TCP/IP Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 103 112 94
Rank change year-on-year +9 -18 +16
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 17 25 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.86% 0.91% 1.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.20% 6.87% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 38
10th Percentile £185 £343 £263
25th Percentile £216 £350 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £410 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.78% -21.90% +20.00%
75th Percentile £452 £522 £638
90th Percentile £638 £575 £650
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 327 364 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.62% 13.21% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 253 298
10th Percentile £185 £199 £288
25th Percentile £300 £319 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £530 £653 £575
90th Percentile £600 £825 £650
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 10
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.72 £17.92
25th Percentile £21.12 £18.48 £19.17
Median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%
75th Percentile £25.47 £45.88 £51.45
90th Percentile £25.90 £83.76 £52.13
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +11 12 £424 +5.94% 22
Cheshire -2 4 £230 -51.58% 7
Merseyside - 1 - -
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) GCP
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) DNS
1 11 (64.71%) VPN
2 9 (52.94%) DHCP
3 3 (17.65%) Firewall
4 2 (11.76%) BGP
4 2 (11.76%) EIGRP
4 2 (11.76%) Network Security
4 2 (11.76%) OSPF
5 1 (5.88%) HTTP
5 1 (5.88%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Subversion
1 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (23.53%) French Language
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Support Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) IT Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) IT Support
2 6 (35.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Project Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 2 (11.76%) Service Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (5.88%) IT Operations Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Lead
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) cloud-init
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.88%) Kafka
1 1 (5.88%) Keycloak
1 1 (5.88%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Management Information System
2 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (11.76%) CMDB
4 1 (5.88%) Clustering
4 1 (5.88%) PKI
4 1 (5.88%) Smartphone
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Unix
4 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.88%) CentOS
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (41.18%) ITSM
3 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
3 5 (29.41%) Service Delivery
4 4 (23.53%) Customer Service
4 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (23.53%) ITIL
4 4 (23.53%) Project Management
4 4 (23.53%) Service Management
5 3 (17.65%) High Availability
6 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
6 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
6 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.76%) DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) Scrum
7 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) C++
3 2 (11.76%) Perl
3 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) Go
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 5 (29.41%) A+ Certification
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (17.65%) CCNA
4 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (11.76%) CCNP
5 2 (11.76%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
2 1 (5.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
1 2 (11.76%) ZABBIX
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Consul
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Istio
2 1 (5.88%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (5.88%) linkerd
2 1 (5.88%) Nagios
2 1 (5.88%) Packer
2 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.88%) Puppet
2 1 (5.88%) Rancher
2 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco
3 2 (11.76%) Meraki
3 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) Dell
4 1 (5.88%) HP
4 1 (5.88%) Okta
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk