TCP/IP Contracts in the Midlands

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 100 116
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 +58
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 21 38 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.88% 1.30% 1.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.47% 8.30% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 31
10th Percentile £262 £205 £163
25th Percentile £408 £363 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £601 - £750
England median daily rate £475 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +5.56% -4.26% +1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £19.95
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £50.42
% change year-on-year -3.85% +28.92% +6.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 281 458 533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.78% 15.65% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 276 339
10th Percentile £200 £203 £250
25th Percentile £300 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £430
Median % change year-on-year - +4.65% +4.24%
75th Percentile £561 £588 £576
90th Percentile £685 £675 £713
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 32 15
10th Percentile - £12.28 £13.50
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £19.13
Median hourly rate £24.61 £14.27 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.46% -32.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £23.75 £28.13
90th Percentile £42.10 £26.15 £28.75
England median hourly rate £41.00 £41.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -1.20% +50.91% +9.81%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
West Midlands +2 13 £426 -18.86% 37
East Midlands -14 8 £550 +46.67% 26
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
1 2 (9.52%) GCP
1 2 (9.52%) GitHub
1 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (61.90%) Firewall
2 9 (42.86%) VPN
3 8 (38.10%) DNS
4 7 (33.33%) BGP
4 7 (33.33%) DHCP
4 7 (33.33%) Network Security
4 7 (33.33%) OSPF
4 7 (33.33%) SSL
4 7 (33.33%) VLAN
5 6 (28.57%) IPsec
6 4 (19.05%) VoIP
7 3 (14.29%) LAN
7 3 (14.29%) WAN
7 3 (14.29%) Wireless
8 2 (9.52%) Broadband
8 2 (9.52%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (9.52%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (9.52%) SD-WAN
8 2 (9.52%) SSH
8 2 (9.52%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Big Data
1 2 (9.52%) Delta Lake
1 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
1 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
1 2 (9.52%) Parquet
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.52%) MLflow
1 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
1 2 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Poetry
2 1 (4.76%) PyCharm
2 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 7 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Automotive
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Check Point Expert
2 5 (23.81%) Network Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) IT Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Network Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Field Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Linux Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Openreach Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Project Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Avro
1 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (9.52%) Flask
1 2 (9.52%) NumPy
1 2 (9.52%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
1 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Check Point GAiA
2 4 (19.05%) Linux
3 3 (14.29%) Windows
4 2 (9.52%) Debian
4 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
5 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) High Availability
2 6 (28.57%) SIEM
3 4 (19.05%) Data Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) ITIL
4 2 (9.52%) Agile
4 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
4 2 (9.52%) Configuration Management
4 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
4 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
4 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) ETL
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (9.52%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (9.52%) Migration
4 2 (9.52%) Network Design
4 2 (9.52%) Prototyping
4 2 (9.52%) Secrets Management
4 2 (9.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) Bash
2 2 (9.52%) Groovy
2 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (33.33%) CCNA
3 6 (28.57%) CCNP
3 6 (28.57%) CCSE
4 2 (9.52%) CCIE
4 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) Degree
5 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (4.76%) MCP
5 1 (4.76%) MCSA
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) FortiGate
2 2 (9.52%) Argo
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (9.52%) Istio
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) CheckPoint
2 8 (38.10%) Cisco
2 8 (38.10%) Fortinet
3 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
4 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 3 (14.29%) VMware
5 2 (9.52%) Cloudera
5 2 (9.52%) Meraki
6 1 (4.76%) Dell
6 1 (4.76%) HP
6 1 (4.76%) Openreach