TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in the North East

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 32 31
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +30
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 3 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.10% 1.20% 1.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.65% 9.68% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £210 - -
25th Percentile £225 £135 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £140 £325
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% -56.92% -40.91%
75th Percentile £425 £145 £338
90th Percentile £530 - -
England median daily rate £488 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 17 31 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 6.25% 12.35% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 22
10th Percentile £157 £289 £231
25th Percentile £200 £413 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +25.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £500 £645 -
90th Percentile £544 £805 £431
England median daily rate £490 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +1.50% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £40.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £43.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +145.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile - £46.00 £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.48 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.68% +1.52% +37.78%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the North East

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing TCP/IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the North East over the 6 months to 8 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the North East

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing TCP/IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Tyne and Wear -6 2 £400 +185.71% 6
Durham - 1 £250 -
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) HSRP
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Service Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow