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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 227 272
Rank change year-on-year -53 +45 -47
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 355 276 310
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 1.13% 0.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.41% 8.57% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 195 224
10th Percentile £213 £225 £188
25th Percentile £365 £368 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -11.98%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £550
90th Percentile £638 £725 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £505 £488
% change year-on-year -10.89% +3.59% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 10 16
10th Percentile £21.25 £18.18 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.38 £28.81 £20.00
Median hourly rate £52.22 £52.25 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.06% +11.18% -24.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.55 £65.00 £68.13
UK median hourly rate £52.22 £52.25 £47.00
% change year-on-year -0.06% +11.18% -24.87%

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 3,772 3,220 5,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.59% 13.18% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,381 2,012 3,091
10th Percentile £225 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £364 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £497 £488 £488
% change year-on-year +1.98% - -5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 123 398
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.32 £17.69
Median hourly rate £45.00 £36.65 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.80% -8.39% +111.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.81 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +13.88% -6.25% +110.53%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -77 114 £470 -1.05% 46
North of England -22 89 £450 +3.09% 44
South East -34 60 £523 -5.00% 41
North West +5 55 £559 +78.80% 18
East of England -1 51 £235 -45.35% 22
Midlands -50 35 £300 -40.00% 18
West Midlands -32 32 £225 +7.14% 15
Yorkshire -41 31 £447 -22.35% 20
South West -35 21 £575 -6.50% 23
North East -21 3 £200 -20.00% 8
East Midlands -36 3 £625 +13.64% 3
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 18 (5.07%) Confluence
2 10 (2.82%) nginx
2 10 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.69%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.85%) Apache
5 3 (0.85%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.56%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.56%) IIS
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.56%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Portal
6 2 (0.56%) WordPress
7 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 34 (9.58%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.82%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.41%) Acrobat
3 5 (1.41%) Weka
4 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 92 (25.92%) Azure
2 82 (23.10%) AWS
3 61 (17.18%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (7.32%) GCP
5 24 (6.76%) Entra ID
6 19 (5.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 14 (3.94%) Amazon S3
7 14 (3.94%) Route 53
8 13 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.38%) Serverless
10 11 (3.10%) Google Workspace
11 9 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.97%) Nutanix
12 7 (1.97%) OneDrive
12 7 (1.97%) SaaS
13 6 (1.69%) GitHub
14 5 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 190 (53.52%) DNS
2 125 (35.21%) Firewall
3 85 (23.94%) VPN
4 81 (22.82%) DHCP
5 71 (20.00%) WAN
6 64 (18.03%) LAN
7 52 (14.65%) HTTP
7 52 (14.65%) SSL
8 51 (14.37%) Network Security
9 48 (13.52%) VLAN
10 42 (11.83%) BIG-IP
11 40 (11.27%) BGP
12 34 (9.58%) OSPF
13 32 (9.01%) Wi-Fi
13 32 (9.01%) Wireshark
14 31 (8.73%) Ethernet
15 27 (7.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 20 (5.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 14 (3.94%) Wireless
18 13 (3.66%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
1 12 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.56%) MySQL
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (11.27%) JIRA
2 28 (7.89%) Fiddler
3 17 (4.79%) GitLab
4 14 (3.94%) Eclipse
4 14 (3.94%) Visual Studio
5 12 (3.38%) Git
6 10 (2.82%) Jenkins
7 9 (2.54%) Browser DevTools
8 7 (1.97%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.97%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.13%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.56%) Introscope
10 2 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.56%) Subversion
11 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.28%) Travis CI
General
1 131 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 43 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
2 43 (12.11%) Finance
3 40 (11.27%) Banking
4 26 (7.32%) Investment Banking
4 26 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
5 24 (6.76%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.92%) Military
7 18 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.82%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.25%) Front Office
11 5 (1.41%) Law
12 4 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.85%) Legal
14 2 (0.56%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.56%) Aviation
14 2 (0.56%) Games
14 2 (0.56%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 82 (23.10%) Network Engineer
2 40 (11.27%) Analyst
3 36 (10.14%) Web Engineer
4 35 (9.86%) Support Engineer
5 30 (8.45%) Senior
6 25 (7.04%) Architect
7 23 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (5.35%) Blue Coat Engineer
8 19 (5.35%) IP Network Engineer
8 19 (5.35%) Technical Engineer
9 17 (4.79%) Systems Engineer
10 16 (4.51%) IT Engineer
10 16 (4.51%) Security Engineer
11 15 (4.23%) Integration Engineer
12 14 (3.94%) IT Support
13 13 (3.66%) IT Support Engineer
14 12 (3.38%) Junior
14 12 (3.38%) Technical Analyst
15 11 (3.10%) Software Engineer
15 11 (3.10%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.63%) LDAP
2 16 (4.51%) Web Services
3 14 (3.94%) Node.js
4 12 (3.38%) SAML
5 10 (2.82%) OpenID
6 9 (2.54%) 802.1X
7 8 (2.25%) JSON
8 6 (1.69%) REST
9 5 (1.41%) Kafka
9 5 (1.41%) OAuth
10 4 (1.13%) Middleware
10 4 (1.13%) NETCONF
10 4 (1.13%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.13%) RESTCONF
10 4 (1.13%) YANG
11 3 (0.85%) ARM Templates
11 3 (0.85%) HTML
12 2 (0.56%) .NET
12 2 (0.56%) JDBC
12 2 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.04%) Data Centre
1 25 (7.04%) Management Information System
2 19 (5.35%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.23%) Industry 4.0
3 15 (4.23%) Robotics
4 13 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (3.66%) Public Cloud
5 12 (3.38%) PKI
6 10 (2.82%) Cyberattack
6 10 (2.82%) Private Cloud
6 10 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
7 9 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (2.54%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.25%) Driving Licence
8 8 (2.25%) NHS
9 7 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.69%) CMDB
10 6 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 153 (43.10%) Windows
2 85 (23.94%) Linux
3 50 (14.08%) Windows Server
4 23 (6.48%) Windows 10
5 16 (4.51%) Android
6 13 (3.66%) Unix
7 9 (2.54%) Apple iOS
7 9 (2.54%) Mac OS
8 8 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.69%) zOS
10 5 (1.41%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.13%) VMS
11 4 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.85%) Debian
12 3 (0.85%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.56%) AIX
13 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (30.42%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (16.06%) ITIL
3 53 (14.93%) Agile
4 43 (12.11%) Load Balancing
5 39 (10.99%) DevOps
6 36 (10.14%) Customer Service
6 36 (10.14%) Cybersecurity
7 34 (9.58%) Incident Response
7 34 (9.58%) SIEM
7 34 (9.58%) Validation
8 33 (9.30%) CI/CD
9 31 (8.73%) Migration
10 30 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (8.17%) Data Loss Prevention
12 28 (7.89%) Decision-Making
12 28 (7.89%) Malware Detection/Protection
13 27 (7.61%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (7.61%) Security Operations
14 23 (6.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (6.48%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 80 (22.54%) Python
2 56 (15.77%) PowerShell
3 38 (10.70%) Bash
4 28 (7.89%) JavaScript
5 20 (5.63%) C++
6 17 (4.79%) SQL
7 16 (4.51%) C#
8 7 (1.97%) C
8 7 (1.97%) Java
9 6 (1.69%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.41%) Go
10 5 (1.41%) VBA
11 4 (1.13%) Perl
12 2 (0.56%) Jython
12 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.56%) VBScript
13 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 108 (30.42%) Security Cleared
2 90 (25.35%) SC Cleared
3 46 (12.96%) Degree
4 41 (11.55%) Cisco Certification
5 33 (9.30%) CCNP
6 22 (6.20%) CCNA
6 22 (6.20%) DV Cleared
7 17 (4.79%) CompTIA Security+
8 16 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (3.38%) CISSP
9 12 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.54%) Azure Certification
10 9 (2.54%) MCSA
11 8 (2.25%) CompTIA CySA+
11 8 (2.25%) JNCIS
12 7 (1.97%) CCIE
12 7 (1.97%) MCSE
12 7 (1.97%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (1.13%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.54%) SLA
2 5 (1.41%) GDPR
2 5 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.85%) NCSC
3 3 (0.85%) NIST
4 2 (0.56%) QA
4 2 (0.56%) RMADS
5 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.28%) GRC
System Software
1 77 (21.69%) Active Directory
2 48 (13.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (6.48%) Docker
4 19 (5.35%) Firmware
5 9 (2.54%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.54%) Squid
5 9 (2.54%) VMware NSX
5 9 (2.54%) vSphere
6 8 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.69%) Lustre
7 6 (1.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 5 (1.41%) GPFS
9 4 (1.13%) KVM
9 4 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.85%) NFS
11 2 (0.56%) Ceph
11 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.28%) iptables
12 1 (0.28%) RHEV
12 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 57 (16.06%) Ansible
2 37 (10.42%) Kubernetes
3 36 (10.14%) Terraform
4 31 (8.73%) SCCM
5 24 (6.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (5.92%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (5.07%) Grafana
8 15 (4.23%) Prometheus
9 14 (3.94%) FortiGate
10 10 (2.82%) WSUS
11 9 (2.54%) Nagios
12 8 (2.25%) Consul
13 6 (1.69%) Puppet
13 6 (1.69%) Tivoli NetView
14 5 (1.41%) CASB
14 5 (1.41%) Nessus
15 4 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (1.13%) QRadar
16 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Satellite
16 3 (0.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 99 (27.89%) Microsoft
2 66 (18.59%) VMware
3 58 (16.34%) F5
4 44 (12.39%) Cisco
5 30 (8.45%) Blue Coat
6 28 (7.89%) McAfee
7 24 (6.76%) Splunk
8 21 (5.92%) Citrix
8 21 (5.92%) Fortinet
8 21 (5.92%) NetApp
8 21 (5.92%) Palo Alto
9 20 (5.63%) Red Hat
10 19 (5.35%) Juniper
10 19 (5.35%) ServiceNow
11 16 (4.51%) Siemens
12 13 (3.66%) SolarWinds
13 12 (3.38%) Bloomberg
13 12 (3.38%) Google
14 11 (3.10%) Meraki
14 11 (3.10%) Veeam