-year +17.01% -8.56% +15.42%
75th Percentile £519 £532 -
90th Percentile £571 £588 -
Scotland median daily rate £443 £619 £440
% change year-on-year -28.51% +40.84% +9.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 62 85 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.92% 10.43% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 45 77
10th Percentile £176 £178 £163
25th Percentile £245 £240 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +4.40%
75th Percentile £544 £646 £525
90th Percentile £595 £750 £575
Scotland median daily rate £425 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -19.05% +13.51% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 2
10th Percentile - £14.33 £24.08
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £28.32
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £36.63
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -50.12% -22.88%
75th Percentile £23.53 £52.06 £46.19
90th Percentile £32.36 £60.75 £51.18
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £22.14 £10.63
% change year-on-year -0.61% +108.23% -77.62%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) SNA
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) IPsec
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) MPLS
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Mainframe Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) z/OS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) zOS
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) Network Management
2 3 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JCL
2 1 (16.67%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Meraki
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) VMware