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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 101 127
Rank change year-on-year -3 +26 +12
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 15 25 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.87% 1.18% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.32% 11.16% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 15
10th Percentile £263 £256 £221
25th Percentile £330 £450 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £585 £438
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +33.71% -17.45%
75th Percentile £672 £719 £538
90th Percentile £775 £780 £688
Central London median daily rate £475 £580 £438
% change year-on-year -18.10% +32.57% -17.45%

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 161 224 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.39% 10.56% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 136 169
10th Percentile £263 £336 £263
25th Percentile £406 £429 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £531 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -1.71% -
75th Percentile £675 £641 £626
90th Percentile £738 £755 £703
Central London median daily rate £536 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £20.89 - £26.38
25th Percentile £21.96 £31.25 £34.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £32.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% -33.33% +107.45%
75th Percentile £45.41 £33.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £57.51 - £72.13
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £32.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -24.62% -33.33% +87.50%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 & 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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (6.67%) Akamai
5 1 (6.67%) Cloudflare
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) Google Workspace
5 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) DNS
2 7 (46.67%) Firewall
3 6 (40.00%) SSL
4 5 (33.33%) VPN
5 3 (20.00%) DHCP
5 3 (20.00%) Internet
6 2 (13.33%) HTTP
6 2 (13.33%) LAN
6 2 (13.33%) WAN
7 1 (6.67%) BGP
7 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
7 1 (6.67%) Intranet
7 1 (6.67%) IP Telephony
7 1 (6.67%) NAS
7 1 (6.67%) Network Security
7 1 (6.67%) OSPF
7 1 (6.67%) SAN
7 1 (6.67%) SSH
7 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Robot Framework
3 1 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Desktop Support
3 2 (13.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Python Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Operations Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Service Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Support
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) SAML
1 1 (6.67%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (6.67%) iPad
2 1 (6.67%) iPhone
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.67%) SCADA
2 1 (6.67%) Smartphone
2 1 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Linux
3 3 (20.00%) Mac OS
3 3 (20.00%) Unix
4 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (6.67%) Mac OS X
4 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.67%) Windows 7
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (26.67%) Load Balancing
3 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (20.00%) High Availability
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
4 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (13.33%) Low Latency
4 2 (13.33%) Network Design
4 2 (13.33%) SDLC
4 2 (13.33%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) SIEM
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Bash
2 2 (13.33%) Perl
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (6.67%) MCSA
3 1 (6.67%) MCSE
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Ansible
1 6 (40.00%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) SCCM
3 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
3 1 (6.67%) Packer
3 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.67%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) F5
2 4 (26.67%) CheckPoint
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Palo Alto
3 2 (13.33%) Citrix
3 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) AlgoSec
4 1 (6.67%) Apple
4 1 (6.67%) Avaya
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) Infoblox
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Polycom
4 1 (6.67%) SAP
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) Tufin
4 1 (6.67%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) Wyse
4 1 (6.67%) Zscaler