TCP/IP Contracts in Scotland

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 115 150
Rank change year-on-year +12 +35 -3
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 13 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.78% 0.24% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.10% 2.31% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 8
10th Percentile £362 - £329
25th Percentile £390 £188 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £319 £452
Median % change year-on-year +30.09% -29.42% +13.00%
75th Percentile £486 £438 £474
90th Percentile £519 - £523
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.94% +0.95%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 183 216 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.01% 10.42% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 130 225
10th Percentile £181 £178 £160
25th Percentile £313 £228 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £465
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -9.58% +1.25%
75th Percentile £498 £572 £540
90th Percentile £543 £634 £588
UK median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 23
10th Percentile - £12.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.75 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% +38.83% -74.17%
75th Percentile £23.53 £30.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £32.36 £60.75 £58.97
UK median hourly rate £41.48 £45.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% +136.84% -33.23%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in Scotland

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in Scotland

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Scotland

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in Scotland

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Glasgow -10 6 £399 +99.50% 5
Edinburgh +9 5 £513 +17.01% 2
West Lothian - 1 £163 - 1
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (23.08%) Confluence
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) LAN
1 5 (38.46%) VPN
1 5 (38.46%) WAN
2 4 (30.77%) BGP
2 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) Network Security
2 4 (30.77%) OSPF
2 4 (30.77%) SNA
2 4 (30.77%) Wireless
3 2 (15.38%) DHCP
3 2 (15.38%) DNS
4 1 (7.69%) IPsec
4 1 (7.69%) MPLS
4 1 (7.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Designer
3 2 (15.38%) Mainframe Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) z/OS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
1 4 (30.77%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
1 4 (30.77%) zOS
2 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 7
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (38.46%) Roadmaps
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Capacity Management
4 3 (23.08%) Change Management
4 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 3 (23.08%) Network Management
4 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Business Continuity
5 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
5 2 (15.38%) Network Design
5 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (15.38%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) JCL
2 1 (7.69%) REXX
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) CCNP
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Tivoli NetView
2 3 (23.08%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) Juniper
2 4 (30.77%) Palo Alto
3 3 (23.08%) IBM
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle
3 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
3 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
3 3 (23.08%) VMware
4 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace
5 1 (7.69%) Meraki