TCP/IP Contracts in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 120 105 104
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 27 67 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.85% 1.86% 2.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.18% 10.82% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 31 41
10th Percentile - £163 £188
25th Percentile £469 £369 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +21.88% +33.33%
75th Percentile £625 £531 £479
90th Percentile £713 £620 £525
England median daily rate £488 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -2.50% +8.11% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 23 6
10th Percentile £56.49 £27.02 £46.55
25th Percentile £61.94 £57.33 £51.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £60.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +8.04% +14.39%
75th Percentile £66.56 £77.50 £68.30
90th Percentile £73.28 £79.55 £72.90
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
South 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 South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 521 619 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.34% 17.16% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 399 300
10th Percentile £285 £217 £225
25th Percentile £461 £400 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £546
90th Percentile £700 £719 £619
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 122 31
10th Percentile £12.53 - £41.43
25th Percentile £15.75 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +8.73%
75th Percentile £69.56 £60.00 £64.62
90th Percentile £84.30 £77.35 £69.05
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in the South West over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Bristol +8 11 £488 -2.50% 13
Dorset +5 7 £488 - 1
Gloucestershire +7 4 £600 - 4
Somerset -5 2 £319 -32.00% 6
Wiltshire -10 2 £675 +42.11% 8
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 4 (14.81%) Apache Solr
1 4 (14.81%) Confluence
1 4 (14.81%) nginx
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.70%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (7.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) GCP
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.70%) AWS
3 1 (3.70%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 14 (51.85%) DNS
2 8 (29.63%) DHCP
3 6 (22.22%) Firewall
4 5 (18.52%) HTTPS
4 5 (18.52%) IPsec
4 5 (18.52%) VPN
4 5 (18.52%) WAN
5 4 (14.81%) Ethernet
5 4 (14.81%) Network Security
6 3 (11.11%) BGP
6 3 (11.11%) OSPF
6 3 (11.11%) SNMP
7 2 (7.41%) HTTP
7 2 (7.41%) LAN
7 2 (7.41%) Skype
7 2 (7.41%) SMTP
8 1 (3.70%) 4G
8 1 (3.70%) 5G
8 1 (3.70%) FTP
8 1 (3.70%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Couchbase
1 4 (14.81%) MySQL
1 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Bitbucket
1 4 (14.81%) Eclipse
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
1 4 (14.81%) Visual Studio
2 2 (7.41%) Artifactory
2 2 (7.41%) Rational DOORS
General
1 16 (59.26%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Military
3 4 (14.81%) Legal
3 4 (14.81%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Senior
2 4 (14.81%) C# Software Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) C++ Software Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Integration Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Network Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Senior Test Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Software Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Test Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Principal Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) JSON
1 4 (14.81%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (14.81%) Node.js
1 4 (14.81%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (14.81%) Web Services
1 4 (14.81%) YAML
2 1 (3.70%) LDAP
2 1 (3.70%) SPML
2 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
1 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.41%) PKI
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (59.26%) Linux
2 13 (48.15%) Windows
3 4 (14.81%) CentOS
3 4 (14.81%) Unix
3 4 (14.81%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.70%) Mac OS X
5 1 (3.70%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Agile
2 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.93%) ITIL
4 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (22.22%) Visualisation
5 5 (18.52%) Configuration Management
6 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (14.81%) Digital Twin
6 4 (14.81%) Information Security
6 4 (14.81%) Migration
6 4 (14.81%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (14.81%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (14.81%) SDLC
6 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) TDD
6 4 (14.81%) Unit Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) C#
1 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.81%) Bash
2 4 (14.81%) C
2 4 (14.81%) C++
2 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
2 4 (14.81%) PHP
2 4 (14.81%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (48.15%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.93%) DV Cleared
3 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 4 (14.81%) Degree
5 2 (7.41%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (3.70%) CEH
6 1 (3.70%) CREST Certified
6 1 (3.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) NIST
2 4 (14.81%) GDPR
2 4 (14.81%) HIPAA
2 4 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (14.81%) QA
3 2 (7.41%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (22.22%) VMware NSX
2 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.81%) vSphere
4 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
5 2 (7.41%) Docker
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (7.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (7.41%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (3.70%) Samba
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Ansible
1 8 (29.63%) Terraform
2 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 4 (14.81%) SCCM
4 3 (11.11%) FortiGate
5 2 (7.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (7.41%) OPNET
5 2 (7.41%) SCOM
5 2 (7.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) Atlassian
3 5 (18.52%) VMware
4 4 (14.81%) Google
5 3 (11.11%) Cisco
5 3 (11.11%) F5
5 3 (11.11%) Fortinet
6 2 (7.41%) Remedy
6 2 (7.41%) SolarWinds
6 2 (7.41%) Sparx
6 2 (7.41%) Veeam
7 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.70%) Nokia
7 1 (3.70%) Red Hat