TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 38 36
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +14
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 24 4 16
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.72% 1.31% 3.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.09% 8.70% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 16
10th Percentile £339 £513 £490
25th Percentile £511 £514 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £587 £532 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +1.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £645 £547 £550
90th Percentile £769 £555 £560
South East median daily rate £527 £384 £438
% change year-on-year +37.30% -12.23% +10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33.70 - -
Median hourly rate £38.72 - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £89.63 £19.00
% change year-on-year -63.74% +371.74% -69.62%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Buckinghamshire

TCP/IP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 92 46 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 10.43% 15.03% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 18 48
10th Percentile £313 £375 £343
25th Percentile £510 £475 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% -3.33% +2.44%
75th Percentile £624 £538 £550
90th Percentile £659 £553 £588
South East median daily rate £525 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% +7.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 9
10th Percentile - - £17.58
25th Percentile £17.50 - £18.00
Median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +172.68% -36.89% +18.42%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £22.58
90th Percentile - - £48.75
South East median hourly rate £42.25 £54.94 £57.35
% change year-on-year -23.09% -4.21% -0.26%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TCP/IP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing TCP/IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Buckinghamshire

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing TCP/IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 20 July 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -17 20 £615 +15.65% 3
Bletchley - 3 - -
TCP/IP
South East

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (20.83%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 2 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (66.67%) Firewall
2 12 (50.00%) DNS
3 9 (37.50%) VPN
4 8 (33.33%) BGP
4 8 (33.33%) BIG-IP
4 8 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
4 8 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 8 (33.33%) IPsec
4 8 (33.33%) Network Security
4 8 (33.33%) OSPF
4 8 (33.33%) VLAN
5 7 (29.17%) LAN
5 7 (29.17%) WAN
6 6 (25.00%) DHCP
6 6 (25.00%) ICMP
6 6 (25.00%) NGFW
7 5 (20.83%) Wireless
8 4 (16.67%) MPLS
8 4 (16.67%) SSH
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 3 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Military
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Senior
2 5 (20.83%) Network Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Automation Specialist
4 3 (12.50%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Leader
5 2 (8.33%) Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) IT Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Network Technical Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 4 (16.67%) Private Cloud
3 3 (12.50%) ARM Cortex
3 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 3 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (12.50%) Industry 4.0
3 3 (12.50%) Life Science
3 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.50%) Operational Technology
3 3 (12.50%) Robotics
3 3 (12.50%) SCADA
4 2 (8.33%) Cyberattack
4 2 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Windows
2 8 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 7 (29.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) ITIL
2 9 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 8 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (29.17%) Computer Science
4 7 (29.17%) Network Virtualisation
4 7 (29.17%) Validation
5 6 (25.00%) Service Management
6 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
6 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
7 4 (16.67%) Data Collection
7 4 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (16.67%) Log Analytics
7 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
7 4 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 5 (20.83%) Bash
2 5 (20.83%) Bicep
3 2 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (54.17%) Degree
3 12 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (12.50%) CCNP
5 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (8.33%) A+ Certification
6 2 (8.33%) CCIE
6 2 (8.33%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) NCSC
2 3 (12.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 3 (12.50%) GxP
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
3 4 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Terraform
2 5 (20.83%) Ansible
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) VMware
2 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 8 (33.33%) Cisco
3 8 (33.33%) F5
3 8 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 4 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (16.67%) SolarWinds
5 3 (12.50%) Rockwell
5 3 (12.50%) Siemens
6 2 (8.33%) Google
6 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
6 2 (8.33%) Splunk
7 1 (4.17%) Aruba