Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for TCP/IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited TCP/IP over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 241 274
Rank change year-on-year +44 +33 -75
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 1,494 1,625 2,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 1.55% 1.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.96% 10.14% 10.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,185 1,131 1,361
10th Percentile £25,600 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +1.12% -1.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,715 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,628 16,029 20,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.88% 15.30% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,526 8,241 11,792
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP.

Salary trend for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +42 1,333 £42,500 -5.56% 343
UK excluding London +7 1,136 £37,500 -6.25% 279
Work from Home +22 537 £52,500 +5.00% 142
London +78 325 £62,500 +13.64% 77
South East -43 253 £38,500 +13.24% 64
North of England +4 232 £40,000 -11.11% 66
Midlands +66 200 £37,500 - 61
South West +15 185 £33,000 -26.67% 32
East of England +61 139 £35,000 -17.65% 37
North West +21 123 £40,000 -14.89% 46
West Midlands +58 112 £35,000 -9.77% 32
Yorkshire +33 100 £38,750 -13.89% 18
East Midlands +22 88 £41,000 +12.33% 29
Scotland -46 61 £42,500 +6.25% 12
Wales +12 36 £27,500 -22.90% 9
Northern Ireland +40 30 £32,500 -3.70% 5
North East -5 9 £24,000 -29.93% 4

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 185 (12.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 151 (10.11%) SharePoint
3 46 (3.08%) WebLogic
4 34 (2.28%) IIS
5 14 (0.94%) Apache
5 14 (0.94%) nginx
6 12 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2010
7 11 (0.74%) Confluence
7 11 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2013
8 10 (0.67%) Skype for Business
9 9 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2007
10 7 (0.47%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2003
12 2 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.13%) Moodle
12 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.067%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 203 (13.59%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.27%) Trello
4 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 46 (3.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 16 (1.07%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.27%) Epicor Tropos
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 541 (36.21%) Azure
2 445 (29.79%) Microsoft 365
3 262 (17.54%) AWS
4 141 (9.44%) Entra ID
5 49 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
5 49 (3.28%) SaaS
6 48 (3.21%) GCP
7 46 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
8 39 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
9 37 (2.48%) OneDrive
9 37 (2.48%) OpenShift
10 32 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 31 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (1.74%) Mimecast
13 24 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
14 20 (1.34%) IaaS
14 20 (1.34%) WhatsApp
15 15 (1.00%) GitHub
16 14 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
17 13 (0.87%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 721 (48.26%) DNS
2 543 (36.35%) DHCP
3 533 (35.68%) Firewall
4 364 (24.36%) WAN
5 353 (23.63%) LAN
6 266 (17.80%) VPN
7 177 (11.85%) Wireless
8 169 (11.31%) VLAN
9 146 (9.77%) BGP
10 144 (9.64%) Wi-Fi
11 133 (8.90%) HTTP
12 121 (8.10%) Network Security
13 118 (7.90%) SSL
14 112 (7.50%) Internet
15 109 (7.30%) OSPF
16 99 (6.63%) VoIP
17 88 (5.89%) MPLS
18 83 (5.56%) Ethernet
19 61 (4.08%) SD-WAN
20 54 (3.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 67 (4.48%) Relational Database
3 62 (4.15%) Amazon RDS
4 48 (3.21%) RDBMS
5 47 (3.15%) MySQL
6 46 (3.08%) Oracle Database
7 22 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 12 (0.80%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.67%) Power BI
11 8 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.47%) Redis
13 4 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
13 4 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.20%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.20%) InfluxDB
15 2 (0.13%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.13%) Couchbase
15 2 (0.13%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 51 (3.41%) JIRA
2 41 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.47%) Git
4 21 (1.41%) GitLab
5 20 (1.34%) Visual Studio
6 13 (0.87%) Eclipse
7 12 (0.80%) Subversion
8 5 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (0.33%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
9 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.27%) MSBuild
9 4 (0.27%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.13%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.13%) Hudson
10 2 (0.13%) Selenium
10 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.067%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.067%) Postman
11 1 (0.067%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 450 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 203 (13.59%) Finance
3 180 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (7.16%) Telecoms
5 70 (4.69%) Electronics
6 58 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (3.48%) Law
8 38 (2.54%) Banking
9 35 (2.34%) Manufacturing
10 34 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (1.94%) Legal
12 27 (1.81%) Retail
13 25 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.34%) Public Sector
15 16 (1.07%) Aerospace
16 15 (1.00%) Military
17 14 (0.94%) Marketing
18 13 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
19 10 (0.67%) Automotive
20 9 (0.60%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 269 (18.01%) Senior
2 191 (12.78%) Analyst
3 178 (11.91%) Support Engineer
4 159 (10.64%) IT Support
5 150 (10.04%) IT Engineer
5 150 (10.04%) Network Engineer
6 132 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 120 (8.03%) Lead
8 111 (7.43%) Software Engineer
9 84 (5.62%) Architect
10 77 (5.15%) IT Support Engineer
11 74 (4.95%) IT Technician
12 62 (4.15%) Support Technician
13 61 (4.08%) IT Analyst
13 61 (4.08%) Support Analyst
14 59 (3.95%) Developer
15 55 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
16 52 (3.48%) 2nd Line Support
16 52 (3.48%) Administrator
17 49 (3.28%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (6.43%) HTML
2 66 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
3 62 (4.15%) .NET
4 56 (3.75%) CSS
5 48 (3.21%) REST
6 46 (3.08%) Spring Boot
7 44 (2.95%) AngularJS
8 42 (2.81%) Web Services
9 37 (2.48%) SAML
10 33 (2.21%) WPF
11 30 (2.01%) React
12 29 (1.94%) OpenID
13 27 (1.81%) XML
14 25 (1.67%) LDAP
15 23 (1.54%) FIX Protocol
16 20 (1.34%) 802.1X
16 20 (1.34%) ASP.NET
17 19 (1.27%) ASP.NET MVC
17 19 (1.27%) jQuery
17 19 (1.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 105 (7.03%) Data Centre
2 88 (5.89%) Management Information System
3 75 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
4 74 (4.95%) Driving Licence
5 61 (4.08%) Public Cloud
6 55 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
6 55 (3.68%) IoT
7 51 (3.41%) Cyberattack
8 45 (3.01%) Onboarding
9 44 (2.95%) Replication
10 34 (2.28%) Cloud Native
11 31 (2.07%) Clustering
12 28 (1.87%) CCTV
13 26 (1.74%) PKI
14 25 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
15 24 (1.61%) Client/Server
16 23 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
17 20 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 18 (1.20%) FPGA
19 16 (1.07%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 836 (55.96%) Windows
2 419 (28.05%) Linux
3 398 (26.64%) Windows Server
4 218 (14.59%) Windows 10
5 97 (6.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 93 (6.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 91 (6.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 80 (5.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 68 (4.55%) Android
10 66 (4.42%) Apple iOS
11 64 (4.28%) Unix
12 42 (2.81%) Windows Server 2008
13 35 (2.34%) Ubuntu
14 31 (2.07%) Mac OS
15 30 (2.01%) Windows 7
16 25 (1.67%) CentOS
17 22 (1.47%) Mac OS X
18 19 (1.27%) Debian
18 19 (1.27%) Embedded Linux
18 19 (1.27%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
2 258 (17.27%) ITIL
3 241 (16.13%) Customer Service
4 229 (15.33%) Cybersecurity
5 221 (14.79%) Agile
6 153 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 145 (9.71%) Software Engineering
8 134 (8.97%) DevOps
9 115 (7.70%) Migration
10 112 (7.50%) Actionable Insight
11 107 (7.16%) Computer Science
12 87 (5.82%) SDLC
13 86 (5.76%) Project Management
14 81 (5.42%) Collaborative Working
14 81 (5.42%) Disaster Recovery
14 81 (5.42%) Load Balancing
15 80 (5.35%) Mentoring
15 80 (5.35%) Open Source
16 79 (5.29%) ITSM
17 78 (5.22%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 249 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 230 (15.39%) Python
3 133 (8.90%) Bash
4 123 (8.23%) SQL
5 99 (6.63%) Java
6 96 (6.43%) C
7 75 (5.02%) C++
8 74 (4.95%) C#
9 54 (3.61%) Perl
10 53 (3.55%) JavaScript
11 20 (1.34%) Ruby
12 19 (1.27%) XAML
13 11 (0.74%) Embedded C
14 7 (0.47%) Go
15 6 (0.40%) PHP
15 6 (0.40%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.33%) Ladder Logic
17 4 (0.27%) Bicep
17 4 (0.27%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.20%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 257 (17.20%) Degree
2 214 (14.32%) Security Cleared
3 189 (12.65%) Cisco Certification
4 140 (9.37%) CCNA
5 117 (7.83%) SC Cleared
6 103 (6.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 89 (5.96%) DV Cleared
8 84 (5.62%) AWS Certification
9 76 (5.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 66 (4.42%) Azure Certification
11 58 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
12 56 (3.75%) CISSP
13 52 (3.48%) CCNP
14 47 (3.15%) DBS Check
15 41 (2.74%) MCSA
16 38 (2.54%) JNCIA
17 32 (2.14%) CEH
18 30 (2.01%) MCSE
19 27 (1.81%) Master's Degree
20 22 (1.47%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (6.36%) SLA
2 48 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (1.94%) NIST
4 28 (1.87%) QA
5 24 (1.61%) NCSC
6 21 (1.41%) GDPR
7 19 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.14%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.60%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.47%) JTAG
11 5 (0.33%) MISRA
11 5 (0.33%) PMO
12 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.27%) ISO 22301
12 4 (0.27%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.20%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.067%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 521 (34.87%) Active Directory
2 248 (16.60%) Hyper-V
3 241 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 84 (5.62%) Docker
5 38 (2.54%) VMware ESXi
6 36 (2.41%) Firmware
7 27 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (1.34%) vSphere
9 19 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (0.94%) Terminal Services
11 12 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
12 10 (0.67%) pfSense
12 10 (0.67%) XenApp
13 9 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
14 8 (0.54%) NFS
15 5 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.27%) vCloud
16 4 (0.27%) VMware Server
16 4 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 128 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 84 (5.62%) Ansible
3 78 (5.22%) Terraform
4 70 (4.69%) Kubernetes
5 57 (3.82%) Puppet
6 55 (3.68%) SCCM
7 33 (2.21%) Grafana
8 29 (1.94%) WSUS
9 21 (1.41%) vCenter Server
10 20 (1.34%) Nmap
11 18 (1.20%) FortiGate
11 18 (1.20%) Prometheus
12 15 (1.00%) Nagios
13 13 (0.87%) HAProxy
13 13 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
13 13 (0.87%) WMI
14 12 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
14 12 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
15 11 (0.74%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.67%) Graphite
Vendors
1 572 (38.29%) Microsoft
2 346 (23.16%) VMware
3 234 (15.66%) Cisco
4 102 (6.83%) Oracle
5 81 (5.42%) Juniper
6 75 (5.02%) Red Hat
7 67 (4.48%) Citrix
8 61 (4.08%) Meraki
9 57 (3.82%) Fortinet
10 54 (3.61%) Splunk
11 51 (3.41%) Veeam
12 46 (3.08%) Sparx
13 40 (2.68%) Bloomberg
14 36 (2.41%) SolarWinds
15 35 (2.34%) Apple
15 35 (2.34%) Palo Alto
16 32 (2.14%) Sophos
17 31 (2.07%) CheckPoint
17 31 (2.07%) HP
18 30 (2.01%) Google