TCP/IP Contracts in the West Midlands

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 123 142
Rank change year-on-year +32 +19 -35
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 21 20 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.09% 0.84% 0.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.33% 5.65% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 20
10th Percentile £189 £163 £110
25th Percentile £228 £175 £179
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £323 £373
Median % change year-on-year +62.79% -13.42% +28.45%
75th Percentile £569 £384 £500
90th Percentile £575 £538 £576
England median daily rate £475 £505 £463
% change year-on-year -5.94% +9.19% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £18.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.50% +11.11%
England median hourly rate £47.00 £62.55 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.87% +127.45% -14.73%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 394 354 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.44% 14.80% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 219 272
10th Percentile £201 £263 £165
25th Percentile £313 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £504
90th Percentile £688 £700 £617
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 19
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £12.15
25th Percentile £13.50 £13.13 £12.94
Median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +1.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.58 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £21.80 £20.51
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the West Midlands

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the West Midlands

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the West Midlands

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the West Midlands

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Worcestershire +17 9 £550 +4.76% 6
Birmingham +9 6 £200 -38.46% 9
Coventry +13 2 £550 +166.67% 2
Staffordshire +3 1 - - 4
Warwickshire +2 1 - - 1
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (76.19%) DNS
2 13 (61.90%) DHCP
3 6 (28.57%) Firewall
3 6 (28.57%) VPN
4 3 (14.29%) WAN
5 2 (9.52%) BGP
5 2 (9.52%) LAN
5 2 (9.52%) OSPF
5 2 (9.52%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (9.52%) SD-WAN
5 2 (9.52%) Wireshark
6 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (4.76%) Network Security
6 1 (4.76%) SMTP
6 1 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (4.76%) SSH
6 1 (4.76%) tcpdump
6 1 (4.76%) Telnet
6 1 (4.76%) Unified Communications
6 1 (4.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
1 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
1 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Fiddler
2 1 (4.76%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (19.05%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 2 (9.52%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Service Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Service Desk Support
5 2 (9.52%) Service Desk Support Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Support Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) iPad
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Windows
2 8 (38.10%) Windows Server
3 7 (33.33%) Linux
4 6 (28.57%) Unix
5 5 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (19.05%) Windows 10
7 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (38.10%) Virtual Environments
3 7 (33.33%) SIEM
4 6 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (28.57%) Visualisation
5 5 (23.81%) Information Management
5 5 (23.81%) Security Hardening
5 5 (23.81%) Security Monitoring
5 5 (23.81%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Asset Management
6 4 (19.05%) Customer Service
7 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
8 2 (9.52%) Contingency Planning
8 2 (9.52%) Network Architecture
8 2 (9.52%) Performance Analysis
8 2 (9.52%) Resource Allocation
8 2 (9.52%) Risk Register
8 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (9.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) C#
1 8 (38.10%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) CCNA
3 3 (14.29%) CCNP
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.76%) PMP
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) NIST
2 2 (9.52%) QA
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (23.81%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (23.81%) VMware NSX
3 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
4 2 (9.52%) Terminal Services
5 1 (4.76%) Snort
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) SCCM
2 5 (23.81%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.76%) Kibana
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) VMware
2 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 5 (23.81%) Veeam
4 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco
5 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.76%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) Juniper
5 1 (4.76%) Mitel
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (4.76%) Zscaler