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 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 97 108 148
Rank change year-on-year +11 +40 -35
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 19 23 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.98% 1.02% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.07% 6.25% 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 22
10th Percentile £195 £163 £110
25th Percentile £313 £183 £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £325 £430
Median % change year-on-year +61.54% -24.42% +47.01%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £538
90th Percentile - £628 £573
England median daily rate £488 £481 £463
% change year-on-year +1.44% +3.90% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £21.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.75% -
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
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 375 368 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.28% 16.36% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 217 274
10th Percentile £200 £263 £163
25th Percentile £307 £350 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £410
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +15.85% -0.61%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £540
90th Percentile £688 £700 £647
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 14
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.59
25th Percentile £13.44 £14.38 £13.56
Median hourly rate £16.98 £19.60 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% +15.31% +13.33%
75th Percentile £23.75 £23.68 £20.00
90th Percentile £33.16 £28.25 £20.36
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 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 2 June 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 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
Worcestershire +13 8 £550 +4.76% 4
Birmingham +14 6 £200 -38.46% 4
Warwickshire -2 2 £535 -28.67%
Coventry +11 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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (73.68%) DNS
2 12 (63.16%) DHCP
3 6 (31.58%) Firewall
4 4 (21.05%) VPN
5 3 (15.79%) WAN
6 2 (10.53%) BGP
6 2 (10.53%) LAN
6 2 (10.53%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
7 1 (5.26%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (5.26%) Network Security
7 1 (5.26%) OSPF
7 1 (5.26%) SMTP
7 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (5.26%) SSL
7 1 (5.26%) tcpdump
7 1 (5.26%) Telnet
7 1 (5.26%) Unified Communications
7 1 (5.26%) VoIP
7 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
1 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 4 (21.05%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (10.53%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Service Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Service Desk Support
4 2 (10.53%) Service Desk Support Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Support Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) iPad
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 12 (63.16%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
3 7 (36.84%) Linux
4 6 (31.58%) Unix
5 5 (26.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (21.05%) Windows 10
7 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (42.11%) Virtual Environments
3 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (31.58%) SIEM
4 6 (31.58%) Visualisation
5 5 (26.32%) Information Management
5 5 (26.32%) Security Hardening
5 5 (26.32%) Security Monitoring
5 5 (26.32%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (21.05%) Asset Management
6 4 (21.05%) Customer Service
7 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
7 3 (15.79%) Validation
8 2 (10.53%) Change Management
8 2 (10.53%) Risk Management
8 2 (10.53%) Risk Register
8 2 (10.53%) Scrum
8 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (10.53%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) C#
1 8 (42.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) DV Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) Degree
4 2 (10.53%) CCNA
4 2 (10.53%) CCNP
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
5 1 (5.26%) PMP
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) NIST
2 2 (10.53%) QA
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (26.32%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (26.32%) VMware NSX
3 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
4 2 (10.53%) Terminal Services
5 1 (5.26%) Snort
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) SCCM
2 5 (26.32%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) VMware
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) Veeam
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Juniper
4 1 (5.26%) Mitel
4 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.26%) Splunk