TCP/IP Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 94 95
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +66
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 13 15 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.81% 0.75% 1.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.34% 4.31% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 27
10th Percentile £290 £340 £163
25th Percentile £371 £438 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £525 £350
Median % change year-on-year -18.86% +50.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £531 £575 £656
90th Percentile £550 - £750
England median daily rate £475 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +5.56% -4.26% +1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £19.95
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.42
% change year-on-year - +28.92% +6.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 205 348 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.73% 17.37% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 216 253
10th Percentile £241 £206 £251
25th Percentile £300 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £575 £591 £588
90th Percentile £710 £688 £723
England median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 10
10th Percentile £14.32 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £27.00 £13.25 £15.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £22.85
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -38.74% +21.88%
75th Percentile £39.74 £23.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.70 £27.75 £28.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +23.08% +30.00%

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 17 July 2025.

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 17 July 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
Birmingham +17 12 £450 +10.77% 8
Warwickshire -7 1 £220 -58.88% 5
Coventry - 1 £220 - 5
Solihull - 1 £220 -
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 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
1 2 (15.38%) GCP
1 2 (15.38%) GitHub
1 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) VPN
2 7 (53.85%) BGP
2 7 (53.85%) Firewall
2 7 (53.85%) Network Security
2 7 (53.85%) OSPF
2 7 (53.85%) SSL
3 6 (46.15%) IPsec
3 6 (46.15%) VLAN
4 3 (23.08%) DNS
4 3 (23.08%) VoIP
4 3 (23.08%) Wireless
5 2 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (15.38%) DHCP
5 2 (15.38%) LAN
5 2 (15.38%) MPLS
5 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
5 2 (15.38%) SSH
5 2 (15.38%) Unified Communications
5 2 (15.38%) WAN
6 1 (7.69%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
1 2 (15.38%) Delta Lake
1 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
1 2 (15.38%) Parquet
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) MLflow
1 2 (15.38%) SonarQube
1 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Poetry
2 1 (7.69%) PyCharm
2 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
1 7 (53.85%) Telecoms
2 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Automotive
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Check Point Expert
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Project Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Avro
1 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (15.38%) Flask
1 2 (15.38%) NumPy
1 2 (15.38%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Check Point GAiA
2 3 (23.08%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) High Availability
2 6 (46.15%) SIEM
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
3 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) ETL
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Network Design
3 2 (15.38%) Secrets Management
4 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (7.69%) DataOps
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Memory Management
4 1 (7.69%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Bash
1 2 (15.38%) Groovy
1 2 (15.38%) Python
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) CCSE
2 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (15.38%) CCIE
3 2 (15.38%) CCNA
4 1 (7.69%) CCNP
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (7.69%) MCP
4 1 (7.69%) MCSA
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) FortiGate
2 2 (15.38%) Argo
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (15.38%) Istio
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Fortinet
2 6 (46.15%) CheckPoint
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 2 (15.38%) Cloudera
4 2 (15.38%) Meraki
5 1 (7.69%) Dell
5 1 (7.69%) HP
5 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
5 1 (7.69%) VMware