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

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 203 239 270
Rank change year-on-year +36 +31 -68
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 1,487 1,595 2,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.51% 1.53% 1.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.91% 9.96% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,175 1,110 1,359
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £26,225
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £58,750 £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 13,635 16,010 20,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.84% 15.39% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 9,509 8,145 11,813
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -4.29% +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 1 May 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 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +42 1,325 £42,500 -5.56% 365
UK excluding London +25 1,132 £37,500 -6.25% 279
Work from Home +33 536 £52,500 +5.00% 138
London +74 322 £64,250 +16.82% 98
South East -52 253 £38,500 +13.24% 65
North of England -2 227 £40,000 -11.11% 64
Midlands +67 199 £37,500 - 64
South West +28 185 £33,000 -26.67% 33
East of England +45 140 £37,500 -11.76% 38
North West +19 121 £40,000 -14.89% 45
West Midlands +60 110 £35,000 -10.43% 33
Yorkshire +18 98 £38,750 -13.89% 18
East Midlands +30 89 £41,000 +12.33% 31
Scotland -54 62 £42,500 +3.03% 12
Wales +12 36 £27,500 -20.48% 7
Northern Ireland +47 30 £32,500 - 5
North East -9 8 £23,625 -31.02% 3

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
1 183 (12.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 150 (10.09%) SharePoint
3 46 (3.09%) WebLogic
4 34 (2.29%) IIS
5 15 (1.01%) Apache
6 14 (0.94%) nginx
7 11 (0.74%) Confluence
7 11 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2013
8 10 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2010
8 10 (0.67%) Skype for Business
9 9 (0.61%) 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
1 197 (13.25%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.27%) Trello
4 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.067%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 46 (3.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 16 (1.08%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.27%) Epicor Tropos
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 537 (36.11%) Azure
2 438 (29.46%) Microsoft 365
3 261 (17.55%) AWS
4 138 (9.28%) Entra ID
5 49 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
5 49 (3.30%) SaaS
6 48 (3.23%) GCP
7 46 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
8 39 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
9 38 (2.56%) OpenShift
10 36 (2.42%) OneDrive
11 32 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
14 23 (1.55%) Mimecast
15 18 (1.21%) IaaS
15 18 (1.21%) WhatsApp
16 15 (1.01%) GitHub
17 14 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
18 13 (0.87%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 717 (48.22%) DNS
2 536 (36.05%) DHCP
3 525 (35.31%) Firewall
4 357 (24.01%) WAN
5 346 (23.27%) LAN
6 259 (17.42%) VPN
7 178 (11.97%) Wireless
8 162 (10.89%) VLAN
9 145 (9.75%) BGP
10 140 (9.41%) Wi-Fi
11 134 (9.01%) HTTP
12 121 (8.14%) Network Security
13 116 (7.80%) SSL
14 111 (7.46%) Internet
15 109 (7.33%) OSPF
16 100 (6.72%) VoIP
17 87 (5.85%) MPLS
18 84 (5.65%) Ethernet
19 58 (3.90%) SAN
20 57 (3.83%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (6.72%) SQL Server
2 67 (4.51%) Relational Database
3 61 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
4 48 (3.23%) RDBMS
5 47 (3.16%) MySQL
6 46 (3.09%) Oracle Database
7 22 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 12 (0.81%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.61%) 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 52 (3.50%) JIRA
2 43 (2.89%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.41%) Git
3 21 (1.41%) GitLab
4 20 (1.34%) Visual Studio
5 13 (0.87%) Eclipse
6 11 (0.74%) Subversion
7 5 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.34%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.27%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.27%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.27%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.27%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.13%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.13%) Hudson
9 2 (0.13%) Selenium
9 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.067%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.067%) Postman
10 1 (0.067%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 447 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 205 (13.79%) Finance
3 183 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.13%) Telecoms
5 70 (4.71%) Electronics
6 59 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (3.50%) Law
8 38 (2.56%) Banking
9 37 (2.49%) Manufacturing
10 32 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (1.82%) Legal
11 27 (1.82%) Retail
12 25 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (1.41%) Public Sector
14 17 (1.14%) Aerospace
15 15 (1.01%) Marketing
15 15 (1.01%) Military
16 13 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.67%) Automotive
18 9 (0.61%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 268 (18.02%) Senior
2 187 (12.58%) Analyst
3 177 (11.90%) Support Engineer
4 154 (10.36%) IT Support
5 147 (9.89%) IT Engineer
6 146 (9.82%) Network Engineer
7 136 (9.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 120 (8.07%) Lead
9 112 (7.53%) Software Engineer
10 84 (5.65%) Architect
11 75 (5.04%) IT Support Engineer
12 72 (4.84%) IT Technician
13 62 (4.17%) Support Technician
14 61 (4.10%) Developer
15 59 (3.97%) IT Analyst
16 58 (3.90%) Support Analyst
17 55 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
18 52 (3.50%) Administrator
19 51 (3.43%) 2nd Line Support
19 51 (3.43%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (6.46%) HTML
2 67 (4.51%) RabbitMQ
3 63 (4.24%) .NET
4 56 (3.77%) CSS
5 48 (3.23%) REST
6 46 (3.09%) Spring Boot
7 44 (2.96%) AngularJS
8 42 (2.82%) Web Services
9 37 (2.49%) SAML
10 33 (2.22%) WPF
11 30 (2.02%) React
12 29 (1.95%) OpenID
13 27 (1.82%) XML
14 26 (1.75%) LDAP
15 23 (1.55%) FIX Protocol
16 20 (1.34%) 802.1X
16 20 (1.34%) ASP.NET
17 19 (1.28%) ASP.NET MVC
17 19 (1.28%) jQuery
17 19 (1.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 102 (6.86%) Data Centre
2 89 (5.99%) Management Information System
3 79 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
4 73 (4.91%) Driving Licence
5 62 (4.17%) Public Cloud
6 55 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
6 55 (3.70%) IoT
7 51 (3.43%) Cyberattack
8 43 (2.89%) Replication
9 42 (2.82%) Onboarding
10 34 (2.29%) Cloud Native
11 31 (2.08%) Clustering
12 28 (1.88%) CCTV
13 26 (1.75%) PKI
14 25 (1.68%) Client/Server
14 25 (1.68%) Video Conferencing
15 23 (1.55%) Security Operations Centre
16 20 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 19 (1.28%) FPGA
18 16 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 831 (55.88%) Windows
2 423 (28.45%) Linux
3 395 (26.56%) Windows Server
4 218 (14.66%) Windows 10
5 99 (6.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 94 (6.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 94 (6.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 83 (5.58%) Windows Server 2012
8 67 (4.51%) Android
9 64 (4.30%) Apple iOS
9 64 (4.30%) Unix
10 39 (2.62%) Windows Server 2008
11 36 (2.42%) Ubuntu
12 30 (2.02%) Windows 7
13 29 (1.95%) Mac OS
14 27 (1.82%) CentOS
15 20 (1.34%) Embedded Linux
15 20 (1.34%) Mac OS X
16 19 (1.28%) Debian
16 19 (1.28%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
2 252 (16.95%) ITIL
3 240 (16.14%) Customer Service
4 226 (15.20%) Cybersecurity
5 225 (15.13%) Agile
6 157 (10.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 148 (9.95%) Software Engineering
8 136 (9.15%) DevOps
9 114 (7.67%) Migration
10 113 (7.60%) Actionable Insight
11 108 (7.26%) Computer Science
12 87 (5.85%) SDLC
13 85 (5.72%) Project Management
14 82 (5.51%) Collaborative Working
15 81 (5.45%) Open Source
16 80 (5.38%) Disaster Recovery
16 80 (5.38%) Load Balancing
17 79 (5.31%) Mentoring
18 78 (5.25%) ITSM
19 76 (5.11%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 249 (16.75%) PowerShell
2 235 (15.80%) Python
3 135 (9.08%) Bash
4 124 (8.34%) SQL
5 101 (6.79%) Java
6 97 (6.52%) C
7 77 (5.18%) C++
8 76 (5.11%) C#
9 55 (3.70%) Perl
10 53 (3.56%) JavaScript
11 20 (1.34%) Ruby
12 19 (1.28%) XAML
13 11 (0.74%) Embedded C
14 7 (0.47%) Go
15 6 (0.40%) PHP
15 6 (0.40%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.34%) Ladder Logic
17 4 (0.27%) Bicep
17 4 (0.27%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.20%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 255 (17.15%) Degree
2 217 (14.59%) Security Cleared
3 187 (12.58%) Cisco Certification
4 138 (9.28%) CCNA
5 118 (7.94%) SC Cleared
6 100 (6.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 92 (6.19%) DV Cleared
8 84 (5.65%) AWS Certification
9 76 (5.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 66 (4.44%) Azure Certification
11 58 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
12 56 (3.77%) CISSP
13 51 (3.43%) CCNP
14 48 (3.23%) DBS Check
15 40 (2.69%) MCSA
16 38 (2.56%) JNCIA
17 32 (2.15%) CEH
18 29 (1.95%) MCSE
19 27 (1.82%) Master's Degree
20 22 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (6.39%) SLA
2 44 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (1.95%) NIST
3 29 (1.95%) QA
4 24 (1.61%) NCSC
5 20 (1.34%) GDPR
6 17 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 17 (1.14%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.61%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.47%) JTAG
9 5 (0.34%) MISRA
9 5 (0.34%) PMO
10 4 (0.27%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.20%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.20%) ISO 31000
11 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.067%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 515 (34.63%) Active Directory
2 245 (16.48%) Hyper-V
3 241 (16.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 86 (5.78%) Docker
5 39 (2.62%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (2.56%) Firmware
7 27 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 21 (1.41%) vSphere
9 19 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (0.94%) Terminal Services
11 13 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
12 11 (0.74%) Embedded Firmware
13 10 (0.67%) pfSense
13 10 (0.67%) XenApp
14 9 (0.61%) NFS
15 5 (0.34%) 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
1 123 (8.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 87 (5.85%) Ansible
3 78 (5.25%) Terraform
4 72 (4.84%) Kubernetes
5 59 (3.97%) Puppet
6 55 (3.70%) SCCM
7 35 (2.35%) Grafana
8 29 (1.95%) WSUS
9 22 (1.48%) vCenter Server
10 20 (1.34%) Nmap
10 20 (1.34%) Prometheus
11 17 (1.14%) FortiGate
12 15 (1.01%) Nagios
13 14 (0.94%) HAProxy
14 13 (0.87%) WMI
15 12 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
15 12 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
15 12 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
16 11 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.74%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 568 (38.20%) Microsoft
2 346 (23.27%) VMware
3 226 (15.20%) Cisco
4 103 (6.93%) Oracle
5 81 (5.45%) Juniper
6 79 (5.31%) Red Hat
7 66 (4.44%) Citrix
8 57 (3.83%) Fortinet
9 56 (3.77%) Splunk
10 55 (3.70%) Meraki
11 49 (3.30%) Veeam
12 46 (3.09%) Sparx
13 39 (2.62%) Bloomberg
14 36 (2.42%) SolarWinds
15 35 (2.35%) Palo Alto
16 34 (2.29%) Apple
17 31 (2.08%) CheckPoint
17 31 (2.08%) HP
18 30 (2.02%) Google
18 30 (2.02%) Ruckus Wireless