TCP/IP Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 87 131 99
Rank change year-on-year +44 -32 +7
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 24 26 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.43% 0.81% 1.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.34% 4.92% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 32
10th Percentile £575 - £179
25th Percentile £608 £469 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +23.08% +21.88%
75th Percentile £700 £625 £538
90th Percentile £775 £713 £620
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +6.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 25
10th Percentile - £56.49 £33.11
25th Percentile - £60.12 £57.33
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% -0.46%
75th Percentile - £68.13 £77.50
90th Percentile - £73.95 £83.60
England median hourly rate £54.50 £56.49 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.52% -13.09% +136.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 257 528 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.32% 16.51% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 343 416
10th Percentile £250 £276 £206
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £630
90th Percentile £688 £713 £717
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 41 125
10th Percentile £33.15 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%
75th Percentile - £70.66 £60.70
90th Percentile - £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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 1 May 2025.

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
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 1 May 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
Gloucestershire +28 15 £615 +2.50% 15
Bristol +13 4 £550 +12.82% 11
Wiltshire +32 2 £675 - 4
Dorset -1 2 £675 +38.46% 2
Somerset +2 1 - - 4
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 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) Azure
2 17 (70.83%) AWS
3 15 (62.50%) OpenShift
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (79.17%) DNS
2 18 (75.00%) DHCP
3 16 (66.67%) HTTP
4 5 (20.83%) Firewall
5 3 (12.50%) VPN
5 3 (12.50%) Wireless
6 2 (8.33%) BGP
6 2 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (8.33%) OSPF
7 1 (4.17%) Ethernet
7 1 (4.17%) LAN
7 1 (4.17%) NAS
7 1 (4.17%) Network Security
7 1 (4.17%) SAN
7 1 (4.17%) SMTP
7 1 (4.17%) SSH
7 1 (4.17%) VLAN
7 1 (4.17%) VoIP
7 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Eclipse
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (8.33%) Military
1 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Electronics
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.17%) Marketing
2 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) IT Support
4 1 (4.17%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Lead
4 1 (4.17%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (4.17%) Middleware
2 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
1 1 (4.17%) Clustering
1 1 (4.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (83.33%) Linux
1 20 (83.33%) Windows
2 17 (70.83%) Windows Server
3 15 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.17%) Unix
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Containerisation
2 13 (54.17%) Service Management
3 7 (29.17%) DevOps
4 6 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (12.50%) Agile
6 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.33%) Configuration Management
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (8.33%) Network Architecture
7 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
8 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security
8 1 (4.17%) Continuous Delivery
8 1 (4.17%) Digital Twin
8 1 (4.17%) Office Automation
8 1 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (4.17%) SDLC
8 1 (4.17%) Synthetic Environment
8 1 (4.17%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 18 (75.00%) Python
2 17 (70.83%) Bash
3 15 (62.50%) Java
4 2 (8.33%) C++
4 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.33%) Perl
4 2 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) Fortran
5 1 (4.17%) MATLAB
5 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (58.33%) DV Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) CCIE
4 2 (8.33%) CCNA
4 2 (8.33%) CCNP
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.17%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (70.83%) Docker
1 17 (70.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (66.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (4.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 17 (70.83%) Ansible
1 17 (70.83%) Kubernetes
1 17 (70.83%) Puppet
1 17 (70.83%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.17%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) VMware
2 16 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco
4 2 (8.33%) Meraki
5 1 (4.17%) Citrix
5 1 (4.17%) Intel
5 1 (4.17%) Remedy
5 1 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.17%) Splunk