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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 53 76
Rank change year-on-year -15 +23 +35
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 13 13 10
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.48% 1.69% 0.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.27% 14.94% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile - - £495
25th Percentile £213 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £231 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -53.75% - +42.86%
75th Percentile £439 - £600
90th Percentile £550 - £616
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £220 £450
% change year-on-year +104.55% -51.11% +28.57%

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 98 87 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.16% 11.28% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 51 106
10th Percentile £227 £213 £269
25th Percentile £341 £401 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% +3.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £503 £544 £575
90th Percentile £550 £638 £663
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +14.12% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £12.59 £14.30
25th Percentile £47.50 £13.03 £15.99
Median hourly rate £50.00 £14.25 £17.35
Median % change year-on-year +251.00% -17.88% -65.31%
75th Percentile £52.50 £15.95 £20.24
90th Percentile - £16.67 £24.17
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +14.81% -38.64% +4.07%

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 3 November 2025.

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 3 November 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
Leeds -7 12 £225 - 8
Bradford -11 1 £238 -
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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (46.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon ELB
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon S3
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (23.08%) Azure
5 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (15.38%) AWS KMS
6 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (15.38%) GitHub
6 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (15.38%) Serverless
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon Macie
7 1 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 11 (84.62%) DNS
2 9 (69.23%) VPN
3 8 (61.54%) Firewall
3 8 (61.54%) SSL
4 6 (46.15%) Network Security
5 4 (30.77%) DHCP
5 4 (30.77%) LAN
5 4 (30.77%) WAN
6 3 (23.08%) VoIP
7 1 (7.69%) BGP
7 1 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (7.69%) IPsec
7 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
7 1 (7.69%) VLAN
7 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Git
1 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 5 (38.46%) GitLab
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Senior
2 6 (46.15%) Senior DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (30.77%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) IT Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) IT Support
3 4 (30.77%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Support Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Network Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) iPhone
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) NHS
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
1 4 (30.77%) Windows 10
1 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
2 3 (23.08%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Automation
3 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
3 5 (38.46%) Incident Response
4 4 (30.77%) High Availability
4 4 (30.77%) ITIL
5 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) Observability
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) RBAC
6 2 (15.38%) SIEM
6 2 (15.38%) Threat Detection
7 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
7 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
7 1 (7.69%) Secrets Management
7 1 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Bash
3 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) CCNA
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
2 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Ansible
1 7 (53.85%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Kustomize
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
3 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Palo Alto
2 5 (38.46%) CheckPoint
2 5 (38.46%) F5
3 2 (15.38%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.69%) Zscaler