TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.08% 1.80% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.71% 14.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £221 £163 -
25th Percentile £252 £181 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 £225 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.11% - -
75th Percentile £364 £494 -
90th Percentile £397 £648 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £306 £275 -
% change year-on-year +11.36% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £26.33 - -
25th Percentile £26.46 - -
Median hourly rate £26.66 - -
75th Percentile £27.71 - -
90th Percentile £28.33 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £26.66 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 34 27 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 7.34% 12.16% 15.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 20
10th Percentile £224 £201 £238
25th Percentile £380 £316 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £498 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +17.06% +37.10%
75th Percentile £539 £625 £563
90th Percentile £617 £684 £644
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £411 £475 £415
% change year-on-year -13.42% +14.46% +44.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £26.37 - £29.98
25th Percentile £26.56 - £40.44
Median hourly rate £27.08 - £47.50
75th Percentile £34.06 - £48.75
90th Percentile £43.63 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £27.08 - £47.50

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing TCP/IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Newcastle upon Tyne

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing TCP/IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) HTTP
3 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Service Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) cloud-init
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) High Availability
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (20.00%) Observability
1 1 (20.00%) Release Automation
1 1 (20.00%) Release Management
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Go
1 1 (20.00%) Groovy
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Consul
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Packer
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
1 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk