TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in England

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 231 280
Rank change year-on-year -56 +49 -42
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 360 278 300
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 1.16% 0.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.99% 8.92% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 194 205
10th Percentile £213 £225 £185
25th Percentile £379 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +2.56% +1.44%
75th Percentile £550 £623 £563
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £460 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 10 21
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.54 £16.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £32.44 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.22 £58.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.79% -10.00% +13.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £58.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -39.79% -10.00% +13.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,005 3,115 4,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.59% 12.99% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,477 1,953 2,876
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £495
% change year-on-year +4.17% -3.03% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 122 386
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £39.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% -0.85% +134.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.03 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £28.96 £41.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -29.79% +3.13% +118.16%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TCP/IP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in England

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TCP/IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in England over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in England

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TCP/IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in England over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in England

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 4 June 2026. 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
London -66 135 £475 -5.00% 74
North of England -28 92 £450 +12.50% 42
South East -40 55 £500 +11.11% 77
North West +8 54 £540 +116.00% 26
East of England -19 37 £263 -38.95% 25
Midlands -45 33 £400 -27.27% 33
Yorkshire -53 33 £449 -11.41% 11
West Midlands -39 30 £388 -29.55% 18
South West -33 20 £500 -18.70% 34
North East -26 5 £306 +22.50% 6
East Midlands -29 3 £625 +13.64% 15
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 17 (4.72%) Confluence
2 14 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.78%) nginx
4 8 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.11%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.83%) IIS
6 3 (0.83%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.56%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.28%) Apache
8 1 (0.28%) CICS
8 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 27 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.22%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.11%) Acrobat
3 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 92 (25.56%) Azure
2 91 (25.28%) AWS
3 59 (16.39%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (7.22%) GCP
5 25 (6.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 16 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.89%) Route 53
10 13 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.61%) Serverless
11 12 (3.33%) GitHub
12 11 (3.06%) OneDrive
13 7 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.94%) Google Workspace
13 7 (1.94%) Nutanix
13 7 (1.94%) SaaS
14 6 (1.67%) Akamai
14 6 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 194 (53.89%) DNS
2 131 (36.39%) Firewall
3 86 (23.89%) VPN
4 84 (23.33%) DHCP
5 66 (18.33%) WAN
6 63 (17.50%) Network Security
7 60 (16.67%) LAN
8 57 (15.83%) SSL
9 56 (15.56%) HTTP
10 49 (13.61%) VLAN
11 47 (13.06%) BGP
12 45 (12.50%) BIG-IP
13 34 (9.44%) OSPF
14 33 (9.17%) Ethernet
15 30 (8.33%) Wireshark
16 28 (7.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 27 (7.50%) Wi-Fi
18 21 (5.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
19 18 (5.00%) Wireless
20 13 (3.61%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.39%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.28%) MySQL
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 44 (12.22%) JIRA
2 24 (6.67%) Fiddler
3 20 (5.56%) GitLab
4 16 (4.44%) Git
4 16 (4.44%) Jenkins
5 13 (3.61%) Eclipse
5 13 (3.61%) Visual Studio
6 9 (2.50%) Browser DevTools
7 7 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.94%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.11%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.83%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.56%) Introscope
10 2 (0.56%) Subversion
11 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.28%) Postman
11 1 (0.28%) Travis CI
General
1 131 (36.39%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.00%) Finance
3 45 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.28%) Banking
5 25 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.39%) Investment Banking
7 22 (6.11%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (5.00%) Military
10 17 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.22%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.67%) Front Office
13 5 (1.39%) Law
14 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.56%) Aviation
15 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.56%) Games
15 2 (0.56%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.56%) Retail
15 2 (0.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 87 (24.17%) Network Engineer
2 38 (10.56%) Analyst
3 32 (8.89%) Web Engineer
4 30 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 28 (7.78%) Architect
6 26 (7.22%) Senior
7 24 (6.67%) Security Engineer
8 22 (6.11%) Technical Engineer
9 21 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (4.72%) Blue Coat Engineer
10 17 (4.72%) IP Network Engineer
10 17 (4.72%) Systems Engineer
11 16 (4.44%) IT Support
11 16 (4.44%) Junior
12 14 (3.89%) Software Engineer
13 13 (3.61%) C# Software Engineer
13 13 (3.61%) Technical Support
14 12 (3.33%) Integration Engineer
15 11 (3.06%) C++ Software Engineer
15 11 (3.06%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.56%) LDAP
2 15 (4.17%) SAML
3 13 (3.61%) Node.js
3 13 (3.61%) Web Services
4 11 (3.06%) JSON
4 11 (3.06%) OpenID
5 9 (2.50%) 802.1X
6 7 (1.94%) REST
7 5 (1.39%) .NET
7 5 (1.39%) Kafka
7 5 (1.39%) OAuth
8 3 (0.83%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.83%) HTML
8 3 (0.83%) Middleware
8 3 (0.83%) WinForms
8 3 (0.83%) XML
9 2 (0.56%) Blazor
9 2 (0.56%) eBPF
9 2 (0.56%) NETCONF
9 2 (0.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 35 (9.72%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 16 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
5 15 (4.17%) Industry 4.0
5 15 (4.17%) Robotics
6 12 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
7 10 (2.78%) Cyberattack
7 10 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.78%) Security Posture
8 9 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 8 (2.22%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.94%) PKI
11 6 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.67%) NHS
11 6 (1.67%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.39%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (1.39%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 144 (40.00%) Windows
2 74 (20.56%) Linux
3 42 (11.67%) Windows Server
4 23 (6.39%) Mac OS
5 17 (4.72%) Windows 10
6 14 (3.89%) Unix
7 13 (3.61%) Apple iOS
8 11 (3.06%) Android
9 10 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.39%) zOS
12 4 (1.11%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.83%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.56%) AIX
14 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (15.28%) ITIL
3 53 (14.72%) Agile
4 46 (12.78%) DevOps
5 43 (11.94%) Load Balancing
6 42 (11.67%) Incident Response
7 39 (10.83%) CI/CD
8 38 (10.56%) Customer Service
9 31 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 31 (8.61%) Migration
9 31 (8.61%) SIEM
10 30 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (8.06%) Decision-Making
11 29 (8.06%) Validation
12 28 (7.78%) High Availability
12 28 (7.78%) ITSM
13 26 (7.22%) Data Loss Prevention
13 26 (7.22%) Infrastructure as Code
14 25 (6.94%) Root Cause Analysis
14 25 (6.94%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 83 (23.06%) Python
2 39 (10.83%) Bash
3 36 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 29 (8.06%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.83%) C++
6 16 (4.44%) C#
7 15 (4.17%) SQL
8 9 (2.50%) VBA
9 8 (2.22%) Java
10 6 (1.67%) C
10 6 (1.67%) Go
10 6 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.11%) Perl
12 3 (0.83%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.56%) Jython
13 2 (0.56%) Ruby
14 1 (0.28%) Groovy
14 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 98 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 78 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 57 (15.83%) Degree
4 41 (11.39%) Cisco Certification
5 34 (9.44%) CCNP
6 25 (6.94%) CCNA
7 19 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (5.28%) DV Cleared
8 15 (4.17%) CISSP
8 15 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
9 12 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.50%) Azure Certification
10 9 (2.50%) MCSA
11 8 (2.22%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (1.94%) CompTIA CySA+
12 7 (1.94%) JNCIS
12 7 (1.94%) MCSE
13 6 (1.67%) CCIE
14 5 (1.39%) CISM
15 4 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.33%) SLA
2 6 (1.67%) GDPR
2 6 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.67%) QA
3 5 (1.39%) NIST
4 3 (0.83%) NCSC
5 2 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.56%) RMADS
6 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.28%) GRC
System Software
1 69 (19.17%) Active Directory
2 45 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.00%) Docker
4 17 (4.72%) Firmware
5 13 (3.61%) Squid
6 10 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (2.50%) Hyper-V
8 8 (2.22%) vSphere
9 7 (1.94%) VMware NSX
10 6 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (1.11%) KVM
12 3 (0.83%) NFS
13 1 (0.28%) Ceph
13 1 (0.28%) GPFS
13 1 (0.28%) RACF
13 1 (0.28%) RHEV
13 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.28%) Snort
13 1 (0.28%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 61 (16.94%) Ansible
2 36 (10.00%) Terraform
3 35 (9.72%) Kubernetes
4 26 (7.22%) Grafana
4 26 (7.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (6.39%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (5.56%) SCCM
7 16 (4.44%) FortiGate
7 16 (4.44%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.78%) Nagios
9 9 (2.50%) Consul
10 8 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (1.67%) CASB
11 6 (1.67%) WSUS
12 5 (1.39%) Nessus
12 5 (1.39%) Suricata
13 4 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (1.11%) Puppet
13 4 (1.11%) QRadar
13 4 (1.11%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 98 (27.22%) Microsoft
2 60 (16.67%) F5
3 56 (15.56%) VMware
4 54 (15.00%) Cisco
5 30 (8.33%) Blue Coat
6 26 (7.22%) ServiceNow
7 25 (6.94%) Splunk
8 24 (6.67%) McAfee
9 20 (5.56%) Palo Alto
10 18 (5.00%) Fortinet
10 18 (5.00%) NetApp
11 17 (4.72%) Citrix
11 17 (4.72%) Juniper
11 17 (4.72%) Siemens
12 16 (4.44%) Red Hat
13 14 (3.89%) Zscaler
14 12 (3.33%) Bloomberg
14 12 (3.33%) SolarWinds
15 11 (3.06%) Infoblox
15 11 (3.06%) Veeam