TCP/IP Contracts in London

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 288 263 318
Rank change year-on-year -25 +55 -34
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 105 242 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.60% 0.95% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.29% 9.35% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 161 226
10th Percentile £225 £256 £240
25th Percentile £313 £350 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +13.16%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £669
90th Percentile £700 £806 £763
England median daily rate £488 £481 £463
% change year-on-year +1.44% +3.90% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 6
10th Percentile - £31.25 £25.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £35.50 £25.81
Median hourly rate £20.00 £50.42 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -60.33% +37.20% -34.67%
75th Percentile - - £48.06
90th Percentile £22.25 £56.94 £58.04
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.33 £45.00
% change year-on-year +13.38% +27.40% +80.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,669 2,589 3,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.53% 10.18% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,818 2,545
10th Percentile £215 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +13.52%
75th Percentile £619 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 49 89
10th Percentile £14.48 £18.93 £16.45
25th Percentile £16.71 £22.75 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.54 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.87% +29.35% -43.11%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.50 £44.50
90th Percentile £59.75 £76.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +135.29% -28.90% +3.48%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region 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
Central London +5 9 £718 +30.45% 12
East London -3 4 £225 - 4
West London +14 2 £80 -86.67% 9
South London +2 1 £675 - 1
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (6.67%) Confluence
2 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.81%) Apache
4 3 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.86%) nginx
5 2 (1.90%) IIS
5 2 (1.90%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.95%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.95%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.62%) AWS
2 27 (25.71%) Azure
3 17 (16.19%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (14.29%) GCP
5 9 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (8.57%) PaaS
6 7 (6.67%) SaaS
7 6 (5.71%) IaaS
7 6 (5.71%) Nutanix
8 5 (4.76%) Rubrik
9 4 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.81%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.86%) Datadog
10 3 (2.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 62 (59.05%) DNS
2 47 (44.76%) DHCP
3 42 (40.00%) Firewall
3 42 (40.00%) HTTP
4 22 (20.95%) BGP
5 20 (19.05%) Network Security
5 20 (19.05%) WAN
6 19 (18.10%) LAN
7 18 (17.14%) VPN
8 17 (16.19%) OSPF
8 17 (16.19%) SSL
9 15 (14.29%) VLAN
10 11 (10.48%) SNMP
11 10 (9.52%) FTP
11 10 (9.52%) Wireshark
12 9 (8.57%) NAS
12 9 (8.57%) SAN
12 9 (8.57%) SSH
13 8 (7.62%) SD-WAN
13 8 (7.62%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.81%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.81%) MySQL
2 4 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.90%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.90%) Redis
3 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.95%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.95%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.95%) Power BI
4 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (20.95%) Jenkins
2 15 (14.29%) Git
3 10 (9.52%) JIRA
4 5 (4.76%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.90%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.95%) Darcs
7 1 (0.95%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.95%) GitLab
7 1 (0.95%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.95%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.95%) Maven
7 1 (0.95%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.95%) Selenium
7 1 (0.95%) Travis CI
General
1 17 (16.19%) Finance
2 16 (15.24%) Telecoms
3 13 (12.38%) Social Skills
4 7 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.76%) Mandarin Language
5 5 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.81%) Banking
6 4 (3.81%) Electronics
6 4 (3.81%) Marketing
7 2 (1.90%) Cantonese Language
7 2 (1.90%) German Language
7 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.90%) Legal
8 1 (0.95%) Aviation
8 1 (0.95%) Back Office
8 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Front Office
8 1 (0.95%) Law
8 1 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (22.86%) Network Engineer
2 15 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 13 (12.38%) Linux Engineer
4 11 (10.48%) Linux Server Engineer
4 11 (10.48%) Server Engineer
5 8 (7.62%) IT Support
6 7 (6.67%) Senior
7 6 (5.71%) Architect
8 5 (4.76%) Consultant
8 5 (4.76%) Developer
8 5 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) IT Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Security Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Analyst
9 4 (3.81%) Security Architect
9 4 (3.81%) Senior Network Engineer
10 3 (2.86%) 2nd Line Support
10 3 (2.86%) 3rd Line Support
10 3 (2.86%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.43%) LDAP
2 8 (7.62%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (3.81%) .NET
3 4 (3.81%) JSON
3 4 (3.81%) SAML
4 3 (2.86%) OAuth
4 3 (2.86%) OpenID
5 2 (1.90%) NETCONF
5 2 (1.90%) RESTful
5 2 (1.90%) SPML
5 2 (1.90%) Web Services
6 1 (0.95%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.95%) CSS
6 1 (0.95%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.95%) GStreamer
6 1 (0.95%) HTML
6 1 (0.95%) LAMP
6 1 (0.95%) Spring
6 1 (0.95%) Svelte
6 1 (0.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.14%) Data Centre
2 13 (12.38%) Clustering
3 7 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.71%) PKI
5 5 (4.76%) Replication
5 5 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (3.81%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.86%) CCTV
7 3 (2.86%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) iPad
8 2 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.95%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.95%) IoT
9 1 (0.95%) Machine to Machine
9 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.95%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 30 (28.57%) Windows
2 28 (26.67%) Linux
3 16 (15.24%) Windows Server
4 9 (8.57%) Unix
5 6 (5.71%) Windows 10
6 5 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.76%) Solaris
7 4 (3.81%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.90%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.95%) Android
9 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.95%) CentOS
9 1 (0.95%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (18.10%) CI/CD
2 17 (16.19%) Agile
3 16 (15.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (14.29%) DevOps
4 15 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (12.38%) High Availability
7 12 (11.43%) Load Balancing
8 11 (10.48%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (8.57%) Computer Science
9 9 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (8.57%) Customer Service
9 9 (8.57%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (8.57%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (8.57%) SIEM
9 9 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (7.62%) ITIL
10 8 (7.62%) Migration
10 8 (7.62%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (23.81%) Python
2 18 (17.14%) PowerShell
3 10 (9.52%) Java
4 8 (7.62%) Bash
5 6 (5.71%) Go
6 4 (3.81%) C#
7 3 (2.86%) C++
7 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.86%) Perl
7 3 (2.86%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.90%) C
8 2 (1.90%) PHP
8 2 (1.90%) SQL
9 1 (0.95%) Ruby
9 1 (0.95%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (17.14%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (16.19%) Security Cleared
3 15 (14.29%) CCNP
4 14 (13.33%) Degree
5 11 (10.48%) DV Cleared
6 10 (9.52%) CCNA
7 6 (5.71%) CCDP
7 6 (5.71%) CISSP
8 4 (3.81%) GIAC
8 4 (3.81%) SC Cleared
9 3 (2.86%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.86%) CISA
9 3 (2.86%) CISM
9 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.86%) GCIA
9 3 (2.86%) GCIH
9 3 (2.86%) SANS
10 2 (1.90%) CEH
10 2 (1.90%) MCSE
10 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) GDPR
2 5 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.86%) NIST
4 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.90%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.95%) COPPA
5 1 (0.95%) ISA99
5 1 (0.95%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.95%) NCSC
5 1 (0.95%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.95%) QA
5 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (27.62%) Active Directory
2 15 (14.29%) Docker
2 15 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.81%) NFS
3 4 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.81%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.86%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.86%) Samba
4 3 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.90%) iptables
5 2 (1.90%) Squid
5 2 (1.90%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.90%) vSphere
5 2 (1.90%) XenApp
6 1 (0.95%) Ceph
6 1 (0.95%) Firmware
6 1 (0.95%) Lustre
6 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.95%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.95%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 19 (18.10%) Terraform
2 16 (15.24%) Ansible
2 16 (15.24%) Puppet
3 14 (13.33%) Kubernetes
4 13 (12.38%) Progress Chef
5 12 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (6.67%) Kibana
7 5 (4.76%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (4.76%) Netcool
7 5 (4.76%) Tivoli
7 5 (4.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (3.81%) logstash
8 4 (3.81%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.86%) FortiGate
9 3 (2.86%) HAProxy
9 3 (2.86%) QRadar
9 3 (2.86%) SCCM
10 2 (1.90%) Grafana
10 2 (1.90%) OpenNMS
10 2 (1.90%) SCOM
Vendors
1 33 (31.43%) Cisco
2 20 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 16 (15.24%) VMware
4 13 (12.38%) Palo Alto
5 12 (11.43%) Splunk
6 8 (7.62%) Oracle
7 7 (6.67%) Arista
7 7 (6.67%) Aruba
7 7 (6.67%) Zscaler
8 6 (5.71%) Dell
8 6 (5.71%) HP
8 6 (5.71%) IBM
8 6 (5.71%) Meraki
8 6 (5.71%) ServiceNow
9 5 (4.76%) CyberArk
9 5 (4.76%) EMC
9 5 (4.76%) Isilon
9 5 (4.76%) Nokia
9 5 (4.76%) Qualys
9 5 (4.76%) Serena