TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 114 121
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 +20
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 16 14 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 0.67% 1.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.52% 7.29% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 19
10th Percentile £263 £256 £257
25th Percentile £272 £413 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year -21.36% +25.71% +25.00%
75th Percentile £648 £625 £688
90th Percentile £769 £830 £821
Central London median daily rate £433 £550 £438
% change year-on-year -21.36% +25.71% +25.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 168 192 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.59% 9.24% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 112 190
10th Percentile £263 £350 £212
25th Percentile £361 £424 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £531 £543
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -2.17% +0.46%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £757 £714
Central London median daily rate £536 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +2.10% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £26.38
25th Percentile £33.28 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £64.06
90th Percentile £61.54 - £72.13
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
% change year-on-year - - +87.50%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the City of London

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing TCP/IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the City of London

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing TCP/IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
TCP/IP
Central London

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) Google Workspace
5 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) DNS
2 7 (43.75%) Firewall
3 6 (37.50%) SSL
3 6 (37.50%) VPN
4 3 (18.75%) DHCP
4 3 (18.75%) HTTP
5 2 (12.50%) Internet
5 2 (12.50%) LAN
5 2 (12.50%) WAN
6 1 (6.25%) BGP
6 1 (6.25%) FTP
6 1 (6.25%) Intranet
6 1 (6.25%) IP Telephony
6 1 (6.25%) NAS
6 1 (6.25%) Network Security
6 1 (6.25%) OSPF
6 1 (6.25%) SAN
6 1 (6.25%) SMTP
6 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (6.25%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Robot Framework
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Support Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Desktop Support
4 2 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) SAML
1 1 (6.25%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) iPad
2 1 (6.25%) iPhone
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) SCADA
2 1 (6.25%) Smartphone
2 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
3 3 (18.75%) Mac OS
3 3 (18.75%) Unix
4 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (6.25%) Mac OS X
5 1 (6.25%) Windows 7
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) DevOps
1 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
2 3 (18.75%) High Availability
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL
2 3 (18.75%) Load Balancing
2 3 (18.75%) SIEM
2 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
3 2 (12.50%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
3 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (12.50%) ITSM
3 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (12.50%) Low Latency
3 2 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 2 (12.50%) Perl
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (6.25%) MCSA
2 1 (6.25%) MCSE
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Docker
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) SCCM
3 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
3 1 (6.25%) Packer
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.25%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) F5
3 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
3 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
4 2 (12.50%) Citrix
4 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 2 (12.50%) Zscaler
5 1 (6.25%) AlgoSec
5 1 (6.25%) Apple
5 1 (6.25%) Avaya
5 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.25%) Google
5 1 (6.25%) Nexthink
5 1 (6.25%) Polycom
5 1 (6.25%) SAP
5 1 (6.25%) Splunk
5 1 (6.25%) Tufin
5 1 (6.25%) VMware
5 1 (6.25%) Wyse