TCP/IP Contracts in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 140 121 149
Rank change year-on-year -19 +28 -35
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 60 95 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.04% 1.68% 1.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.03% 9.67% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 59 73
10th Percentile £184 £260 £200
25th Percentile £267 £310 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £436 £350
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% +24.54% -12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £520
90th Percentile £550 £600 £650
England median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +6.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 14
10th Percentile - £18.50 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £29.63 £20.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £62.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.62% +190.93% +7.50%
75th Percentile £19.50 £65.24 £40.38
90th Percentile - £67.10 £45.00
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 East

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 East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,192 982 1,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 20.72% 17.34% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 578 777
10th Percentile £214 £246 £210
25th Percentile £390 £363 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% +6.79% +5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £560
90th Percentile £650 £700 £651
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 70 85
10th Percentile £17.26 £18.20 £14.27
25th Percentile £29.81 £42.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £22.10
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +171.49% -48.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.81 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £63.25
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 East

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East 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
Surrey +24 26 £325 +4.84% 9
Thames Valley -14 26 £525 +7.58% 15
Buckinghamshire +20 17 £525 -4.55% 6
Berkshire -25 9 £150 -63.64% 3
West Sussex - 4 £450 - 1
Hampshire -31 3 £672 +61.75% 15
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (13.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.67%) Azure
2 7 (11.67%) AWS
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.33%) GitHub
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 24 (40.00%) Firewall
2 17 (28.33%) VLAN
3 15 (25.00%) SAN
4 14 (23.33%) DNS
5 12 (20.00%) DHCP
5 12 (20.00%) VPN
5 12 (20.00%) Wireless
6 7 (11.67%) LAN
6 7 (11.67%) VoIP
6 7 (11.67%) WAN
7 5 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (8.33%) iSCSI
8 4 (6.67%) NAS
8 4 (6.67%) Network Security
8 4 (6.67%) SSL
9 3 (5.00%) 4G
9 3 (5.00%) BGP
10 2 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (3.33%) MPLS
10 2 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.67%) MySQL
1 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) JIRA
2 4 (6.67%) Artifactory
2 4 (6.67%) Bitbucket
2 4 (6.67%) Git
2 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.67%) TestRail
General
1 7 (11.67%) Finance
1 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.67%) Automotive
2 4 (6.67%) Financial Institution
3 3 (5.00%) Front Office
4 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (30.00%) Developer
2 16 (26.67%) Python Developer
3 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Support Specialist
5 6 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) IT Support
6 5 (8.33%) IT Support Specialist
6 5 (8.33%) Network Specialist
6 5 (8.33%) Network Support
6 5 (8.33%) Network Support Specialist
6 5 (8.33%) Test Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Backend Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Development Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Software Development Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Systems Test Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) .NET
2 4 (6.67%) RESTful
2 4 (6.67%) SOAP
2 4 (6.67%) XML
3 2 (3.33%) 802.1X
3 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) IoT
2 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (43.33%) Linux
2 15 (25.00%) Windows
3 13 (21.67%) Ubuntu
4 11 (18.33%) Unix
5 10 (16.67%) Debian
6 4 (6.67%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
7 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
8 2 (3.33%) Windows 10
8 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.33%) Agile
2 14 (23.33%) Customer Service
3 13 (21.67%) ITIL
4 10 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 10 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 9 (15.00%) Configuration Management
5 9 (15.00%) Data Engineering
5 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (15.00%) Prototyping
5 9 (15.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 8 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
6 8 (13.33%) Scrum
6 8 (13.33%) Test Automation
7 7 (11.67%) Computer Science
8 6 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
8 6 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
8 6 (10.00%) TDD
9 5 (8.33%) Change Control
9 5 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (8.33%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.33%) Python
2 9 (15.00%) SQL
3 6 (10.00%) C++
4 5 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.67%) C#
5 4 (6.67%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.00%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.33%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (31.67%) SC Cleared
3 17 (28.33%) Degree
4 9 (15.00%) DV Cleared
5 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (11.67%) CCNA
6 7 (11.67%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (8.33%) MCSE
8 4 (6.67%) HNC
8 4 (6.67%) ISTQB
8 4 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (6.67%) Master's Degree
8 4 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (5.00%) CCNP
9 3 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.67%) BC Cleared
10 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.67%) CCDP
10 1 (1.67%) CCIP
10 1 (1.67%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) SLA
2 6 (10.00%) QA
3 3 (5.00%) ISO 9001
3 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.67%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (18.33%) vSphere
4 7 (11.67%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (6.67%) Firmware
5 4 (6.67%) VirtualBox
5 4 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (5.00%) Hyper-V
7 2 (3.33%) XenApp
8 1 (1.67%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) Nessus
1 8 (13.33%) SCCM
1 8 (13.33%) WSUS
2 2 (3.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (3.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (1.67%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (1.67%) Ansible
3 1 (1.67%) Grafana
3 1 (1.67%) Graylog
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.67%) Nagios
3 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (53.33%) VMware
2 28 (46.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 9 (15.00%) Cisco
5 7 (11.67%) Qualys
6 4 (6.67%) Avaya
6 4 (6.67%) CheckPoint
6 4 (6.67%) Citrix
6 4 (6.67%) Oracle
7 3 (5.00%) Dell
7 3 (5.00%) Splunk
8 2 (3.33%) Apple
8 2 (3.33%) Atmel
8 2 (3.33%) F5
8 2 (3.33%) Genesys
8 2 (3.33%) HP
8 2 (3.33%) Meraki
8 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto
8 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.33%) SolarWinds