TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in Kent

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 7.46% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £153 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £259 - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £375 £350 £325
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -27.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 45 30 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 33.58% 15.79% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 13 21
10th Percentile £150 £145 £213
25th Percentile £160 £156 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £325 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -35.00% +39.86%
75th Percentile £447 £498 £525
90th Percentile £623 £623 £534
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £455
% change year-on-year - +9.84% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Median hourly rate - £36.95 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year - -53.34% -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.10% -4.42% +33.33%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in Kent

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Kent over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Kent

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Dover - 5 £375 -
Tonbridge - 5 £155 -
TCP/IP
South East

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 5 (50.00%) Confluence
1 5 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
1 10 (100.00%) VPN
2 5 (50.00%) DHCP
2 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 5 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
2 5 (50.00%) SSL
2 5 (50.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Law
1 5 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Help Desk Officer
1 5 (50.00%) Help Desk Support
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) IT Support
1 5 (50.00%) Service Desk Officer
1 5 (50.00%) Service Desk Support
1 5 (50.00%) Support Officer
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 5 (50.00%) CRM
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
1 5 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 5 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (50.00%) Terminal Services
2 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Citrix
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 5 (50.00%) Veeam