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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 104 95
Rank change year-on-year -19 -9 +23
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 29 61 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.91% 1.79% 2.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.57% 10.36% 15.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 39
10th Percentile £469 £179 £190
25th Percentile £472 £372 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year +20.51% +21.88% +18.52%
75th Percentile £625 £562 £494
90th Percentile £713 £652 £551
England median daily rate £494 £481 £463
% change year-on-year +2.74% +3.90% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 7
10th Percentile £56.49 £20.14 £47.39
25th Percentile £63.75 £55.46 £52.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - -1.22% +27.77%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.90
90th Percentile £72.60 £79.45 £72.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.73 £45.00
% change year-on-year +7.04% +34.95% +80.00%

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 521 589 477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.27% 17.29% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 375 296
10th Percentile £290 £219 £215
25th Percentile £463 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% +13.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £575
90th Percentile £709 £720 £625
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +13.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 116 31
10th Percentile £12.50 - £41.00
25th Percentile £15.75 - £44.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -81.85% +31.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.41 £60.93
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.75 £69.05
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +128.57% -26.81% +3.48%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +12 13 £531 +6.25% 13
Dorset +8 7 £488 - 2
Gloucestershire +5 4 £600 +6.67% 2
Wiltshire -5 2 £675 +42.11% 8
Somerset -10 2 £319 -32.00% 3
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 (13.79%) Apache Solr
1 4 (13.79%) Confluence
1 4 (13.79%) nginx
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.45%) MQSeries
3 1 (3.45%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (6.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) GCP
2 2 (6.90%) AWS
2 2 (6.90%) Azure
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (51.72%) DNS
2 9 (31.03%) DHCP
3 6 (20.69%) Firewall
3 6 (20.69%) VPN
4 5 (17.24%) Ethernet
4 5 (17.24%) HTTPS
4 5 (17.24%) IPsec
4 5 (17.24%) WAN
5 4 (13.79%) Network Security
6 3 (10.34%) BGP
6 3 (10.34%) OSPF
6 3 (10.34%) SNMP
7 2 (6.90%) 5G
7 2 (6.90%) HTTP
7 2 (6.90%) LAN
7 2 (6.90%) Skype
7 2 (6.90%) SMTP
8 1 (3.45%) LTE
8 1 (3.45%) tcpdump
8 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Couchbase
1 4 (13.79%) MySQL
1 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.45%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Eclipse
1 5 (17.24%) Visual Studio
2 4 (13.79%) Bitbucket
2 4 (13.79%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) Artifactory
3 2 (6.90%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 17 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Military
3 5 (17.24%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) C# Software Engineer
1 5 (17.24%) C++ Software Engineer
1 5 (17.24%) Senior
1 5 (17.24%) Software Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Integration Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Network Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Senior Test Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Test Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Principal Security Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Security Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Node.js
1 5 (17.24%) Web Services
2 4 (13.79%) JSON
2 4 (13.79%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (13.79%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (13.79%) YAML
3 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.45%) Django
3 1 (3.45%) Flask
3 1 (3.45%) LDAP
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) SPML
3 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
1 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) PKI
3 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (58.62%) Linux
2 14 (48.28%) Windows
3 4 (13.79%) CentOS
3 4 (13.79%) Unix
3 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.90%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.45%) Mac OS X
5 1 (3.45%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Agile
2 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
3 7 (24.14%) ITIL
3 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (24.14%) Visualisation
4 6 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (17.24%) Configuration Management
5 5 (17.24%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (17.24%) Digital Twin
5 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
5 5 (17.24%) Synthetic Environment
5 5 (17.24%) TDD
5 5 (17.24%) Unit Testing
5 5 (17.24%) Validation
5 5 (17.24%) Verification and Validation
6 4 (13.79%) Information Security
6 4 (13.79%) Migration
6 4 (13.79%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (13.79%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) C#
2 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
3 5 (17.24%) C++
3 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.24%) Python
4 4 (13.79%) Bash
4 4 (13.79%) C
4 4 (13.79%) PHP
5 2 (6.90%) Java
5 2 (6.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 7 (24.14%) DV Cleared
3 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
4 4 (13.79%) Degree
5 2 (6.90%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (3.45%) CEH
6 1 (3.45%) CREST Certified
6 1 (3.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) NIST
2 4 (13.79%) GDPR
2 4 (13.79%) HIPAA
2 4 (13.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (13.79%) QA
3 2 (6.90%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (20.69%) VMware NSX
2 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (13.79%) vSphere
4 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
4 3 (10.34%) Docker
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (6.90%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (3.45%) Samba
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Ansible
1 8 (27.59%) Terraform
2 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.79%) SCCM
4 3 (10.34%) FortiGate
5 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (6.90%) OPNET
5 2 (6.90%) SCOM
5 2 (6.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Atlassian
3 5 (17.24%) Google
3 5 (17.24%) VMware
4 3 (10.34%) Cisco
4 3 (10.34%) F5
4 3 (10.34%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.90%) Remedy
5 2 (6.90%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.90%) Sparx
5 2 (6.90%) Veeam
6 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.45%) Nokia
6 1 (3.45%) Red Hat