TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 58 58
Rank change year-on-year +13 0 +10
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 18 6 19
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 3.39% 1.04% 2.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.65% 4.88% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 2
10th Percentile £563 £335 £482
25th Percentile £647 £544 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £659 £544
Median % change year-on-year +6.22% +21.20% -1.14%
75th Percentile £725 £671 £577
90th Percentile - £672 £591
South West median daily rate £700 £538 £529
% change year-on-year +30.23% +1.61% +9.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - £41.93
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £50.00
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -2.87% +15.06% -13.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 102 123 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 19.21% 21.24% 20.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 85 100
10th Percentile £456 £440 £296
25th Percentile £525 £519 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% +10.48% -
75th Percentile £708 £670 £613
90th Percentile £725 £733 £675
South West median daily rate £540 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.85% -5.45% +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 14
10th Percentile - - £42.47
25th Percentile £47.50 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.57%
75th Percentile £52.50 - £50.00
90th Percentile - - £55.25
South West median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -23.08% +15.06% -13.09%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Wiltshire

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Corsham +16 15 £700 +5.90%
Swindon +1 2 - - 1
Salisbury - 1 £575 - 2
TCP/IP
South West

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 14 (77.78%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (77.78%) SharePoint
1 14 (77.78%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) IaaS
4 1 (5.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) DNS
2 14 (77.78%) DHCP
2 14 (77.78%) Skype
3 3 (16.67%) Network Security
4 2 (11.11%) Firewall
4 2 (11.11%) SSL
4 2 (11.11%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) Maven
3 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft Engineer
1 13 (72.22%) Support Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
2 2 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Knowledge Transfer
1 14 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (16.67%) DevOps
2 3 (16.67%) High Availability
3 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
3 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.56%) Agile
4 1 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (5.56%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (5.56%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (5.56%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) Bash
2 3 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 14 (77.78%) DV Cleared
3 10 (55.56%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 2 (11.11%) F5
2 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.56%) Broadcom
3 1 (5.56%) TOWER Software