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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 58 83
Rank change year-on-year -12 +25 +7
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 7 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.94% 1.55% 0.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.33% 13.40% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £303 - £490
25th Percentile £430 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -28.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £606 - £775
90th Percentile £618 - £836
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £400
% change year-on-year +5.00% +25.00% +14.29%

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 75 97 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.11% 11.55% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 59 111
10th Percentile £235 £364 £275
25th Percentile £357 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £503 £606 £581
90th Percentile £572 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -13.46% +15.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - £13.98
25th Percentile £47.50 £13.87 £15.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 £15.03 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +232.67% -14.80% -64.72%
75th Percentile £52.50 £17.44 £22.42
90th Percentile - £17.94 £25.04
Yorkshire median hourly rate £50.00 £16.19 £22.00
% change year-on-year +208.83% -26.41% +2.85%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +1 6 £600 - 2
Bradford -11 1 £238 - 2
TCP/IP
Yorkshire

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS KMS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 5 (71.43%) DNS
2 5 (71.43%) SSL
2 5 (71.43%) VPN
3 3 (42.86%) Network Security
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (14.29%) DHCP
4 1 (14.29%) IPsec
4 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
4 1 (14.29%) LAN
4 1 (14.29%) VLAN
4 1 (14.29%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Database Security
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (14.29%) Release Management
4 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) CCNA
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Kustomize
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
1 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) F5
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 1 (14.29%) Zscaler