TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.24% - 1.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.88% - 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £391
25th Percentile £513 - £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £438
Median % change year-on-year - - +43.21%
75th Percentile £538 - £472
90th Percentile - - £474
South East median daily rate £525 £375 £363
% change year-on-year +40.00% +3.45% +11.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 17 22 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 4.13% 12.09% 19.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 26
10th Percentile £215 £213 £256
25th Percentile £250 £263 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £484
90th Percentile £680 £775 £588
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £24.45
25th Percentile - - £27.00
Median hourly rate - - £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.67%
75th Percentile - - £29.00
90th Percentile - - £35.75
South East median hourly rate £50.75 £55.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -7.73% -4.10% -3.54%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TCP/IP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in West Sussex

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing TCP/IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing TCP/IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 3 September 2026. 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
Crawley - 1 £525 - 3
TCP/IP
South East

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware