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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 257 322
Rank change year-on-year -21 +65 -18
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 108 251 328
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.62% 0.96% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.49% 9.66% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 161 227
10th Percentile £275 £256 £225
25th Percentile £350 £340 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% +14.67%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £638
90th Percentile £688 £806 £763
England median daily rate £488 £478 £463
% change year-on-year +2.03% +3.30% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 7
10th Percentile - £31.25 £25.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £35.50 £26.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £50.42 £43.74
Median % change year-on-year -60.33% +15.27% -22.24%
75th Percentile - - £47.54
90th Percentile £22.25 £56.94 £56.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.91 £43.74
% change year-on-year +10.35% +34.67% +74.96%

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 1,663 2,599 3,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.52% 9.99% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,115 1,823 2,551
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 54 87
10th Percentile £14.46 £19.25 £20.96
25th Percentile £16.40 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.75 £36.27 £29.12
Median % change year-on-year -37.28% +24.55% -38.47%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.00 £46.81
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +1.74%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +7 10 £585 +6.36% 13
East London 0 3 - - 15
West London +14 2 £80 -86.58% 9
South London 0 1 £675 +154.72% 2
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 8 (7.41%) Confluence
2 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.70%) Apache
3 4 (3.70%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.78%) MQSeries
4 3 (2.78%) nginx
5 2 (1.85%) IIS
6 1 (0.93%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.93%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.93%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.78%) AWS
2 27 (25.00%) Azure
3 15 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (12.96%) GCP
5 11 (10.19%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (10.19%) PaaS
6 8 (7.41%) SaaS
7 7 (6.48%) IaaS
7 7 (6.48%) Nutanix
8 6 (5.56%) Rubrik
9 5 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.78%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.78%) Datadog
11 3 (2.78%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.78%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 60 (55.56%) DNS
2 46 (42.59%) Firewall
3 44 (40.74%) DHCP
4 43 (39.81%) HTTP
5 23 (21.30%) VPN
6 22 (20.37%) BGP
6 22 (20.37%) Network Security
7 19 (17.59%) LAN
7 19 (17.59%) WAN
8 17 (15.74%) OSPF
8 17 (15.74%) SSL
9 15 (13.89%) VLAN
10 12 (11.11%) Wireshark
11 11 (10.19%) FTP
11 11 (10.19%) SNMP
11 11 (10.19%) SSH
12 10 (9.26%) IPsec
12 10 (9.26%) MPLS
12 10 (9.26%) SAN
12 10 (9.26%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.63%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (4.63%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (3.70%) MySQL
2 4 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.85%) Redis
3 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.85%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.93%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.93%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.93%) Power BI
4 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (20.37%) Jenkins
2 19 (17.59%) Git
3 10 (9.26%) JIRA
4 7 (6.48%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (5.56%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.93%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.93%) Darcs
6 1 (0.93%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.93%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.93%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.93%) Maven
6 1 (0.93%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.93%) Selenium
6 1 (0.93%) Travis CI
General
1 21 (19.44%) Finance
2 13 (12.04%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.04%) Telecoms
3 7 (6.48%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.63%) Banking
5 5 (4.63%) Electronics
5 5 (4.63%) Mandarin Language
5 5 (4.63%) Marketing
6 3 (2.78%) German Language
6 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Cantonese Language
7 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.85%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Back Office
8 1 (0.93%) Front Office
8 1 (0.93%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (23.15%) Network Engineer
2 14 (12.96%) Linux Engineer
3 12 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 11 (10.19%) Linux Server Engineer
4 11 (10.19%) Server Engineer
5 7 (6.48%) IT Support
5 7 (6.48%) Senior
6 6 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.56%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Analyst
7 5 (4.63%) Architect
7 5 (4.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Consultant
7 5 (4.63%) Developer
8 4 (3.70%) ArcSight Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Security Architect
8 4 (3.70%) SIEM Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) IT Support Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.89%) LDAP
2 8 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.56%) .NET
3 6 (5.56%) JSON
4 4 (3.70%) SAML
4 4 (3.70%) Web Services
5 3 (2.78%) OAuth
5 3 (2.78%) OpenID
5 3 (2.78%) REST
6 2 (1.85%) NETCONF
6 2 (1.85%) RESTful
6 2 (1.85%) SOAP
6 2 (1.85%) SPML
7 1 (0.93%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.93%) CSS
7 1 (0.93%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.93%) HTML
7 1 (0.93%) LAMP
7 1 (0.93%) Spring
7 1 (0.93%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.74%) Data Centre
2 14 (12.96%) Clustering
3 7 (6.48%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.56%) PKI
4 6 (5.56%) Replication
5 5 (4.63%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.63%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.78%) CCTV
6 3 (2.78%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.93%) IoT
8 1 (0.93%) Machine to Machine
8 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.93%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 34 (31.48%) Linux
2 31 (28.70%) Windows
3 14 (12.96%) Unix
4 13 (12.04%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.56%) Oracle Linux
5 6 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (5.56%) Solaris
6 5 (4.63%) Windows 10
7 4 (3.70%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.85%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.93%) Android
9 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.93%) CentOS
9 1 (0.93%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.52%) DevOps
2 18 (16.67%) Agile
2 18 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 17 (15.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (12.04%) High Availability
5 12 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (11.11%) SIEM
6 10 (9.26%) Configuration Management
6 10 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (9.26%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (9.26%) Customer Service
6 10 (9.26%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (8.33%) Computer Science
7 9 (8.33%) Data Security
7 9 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (8.33%) ITIL
7 9 (8.33%) Load Balancing
7 9 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (28.70%) Python
2 18 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 10 (9.26%) Java
4 8 (7.41%) Bash
5 6 (5.56%) C#
5 6 (5.56%) Go
6 5 (4.63%) Perl
6 5 (4.63%) SQL
7 3 (2.78%) C++
7 3 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.85%) C
8 2 (1.85%) PHP
9 1 (0.93%) Ruby
9 1 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (15.74%) Cisco Certification
1 17 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.96%) CCNP
3 13 (12.04%) Degree
4 11 (10.19%) DV Cleared
5 9 (8.33%) CCNA
6 6 (5.56%) CCDP
6 6 (5.56%) CISSP
7 4 (3.70%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.78%) CISA
8 3 (2.78%) CISM
8 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.78%) GIAC
9 2 (1.85%) CEH
9 2 (1.85%) GCIA
9 2 (1.85%) GCIH
9 2 (1.85%) JNCIA
9 2 (1.85%) JNCIS
9 2 (1.85%) MCSE
9 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) GDPR
2 6 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.78%) NIST
3 3 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.93%) COPPA
5 1 (0.93%) ISA99
5 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.93%) NCSC
5 1 (0.93%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.93%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (13.89%) Docker
3 14 (12.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.63%) NFS
4 5 (4.63%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.70%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.70%) Samba
5 4 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.85%) iptables
7 2 (1.85%) Squid
7 2 (1.85%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.85%) XenApp
8 1 (0.93%) Ceph
8 1 (0.93%) Firmware
8 1 (0.93%) KVM
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.93%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.93%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (18.52%) Terraform
2 19 (17.59%) Ansible
3 15 (13.89%) Puppet
4 14 (12.96%) Kubernetes
5 12 (11.11%) Progress Chef
6 8 (7.41%) Kibana
6 8 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (5.56%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (5.56%) Netcool
7 6 (5.56%) Tivoli
7 6 (5.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (4.63%) logstash
9 4 (3.70%) QRadar
9 4 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.78%) FortiGate
10 3 (2.78%) HAProxy
10 3 (2.78%) Nmap
10 3 (2.78%) SCCM
11 2 (1.85%) SCOM
11 2 (1.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (32.41%) Cisco
2 21 (19.44%) Microsoft
3 15 (13.89%) VMware
4 14 (12.96%) Splunk
5 11 (10.19%) Palo Alto
6 9 (8.33%) Oracle
7 8 (7.41%) Dell
7 8 (7.41%) IBM
7 8 (7.41%) ServiceNow
7 8 (7.41%) Zscaler
8 7 (6.48%) Arista
8 7 (6.48%) Aruba
8 7 (6.48%) HP
8 7 (6.48%) Nokia
9 6 (5.56%) CyberArk
9 6 (5.56%) EMC
9 6 (5.56%) Isilon
9 6 (5.56%) Meraki
9 6 (5.56%) Qualys
9 6 (5.56%) Serena