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 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 138 120 146
Rank change year-on-year -18 +26 -32
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 63 93 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.12% 1.64% 1.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.24% 9.61% 8.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 58 73
10th Percentile £184 £284 £185
25th Percentile £265 £313 £237
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £350
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +37.30% -12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £520
90th Percentile £550 £611 £650
England median daily rate £488 £481 £463
% change year-on-year +1.44% +3.90% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 14
10th Percentile - £18.50 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £29.63 £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 £65.24 £40.38
90th Percentile - £67.10 £53.75
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
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 1,203 968 1,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.30% 17.08% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 575 782
10th Percentile £205 £245 £206
25th Percentile £375 £367 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% +6.79% +5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £562
90th Percentile £650 £700 £653
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 72 78
10th Percentile £16.68 £18.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £27.13 £42.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £58.20 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +170.71% -42.28%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.44 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.98
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 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 2 June 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 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
Surrey +24 28 £325 +4.84% 10
Thames Valley +5 27 £525 +7.58% 10
Buckinghamshire +27 17 £525 -4.55% 5
Berkshire -20 10 £150 -66.57% 3
West Sussex - 4 £450 - 1
Hampshire -28 3 £672 +22.18% 16
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 10 (15.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (12.70%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.46%) Azure
2 8 (12.70%) AWS
3 6 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.17%) GitHub
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.59%) GCP
5 1 (1.59%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 24 (38.10%) Firewall
2 17 (26.98%) VLAN
3 15 (23.81%) DNS
3 15 (23.81%) SAN
4 12 (19.05%) DHCP
4 12 (19.05%) VPN
4 12 (19.05%) Wireless
5 8 (12.70%) LAN
5 8 (12.70%) WAN
6 7 (11.11%) VoIP
7 5 (7.94%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (7.94%) iSCSI
7 5 (7.94%) Network Security
8 4 (6.35%) NAS
8 4 (6.35%) SSL
9 3 (4.76%) 4G
9 3 (4.76%) BGP
9 3 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (3.17%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (3.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.59%) MySQL
1 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (14.29%) JIRA
2 4 (6.35%) Artifactory
2 4 (6.35%) Bitbucket
2 4 (6.35%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.35%) TestRail
General
1 8 (12.70%) Finance
1 8 (12.70%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.35%) Automotive
2 4 (6.35%) Financial Institution
3 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.76%) Front Office
4 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (28.57%) Developer
2 16 (25.40%) Python Developer
3 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Support Specialist
5 7 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) IT Support
7 5 (7.94%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) IT Support Specialist
7 5 (7.94%) Network Specialist
7 5 (7.94%) Network Support
7 5 (7.94%) Network Support Specialist
7 5 (7.94%) Support Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Test Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (6.35%) Backend Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Security Analyst
8 4 (6.35%) Software Development Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Software Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Systems Test Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) .NET
2 4 (6.35%) RESTful
2 4 (6.35%) SOAP
2 4 (6.35%) XML
3 2 (3.17%) 802.1X
3 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.76%) IoT
2 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 27 (42.86%) Linux
2 18 (28.57%) Windows
3 13 (20.63%) Ubuntu
4 11 (17.46%) Unix
5 10 (15.87%) Debian
6 4 (6.35%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (4.76%) Windows 10
7 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
7 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (3.17%) Apple iOS
8 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.98%) Agile
2 15 (23.81%) Customer Service
3 13 (20.63%) ITIL
4 10 (15.87%) Data Modelling
4 10 (15.87%) Software Engineering
5 9 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 9 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (14.29%) Prototyping
5 9 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 8 (12.70%) End-to-End Testing
6 8 (12.70%) Scrum
6 8 (12.70%) Test Automation
7 7 (11.11%) Computer Science
8 6 (9.52%) Matrix Organization
8 6 (9.52%) Proactive Monitoring
8 6 (9.52%) TDD
9 5 (7.94%) Business Case
9 5 (7.94%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (7.94%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.33%) Python
2 9 (14.29%) SQL
3 6 (9.52%) C++
4 5 (7.94%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.35%) C#
5 4 (6.35%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.76%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.17%) C
Qualifications
1 22 (34.92%) Security Cleared
2 19 (30.16%) SC Cleared
3 18 (28.57%) Degree
4 10 (15.87%) DV Cleared
5 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (11.11%) CCNA
6 7 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (7.94%) MCSE
8 4 (6.35%) HNC
8 4 (6.35%) ISTQB
8 4 (6.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (6.35%) Master's Degree
8 4 (6.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (4.76%) CCNP
9 3 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.59%) BC Cleared
10 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.59%) CCDP
10 1 (1.59%) CCIP
10 1 (1.59%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) SLA
2 6 (9.52%) QA
3 3 (4.76%) ISO 9001
3 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.59%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (26.98%) Active Directory
2 16 (25.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (17.46%) vSphere
4 7 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (6.35%) Firmware
5 4 (6.35%) VirtualBox
5 4 (6.35%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (4.76%) Hyper-V
7 2 (3.17%) XenApp
8 1 (1.59%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (14.29%) SCCM
2 8 (12.70%) Nessus
2 8 (12.70%) WSUS
3 2 (3.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 2 (3.17%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (1.59%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (1.59%) Ansible
4 1 (1.59%) Grafana
4 1 (1.59%) Graylog
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.59%) Nagios
4 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (50.79%) VMware
2 30 (47.62%) Microsoft
3 10 (15.87%) Red Hat
4 9 (14.29%) Cisco
5 7 (11.11%) Qualys
6 4 (6.35%) Avaya
6 4 (6.35%) CheckPoint
6 4 (6.35%) Citrix
6 4 (6.35%) Oracle
7 3 (4.76%) Dell
7 3 (4.76%) HP
7 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow
7 3 (4.76%) Splunk
8 2 (3.17%) Apple
8 2 (3.17%) Atmel
8 2 (3.17%) F5
8 2 (3.17%) Genesys
8 2 (3.17%) Meraki
8 2 (3.17%) Palo Alto
8 2 (3.17%) SolarWinds