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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 101 120
Rank change year-on-year -27 +19 +8
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 11 17 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.45% 0.98% 0.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.28% 9.88% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 8
10th Percentile £185 £236 £523
25th Percentile £272 £266 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £445 £800
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% -44.38% +47.81%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £925
90th Percentile £644 £674 £963
Central London median daily rate £488 £445 £750
% change year-on-year +9.55% -40.67% +52.67%

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 151 172 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.23% 9.94% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 116 144
10th Percentile £241 £259 £191
25th Percentile £413 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £675 £662 £638
90th Percentile £729 £763 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £543 £450
% change year-on-year +1.38% +20.56% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £19.78 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £20.45 £33.28 £12.75
Median hourly rate £26.13 £44.11 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.75% +226.72% -51.53%
75th Percentile £39.50 £55.49 £14.25
90th Percentile £54.80 £61.54 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £44.11 £13.50
% change year-on-year +2.02% +226.72% -51.53%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend 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 19 June 2026.

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
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Entra ID
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) OneDrive
3 3 (27.27%) SaaS
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) DNS
2 7 (63.64%) DHCP
3 6 (54.55%) Firewall
4 5 (45.45%) VPN
5 3 (27.27%) LAN
5 3 (27.27%) Unified Communications
5 3 (27.27%) WAN
6 2 (18.18%) Network Security
6 2 (18.18%) VLAN
7 1 (9.09%) BGP
7 1 (9.09%) IP Telephony
7 1 (9.09%) IPsec
7 1 (9.09%) OSPF
7 1 (9.09%) PSTN
7 1 (9.09%) SSL
7 1 (9.09%) VoIP
7 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Fiddler
2 1 (9.09%) MSI
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Telephony Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
2 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
2 1 (9.09%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
1 2 (18.18%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Mac OS
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Zero Trust
2 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (27.27%) User Experience
3 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
3 2 (18.18%) Change Control
3 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (18.18%) High Availability
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) AI
4 1 (9.09%) Application Packaging
4 1 (9.09%) Change Management
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) TOGAF
4 1 (9.09%) Use Case
4 1 (9.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) CCNA
2 2 (18.18%) CCNP
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP
3 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) QRadar
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) F5
3 2 (18.18%) Bloomberg
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 2 (18.18%) Citrix
4 1 (9.09%) Databricks
4 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
4 1 (9.09%) Splunk
4 1 (9.09%) VMware