TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 18 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 2 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 3.17% 0.81% 3.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.33% 6.25% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £225 - £407
25th Percentile £263 £388 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £425 £481
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -11.69% -
75th Percentile £388 £463 £539
90th Percentile £425 - £561
West Midlands median daily rate £386 £425 £362
% change year-on-year -9.19% +17.57% +27.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £23.63
25th Percentile - - £25.31
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £27.25
% change year-on-year - - +9.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 15 16 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 23.81% 12.90% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 16
10th Percentile £245 £377 £263
25th Percentile £313 £394 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +2.86% +34.62%
75th Percentile £375 £516 £547
90th Percentile £420 £618 £575
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 9
10th Percentile £27.50 - £22.90
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.90%
75th Percentile £32.63 - £28.75
90th Percentile £39.23 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +34.97%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TCP/IP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing TCP/IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Staffordshire

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing TCP/IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
Stoke-on-Trent +6 1 £200 -52.94% 4
Cannock - 1 £450 -
TCP/IP
West Midlands

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) CCSA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds