TCP/IP Contracts in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 102 115
Rank change year-on-year -16 +13 -2
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 19 61 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.70% 1.92% 1.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.54% 14.19% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 36 49
10th Percentile £353 £263 £132
25th Percentile £395 £313 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +23.53% +10.39%
75th Percentile £520 £638 £638
90th Percentile £548 £650 £650
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 £65.00 £63.78 £28.00
% change year-on-year +1.92% +127.77% -29.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 343 430 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.67% 13.56% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 299 352
10th Percentile £199 £288 £181
25th Percentile £313 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £663 £568 £588
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 12
10th Percentile £17.72 £17.92 £11.71
25th Percentile £18.48 £19.17 £15.91
Median hourly rate £26.75 £31.25 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +62.34% -59.41%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £46.34
90th Percentile £83.76 £52.13 £64.38
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Manchester -10 11 £410 -34.40% 13
Cheshire -3 7 £475 +46.15% 20
Cumbria - 1 £500 - 2
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (10.53%) nginx
1 2 (10.53%) Traefik
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) IIS
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) Azure
2 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 9 (47.37%) GCP
3 5 (26.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.53%) IaaS
5 2 (10.53%) PaaS
5 2 (10.53%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) DNS
2 7 (36.84%) BGP
2 7 (36.84%) VLAN
2 7 (36.84%) VPN
3 6 (31.58%) OSPF
4 5 (26.32%) DHCP
5 4 (21.05%) MPLS
5 4 (21.05%) Value-Added Service
5 4 (21.05%) Wireshark
6 2 (10.53%) Firewall
6 2 (10.53%) HTTP
6 2 (10.53%) LAN
7 1 (5.26%) H.323
7 1 (5.26%) HTTPS
7 1 (5.26%) IPsec
7 1 (5.26%) SNMP
7 1 (5.26%) SSH
7 1 (5.26%) WAN
7 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) GitLab
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Network Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) C++ Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Support
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) IT Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) IT Support Technician
4 1 (5.26%) IT Technician
4 1 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Network Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Support Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) cloud-init
1 2 (10.53%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Clustering
1 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
1 2 (10.53%) PKI
1 2 (10.53%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) CMDB
2 1 (5.26%) IVR
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
3 2 (10.53%) CentOS
4 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
4 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (31.58%) Change Management
3 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
3 4 (21.05%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (21.05%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
4 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) Migration
5 2 (10.53%) Capacity Management
5 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (10.53%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
5 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
5 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.53%) Network Design
5 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) Bash
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) C++
3 2 (10.53%) Go
3 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) Ruby
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (26.32%) CCIE
2 5 (26.32%) CCNP
3 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (21.05%) Degree
3 4 (21.05%) VCAP
4 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) CCNA
5 1 (5.26%) CISM
5 1 (5.26%) CISSP
5 1 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) NCSC
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.26%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) ZABBIX
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) Consul
2 2 (10.53%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (10.53%) Graphite
2 2 (10.53%) HAProxy
2 2 (10.53%) Istio
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) linkerd
2 2 (10.53%) Packer
2 2 (10.53%) Podman
2 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
2 2 (10.53%) Puppet
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.26%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) SolarWinds
2 4 (21.05%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (15.79%) Google
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco
4 2 (10.53%) PagerDuty
4 2 (10.53%) Splunk
4 2 (10.53%) VMware
5 1 (5.26%) Avaya
5 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.26%) SAP
5 1 (5.26%) Verint