TCP/IP Contracts in the North of England

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 133 141
Rank change year-on-year -25 +8 -19
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 27 86 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 1.48% 1.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.66% 12.57% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 59 74
10th Percentile £203 £140 £157
25th Percentile £391 £306 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% +25.93%
75th Percentile £586 £650 £625
90th Percentile £645 £678 £646
England median daily rate £488 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -2.50% +8.11% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £12.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -56.36% - -
England median hourly rate £56.49 £63.78 £28.00
% change year-on-year -11.42% +127.77% -29.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 580 684 880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.36% 11.77% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 468 610
10th Percentile £200 £205 £180
25th Percentile £313 £325 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £602 £566 £550
90th Percentile £750 £675 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 48 27
10th Percentile £13.53 - £11.01
25th Percentile £17.72 £9.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.94% +2.86%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.15 £23.26
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.13 £48.82
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 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
North West -16 18 £450 -14.29% 43
Yorkshire +5 9 £624 +18.76% 19
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (22.22%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) nginx
2 2 (7.41%) Traefik
3 1 (3.70%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) IIS
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) Azure
2 15 (55.56%) AWS
2 15 (55.56%) GCP
3 6 (22.22%) Apigee
3 6 (22.22%) GitHub
3 6 (22.22%) Kong
4 5 (18.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.41%) IaaS
6 2 (7.41%) PaaS
6 2 (7.41%) SaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (59.26%) DNS
2 13 (48.15%) VPN
3 8 (29.63%) Firewall
4 7 (25.93%) BGP
4 7 (25.93%) HTTP
4 7 (25.93%) VLAN
5 6 (22.22%) OSPF
6 5 (18.52%) DHCP
7 4 (14.81%) MPLS
7 4 (14.81%) Value-Added Service
7 4 (14.81%) Wireshark
8 2 (7.41%) LAN
9 1 (3.70%) H.323
9 1 (3.70%) WAN
9 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Git
1 8 (29.63%) GitLab
1 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.93%) JIRA
3 6 (22.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (22.22%) CircleCI
3 6 (22.22%) Travis CI
General
1 14 (51.85%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Network Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) IT Support
4 3 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) C++ Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) IT Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) IT Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Network Migration Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Help Desk Support
6 1 (3.70%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (22.22%) JSON
1 6 (22.22%) XML
1 6 (22.22%) YAML
2 2 (7.41%) cloud-init
2 2 (7.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.41%) Clustering
2 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.41%) PKI
2 2 (7.41%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) CMDB
3 1 (3.70%) iPad
3 1 (3.70%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.41%) CentOS
3 2 (7.41%) VMS
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
2 8 (29.63%) Containerisation
2 8 (29.63%) Continuous Deployment
2 8 (29.63%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (29.63%) DevOps
3 7 (25.93%) Agile
3 7 (25.93%) Task Automation
4 6 (22.22%) API Development
4 6 (22.22%) API Integration
4 6 (22.22%) Change Management
4 6 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (22.22%) Project Management
4 6 (22.22%) Scrum
4 6 (22.22%) Secure Coding
4 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (22.22%) Use Case
4 6 (22.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Python
2 9 (33.33%) Bash
3 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
4 3 (11.11%) SQL
5 2 (7.41%) C++
5 2 (7.41%) Go
5 2 (7.41%) Ruby
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (18.52%) CCIE
2 5 (18.52%) CCNP
3 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (14.81%) Degree
3 4 (14.81%) VCAP
4 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) CCNA
5 1 (3.70%) CISM
5 1 (3.70%) CISSP
5 1 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) NCSC
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Docker
2 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Ansible
1 8 (29.63%) Docker Swarm
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
1 8 (29.63%) Prometheus
1 8 (29.63%) Puppet
1 8 (29.63%) Terraform
2 6 (22.22%) Grafana
2 6 (22.22%) Kibana
2 6 (22.22%) logstash
2 6 (22.22%) Progress Chef
3 3 (11.11%) ZABBIX
4 2 (7.41%) Consul
4 2 (7.41%) Graphite
4 2 (7.41%) HAProxy
4 2 (7.41%) Istio
4 2 (7.41%) linkerd
4 2 (7.41%) Packer
4 2 (7.41%) Podman
5 1 (3.70%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Splunk
2 7 (25.93%) SolarWinds
3 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 4 (14.81%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (11.11%) Cisco
5 3 (11.11%) Google
6 2 (7.41%) PagerDuty
6 2 (7.41%) Veeam
6 2 (7.41%) VMware
7 1 (3.70%) Avaya
7 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.70%) SAP
7 1 (3.70%) Verint