TCP/IP Contracts in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 100 124 160
Rank change year-on-year +24 +36 -16
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 41 34 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.39% 1.06% 0.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.54% 6.80% 7.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 25 36
10th Percentile £188 £163 £110
25th Percentile £232 £200 £187
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £375 £313
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +20.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £500
90th Percentile £575 £680 £550
England median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +6.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% -
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
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 480 500 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.28% 15.53% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 323 408
10th Percentile £200 £250 £163
25th Percentile £300 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £579 £597 £526
90th Percentile £675 £700 £619
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 25
10th Percentile £12.28 £13.75 £12.15
25th Percentile £12.88 £19.56 £15.63
Median hourly rate £14.27 £22.34 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -36.11% +27.19% +17.07%
75th Percentile £25.55 £28.75 £22.75
90th Percentile £28.75 £35.13 £23.40
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
East Midlands +24 23 £375 -11.76% 21
West Midlands +8 18 £525 +61.54% 14
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (24.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (53.66%) DNS
2 16 (39.02%) DHCP
3 13 (31.71%) Firewall
4 9 (21.95%) VPN
5 5 (12.20%) Internet
5 5 (12.20%) Network Security
5 5 (12.20%) VLAN
6 4 (9.76%) BGP
6 4 (9.76%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (9.76%) MPLS
7 3 (7.32%) Ethernet
7 3 (7.32%) LAN
7 3 (7.32%) OSPF
7 3 (7.32%) SAN
7 3 (7.32%) WAN
7 3 (7.32%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (4.88%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (4.88%) SD-WAN
9 1 (2.44%) tcpdump
9 1 (2.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) Apache Hive
1 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) 2nd Line Support
1 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Support Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 6 (14.63%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Network Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Support Officer
4 5 (12.20%) Technical Support
4 5 (12.20%) Technical Support Officer
5 4 (9.76%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Active Directory Support
6 3 (7.32%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Printer Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Python Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) OLE
1 1 (2.44%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) iPad
2 1 (2.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (2.44%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 25 (60.98%) Windows
2 13 (31.71%) Windows Server
3 11 (26.83%) Linux
4 10 (24.39%) Windows 10
5 6 (14.63%) Unix
6 5 (12.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (12.20%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (7.32%) Debian
7 3 (7.32%) Ubuntu
7 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (21.95%) Customer Service
1 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (19.51%) Virtual Environments
3 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (14.63%) Asset Management
4 6 (14.63%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (14.63%) SIEM
4 6 (14.63%) Visualisation
5 5 (12.20%) Agile
5 5 (12.20%) Information Management
5 5 (12.20%) Security Hardening
5 5 (12.20%) Security Monitoring
5 5 (12.20%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (9.76%) ITIL
6 4 (9.76%) Project Management
7 3 (7.32%) Configuration Management
7 3 (7.32%) Data Modelling
7 3 (7.32%) Network Design
7 3 (7.32%) Ticket Management
7 3 (7.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.51%) C#
1 8 (19.51%) Java
2 3 (7.32%) Python
3 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.44%) SQL
3 1 (2.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (24.39%) DV Cleared
3 6 (14.63%) CCNA
3 6 (14.63%) CCNP
3 6 (14.63%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
5 3 (7.32%) Degree
6 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.44%) MCSE
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.44%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) NIST
2 3 (7.32%) HIPAA
2 3 (7.32%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.88%) GDPR
3 2 (4.88%) QA
System Software
1 14 (34.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (26.83%) Active Directory
3 5 (12.20%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (12.20%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (12.20%) VMware NSX
4 2 (4.88%) Terminal Services
4 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.44%) Docker
5 1 (2.44%) Lustre
5 1 (2.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.44%) Snort
Systems Management
1 12 (29.27%) SCCM
2 5 (12.20%) vCenter Server
3 3 (7.32%) Autotask
4 2 (4.88%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.44%) Kibana
5 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (43.90%) VMware
2 12 (29.27%) Microsoft
3 8 (19.51%) Cisco
4 6 (14.63%) Veeam
5 3 (7.32%) Red Hat
5 3 (7.32%) Remedy
6 2 (4.88%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.88%) Mitel
6 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.88%) Splunk
7 1 (2.44%) Aerohive Networks
7 1 (2.44%) Avaya
7 1 (2.44%) Google
7 1 (2.44%) NetApp
7 1 (2.44%) Nortel
7 1 (2.44%) Oracle