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 28 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 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	154	128	135
Rank change year-on-year	-26	+7
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP	739	1033	950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.57%	1.92%	1.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	11.46%	11.84%	11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted	517	640	601
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	£156	£202	£180
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£592	£550	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£343	£340
% change year-on-year	+16.53%	+0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted	56	52	86
Median hourly rate	£24.61	£23.00	£18.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+7.00%	+27.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.63	£10.00	£8.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£55.33	£45.00	£47.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£24.00	£36.00	£18.00
% change year-on-year	-33.33%	+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	6449	8728	7938
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	13.69%	16.21%	14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted	10114	13811	12506
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	£206	£230	£206
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£563	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£365	£340
% change year-on-year	+2.73%	+7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1013	1078	1091
Median hourly rate	£29.00	£28.50	£23.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+1.75%	+23.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£12.50	£12.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£48.00	£48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£27.50	£31.50	£23.50
% change year-on-year	-12.69%	+34.04%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

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 28 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 28 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Top 11 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 28 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	-31	658	£425	+8.62%	289
UK excluding London	-41	411	£400	+16.53%	193
London	-17	312	£450	+2.50%	111
South East	-23	123	£425	+13.33%	53
North of England	-37	72	£369	+13.46%	50
Midlands	+25	62	£450	+32.84%	26
East of England	+30	59	£500	+42.85%	31
Scotland	-7	34	£390	+13.86%	9
South West	-34	33	£395	+21.53%	18
Northern Ireland	-33	16	£350	-	4
Wales	-21	15	£310	-23.92%	2

TCP/IP
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 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	668 (43.55%)	Linux
2	616 (40.16%)	Windows
3	468 (30.51%)	DNS
4	457 (29.79%)	Firewall
5	371 (24.19%)	Cisco
6	352 (22.95%)	HTTP
7	328 (21.38%)	Unix
8	322 (20.99%)	LAN
9	317 (20.66%)	SSL
9	317 (20.66%)	Active Directory
10	310 (20.21%)	Java
11	300 (19.56%)	Python
11	300 (19.56%)	Microsoft
12	296 (19.30%)	VMware
13	293 (19.10%)	WAN

14	292 (19.04%)	DevOps
15	288 (18.77%)	Configuration Management
16	273 (17.80%)	Puppet
17	271 (17.67%)	DHCP
18	265 (17.28%)	Security Cleared
19	252 (16.43%)	Agile Software Development
20	219 (14.28%)	Open Source
21	216 (14.08%)	SQL
22	213 (13.89%)	ITIL
23	212 (13.82%)	Perl
24	209 (13.62%)	VMware Infrastructure
24	209 (13.62%)	Windows Server
25	208 (13.56%)	Git (software)
26	206 (13.43%)	VPN
27	205 (13.36%)	Continuous Integration

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	176 (11.47%)	Apache
2	122 (7.95%)	JBoss
3	121 (7.89%)	Tomcat
4	97 (6.32%)	IIS
5	96 (6.26%)	MS Exchange
6	65 (4.24%)	nginx
7	56 (3.65%)	WebLogic
8	45 (2.93%)	OpenStack
9	42 (2.74%)	WebSphere
10	41 (2.67%)	SharePoint
11	33 (2.15%)	Oracle SOA Suite
12	28 (1.83%)	Oracle Application Server
13	23 (1.50%)	iPlanet
13	23 (1.50%)	Jetty
13	23 (1.50%)	Mongrel
14	22 (1.43%)	Exchange Server 2010
15	18 (1.17%)	Elasticsearch
15	18 (1.17%)	Exchange Server 2013
16	17 (1.11%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
17	15 (0.98%)	Confluence

Applications
1	152 (9.91%)	Microsoft Office
2	24 (1.56%)	Microsoft Excel
3	18 (1.17%)	MS Visio
4	9 (0.59%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	4 (0.26%)	Acrobat
5	4 (0.26%)	Final Cut Pro
5	4 (0.26%)	Microsoft Project
6	3 (0.20%)	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 (0.72%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3	8 (0.52%)	Dynamics CRM
4	6 (0.39%)	Payment Gateway
5	5 (0.33%)	ION MarketView
5	5 (0.33%)	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	202 (13.17%)	Amazon AWS
2	77 (5.02%)	Microsoft Azure
3	59 (3.85%)	Office 365
4	41 (2.67%)	Amazon EC2
5	40 (2.61%)	IaaS
6	33 (2.15%)	GitHub
7	26 (1.69%)	SaaS
8	23 (1.50%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	22 (1.43%)	Google App Engine
9	22 (1.43%)	PaaS
10	20 (1.30%)	Cloud Computing
11	17 (1.11%)	Google Analytics
12	13 (0.85%)	Amazon S3
13	12 (0.78%)	Virtual Private Cloud
14	8 (0.52%)	AWS CloudFormation
15	7 (0.46%)	Yammer
16	6 (0.39%)	Azure Active Directory
16	6 (0.39%)	OneDrive
17	5 (0.33%)	G Suite
17	5 (0.33%)	Route 53

Communications & Networking
1	468 (30.51%)	DNS
2	457 (29.79%)	Firewall
3	352 (22.95%)	HTTP
4	322 (20.99%)	LAN
5	317 (20.66%)	SSL
6	293 (19.10%)	WAN
7	271 (17.67%)	DHCP
8	206 (13.43%)	VPN
9	181 (11.80%)	Wireless
10	139 (9.06%)	BGP
11	133 (8.67%)	MPLS
12	132 (8.60%)	Network Security
13	114 (7.43%)	OSPF
14	109 (7.11%)	Internet
15	98 (6.39%)	Ethernet
16	96 (6.26%)	VLAN
17	92 (6.00%)	VoIP
18	80 (5.22%)	Cisco ASA
19	73 (4.76%)	SAN
20	65 (4.24%)	IPsec

Database & Business Intelligence
1	136 (8.87%)	PostgreSQL
2	116 (7.56%)	SQL Server
3	115 (7.50%)	MongoDB
4	104 (6.78%)	Relational Database
5	102 (6.65%)	MySQL
6	35 (2.28%)	NoSQL
7	34 (2.22%)	Redis
8	28 (1.83%)	SQL Server 2012
9	22 (1.43%)	Oracle Database
9	22 (1.43%)	RDBMS
10	20 (1.30%)	Apache Cassandra
11	19 (1.24%)	Amazon RDS
11	19 (1.24%)	Hadoop
12	18 (1.17%)	SQL Server 2008
13	15 (0.98%)	Big Data
14	10 (0.65%)	SQL Server 2005
15	8 (0.52%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
16	7 (0.46%)	SQL Server Integration Services
17	6 (0.39%)	Amazon DynamoDB
17	6 (0.39%)	MariaDB

Development Applications
1	208 (13.56%)	Git (software)
2	193 (12.58%)	Jenkins
3	87 (5.67%)	Subversion
4	33 (2.15%)	Eclipse
5	32 (2.09%)	JIRA
5	32 (2.09%)	Maven
6	28 (1.83%)	Selenium
7	27 (1.76%)	Travis CI
8	25 (1.63%)	IntelliJ
9	24 (1.56%)	Ant
10	23 (1.50%)	Cucumber
11	20 (1.30%)	Artifactory
11	20 (1.30%)	Visual Studio
12	18 (1.17%)	Sonatype Nexus
13	17 (1.11%)	Gatling
13	17 (1.11%)	Grunt
13	17 (1.11%)	gulp
13	17 (1.11%)	Karma Test Runner
13	17 (1.11%)	Sublime Text
14	16 (1.04%)	JUnit

General
1	203 (13.23%)	Finance
2	85 (5.54%)	Telecoms
3	70 (4.56%)	Banking
4	33 (2.15%)	Manufacturing
5	27 (1.76%)	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 (0.98%)	Front Office
10	14 (0.91%)	Back Office
11	13 (0.85%)	Billing
12	7 (0.46%)	Games
12	7 (0.46%)	Local Government
12	7 (0.46%)	Multimedia
12	7 (0.46%)	Retail Banking
13	6 (0.39%)	Advertising
13	6 (0.39%)	Automotive
13	6 (0.39%)	Military

Job Titles
1	211 (13.75%)	Analyst
2	174 (11.34%)	Network Engineer
3	169 (11.02%)	DevOps Engineer
4	152 (9.91%)	Developer
5	112 (7.30%)	Support Engineer
6	77 (5.02%)	Support Analyst
7	73 (4.76%)	Linux Engineer
8	67 (4.37%)	Architect
9	63 (4.11%)	Consultant
10	62 (4.04%)	Infrastructure Engineer
11	56 (3.65%)	Desktop Support
12	55 (3.59%)	Administrator
13	52 (3.39%)	Systems Engineer
14	45 (2.93%)	Cisco Engineer
15	44 (2.87%)	Software Engineer
16	43 (2.80%)	2nd Line Support
16	43 (2.80%)	Windows Engineer
17	42 (2.74%)	Security Engineer
18	38 (2.48%)	Cisco Network Engineer
19	36 (2.35%)	Security Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	107 (6.98%)	Web Services
2	103 (6.71%)	J2EE
3	88 (5.74%)	.NET
4	81 (5.28%)	XML
5	76 (4.95%)	Middleware
6	74 (4.82%)	Node.js
7	68 (4.43%)	802.1X
8	63 (4.11%)	Elastic Stack
9	62 (4.04%)	HTML
10	58 (3.78%)	REST
11	56 (3.65%)	SOAP
12	55 (3.59%)	JSON
13	50 (3.26%)	CSS
14	41 (2.67%)	Servlets
15	37 (2.41%)	LAPP Stack
16	36 (2.35%)	RESTful
17	32 (2.09%)	Spring
18	30 (1.96%)	XSLT
19	29 (1.89%)	LAMP
20	26 (1.69%)	RabbitMQ

Miscellaneous
1	126 (8.21%)	Analytical Skills
2	111 (7.24%)	Data Centre
3	77 (5.02%)	Clustering
4	61 (3.98%)	Management Information System
5	55 (3.59%)	Linux Command Line
6	44 (2.87%)	Computer Science
7	35 (2.28%)	Video Conferencing
8	28 (1.83%)	PKI
9	27 (1.76%)	Blackberry
10	25 (1.63%)	Video on Demand
11	23 (1.50%)	Replication
12	20 (1.30%)	Client/Server
13	19 (1.24%)	PDA
14	18 (1.17%)	Enterprise Software
14	18 (1.17%)	Public Cloud
15	16 (1.04%)	Web 2.0
16	15 (0.98%)	Device Driver
16	15 (0.98%)	Fintech
17	14 (0.91%)	Greenfield Project
17	14 (0.91%)	Smartphone

Operating Systems
1	668 (43.55%)	Linux
2	616 (40.16%)	Windows
3	328 (21.38%)	Unix
4	209 (13.62%)	Windows Server
5	153 (9.97%)	Windows 7
6	151 (9.84%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	101 (6.58%)	Windows Server 2012
8	85 (5.54%)	Windows Server 2008
9	79 (5.15%)	CentOS
10	78 (5.08%)	Ubuntu
11	75 (4.89%)	Solaris
12	60 (3.91%)	Windows 10
13	47 (3.06%)	Windows Server 2003
14	46 (3.00%)	AIX
15	41 (2.67%)	Windows 8
16	38 (2.48%)	SUSE
17	36 (2.35%)	Windows XP
18	32 (2.09%)	Mac OS X
19	31 (2.02%)	Android
20	28 (1.83%)	HPUX

Processes & Methodologies
1	292 (19.04%)	DevOps
2	288 (18.77%)	Configuration Management
3	252 (16.43%)	Agile Software Development
4	219 (14.28%)	Open Source
5	213 (13.89%)	ITIL
6	205 (13.36%)	Continuous Integration
7	131 (8.54%)	Test Automation
8	125 (8.15%)	Software Engineering
9	119 (7.76%)	Load Balancing
9	119 (7.76%)	Migration
10	106 (6.91%)	High Availability
11	87 (5.67%)	Information Security
11	87 (5.67%)	Network Design
12	85 (5.54%)	Scrum
13	73 (4.76%)	Continuous Delivery
13	73 (4.76%)	Kanban
14	71 (4.63%)	Mentoring
14	71 (4.63%)	Microservices
15	69 (4.50%)	TDD
16	66 (4.30%)	Project Management

Programming Languages
1	310 (20.21%)	Java
2	300 (19.56%)	Python
3	216 (14.08%)	SQL
4	212 (13.82%)	Perl
5	140 (9.13%)	Ruby
6	130 (8.47%)	Bash Shell
7	113 (7.37%)	PowerShell
8	108 (7.04%)	C
9	99 (6.45%)	JavaScript
10	88 (5.74%)	C#
11	75 (4.89%)	C++
12	59 (3.85%)	PHP
13	52 (3.39%)	Shell Script
14	40 (2.61%)	Korn
15	33 (2.15%)	Scala
16	30 (1.96%)	Go
17	28 (1.83%)	VBScript
18	24 (1.56%)	Groovy
19	20 (1.30%)	C-shell
20	17 (1.11%)	Haskell

Qualifications
1	265 (17.28%)	Security Cleared
2	191 (12.45%)	Cisco Certification
3	184 (11.99%)	SC Cleared
4	122 (7.95%)	CCNP
5	103 (6.71%)	CCNA
6	67 (4.37%)	Degree
7	65 (4.24%)	CISSP
8	57 (3.72%)	Microsoft Certification
9	48 (3.13%)	DV Cleared
10	43 (2.80%)	SANS
11	35 (2.28%)	CCIE
12	25 (1.63%)	MCDST
13	24 (1.56%)	GIAC
14	19 (1.24%)	JNCIA
15	18 (1.17%)	MCSE
16	17 (1.11%)	CREST Certified
17	15 (0.98%)	CEH
17	15 (0.98%)	GCIH
17	15 (0.98%)	ITIL Certification
17	15 (0.98%)	SSCP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	33 (2.15%)	SLA
2	25 (1.63%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	16 (1.04%)	QA
4	15 (0.98%)	PCI DSS
5	14 (0.91%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	10 (0.65%)	MiFID
7	8 (0.52%)	COBIT
8	5 (0.33%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
9	3 (0.20%)	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	317 (20.66%)	Active Directory
2	209 (13.62%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	128 (8.34%)	Docker
4	81 (5.28%)	Hyper-V
5	40 (2.61%)	Xen
6	34 (2.22%)	vSphere
7	33 (2.15%)	KVM
8	29 (1.89%)	XenApp
9	25 (1.63%)	Veritas Volume Manager
10	19 (1.24%)	Virtual Machines
10	19 (1.24%)	VMware ESXi
11	18 (1.17%)	NFS
12	14 (0.91%)	Samba
12	14 (0.91%)	vCloud
13	10 (0.65%)	Firmware
13	10 (0.65%)	Snort
13	10 (0.65%)	Virtual Desktop
14	9 (0.59%)	Microsoft App-V
14	9 (0.59%)	Virtual Servers
15	8 (0.52%)	VMware Workstation

Systems Management
1	273 (17.80%)	Puppet
2	193 (12.58%)	Ansible
3	161 (10.50%)	Opscode Chef
4	81 (5.28%)	SCCM
5	68 (4.43%)	Nagios
6	57 (3.72%)	Kibana
7	56 (3.65%)	Salt
8	48 (3.13%)	logstash
9	41 (2.67%)	Kubernetes
10	40 (2.61%)	Grafana
11	30 (1.96%)	Terraform
12	29 (1.89%)	NetBackup
13	28 (1.83%)	FortiGate
14	25 (1.63%)	Cisco Prime
15	17 (1.11%)	McAfee ePO
15	17 (1.11%)	QRadar
15	17 (1.11%)	SCOM
16	16 (1.04%)	Backup Exec
16	16 (1.04%)	Norton AntiVirus
17	14 (0.91%)	HP SiteScope

Vendors
1	371 (24.19%)	Cisco
2	300 (19.56%)	Microsoft
3	296 (19.30%)	VMware
4	186 (12.13%)	Oracle
5	126 (8.21%)	Red Hat
6	124 (8.08%)	Juniper
7	121 (7.89%)	Citrix
8	111 (7.24%)	HP
9	97 (6.32%)	F5
10	86 (5.61%)	CheckPoint
11	70 (4.56%)	IBM
12	57 (3.72%)	Google
13	56 (3.65%)	Apple
14	51 (3.32%)	Palo Alto
14	51 (3.32%)	SolarWinds
15	45 (2.93%)	Splunk
16	39 (2.54%)	Dell
17	36 (2.35%)	EMC
17	36 (2.35%)	Veritas
18	35 (2.28%)	McAfee