TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 22 53
Rank change year-on-year -17 +31 +2
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 3 15 4
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.85% 6.25% 0.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.34% 31.91% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 15 4
10th Percentile - £607 -
25th Percentile £208 £608 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -65.04% +2.50% +26.32%
75th Percentile £223 £738 £625
90th Percentile - £775 -
South West median daily rate £500 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -18.70% +2.50% +23.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 29 47 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.17% 19.58% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 39 36
10th Percentile - £222 £329
25th Percentile £205 £300 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -39.56% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £494 £623 £638
90th Percentile £594 £775 £719
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £12.56 - £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.92%
75th Percentile £12.69 - £17.25
90th Percentile - - £19.13
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £41.40 £40.00
% change year-on-year +44.95% +3.49% +308.16%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 18 June 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
Gloucester -8 2 £215 -65.04% 2
Cheltenham -13 1 - - 6
TCP/IP
South West

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Google Workspace
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) ICT Officer
1 1 (33.33%) ICT Support
1 1 (33.33%) ICT Support Officer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Officer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (33.33%) Observability
1 1 (33.33%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) VirtualBox
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) VMware