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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 105 111
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 +21
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 16 19 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.68% 1.02% 0.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.79% 10.56% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 9
10th Percentile £208 £263 £256
25th Percentile £285 £284 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -11.36% +25.71%
75th Percentile £584 £638 £625
90th Percentile £636 £758 £830
Central London median daily rate £375 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -23.08% -11.36% +25.71%

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 182 180 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.77% 9.69% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 126 117
10th Percentile £310 £269 £255
25th Percentile £413 £425 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £625
90th Percentile £715 £750 £760
Central London median daily rate £530 £543 £518
% change year-on-year -2.30% +4.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £19.39 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £19.46 £33.28 -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £44.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.19% - -
75th Percentile £39.50 £55.49 -
90th Percentile £54.80 £61.54 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £44.11 -
% change year-on-year +2.02% - -

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 18 August 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 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (43.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (43.75%) Entra ID
3 6 (37.50%) OneDrive
4 5 (31.25%) Azure
5 4 (25.00%) AWS
6 3 (18.75%) SaaS
7 2 (12.50%) GCP
8 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (6.25%) Cloudflare
8 1 (6.25%) GitHub
8 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) DNS
2 10 (62.50%) VPN
3 9 (56.25%) DHCP
4 6 (37.50%) Firewall
5 4 (25.00%) VLAN
6 3 (18.75%) LAN
6 3 (18.75%) Unified Communications
6 3 (18.75%) WAN
7 1 (6.25%) DKIM
7 1 (6.25%) DMARC
7 1 (6.25%) IP Telephony
7 1 (6.25%) OpenVPN
7 1 (6.25%) PSTN
7 1 (6.25%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (6.25%) SSH
7 1 (6.25%) VoIP
7 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (6.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) Git
3 2 (12.50%) Artifactory
3 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.25%) Fiddler
4 1 (6.25%) MSI
4 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Analyst
1 4 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Support Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 2 (12.50%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Desktop Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 2 (12.50%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Support
4 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Telephony Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.25%) Blazor
2 1 (6.25%) boto
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.25%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.25%) CMDB
3 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
3 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Incident Management
2 5 (31.25%) ITSM
2 5 (31.25%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (18.75%) User Experience
3 3 (18.75%) Zero Trust
4 2 (12.50%) Business Continuity
4 2 (12.50%) Change Control
4 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 2 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (12.50%) High Availability
4 2 (12.50%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Management
5 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 5 (31.25%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CCNA
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) CCNP
2 1 (6.25%) CISM
2 1 (6.25%) CISSP
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
1 1 (6.25%) QA
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (12.50%) Grafana
2 2 (12.50%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (12.50%) SCCM
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) PingFederate
3 1 (6.25%) SELinux
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) ServiceNow
3 3 (18.75%) Bloomberg
3 3 (18.75%) F5
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco
4 2 (12.50%) Citrix
4 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
4 2 (12.50%) ION Trading
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 2 (12.50%) Remedy
4 2 (12.50%) Splunk
5 1 (6.25%) Okta
5 1 (6.25%) Qualys
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.25%) Refinitiv
5 1 (6.25%) VMware