TCP/IP Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 106 120
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 +16
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 19 44 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.68% 1.46% 1.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.83% 10.33% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 42
10th Percentile £229 £165 £133
25th Percentile £399 £281 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £350 £436
Median % change year-on-year +30.36% -19.77% +9.06%
75th Percentile £525 £638 £638
90th Percentile £548 £648 £649
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 326 426 560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.68% 14.14% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 286 370
10th Percentile £209 £288 £172
25th Percentile £329 £363 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £456
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +4.11% +14.06%
75th Percentile £666 £565 £585
90th Percentile £828 £638 £638
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 10
10th Percentile £20.93 £15.41 £10.96
25th Percentile £25.13 £18.93 £16.42
Median hourly rate £40.44 £31.25 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +62.34% +32.17%
75th Percentile £46.60 £51.06 £49.94
90th Percentile £50.78 £53.22 £65.50
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the North West

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester 0 14 £450 -28.00% 13
Cheshire -15 4 - - 14
Cumbria - 1 £500 -
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) nginx
2 1 (5.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.53%) IaaS
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.53%) PaaS
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) DNS
2 7 (36.84%) BGP
3 6 (31.58%) OSPF
4 5 (26.32%) DHCP
4 5 (26.32%) VLAN
4 5 (26.32%) VPN
4 5 (26.32%) Wireshark
5 4 (21.05%) MPLS
5 4 (21.05%) Value-Added Service
6 2 (10.53%) Firewall
6 2 (10.53%) HTTP
6 2 (10.53%) HTTPS
6 2 (10.53%) IPsec
6 2 (10.53%) LAN
6 2 (10.53%) SNMP
6 2 (10.53%) SSH
7 1 (5.26%) FTP
7 1 (5.26%) SSL
7 1 (5.26%) WAN
7 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) GitLab
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.26%) Metasploit
General
1 9 (47.37%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Network Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) IT Support
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) C++ Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) IT Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) IT Operations Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) IT Support Technician
4 2 (10.53%) IT Technician
4 2 (10.53%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Support Technician
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) LDAP
1 2 (10.53%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) CMDB
1 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
1 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.26%) Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) PKI
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Mac OS
3 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
3 2 (10.53%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.26%) CentOS
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.26%) VMS
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (31.58%) Change Management
3 5 (26.32%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
4 4 (21.05%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
5 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Task Automation
6 2 (10.53%) Capacity Management
6 2 (10.53%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
6 2 (10.53%) ITIL
6 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
6 2 (10.53%) Migration
6 2 (10.53%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (10.53%) Problem Management
6 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (5.26%) Information Security
7 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) C++
4 1 (5.26%) Go
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (26.32%) CCIE
2 5 (26.32%) CCNP
2 5 (26.32%) Degree
3 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (21.05%) VCAP
4 2 (10.53%) CCNA
4 2 (10.53%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (5.26%) CISM
5 1 (5.26%) CISSP
5 1 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) NCSC
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) NFS
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.26%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) Firmware
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) ZABBIX
2 2 (10.53%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.53%) Nagios
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Consul
3 1 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (5.26%) Graphite
3 1 (5.26%) HAProxy
3 1 (5.26%) Istio
3 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) linkerd
3 1 (5.26%) OpenVAS
3 1 (5.26%) Packer
3 1 (5.26%) Podman
3 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) SolarWinds
2 4 (21.05%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco
4 2 (10.53%) Splunk
4 2 (10.53%) VMware
5 1 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.26%) PagerDuty
5 1 (5.26%) Qualys
5 1 (5.26%) SAP