TCP/IP Contracts in the South West

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for TCP/IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TCP/IP over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 100 106
Rank change year-on-year -29 +6 +10
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 26 70 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.81% 1.93% 1.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.91% 10.94% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 40
10th Percentile - £179 £187
25th Percentile £469 £391 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +21.88% +33.33%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £480
90th Percentile £713 £620 £526
England median daily rate £475 £500 £471
% change year-on-year -5.00% +6.21% +10.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 25 5
10th Percentile £56.49 £33.11 £45.70
25th Percentile £60.12 £57.33 £50.77
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -0.46% +24.15%
75th Percentile £68.13 £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile £73.95 £83.60 £73.82
England median hourly rate £56.49 £65.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -13.09% +136.36% -30.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

TCP/IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 530 640 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.57% 17.65% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 416 299
10th Percentile £275 £206 £224
25th Percentile £460 £400 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £545
90th Percentile £713 £717 £619
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 125 32
10th Percentile £12.50 - £41.46
25th Percentile £15.75 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +7.57%
75th Percentile £70.66 £60.70 £62.77
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £69.05
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £23.91
% change year-on-year +112.54% -21.29% -4.36%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the South West.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the South West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in the South West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Bristol +9 10 £488 -2.50% 13
Dorset +6 7 £488 - 1
Gloucestershire +9 4 £600 - 2
Somerset -3 2 £319 -32.00% 5
Wiltshire -15 2 £675 +42.11% 6
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (15.38%) Apache Solr
1 4 (15.38%) Confluence
1 4 (15.38%) nginx
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.85%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (7.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) GCP
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.85%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 14 (53.85%) DNS
2 8 (30.77%) DHCP
3 6 (23.08%) Firewall
4 5 (19.23%) HTTPS
4 5 (19.23%) IPsec
4 5 (19.23%) VPN
4 5 (19.23%) WAN
5 4 (15.38%) Network Security
6 3 (11.54%) BGP
6 3 (11.54%) Ethernet
6 3 (11.54%) OSPF
6 3 (11.54%) SNMP
7 2 (7.69%) HTTP
7 2 (7.69%) LAN
7 2 (7.69%) Skype
7 2 (7.69%) SMTP
8 1 (3.85%) 4G
8 1 (3.85%) 5G
8 1 (3.85%) SS7
8 1 (3.85%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Couchbase
1 4 (15.38%) MySQL
1 4 (15.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Bitbucket
1 4 (15.38%) JIRA
2 3 (11.54%) Eclipse
2 3 (11.54%) Visual Studio
3 2 (7.69%) Artifactory
3 2 (7.69%) Rational DOORS
General
1 15 (57.69%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Military
3 4 (15.38%) Legal
4 3 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Senior
2 4 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Integration Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Network Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Senior Test Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Test Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) C# Software Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Principal Security Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Security Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) JSON
1 4 (15.38%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (15.38%) YAML
2 3 (11.54%) Node.js
2 3 (11.54%) Web Services
3 1 (3.85%) LDAP
3 1 (3.85%) SPML
3 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.69%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (57.69%) Linux
2 12 (46.15%) Windows
3 4 (15.38%) CentOS
3 4 (15.38%) Unix
3 4 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.85%) Mac OS X
5 1 (3.85%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Agile
2 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
2 7 (26.92%) ITIL
3 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
4 5 (19.23%) Visualisation
5 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (15.38%) Cost Reduction
5 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (15.38%) DevOps
5 4 (15.38%) Information Security
5 4 (15.38%) Microservices
5 4 (15.38%) Migration
5 4 (15.38%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (15.38%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (15.38%) SDLC
5 4 (15.38%) Software Delivery
6 3 (11.54%) Synthetic Environment
6 3 (11.54%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 5 (19.23%) C#
3 4 (15.38%) Bash
3 4 (15.38%) C
3 4 (15.38%) PHP
3 4 (15.38%) Python
4 3 (11.54%) C++
4 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.69%) Java
5 2 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (26.92%) DV Cleared
3 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 4 (15.38%) Degree
5 2 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (3.85%) CEH
6 1 (3.85%) CREST Certified
6 1 (3.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) NIST
2 4 (15.38%) GDPR
2 4 (15.38%) HIPAA
2 4 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (15.38%) QA
3 2 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (23.08%) VMware NSX
2 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (15.38%) vSphere
4 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
5 2 (7.69%) Docker
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (3.85%) Samba
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Ansible
1 8 (30.77%) Terraform
2 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 4 (15.38%) SCCM
4 3 (11.54%) FortiGate
5 2 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (7.69%) OPNET
5 2 (7.69%) SCOM
5 2 (7.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Atlassian
3 5 (19.23%) VMware
4 4 (15.38%) Google
5 3 (11.54%) Cisco
5 3 (11.54%) F5
5 3 (11.54%) Fortinet
6 2 (7.69%) Remedy
6 2 (7.69%) SolarWinds
6 2 (7.69%) Sparx
6 2 (7.69%) Veeam
7 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.85%) Nokia
7 1 (3.85%) Red Hat