TCP/IP Contracts in the South East

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 131 129 152
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 -43
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 65 91 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.18% 1.58% 1.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.29% 9.52% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 60 65
10th Percentile £169 £299 £147
25th Percentile £266 £322 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £260
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% +84.83% -42.22%
75th Percentile £538 £552 £400
90th Percentile £550 £655 £585
England median daily rate £488 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -2.50% +8.11% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 12
10th Percentile - £20.40 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £46.44 £20.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £62.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.62% +190.93% +7.50%
75th Percentile £19.50 £63.72 £23.31
90th Percentile - £66.00 £54.40
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
South East

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 South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,228 956 1,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.23% 16.55% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 579 775
10th Percentile £205 £241 £188
25th Percentile £363 £366 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.41% +8.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £648 £700 £657
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 73 69
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.25 £15.54
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £53.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% +148.84% -49.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +18 37 £525 -4.55% 26
Buckinghamshire +27 23 £525 -4.55% 4
Surrey +18 20 £350 +12.90% 14
Berkshire -5 13 £150 -69.23% 15
West Sussex +9 5 £450 +5.88% 3
Hampshire -30 2 £338 -34.15% 12
Oxfordshire - 1 £180 - 7
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (9.23%) Confluence
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (9.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.38%) Azure
1 10 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (9.23%) AWS
3 3 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.08%) GitHub
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.54%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 21 (32.31%) SAN
2 18 (27.69%) Firewall
3 16 (24.62%) DNS
4 14 (21.54%) DHCP
5 13 (20.00%) VPN
6 11 (16.92%) VLAN
7 10 (15.38%) LAN
7 10 (15.38%) WAN
8 7 (10.77%) VoIP
8 7 (10.77%) Wireless
9 6 (9.23%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (7.69%) iSCSI
11 4 (6.15%) NAS
11 4 (6.15%) SSL
12 3 (4.62%) Network Security
13 2 (3.08%) 4G
13 2 (3.08%) Cisco ISE
13 2 (3.08%) MPLS
14 1 (1.54%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (3.08%) MySQL
1 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
1 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
1 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) JIRA
2 4 (6.15%) Artifactory
2 4 (6.15%) Bitbucket
2 4 (6.15%) Git
2 4 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.08%) TestRail
General
1 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.62%) Front Office
3 2 (3.08%) Automotive
3 2 (3.08%) Finance
3 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (38.46%) Developer
2 23 (35.38%) Python Developer
3 11 (16.92%) Support Specialist
4 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (12.31%) IT Support
5 6 (9.23%) Technical Specialist
5 6 (9.23%) Technical Support
5 6 (9.23%) Technical Support Specialist
6 5 (7.69%) Analyst
6 5 (7.69%) IT Support Specialist
6 5 (7.69%) Network Specialist
6 5 (7.69%) Network Support
6 5 (7.69%) Network Support Specialist
6 5 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Development Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Security Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) Software Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Software Development Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) .NET
2 4 (6.15%) RESTful
2 4 (6.15%) SOAP
2 4 (6.15%) XML
3 2 (3.08%) 802.1X
3 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.62%) IoT
2 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.54%) CMDB
3 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 33 (50.77%) Linux
2 23 (35.38%) Windows
3 19 (29.23%) Ubuntu
4 16 (24.62%) Debian
5 9 (13.85%) Unix
6 7 (10.77%) Windows 10
7 4 (6.15%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (4.62%) Windows Server
9 2 (3.08%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.54%) Android
10 1 (1.54%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.31%) Agile
2 19 (29.23%) Customer Service
3 18 (27.69%) ITIL
4 16 (24.62%) Data Modelling
5 13 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 13 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 13 (20.00%) Prototyping
5 13 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 10 (15.38%) Matrix Organization
6 10 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 8 (12.31%) Computer Science
7 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (9.23%) End-to-End Testing
8 6 (9.23%) Knowledge Management
8 6 (9.23%) Scrum
8 6 (9.23%) Test Automation
9 5 (7.69%) Change Management
9 5 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (7.69%) Patch Management
9 5 (7.69%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.08%) Python
2 8 (12.31%) SQL
3 6 (9.23%) C++
4 5 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.15%) C#
6 3 (4.62%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.08%) C
7 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 24 (36.92%) SC Cleared
3 21 (32.31%) Degree
4 17 (26.15%) DV Cleared
5 9 (13.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (10.77%) CCNA
6 7 (10.77%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (7.69%) MCSE
8 4 (6.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (4.62%) CCNP
9 3 (4.62%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (3.08%) HNC
10 2 (3.08%) ISTQB
10 2 (3.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.54%) BC Cleared
11 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.46%) SLA
2 5 (7.69%) QA
3 3 (4.62%) ISO 9001
3 3 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (24.62%) Active Directory
2 13 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (12.31%) vSphere
4 7 (10.77%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (6.15%) Firmware
5 4 (6.15%) Hyper-V
5 4 (6.15%) VirtualBox
6 2 (3.08%) XenApp
7 1 (1.54%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) SCCM
2 4 (6.15%) WSUS
3 3 (4.62%) Nessus
4 2 (3.08%) Ansible
4 2 (3.08%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (3.08%) Grafana
4 2 (3.08%) Graylog
4 2 (3.08%) Nagios
4 2 (3.08%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (3.08%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.08%) Terraform
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 37 (56.92%) Microsoft
2 35 (53.85%) VMware
3 16 (24.62%) Red Hat
4 7 (10.77%) ServiceNow
5 6 (9.23%) HP
6 5 (7.69%) Cisco
7 4 (6.15%) CheckPoint
7 4 (6.15%) Oracle
7 4 (6.15%) Splunk
8 3 (4.62%) Citrix
9 2 (3.08%) Atmel
9 2 (3.08%) Dell
9 2 (3.08%) F5
9 2 (3.08%) Meraki
9 2 (3.08%) Palo Alto
9 2 (3.08%) Qualys
9 2 (3.08%) Remedy
9 2 (3.08%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.54%) Alcatel-Lucent
10 1 (1.54%) Avaya