TCP/IP Contracts in the Thames Valley

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 109 116
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -15
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 37 35 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.38% 1.21% 1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.25% 7.56% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 26 29
10th Percentile £148 £442 £140
25th Percentile £506 £482 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £300
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +83.33% -33.33%
75th Percentile £550 £559 £500
90th Percentile - £600 £582
South East median daily rate £475 £481 £260
% change year-on-year -1.16% +84.83% -43.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £22.78 £29.20
25th Percentile £18.50 £29.19 £34.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £49.75 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.81% +9.34% +97.83%
75th Percentile £19.50 £66.00 £57.25
90th Percentile - - £63.40
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £62.55 £21.50
% change year-on-year -69.62% +190.93% +7.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 592 463 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 22.11% 16.00% 17.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 288 348
10th Percentile £205 £302 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% +5.46% +15.63%
75th Percentile £600 £571 £552
90th Percentile £650 £650 £638
South East median daily rate £493 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +1.03% +8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 15 18
10th Percentile £17.58 £19.70 £12.19
25th Percentile £23.63 £25.75 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +288.24% -47.29%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £23.75
90th Percentile £87.47 £81.22 £38.80
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £53.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% +148.84% -44.16%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the Thames Valley

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the Thames Valley

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the Thames Valley

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the Thames Valley

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 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
Buckinghamshire +29 23 £525 -4.55% 5
Berkshire -2 13 £150 -69.23% 14
Oxfordshire - 1 £180 - 6
TCP/IP
South East

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (16.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (10.81%) Azure
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.41%) AWS
3 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.41%) GitHub
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (43.24%) SAN
2 9 (24.32%) LAN
2 9 (24.32%) WAN
3 6 (16.22%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (13.51%) Firewall
5 3 (8.11%) VPN
6 2 (5.41%) DNS
7 1 (2.70%) BGP
7 1 (2.70%) DSL
7 1 (2.70%) EIGRP
7 1 (2.70%) Internet
7 1 (2.70%) IPsec
7 1 (2.70%) MPLS
7 1 (2.70%) Network Security
7 1 (2.70%) OSPF
7 1 (2.70%) TACACS
7 1 (2.70%) Unified Communications
7 1 (2.70%) VLAN
7 1 (2.70%) VoIP
7 1 (2.70%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (5.41%) MySQL
1 2 (5.41%) RDBMS
1 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
1 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (67.57%) Developer
2 23 (62.16%) Python Developer
3 6 (16.22%) Support Specialist
3 6 (16.22%) Technical Specialist
3 6 (16.22%) Technical Support
3 6 (16.22%) Technical Support Specialist
4 4 (10.81%) Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Backend Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Software Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Analyst Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Developer Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Linux Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Programmer
5 3 (8.11%) Python Programmer
5 3 (8.11%) Security Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Head of Information Security
6 2 (5.41%) Head of Operations
6 2 (5.41%) Head of Security
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) .NET
2 2 (5.41%) 802.1X
2 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET
2 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) IoT
2 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 19 (51.35%) Linux
2 16 (43.24%) Debian
2 16 (43.24%) Ubuntu
3 11 (29.73%) Windows
4 6 (16.22%) Windows 10
5 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) Customer Service
2 16 (43.24%) Data Modelling
3 15 (40.54%) Agile
3 15 (40.54%) ITIL
4 13 (35.14%) Configuration Management
4 13 (35.14%) Data Engineering
4 13 (35.14%) Prototyping
4 13 (35.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 10 (27.03%) Matrix Organization
6 6 (16.22%) Knowledge Management
6 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
7 3 (8.11%) Statistics
8 2 (5.41%) Change Control
8 2 (5.41%) Data Protection
8 2 (5.41%) Embedded Software Development
8 2 (5.41%) Information Security
8 2 (5.41%) Migration
8 2 (5.41%) Project Management
8 2 (5.41%) SIEM
8 2 (5.41%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (62.16%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) C
2 2 (5.41%) C#
2 2 (5.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (78.38%) Security Cleared
2 23 (62.16%) SC Cleared
3 16 (43.24%) DV Cleared
4 6 (16.22%) Degree
5 1 (2.70%) BC Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.70%) CCDP
5 1 (2.70%) CCIP
5 1 (2.70%) CCNA
5 1 (2.70%) CCNP
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) SLA
2 3 (8.11%) QA
3 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.41%) XenApp
4 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) SCCM
2 2 (5.41%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (5.41%) Grafana
2 2 (5.41%) Graylog
2 2 (5.41%) Nagios
2 2 (5.41%) Nessus
2 2 (5.41%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (70.27%) VMware
2 25 (67.57%) Microsoft
3 16 (43.24%) Red Hat
4 6 (16.22%) HP
4 6 (16.22%) ServiceNow
5 4 (10.81%) Splunk
6 3 (8.11%) Cisco
7 2 (5.41%) Atmel
7 2 (5.41%) CheckPoint
7 2 (5.41%) Citrix
7 2 (5.41%) Remedy
8 1 (2.70%) ADVA
8 1 (2.70%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 1 (2.70%) Juniper