TCP/IP Contracts in Manchester

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 67 78 79
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 +11
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 12 18 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.30% 1.19% 2.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.24% 8.78% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 27
10th Percentile £274 £328 £506
25th Percentile £363 £350 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £400 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.94% -36.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £587 £500 £650
90th Percentile £688 £625 -
North West median daily rate £313 £410 £525
% change year-on-year -23.78% -21.90% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - £12.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - -56.36% -
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - £12.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year - -56.36% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 98 205 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.58% 13.51% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 158 177
10th Percentile £193 £262 £313
25th Percentile £288 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% -8.75% +7.76%
75th Percentile £491 £750 £575
90th Percentile £582 £850 £668
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £14.29 £15.00
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - -14.42% +16.65%
75th Percentile - £100.00 £28.75
90th Percentile - £102.40 £32.50
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in Manchester

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in Manchester

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Manchester

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in Manchester

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bolton - 5 £190 - 2
Stockport - 2 - - 1
Wigan - 2 £375 -
TCP/IP
North West

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) VPN
2 7 (58.33%) DHCP
2 7 (58.33%) DNS
3 3 (25.00%) Firewall
4 2 (16.67%) BGP
4 2 (16.67%) EIGRP
4 2 (16.67%) Network Security
4 2 (16.67%) OSPF
5 1 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Subversion
1 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (33.33%) French Language
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) IT Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) IT Support
1 5 (41.67%) IT Support Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Support Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Project Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) C++ Developer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) IT Operations Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) cloud-init
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) Keycloak
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) CMDB
3 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) CentOS
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Service Delivery
3 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (33.33%) ITSM
3 4 (33.33%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) Service Management
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Change Management
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (8.33%) Identity Management
5 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) C++
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Perl
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) A+ Certification
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (25.00%) CCNA
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (16.67%) CCNP
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
1 2 (16.67%) ZABBIX
2 1 (8.33%) Consul
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Istio
2 1 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (8.33%) linkerd
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Nagios
2 1 (8.33%) Packer
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Rancher
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Google
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) Meraki
4 1 (8.33%) Dell
4 1 (8.33%) HP
4 1 (8.33%) Okta
4 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk