TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 0.53% - 1.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.88% - 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £403
25th Percentile £380 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 - £425
75th Percentile £389 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £508 £288
% change year-on-year -1.48% +76.52% -41.03%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 17 32 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 9.09% 26.23% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 31
10th Percentile £363 £416 £300
25th Percentile £466 - £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £663 £488 £570
90th Percentile £700 £566 £638
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £533 £450
% change year-on-year +3.29% +18.33% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 11
10th Percentile £45.97 £35.00 £51.42
25th Percentile £47.65 £40.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £52.36 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.22% +4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £55.15 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £55.66 £72.00 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £56.00 £62.50 £58.25
% change year-on-year -10.40% +7.30% +38.20%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) Poetry
1 1 (100.00%) PyCharm
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat