TCP/IP Contracts in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 114 118
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 21 46 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.78% 1.50% 1.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.56% 10.65% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 47
10th Percentile £387 £177 £132
25th Percentile £405 £284 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% -22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £523 £638 £638
90th Percentile £543 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £481 £463
% change year-on-year +4.05% +3.90% +6.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £12.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -56.36% - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.91 £45.00
% change year-on-year +10.35% +30.90% +80.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 320 432 557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.92% 14.05% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 289 370
10th Percentile £205 £288 £172
25th Percentile £325 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £665 £565 £585
90th Percentile £838 £638 £638
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +12.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 11
10th Percentile £18.33 £15.41 £11.35
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.93 £16.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +56.25% +37.32%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £50.48
90th Percentile £89.18 £52.13 £65.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.28 £23.91
% change year-on-year +131.45% -27.72% +3.02%

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 27 May 2024.

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 27 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
Manchester +5 13 £456 -27.00% 9
Cheshire -4 7 £475 +46.15% 17
Cumbria - 1 £500 -
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 (9.52%) nginx
1 2 (9.52%) Traefik
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) GCP
3 5 (23.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
5 2 (9.52%) IaaS
5 2 (9.52%) PaaS
5 2 (9.52%) SaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) DNS
2 8 (38.10%) VLAN
3 7 (33.33%) BGP
3 7 (33.33%) DHCP
3 7 (33.33%) VPN
4 6 (28.57%) OSPF
5 4 (19.05%) MPLS
5 4 (19.05%) Value-Added Service
5 4 (19.05%) Wireshark
6 2 (9.52%) Firewall
6 2 (9.52%) LAN
7 1 (4.76%) HTTP
7 1 (4.76%) HTTPS
7 1 (4.76%) IPsec
7 1 (4.76%) SNMP
7 1 (4.76%) SSH
7 1 (4.76%) WAN
7 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
1 2 (9.52%) GitLab
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Network Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) C++ Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) IT Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) IT Operations Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) IT Support
4 2 (9.52%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (4.76%) IT Technician
5 1 (4.76%) Network Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) cloud-init
1 2 (9.52%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Clustering
1 2 (9.52%) CMDB
1 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
1 2 (9.52%) PKI
1 2 (9.52%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Replication
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) CentOS
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.76%) VMS
3 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Change Management
3 5 (23.81%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
4 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
4 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (19.05%) Migration
4 4 (19.05%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
5 3 (14.29%) Task Automation
6 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
6 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
6 2 (9.52%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (9.52%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (9.52%) DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
6 2 (9.52%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (9.52%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
1 5 (23.81%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
3 3 (14.29%) Bash
4 2 (9.52%) C++
4 2 (9.52%) Go
4 2 (9.52%) Ruby
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (23.81%) CCIE
2 5 (23.81%) CCNP
2 5 (23.81%) Degree
3 4 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (19.05%) VCAP
4 2 (9.52%) CCNA
4 2 (9.52%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) CISM
5 1 (4.76%) CISSP
5 1 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) NCSC
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.52%) Docker
4 1 (4.76%) Firmware
4 1 (4.76%) NFS
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) ZABBIX
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Consul
2 2 (9.52%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (9.52%) Graphite
2 2 (9.52%) HAProxy
2 2 (9.52%) Istio
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) linkerd
2 2 (9.52%) Nagios
2 2 (9.52%) Packer
2 2 (9.52%) Podman
2 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
2 2 (9.52%) Puppet
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) SolarWinds
2 4 (19.05%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (14.29%) Google
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) VMware
4 2 (9.52%) Cisco
4 2 (9.52%) PagerDuty
4 2 (9.52%) Splunk
5 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.76%) SAP