TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.12% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £386 £425
% change year-on-year +23.08% -9.19% +21.43%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 16 7 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 1.89% 3.43% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 7
10th Percentile £261 - £117
25th Percentile £447 £325 £126
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £388 £298
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +30.03% -40.70%
75th Percentile £491 £463 £300
90th Percentile £513 £485 £300
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Shropshire

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 3 October 2026. 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
Telford - 1 £475 - 2
TCP/IP
West Midlands

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat