TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 4.72% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £431 - -
90th Percentile £435 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £425 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 56 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 44.09% 9.09% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 2 1
10th Percentile £303 £321 -
25th Percentile £353 £353 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £410 £215
Median % change year-on-year - +90.70% -65.60%
75th Percentile £498 £473 £233
90th Percentile £538 £507 -
Suffolk median daily rate £410 £300 £220
% change year-on-year +36.67% +36.36% -51.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - -
Median hourly rate £17.12 - -
75th Percentile £18.22 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £17.12 - £48.56

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Ipswich

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

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

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

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

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 3 (50.00%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) 5G
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
1 4 (66.67%) HTTP
1 4 (66.67%) SSH
2 3 (50.00%) 4G
3 2 (33.33%) Broadband
3 2 (33.33%) IPv4
3 2 (33.33%) IPv6
3 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
1 4 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (66.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
2 5 (83.33%) GitLab
3 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (50.00%) Selenium
4 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Python Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Broadband Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) FastAPI
1 4 (66.67%) Flask
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) Jinja
1 4 (66.67%) Pandas
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 3 (50.00%) Playwright
2 3 (50.00%) pytest
2 3 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 4 (66.67%) Validation
2 3 (50.00%) API Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Application Packaging
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) Process Management
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Prometheus