TCP/IP Contracts in Sheffield

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 45 49 51
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 5 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.57% 1.58% 1.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.47% 9.84% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £320 £623 -
25th Percentile £371 £625 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £645 £650
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% -0.77% -3.70%
75th Percentile £550 - £681
90th Percentile £640 £648 £693
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £645 £650
% change year-on-year -30.23% -0.77% -3.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 59 61 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 18.50% 16.09% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 48 37
10th Percentile £220 £259 £385
25th Percentile £352 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £517 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% -20.46% +44.44%
75th Percentile £609 £588 £700
90th Percentile £650 £647 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -12.45% -2.10% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.40%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £10.63
% change year-on-year - - -39.74%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Network Security
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (60.00%) DWDM
3 3 (60.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) LAN
3 3 (60.00%) VPN
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) BGP
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP
4 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (20.00%) OSPF
4 1 (20.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (80.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Network Management
4 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Runbook
4 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) CCNA
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (40.00%) CCNP
3 2 (40.00%) JNCIA
3 2 (40.00%) JNCIS
4 1 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Arista
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Aruba