TCP/IP Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 96 117 140
Rank change year-on-year +21 +23 -30
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 20 19 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.03% 0.81% 0.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.14% 5.35% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 22
10th Percentile £189 £163 £110
25th Percentile £200 £173 £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £320 £325
Median % change year-on-year +64.06% -1.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £385 £499
90th Percentile - £538 £573
England median daily rate £488 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -2.50% +8.11% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £18.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.50% +11.11%
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 389 355 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.08% 15.07% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 219 265
10th Percentile £200 £263 £164
25th Percentile £307 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £495 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.19% +23.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £503
90th Percentile £689 £700 £618
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 17
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.93
25th Percentile £13.50 £13.13 £12.38
Median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +1.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.58 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £21.80 £20.51
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the West Midlands

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the West Midlands

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the West Midlands

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the West Midlands

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Worcestershire +17 9 £550 +4.76% 6
Birmingham +17 6 £200 -38.46% 8
Coventry +11 1 - - 2
Staffordshire +3 1 - - 7
Warwickshire +2 1 - -
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) DNS
2 13 (65.00%) DHCP
3 5 (25.00%) Firewall
3 5 (25.00%) VPN
4 3 (15.00%) WAN
5 2 (10.00%) BGP
5 2 (10.00%) LAN
5 2 (10.00%) OSPF
5 2 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
6 1 (5.00%) Ethernet
6 1 (5.00%) FTP
6 1 (5.00%) Network Security
6 1 (5.00%) SMTP
6 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (5.00%) SSL
6 1 (5.00%) tcpdump
6 1 (5.00%) Unified Communications
6 1 (5.00%) VoIP
6 1 (5.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (20.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 2 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Service Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Service Desk Support
5 2 (10.00%) Service Desk Support Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) iPad
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Windows
2 8 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (35.00%) Linux
4 6 (30.00%) Unix
5 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (20.00%) Windows 10
7 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (40.00%) Virtual Environments
3 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (30.00%) SIEM
4 6 (30.00%) Visualisation
5 5 (25.00%) Information Management
5 5 (25.00%) Security Hardening
5 5 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
5 5 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) Asset Management
6 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
7 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
8 2 (10.00%) Agile
8 2 (10.00%) Change Management
8 2 (10.00%) Risk Register
8 2 (10.00%) Scrum
8 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (10.00%) Validation
8 2 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) C#
1 8 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) CCNA
3 3 (15.00%) CCNP
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (15.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.00%) PMP
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) NIST
2 2 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (10.00%) Terminal Services
5 1 (5.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) SCCM
2 5 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) VMware
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (25.00%) Veeam
4 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco
5 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) Juniper
5 1 (5.00%) Mitel
5 1 (5.00%) Splunk