TCP/IP Contracts in the Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 130 159
Rank change year-on-year +38 +29 -21
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 42 27 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.52% 0.83% 0.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.71% 5.44% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 21 35
10th Percentile £188 £163 £110
25th Percentile £232 £200 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £375 £325
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% +15.38% -5.45%
75th Percentile £550 £480 £500
90th Percentile £575 £575 £550
England median daily rate £500 £481 £463
% change year-on-year +4.05% +3.90% +6.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £21.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.75% -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.33 £45.00
% change year-on-year +13.38% +27.40% +80.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 482 496 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.42% 15.27% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 319 415
10th Percentile £200 £250 £163
25th Percentile £306 £316 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £455 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% +13.86% -
75th Percentile £584 £597 £509
90th Percentile £675 £700 £618
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +12.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 14 32
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.13 £15.81 £14.55
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.71 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +18.11% +16.87%
75th Percentile £24.35 £26.23 £20.51
90th Percentile £28.75 £37.18 £23.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.07 £23.91
% change year-on-year +134.40% -28.63% +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 28 May 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 28 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
East Midlands +32 23 £475 +17.28% 23
West Midlands +6 19 £525 +61.54% 21
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 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (50.00%) DNS
2 15 (35.71%) DHCP
3 13 (30.95%) Firewall
4 9 (21.43%) VPN
5 5 (11.90%) BGP
5 5 (11.90%) Internet
6 4 (9.52%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (9.52%) Network Security
6 4 (9.52%) OSPF
6 4 (9.52%) SAN
6 4 (9.52%) VLAN
7 3 (7.14%) Ethernet
7 3 (7.14%) MPLS
7 3 (7.14%) WAN
7 3 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (4.76%) LAN
8 2 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (4.76%) SD-WAN
9 1 (2.38%) InfiniBand
9 1 (2.38%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) Apache Hive
1 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Finance
3 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support
1 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 6 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Support Officer
4 5 (11.90%) Technical Support
4 5 (11.90%) Technical Support Officer
5 4 (9.52%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Network Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Python Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Active Directory Support
6 3 (7.14%) Printer Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.38%) OLE
1 1 (2.38%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) iPad
2 1 (2.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.38%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 24 (57.14%) Windows
2 12 (28.57%) Linux
2 12 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 10 (23.81%) Windows 10
4 6 (14.29%) Unix
5 5 (11.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (9.52%) Debian
6 4 (9.52%) Ubuntu
7 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) Customer Service
2 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (19.05%) Virtual Environments
4 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (14.29%) Agile
5 6 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 6 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (14.29%) SIEM
5 6 (14.29%) Visualisation
6 5 (11.90%) Information Management
6 5 (11.90%) ITIL
6 5 (11.90%) Security Hardening
6 5 (11.90%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (11.90%) Systems Engineering
7 4 (9.52%) Configuration Management
7 4 (9.52%) Data Engineering
7 4 (9.52%) Data Modelling
7 4 (9.52%) Matrix Organization
7 4 (9.52%) Prototyping
7 4 (9.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.05%) C#
1 8 (19.05%) Java
2 4 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.38%) SQL
3 1 (2.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.19%) DV Cleared
3 5 (11.90%) CCNA
3 5 (11.90%) CCNP
3 5 (11.90%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.38%) MCSE
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) NIST
2 3 (7.14%) HIPAA
2 3 (7.14%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.76%) GDPR
3 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 13 (30.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (23.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (11.90%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (11.90%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (11.90%) VMware NSX
4 2 (4.76%) Terminal Services
4 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.38%) Docker
5 1 (2.38%) Lustre
5 1 (2.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.38%) Snort
Systems Management
1 12 (28.57%) SCCM
2 5 (11.90%) vCenter Server
3 3 (7.14%) Autotask
4 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.38%) Kibana
4 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (42.86%) VMware
2 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 8 (19.05%) Cisco
4 5 (11.90%) Veeam
5 4 (9.52%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.14%) Fortinet
6 3 (7.14%) Palo Alto
6 3 (7.14%) Remedy
7 2 (4.76%) Splunk
8 1 (2.38%) Google
8 1 (2.38%) Juniper
8 1 (2.38%) Mitel
8 1 (2.38%) Oracle