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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 193 186
Rank change year-on-year -29 -7 +39
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 384 364 466
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.22% 1.32% 1.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.47% 10.36% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 209 304
10th Percentile £200 £213 £179
25th Percentile £300 £363 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £575
90th Percentile £710 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% -13.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 6 49
10th Percentile £15.50 £24.25 £24.85
25th Percentile £33.00 £30.31 £40.85
Median hourly rate £63.14 £48.75 £50.39
Median % change year-on-year +29.51% -3.25% -22.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £82.40 £69.38 £69.62
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £32.50 £50.39
% change year-on-year +94.26% -35.50% -22.48%

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 3,349 3,515 5,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.65% 12.79% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,168 2,052 3,151
10th Percentile £204 £220 £206
25th Percentile £356 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 103 314
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.68
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -38.04% +71.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.25 £75.97
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +13.08% -42.47% +76.53%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -35 122 £538 +7.50% 55
North of England -25 85 £450 -4.76% 75
South East -10 63 £473 -1.56% 115
North West -2 51 £475 +1.60% 32
East of England +4 49 £350 -30.00% 60
West Midlands -16 38 £213 -5.56% 35
Midlands -31 38 £213 -5.56% 59
South West -13 31 £700 +15.23% 45
Yorkshire -44 30 £447 -36.14% 35
North East -16 4 £400 +166.67% 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 32 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 21 (5.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.65%) Skype for Business
4 11 (2.86%) Confluence
5 8 (2.08%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.78%) Apache
7 3 (0.78%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.78%) IIS
8 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.52%) WordPress
9 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 35 (9.11%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.56%) Weka
3 5 (1.30%) Acrobat
3 5 (1.30%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Eikon
1 1 (0.26%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.26%) Finacle
1 1 (0.26%) RMDS
1 1 (0.26%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 98 (25.52%) AWS
2 96 (25.00%) Azure
3 79 (20.57%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (7.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 26 (6.77%) Amazon S3
6 25 (6.51%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (6.25%) GCP
8 22 (5.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (5.73%) Amazon ELB
9 21 (5.47%) Entra ID
10 16 (4.17%) GitHub
11 10 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (2.60%) SaaS
12 8 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.82%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.56%) Google Workspace
15 4 (1.04%) AWS KMS
15 4 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
16 3 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 214 (55.73%) DNS
2 139 (36.20%) Firewall
3 113 (29.43%) VPN
4 109 (28.39%) DHCP
5 80 (20.83%) SSL
6 64 (16.67%) WAN
7 62 (16.15%) LAN
8 58 (15.10%) Network Security
9 49 (12.76%) VLAN
10 47 (12.24%) HTTP
11 33 (8.59%) Wireshark
12 29 (7.55%) Wi-Fi
13 27 (7.03%) BGP
14 24 (6.25%) BIG-IP
15 21 (5.47%) OSPF
16 20 (5.21%) Wireless
17 18 (4.69%) SAN
18 17 (4.43%) Ethernet
18 17 (4.43%) Internet
19 16 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.43%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.04%) Big Data
3 4 (1.04%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.04%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.04%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.78%) Delta Lake
4 3 (0.78%) Hadoop
4 3 (0.78%) Parquet
5 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.26%) Impala
6 1 (0.26%) Power BI
6 1 (0.26%) Redis
6 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (10.42%) Git
2 38 (9.90%) Jenkins
3 33 (8.59%) GitLab
4 25 (6.51%) JIRA
5 22 (5.73%) Fiddler
6 16 (4.17%) Eclipse
6 16 (4.17%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.30%) Subversion
8 4 (1.04%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.04%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.78%) MLflow
9 3 (0.78%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.78%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.52%) Maven
10 2 (0.52%) Poetry
10 2 (0.52%) Postman
10 2 (0.52%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 139 (36.20%) Social Skills
2 67 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 35 (9.11%) Finance
5 28 (7.29%) Banking
6 26 (6.77%) Military
7 19 (4.95%) Investment Banking
7 19 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.34%) Front Office
9 9 (2.34%) Legal
10 8 (2.08%) Law
11 7 (1.82%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.56%) Local Government
13 5 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.30%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.78%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.52%) Advertising
16 1 (0.26%) Games
16 1 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 77 (20.05%) Network Engineer
2 62 (16.15%) Support Engineer
3 51 (13.28%) Senior
4 48 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 47 (12.24%) Analyst
6 30 (7.81%) IT Support
7 24 (6.25%) IT Engineer
8 21 (5.47%) 2nd Line Support
8 21 (5.47%) Web Engineer
9 18 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (4.43%) Support Analyst
10 17 (4.43%) Technical Support
11 15 (3.91%) IT Support Engineer
11 15 (3.91%) Junior
11 15 (3.91%) Security Engineer
11 15 (3.91%) Senior DevOps
11 15 (3.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (3.91%) Technical Analyst
12 14 (3.65%) C# Software Engineer
12 14 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.95%) Web Services
2 17 (4.43%) Node.js
3 14 (3.65%) Middleware
4 8 (2.08%) LDAP
5 7 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (1.56%) REST
7 5 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (1.04%) Kafka
8 4 (1.04%) React
8 4 (1.04%) SAML
8 4 (1.04%) SOAP
8 4 (1.04%) Ultra Messaging
9 3 (0.78%) 802.1X
9 3 (0.78%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.78%) Apache Avro
9 3 (0.78%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (0.78%) Bootstrap
9 3 (0.78%) Express.js
9 3 (0.78%) Flask
9 3 (0.78%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.77%) Management Information System
2 25 (6.51%) Data Centre
3 22 (5.73%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (3.13%) CMDB
5 12 (3.13%) Driving Licence
5 12 (3.13%) NHS
5 12 (3.13%) Private Cloud
6 11 (2.86%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.60%) PKI
7 10 (2.60%) Replication
8 9 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.08%) Clustering
9 8 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.56%) Cyberattack
11 6 (1.56%) Grid Computing
11 6 (1.56%) SCADA
11 6 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
12 5 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 186 (48.44%) Windows
2 122 (31.77%) Linux
3 50 (13.02%) Windows Server
4 36 (9.38%) Windows 10
5 22 (5.73%) Unix
6 12 (3.13%) Android
6 12 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (2.34%) Mac OS
9 8 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (1.56%) Apple iOS
11 6 (1.56%) Ubuntu
11 6 (1.56%) VMS
12 4 (1.04%) CentOS
12 4 (1.04%) Solaris
13 3 (0.78%) Debian
13 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.52%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (29.43%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (16.41%) CI/CD
3 62 (16.15%) ITIL
4 57 (14.84%) DevOps
4 57 (14.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 56 (14.58%) Agile
6 43 (11.20%) Incident Response
6 43 (11.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 41 (10.68%) Load Balancing
8 40 (10.42%) High Availability
9 38 (9.90%) SIEM
10 37 (9.64%) Cybersecurity
11 32 (8.33%) Validation
12 31 (8.07%) Infrastructure Automation
13 30 (7.81%) Root Cause Analysis
14 28 (7.29%) Knowledge Transfer
14 28 (7.29%) Mentoring
15 27 (7.03%) Customer Service
15 27 (7.03%) Disaster Recovery
16 26 (6.77%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 112 (29.17%) Python
2 72 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 66 (17.19%) Bash
4 21 (5.47%) C++
4 21 (5.47%) Perl
5 20 (5.21%) C#
5 20 (5.21%) JavaScript
6 19 (4.95%) SQL
7 11 (2.86%) Java
8 10 (2.60%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.04%) C
9 4 (1.04%) Go
9 4 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.78%) Groovy
10 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.26%) Bicep
11 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.26%) Ruby
11 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 128 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 95 (24.74%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.59%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 31 (8.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (7.29%) Degree
7 22 (5.73%) CCNP
8 16 (4.17%) Azure Certification
8 16 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
9 14 (3.65%) CompTIA Security+
10 13 (3.39%) CCNA
10 13 (3.39%) CISSP
11 12 (3.13%) MCP
12 11 (2.86%) Server+ Certification
13 9 (2.34%) MCSE
14 7 (1.82%) JNCIS
15 6 (1.56%) A+ Certification
15 6 (1.56%) CCIE
15 6 (1.56%) ECDL
15 6 (1.56%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.21%) GDPR
2 8 (2.08%) SLA
3 7 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.04%) NIST
6 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.26%) NCSC
7 1 (0.26%) QA
7 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 88 (22.92%) Active Directory
2 60 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (13.28%) Docker
4 28 (7.29%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.39%) Firmware
6 9 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.82%) Lustre
7 7 (1.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 7 (1.82%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.56%) GPFS
9 5 (1.30%) KVM
9 5 (1.30%) NFS
10 4 (1.04%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.04%) Veritas File System
10 4 (1.04%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 4 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.04%) vSphere
11 2 (0.52%) Ceph
11 2 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 83 (21.61%) Ansible
2 55 (14.32%) Terraform
3 37 (9.64%) SCCM
4 30 (7.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (7.55%) Kubernetes
6 15 (3.91%) Grafana
7 10 (2.60%) FortiGate
7 10 (2.60%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.60%) Puppet
8 9 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (2.08%) WSUS
10 7 (1.82%) QRadar
11 6 (1.56%) Nagios
11 6 (1.56%) Nessus
11 6 (1.56%) vCenter Server
12 5 (1.30%) Progress Chef
12 5 (1.30%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (1.04%) CASB
13 4 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.78%) Istio
Vendors
1 131 (34.11%) Microsoft
2 83 (21.61%) VMware
3 67 (17.45%) F5
4 53 (13.80%) Cisco
5 52 (13.54%) Palo Alto
6 37 (9.64%) CheckPoint
7 29 (7.55%) Splunk
8 28 (7.29%) Blue Coat
9 24 (6.25%) McAfee
10 23 (5.99%) Fortinet
11 22 (5.73%) ServiceNow
12 21 (5.47%) NetApp
12 21 (5.47%) SolarWinds
13 17 (4.43%) Citrix
13 17 (4.43%) Juniper
14 16 (4.17%) Meraki
14 16 (4.17%) Red Hat
15 15 (3.91%) Oracle
16 12 (3.13%) Veeam
17 11 (2.86%) Zscaler