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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 92 113
Rank change year-on-year -28 +21 +19
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 5 24 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.26% 1.31% 0.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.62% 12.70% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 13
10th Percentile £284 £190 -
25th Percentile £336 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.04% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £494 £675 £925
90th Percentile £513 £741 -
Central London median daily rate £443 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -23.04% +12.20% -16.33%

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 138 189 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.04% 10.32% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 128 159
10th Percentile £249 £252 £221
25th Percentile £413 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +15.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £622
90th Percentile £740 £730 £735
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £20.31 - -
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £16.22
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +100.43% -21.69%
75th Percentile £35.60 £33.75 £33.57
90th Percentile £42.74 - £59.93
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £18.93
% change year-on-year -21.63% +71.69% -8.57%

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 21 February 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Akamai
3 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) Network Security
3 3 (60.00%) SSL
3 3 (60.00%) VPN
4 2 (40.00%) BGP
4 2 (40.00%) DHCP
4 2 (40.00%) OSPF
5 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
5 1 (20.00%) Internet
5 1 (20.00%) IPsec
5 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Firewall Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Anti-Spyware
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
1 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) QRadar
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Zscaler