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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 237 259
Rank change year-on-year -18 +22 -38
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 445 301 320
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.10% 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.47% 8.72% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 182 211
10th Percentile £206 £206 £203
25th Percentile £322 £350 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -4.51%
75th Percentile £569 £611 £560
90th Percentile £658 £653 £645
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 24 31
10th Percentile £21.25 £19.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £44.68 £62.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% - +28.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile £98.82 £87.64 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -23.46% - +28.92%

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 4,252 3,453 4,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.46% 12.62% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,603 2,150 2,724
10th Percentile £263 £235 £225
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +2.25% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 161 332
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.62% -5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £87.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.22 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -44.80% +5.56% -10.00%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -51 180 £475 -5.00% 94
North of England -27 90 £460 -8.00% 54
South East -28 79 £527 +17.17% 76
North West -3 58 £475 +26.60% 27
Midlands -33 40 £401 -19.80% 29
South West -11 36 £525 -15.15% 56
East of England -10 34 £250 -52.38% 30
West Midlands -43 32 £400 -0.50% 18
Yorkshire -50 28 £475 -6.17% 20
East Midlands -10 8 £402 -26.91% 11
North East -32 4 £306 +22.50% 9
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 41 (9.21%) SharePoint
2 22 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.70%) Confluence
4 9 (2.02%) nginx
5 7 (1.57%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.67%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (0.67%) IIS
6 3 (0.67%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.45%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.45%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.45%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.22%) CICS
8 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 34 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.57%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.45%) Houdini
5 2 (0.45%) NUKE
6 1 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 150 (33.71%) Azure
2 109 (24.49%) AWS
3 95 (21.35%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (13.26%) Entra ID
5 35 (7.87%) GCP
6 28 (6.29%) OneDrive
7 27 (6.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 17 (3.82%) GitHub
9 16 (3.60%) Route 53
10 15 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (2.47%) Google Workspace
12 10 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (2.02%) OpenShift
14 8 (1.80%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (1.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 262 (58.88%) DNS
2 191 (42.92%) Firewall
3 150 (33.71%) DHCP
4 128 (28.76%) VPN
5 82 (18.43%) Network Security
5 82 (18.43%) WAN
6 72 (16.18%) LAN
7 70 (15.73%) VLAN
8 69 (15.51%) BGP
9 59 (13.26%) HTTP
10 57 (12.81%) SSL
11 45 (10.11%) BIG-IP
12 42 (9.44%) OSPF
13 39 (8.76%) Ethernet
14 38 (8.54%) Wi-Fi
15 34 (7.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 31 (6.97%) Wireless
17 26 (5.84%) Wireshark
18 25 (5.62%) SD-WAN
19 23 (5.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.47%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.45%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.45%) MySQL
5 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.45%) SQLite
6 1 (0.22%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.22%) KDB
6 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 46 (10.34%) JIRA
2 23 (5.17%) Git
3 19 (4.27%) Fiddler
4 18 (4.04%) Jenkins
5 15 (3.37%) GitLab
6 14 (3.15%) Visual Studio
7 13 (2.92%) Eclipse
8 10 (2.25%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (0.90%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.45%) Introscope
11 2 (0.45%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.45%) Subversion
12 1 (0.22%) MSI
12 1 (0.22%) Postman
General
1 172 (38.65%) Social Skills
2 63 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (12.81%) Finance
4 41 (9.21%) Banking
5 30 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.94%) Investment Banking
6 22 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (4.72%) Telecoms
8 19 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.60%) Military
10 14 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.80%) Front Office
12 5 (1.12%) Legal
12 5 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.90%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.90%) Police
14 3 (0.67%) Automotive
14 3 (0.67%) Retail
15 2 (0.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 97 (21.80%) Network Engineer
2 52 (11.69%) Support Engineer
3 46 (10.34%) Senior
4 44 (9.89%) Architect
5 42 (9.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (7.42%) Analyst
7 28 (6.29%) IT Support
8 26 (5.84%) Web Engineer
9 24 (5.39%) IT Engineer
9 24 (5.39%) Security Engineer
10 22 (4.94%) Technical Engineer
11 20 (4.49%) IT Support Engineer
11 20 (4.49%) Systems Engineer
12 17 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (3.82%) Senior Network Engineer
13 16 (3.60%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 16 (3.60%) IP Network Engineer
14 15 (3.37%) Software Engineer
15 14 (3.15%) C# Software Engineer
15 14 (3.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.27%) SAML
2 16 (3.60%) LDAP
3 14 (3.15%) JSON
4 13 (2.92%) Node.js
4 13 (2.92%) Web Services
5 11 (2.47%) ARM Templates
5 11 (2.47%) REST
6 10 (2.25%) 802.1X
7 8 (1.80%) .NET
8 6 (1.35%) NETCONF
8 6 (1.35%) OpenConfig
8 6 (1.35%) OpenID
8 6 (1.35%) RESTCONF
8 6 (1.35%) YANG
9 5 (1.12%) OAuth
10 4 (0.90%) boto
10 4 (0.90%) eBPF
10 4 (0.90%) WinForms
10 4 (0.90%) XML
11 3 (0.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 69 (15.51%) Data Centre
2 45 (10.11%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.84%) Management Information System
4 25 (5.62%) PKI
5 24 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (5.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 18 (4.04%) Robotics
8 17 (3.82%) Security Posture
9 16 (3.60%) Linux Command Line
10 15 (3.37%) Industry 4.0
11 14 (3.15%) Public Cloud
11 14 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (2.47%) Cloud Native
13 10 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (2.25%) Driving Licence
13 10 (2.25%) Operational Technology
13 10 (2.25%) Private Cloud
14 9 (2.02%) SCADA
15 8 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 188 (42.25%) Windows
2 102 (22.92%) Linux
3 54 (12.13%) Windows Server
4 35 (7.87%) Mac OS
5 32 (7.19%) Windows 10
6 20 (4.49%) Unix
7 17 (3.82%) Apple iOS
8 14 (3.15%) Android
8 14 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (2.70%) Ubuntu
10 5 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.67%) CentOS
11 3 (0.67%) Check Point GAiA
11 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.67%) zOS
12 2 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.22%) Rocky
13 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (21.12%) ITIL
3 67 (15.06%) CI/CD
4 61 (13.71%) Agile
4 61 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 55 (12.36%) Customer Service
5 55 (12.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (11.91%) DevOps
7 51 (11.46%) Load Balancing
8 44 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
8 44 (9.89%) Migration
9 43 (9.66%) Incident Response
10 42 (9.44%) High Availability
10 42 (9.44%) ITSM
10 42 (9.44%) Service Management
11 38 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (8.54%) Validation
12 37 (8.31%) SIEM
13 36 (8.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (7.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 126 (28.31%) Python
2 78 (17.53%) PowerShell
3 68 (15.28%) Bash
4 27 (6.07%) JavaScript
5 24 (5.39%) C++
6 17 (3.82%) C#
7 14 (3.15%) SQL
8 9 (2.02%) VBA
9 8 (1.80%) Java
10 7 (1.57%) Bicep
10 7 (1.57%) Perl
11 5 (1.12%) ActionScript
11 5 (1.12%) C
12 4 (0.90%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.67%) Go
14 2 (0.45%) Jython
14 2 (0.45%) Korn
14 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.45%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 120 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 81 (18.20%) SC Cleared
3 69 (15.51%) Degree
4 55 (12.36%) Cisco Certification
5 41 (9.21%) CCNP
6 40 (8.99%) DV Cleared
7 25 (5.62%) CCNA
7 25 (5.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (4.04%) CISSP
9 16 (3.60%) CCIE
10 14 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (2.92%) Network+ Certification
12 10 (2.25%) Azure Certification
12 10 (2.25%) MCSA
13 8 (1.80%) A+ Certification
13 8 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (1.80%) MCSE
14 7 (1.57%) VCAP
15 6 (1.35%) JNCIE
16 5 (1.12%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.60%) SLA
2 11 (2.47%) NCSC
3 10 (2.25%) NIST
4 7 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.57%) QA
5 5 (1.12%) GDPR
6 4 (0.90%) NIST 800
6 4 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 3 (0.67%) GxP
8 2 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.45%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.22%) GRC
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.22%) RMADS
System Software
1 118 (26.52%) Active Directory
2 75 (16.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (5.17%) Docker
3 23 (5.17%) Hyper-V
4 20 (4.49%) vSphere
5 19 (4.27%) VMware NSX
6 17 (3.82%) Firmware
7 11 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.80%) Squid
9 6 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.90%) NFS
11 3 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.45%) KVM
12 2 (0.45%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.22%) GPFS
13 1 (0.22%) Lustre
13 1 (0.22%) RACF
13 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.22%) Snort
Systems Management
1 90 (20.22%) Ansible
2 68 (15.28%) Terraform
3 48 (10.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (8.76%) Kubernetes
5 26 (5.84%) SCCM
6 25 (5.62%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (4.49%) Grafana
8 12 (2.70%) FortiGate
9 11 (2.47%) Jamf Pro
9 11 (2.47%) Prometheus
10 10 (2.25%) VxRail
11 7 (1.57%) WSUS
12 6 (1.35%) CASB
13 5 (1.12%) Nessus
13 5 (1.12%) Suricata
13 5 (1.12%) systemd
14 4 (0.90%) Consul
15 3 (0.67%) Nagios
15 3 (0.67%) Puppet
15 3 (0.67%) SELinux
Vendors
1 163 (36.63%) Microsoft
2 85 (19.10%) VMware
3 82 (18.43%) Cisco
4 61 (13.71%) F5
5 49 (11.01%) ServiceNow
6 28 (6.29%) Google
7 25 (5.62%) Fortinet
7 25 (5.62%) Zscaler
8 24 (5.39%) Blue Coat
8 24 (5.39%) Palo Alto
9 22 (4.94%) Juniper
10 21 (4.72%) Infoblox
11 19 (4.27%) Citrix
11 19 (4.27%) NetApp
12 18 (4.04%) CheckPoint
12 18 (4.04%) McAfee
13 17 (3.82%) Siemens
14 15 (3.37%) Splunk
15 13 (2.92%) Red Hat
15 13 (2.92%) SolarWinds