TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 28 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 23 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 7.37% 1.23% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.08% 5.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £303 - -
25th Percentile £308 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £140 -
Median % change year-on-year +135.71% - -
75th Percentile £345 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £525 £250 £475
% change year-on-year +110.00% -47.37% +35.71%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 74 35 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 23.72% 21.60% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 27 11
10th Percentile £130 £145 £163
25th Percentile £143 £203 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £169 £375 £295
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% +27.12% -28.48%
75th Percentile £345 £530 £446
90th Percentile £428 £538 £575
North West median daily rate £482 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +7.14% -9.09% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.92 - £20.75
Median hourly rate £19.84 - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -65.87%
75th Percentile £21.76 - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £29.16 £24.59 £41.23
% change year-on-year +18.61% -40.37% +31.94%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Merseyside

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 3 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
Liverpool +2 23 £330 +135.71% 5
TCP/IP
North West

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (4.35%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (17.39%) Nutanix
3 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (100.00%) DNS
2 19 (82.61%) SSL
3 18 (78.26%) BIG-IP
3 18 (78.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 18 (78.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 18 (78.26%) HTTP
3 18 (78.26%) Wireshark
4 4 (17.39%) DHCP
4 4 (17.39%) Firewall
4 4 (17.39%) NetScaler
5 1 (4.35%) Internet
Development Applications
1 18 (78.26%) Fiddler
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 18 (78.26%) Banking
1 18 (78.26%) Investment Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (78.26%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 18 (78.26%) IP Network Engineer
1 18 (78.26%) Network Engineer
1 18 (78.26%) Web Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (78.26%) Management Information System
2 4 (17.39%) Private Cloud
2 4 (17.39%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
1 5 (21.74%) Windows Server
1 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2019
2 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) Load Balancing
2 18 (78.26%) Data Loss Prevention
2 18 (78.26%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (21.74%) Project Delivery
4 4 (17.39%) Business Continuity
4 4 (17.39%) DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
4 4 (17.39%) Operational Stability
4 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (4.35%) Agile
6 1 (4.35%) Change Management
6 1 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 1 (4.35%) ITIL
6 1 (4.35%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
System Software
1 22 (95.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (78.26%) Firmware
3 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
3 5 (21.74%) vSphere
4 4 (17.39%) Docker
4 4 (17.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (21.74%) SCCM
2 4 (17.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 22 (95.65%) F5
3 18 (78.26%) Blue Coat
3 18 (78.26%) McAfee
3 18 (78.26%) NetApp
4 4 (17.39%) Veeam
5 1 (4.35%) Citrix
5 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds