TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 23 14
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 +15
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 1 8 14
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.42% 4.52% 9.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.45% 33.33% 56.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 9
10th Percentile - £137 £210
25th Percentile - £143 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £150 £400
Median % change year-on-year - -62.50% -
75th Percentile - £159 -
90th Percentile - £163 -
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -14.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 29 24 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 12.08% 13.56% 17.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 13
10th Percentile £234 £143 £243
25th Percentile £363 £144 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £150 £400
Median % change year-on-year +216.67% -62.50% +28.00%
75th Percentile £500 £163 -
90th Percentile £598 £444 £618
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 2
10th Percentile - £22.50 £12.83
25th Percentile - £23.76 £13.69
Median hourly rate £15.33 £24.18 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.60% +58.56% +1.67%
75th Percentile - £30.50 £16.69
90th Percentile - £40.25 £17.48
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £39.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -8.86% -28.18% +32.53%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing TCP/IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing TCP/IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
County Antrim -14 1 - - 1
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Account Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Account Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle