TCP/IP Contracts in the Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for TCP/IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TCP/IP over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 140 152
Rank change year-on-year +50 +12 -26
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 44 23 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.61% 0.67% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.00% 4.49% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 18 34
10th Percentile £188 £163 £110
25th Percentile £205 £183 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £338 £313
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £550 £388 £495
90th Percentile £575 £538 £550
England median daily rate £488 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -2.50% +8.11% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £18.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.50% +11.11%
England median hourly rate £56.49 £63.78 £28.00
% change year-on-year -11.42% +127.77% -29.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

TCP/IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 489 512 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.89% 14.96% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 338 391
10th Percentile £200 £250 £164
25th Percentile £306 £314 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £450 £398
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +13.21% -0.63%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £500
90th Percentile £688 £700 £600
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 17 32
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.13 £16.25 £13.69
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.71 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +18.31% +16.67%
75th Percentile £24.35 £28.50 £20.88
90th Percentile £28.75 £40.25 £23.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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
East Midlands +39 24 £488 +26.62% 31
West Midlands +24 20 £525 +64.06% 31
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 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (52.27%) DNS
2 16 (36.36%) DHCP
3 12 (27.27%) Firewall
4 10 (22.73%) VPN
5 5 (11.36%) BGP
5 5 (11.36%) Internet
5 5 (11.36%) OSPF
5 5 (11.36%) SAN
6 4 (9.09%) Ethernet
6 4 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (9.09%) Network Security
7 3 (6.82%) MPLS
7 3 (6.82%) VLAN
7 3 (6.82%) WAN
7 3 (6.82%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (4.55%) LAN
8 2 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (4.55%) SD-WAN
9 1 (2.27%) InfiniBand
9 1 (2.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Apache Hive
1 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 8 (18.18%) Public Sector
1 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.55%) Finance
2 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (22.73%) 2nd Line Support
2 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) Support Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 6 (13.64%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Network Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Python Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Support Officer
5 5 (11.36%) Technical Support
5 5 (11.36%) Technical Support Officer
6 4 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Architect
6 4 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Active Directory Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Active Directory Support
7 3 (6.82%) Printer Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) OLE
1 1 (2.27%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) iPad
2 1 (2.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (2.27%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.27%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 25 (56.82%) Windows
2 13 (29.55%) Linux
3 12 (27.27%) Windows Server
4 10 (22.73%) Windows 10
5 6 (13.64%) Unix
6 5 (11.36%) Debian
6 5 (11.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (11.36%) Ubuntu
6 5 (11.36%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (6.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (6.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (18.18%) Virtual Environments
4 7 (15.91%) Agile
4 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (13.64%) Asset Management
5 6 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (13.64%) ITIL
5 6 (13.64%) SIEM
5 6 (13.64%) Visualisation
6 5 (11.36%) Configuration Management
6 5 (11.36%) Data Engineering
6 5 (11.36%) Data Modelling
6 5 (11.36%) Information Management
6 5 (11.36%) Matrix Organization
6 5 (11.36%) Prototyping
6 5 (11.36%) Security Hardening
6 5 (11.36%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (11.36%) Systems Engineering
6 5 (11.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.18%) C#
1 8 (18.18%) Java
2 5 (11.36%) Python
3 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.27%) SQL
3 1 (2.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 12 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 6 (13.64%) CCNA
3 6 (13.64%) CCNP
3 6 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.82%) Degree
5 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.27%) MCSE
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) NIST
2 3 (6.82%) HIPAA
2 3 (6.82%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.55%) GDPR
3 2 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 12 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (11.36%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (11.36%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (11.36%) VMware NSX
4 2 (4.55%) Terminal Services
4 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.27%) Docker
5 1 (2.27%) Lustre
5 1 (2.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.27%) Snort
Systems Management
1 12 (27.27%) SCCM
2 5 (11.36%) vCenter Server
3 3 (6.82%) Autotask
4 1 (2.27%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.27%) Kibana
4 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (40.91%) VMware
2 14 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 7 (15.91%) Cisco
4 5 (11.36%) Red Hat
4 5 (11.36%) Veeam
5 4 (9.09%) Palo Alto
6 3 (6.82%) Fortinet
6 3 (6.82%) Remedy
7 2 (4.55%) Splunk
8 1 (2.27%) Google
8 1 (2.27%) Juniper
8 1 (2.27%) Mitel
8 1 (2.27%) Oracle