TCP/IP Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring TCP/IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TCP/IP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.05% - 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.86% - 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £169 - -
25th Percentile £197 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - £550
75th Percentile £441 - -
90th Percentile £626 - -
North East median daily rate £250 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 28 39 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.48% 16.05% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 26
10th Percentile £203 £208 £134
25th Percentile £313 £363 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £431 £284
Median % change year-on-year +10.21% +51.89% -45.95%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £550
90th Percentile £680 £641 £688
North East median daily rate £340 £425 £284
% change year-on-year -20.00% +49.78% -36.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
North East median hourly rate - £47.50 -

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in Tyne and Wear

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in Tyne and Wear

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Tyne and Wear

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in Tyne and Wear

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 4 £225 - 6
Sunderland - 1 £325 - 1
TCP/IP
North East

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 2 (40.00%) nginx
1 2 (40.00%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) cloud-init
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
1 2 (40.00%) CentOS
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 2 (40.00%) Observability
1 2 (40.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (40.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) People Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Go
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (20.00%) MCP
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Consul
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) HAProxy
1 2 (40.00%) Istio
1 2 (40.00%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) linkerd
1 2 (40.00%) Packer
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Rancher
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
1 2 (40.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Apple
2 2 (40.00%) ESET
2 2 (40.00%) Okta
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) VMware