TCP/IP Contracts in London

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 256 297
Rank change year-on-year -23 +41 -26
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 116 271 343
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.65% 1.01% 0.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.80% 10.13% 9.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 175 243
10th Percentile £274 £256 £226
25th Percentile £350 £345 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -0.47% +13.16%
75th Percentile £623 £688 £638
90th Percentile £656 £806 £763
England median daily rate £475 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 8
10th Percentile £16.00 £31.25 £26.03
25th Percentile £17.00 £35.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £50.42 £36.12
Median % change year-on-year -60.33% +39.59% -35.79%
75th Percentile £22.81 - £47.02
90th Percentile £24.25 £56.94 £54.26
England median hourly rate £56.49 £65.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -13.09% +136.36% -30.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,707 2,676 3,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.59% 9.94% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,881 2,550
10th Percentile £213 £256 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 54 82
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.07 £20.90
25th Percentile £18.36 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.84% +27.41% -25.00%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.88 £48.20
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +12 12 £550 - 10
West London +11 2 £80 -86.58% 4
East London -4 2 - - 4
South London +5 1 £675 +154.72% 5
TCP/IP
England

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

Application Platforms
1 10 (8.62%) Confluence
2 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.31%) Apache
3 5 (4.31%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.59%) IBM Domino
4 3 (2.59%) IBM Notes
4 3 (2.59%) IIS
4 3 (2.59%) MQSeries
4 3 (2.59%) nginx
5 2 (1.72%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.86%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.86%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (26.72%) AWS
1 31 (26.72%) Azure
2 18 (15.52%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (13.79%) GCP
4 13 (11.21%) Cloud Computing
4 13 (11.21%) PaaS
5 10 (8.62%) SaaS
6 9 (7.76%) IaaS
6 9 (7.76%) Nutanix
7 8 (6.90%) Rubrik
8 5 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.45%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.59%) Datadog
10 3 (2.59%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 67 (57.76%) DNS
2 50 (43.10%) DHCP
2 50 (43.10%) Firewall
3 41 (35.34%) HTTP
4 24 (20.69%) BGP
5 23 (19.83%) VPN
6 22 (18.97%) WAN
7 21 (18.10%) Network Security
8 20 (17.24%) LAN
9 19 (16.38%) OSPF
10 18 (15.52%) VLAN
11 17 (14.66%) SSL
12 15 (12.93%) NAS
12 15 (12.93%) SAN
13 12 (10.34%) MPLS
13 12 (10.34%) SMTP
13 12 (10.34%) SNMP
13 12 (10.34%) Wireshark
14 11 (9.48%) FTP
14 11 (9.48%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (4.31%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (3.45%) MySQL
2 4 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.72%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.72%) Redis
4 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.86%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.86%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.86%) Power BI
5 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 21 (18.10%) Git
3 12 (10.34%) JIRA
4 8 (6.90%) TeamCity
5 7 (6.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.86%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.86%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.86%) Darcs
6 1 (0.86%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.86%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.86%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.86%) Maven
6 1 (0.86%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.86%) Selenium
6 1 (0.86%) Travis CI
General
1 25 (21.55%) Finance
2 14 (12.07%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.07%) Telecoms
3 7 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.03%) Mandarin Language
4 6 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.31%) Banking
5 5 (4.31%) Electronics
5 5 (4.31%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.31%) Marketing
6 3 (2.59%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.59%) German Language
6 3 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.72%) Cantonese Language
7 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.72%) Legal
7 2 (1.72%) Retail
8 1 (0.86%) Front Office
8 1 (0.86%) Law
8 1 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (21.55%) Network Engineer
2 14 (12.07%) Linux Engineer
3 12 (10.34%) Support Engineer
4 11 (9.48%) Linux Server Engineer
4 11 (9.48%) Server Engineer
5 8 (6.90%) Senior
6 7 (6.03%) IT Support
7 6 (5.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.17%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Analyst
8 5 (4.31%) Architect
8 5 (4.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Consultant
8 5 (4.31%) Developer
9 4 (3.45%) ArcSight Engineer
9 4 (3.45%) IT Engineer
9 4 (3.45%) Security Architect
9 4 (3.45%) SIEM Engineer
10 3 (2.59%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.52%) LDAP
2 8 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.17%) .NET
3 6 (5.17%) JSON
4 4 (3.45%) SAML
5 3 (2.59%) OAuth
5 3 (2.59%) OpenID
5 3 (2.59%) REST
5 3 (2.59%) Web Services
6 2 (1.72%) NETCONF
6 2 (1.72%) RESTful
6 2 (1.72%) SOAP
6 2 (1.72%) SPML
7 1 (0.86%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.86%) CSS
7 1 (0.86%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.86%) HTML
7 1 (0.86%) LAMP
7 1 (0.86%) Spring
7 1 (0.86%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 16 (13.79%) Clustering
3 9 (7.76%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.90%) Replication
5 7 (6.03%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (5.17%) PKI
7 5 (4.31%) CCTV
7 5 (4.31%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.59%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.86%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.86%) IoT
10 1 (0.86%) iPad
10 1 (0.86%) Machine to Machine
10 1 (0.86%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.86%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 38 (32.76%) Linux
1 38 (32.76%) Windows
2 20 (17.24%) Windows Server
3 14 (12.07%) Unix
4 9 (7.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (6.90%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (6.90%) Solaris
6 7 (6.03%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.59%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.72%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.86%) Android
9 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.86%) CentOS
9 1 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (18.97%) DevOps
2 20 (17.24%) Agile
3 19 (16.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (15.52%) CI/CD
5 16 (13.79%) High Availability
6 12 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (10.34%) SIEM
7 11 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (9.48%) Data Security
7 11 (9.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 10 (8.62%) Configuration Management
8 10 (8.62%) Customer Service
8 10 (8.62%) Data Loss Prevention
8 10 (8.62%) ITIL
8 10 (8.62%) Network Architecture
8 10 (8.62%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (7.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 33 (28.45%) Python
2 20 (17.24%) PowerShell
3 10 (8.62%) Bash
3 10 (8.62%) Java
4 6 (5.17%) C#
4 6 (5.17%) Go
4 6 (5.17%) Perl
5 5 (4.31%) SQL
6 3 (2.59%) C++
6 3 (2.59%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.59%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.72%) C
7 2 (1.72%) PHP
8 1 (0.86%) Ruby
8 1 (0.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (15.52%) Cisco Certification
1 18 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.79%) Degree
3 15 (12.93%) CCNP
4 11 (9.48%) DV Cleared
5 9 (7.76%) CCNA
6 7 (6.03%) CCDP
7 6 (5.17%) CISSP
8 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared
9 3 (2.59%) CISA
9 3 (2.59%) CISM
9 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.59%) GIAC
10 2 (1.72%) CCIP
10 2 (1.72%) CEH
10 2 (1.72%) GCIA
10 2 (1.72%) GCIH
10 2 (1.72%) JNCIA
10 2 (1.72%) JNCIP
10 2 (1.72%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.76%) GDPR
2 8 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.59%) NIST
4 3 (2.59%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.72%) QA
6 1 (0.86%) COPPA
6 1 (0.86%) ISA99
6 1 (0.86%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.86%) NCSC
6 1 (0.86%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (28.45%) Active Directory
2 17 (14.66%) Docker
2 17 (14.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.31%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.31%) NFS
4 4 (3.45%) Samba
4 4 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.72%) iptables
6 2 (1.72%) Squid
6 2 (1.72%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.72%) XenApp
7 1 (0.86%) Ceph
7 1 (0.86%) Firmware
7 1 (0.86%) KVM
7 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.86%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (18.97%) Terraform
2 21 (18.10%) Ansible
3 16 (13.79%) Kubernetes
4 15 (12.93%) Puppet
5 12 (10.34%) Progress Chef
6 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (6.90%) EMC NetWorker
7 8 (6.90%) Kibana
7 8 (6.90%) Netcool
7 8 (6.90%) Tivoli
7 8 (6.90%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (4.31%) logstash
9 4 (3.45%) QRadar
9 4 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.59%) FortiGate
10 3 (2.59%) HAProxy
10 3 (2.59%) Nmap
10 3 (2.59%) SCCM
10 3 (2.59%) WSUS
11 2 (1.72%) SCOM
Vendors
1 41 (35.34%) Cisco
2 27 (23.28%) Microsoft
3 18 (15.52%) VMware
4 16 (13.79%) Splunk
5 12 (10.34%) IBM
6 11 (9.48%) Oracle
7 10 (8.62%) Dell
7 10 (8.62%) Palo Alto
7 10 (8.62%) ServiceNow
8 9 (7.76%) HP
9 8 (6.90%) CyberArk
9 8 (6.90%) EMC
9 8 (6.90%) Isilon
9 8 (6.90%) Qualys
9 8 (6.90%) Serena
9 8 (6.90%) Zscaler
10 7 (6.03%) Arista
10 7 (6.03%) Aruba
11 6 (5.17%) Huawei
11 6 (5.17%) Meraki