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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 239 276
Rank change year-on-year -42 +37 -52
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 376 290 307
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 1.16% 0.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.18% 9.05% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 194 205
10th Percentile £213 £222 £188
25th Percentile £350 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £623 £560
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 14 27
10th Percentile £21.25 £18.29 £17.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £32.44 £34.75
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 - - £66.00
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 4,096 3,205 4,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.48% 12.87% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,546 1,996 2,882
10th Percentile £250 £227 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -0.46% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 129 394
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.59 £13.61
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £29.52 £39.32 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.92% -5.25% +121.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £64.69
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.50 £73.14
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.91% +12.50% +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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -61 148 £475 +2.70% 35
North of England -32 92 £450 - 38
North West -2 56 £508 +35.33% 23
South East -42 56 £500 +11.11% 66
East of England -19 37 £263 -38.95% 27
Midlands -42 34 £406 -26.14% 29
Yorkshire -58 32 £450 -10.00% 11
West Midlands -39 30 £388 -29.55% 20
South West -28 22 £500 -18.70% 25
East Midlands -21 4 £563 +2.27% 9
North East -34 4 £306 +22.50% 7
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 (5.85%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.52%) Confluence
3 12 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.66%) nginx
5 3 (0.80%) IIS
5 3 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.80%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.53%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.53%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.27%) CICS
7 1 (0.27%) Traefik
Applications
1 28 (7.45%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.86%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.06%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.27%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 98 (26.06%) Azure
2 86 (22.87%) AWS
3 71 (18.88%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (9.04%) Entra ID
5 28 (7.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 26 (6.91%) GCP
7 17 (4.52%) OneDrive
8 16 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (4.26%) Route 53
9 15 (3.99%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (3.99%) Amazon S3
10 13 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.46%) GitHub
10 13 (3.46%) Serverless
11 11 (2.93%) Google Workspace
12 9 (2.39%) SaaS
13 7 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.86%) IaaS
14 6 (1.60%) Akamai
14 6 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 198 (52.66%) DNS
2 140 (37.23%) Firewall
3 89 (23.67%) VPN
4 88 (23.40%) DHCP
5 68 (18.09%) WAN
6 67 (17.82%) Network Security
7 61 (16.22%) LAN
8 56 (14.89%) SSL
9 55 (14.63%) HTTP
10 50 (13.30%) BGP
11 49 (13.03%) BIG-IP
11 49 (13.03%) VLAN
12 37 (9.84%) Ethernet
13 32 (8.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 32 (8.51%) OSPF
14 31 (8.24%) Wi-Fi
15 30 (7.98%) Wireshark
16 23 (6.12%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 20 (5.32%) Wireless
18 17 (4.52%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.39%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.53%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.27%) MySQL
6 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 48 (12.77%) JIRA
2 24 (6.38%) Fiddler
3 17 (4.52%) GitLab
4 15 (3.99%) Jenkins
5 14 (3.72%) Visual Studio
6 13 (3.46%) Eclipse
7 12 (3.19%) Git
8 9 (2.39%) Browser DevTools
9 7 (1.86%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.86%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.80%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.53%) Introscope
11 2 (0.53%) Subversion
12 1 (0.27%) MSI
12 1 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 148 (39.36%) Social Skills
2 55 (14.63%) Finance
3 44 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.11%) Banking
5 25 (6.65%) Investment Banking
6 22 (5.85%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (5.59%) Public Sector
8 20 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (4.52%) Military
10 9 (2.39%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.13%) Front Office
12 4 (1.06%) Legal
13 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.53%) Aviation
14 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.53%) Games
14 2 (0.53%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.53%) Law
14 2 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 89 (23.67%) Network Engineer
2 37 (9.84%) Support Engineer
3 36 (9.57%) Analyst
4 35 (9.31%) Architect
5 31 (8.24%) Web Engineer
6 25 (6.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (6.38%) Senior
8 23 (6.12%) Security Engineer
9 22 (5.85%) Technical Engineer
10 21 (5.59%) IT Support
10 21 (5.59%) Systems Engineer
11 17 (4.52%) Blue Coat Engineer
11 17 (4.52%) IP Network Engineer
12 15 (3.99%) IT Engineer
12 15 (3.99%) Junior
13 14 (3.72%) Software Engineer
14 13 (3.46%) C# Software Engineer
14 13 (3.46%) Technical Support
15 12 (3.19%) Integration Engineer
15 12 (3.19%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.32%) LDAP
2 17 (4.52%) SAML
3 13 (3.46%) Node.js
3 13 (3.46%) Web Services
4 11 (2.93%) OpenID
5 10 (2.66%) JSON
6 9 (2.39%) 802.1X
7 8 (2.13%) REST
8 6 (1.60%) .NET
9 5 (1.33%) OAuth
10 3 (0.80%) ARM Templates
10 3 (0.80%) HTML
10 3 (0.80%) Middleware
10 3 (0.80%) WinForms
11 2 (0.53%) Blazor
11 2 (0.53%) eBPF
11 2 (0.53%) NETCONF
11 2 (0.53%) OpenConfig
11 2 (0.53%) RESTCONF
11 2 (0.53%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 49 (13.03%) Data Centre
2 40 (10.64%) Onboarding
3 21 (5.59%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.99%) Industry 4.0
4 15 (3.99%) Robotics
5 14 (3.72%) Cyber Threat
5 14 (3.72%) Security Posture
6 13 (3.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 10 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.39%) Security Operations Centre
9 8 (2.13%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.86%) Cyberattack
10 7 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.60%) NHS
11 6 (1.60%) PKI
11 6 (1.60%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.60%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 152 (40.43%) Windows
2 71 (18.88%) Linux
3 38 (10.11%) Windows Server
4 30 (7.98%) Mac OS
5 24 (6.38%) Windows 10
6 17 (4.52%) Apple iOS
7 15 (3.99%) Unix
8 11 (2.93%) Android
9 7 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.60%) Ubuntu
11 5 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (1.33%) zOS
12 3 (0.80%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.80%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.53%) CentOS
13 2 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (27.93%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (18.35%) ITIL
3 56 (14.89%) Agile
4 47 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 44 (11.70%) Load Balancing
6 42 (11.17%) DevOps
7 41 (10.90%) Incident Response
8 40 (10.64%) CI/CD
9 37 (9.84%) Migration
10 36 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 34 (9.04%) ITSM
12 32 (8.51%) High Availability
13 31 (8.24%) Validation
14 29 (7.71%) Decision-Making
15 27 (7.18%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (7.18%) Risk Assessment
15 27 (7.18%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (6.91%) Cybersecurity
17 25 (6.65%) Root Cause Analysis
17 25 (6.65%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 87 (23.14%) Python
2 38 (10.11%) PowerShell
3 37 (9.84%) Bash
4 29 (7.71%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.59%) C++
6 16 (4.26%) C#
7 12 (3.19%) SQL
8 9 (2.39%) VBA
9 5 (1.33%) ActionScript
9 5 (1.33%) C
9 5 (1.33%) Java
10 4 (1.06%) Perl
11 2 (0.53%) Go
11 2 (0.53%) Jython
11 2 (0.53%) Ruby
11 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.27%) Groovy
12 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 91 (24.20%) Security Cleared
2 73 (19.41%) SC Cleared
3 66 (17.55%) Degree
4 40 (10.64%) Cisco Certification
5 31 (8.24%) CCNP
6 25 (6.65%) CCNA
7 18 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.52%) CISSP
8 17 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (4.26%) DV Cleared
10 13 (3.46%) CompTIA Security+
11 10 (2.66%) Azure Certification
11 10 (2.66%) MCSA
12 8 (2.13%) MCSE
13 7 (1.86%) CCIE
13 7 (1.86%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (1.60%) CompTIA CySA+
15 5 (1.33%) CISM
16 4 (1.06%) JNCIS
16 4 (1.06%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.39%) SLA
2 6 (1.60%) QA
3 5 (1.33%) GDPR
3 5 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.33%) NCSC
3 5 (1.33%) NIST
4 3 (0.80%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.53%) RMADS
6 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.27%) GRC
System Software
1 78 (20.74%) Active Directory
2 45 (11.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.79%) Firmware
4 13 (3.46%) Squid
5 12 (3.19%) Docker
5 12 (3.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (2.39%) Hyper-V
7 8 (2.13%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.60%) vSphere
9 4 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.80%) NFS
11 2 (0.53%) KVM
11 2 (0.53%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.27%) GPFS
12 1 (0.27%) Lustre
12 1 (0.27%) RACF
12 1 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.27%) Snort
Systems Management
1 58 (15.43%) Ansible
2 34 (9.04%) Terraform
3 32 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (7.98%) Kubernetes
5 25 (6.65%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (5.85%) Grafana
7 21 (5.59%) SCCM
8 16 (4.26%) FortiGate
9 15 (3.99%) Prometheus
10 11 (2.93%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (2.39%) Consul
12 8 (2.13%) WSUS
13 6 (1.60%) CASB
14 5 (1.33%) Nagios
14 5 (1.33%) Nessus
14 5 (1.33%) Suricata
15 4 (1.06%) Tivoli NetView
16 3 (0.80%) Puppet
16 3 (0.80%) Tivoli
17 2 (0.53%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 119 (31.65%) Microsoft
2 62 (16.49%) F5
3 58 (15.43%) Cisco
4 54 (14.36%) VMware
5 30 (7.98%) ServiceNow
6 29 (7.71%) Blue Coat
7 23 (6.12%) McAfee
8 22 (5.85%) Fortinet
8 22 (5.85%) Palo Alto
9 21 (5.59%) Citrix
10 18 (4.79%) Google
10 18 (4.79%) NetApp
11 17 (4.52%) Siemens
11 17 (4.52%) Splunk
11 17 (4.52%) Zscaler
12 16 (4.26%) Juniper
13 14 (3.72%) CheckPoint
13 14 (3.72%) Red Hat
14 13 (3.46%) Bloomberg
14 13 (3.46%) Infoblox