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

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 104 102
Rank change year-on-year -23 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 25 72 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.78% 1.96% 1.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.69% 11.01% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 38
10th Percentile - £179 £187
25th Percentile £469 £391 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £388
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% +25.81% +24.00%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £478
90th Percentile £713 £620 £512
England median daily rate £475 £520 £463
% change year-on-year -8.65% +12.43% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 26 5
10th Percentile £56.49 £36.15 £45.70
25th Percentile £58.31 £57.37 £50.77
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -0.46% +27.77%
75th Percentile £69.69 £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile £74.63 £83.00 £73.82
England median hourly rate £56.49 £62.55 £27.50
% change year-on-year -9.69% +127.45% -14.73%

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 533 654 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.72% 17.84% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 425 300
10th Percentile £275 £206 £224
25th Percentile £460 £400 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £540
90th Percentile £713 £717 £619
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 128 34
10th Percentile £12.50 - £41.13
25th Percentile £15.75 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +9.91%
75th Percentile £70.66 £62.13 £66.46
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.58 £69.05
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 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 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 25 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 25 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 +5 8 £488 -2.50% 10
Dorset +5 7 £488 -
Gloucestershire +12 4 £600 - 3
Somerset -5 3 £488 +4.00% 4
Wiltshire -15 2 £675 +42.11% 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 (16.00%) Apache Solr
1 4 (16.00%) Confluence
1 4 (16.00%) nginx
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (8.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) GCP
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 14 (56.00%) DNS
2 9 (36.00%) DHCP
3 7 (28.00%) Firewall
4 6 (24.00%) VPN
4 6 (24.00%) WAN
5 5 (20.00%) HTTPS
5 5 (20.00%) IPsec
5 5 (20.00%) Network Security
6 4 (16.00%) BGP
6 4 (16.00%) OSPF
6 4 (16.00%) SNMP
7 2 (8.00%) Ethernet
7 2 (8.00%) HTTP
7 2 (8.00%) LAN
7 2 (8.00%) Skype
7 2 (8.00%) SMTP
8 1 (4.00%) 4G
8 1 (4.00%) 5G
8 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (4.00%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Couchbase
1 4 (16.00%) MySQL
1 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (8.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (8.00%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Military
3 4 (16.00%) Legal
4 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 5 (20.00%) Senior
2 4 (16.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Integration Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Service Desk Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) JSON
1 4 (16.00%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (16.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (16.00%) YAML
2 2 (8.00%) Node.js
2 2 (8.00%) Web Services
3 1 (4.00%) LDAP
3 1 (4.00%) SPML
3 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) PKI
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Linux
2 11 (44.00%) Windows
3 4 (16.00%) CentOS
3 4 (16.00%) Unix
3 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.00%) Mac OS X
5 1 (4.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Agile
1 8 (32.00%) ITIL
2 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (16.00%) Cost Reduction
4 4 (16.00%) DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) Information Security
4 4 (16.00%) Microservices
4 4 (16.00%) Migration
4 4 (16.00%) Network Management
4 4 (16.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (16.00%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (16.00%) SDLC
4 4 (16.00%) Software Delivery
4 4 (16.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (12.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.00%) Bash
2 4 (16.00%) C
2 4 (16.00%) C#
2 4 (16.00%) PHP
2 4 (16.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) C++
3 2 (8.00%) Java
3 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) DV Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) Degree
4 2 (8.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CEH
5 1 (4.00%) CREST Certified
5 1 (4.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) NIST
2 4 (16.00%) GDPR
2 4 (16.00%) HIPAA
2 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (16.00%) QA
3 2 (8.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (24.00%) VMware NSX
2 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.00%) vSphere
4 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (8.00%) Docker
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (8.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (8.00%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (4.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Ansible
1 8 (32.00%) Terraform
2 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (16.00%) FortiGate
3 4 (16.00%) SCCM
4 2 (8.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (8.00%) OPNET
4 2 (8.00%) SCOM
4 2 (8.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Atlassian
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) VMware
3 4 (16.00%) Cisco
3 4 (16.00%) F5
3 4 (16.00%) Fortinet
3 4 (16.00%) Google
4 2 (8.00%) Remedy
4 2 (8.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.00%) Sparx
4 2 (8.00%) Veeam
5 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.00%) Nokia
5 1 (4.00%) Red Hat