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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 226 226
Rank change year-on-year -40 0 -14
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 444 328 342
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 1.20% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.30% 9.87% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 183 200
10th Percentile £206 £203 £212
25th Percentile £313 £319 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -
75th Percentile £569 £613 £575
90th Percentile £699 £653 £645
UK median daily rate £453 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.16% +2.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 31 31
10th Percentile £26.29 £28.00 £30.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £47.88 £63.13
Median hourly rate £63.48 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% - +30.00%
75th Percentile £79.23 - -
90th Percentile £98.82 £83.00 -
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.34% - +30.00%

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 4,310 3,324 4,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.45% 12.14% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,604 2,065 2,418
10th Percentile £259 £238 £250
25th Percentile £400 £363 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £505
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.97% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £676 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 167 253
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% -25.89% +1.52%
75th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% -10.00% -9.09%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -34 195 £475 -15.56% 288
South East -34 82 £525 +40.00% 105
North of England -63 72 £423 -21.03% 78
South West -2 47 £638 +4.08% 54
Midlands -35 44 £402 -10.67% 46
North West -33 42 £268 -50.00% 40
West Midlands -32 36 £406 -9.72% 26
Yorkshire -42 26 £500 -9.09% 21
East of England -30 21 £423 -23.18% 38
East Midlands -10 8 £402 -26.91% 20
North East -44 4 £438 +75.00% 20
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 50 (11.26%) SharePoint
2 32 (7.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.70%) Confluence
4 11 (2.48%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.13%) nginx
6 4 (0.90%) FactoryTalk
7 3 (0.68%) IIS
7 3 (0.68%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.45%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.45%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.23%) CICS
9 1 (0.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 17 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.45%) Houdini
5 2 (0.45%) NUKE
6 1 (0.23%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (1.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 164 (36.94%) Azure
2 115 (25.90%) Microsoft 365
3 106 (23.87%) AWS
4 72 (16.22%) Entra ID
5 36 (8.11%) OneDrive
6 30 (6.76%) GCP
7 21 (4.73%) GitHub
7 21 (4.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 15 (3.38%) OpenShift
9 14 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (2.70%) Route 53
11 11 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (2.48%) Google Workspace
12 9 (2.03%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (1.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 280 (63.06%) DNS
2 202 (45.50%) Firewall
3 184 (41.44%) DHCP
4 143 (32.21%) VPN
5 84 (18.92%) Network Security
6 80 (18.02%) WAN
7 71 (15.99%) LAN
8 67 (15.09%) VLAN
9 65 (14.64%) BGP
10 57 (12.84%) HTTP
11 51 (11.49%) SSL
12 43 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
13 40 (9.01%) OSPF
14 39 (8.78%) BIG-IP
15 37 (8.33%) Wireless
16 34 (7.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 27 (6.08%) SD-WAN
18 23 (5.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
19 22 (4.95%) Wireshark
20 18 (4.05%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.80%) MySQL
3 8 (1.80%) SQLite
4 7 (1.58%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.35%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.13%) Redis
7 4 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.68%) KDB
9 2 (0.45%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.23%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.23%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 47 (10.59%) JIRA
2 38 (8.56%) Git
3 32 (7.21%) Jenkins
4 22 (4.95%) GitLab
5 16 (3.60%) Fiddler
6 7 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.35%) Browser DevTools
7 6 (1.35%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.13%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.13%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.90%) Selenium
10 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.45%) Introscope
10 2 (0.45%) Subversion
11 1 (0.23%) MSI
11 1 (0.23%) Postman
General
1 169 (38.06%) Social Skills
2 67 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (12.61%) Finance
4 41 (9.23%) Banking
5 27 (6.08%) Public Sector
6 26 (5.86%) Telecoms
7 21 (4.73%) Investment Banking
8 14 (3.15%) Front Office
9 10 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.80%) Military
11 6 (1.35%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.13%) Legal
12 5 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.13%) Police
13 4 (0.90%) Automotive
13 4 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.68%) Advertising
14 3 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 90 (20.27%) Network Engineer
2 63 (14.19%) Support Engineer
3 60 (13.51%) Senior
4 56 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 38 (8.56%) IT Support
6 37 (8.33%) Architect
7 35 (7.88%) Analyst
8 34 (7.66%) IT Engineer
9 30 (6.76%) IT Support Engineer
10 24 (5.41%) Senior Network Engineer
11 23 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
12 21 (4.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (4.50%) Web Engineer
14 19 (4.28%) Linux Engineer
14 19 (4.28%) Security Engineer
15 16 (3.60%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (3.38%) Blue Coat Engineer
16 15 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
16 15 (3.38%) IP Network Engineer
16 15 (3.38%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (19.82%) Terraform
2 15 (3.38%) SAML
3 14 (3.15%) REST
4 13 (2.93%) ARM Templates
5 11 (2.48%) JSON
6 9 (2.03%) .NET
7 8 (1.80%) 802.1X
7 8 (1.80%) Kafka
7 8 (1.80%) SPNEGO
8 7 (1.58%) HTML
8 7 (1.58%) LDAP
9 6 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.13%) FastAPI
10 5 (1.13%) Flask
10 5 (1.13%) Jinja
10 5 (1.13%) Node.js
10 5 (1.13%) Pandas
10 5 (1.13%) RESTful
10 5 (1.13%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 74 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 55 (12.39%) Onboarding
3 32 (7.21%) PKI
4 30 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (6.31%) Management Information System
6 21 (4.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 20 (4.50%) Linux Command Line
8 17 (3.83%) Public Cloud
9 15 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (2.93%) Cloud Native
10 13 (2.93%) Operational Technology
11 11 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
11 11 (2.48%) SCADA
12 10 (2.25%) Driving Licence
12 10 (2.25%) Enterprise Storage
13 9 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (2.03%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.80%) Security Operations Centre
14 8 (1.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 210 (47.30%) Windows
2 131 (29.50%) Linux
3 67 (15.09%) Windows Server
4 42 (9.46%) Windows 10
5 36 (8.11%) Mac OS
6 26 (5.86%) Unix
7 22 (4.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (4.05%) Apple iOS
9 15 (3.38%) Ubuntu
10 14 (3.15%) Android
11 5 (1.13%) zOS
12 4 (0.90%) CentOS
13 3 (0.68%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.23%) AIX
15 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
2 109 (24.55%) ITIL
3 78 (17.57%) CI/CD
3 78 (17.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 75 (16.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (15.09%) DevOps
6 58 (13.06%) Agile
7 55 (12.39%) ITSM
7 55 (12.39%) Load Balancing
8 54 (12.16%) Cybersecurity
9 53 (11.94%) Customer Service
10 49 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (10.81%) High Availability
12 47 (10.59%) Platform Engineering
12 47 (10.59%) Service Management
13 44 (9.91%) Migration
14 42 (9.46%) Incident Response
14 42 (9.46%) SIEM
14 42 (9.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 40 (9.01%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 145 (32.66%) Python
2 103 (23.20%) PowerShell
3 87 (19.59%) Bash
4 21 (4.73%) SQL
5 17 (3.83%) C++
6 16 (3.60%) JavaScript
7 15 (3.38%) Perl
8 13 (2.93%) Shell Script
9 11 (2.48%) Bicep
10 10 (2.25%) C#
11 8 (1.80%) Java
11 8 (1.80%) Korn
12 7 (1.58%) VBA
13 5 (1.13%) ActionScript
14 4 (0.90%) C
14 4 (0.90%) Go
15 3 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.68%) VBScript
16 2 (0.45%) Jython
16 2 (0.45%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 127 (28.60%) Security Cleared
2 75 (16.89%) SC Cleared
3 59 (13.29%) Degree
4 54 (12.16%) DV Cleared
5 50 (11.26%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (8.78%) CCNP
7 26 (5.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (5.41%) CCNA
9 19 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (3.38%) Network+ Certification
11 13 (2.93%) A+ Certification
11 13 (2.93%) Azure Certification
11 13 (2.93%) CCIE
12 12 (2.70%) CISSP
12 12 (2.70%) VCAP
13 11 (2.48%) AWS Certification
14 8 (1.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (1.13%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.18%) SLA
2 14 (3.15%) QA
3 9 (2.03%) NCSC
4 8 (1.80%) NIST
5 6 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.13%) GDPR
7 4 (0.90%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.90%) GxP
7 4 (0.90%) NIST 800
7 4 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.45%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.23%) RMADS
System Software
1 137 (30.86%) Active Directory
2 93 (20.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (8.78%) Hyper-V
4 32 (7.21%) Docker
5 24 (5.41%) vSphere
6 23 (5.18%) VMware NSX
7 18 (4.05%) Firmware
8 13 (2.93%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (1.13%) Squid
10 4 (0.90%) NFS
10 4 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (0.68%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.45%) KVM
13 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.23%) GPFS
13 1 (0.23%) Lustre
13 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.23%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 103 (23.20%) Ansible
2 61 (13.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 49 (11.04%) Kubernetes
4 34 (7.66%) SCCM
5 26 (5.86%) Grafana
6 20 (4.50%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (3.60%) VxRail
8 15 (3.38%) Prometheus
9 12 (2.70%) FortiGate
10 11 (2.48%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (1.58%) WSUS
12 6 (1.35%) systemd
13 5 (1.13%) Istio
13 5 (1.13%) Suricata
14 4 (0.90%) Puppet
15 3 (0.68%) Consul
15 3 (0.68%) SELinux
15 3 (0.68%) Tivoli
15 3 (0.68%) Tivoli NetView
15 3 (0.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 178 (40.09%) Microsoft
2 103 (23.20%) VMware
3 86 (19.37%) Cisco
4 57 (12.84%) F5
5 51 (11.49%) ServiceNow
6 23 (5.18%) Fortinet
6 23 (5.18%) Google
6 23 (5.18%) NetApp
7 22 (4.95%) Zscaler
8 20 (4.50%) Blue Coat
8 20 (4.50%) Palo Alto
9 18 (4.05%) Infoblox
9 18 (4.05%) Juniper
9 18 (4.05%) McAfee
10 16 (3.60%) Citrix
11 14 (3.15%) Bloomberg
11 14 (3.15%) CheckPoint
11 14 (3.15%) Red Hat
11 14 (3.15%) Splunk
12 10 (2.25%) SolarWinds