TCP/IP Contracts in England

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 240 268
Rank change year-on-year -37 +28 -5
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 296 539 733
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.81% 1.12% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.19% 9.12% 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 332 474
10th Percentile £188 £213 £180
25th Percentile £350 £313 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £478 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +3.30% +8.82%
75th Percentile £560 £650 £575
90th Percentile £645 £773 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £467
% change year-on-year +2.56% +4.39% +9.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 44 30
10th Percentile £16.00 £21.02 £20.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £34.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.73 £36.12
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% +68.13% -8.56%
75th Percentile - £66.56 £52.50
90th Percentile - £77.50 £67.58
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.73 £36.12
% change year-on-year +7.04% +68.13% -9.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,784 5,911 7,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.15% 12.27% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,876 3,864 5,161
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £393 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 424 309
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.86
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.28 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.13 £75.00 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +7.21%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in England

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in England

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in England

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in England

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in England

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London -20 109 £525 - 85
South East -11 57 £450 -6.36% 44
Midlands +45 43 £513 +46.43% 57
North of England -11 32 £500 +37.93% 66
South West -22 28 £600 +23.08% 31
East Midlands +33 24 £488 +26.62% 31
North West -7 21 £456 +30.36% 37
East of England -6 20 £375 -11.76% 28
West Midlands +24 19 £525 +62.79% 26
Yorkshire +3 11 £625 +51.52% 27
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 29 (9.80%) Confluence
2 18 (6.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (4.39%) SharePoint
4 11 (3.72%) IIS
5 9 (3.04%) Apache
5 9 (3.04%) nginx
6 6 (2.03%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.35%) Apache Solr
7 4 (1.35%) MQSeries
8 3 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.68%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.68%) IBM Notes
9 2 (0.68%) Traefik
10 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.03%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 64 (21.62%) Azure
2 57 (19.26%) AWS
3 41 (13.85%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (12.50%) GCP
5 14 (4.73%) Cloud Computing
5 14 (4.73%) GitHub
6 13 (4.39%) PaaS
7 11 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (3.38%) SaaS
9 9 (3.04%) IaaS
9 9 (3.04%) Kong
9 9 (3.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.36%) Nutanix
11 6 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.03%) Apigee
11 6 (2.03%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.03%) Rubrik
12 4 (1.35%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.35%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 137 (46.28%) DNS
2 98 (33.11%) Firewall
3 90 (30.41%) DHCP
4 70 (23.65%) VPN
5 61 (20.61%) HTTP
6 42 (14.19%) VLAN
7 38 (12.84%) BGP
7 38 (12.84%) WAN
8 35 (11.82%) LAN
8 35 (11.82%) Network Security
8 35 (11.82%) OSPF
9 31 (10.47%) SAN
10 26 (8.78%) SSL
11 23 (7.77%) Wireshark
12 20 (6.76%) MPLS
13 18 (6.08%) SNMP
14 17 (5.74%) Ethernet
14 17 (5.74%) IPsec
15 15 (5.07%) NAS
16 14 (4.73%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.73%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (3.04%) MySQL
2 9 (3.04%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.03%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.35%) Couchbase
4 4 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.01%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.68%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.68%) Redis
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.34%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.34%) Power BI
7 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 37 (12.50%) JIRA
2 34 (11.49%) Git
3 11 (3.72%) Eclipse
3 11 (3.72%) GitLab
3 11 (3.72%) Visual Studio
4 10 (3.38%) CircleCI
4 10 (3.38%) Travis CI
5 9 (3.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (2.70%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.03%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.03%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.69%) Fiddler
10 3 (1.01%) TestRail
11 2 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.34%) Darcs
12 1 (0.34%) IDA Disassembler
12 1 (0.34%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 71 (23.99%) Social Skills
2 33 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (10.81%) Finance
4 23 (7.77%) Telecoms
5 17 (5.74%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.41%) Military
7 13 (4.39%) Manufacturing
8 12 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.72%) Legal
10 5 (1.69%) Banking
10 5 (1.69%) Electronics
10 5 (1.69%) Mandarin Language
10 5 (1.69%) Marketing
11 4 (1.35%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.35%) Front Office
11 4 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.01%) Automotive
12 3 (1.01%) German Language
12 3 (1.01%) Retail
13 2 (0.68%) Cantonese Language
Job Titles
1 51 (17.23%) Network Engineer
2 32 (10.81%) Developer
3 25 (8.45%) Python Developer
3 25 (8.45%) Support Engineer
4 22 (7.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (6.42%) IT Support
6 18 (6.08%) Analyst
6 18 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (6.08%) Linux Engineer
6 18 (6.08%) Senior
7 14 (4.73%) Software Engineer
7 14 (4.73%) Technical Support
8 12 (4.05%) Server Engineer
9 11 (3.72%) 2nd Line Support
9 11 (3.72%) C# Software Engineer
9 11 (3.72%) C++ Software Engineer
9 11 (3.72%) Linux Server Engineer
9 11 (3.72%) Support Specialist
10 10 (3.38%) Test Engineer
11 9 (3.04%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.42%) JSON
2 18 (6.08%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (5.74%) LDAP
4 16 (5.41%) Web Services
5 15 (5.07%) .NET
6 14 (4.73%) XML
6 14 (4.73%) YAML
7 11 (3.72%) Node.js
8 8 (2.70%) SAML
9 7 (2.36%) SOAP
10 6 (2.03%) REST
10 6 (2.03%) RESTful
11 5 (1.69%) .NET Framework
12 4 (1.35%) LEMP Stack
12 4 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (1.01%) OAuth
13 3 (1.01%) OpenID
13 3 (1.01%) SPML
14 2 (0.68%) 802.1X
14 2 (0.68%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.76%) Data Centre
2 19 (6.42%) Management Information System
3 16 (5.41%) Clustering
4 10 (3.38%) PKI
5 9 (3.04%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.36%) Replication
7 5 (1.69%) IVR
7 5 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.35%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.35%) IoT
8 4 (1.35%) iPad
9 3 (1.01%) CCTV
9 3 (1.01%) CMDB
9 3 (1.01%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.01%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 115 (38.85%) Windows
2 107 (36.15%) Linux
3 34 (11.49%) Unix
3 34 (11.49%) Windows Server
4 27 (9.12%) Windows 10
5 20 (6.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (6.42%) Ubuntu
7 15 (5.07%) Debian
8 9 (3.04%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (2.36%) CentOS
9 7 (2.36%) Solaris
10 6 (2.03%) Mac OS
10 6 (2.03%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
12 4 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (1.01%) Apple iOS
13 3 (1.01%) Mac OS X
13 3 (1.01%) VMS
13 3 (1.01%) Windows 7
13 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (22.97%) Agile
2 47 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (14.86%) CI/CD
4 42 (14.19%) DevOps
5 39 (13.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (12.84%) ITIL
7 37 (12.50%) Customer Service
8 36 (12.16%) Continuous Integration
9 33 (11.15%) Configuration Management
10 30 (10.14%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (9.12%) SIEM
13 26 (8.78%) Software Engineering
14 23 (7.77%) Change Management
15 22 (7.43%) Scrum
16 21 (7.09%) Computer Science
17 19 (6.42%) Containerisation
17 19 (6.42%) Visualisation
18 18 (6.08%) Project Management
19 17 (5.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 80 (27.03%) Python
2 47 (15.88%) PowerShell
3 31 (10.47%) C#
4 24 (8.11%) Bash
5 23 (7.77%) C++
6 21 (7.09%) SQL
7 20 (6.76%) Java
8 15 (5.07%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.04%) C
10 8 (2.70%) Go
11 6 (2.03%) PHP
12 5 (1.69%) Perl
13 4 (1.35%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.01%) ActionScript
14 3 (1.01%) Ruby
14 3 (1.01%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.01%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.34%) Rust
15 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 72 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 46 (15.54%) Degree
3 42 (14.19%) DV Cleared
4 40 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
4 40 (13.51%) SC Cleared
5 31 (10.47%) CCNP
6 27 (9.12%) CCNA
7 13 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.04%) MCSE
9 8 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.36%) CCDP
10 7 (2.36%) CISSP
11 6 (2.03%) CCIE
12 4 (1.35%) CISM
12 4 (1.35%) VCAP
12 4 (1.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (1.01%) CISA
13 3 (1.01%) GIAC
13 3 (1.01%) ISTQB
13 3 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.09%) QA
2 18 (6.08%) NIST
3 15 (5.07%) SLA
4 13 (4.39%) GDPR
5 12 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (3.04%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.36%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.01%) ISO 9001
9 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (1.01%) NCSC
10 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.34%) COPPA
11 1 (0.34%) ISA99
11 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 66 (22.30%) Active Directory
2 46 (15.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (9.80%) Docker
4 16 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (5.07%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (4.39%) VMware NSX
6 13 (4.39%) vSphere
7 11 (3.72%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (2.36%) Hyper-V
9 6 (2.03%) Firmware
9 6 (2.03%) NFS
10 5 (1.69%) Samba
10 5 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (1.35%) VirtualBox
11 4 (1.35%) XenApp
12 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (1.01%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.68%) Snort
13 2 (0.68%) Squid
13 2 (0.68%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 41 (13.85%) Terraform
2 40 (13.51%) Ansible
3 32 (10.81%) Kubernetes
4 27 (9.12%) SCCM
5 26 (8.78%) Puppet
6 21 (7.09%) Progress Chef
7 18 (6.08%) Kibana
8 14 (4.73%) logstash
9 13 (4.39%) Prometheus
10 12 (4.05%) Docker Swarm
11 11 (3.72%) Grafana
12 10 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (3.04%) FortiGate
14 8 (2.70%) SCOM
14 8 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (2.70%) WSUS
15 7 (2.36%) vCenter Server
16 6 (2.03%) EMC NetWorker
16 6 (2.03%) Tivoli
16 6 (2.03%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 97 (32.77%) Microsoft
2 71 (23.99%) VMware
3 64 (21.62%) Cisco
4 31 (10.47%) Splunk
5 24 (8.11%) Red Hat
6 22 (7.43%) Palo Alto
7 19 (6.42%) F5
8 14 (4.73%) Google
8 14 (4.73%) Oracle
8 14 (4.73%) ServiceNow
8 14 (4.73%) SolarWinds
9 13 (4.39%) HP
10 12 (4.05%) Dell
10 12 (4.05%) Fortinet
11 11 (3.72%) Veeam
12 10 (3.38%) CheckPoint
12 10 (3.38%) Qualys
13 9 (3.04%) IBM
13 9 (3.04%) Zscaler
14 8 (2.70%) Meraki