Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 230 280
Rank change year-on-year -32 +50 -18
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 374 702 889
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 1.17% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.56% 9.45% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 425 601
10th Percentile £188 £257 £185
25th Percentile £341 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% +10.47%
75th Percentile £563 £648 £575
90th Percentile £650 £713 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £400
% change year-on-year - +21.88% +1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 62 34
10th Percentile £16.00 £20.96 -
25th Percentile £20.00 £42.61 £20.75
Median hourly rate £56.49 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% +132.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.25 £50.46
90th Percentile £66.25 £77.50 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year - +198.85% -9.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,705 7,429 9,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.07% 12.35% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,431 4,839 6,415
10th Percentile £205 £231 £227
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £723 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £433
% change year-on-year - +9.70% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 491 363
10th Percentile £13.71 £9.80 £14.83
25th Percentile £17.69 £10.63 £17.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -32.74% +6.89%
75th Percentile £62.25 £60.53 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.21 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.95 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +153.76% -13.95% -11.34%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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
England -33 321 £475 -8.21% 321
UK excluding London -38 223 £488 - 255
London -17 123 £500 -9.09% 75
Work from Home +37 122 £525 +11.70% 126
South East -13 69 £450 -6.36% 60
Midlands +53 41 £488 +50.00% 58
North of England -12 33 £410 -21.90% 56
South West -28 25 £575 +17.95% 29
North West -21 24 £410 -21.90% 38
East Midlands +30 21 £325 -15.58% 23
East of England -10 21 £350 -17.65% 33
Scotland +41 20 £619 +40.84% 11
West Midlands +31 20 £525 +62.79% 35
Yorkshire +12 9 £624 +13.36% 16
Wales -6 9 £575 +9.52% 8
Northern Ireland -4 5 - - 5

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 29 (7.75%) Confluence
2 22 (5.88%) IIS
2 22 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (5.61%) Apache
4 19 (5.08%) SharePoint
5 18 (4.81%) Tomcat
6 9 (2.41%) nginx
7 4 (1.07%) Apache Solr
7 4 (1.07%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.80%) IBM Domino
8 3 (0.80%) IBM Notes
8 3 (0.80%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.53%) CICS
9 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.53%) Traefik
9 2 (0.53%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.27%) EPiServer
Applications
1 16 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.87%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 74 (19.79%) Azure
2 68 (18.18%) AWS
3 55 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (9.89%) GCP
5 18 (4.81%) IaaS
6 16 (4.28%) PaaS
7 15 (4.01%) Cloud Computing
8 14 (3.74%) SaaS
9 13 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (2.94%) GitHub
12 10 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.41%) Amazon S3
13 9 (2.41%) Nutanix
13 9 (2.41%) Rubrik
14 7 (1.87%) Entra ID
15 6 (1.60%) Apigee
15 6 (1.60%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 168 (44.92%) DNS
2 123 (32.89%) Firewall
3 108 (28.88%) DHCP
4 80 (21.39%) HTTP
5 78 (20.86%) VPN
6 49 (13.10%) VLAN
7 48 (12.83%) SAN
8 47 (12.57%) WAN
9 45 (12.03%) LAN
10 42 (11.23%) Network Security
11 39 (10.43%) BGP
12 35 (9.36%) OSPF
13 33 (8.82%) SSL
14 24 (6.42%) Wireshark
15 22 (5.88%) NAS
16 19 (5.08%) MPLS
16 19 (5.08%) SNMP
17 16 (4.28%) H.323
17 16 (4.28%) Internet
17 16 (4.28%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.01%) MySQL
2 12 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (2.67%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.41%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.14%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.60%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.07%) Apache Hive
7 4 (1.07%) Couchbase
7 4 (1.07%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.07%) Power BI
7 4 (1.07%) Tableau
8 3 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.53%) DB2
9 2 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.53%) Redis
10 1 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 44 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 42 (11.23%) Git
3 38 (10.16%) JIRA
4 8 (2.14%) Bitbucket
4 8 (2.14%) GitLab
4 8 (2.14%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.87%) CircleCI
5 7 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (1.87%) Travis CI
6 6 (1.60%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (1.60%) Eclipse
6 6 (1.60%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.34%) Fiddler
8 4 (1.07%) IDA Disassembler
9 2 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.53%) TestRail
10 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.27%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.27%) Selenium
General
1 89 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 44 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (10.96%) Finance
4 38 (10.16%) Telecoms
5 26 (6.95%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.81%) Legal
6 18 (4.81%) Manufacturing
7 13 (3.48%) Banking
8 11 (2.94%) Military
9 10 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.41%) Electronics
10 9 (2.41%) Marketing
11 8 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.14%) Mandarin Language
12 6 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.07%) Front Office
14 3 (0.80%) Automotive
14 3 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.80%) German Language
14 3 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (14.71%) Network Engineer
2 47 (12.57%) Developer
3 39 (10.43%) Support Engineer
4 36 (9.63%) Python Developer
5 27 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (6.68%) Analyst
6 25 (6.68%) Senior
7 21 (5.61%) IT Support
7 21 (5.61%) Linux Engineer
8 19 (5.08%) Technical Support
9 18 (4.81%) Consultant
10 17 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support
10 17 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (4.28%) Support Specialist
12 12 (3.21%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 12 (3.21%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 12 (3.21%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 11 (2.94%) Administrator
13 11 (2.94%) Linux Server Engineer
13 11 (2.94%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.42%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (5.35%) LDAP
3 17 (4.55%) XML
4 16 (4.28%) .NET
5 15 (4.01%) JSON
5 15 (4.01%) REST
6 12 (3.21%) Web Services
7 10 (2.67%) YAML
8 8 (2.14%) SOAP
9 7 (1.87%) CSS
9 7 (1.87%) SAML
10 6 (1.60%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.60%) Node.js
11 5 (1.34%) RESTful
11 5 (1.34%) Twisted
12 4 (1.07%) .NET Framework
12 4 (1.07%) LEMP Stack
12 4 (1.07%) OLE
12 4 (1.07%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (0.80%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.82%) Management Information System
2 28 (7.49%) Data Centre
3 18 (4.81%) Clustering
4 16 (4.28%) IVR
5 15 (4.01%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (2.94%) PKI
6 11 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.41%) iPad
8 8 (2.14%) Replication
8 8 (2.14%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (1.60%) CCTV
9 6 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.60%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.34%) Distributed Applications
10 5 (1.34%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.07%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.07%) CMDB
11 4 (1.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.07%) IoT
11 4 (1.07%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 157 (41.98%) Windows
2 149 (39.84%) Linux
3 51 (13.64%) Windows Server
4 44 (11.76%) Unix
5 37 (9.89%) Windows 10
6 34 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 25 (6.68%) Ubuntu
8 21 (5.61%) Debian
9 13 (3.48%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (2.41%) Solaris
11 8 (2.14%) CentOS
11 8 (2.14%) Oracle Linux
11 8 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (1.07%) Embedded Linux
12 4 (1.07%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.80%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.80%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.53%) VMS
14 2 (0.53%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (20.32%) Agile
2 55 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 53 (14.17%) DevOps
3 53 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (13.64%) ITIL
5 48 (12.83%) Customer Service
6 47 (12.57%) CI/CD
7 40 (10.70%) Configuration Management
7 40 (10.70%) Cybersecurity
8 36 (9.63%) Migration
9 34 (9.09%) SIEM
10 33 (8.82%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 31 (8.29%) Change Management
12 26 (6.95%) Project Management
13 25 (6.68%) Computer Science
14 23 (6.15%) Containerisation
14 23 (6.15%) Data Protection
14 23 (6.15%) Infrastructure Automation
15 22 (5.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 102 (27.27%) Python
2 51 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 37 (9.89%) Bash
4 30 (8.02%) Java
5 26 (6.95%) C#
6 25 (6.68%) SQL
7 22 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 22 (5.88%) Perl
8 17 (4.55%) C++
9 9 (2.41%) Go
10 8 (2.14%) C
11 7 (1.87%) PHP
12 4 (1.07%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.80%) Ruby
13 3 (0.80%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.80%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.27%) Rust
14 1 (0.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 88 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 59 (15.78%) Degree
3 52 (13.90%) SC Cleared
4 46 (12.30%) DV Cleared
5 43 (11.50%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (8.29%) CCNA
7 30 (8.02%) CCNP
8 15 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (2.67%) CISSP
10 10 (2.67%) MCSE
11 8 (2.14%) CCDP
11 8 (2.14%) CISM
12 6 (1.60%) CCIE
12 6 (1.60%) CEH
13 5 (1.34%) PMP
14 4 (1.07%) APMP
14 4 (1.07%) AWS Certification
14 4 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.42%) QA
2 20 (5.35%) NIST
3 18 (4.81%) GDPR
4 17 (4.55%) SLA
5 14 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (2.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (1.87%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.07%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.80%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.80%) NCSC
10 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.27%) COPPA
11 1 (0.27%) HL7
11 1 (0.27%) ISA99
11 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 89 (23.80%) Active Directory
2 57 (15.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (9.36%) Docker
4 16 (4.28%) VMware NSX
5 15 (4.01%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (4.01%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (3.48%) Hyper-V
6 13 (3.48%) Virtual Servers
7 11 (2.94%) vSphere
8 6 (1.60%) NFS
9 5 (1.34%) Samba
9 5 (1.34%) Snort
9 5 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.07%) Firmware
10 4 (1.07%) VirtualBox
10 4 (1.07%) XenApp
11 3 (0.80%) KVM
11 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.80%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.53%) Squid
Systems Management
1 60 (16.04%) Terraform
2 56 (14.97%) Ansible
3 36 (9.63%) Kubernetes
4 28 (7.49%) SCCM
5 24 (6.42%) Puppet
6 19 (5.08%) Kibana
6 19 (5.08%) Progress Chef
7 15 (4.01%) Grafana
7 15 (4.01%) Prometheus
8 13 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (3.21%) logstash
10 11 (2.94%) FortiGate
11 10 (2.67%) Nagios
12 9 (2.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (2.41%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (2.14%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (2.14%) Netcool
13 8 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (2.14%) Tivoli
13 8 (2.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 134 (35.83%) Microsoft
2 92 (24.60%) VMware
3 75 (20.05%) Cisco
4 44 (11.76%) Red Hat
5 39 (10.43%) Splunk
6 24 (6.42%) F5
7 21 (5.61%) Palo Alto
8 20 (5.35%) HP
9 18 (4.81%) Google
9 18 (4.81%) ServiceNow
10 17 (4.55%) Avaya
10 17 (4.55%) Dell
11 16 (4.28%) Oracle
12 14 (3.74%) IBM
13 13 (3.48%) Fortinet
13 13 (3.48%) SolarWinds
13 13 (3.48%) Verint
14 12 (3.21%) CheckPoint
15 11 (2.94%) Remedy
15 11 (2.94%) Veeam