TCP/IP Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) UK
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	157	128	131
Rank change year-on-year	-29	+3
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP	742	1031	950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.57%	1.91%	1.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	11.51%	11.83%	11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted	512	626	572
Median daily rate	£425	£375	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+13.33%	+7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£158	£200	£185
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£538	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£340	£340
% change year-on-year	+17.64%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	57	52	85
Median hourly rate	£24.86	£22.00	£18.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+13.00%	+22.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.50	£10.00	£9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£55.26	£45.00	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£25.50	£36.00	£18.00
% change year-on-year	-29.16%	+100.00%

TCP/IP is in the communications and computer networking skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills.

Contract Communications & Computer Network Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills	6447	8714	7937
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	13.68%	16.14%	14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted	3816	5270	4473
Median daily rate	£400	£390	£355
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.56%	+9.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£211	£240	£213
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£365	£340
% change year-on-year	+2.73%	+7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted	395	433	468
Median hourly rate	£28.27	£28.50	£23.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-0.82%	+23.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.50	£13.00	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.83	£47.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£30.00	£31.50	£24.00
% change year-on-year	-4.76%	+31.25%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Communications & Networking category.

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing TCP/IP.

Contractor daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing TCP/IP over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP.

Contractor hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing TCP/IP over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Top 30 Contract Locations

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 over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-33	662	£425	+8.28%	300
London	-23	315	£450	+1.12%	122
South East	-37	123	£425	+13.33%	55
City of London	+2	70	£425	-10.52%	43
East of England	+29	59	£500	+42.85%	33
Hampshire	+3	40	£450	+40.62%	16
West Midlands	+17	35	£413	+26.92%	17
North West	+8	35	£350	-2.77%	33
Scotland	-8	33	£395	+15.07%	12
South West	-30	32	£390	+20.00%	16
Essex	+12	31	£500	+42.85%	1
Berkshire	-6	25	£453	+20.66%	13
Southend-on-Sea	-	25	£500	-
East Midlands	+3	24	£280	-30.00%	6
West Sussex	+21	21	£425	-	4
Hertfordshire	+11	21	£158	-55.00%	6
North East	+4	20	£344	+7.50%	4
Yorkshire	+18	19	£438	-6.91%	14
Manchester	+9	19	£325	-13.33%	18
Tyne and Wear	+12	18	£344	+7.50%	3
Newcastle upon Tyne	+11	18	£344	+7.50%	2
Surrey	-16	18	£353	-13.91%	9
Edinburgh	+28	17	£250	-29.57%	1
Northern Ireland	-30	16	£350	-	3
Leicestershire	+6	15	£255	-43.33%	1
Wales	-23	15	£310	-25.30%	1
South Wales	-22	14	£310	-22.50%	1
County Antrim	-	14	£350	-	3
Belfast	-	14	£350	-	3
Leicester	+10	13	£253	-	1

TCP/IP
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing TCP/IP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for TCP/IP.

1	669 (43.44%)	Linux
2	618 (40.13%)	Windows
3	466 (30.26%)	DNS
4	454 (29.48%)	Firewall
5	373 (24.22%)	Cisco
6	352 (22.86%)	HTTP
7	329 (21.36%)	Unix
8	325 (21.10%)	LAN
9	318 (20.65%)	Active Directory
10	317 (20.58%)	SSL
11	312 (20.26%)	Java
12	302 (19.61%)	Microsoft
13	300 (19.48%)	Python
14	296 (19.22%)	WAN
15	295 (19.16%)	VMware

16	293 (19.03%)	DevOps
17	286 (18.57%)	Configuration Management
18	273 (17.73%)	Puppet
19	270 (17.53%)	DHCP
20	264 (17.14%)	Security Cleared
21	252 (16.36%)	Agile Software Development
22	218 (14.16%)	Open Source
23	216 (14.03%)	SQL
24	215 (13.96%)	ITIL
25	213 (13.83%)	Perl
26	208 (13.51%)	Git (software)
26	208 (13.51%)	Windows Server
27	207 (13.44%)	VMware Infrastructure
28	205 (13.31%)	Continuous Integration
28	205 (13.31%)	VPN

TCP/IP
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	175 (11.36%)	Apache
2	120 (7.79%)	JBoss
2	120 (7.79%)	Tomcat
3	97 (6.30%)	IIS
4	95 (6.17%)	MS Exchange
5	64 (4.16%)	nginx
6	55 (3.57%)	WebLogic
7	46 (2.99%)	OpenStack
8	42 (2.73%)	WebSphere
9	41 (2.66%)	SharePoint
10	34 (2.21%)	Oracle SOA Suite
11	27 (1.75%)	Oracle Application Server
12	23 (1.49%)	Jetty
12	23 (1.49%)	Mongrel
13	22 (1.43%)	iPlanet
14	21 (1.36%)	Exchange Server 2010
15	18 (1.17%)	Elasticsearch
15	18 (1.17%)	Exchange Server 2013
16	17 (1.10%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
17	14 (0.91%)	Confluence

Applications
1	153 (9.94%)	Microsoft Office
2	25 (1.62%)	Microsoft Excel
3	19 (1.23%)	MS Visio
4	10 (0.65%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	4 (0.26%)	Acrobat
5	4 (0.26%)	Final Cut Pro
5	4 (0.26%)	Microsoft Project
6	3 (0.19%)	Adobe Creative Suite
7	2 (0.13%)	AutoCAD
7	2 (0.13%)	Avid Audio
7	2 (0.13%)	Avid Media Composer
7	2 (0.13%)	Simulink

Business Applications
1	12 (0.78%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	11 (0.71%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3	8 (0.52%)	Dynamics CRM
4	6 (0.39%)	Payment Gateway
5	5 (0.32%)	ION MarketView
5	5 (0.32%)	Remedy ITSM
6	4 (0.26%)	RMDS
7	2 (0.13%)	Eikon
8	1 (0.065%)	Dynamics NAV
8	1 (0.065%)	IBM Operational Decision Manager
8	1 (0.065%)	SAP Business One

Cloud Services
1	199 (12.92%)	Amazon AWS
2	75 (4.87%)	Microsoft Azure
3	59 (3.83%)	Office 365
4	40 (2.60%)	Amazon EC2
4	40 (2.60%)	IaaS
5	32 (2.08%)	GitHub
6	25 (1.62%)	SaaS
7	23 (1.49%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	22 (1.43%)	Google App Engine
8	22 (1.43%)	PaaS
9	20 (1.30%)	Cloud Computing
10	17 (1.10%)	Google Analytics
11	12 (0.78%)	Amazon S3
12	11 (0.71%)	Virtual Private Cloud
13	7 (0.45%)	AWS CloudFormation
13	7 (0.45%)	Yammer
14	6 (0.39%)	Azure Active Directory
14	6 (0.39%)	OneDrive
15	5 (0.32%)	G Suite
16	4 (0.26%)	Route 53

Communications & Networking
1	466 (30.26%)	DNS
2	454 (29.48%)	Firewall
3	352 (22.86%)	HTTP
4	325 (21.10%)	LAN
5	317 (20.58%)	SSL
6	296 (19.22%)	WAN
7	270 (17.53%)	DHCP
8	205 (13.31%)	VPN
9	183 (11.88%)	Wireless
10	140 (9.09%)	BGP
11	134 (8.70%)	MPLS
12	132 (8.57%)	Network Security
13	115 (7.47%)	OSPF
14	108 (7.01%)	Internet
15	98 (6.36%)	Ethernet
16	96 (6.23%)	VLAN
17	92 (5.97%)	VoIP
18	81 (5.26%)	Cisco ASA
19	72 (4.68%)	SAN
20	65 (4.22%)	IPsec

Database & Business Intelligence
1	136 (8.83%)	PostgreSQL
2	114 (7.40%)	MongoDB
2	114 (7.40%)	SQL Server
3	104 (6.75%)	Relational Database
4	100 (6.49%)	MySQL
5	34 (2.21%)	NoSQL
5	34 (2.21%)	Redis
6	28 (1.82%)	SQL Server 2012
7	22 (1.43%)	Oracle Database
7	22 (1.43%)	RDBMS
8	20 (1.30%)	Apache Cassandra
9	19 (1.23%)	Hadoop
10	18 (1.17%)	SQL Server 2008
11	17 (1.10%)	Amazon RDS
12	14 (0.91%)	Big Data
13	10 (0.65%)	SQL Server 2005
14	8 (0.52%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
15	7 (0.45%)	SQL Server Integration Services
16	6 (0.39%)	MariaDB
16	6 (0.39%)	SQL Server 2014

Development Applications
1	208 (13.51%)	Git (software)
2	190 (12.34%)	Jenkins
3	87 (5.65%)	Subversion
4	33 (2.14%)	Eclipse
5	32 (2.08%)	JIRA
5	32 (2.08%)	Maven
6	28 (1.82%)	Selenium
6	28 (1.82%)	Travis CI
7	25 (1.62%)	IntelliJ
8	24 (1.56%)	Ant
9	23 (1.49%)	Cucumber
10	20 (1.30%)	Visual Studio
11	18 (1.17%)	Artifactory
12	17 (1.10%)	Gatling
12	17 (1.10%)	Grunt
12	17 (1.10%)	gulp
12	17 (1.10%)	Karma Test Runner
12	17 (1.10%)	Sonatype Nexus
12	17 (1.10%)	Sublime Text
13	16 (1.04%)	JUnit

General
1	203 (13.18%)	Finance
2	85 (5.52%)	Telecoms
3	70 (4.55%)	Banking
4	33 (2.14%)	Manufacturing
5	27 (1.75%)	Retail
6	26 (1.69%)	Law
7	20 (1.30%)	Investment Banking
7	20 (1.30%)	Legal
7	20 (1.30%)	Marketing
8	16 (1.04%)	Electronics
9	15 (0.97%)	Front Office
10	13 (0.84%)	Back Office
10	13 (0.84%)	Billing
11	7 (0.45%)	Games
11	7 (0.45%)	Local Government
11	7 (0.45%)	Multimedia
11	7 (0.45%)	Retail Banking
12	6 (0.39%)	Advertising
12	6 (0.39%)	Automotive
12	6 (0.39%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	213 (13.83%)	Analyst
2	174 (11.30%)	Network Engineer
3	171 (11.10%)	DevOps Engineer
4	154 (10.00%)	Developer
5	113 (7.34%)	Support Engineer
6	77 (5.00%)	Support Analyst
7	73 (4.74%)	Linux Engineer
8	67 (4.35%)	Architect
9	63 (4.09%)	Consultant
10	62 (4.03%)	Infrastructure Engineer
11	57 (3.70%)	Desktop Support
12	56 (3.64%)	Administrator
13	53 (3.44%)	Systems Engineer
14	46 (2.99%)	Cisco Engineer
15	45 (2.92%)	Software Engineer
16	43 (2.79%)	2nd Line Support
16	43 (2.79%)	Windows Engineer
17	41 (2.66%)	Security Engineer
18	38 (2.47%)	Cisco Network Engineer
19	37 (2.40%)	Service Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	108 (7.01%)	Web Services
2	102 (6.62%)	J2EE
3	88 (5.71%)	.NET
4	81 (5.26%)	XML
5	76 (4.94%)	Middleware
6	73 (4.74%)	Node.js
7	68 (4.42%)	802.1X
8	62 (4.03%)	Elastic Stack
9	61 (3.96%)	HTML
10	58 (3.77%)	REST
11	56 (3.64%)	SOAP
12	55 (3.57%)	JSON
13	50 (3.25%)	CSS
14	41 (2.66%)	Servlets
15	37 (2.40%)	LAPP Stack
16	36 (2.34%)	RESTful
17	32 (2.08%)	Spring
18	30 (1.95%)	XSLT
19	29 (1.88%)	LAMP
20	26 (1.69%)	RabbitMQ

Miscellaneous
1	127 (8.25%)	Analytical Skills
2	114 (7.40%)	Data Centre
3	75 (4.87%)	Clustering
4	61 (3.96%)	Management Information System
5	57 (3.70%)	Linux Command Line
6	45 (2.92%)	Computer Science
7	35 (2.27%)	Video Conferencing
8	28 (1.82%)	PKI
9	27 (1.75%)	Blackberry
10	25 (1.62%)	Video on Demand
11	23 (1.49%)	Replication
12	20 (1.30%)	Client/Server
13	19 (1.23%)	PDA
14	18 (1.17%)	Enterprise Software
15	17 (1.10%)	Public Cloud
16	16 (1.04%)	Web 2.0
17	15 (0.97%)	Device Driver
17	15 (0.97%)	Fintech
17	15 (0.97%)	Smartphone
18	14 (0.91%)	Greenfield Project

Operating Systems
1	669 (43.44%)	Linux
2	618 (40.13%)	Windows
3	329 (21.36%)	Unix
4	208 (13.51%)	Windows Server
5	154 (10.00%)	Windows 7
6	152 (9.87%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	100 (6.49%)	Windows Server 2012
8	84 (5.45%)	Windows Server 2008
9	81 (5.26%)	CentOS
10	79 (5.13%)	Ubuntu
11	73 (4.74%)	Solaris
12	60 (3.90%)	Windows 10
13	47 (3.05%)	Windows Server 2003
14	46 (2.99%)	AIX
15	40 (2.60%)	Windows 8
16	38 (2.47%)	SUSE
17	35 (2.27%)	Windows XP
18	32 (2.08%)	Mac OS X
19	30 (1.95%)	Android
20	28 (1.82%)	HPUX

Processes & Methodologies
1	293 (19.03%)	DevOps
2	286 (18.57%)	Configuration Management
3	252 (16.36%)	Agile Software Development
4	218 (14.16%)	Open Source
5	215 (13.96%)	ITIL
6	205 (13.31%)	Continuous Integration
7	130 (8.44%)	Test Automation
8	126 (8.18%)	Software Engineering
9	118 (7.66%)	Migration
10	117 (7.60%)	Load Balancing
11	104 (6.75%)	High Availability
12	89 (5.78%)	Network Design
13	87 (5.65%)	Information Security
14	85 (5.52%)	Scrum
15	73 (4.74%)	Continuous Delivery
15	73 (4.74%)	Kanban
16	71 (4.61%)	Microservices
17	70 (4.55%)	Mentoring
18	69 (4.48%)	TDD
19	67 (4.35%)	SOA

Programming Languages
1	312 (20.26%)	Java
2	300 (19.48%)	Python
3	216 (14.03%)	SQL
4	213 (13.83%)	Perl
5	139 (9.03%)	Ruby
6	129 (8.38%)	Bash Shell
7	112 (7.27%)	PowerShell
8	110 (7.14%)	C
9	100 (6.49%)	JavaScript
10	88 (5.71%)	C#
11	77 (5.00%)	C++
12	57 (3.70%)	PHP
13	52 (3.38%)	Shell Script
14	40 (2.60%)	Korn
15	33 (2.14%)	Scala
16	29 (1.88%)	Go
17	28 (1.82%)	VBScript
18	24 (1.56%)	Groovy
19	20 (1.30%)	C-shell
20	17 (1.10%)	Haskell

Qualifications
1	264 (17.14%)	Security Cleared
2	191 (12.40%)	Cisco Certification
3	185 (12.01%)	SC Cleared
4	122 (7.92%)	CCNP
5	103 (6.69%)	CCNA
6	67 (4.35%)	Degree
7	64 (4.16%)	CISSP
8	58 (3.77%)	Microsoft Certification
9	50 (3.25%)	DV Cleared
10	43 (2.79%)	SANS
11	35 (2.27%)	CCIE
12	26 (1.69%)	MCDST
13	24 (1.56%)	GIAC
14	19 (1.23%)	JNCIA
14	19 (1.23%)	MCSE
15	17 (1.10%)	CREST Certified
16	15 (0.97%)	CEH
16	15 (0.97%)	GCIH
16	15 (0.97%)	ITIL Certification
16	15 (0.97%)	SSCP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	34 (2.21%)	SLA
2	25 (1.62%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	16 (1.04%)	QA
4	15 (0.97%)	PCI DSS
5	14 (0.91%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	10 (0.65%)	MiFID
7	8 (0.52%)	COBIT
8	5 (0.32%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
9	3 (0.19%)	ISO 9001
10	2 (0.13%)	GMP
10	2 (0.13%)	ISO 20022
10	2 (0.13%)	PMO
10	2 (0.13%)	RMADS
11	1 (0.065%)	Cyber Essentials
11	1 (0.065%)	Data Quality
11	1 (0.065%)	HL7
11	1 (0.065%)	ISO 26262
11	1 (0.065%)	ISO/IEC 20000
11	1 (0.065%)	MISRA
11	1 (0.065%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	318 (20.65%)	Active Directory
2	207 (13.44%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	125 (8.12%)	Docker
4	79 (5.13%)	Hyper-V
5	40 (2.60%)	Xen
6	34 (2.21%)	vSphere
7	33 (2.14%)	KVM
8	29 (1.88%)	XenApp
9	24 (1.56%)	Veritas Volume Manager
10	19 (1.23%)	Virtual Machines
10	19 (1.23%)	VMware ESXi
11	18 (1.17%)	NFS
12	15 (0.97%)	Samba
13	14 (0.91%)	vCloud
14	11 (0.71%)	Snort
15	10 (0.65%)	Firmware
15	10 (0.65%)	Virtual Desktop
15	10 (0.65%)	Virtual Servers
16	9 (0.58%)	Microsoft App-V
17	8 (0.52%)	VMware Workstation

Systems Management
1	273 (17.73%)	Puppet
2	191 (12.40%)	Ansible
3	160 (10.39%)	Opscode Chef
4	82 (5.32%)	SCCM
5	70 (4.55%)	Nagios
6	58 (3.77%)	Kibana
7	55 (3.57%)	Salt
8	48 (3.12%)	logstash
9	40 (2.60%)	Grafana
10	39 (2.53%)	Kubernetes
11	29 (1.88%)	NetBackup
12	28 (1.82%)	Terraform
13	27 (1.75%)	FortiGate
14	25 (1.62%)	Cisco Prime
15	17 (1.10%)	McAfee ePO
15	17 (1.10%)	QRadar
15	17 (1.10%)	SCOM
16	16 (1.04%)	Backup Exec
16	16 (1.04%)	Norton AntiVirus
17	15 (0.97%)	SELinux

Vendors
1	373 (24.22%)	Cisco
2	302 (19.61%)	Microsoft
3	295 (19.16%)	VMware
4	184 (11.95%)	Oracle
5	127 (8.25%)	Red Hat
6	125 (8.12%)	Juniper
7	121 (7.86%)	Citrix
8	111 (7.21%)	HP
9	95 (6.17%)	F5
10	87 (5.65%)	CheckPoint
11	71 (4.61%)	IBM
12	56 (3.64%)	Apple
12	56 (3.64%)	Google
13	51 (3.31%)	SolarWinds
14	50 (3.25%)	Palo Alto
15	44 (2.86%)	Splunk
16	39 (2.53%)	Dell
17	36 (2.34%)	EMC
18	35 (2.27%)	McAfee
18	35 (2.27%)	Veritas