TCP/IP Contracts in Cheshire

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for TCP/IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TCP/IP over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 45 52
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 -16
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 7 15 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.36% 2.83% 1.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.11% 16.67% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £413 £269 -
25th Percentile £431 £278 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £325 £175
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% +85.71% -59.91%
75th Percentile £503 £359 £213
90th Percentile £513 £363 £290
North West median daily rate £456 £350 £448
% change year-on-year +30.36% -21.79% +14.01%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

TCP/IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 63 90 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.21% 16.98% 18.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 53 47
10th Percentile £199 £288 £163
25th Percentile £300 £350 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £470
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +5.85% +13.25%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £581
90th Percentile £556 £588 £630
North West median daily rate £483 £482 £450
% change year-on-year +0.21% +7.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £18.68 - -
25th Percentile £20.11 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% -5.90% -
75th Percentile £24.25 - -
90th Percentile £25.30 - -
North West median hourly rate £34.37 £27.50 £21.53
% change year-on-year +24.96% +27.74% -54.61%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in Cheshire

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in Cheshire

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in Cheshire

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 19 May 2024. 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
Warrington - 3 £475 - 5
TCP/IP
North West

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Direct Connect
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) VLAN
1 7 (100.00%) VPN
2 4 (57.14%) BGP
2 4 (57.14%) MPLS
2 4 (57.14%) OSPF
2 4 (57.14%) Value-Added Service
2 4 (57.14%) Wireshark
3 3 (42.86%) DHCP
3 3 (42.86%) DNS
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Migration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Change Management
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
1 4 (57.14%) Network Monitoring
1 4 (57.14%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Network Design
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CCIE
1 4 (57.14%) CCNP
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
1 4 (57.14%) VCAP
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) LogicMonitor
1 4 (57.14%) SolarWinds
2 3 (42.86%) Google