TCP/IP Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring TCP/IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TCP/IP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 115 136
Rank change year-on-year +10 +21 +14
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 14 12 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.80% 0.55% 1.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.28% 5.69% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 28
10th Percentile £175 £450 £263
25th Percentile £272 £463 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.74% +53.33%
75th Percentile £660 £925 £694
90th Percentile £675 - £822
Central London median daily rate £563 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -0.88% +3.18% +15.79%

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 169 211 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.62% 9.60% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 141 249
10th Percentile £258 £213 £246
25th Percentile £475 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £744 £775 £759
Central London median daily rate £538 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +19.44% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £14.25 £24.64
90th Percentile - - £30.86
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the City of London.

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

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 1 May 2025.

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

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the City of 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
1 5 (35.71%) GitHub
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Nutanix
4 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) DNS
2 5 (35.71%) DHCP
2 5 (35.71%) Firewall
3 4 (28.57%) HTTP
3 4 (28.57%) VPN
4 2 (14.29%) BGP
4 2 (14.29%) FTP
4 2 (14.29%) OSPF
4 2 (14.29%) SMTP
4 2 (14.29%) SSL
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (7.14%) EIGRP
5 1 (7.14%) Kerberos
5 1 (7.14%) LAN
5 1 (7.14%) Network Security
5 1 (7.14%) VLAN
5 1 (7.14%) WAN
5 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Subversion
2 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (42.86%) Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Police
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) IT Support
1 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (7.14%) Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Network Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) LDAP
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) iPad
2 1 (7.14%) iPhone
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Smartphone
2 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Windows 10
3 3 (21.43%) Mac OS
3 3 (21.43%) Unix
4 2 (14.29%) Apple iOS
5 1 (7.14%) Solaris
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile
1 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) SIEM
3 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Chaos Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Microservices
4 2 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (14.29%) OWASP
4 2 (14.29%) Protective Monitoring
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Perl
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) CASP
1 1 (7.14%) CISSP
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) GCIA
1 1 (7.14%) GCIH
1 1 (7.14%) GIAC
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (7.14%) BitLocker
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (7.14%) NFS
3 1 (7.14%) Veritas File System
3 1 (7.14%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
3 1 (7.14%) XenApp
3 1 (7.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (14.29%) SCCM
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Control-M
2 1 (7.14%) Netcool
2 1 (7.14%) QRadar
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (7.14%) Tivoli
2 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
1 5 (35.71%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) BMC
3 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Citrix
3 1 (7.14%) CyberArk
3 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Juniper
3 1 (7.14%) LogRhythm
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.14%) Qualys
3 1 (7.14%) Rapid7
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) SaltStack
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Zscaler