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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 94 107
Rank change year-on-year -21 +13 +36
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 8 26 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.44% 1.33% 0.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.30% 13.20% 8.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 15
10th Percentile £438 £233 £413
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £775 £670 £809
90th Percentile - £749 £925
Central London median daily rate £600 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -7.41%

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 151 197 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.21% 10.08% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 128 163
10th Percentile £334 £275 £315
25th Percentile £421 £461 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% +3.07% -6.82%
75th Percentile £653 £640 £613
90th Percentile £738 £730 £713
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £20.31 - £24.29
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £46.97
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% -30.80% +129.10%
75th Percentile £35.60 £33.75 £62.86
90th Percentile £42.74 - £71.64
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £18.93
% change year-on-year -21.63% +71.69% -7.66%

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 8 January 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 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Akamai
3 1 (12.50%) Cloudflare
3 1 (12.50%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) SSL
2 5 (62.50%) Firewall
3 4 (50.00%) DNS
3 4 (50.00%) VPN
4 2 (25.00%) HTTP
5 1 (12.50%) BGP
5 1 (12.50%) DHCP
5 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
5 1 (12.50%) Internet
5 1 (12.50%) Network Security
5 1 (12.50%) OSPF
5 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (25.00%) Network Design
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
4 1 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) F5
2 4 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 4 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) AlgoSec
4 1 (12.50%) Google
4 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (12.50%) Splunk
4 1 (12.50%) Tufin
4 1 (12.50%) Zscaler