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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 59 59
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 +13
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 3 6 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.70% 0.96% 2.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.61% 4.20% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £335 £495
25th Percentile £675 £544 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £659 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.22% +9.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £671 -
90th Percentile - £672 -
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £595
% change year-on-year - -7.56% +24.22%
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 £65.00 £65.00 £55.75
% change year-on-year - +16.60% -14.24%

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 83 143 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 19.35% 22.84% 17.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 102 97
10th Percentile £430 - £210
25th Percentile £495 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% +2.04%
75th Percentile £640 £628 £613
90th Percentile £695 £675 £655
South West median daily rate £490 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 17
10th Percentile - - £44.09
25th Percentile £47.50 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.01%
75th Percentile £52.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £61.80
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -11.54% +15.06% -5.85%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP 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
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 16 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
Swindon +1 2 - - 1
Corsham +18 1 £700 +5.90% 2
TCP/IP
South West

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) VMware