TCP/IP Contracts in the South East

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 131 163
Rank change year-on-year -2 +32 -57
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 66 93 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.19% 1.59% 1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.25% 9.40% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 62 66
10th Percentile £173 £301 £148
25th Percentile £263 £376 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £261
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +83.95% -41.94%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £397
90th Percentile £550 £695 £584
England median daily rate £475 £505 £463
% change year-on-year -5.94% +9.19% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 11
10th Percentile - £20.68 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £32.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £62.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.62% +190.93% +7.50%
75th Percentile £19.50 £62.96 £24.38
90th Percentile - £66.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £62.55 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.87% +127.45% -14.73%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,257 989 1,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.65% 16.95% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 595 777
10th Percentile £205 £235 £189
25th Percentile £363 £366 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £656
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 75 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.25 £15.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £16.81
Median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% +144.19% -34.85%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.50 £46.40
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Thames Valley +14 37 £525 -4.55% 29
Buckinghamshire +28 23 £525 -4.55% 7
Surrey +9 20 £350 +12.90% 10
Berkshire -5 13 £150 -69.07% 16
West Sussex +5 5 £450 +5.88% 2
Hampshire -27 3 £275 -53.19% 11
Oxfordshire - 1 £180 - 6
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (9.09%) Confluence
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (15.15%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.67%) Azure
1 11 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (10.61%) AWS
3 4 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.03%) GitHub
5 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.52%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 21 (31.82%) SAN
2 18 (27.27%) Firewall
3 17 (25.76%) DNS
4 15 (22.73%) DHCP
5 13 (19.70%) VPN
6 11 (16.67%) VLAN
7 10 (15.15%) LAN
7 10 (15.15%) WAN
8 7 (10.61%) VoIP
8 7 (10.61%) Wireless
9 6 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (7.58%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (7.58%) iSCSI
11 4 (6.06%) NAS
11 4 (6.06%) SSL
12 3 (4.55%) Network Security
13 2 (3.03%) 4G
13 2 (3.03%) Cisco ISE
13 2 (3.03%) DMZ
13 2 (3.03%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (3.03%) MySQL
1 2 (3.03%) RDBMS
1 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
1 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) JIRA
2 4 (6.06%) Artifactory
2 4 (6.06%) Bitbucket
2 4 (6.06%) Git
2 4 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.03%) TestRail
General
1 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.55%) Front Office
3 2 (3.03%) Automotive
3 2 (3.03%) Finance
3 2 (3.03%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (37.88%) Developer
2 23 (34.85%) Python Developer
3 11 (16.67%) Support Specialist
4 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (12.12%) IT Support
5 6 (9.09%) Technical Specialist
5 6 (9.09%) Technical Support
5 6 (9.09%) Technical Support Specialist
6 5 (7.58%) Analyst
6 5 (7.58%) IT Support Specialist
6 5 (7.58%) Network Specialist
6 5 (7.58%) Network Support
6 5 (7.58%) Network Support Specialist
6 5 (7.58%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Backend Developer
7 4 (6.06%) Development Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Senior
7 4 (6.06%) Software Developer
7 4 (6.06%) Software Development Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.09%) .NET
2 4 (6.06%) RESTful
2 4 (6.06%) SOAP
2 4 (6.06%) XML
3 2 (3.03%) 802.1X
3 2 (3.03%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.55%) IoT
2 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.52%) CMDB
3 1 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 33 (50.00%) Linux
2 23 (34.85%) Windows
3 19 (28.79%) Ubuntu
4 16 (24.24%) Debian
5 9 (13.64%) Unix
6 7 (10.61%) Windows 10
7 4 (6.06%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (4.55%) Windows Server
9 2 (3.03%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.52%) Android
10 1 (1.52%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.82%) Agile
2 19 (28.79%) Customer Service
3 18 (27.27%) ITIL
4 16 (24.24%) Data Modelling
5 13 (19.70%) Configuration Management
5 13 (19.70%) Data Engineering
5 13 (19.70%) Prototyping
5 13 (19.70%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 10 (15.15%) Matrix Organization
6 10 (15.15%) Software Engineering
7 9 (13.64%) Computer Science
8 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (9.09%) Knowledge Management
9 6 (9.09%) Scrum
9 6 (9.09%) Test Automation
10 5 (7.58%) Business Case
10 5 (7.58%) Change Management
10 5 (7.58%) Problem Management
10 5 (7.58%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (42.42%) Python
2 8 (12.12%) SQL
3 6 (9.09%) C++
4 5 (7.58%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.06%) C#
6 3 (4.55%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.03%) C
7 2 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 24 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 22 (33.33%) Degree
4 17 (25.76%) DV Cleared
5 10 (15.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (10.61%) CCNA
6 7 (10.61%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (7.58%) MCSE
8 4 (6.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (4.55%) CCNP
9 3 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (3.03%) AWS Certification
10 2 (3.03%) Azure Certification
10 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (3.03%) HNC
10 2 (3.03%) ISTQB
10 2 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (3.03%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.52%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.18%) SLA
2 5 (7.58%) QA
3 3 (4.55%) ISO 9001
3 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (3.03%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.52%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (25.76%) Active Directory
2 13 (19.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (12.12%) vSphere
4 7 (10.61%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (6.06%) Firmware
5 4 (6.06%) Hyper-V
5 4 (6.06%) VirtualBox
6 2 (3.03%) XenApp
7 1 (1.52%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) SCCM
2 4 (6.06%) WSUS
3 3 (4.55%) Nessus
4 2 (3.03%) Ansible
4 2 (3.03%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (3.03%) Grafana
4 2 (3.03%) Graylog
4 2 (3.03%) Nagios
4 2 (3.03%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (3.03%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.03%) Terraform
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (57.58%) Microsoft
2 35 (53.03%) VMware
3 16 (24.24%) Red Hat
4 7 (10.61%) ServiceNow
5 6 (9.09%) HP
6 5 (7.58%) Cisco
7 4 (6.06%) CheckPoint
7 4 (6.06%) Oracle
7 4 (6.06%) Splunk
8 3 (4.55%) Citrix
9 2 (3.03%) Atmel
9 2 (3.03%) Dell
9 2 (3.03%) F5
9 2 (3.03%) Meraki
9 2 (3.03%) Palo Alto
9 2 (3.03%) Qualys
9 2 (3.03%) Remedy
9 2 (3.03%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.52%) Netskope
10 1 (1.52%) Zscaler