TCP/IP Contracts

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 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 284 239 270
Rank change year-on-year -45 +31 +16
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 333 613 891
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 1.09% 1.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.14% 8.60% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 386 584
10th Percentile £188 £223 £185
25th Percentile £322 £325 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% +2.68% +8.94%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £575
90th Percentile £650 £750 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +8.33% +12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 40 38
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 -
25th Percentile £20.00 £31.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.33 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.38% +27.40% +39.53%
75th Percentile - £67.00 £55.65
90th Percentile - £77.53 £67.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.55 £45.00
% change year-on-year +3.92% +39.00% +80.00%

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 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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
England -37 304 £488 +1.44% 274
UK excluding London -33 204 £488 +8.33% 216
Work from Home +31 108 £510 +13.33% 131
London -25 105 £500 -4.76% 70
South East -14 63 £450 -6.36% 48
Midlands +36 42 £513 +36.67% 33
North of England -6 36 £500 +42.86% 67
South West -19 32 £600 +23.08% 28
East Midlands +29 23 £475 +11.76% 20
East of England -5 21 £375 -11.76% 25
North West -3 20 £475 +35.71% 42
West Midlands +10 19 £525 +61.54% 13
Yorkshire +15 16 £622 +38.22% 21
Scotland +33 5 £319 -27.42% 11
Wales -1 4 £645 +17.18% 12
Northern Ireland -9 3 - - 1

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 32 (9.61%) Confluence
2 21 (6.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (4.80%) SharePoint
4 10 (3.00%) IIS
5 9 (2.70%) nginx
6 8 (2.40%) Apache
7 5 (1.50%) Tomcat
8 4 (1.20%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.60%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.60%) Traefik
11 1 (0.30%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 72 (21.62%) Azure
2 68 (20.42%) AWS
3 43 (12.91%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (12.31%) GCP
5 14 (4.20%) GitHub
6 13 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (3.30%) IaaS
7 11 (3.30%) PaaS
7 11 (3.30%) SaaS
7 11 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.70%) Kong
10 7 (2.10%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.80%) Apigee
11 6 (1.80%) Nutanix
12 5 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.50%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 148 (44.44%) DNS
2 121 (36.34%) Firewall
3 98 (29.43%) DHCP
4 77 (23.12%) VPN
5 64 (19.22%) HTTP
6 56 (16.82%) VLAN
7 44 (13.21%) BGP
8 43 (12.91%) Network Security
9 39 (11.71%) WAN
10 38 (11.41%) LAN
11 34 (10.21%) OSPF
12 29 (8.71%) SAN
13 25 (7.51%) SSL
14 22 (6.61%) Wireshark
15 20 (6.01%) Wireless
16 19 (5.71%) MPLS
17 17 (5.11%) Ethernet
17 17 (5.11%) SNMP
18 14 (4.20%) NAS
19 13 (3.90%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
1 13 (3.90%) MySQL
2 9 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 6 (1.80%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.20%) Apache Hive
4 4 (1.20%) Couchbase
4 4 (1.20%) Hadoop
4 4 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.20%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.20%) Tableau
5 3 (0.90%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.60%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.60%) Redis
7 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.30%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 42 (12.61%) JIRA
2 37 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 32 (9.61%) Git
4 12 (3.60%) GitLab
5 11 (3.30%) CircleCI
5 11 (3.30%) Eclipse
5 11 (3.30%) Visual Studio
6 10 (3.00%) Travis CI
7 9 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 8 (2.40%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.80%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.50%) Fiddler
10 5 (1.50%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.20%) IDA Disassembler
11 4 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.20%) TestRail
12 2 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
13 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.30%) Mercurial
13 1 (0.30%) Selenium
General
1 86 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 40 (12.01%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (10.21%) Finance
4 31 (9.31%) Telecoms
5 19 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.11%) Manufacturing
7 16 (4.80%) Military
8 14 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.30%) Legal
10 5 (1.50%) Automotive
10 5 (1.50%) Banking
10 5 (1.50%) Electronics
10 5 (1.50%) Mandarin Language
10 5 (1.50%) Marketing
11 4 (1.20%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.20%) Front Office
11 4 (1.20%) Retail
12 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (15.32%) Network Engineer
2 36 (10.81%) Support Engineer
3 31 (9.31%) Developer
4 23 (6.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (6.91%) Python Developer
5 21 (6.31%) 2nd Line Support
5 21 (6.31%) IT Support
6 20 (6.01%) Analyst
7 19 (5.71%) Senior
8 17 (5.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 17 (5.11%) Consultant
8 17 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.80%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 16 (4.80%) Linux Engineer
10 14 (4.20%) Software Engineer
11 13 (3.90%) Architect
11 13 (3.90%) Server Engineer
12 12 (3.60%) Technical Support
13 11 (3.30%) Administrator
13 11 (3.30%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.21%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (5.41%) XML
3 17 (5.11%) JSON
4 15 (4.50%) Web Services
5 14 (4.20%) YAML
6 13 (3.90%) .NET
6 13 (3.90%) LDAP
7 11 (3.30%) Node.js
8 8 (2.40%) SAML
9 6 (1.80%) RESTful
9 6 (1.80%) SOAP
10 5 (1.50%) .NET Framework
10 5 (1.50%) CSS
10 5 (1.50%) OLE
10 5 (1.50%) REST
11 4 (1.20%) LEMP Stack
11 4 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (0.90%) OAuth
12 3 (0.90%) OpenID
12 3 (0.90%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.31%) Data Centre
2 20 (6.01%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.50%) Clustering
4 10 (3.00%) PKI
5 9 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.40%) iPad
7 7 (2.10%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.80%) Replication
9 5 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.50%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.20%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (1.20%) IoT
10 4 (1.20%) IVR
10 4 (1.20%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.20%) YARA
11 3 (0.90%) CCTV
11 3 (0.90%) CMDB
11 3 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 127 (38.14%) Windows
2 111 (33.33%) Linux
3 40 (12.01%) Windows Server
4 31 (9.31%) Unix
5 29 (8.71%) Windows 10
6 18 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (5.41%) Ubuntu
7 14 (4.20%) Debian
8 8 (2.40%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (2.10%) CentOS
9 7 (2.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.80%) Mac OS
10 6 (1.80%) Solaris
10 6 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.50%) Embedded Linux
11 5 (1.50%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.90%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.90%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.90%) VMS
13 2 (0.60%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (22.22%) Agile
2 52 (15.62%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (14.71%) CI/CD
4 44 (13.21%) DevOps
5 42 (12.61%) Customer Service
5 42 (12.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (12.31%) Cybersecurity
7 39 (11.71%) Continuous Integration
8 37 (11.11%) ITIL
9 30 (9.01%) Configuration Management
9 30 (9.01%) SIEM
10 29 (8.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 26 (7.81%) Migration
11 26 (7.81%) Software Engineering
12 25 (7.51%) Computer Science
12 25 (7.51%) Project Management
13 24 (7.21%) Containerisation
13 24 (7.21%) Scrum
14 23 (6.91%) Validation
15 22 (6.61%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (22.22%) Python
2 49 (14.71%) PowerShell
3 29 (8.71%) C#
4 27 (8.11%) Bash
5 23 (6.91%) C++
6 20 (6.01%) Java
6 20 (6.01%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.71%) SQL
8 9 (2.70%) C
8 9 (2.70%) Go
9 7 (2.10%) PHP
10 6 (1.80%) Perl
11 5 (1.50%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.90%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.90%) Ruby
12 3 (0.90%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.90%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.30%) Rust
13 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 77 (23.12%) Security Cleared
2 51 (15.32%) Degree
3 45 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
4 42 (12.61%) SC Cleared
5 40 (12.01%) DV Cleared
6 32 (9.61%) CCNA
7 31 (9.31%) CCNP
8 13 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (3.30%) CISSP
11 9 (2.70%) MCSE
12 8 (2.40%) CISM
13 7 (2.10%) CCDP
13 7 (2.10%) CCIE
13 7 (2.10%) CEH
14 5 (1.50%) PMP
15 4 (1.20%) GIAC
15 4 (1.20%) HNC
15 4 (1.20%) ISTQB
15 4 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.81%) QA
2 21 (6.31%) NIST
3 15 (4.50%) GDPR
4 12 (3.60%) SLA
5 10 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.10%) HIPAA
6 7 (2.10%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.90%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 3 (0.90%) NCSC
9 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.30%) COPPA
10 1 (0.30%) ISA99
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 75 (22.52%) Active Directory
2 57 (17.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (10.21%) Docker
4 17 (5.11%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (5.11%) vSphere
5 15 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (4.50%) VMware NSX
6 11 (3.30%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (2.10%) Hyper-V
8 6 (1.80%) Firmware
8 6 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (1.50%) NFS
9 5 (1.50%) Snort
10 4 (1.20%) VirtualBox
10 4 (1.20%) XenApp
11 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.90%) Samba
11 3 (0.90%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.60%) iptables
12 2 (0.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 49 (14.71%) Terraform
2 44 (13.21%) Ansible
3 36 (10.81%) Kubernetes
4 31 (9.31%) SCCM
5 27 (8.11%) Puppet
6 22 (6.61%) Progress Chef
7 20 (6.01%) Kibana
8 17 (5.11%) Prometheus
9 16 (4.80%) Grafana
10 14 (4.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 13 (3.90%) logstash
12 12 (3.60%) Docker Swarm
13 11 (3.30%) WSUS
14 9 (2.70%) FortiGate
14 9 (2.70%) Nessus
15 8 (2.40%) SCOM
15 8 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
16 7 (2.10%) Nagios
16 7 (2.10%) vCenter Server
17 5 (1.50%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 105 (31.53%) Microsoft
2 79 (23.72%) VMware
3 74 (22.22%) Cisco
4 36 (10.81%) Splunk
5 23 (6.91%) Palo Alto
5 23 (6.91%) Red Hat
6 17 (5.11%) Google
7 16 (4.80%) F5
8 13 (3.90%) Oracle
8 13 (3.90%) Qualys
8 13 (3.90%) SolarWinds
9 12 (3.60%) Fortinet
10 11 (3.30%) HP
11 10 (3.00%) Dell
11 10 (3.00%) Remedy
11 10 (3.00%) ServiceNow
11 10 (3.00%) Veeam
12 9 (2.70%) Avaya
13 8 (2.40%) Juniper
13 8 (2.40%) Nokia