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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 220 276
Rank change year-on-year -57 +56 -49
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 381 292 306
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 1.17% 0.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.31% 9.10% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 192 204
10th Percentile £213 £221 £188
25th Percentile £350 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +2.63% -
75th Percentile £550 £623 £564
90th Percentile £636 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £481
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.90% +0.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 16 30
10th Percentile £21.25 £18.63 £18.25
25th Percentile £25.00 £38.09 £48.81
Median hourly rate £32.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% -3.85% +17.49%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - £67.50
UK median hourly rate £33.86 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -45.82% -3.85% +17.49%

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 4,093 3,210 4,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.45% 12.85% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,545 1,998 2,854
10th Percentile £250 £228 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -0.96% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 132 396
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.69 £13.68
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.56 £17.69
Median hourly rate £28.96 £39.66 £45.44
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% -12.72% +139.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.35 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £27.69 £44.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -37.78% +7.23% +118.42%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -64 149 £475 +2.70% 40
North of England -32 91 £450 -0.06% 41
South East -35 59 £520 +15.56% 60
North West 0 56 £508 +35.33% 23
East of England -14 38 £263 -38.95% 32
Midlands -34 35 £413 -25.00% 30
West Midlands -36 31 £400 -27.27% 19
Yorkshire -52 31 £449 -10.30% 14
South West -32 22 £500 -18.70% 26
East Midlands -21 4 £563 +2.27% 11
North East -34 4 £306 +22.50% 8
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 22 (5.77%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.46%) Confluence
3 12 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.62%) nginx
5 4 (1.05%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.79%) IIS
6 3 (0.79%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.52%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.26%) CICS
8 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 29 (7.61%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.84%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.05%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.26%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 103 (27.03%) Azure
2 91 (23.88%) AWS
3 71 (18.64%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (8.92%) Entra ID
5 29 (7.61%) GCP
6 28 (7.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 22 (5.77%) Route 53
8 17 (4.46%) OneDrive
9 16 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (3.94%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.41%) Serverless
12 12 (3.15%) GitHub
13 11 (2.89%) Google Workspace
14 10 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (2.36%) SaaS
16 7 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (1.84%) IaaS
17 6 (1.57%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 202 (53.02%) DNS
2 144 (37.80%) Firewall
3 92 (24.15%) DHCP
4 88 (23.10%) VPN
5 70 (18.37%) WAN
6 67 (17.59%) Network Security
7 63 (16.54%) LAN
8 56 (14.70%) SSL
9 55 (14.44%) HTTP
10 51 (13.39%) BGP
11 49 (12.86%) BIG-IP
12 48 (12.60%) VLAN
13 37 (9.71%) Ethernet
14 32 (8.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 32 (8.40%) OSPF
14 32 (8.40%) Wi-Fi
15 30 (7.87%) Wireshark
16 23 (6.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 20 (5.25%) Wireless
18 17 (4.46%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.36%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.52%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.26%) MySQL
6 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 48 (12.60%) JIRA
2 24 (6.30%) Fiddler
3 16 (4.20%) GitLab
4 14 (3.67%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.67%) Visual Studio
5 13 (3.41%) Eclipse
6 11 (2.89%) Git
7 9 (2.36%) Browser DevTools
8 7 (1.84%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.84%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.79%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.52%) Introscope
10 2 (0.52%) Subversion
11 1 (0.26%) MSI
11 1 (0.26%) Postman
General
1 151 (39.63%) Social Skills
2 55 (14.44%) Finance
3 49 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.97%) Banking
5 25 (6.56%) Investment Banking
6 22 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (5.51%) Public Sector
8 20 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (4.99%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (4.46%) Military
11 10 (2.62%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.10%) Front Office
13 4 (1.05%) Legal
14 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Aviation
15 2 (0.52%) Games
15 2 (0.52%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.52%) Law
15 2 (0.52%) Retail
15 2 (0.52%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 89 (23.36%) Network Engineer
2 41 (10.76%) Architect
3 37 (9.71%) Support Engineer
4 35 (9.19%) Analyst
5 31 (8.14%) Web Engineer
6 25 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (6.04%) Security Engineer
7 23 (6.04%) Senior
8 22 (5.77%) Technical Engineer
9 21 (5.51%) IT Support
9 21 (5.51%) Systems Engineer
10 17 (4.46%) Blue Coat Engineer
10 17 (4.46%) IP Network Engineer
11 15 (3.94%) IT Engineer
11 15 (3.94%) Junior
12 14 (3.67%) Software Engineer
13 13 (3.41%) C# Software Engineer
13 13 (3.41%) Technical Support
14 12 (3.15%) Integration Engineer
14 12 (3.15%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.25%) LDAP
2 17 (4.46%) SAML
3 13 (3.41%) Node.js
3 13 (3.41%) Web Services
4 11 (2.89%) OpenID
5 10 (2.62%) JSON
6 9 (2.36%) 802.1X
7 8 (2.10%) REST
8 6 (1.57%) .NET
9 5 (1.31%) OAuth
10 4 (1.05%) ARM Templates
11 3 (0.79%) HTML
11 3 (0.79%) Middleware
11 3 (0.79%) NETCONF
11 3 (0.79%) OpenConfig
11 3 (0.79%) RESTCONF
11 3 (0.79%) WinForms
11 3 (0.79%) YANG
12 2 (0.52%) ASP.NET
12 2 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.12%) Data Centre
2 39 (10.24%) Onboarding
3 21 (5.51%) Management Information System
4 18 (4.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 15 (3.94%) Industry 4.0
5 15 (3.94%) Robotics
6 14 (3.67%) Security Posture
7 13 (3.41%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.10%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.10%) Security Operations Centre
10 7 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.84%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.57%) NHS
11 6 (1.57%) PKI
11 6 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 153 (40.16%) Windows
2 68 (17.85%) Linux
3 39 (10.24%) Windows Server
4 30 (7.87%) Mac OS
5 24 (6.30%) Windows 10
6 17 (4.46%) Apple iOS
7 15 (3.94%) Unix
8 11 (2.89%) Android
9 7 (1.84%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.57%) Ubuntu
11 5 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (1.31%) zOS
12 3 (0.79%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.79%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.52%) AIX
13 2 (0.52%) CentOS
13 2 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (28.61%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (18.11%) ITIL
3 56 (14.70%) Agile
4 48 (12.60%) Load Balancing
5 47 (12.34%) Customer Service
6 41 (10.76%) DevOps
6 41 (10.76%) Incident Response
7 39 (10.24%) CI/CD
8 38 (9.97%) Migration
9 36 (9.45%) High Availability
9 36 (9.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 34 (8.92%) ITSM
11 32 (8.40%) Infrastructure as Code
12 31 (8.14%) Validation
13 29 (7.61%) Decision-Making
14 28 (7.35%) Root Cause Analysis
14 28 (7.35%) Stakeholder Management
15 27 (7.09%) Cybersecurity
16 26 (6.82%) Risk Assessment
17 25 (6.56%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 93 (24.41%) Python
2 43 (11.29%) PowerShell
3 41 (10.76%) Bash
4 29 (7.61%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.51%) C++
6 16 (4.20%) C#
7 11 (2.89%) SQL
8 9 (2.36%) VBA
9 5 (1.31%) ActionScript
9 5 (1.31%) C
10 4 (1.05%) Java
10 4 (1.05%) Perl
11 2 (0.52%) Go
11 2 (0.52%) Jython
11 2 (0.52%) Ruby
11 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.26%) Groovy
12 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 95 (24.93%) Security Cleared
2 78 (20.47%) SC Cleared
3 65 (17.06%) Degree
4 40 (10.50%) Cisco Certification
5 30 (7.87%) CCNP
6 24 (6.30%) CCNA
7 17 (4.46%) CISSP
7 17 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (3.67%) DV Cleared
9 12 (3.15%) CompTIA Security+
10 10 (2.62%) Azure Certification
10 10 (2.62%) MCSA
11 8 (2.10%) CCIE
11 8 (2.10%) MCSE
12 7 (1.84%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (1.31%) CISM
13 5 (1.31%) CompTIA CySA+
14 4 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (1.05%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.10%) SLA
2 6 (1.57%) QA
3 5 (1.31%) GDPR
3 5 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.31%) NCSC
3 5 (1.31%) NIST
4 3 (0.79%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.52%) RMADS
6 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 78 (20.47%) Active Directory
2 45 (11.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.72%) Firmware
4 13 (3.41%) Squid
5 12 (3.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (2.89%) Docker
7 9 (2.36%) Hyper-V
8 8 (2.10%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.57%) vSphere
10 4 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (0.79%) NFS
12 2 (0.52%) KVM
12 2 (0.52%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.26%) GPFS
13 1 (0.26%) Lustre
13 1 (0.26%) RACF
13 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.26%) Snort
Systems Management
1 58 (15.22%) Ansible
2 39 (10.24%) Terraform
3 32 (8.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (7.61%) Kubernetes
5 25 (6.56%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (5.51%) Grafana
6 21 (5.51%) SCCM
7 16 (4.20%) FortiGate
8 15 (3.94%) Prometheus
9 11 (2.89%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (2.36%) Consul
11 8 (2.10%) WSUS
12 6 (1.57%) CASB
13 5 (1.31%) Nessus
13 5 (1.31%) Suricata
14 4 (1.05%) Nagios
14 4 (1.05%) Tivoli NetView
15 3 (0.79%) Puppet
15 3 (0.79%) Tivoli
16 2 (0.52%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 126 (33.07%) Microsoft
2 62 (16.27%) F5
3 58 (15.22%) Cisco
4 54 (14.17%) VMware
5 30 (7.87%) ServiceNow
6 29 (7.61%) Blue Coat
7 23 (6.04%) Fortinet
7 23 (6.04%) McAfee
8 22 (5.77%) Google
8 22 (5.77%) Palo Alto
9 21 (5.51%) Citrix
10 19 (4.99%) Infoblox
11 18 (4.72%) NetApp
11 18 (4.72%) Zscaler
12 17 (4.46%) Siemens
13 16 (4.20%) Juniper
14 15 (3.94%) Splunk
15 14 (3.67%) CheckPoint
15 14 (3.67%) Red Hat
16 13 (3.41%) Bloomberg