TCP/IP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 271 284
Rank change year-on-year +31 +13 +7
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 108 196 406
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.74% 0.81% 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.04% 7.01% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 131 248
10th Percentile £257 £263 £271
25th Percentile £359 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -5.26% +6.38%
75th Percentile £571 £640 £575
90th Percentile £622 £719 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +2.51% +2.68% +8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 20
10th Percentile £19.45 - -
25th Percentile £20.88 £18.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £25.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £44.38 £65.00 £48.62
90th Percentile £56.75 - £66.15
UK 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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,535 2,798 4,427
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.49% 11.61% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,870 3,025
10th Percentile £300 £343 £313
25th Percentile £413 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £646 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 94 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.80 £19.21
25th Percentile £14.00 £42.50 £28.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.16 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.55% +16.13% +22.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.19 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%

TCP/IP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

TCP/IP trend for jobs with a WFH option

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing TCP/IP.

TCP/IP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

TCP/IP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing TCP/IP.

TCP/IP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

TCP/IP hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 21 (19.44%) Confluence
2 7 (6.48%) nginx
3 4 (3.70%) Apache Solr
4 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.85%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.85%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.93%) Apache
6 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.93%) AWS
2 21 (19.44%) Azure
3 19 (17.59%) GCP
4 10 (9.26%) IaaS
5 8 (7.41%) SaaS
6 7 (6.48%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (6.48%) PaaS
7 5 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (4.63%) GitHub
7 5 (4.63%) Nutanix
7 5 (4.63%) Rubrik
8 4 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (2.78%) Kong
9 3 (2.78%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.85%) Apigee
11 1 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.93%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 42 (38.89%) DNS
2 41 (37.96%) Firewall
3 27 (25.00%) DHCP
4 25 (23.15%) VPN
5 18 (16.67%) HTTP
5 18 (16.67%) VLAN
6 17 (15.74%) Network Security
7 16 (14.81%) SAN
8 13 (12.04%) BGP
9 12 (11.11%) OSPF
10 9 (8.33%) MPLS
10 9 (8.33%) WAN
11 8 (7.41%) IPsec
11 8 (7.41%) LAN
11 8 (7.41%) Wireshark
12 7 (6.48%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (6.48%) Internet
12 7 (6.48%) SNMP
13 6 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.48%) MySQL
1 7 (6.48%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.70%) Apache Hive
2 4 (3.70%) Couchbase
2 4 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.70%) Hadoop
2 4 (3.70%) Tableau
3 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.85%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.85%) Redis
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.93%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.93%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 23 (21.30%) JIRA
2 17 (15.74%) Git
3 14 (12.96%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.48%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.63%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.70%) CircleCI
6 4 (3.70%) IDA Disassembler
6 4 (3.70%) Travis CI
7 3 (2.78%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.78%) GitLab
7 3 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.93%) Darcs
8 1 (0.93%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.93%) Maven
8 1 (0.93%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.93%) Selenium
8 1 (0.93%) TestRail
8 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (12.04%) Finance
4 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.48%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.63%) Legal
5 5 (4.63%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Automotive
7 2 (1.85%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.85%) Front Office
7 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Aviation
8 1 (0.93%) Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Electronics
8 1 (0.93%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Marketing
8 1 (0.93%) Military
8 1 (0.93%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 18 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 16 (14.81%) Developer
3 12 (11.11%) Senior
4 11 (10.19%) Python Developer
5 8 (7.41%) Consultant
5 8 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (7.41%) Test Engineer
6 7 (6.48%) Analyst
6 7 (6.48%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.63%) Security Analyst
7 5 (4.63%) Support Officer
7 5 (4.63%) Technical Support
7 5 (4.63%) Technical Support Officer
8 4 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 4 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Senior Integration Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.33%) XML
2 7 (6.48%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (6.48%) JSON
2 7 (6.48%) YAML
3 5 (4.63%) LDAP
3 5 (4.63%) REST
3 5 (4.63%) SOAP
4 4 (3.70%) CSS
4 4 (3.70%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (3.70%) OLE
4 4 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (3.70%) Web Services
5 3 (2.78%) RESTful
6 2 (1.85%) .NET
6 2 (1.85%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.85%) HTML
6 2 (1.85%) React
7 1 (0.93%) Ajax
7 1 (0.93%) Django
7 1 (0.93%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.26%) Clustering
2 6 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.63%) Replication
4 4 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.70%) YARA
5 3 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (2.78%) PKI
5 3 (2.78%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.93%) CMDB
7 1 (0.93%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) IoT
7 1 (0.93%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (41.67%) Linux
2 40 (37.04%) Windows
3 13 (12.04%) Ubuntu
4 11 (10.19%) Debian
5 8 (7.41%) Windows Server
6 5 (4.63%) CentOS
6 5 (4.63%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (4.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.63%) Solaris
6 5 (4.63%) Unix
7 4 (3.70%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (2.78%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.85%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.85%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.93%) Android
10 1 (0.93%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (33.33%) Agile
2 22 (20.37%) DevOps
2 22 (20.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 17 (15.74%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (14.81%) Configuration Management
7 15 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (12.96%) CI/CD
8 14 (12.96%) ITIL
8 14 (12.96%) Software Engineering
8 14 (12.96%) Vulnerability Management
9 12 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (11.11%) Data Engineering
9 12 (11.11%) Information Security
9 12 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
9 12 (11.11%) SIEM
10 11 (10.19%) Computer Science
10 11 (10.19%) Mentoring
10 11 (10.19%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 37 (34.26%) Python
2 17 (15.74%) PowerShell
3 16 (14.81%) Bash
4 11 (10.19%) C++
5 8 (7.41%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.48%) PHP
7 6 (5.56%) C
7 6 (5.56%) SQL
8 5 (4.63%) Go
9 4 (3.70%) C#
9 4 (3.70%) Java
10 3 (2.78%) Perl
11 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.85%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.93%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.93%) Ruby
12 1 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 25 (23.15%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.74%) SC Cleared
3 16 (14.81%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (12.96%) Degree
4 14 (12.96%) DV Cleared
5 11 (10.19%) CCNA
5 11 (10.19%) CCNP
6 7 (6.48%) CCDP
7 5 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.70%) APMP
8 4 (3.70%) CEH
8 4 (3.70%) CISM
8 4 (3.70%) CISSP
8 4 (3.70%) PMP
9 3 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.85%) BC Cleared
10 2 (1.85%) CCIP
10 2 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.96%) GDPR
2 11 (10.19%) QA
3 10 (9.26%) NIST
4 8 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (4.63%) HIPAA
5 5 (4.63%) PCI DSS
5 5 (4.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.85%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (1.85%) SLA
7 1 (0.93%) COPPA
7 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 19 (17.59%) Active Directory
1 19 (17.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (15.74%) Docker
3 9 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (7.41%) vSphere
5 6 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (5.56%) VMware NSX
6 5 (4.63%) Snort
6 5 (4.63%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (2.78%) VirtualBox
8 2 (1.85%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.85%) Squid
8 2 (1.85%) XenApp
9 1 (0.93%) Firmware
9 1 (0.93%) iptables
Systems Management
1 30 (27.78%) Terraform
2 24 (22.22%) Ansible
3 18 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 11 (10.19%) Kibana
5 5 (4.63%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (4.63%) Grafana
5 5 (4.63%) Nessus
5 5 (4.63%) Netcool
5 5 (4.63%) Puppet
5 5 (4.63%) Tivoli
5 5 (4.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (3.70%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (3.70%) logstash
6 4 (3.70%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.70%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.78%) WSUS
8 2 (1.85%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (1.85%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.85%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.93%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 30 (27.78%) VMware
2 29 (26.85%) Microsoft
3 26 (24.07%) Cisco
4 19 (17.59%) Splunk
5 14 (12.96%) Red Hat
6 13 (12.04%) Google
7 10 (9.26%) Oracle
7 10 (9.26%) Palo Alto
8 8 (7.41%) Qualys
9 6 (5.56%) Arista
9 6 (5.56%) Aruba
9 6 (5.56%) CyberArk
9 6 (5.56%) HP
9 6 (5.56%) ServiceNow
10 5 (4.63%) Atlassian
10 5 (4.63%) Dell
10 5 (4.63%) EMC
10 5 (4.63%) IBM
10 5 (4.63%) Isilon
10 5 (4.63%) Juniper