TCP/IP Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 151 134
Rank change year-on-year +27 -17 +1
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 42 34 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.27% 0.71% 1.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.61% 5.68% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 60
10th Percentile £203 £273 £140
25th Percentile £250 £350 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £410 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% -21.90% +27.27%
75th Percentile £681 £586 £650
90th Percentile £750 £647 £688
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +6.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - £12.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - -56.36% -
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £54.50 £56.49 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.52% -13.09% +136.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 552 599 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 12.56% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 419 467
10th Percentile £181 £200 £200
25th Percentile £246 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £570
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 48
10th Percentile £20.74 £13.53 -
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.72 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.76 £24.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +133.96% -40.35%
75th Percentile £41.50 £45.88 £15.15
90th Percentile - £48.75 £34.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Yorkshire +18 19 £575 -7.78% 28
North West +9 17 £313 -23.78% 35
North East - 6 £250 - 12
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (16.67%) nginx
1 7 (16.67%) Traefik
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) AWS
2 11 (26.19%) Entra ID
3 9 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (21.43%) AWS Fargate
3 9 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (14.29%) Azure
5 5 (11.90%) GCP
6 3 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub
7 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (69.05%) DNS
2 16 (38.10%) DHCP
2 16 (38.10%) VPN
3 10 (23.81%) Firewall
4 8 (19.05%) Network Security
5 5 (11.90%) LAN
5 5 (11.90%) WAN
6 4 (9.52%) BGP
6 4 (9.52%) EIGRP
6 4 (9.52%) OSPF
7 3 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (7.14%) DWDM
7 3 (7.14%) VLAN
8 1 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (2.38%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (2.38%) HSRP
8 1 (2.38%) Internet
8 1 (2.38%) NGN
8 1 (2.38%) SSH
8 1 (2.38%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
3 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) GitLab
1 9 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (4.76%) JIRA
3 2 (4.76%) Subversion
3 2 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.52%) French Language
4 2 (4.76%) Military
4 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Network Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Senior
3 8 (19.05%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (16.67%) Support Engineer
5 6 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (14.29%) IT Engineer
5 6 (14.29%) IT Support
5 6 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) Analyst
6 5 (11.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) Project Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) Service Analyst
7 4 (9.52%) Service Desk Analyst
8 2 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
8 2 (4.76%) Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Lead
8 2 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Lead DevOps
9 1 (2.38%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) cloud-init
1 9 (21.43%) Kafka
1 9 (21.43%) Keycloak
2 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.38%) Node.js
2 1 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) PKI
2 6 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.76%) CMDB
5 1 (2.38%) Clustering
5 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.38%) Smartphone
5 1 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.95%) Linux
2 12 (28.57%) Windows
3 11 (26.19%) Unix
4 10 (23.81%) CentOS
4 10 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.76%) Android
5 2 (4.76%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (26.19%) DevOps
3 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 10 (23.81%) Cloud Security
3 10 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 9 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (21.43%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 9 (21.43%) Identity Management
4 9 (21.43%) Observability
4 9 (21.43%) Secrets Management
4 9 (21.43%) Static Application Security Testing
5 7 (16.67%) ITSM
5 7 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
6 6 (14.29%) ITIL
6 6 (14.29%) Service Delivery
7 4 (9.52%) Agile
7 4 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (9.52%) Project Management
7 4 (9.52%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) Python
2 11 (26.19%) Bash
3 9 (21.43%) Go
4 4 (9.52%) SQL
5 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.76%) C++
6 2 (4.76%) Perl
7 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.38%) JCL
7 1 (2.38%) REXX
7 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) CCNA
1 11 (26.19%) Cisco Certification
1 11 (26.19%) Degree
1 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 10 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 9 (21.43%) AWS Certification
4 7 (16.67%) CCNP
5 5 (11.90%) A+ Certification
6 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.76%) JNCIA
7 2 (4.76%) JNCIS
7 2 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.38%) CISSP
8 1 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.38%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) NCSC
2 2 (4.76%) SLA
3 1 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
3 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) NIST
3 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.76%) Docker
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (33.33%) Terraform
2 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
3 10 (23.81%) ZABBIX
4 9 (21.43%) Consul
4 9 (21.43%) Grafana
4 9 (21.43%) Istio
4 9 (21.43%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (21.43%) linkerd
4 9 (21.43%) Packer
4 9 (21.43%) Prometheus
4 9 (21.43%) Rancher
5 7 (16.67%) HAProxy
6 6 (14.29%) Ansible
7 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.38%) Nagios
8 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.38%) Puppet
8 1 (2.38%) SCCM
8 1 (2.38%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 15 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (33.33%) Cisco
3 9 (21.43%) Okta
3 9 (21.43%) Splunk
4 7 (16.67%) Apple
4 7 (16.67%) ESET
5 4 (9.52%) Google
5 4 (9.52%) ServiceNow
6 3 (7.14%) Arista
6 3 (7.14%) CheckPoint
7 2 (4.76%) Meraki
7 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.38%) Aruba
8 1 (2.38%) Dell
8 1 (2.38%) HP
8 1 (2.38%) IBM
8 1 (2.38%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.38%) VMware