TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 64 71
Rank change year-on-year -16 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 11 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.86% 0.76% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.59% 5.88% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £236 £411 -
25th Percentile £275 £468 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £175
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +189.29% -75.00%
75th Percentile - £545 £344
90th Percentile £583 £593 £438
Yorkshire median daily rate £447 £506 £360
% change year-on-year -11.70% +40.63% -12.73%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 145 85 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.28% 12.96% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 50 59
10th Percentile £303 £235 £256
25th Percentile £318 £425 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £581 £538 £600
90th Percentile £641 £578 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £490 £483
% change year-on-year -1.02% +1.45% +7.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 5
10th Percentile £20.34 - -
25th Percentile £21.33 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 - £13.87
75th Percentile £26.01 - £14.25
90th Percentile £27.36 - £16.66
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 - £18.27
% change year-on-year - - +71.87%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in West Yorkshire

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 July 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
Leeds -21 6 - - 1
Bradford - 5 £500 - 4
TCP/IP
Yorkshire

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) IIS
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) GitHub
1 5 (45.45%) IaaS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) Firewall
2 9 (81.82%) DNS
3 8 (72.73%) VLAN
4 6 (54.55%) BIG-IP
5 5 (45.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 5 (45.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (36.36%) DHCP
6 4 (36.36%) VPN
7 3 (27.27%) LAN
7 3 (27.27%) Wireless
8 2 (18.18%) BGP
8 2 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (18.18%) IPsec
8 2 (18.18%) Network Security
8 2 (18.18%) OSPF
8 2 (18.18%) VoIP
8 2 (18.18%) WAN
8 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (18.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) JIRA
2 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Police
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Network Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (45.45%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support
5 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (9.09%) IP Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Data Centre
2 6 (54.55%) Onboarding
3 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (18.18%) PKI
4 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Check Point GAiA
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Backlog Management
4 1 (9.09%) Budget Management
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Data Categorisation
4 1 (9.09%) High Availability
4 1 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (9.09%) Network Management
4 1 (9.09%) Observability
4 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Runbook
4 1 (9.09%) Server Management
4 1 (9.09%) Storage Management
4 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (9.09%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) ActionScript
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) CCNP
3 1 (9.09%) CCNA
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
1 1 (9.09%) Tivoli
1 1 (9.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) F5
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) CheckPoint
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
4 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
5 1 (9.09%) Adobe
5 1 (9.09%) BMC
5 1 (9.09%) Dell
5 1 (9.09%) HP
5 1 (9.09%) IBM
5 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 1 (9.09%) Remedy
5 1 (9.09%) Samsung
5 1 (9.09%) VMware