TCP/IP Contracts in the North of England

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring TCP/IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TCP/IP over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 137 152
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 39 65 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.80% 1.19% 1.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.90% 9.72% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 42 70
10th Percentile £173 £140 £157
25th Percentile £204 £266 £194
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £350 £419
Median % change year-on-year +30.36% -16.42% +4.69%
75th Percentile £568 £647 £625
90th Percentile £640 £698 £639
England median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +6.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £15.43 - -
25th Percentile £20.56 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% - -
75th Percentile £39.56 £28.75 -
90th Percentile £45.08 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.33 £45.00
% change year-on-year +15.40% +25.17% +13.92%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

TCP/IP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 565 669 938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.66% 12.29% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 445 658
10th Percentile £200 £206 £179
25th Percentile £313 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +2.22% +11.11%
75th Percentile £614 £568 £550
90th Percentile £775 £670 £638
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 48 23
10th Percentile £13.31 - £10.67
25th Percentile £21.19 £9.80 £16.12
Median hourly rate £25.44 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +139.28% -39.74% +4.38%
75th Percentile £45.97 £16.67 £21.33
90th Percentile £48.75 £37.85 £51.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
Yorkshire +15 20 £360 -20.00% 21
North West -10 19 £456 +30.36% 38
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (23.08%) Confluence
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) nginx
3 1 (2.56%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (48.72%) Azure
2 15 (38.46%) AWS
2 15 (38.46%) GCP
3 9 (23.08%) GitHub
3 9 (23.08%) Kong
4 6 (15.38%) Apigee
4 6 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (10.26%) SaaS
6 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.13%) IaaS
6 2 (5.13%) PaaS
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (53.85%) VPN
2 19 (48.72%) DNS
3 11 (28.21%) Firewall
3 11 (28.21%) HTTP
4 7 (17.95%) BGP
5 6 (15.38%) OSPF
6 5 (12.82%) DHCP
6 5 (12.82%) VLAN
6 5 (12.82%) Wireshark
7 4 (10.26%) MPLS
7 4 (10.26%) SSL
7 4 (10.26%) Value-Added Service
8 3 (7.69%) BIG-IP
8 3 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (7.69%) LAN
8 3 (7.69%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (7.69%) Unified Communications
9 2 (5.13%) PBX
9 2 (5.13%) SNMP
9 2 (5.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Git
1 10 (25.64%) GitLab
1 10 (25.64%) Jenkins
2 9 (23.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 9 (23.08%) CircleCI
2 9 (23.08%) JIRA
2 9 (23.08%) Travis CI
3 1 (2.56%) Metasploit
General
1 18 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.13%) Retail
3 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Finance
4 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) IT Support
2 7 (17.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Network Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (10.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Help Desk Support
5 3 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) C++ Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Developer
6 2 (5.13%) IT Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) IT Operations Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Operations Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (23.08%) JSON
1 9 (23.08%) XML
1 9 (23.08%) YAML
2 2 (5.13%) LDAP
2 2 (5.13%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) cloud-init
3 1 (2.56%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Data Structures
2 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) CMDB
3 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.56%) Clustering
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
4 1 (2.56%) Replication
4 1 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (33.33%) Windows
2 8 (20.51%) Windows 10
3 3 (7.69%) Linux
3 3 (7.69%) VMS
3 3 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.13%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.56%) CentOS
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (30.77%) Task Automation
3 11 (28.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
4 10 (25.64%) Containerisation
4 10 (25.64%) Continuous Deployment
4 10 (25.64%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (25.64%) DevOps
5 9 (23.08%) Agile
5 9 (23.08%) API Integration
5 9 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
5 9 (23.08%) DevSecOps
5 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (23.08%) Project Management
5 9 (23.08%) Scrum
5 9 (23.08%) Secure Coding
5 9 (23.08%) Use Case
5 9 (23.08%) Workflow
6 6 (15.38%) API Development
6 6 (15.38%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 13 (33.33%) Python
2 11 (28.21%) Bash
3 5 (12.82%) SQL
4 3 (7.69%) ActionScript
5 2 (5.13%) C++
6 1 (2.56%) Go
6 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (12.82%) CCIE
2 5 (12.82%) CCNP
2 5 (12.82%) Degree
3 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.26%) VCAP
4 2 (5.13%) CCNA
4 2 (5.13%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CISM
5 1 (2.56%) CISSP
5 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.56%) NCSC
2 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 10 (25.64%) Docker
3 2 (5.13%) Firmware
3 2 (5.13%) NFS
3 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Terraform
2 10 (25.64%) Ansible
2 10 (25.64%) Docker Swarm
2 10 (25.64%) Kubernetes
2 10 (25.64%) Prometheus
2 10 (25.64%) Puppet
3 9 (23.08%) Grafana
3 9 (23.08%) Kibana
3 9 (23.08%) logstash
3 9 (23.08%) Progress Chef
4 3 (7.69%) ZABBIX
5 2 (5.13%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.13%) Nagios
6 1 (2.56%) Graphite
6 1 (2.56%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.56%) Istio
6 1 (2.56%) linkerd
6 1 (2.56%) OpenVAS
6 1 (2.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 11 (28.21%) Splunk
3 8 (20.51%) SolarWinds
4 7 (17.95%) Cisco
5 4 (10.26%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (7.69%) F5
7 2 (5.13%) Mitel
7 2 (5.13%) Veeam
7 2 (5.13%) VMware
8 1 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.56%) PagerDuty
8 1 (2.56%) Qualys
8 1 (2.56%) SAP