TCP/IP Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 125 102 97
Rank change year-on-year -23 -5 +11
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 32 58 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.97% 1.71% 2.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.84% 10.09% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 32 35
10th Percentile £469 £179 £191
25th Percentile £513 £372 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +21.88% +6.67%
75th Percentile £668 £568 £494
90th Percentile £688 £652 £540
England median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +6.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 7
10th Percentile £56.49 £19.75 £47.39
25th Percentile £63.75 £54.52 £52.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.78 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -3.08% +42.27%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.90
90th Percentile £72.60 £81.88 £72.70
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
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 548 575 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.61% 16.97% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 357 306
10th Percentile £310 £219 £214
25th Percentile £463 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +15.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £575
90th Percentile £688 £725 £625
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 113 29
10th Percentile £12.50 - £36.95
25th Percentile £15.75 - £42.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.70% +19.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.28 £60.92
90th Percentile £74.80 £77.50 £70.80
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Bristol +5 13 £531 -0.75% 6
Dorset +5 6 - - 4
Wiltshire -12 6 £670 +24.36% 12
Gloucestershire +2 4 £600 +26.32% 1
Somerset -10 2 £319 -32.00% 3
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 4 (12.50%) Apache Solr
1 4 (12.50%) Confluence
1 4 (12.50%) nginx
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.13%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) GCP
2 2 (6.25%) AWS
2 2 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (43.75%) DNS
2 9 (28.13%) Firewall
3 8 (25.00%) DHCP
4 7 (21.88%) BGP
4 7 (21.88%) Network Security
5 5 (15.63%) Ethernet
5 5 (15.63%) VLAN
5 5 (15.63%) VPN
6 4 (12.50%) HTTPS
6 4 (12.50%) IPsec
6 4 (12.50%) WAN
7 3 (9.38%) OSPF
7 3 (9.38%) SNMP
8 2 (6.25%) 5G
9 1 (3.13%) 4G
9 1 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (3.13%) LTE
9 1 (3.13%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (3.13%) SIGTRAN
9 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Couchbase
1 4 (12.50%) MySQL
1 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.13%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Eclipse
1 5 (15.63%) Visual Studio
2 4 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 4 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (6.25%) Artifactory
3 2 (6.25%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (3.13%) Git
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Military
3 5 (15.63%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) C# Software Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) C++ Software Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) Network Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) Senior
1 5 (15.63%) Software Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Principal Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Principal Security Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Security Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Node.js
1 5 (15.63%) Web Services
2 4 (12.50%) JSON
2 4 (12.50%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (12.50%) YAML
3 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.13%) Django
3 1 (3.13%) Flask
3 1 (3.13%) React
3 1 (3.13%) SPML
3 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 4 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.13%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.13%) PKI
2 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (50.00%) Linux
2 13 (40.63%) Windows
3 4 (12.50%) CentOS
4 3 (9.38%) Unix
4 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
5 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.13%) Mac OS X
6 1 (3.13%) Solaris
6 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Agile
2 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 9 (28.13%) Validation
4 7 (21.88%) Visualisation
5 6 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.63%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (15.63%) Digital Twin
6 5 (15.63%) ITIL
6 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
6 5 (15.63%) Synthetic Environment
6 5 (15.63%) TDD
6 5 (15.63%) Unit Testing
6 5 (15.63%) Verification and Validation
7 4 (12.50%) Configuration Management
7 4 (12.50%) Information Security
7 4 (12.50%) Migration
7 4 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (12.50%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) C#
2 5 (15.63%) C++
2 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
2 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.63%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) Bash
3 4 (12.50%) C
3 4 (12.50%) PHP
4 2 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) Degree
4 2 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CCNA
5 1 (3.13%) CCNP
5 1 (3.13%) CEH
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CREST Certified
5 1 (3.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) NIST
2 4 (12.50%) GDPR
2 4 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 4 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (12.50%) QA
3 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (18.75%) VMware NSX
3 4 (12.50%) vSphere
4 3 (9.38%) Docker
5 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Ansible
1 8 (25.00%) Terraform
2 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.38%) FortiGate
3 3 (9.38%) SCCM
4 2 (6.25%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.13%) OPNET
5 1 (3.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) Cisco
2 7 (21.88%) VMware
3 6 (18.75%) Atlassian
4 5 (15.63%) Google
5 3 (9.38%) F5
5 3 (9.38%) Fortinet
6 2 (6.25%) Sparx
6 2 (6.25%) Veeam
7 1 (3.13%) Nokia
7 1 (3.13%) Remedy
7 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds