TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in Manchester

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 67 75
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 +31
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 11 13 32
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.10% 1.13% 1.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.10% 9.56% 15.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 20
10th Percentile £463 £213 £308
25th Percentile £494 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £538
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -13.95% -
75th Percentile £594 £525 £675
90th Percentile £652 £555 £678
North West median daily rate £543 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +17.30% -2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46.25 £40.63
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% -
75th Percentile - £48.75 £46.88
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £66.50 £47.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +40.00% +8.57% -

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 78 136 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 7.82% 11.79% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 91 145
10th Percentile £170 £341 £313
25th Percentile £361 £445 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +12.22% -
75th Percentile £546 £656 £550
90th Percentile £658 £825 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £508 £488
% change year-on-year -11.33% +4.10% +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile - £37.25 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £40.63 £15.74
Median hourly rate £19.50 £47.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.95% +187.88% -61.88%
75th Percentile £20.00 £76.38 £24.79
90th Percentile - £92.95 £46.88
North West median hourly rate £19.50 £48.56 £16.68
% change year-on-year -59.84% +191.13% -16.35%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Manchester

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Manchester

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

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 October 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
Stockport - 2 - - 1
Bolton - 1 - -
TCP/IP
North West

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (9.09%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) DNS
2 5 (45.45%) Firewall
3 3 (27.27%) DHCP
3 3 (27.27%) Network Security
3 3 (27.27%) VLAN
4 2 (18.18%) iSCSI
4 2 (18.18%) SAN
4 2 (18.18%) SSL
4 2 (18.18%) VPN
5 1 (9.09%) BGP
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (9.09%) LAN
5 1 (9.09%) NX-OS
5 1 (9.09%) VoIP
5 1 (9.09%) WAN
5 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (9.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Subversion
1 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) French Language
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Server Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) C++ Developer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Project Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) LDAP
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Clustering
1 3 (27.27%) Replication
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (9.09%) IBM XIV
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) DevOps
1 3 (27.27%) High Availability
1 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
2 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
2 2 (18.18%) Scrum
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
3 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
3 1 (9.09%) Log Correlation
3 1 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Project Management
3 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Service Management
3 1 (9.09%) Validation
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C++
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.09%) A+ Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CCDP
3 1 (9.09%) CCNP
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP
3 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) MCSA
3 1 (9.09%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (9.09%) Docker
4 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) CASB
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Nessus
3 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco
2 3 (27.27%) SolarWinds
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) Dell
3 2 (18.18%) F5
3 2 (18.18%) NetApp
3 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
3 2 (18.18%) Veeam
4 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
4 1 (9.09%) Citrix
4 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) IBM
4 1 (9.09%) Meraki
4 1 (9.09%) Remedy
4 1 (9.09%) Splunk
4 1 (9.09%) Tenable