TCP/IP Contracts in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 104 95
Rank change year-on-year -17 -9 +27
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 32 58 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.99% 1.71% 2.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.89% 9.83% 15.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 32 38
10th Percentile £469 £179 £189
25th Percentile £550 £372 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +21.88% +12.28%
75th Percentile £672 £562 £497
90th Percentile £713 £652 £554
England median daily rate £500 £481 £463
% change year-on-year +4.05% +3.90% +6.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 7
10th Percentile £56.49 £19.36 £47.39
25th Percentile £63.75 £53.58 £52.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year - -1.22% +27.77%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £68.90
90th Percentile £72.60 £81.15 £72.70
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
South West

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 South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 543 590 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.73% 17.39% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 376 304
10th Percentile £300 £222 £218
25th Percentile £463 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £523 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.87% +16.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £575
90th Percentile £700 £722 £625
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +12.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 115 32
10th Percentile £12.50 - £41.04
25th Percentile £15.75 - £45.85
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £52.39
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -81.29% +27.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.28 £60.92
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.90 £69.05
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +128.57% -26.81% +3.02%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the South West over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in the South West over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the South West

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Bristol +16 13 £531 +6.25% 12
Dorset +4 6 - - 3
Wiltshire -6 6 £672 +41.47% 8
Gloucestershire +2 4 £600 +6.67% 2
Somerset -10 2 £319 -32.00% 3
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (12.50%) Apache Solr
1 4 (12.50%) Confluence
1 4 (12.50%) nginx
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (6.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) GCP
2 2 (6.25%) AWS
2 2 (6.25%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (46.88%) DNS
2 9 (28.13%) DHCP
2 9 (28.13%) Firewall
3 7 (21.88%) BGP
3 7 (21.88%) Network Security
4 5 (15.63%) Ethernet
4 5 (15.63%) VLAN
4 5 (15.63%) VPN
4 5 (15.63%) WAN
5 4 (12.50%) HTTPS
5 4 (12.50%) IPsec
6 3 (9.38%) OSPF
6 3 (9.38%) SNMP
7 2 (6.25%) 5G
7 2 (6.25%) LAN
7 2 (6.25%) Skype
7 2 (6.25%) SMTP
8 1 (3.13%) 4G
8 1 (3.13%) HTTP
8 1 (3.13%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Couchbase
1 4 (12.50%) MySQL
1 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.13%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Eclipse
1 5 (15.63%) Visual Studio
2 4 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 4 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (6.25%) Artifactory
3 2 (6.25%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (3.13%) Git
General
1 17 (53.13%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Military
3 5 (15.63%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) C# Software Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) C++ Software Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) Senior
1 5 (15.63%) Software Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Principal Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Security Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Node.js
1 5 (15.63%) Web Services
2 4 (12.50%) JSON
2 4 (12.50%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (12.50%) YAML
3 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.13%) Django
3 1 (3.13%) Flask
3 1 (3.13%) React
3 1 (3.13%) SPML
3 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 4 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (50.00%) Linux
2 14 (43.75%) Windows
3 4 (12.50%) CentOS
3 4 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (9.38%) Unix
5 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.25%) Windows 10
6 1 (3.13%) Mac OS X
6 1 (3.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Agile
2 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 9 (28.13%) Validation
4 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (21.88%) Visualisation
5 6 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (18.75%) ITIL
6 5 (15.63%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (15.63%) Digital Twin
6 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
6 5 (15.63%) Synthetic Environment
6 5 (15.63%) TDD
6 5 (15.63%) Unit Testing
6 5 (15.63%) Verification and Validation
7 4 (12.50%) DevOps
7 4 (12.50%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 4 (12.50%) Microservices
7 4 (12.50%) SDLC
7 4 (12.50%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) C#
2 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 5 (15.63%) C++
3 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
3 5 (15.63%) Python
4 4 (12.50%) Bash
4 4 (12.50%) C
4 4 (12.50%) PHP
5 2 (6.25%) Java
5 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (21.88%) DV Cleared
4 4 (12.50%) Degree
5 2 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (3.13%) CEH
6 1 (3.13%) CREST Certified
6 1 (3.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) NIST
2 4 (12.50%) GDPR
2 4 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 4 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (12.50%) QA
3 2 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (18.75%) VMware NSX
3 4 (12.50%) vSphere
4 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
4 3 (9.38%) Docker
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Ansible
1 8 (25.00%) Terraform
2 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.50%) SCCM
4 3 (9.38%) FortiGate
5 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (6.25%) OPNET
5 2 (6.25%) SCOM
5 2 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.00%) VMware
3 7 (21.88%) Cisco
4 6 (18.75%) Atlassian
5 5 (15.63%) Google
6 3 (9.38%) F5
6 3 (9.38%) Fortinet
7 2 (6.25%) Remedy
7 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
7 2 (6.25%) Sparx
7 2 (6.25%) Veeam
8 1 (3.13%) Nokia