TCP/IP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 176 171
Rank change year-on-year -24 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 207 335 445
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.01% 1.43% 1.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.22% 9.48% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 200 278
10th Percentile £184 £185 £157
25th Percentile £350 £313 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £558 £500
90th Percentile £625 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £463
% change year-on-year +2.56% +5.41% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 38 25
10th Percentile £37.50 £20.20 £20.00
25th Percentile £61.94 £51.92 £20.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +195.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile - £73.38 £52.50
90th Percentile £68.13 £77.50 £67.98
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.55 £28.50
% change year-on-year +3.92% +119.47% -30.91%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,326 3,532 4,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.24% 15.03% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,900 2,223 2,634
10th Percentile £202 £206 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £517 £500
% change year-on-year -4.16% +3.30% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 320 237
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.63
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.47 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.85% -14.12% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £59.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% -

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East -4 62 £450 -1.20% 56
Midlands +49 44 £500 +42.86% 63
North of England -18 31 £500 +11.11% 69
South West -19 28 £600 +23.08% 32
East Midlands +42 24 £488 +26.62% 32
West Midlands +16 20 £525 +62.79% 31
North West -8 20 £450 - 46
East of England -17 19 £375 -11.76% 31
Scotland +47 13 £600 +36.52% 13
Yorkshire +10 11 £624 +51.15% 21
Wales +1 5 £645 +17.18% 8
Northern Ireland -5 5 - - 5
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (9.66%) Confluence
2 15 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (5.80%) SharePoint
4 9 (4.35%) IIS
5 6 (2.90%) Apache
5 6 (2.90%) nginx
5 6 (2.90%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.93%) Apache Solr
7 3 (1.45%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.97%) Traefik
9 1 (0.48%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.48%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.90%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 38 (18.36%) Azure
2 31 (14.98%) AWS
2 31 (14.98%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (10.63%) GCP
4 10 (4.83%) GitHub
5 9 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (3.86%) Kong
7 7 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.90%) Apigee
9 5 (2.42%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.93%) IaaS
11 3 (1.45%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (1.45%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.97%) PaaS
12 2 (0.97%) SaaS
13 1 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.48%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 87 (42.03%) DNS
2 58 (28.02%) Firewall
3 52 (25.12%) VPN
4 46 (22.22%) DHCP
5 28 (13.53%) VLAN
6 25 (12.08%) HTTP
6 25 (12.08%) SAN
7 19 (9.18%) WAN
8 18 (8.70%) LAN
9 17 (8.21%) Ethernet
9 17 (8.21%) OSPF
10 16 (7.73%) BGP
11 12 (5.80%) Network Security
12 10 (4.83%) SSL
13 9 (4.35%) MPLS
13 9 (4.35%) VoIP
13 9 (4.35%) Wireless
13 9 (4.35%) Wireshark
14 8 (3.86%) Remote Desktop
15 7 (3.38%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.31%) MySQL
2 8 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.90%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.93%) Couchbase
4 4 (1.93%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.93%) RDBMS
4 4 (1.93%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.48%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (13.53%) JIRA
2 17 (8.21%) Git
2 17 (8.21%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.31%) Eclipse
3 11 (5.31%) Visual Studio
4 10 (4.83%) GitLab
5 8 (3.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (3.86%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.86%) CircleCI
5 8 (3.86%) Travis CI
6 6 (2.90%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.45%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.45%) TestRail
8 2 (0.97%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.48%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 63 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (7.25%) Military
3 15 (7.25%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.28%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (5.80%) Finance
5 12 (5.80%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.83%) Legal
7 8 (3.86%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.93%) Banking
9 3 (1.45%) Automotive
9 3 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.45%) Electronics
9 3 (1.45%) Front Office
9 3 (1.45%) Marketing
9 3 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.97%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.48%) Law
11 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (16.43%) Developer
2 27 (13.04%) Python Developer
3 24 (11.59%) Network Engineer
4 23 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (10.14%) Support Engineer
6 15 (7.25%) 2nd Line Support
6 15 (7.25%) Software Engineer
6 15 (7.25%) Technical Support
7 12 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (5.80%) IT Support
7 12 (5.80%) Support Specialist
8 11 (5.31%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 11 (5.31%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 11 (5.31%) Analyst
8 11 (5.31%) C# Software Engineer
8 11 (5.31%) C++ Software Engineer
8 11 (5.31%) Senior
9 9 (4.35%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 9 (4.35%) Administrator
9 9 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.70%) XML
2 13 (6.28%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (6.28%) Web Services
3 12 (5.80%) JSON
3 12 (5.80%) YAML
4 11 (5.31%) Node.js
5 9 (4.35%) .NET
6 6 (2.90%) REST
7 5 (2.42%) CSS
7 5 (2.42%) SOAP
8 4 (1.93%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.93%) RESTful
9 3 (1.45%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.45%) SAML
10 2 (0.97%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.97%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.97%) cloud-init
10 2 (0.97%) LDAP
10 2 (0.97%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.83%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.86%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.38%) iPad
5 6 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.42%) IVR
6 5 (2.42%) PKI
7 4 (1.93%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.93%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.45%) IoT
9 2 (0.97%) Clustering
9 2 (0.97%) CMDB
9 2 (0.97%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.48%) Replication
10 1 (0.48%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.48%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 92 (44.44%) Windows
2 86 (41.55%) Linux
3 26 (12.56%) Windows 10
4 24 (11.59%) Unix
4 24 (11.59%) Windows Server
5 22 (10.63%) Ubuntu
6 18 (8.70%) Debian
7 14 (6.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (2.90%) CentOS
10 4 (1.93%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.45%) VMS
11 3 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.48%) Android
13 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.48%) Solaris
13 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (28.02%) Agile
2 33 (15.94%) Customer Service
3 30 (14.49%) ITIL
4 28 (13.53%) CI/CD
4 28 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (12.08%) Configuration Management
5 25 (12.08%) Continuous Integration
5 25 (12.08%) DevOps
5 25 (12.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (12.08%) Software Engineering
6 24 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (9.66%) Project Management
8 19 (9.18%) Change Management
8 19 (9.18%) Visualisation
9 18 (8.70%) Data Modelling
10 17 (8.21%) Migration
10 17 (8.21%) Scrum
11 16 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (7.73%) Data Engineering
11 16 (7.73%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 53 (25.60%) Python
2 29 (14.01%) PowerShell
3 25 (12.08%) C#
4 19 (9.18%) C++
5 18 (8.70%) Bash
5 18 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 17 (8.21%) SQL
7 14 (6.76%) Java
8 6 (2.90%) C
9 4 (1.93%) Perl
9 4 (1.93%) PHP
10 3 (1.45%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.45%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.97%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.97%) Go
11 2 (0.97%) Ruby
12 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 57 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 38 (18.36%) Degree
3 37 (17.87%) SC Cleared
4 34 (16.43%) DV Cleared
5 21 (10.14%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (7.73%) CCNA
6 16 (7.73%) CCNP
7 13 (6.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (4.35%) MCSE
9 6 (2.90%) CCIE
9 6 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.93%) VCAP
10 4 (1.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.45%) HNC
11 3 (1.45%) ISTQB
11 3 (1.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.45%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.97%) MCSD
12 2 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.08%) QA
2 16 (7.73%) SLA
3 15 (7.25%) NIST
4 7 (3.38%) HIPAA
5 6 (2.90%) GDPR
6 5 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.42%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.45%) ISO 9001
7 3 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.97%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 37 (17.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (7.25%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (6.76%) VMware NSX
5 13 (6.28%) Docker
6 12 (5.80%) vSphere
7 10 (4.83%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (2.42%) Firmware
10 4 (1.93%) Hyper-V
10 4 (1.93%) VirtualBox
11 3 (1.45%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.97%) XenApp
13 1 (0.48%) Lustre
13 1 (0.48%) NFS
13 1 (0.48%) Samba
13 1 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.48%) Snort
Systems Management
1 28 (13.53%) Ansible
2 27 (13.04%) Terraform
3 26 (12.56%) SCCM
4 18 (8.70%) Kubernetes
5 15 (7.25%) Grafana
5 15 (7.25%) Prometheus
6 11 (5.31%) Puppet
7 10 (4.83%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (4.35%) Kibana
8 9 (4.35%) Progress Chef
9 8 (3.86%) logstash
9 8 (3.86%) Nagios
10 7 (3.38%) vCenter Server
11 6 (2.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (2.42%) FortiGate
12 5 (2.42%) Graylog
12 5 (2.42%) SCOM
12 5 (2.42%) WSUS
13 4 (1.93%) Autotask
14 3 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (43.00%) Microsoft
2 64 (30.92%) VMware
3 26 (12.56%) Cisco
4 24 (11.59%) Red Hat
5 19 (9.18%) Splunk
6 16 (7.73%) F5
7 11 (5.31%) SolarWinds
8 9 (4.35%) Palo Alto
8 9 (4.35%) Veeam
9 8 (3.86%) Google
9 8 (3.86%) Remedy
10 7 (3.38%) Fortinet
10 7 (3.38%) ServiceNow
11 6 (2.90%) Atlassian
11 6 (2.90%) Avaya
11 6 (2.90%) CheckPoint
11 6 (2.90%) HP
12 5 (2.42%) Oracle
12 5 (2.42%) Verint
13 4 (1.93%) SAP