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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 265 312
Rank change year-on-year -22 +47 -25
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 109 248 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.62% 0.96% 0.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.55% 9.62% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 159 223
10th Percentile £275 £256 £225
25th Percentile £350 £340 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.51%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £638
90th Percentile £681 £806 £763
England median daily rate £488 £481 £450
% change year-on-year +1.44% +6.79% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 6
10th Percentile - £31.25 £26.13
25th Percentile £16.00 £35.50 £30.39
Median hourly rate £20.00 £50.42 £44.37
Median % change year-on-year -60.33% +13.64% -21.12%
75th Percentile - - £48.06
90th Percentile £22.25 £56.94 £58.04
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.91 £43.74
% change year-on-year +10.35% +34.67% +35.63%

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 2,577 3,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.52% 9.96% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,810 2,529
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% +3.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £651
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 54 84
10th Percentile £14.46 £19.25 £20.92
25th Percentile £16.40 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.75 £36.27 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.28% +7.47% -32.03%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.00 £47.69
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% +0.41%

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 18 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 18 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 +20 11 £568 +3.18% 13
East London -4 3 - - 14
West London +14 2 £80 -86.58% 9
South London -1 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 (7.34%) Confluence
2 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.67%) Apache
3 4 (3.67%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.75%) MQSeries
4 3 (2.75%) nginx
5 2 (1.83%) IBM Domino
5 2 (1.83%) IBM Notes
5 2 (1.83%) IIS
6 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.92%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.52%) AWS
2 27 (24.77%) Azure
3 16 (14.68%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (12.84%) GCP
5 11 (10.09%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (10.09%) PaaS
6 8 (7.34%) SaaS
7 7 (6.42%) IaaS
7 7 (6.42%) Nutanix
8 6 (5.50%) Rubrik
9 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.75%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.75%) Datadog
11 3 (2.75%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.75%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 61 (55.96%) DNS
2 46 (42.20%) Firewall
3 44 (40.37%) DHCP
4 43 (39.45%) HTTP
5 23 (21.10%) VPN
6 22 (20.18%) BGP
6 22 (20.18%) Network Security
7 19 (17.43%) LAN
7 19 (17.43%) WAN
8 17 (15.60%) OSPF
8 17 (15.60%) SSL
9 15 (13.76%) VLAN
10 12 (11.01%) Wireshark
11 11 (10.09%) FTP
11 11 (10.09%) SMTP
11 11 (10.09%) SNMP
11 11 (10.09%) SSH
12 10 (9.17%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (9.17%) NAS
12 10 (9.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (4.59%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (3.67%) MySQL
2 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.83%) Redis
3 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.92%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.92%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.92%) Power BI
4 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (20.18%) Jenkins
2 19 (17.43%) Git
3 10 (9.17%) JIRA
4 7 (6.42%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (5.50%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.92%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.92%) Darcs
6 1 (0.92%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.92%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.92%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.92%) Maven
6 1 (0.92%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.92%) Selenium
6 1 (0.92%) Travis CI
General
1 22 (20.18%) Finance
2 13 (11.93%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.93%) Telecoms
3 7 (6.42%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.59%) Banking
5 5 (4.59%) Electronics
5 5 (4.59%) Mandarin Language
5 5 (4.59%) Marketing
6 3 (2.75%) German Language
6 3 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.83%) Cantonese Language
7 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.83%) Retail
8 1 (0.92%) French Language
8 1 (0.92%) Front Office
8 1 (0.92%) Military
8 1 (0.92%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 25 (22.94%) Network Engineer
2 14 (12.84%) Linux Engineer
3 12 (11.01%) Support Engineer
4 11 (10.09%) Linux Server Engineer
4 11 (10.09%) Server Engineer
5 7 (6.42%) IT Support
5 7 (6.42%) Senior
6 6 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Analyst
7 5 (4.59%) Architect
7 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Consultant
7 5 (4.59%) Developer
8 4 (3.67%) ArcSight Engineer
8 4 (3.67%) Security Architect
8 4 (3.67%) SIEM Engineer
9 3 (2.75%) IP Network Engineer
9 3 (2.75%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.76%) LDAP
2 8 (7.34%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.50%) .NET
3 6 (5.50%) JSON
4 4 (3.67%) SAML
4 4 (3.67%) Web Services
5 3 (2.75%) OAuth
5 3 (2.75%) OpenID
5 3 (2.75%) REST
6 2 (1.83%) NETCONF
6 2 (1.83%) RESTful
6 2 (1.83%) SOAP
6 2 (1.83%) SPML
7 1 (0.92%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.92%) CSS
7 1 (0.92%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.92%) HTML
7 1 (0.92%) LAMP
7 1 (0.92%) Spring
7 1 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.51%) Data Centre
2 14 (12.84%) Clustering
3 7 (6.42%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.50%) PKI
4 6 (5.50%) Replication
5 5 (4.59%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.59%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.75%) CCTV
6 3 (2.75%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.92%) CBDC
8 1 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.92%) Digital Currency
8 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.92%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.92%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (0.92%) Industry 4.0
8 1 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (31.19%) Linux
2 31 (28.44%) Windows
3 14 (12.84%) Unix
4 13 (11.93%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.50%) Oracle Linux
5 6 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (5.50%) Solaris
6 5 (4.59%) Windows 10
7 4 (3.67%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.83%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.92%) Android
9 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.92%) CentOS
9 1 (0.92%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.35%) DevOps
2 18 (16.51%) Agile
2 18 (16.51%) CI/CD
3 17 (15.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (11.93%) High Availability
5 12 (11.01%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (11.01%) SIEM
6 10 (9.17%) Configuration Management
6 10 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (9.17%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (9.17%) Customer Service
6 10 (9.17%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (8.26%) Computer Science
7 9 (8.26%) Data Security
7 9 (8.26%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (8.26%) ITIL
7 9 (8.26%) Load Balancing
7 9 (8.26%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (8.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (28.44%) Python
2 18 (16.51%) PowerShell
3 10 (9.17%) Java
4 8 (7.34%) Bash
5 6 (5.50%) C#
5 6 (5.50%) Go
6 5 (4.59%) Perl
6 5 (4.59%) SQL
7 3 (2.75%) C++
7 3 (2.75%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.75%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.83%) C
8 2 (1.83%) PHP
9 1 (0.92%) Ruby
9 1 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (15.60%) Cisco Certification
1 17 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.84%) CCNP
3 13 (11.93%) Degree
4 11 (10.09%) DV Cleared
5 9 (8.26%) CCNA
6 6 (5.50%) CCDP
6 6 (5.50%) CISSP
7 4 (3.67%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.75%) CISA
8 3 (2.75%) CISM
8 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.75%) GIAC
9 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.83%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.83%) GCIA
9 2 (1.83%) GCIH
9 2 (1.83%) MCSE
9 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.83%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) GDPR
2 6 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.75%) NIST
3 3 (2.75%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.92%) COPPA
5 1 (0.92%) ISA99
5 1 (0.92%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.92%) NCSC
5 1 (0.92%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.92%) QA
5 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (24.77%) Active Directory
2 15 (13.76%) Docker
3 14 (12.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.59%) NFS
4 5 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.67%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.67%) Samba
5 4 (3.67%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (2.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.83%) iptables
7 2 (1.83%) Squid
7 2 (1.83%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.83%) XenApp
8 1 (0.92%) Ceph
8 1 (0.92%) Firmware
8 1 (0.92%) KVM
8 1 (0.92%) Lustre
8 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (18.35%) Terraform
2 19 (17.43%) Ansible
3 15 (13.76%) Puppet
4 14 (12.84%) Kubernetes
5 12 (11.01%) Progress Chef
6 8 (7.34%) Kibana
6 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (5.50%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (5.50%) Netcool
7 6 (5.50%) Tivoli
7 6 (5.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (4.59%) logstash
9 4 (3.67%) QRadar
9 4 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.75%) FortiGate
10 3 (2.75%) HAProxy
10 3 (2.75%) Nmap
10 3 (2.75%) SCCM
11 2 (1.83%) SCOM
11 2 (1.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (33.03%) Cisco
2 22 (20.18%) Microsoft
3 15 (13.76%) VMware
4 14 (12.84%) Splunk
5 11 (10.09%) Palo Alto
6 9 (8.26%) IBM
6 9 (8.26%) Oracle
7 8 (7.34%) Dell
7 8 (7.34%) ServiceNow
7 8 (7.34%) Zscaler
8 7 (6.42%) Arista
8 7 (6.42%) Aruba
8 7 (6.42%) HP
8 7 (6.42%) Nokia
9 6 (5.50%) CyberArk
9 6 (5.50%) EMC
9 6 (5.50%) Isilon
9 6 (5.50%) Meraki
9 6 (5.50%) Qualys
9 6 (5.50%) Serena