TCP/IP Contracts in the Thames Valley

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 116 122
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -19
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 28 31 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.08% 1.10% 1.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.05% 6.86% 7.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 25
10th Percentile £148 £415 £156
25th Percentile £506 £481 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £350
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +54.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £520
90th Percentile £550 £560 £610
South East median daily rate £450 £478 £263
% change year-on-year -5.81% +82.01% -34.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £28.00 £29.20
25th Percentile £18.50 £42.25 £34.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £66.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.21% +45.05% +97.83%
75th Percentile £19.50 - £57.25
90th Percentile - - £63.40
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £62.55 £21.50
% change year-on-year -69.62% +190.93% +7.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 554 452 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 21.27% 16.06% 17.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 280 351
10th Percentile £205 £300 £206
25th Percentile £335 £400 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% +2.68% +18.75%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £553
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £488 £481 £453
% change year-on-year +1.44% +6.08% +6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 15 21
10th Percentile £17.15 £18.90 £12.25
25th Percentile £23.10 £22.25 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +288.24% -32.67%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £20.00
90th Percentile £87.49 £81.22 £26.50
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.26% +167.44% -34.35%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the Thames Valley

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the Thames Valley

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the Thames Valley

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the Thames Valley

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 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
Buckinghamshire +26 17 £525 -4.55% 5
Berkshire -14 11 £150 -69.23% 7
TCP/IP
South East

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (17.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (10.71%) Azure
3 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.57%) AWS
4 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (35.71%) SAN
2 8 (28.57%) LAN
2 8 (28.57%) WAN
3 5 (17.86%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (14.29%) Firewall
5 2 (7.14%) VPN
6 1 (3.57%) BGP
6 1 (3.57%) DNS
6 1 (3.57%) DSL
6 1 (3.57%) EIGRP
6 1 (3.57%) Ethernet
6 1 (3.57%) Internet
6 1 (3.57%) IPsec
6 1 (3.57%) MPLS
6 1 (3.57%) Network Security
6 1 (3.57%) OSPF
6 1 (3.57%) PPP
6 1 (3.57%) TACACS
6 1 (3.57%) Unified Communications
6 1 (3.57%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.57%) MySQL
1 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Developer
2 17 (60.71%) Python Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Support Specialist
3 5 (17.86%) Technical Specialist
3 5 (17.86%) Technical Support
3 5 (17.86%) Technical Support Specialist
4 4 (14.29%) Backend Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Analyst Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Developer Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Linux Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Programmer
5 3 (10.71%) Python Programmer
5 3 (10.71%) Security Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Head of Information
6 2 (7.14%) Head of Information Security
6 2 (7.14%) Head of Operations
6 2 (7.14%) Head of Security
7 1 (3.57%) Embedded Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Embedded Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) .NET
1 2 (7.14%) 802.1X
1 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) IoT
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (39.29%) Linux
2 10 (35.71%) Debian
2 10 (35.71%) Ubuntu
3 8 (28.57%) Windows
4 5 (17.86%) Windows 10
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Customer Service
2 10 (35.71%) Data Modelling
3 9 (32.14%) Agile
3 9 (32.14%) Configuration Management
3 9 (32.14%) Data Engineering
3 9 (32.14%) ITIL
3 9 (32.14%) Prototyping
3 9 (32.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 6 (21.43%) Matrix Organization
4 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 5 (17.86%) Knowledge Management
6 2 (7.14%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (7.14%) Incident Response
6 2 (7.14%) Information Security
6 2 (7.14%) OO
6 2 (7.14%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (7.14%) SIEM
6 2 (7.14%) SOLID
6 2 (7.14%) TDD
6 2 (7.14%) YAGNI
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) C
2 2 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (82.14%) Security Cleared
2 18 (64.29%) SC Cleared
3 11 (39.29%) DV Cleared
4 5 (17.86%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) BC Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.57%) CCDP
5 1 (3.57%) CCIP
5 1 (3.57%) CCNA
5 1 (3.57%) CCNP
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) SLA
2 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
2 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) SCCM
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (7.14%) Nessus
2 2 (7.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) Graylog
3 1 (3.57%) Nagios
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (67.86%) VMware
2 17 (60.71%) Microsoft
3 10 (35.71%) Red Hat
4 5 (17.86%) HP
4 5 (17.86%) ServiceNow
5 3 (10.71%) Cisco
5 3 (10.71%) Splunk
6 2 (7.14%) Atmel
6 2 (7.14%) CheckPoint
6 2 (7.14%) Citrix
7 1 (3.57%) ADVA
7 1 (3.57%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 1 (3.57%) Juniper
7 1 (3.57%) Remedy