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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 143 145
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 36 65 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.76% 1.17% 1.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.47% 9.57% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 43 73
10th Percentile £170 £140 £158
25th Percentile £387 £269 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £448
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -21.79% +17.76%
75th Percentile £604 £650 £625
90th Percentile £641 £695 £648
England median daily rate £488 £481 £463
% change year-on-year +1.44% +3.90% +6.32%
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 £65.00 £57.33 £45.00
% change year-on-year +13.38% +27.40% +39.53%

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 556 679 927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.72% 12.25% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 456 652
10th Percentile £200 £203 £173
25th Percentile £325 £325 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £449
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% +3.62% +12.19%
75th Percentile £612 £566 £550
90th Percentile £775 £666 £638
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 48 23
10th Percentile £13.42 - £10.67
25th Percentile £21.63 £9.80 £16.12
Median hourly rate £26.00 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +144.59% -39.74% +4.07%
75th Percentile £45.94 £16.67 £21.33
90th Percentile £49.65 £37.85 £51.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.07 £23.91
% change year-on-year +134.40% -28.63% +3.96%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -8 20 £475 +35.71% 42
Yorkshire +18 16 £622 +38.22% 21
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 9 (25.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.56%) nginx
2 2 (5.56%) Traefik
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) Azure
2 18 (50.00%) AWS
2 18 (50.00%) GCP
3 9 (25.00%) GitHub
3 9 (25.00%) Kong
4 6 (16.67%) Apigee
5 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (11.11%) SaaS
5 4 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (5.56%) IaaS
6 2 (5.56%) PaaS
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (55.56%) DNS
2 18 (50.00%) VPN
3 11 (30.56%) Firewall
4 10 (27.78%) HTTP
5 7 (19.44%) BGP
5 7 (19.44%) VLAN
6 6 (16.67%) DHCP
6 6 (16.67%) OSPF
7 4 (11.11%) MPLS
7 4 (11.11%) Value-Added Service
7 4 (11.11%) Wireshark
8 3 (8.33%) BIG-IP
8 3 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (8.33%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (8.33%) SSL
9 2 (5.56%) IP Telephony
9 2 (5.56%) LAN
9 2 (5.56%) PBX
9 2 (5.56%) Unified Communications
9 2 (5.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) Git
1 11 (30.56%) GitLab
1 11 (30.56%) Jenkins
2 9 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 9 (25.00%) CircleCI
2 9 (25.00%) JIRA
2 9 (25.00%) Travis CI
General
1 18 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Retail
4 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) IT Support
2 7 (19.44%) Network Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) IT Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (5.56%) Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) C++ Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Developer
6 2 (5.56%) IT Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) IT Operations Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (25.00%) JSON
1 9 (25.00%) XML
1 9 (25.00%) YAML
2 2 (5.56%) cloud-init
2 2 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (2.78%) LDAP
3 1 (2.78%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.56%) Clustering
3 2 (5.56%) CMDB
3 2 (5.56%) PKI
3 2 (5.56%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Replication
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Windows
2 5 (13.89%) Windows 10
3 3 (8.33%) Linux
3 3 (8.33%) VMS
4 2 (5.56%) CentOS
4 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
3 11 (30.56%) Containerisation
3 11 (30.56%) Continuous Deployment
3 11 (30.56%) Continuous Integration
3 11 (30.56%) DevOps
3 11 (30.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (27.78%) Agile
5 9 (25.00%) API Integration
5 9 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
5 9 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (25.00%) Project Management
5 9 (25.00%) Scrum
5 9 (25.00%) Secure Coding
5 9 (25.00%) Use Case
5 9 (25.00%) Workflow
6 6 (16.67%) API Development
6 6 (16.67%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) Python
2 13 (36.11%) PowerShell
3 12 (33.33%) Bash
4 5 (13.89%) SQL
5 3 (8.33%) ActionScript
6 2 (5.56%) C++
6 2 (5.56%) Go
6 2 (5.56%) Ruby
7 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (13.89%) CCIE
2 5 (13.89%) CCNP
2 5 (13.89%) Degree
3 4 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (11.11%) VCAP
4 2 (5.56%) CCNA
4 2 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) CISM
5 1 (2.78%) CISSP
5 1 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) NCSC
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (30.56%) Docker
2 8 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.78%) Firmware
4 1 (2.78%) NFS
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) Ansible
1 11 (30.56%) Docker Swarm
1 11 (30.56%) Kubernetes
1 11 (30.56%) Prometheus
1 11 (30.56%) Puppet
1 11 (30.56%) Terraform
2 9 (25.00%) Grafana
2 9 (25.00%) Kibana
2 9 (25.00%) logstash
2 9 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 4 (11.11%) ZABBIX
4 2 (5.56%) Consul
4 2 (5.56%) Graphite
4 2 (5.56%) HAProxy
4 2 (5.56%) Istio
4 2 (5.56%) linkerd
4 2 (5.56%) Nagios
4 2 (5.56%) Packer
4 2 (5.56%) Podman
5 1 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Splunk
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (22.22%) SolarWinds
4 6 (16.67%) Cisco
5 4 (11.11%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (8.33%) F5
6 3 (8.33%) VMware
7 2 (5.56%) Google
7 2 (5.56%) Mitel
7 2 (5.56%) PagerDuty
7 2 (5.56%) Veeam
8 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.78%) SAP