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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 231 267
Rank change year-on-year -51 +36 -33
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 359 281 310
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 1.16% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.91% 8.88% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 199 213
10th Percentile £213 £225 £185
25th Percentile £382 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.05%
75th Percentile £550 £623 £563
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 10 21
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.54 £16.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £32.44 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.22 £58.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.79% -10.00% +13.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £38.58 £58.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -34.05% -10.00% +13.38%

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 4,029 3,165 4,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.59% 13.07% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,494 1,982 2,906
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £605
90th Percentile £675 £675 £698
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 120 385
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.09 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.41 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.39% -3.98% +131.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.06 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.43 £70.40
UK median hourly rate £28.96 £40.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.49% +1.25% +116.22%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -67 133 £483 -3.50% 44
North of England -30 93 £450 +12.50% 34
North West -4 56 £540 +116.00% 21
South East -40 56 £510 +13.33% 67
East of England -18 37 £263 -38.95% 23
Midlands -38 34 £400 -27.27% 23
Yorkshire -51 32 £449 -11.41% 10
West Midlands -38 31 £388 -29.55% 15
South West -32 20 £500 -18.70% 20
North East -21 5 £306 +22.50% 4
East Midlands -28 3 £625 +13.64% 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 17 (4.74%) Confluence
2 13 (3.62%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.79%) nginx
4 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.11%) IIS
6 3 (0.84%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.84%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.56%) Apache
7 2 (0.56%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.28%) CICS
8 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 27 (7.52%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.23%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.11%) Acrobat
3 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 93 (25.91%) Azure
2 92 (25.63%) AWS
3 59 (16.43%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (7.24%) GCP
5 25 (6.96%) Entra ID
5 25 (6.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (4.18%) Amazon S3
8 14 (3.90%) Route 53
9 13 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.62%) Serverless
10 11 (3.06%) GitHub
11 10 (2.79%) OneDrive
12 7 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.95%) Google Workspace
12 7 (1.95%) Nutanix
12 7 (1.95%) SaaS
13 6 (1.67%) Akamai
13 6 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 196 (54.60%) DNS
2 129 (35.93%) Firewall
3 86 (23.96%) VPN
4 84 (23.40%) DHCP
5 65 (18.11%) WAN
6 63 (17.55%) Network Security
7 60 (16.71%) LAN
7 60 (16.71%) SSL
8 58 (16.16%) HTTP
9 47 (13.09%) VLAN
10 46 (12.81%) BIG-IP
11 44 (12.26%) BGP
12 34 (9.47%) OSPF
13 33 (9.19%) Ethernet
14 31 (8.64%) Wireshark
15 28 (7.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 27 (7.52%) Wi-Fi
17 21 (5.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 18 (5.01%) Wireless
19 12 (3.34%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.51%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.39%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.28%) MySQL
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 44 (12.26%) JIRA
2 26 (7.24%) Fiddler
3 20 (5.57%) GitLab
4 16 (4.46%) Git
5 15 (4.18%) Jenkins
6 13 (3.62%) Eclipse
6 13 (3.62%) Visual Studio
7 9 (2.51%) Browser DevTools
8 7 (1.95%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.95%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.11%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.84%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.56%) Introscope
11 2 (0.56%) Subversion
12 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.28%) Postman
12 1 (0.28%) Travis CI
General
1 129 (35.93%) Social Skills
2 52 (14.48%) Finance
3 44 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.31%) Banking
5 25 (6.96%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.41%) Investment Banking
7 22 (6.13%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (5.01%) Military
10 17 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.23%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.67%) Front Office
13 5 (1.39%) Law
14 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.56%) Aviation
15 2 (0.56%) Games
15 2 (0.56%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.56%) Retail
15 2 (0.56%) Spanish Language
16 1 (0.28%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 85 (23.68%) Network Engineer
2 38 (10.58%) Analyst
3 34 (9.47%) Web Engineer
4 28 (7.80%) Architect
4 28 (7.80%) Support Engineer
5 26 (7.24%) Senior
6 25 (6.96%) Security Engineer
7 22 (6.13%) Technical Engineer
8 20 (5.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (5.01%) Blue Coat Engineer
9 18 (5.01%) IP Network Engineer
10 17 (4.74%) Systems Engineer
11 16 (4.46%) Junior
12 14 (3.90%) IT Support
13 13 (3.62%) Software Engineer
13 13 (3.62%) Technical Support
14 12 (3.34%) C# Software Engineer
14 12 (3.34%) Integration Engineer
15 11 (3.06%) Junior Network Engineer
15 11 (3.06%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.57%) LDAP
2 15 (4.18%) SAML
3 13 (3.62%) Node.js
3 13 (3.62%) Web Services
4 11 (3.06%) JSON
4 11 (3.06%) OpenID
5 9 (2.51%) 802.1X
6 6 (1.67%) REST
7 5 (1.39%) Kafka
7 5 (1.39%) OAuth
8 4 (1.11%) .NET
9 3 (0.84%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.84%) HTML
9 3 (0.84%) Middleware
9 3 (0.84%) XML
10 2 (0.56%) Blazor
10 2 (0.56%) eBPF
10 2 (0.56%) NETCONF
10 2 (0.56%) RESTCONF
10 2 (0.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.31%) Data Centre
2 34 (9.47%) Onboarding
3 21 (5.85%) Management Information System
4 16 (4.46%) Cyber Threat
5 15 (4.18%) Industry 4.0
5 15 (4.18%) Robotics
6 12 (3.34%) Security Operations Centre
7 10 (2.79%) Cyberattack
7 10 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.79%) Security Posture
8 9 (2.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 8 (2.23%) PKI
9 8 (2.23%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.67%) NHS
10 6 (1.67%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (1.39%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 142 (39.55%) Windows
2 75 (20.89%) Linux
3 43 (11.98%) Windows Server
4 21 (5.85%) Mac OS
5 16 (4.46%) Windows 10
6 14 (3.90%) Unix
7 12 (3.34%) Apple iOS
8 11 (3.06%) Android
9 10 (2.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (1.67%) Ubuntu
12 5 (1.39%) zOS
13 4 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.84%) Debian
14 3 (0.84%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.84%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.56%) AIX
15 2 (0.56%) CentOS
15 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (15.88%) ITIL
3 55 (15.32%) Agile
4 45 (12.53%) DevOps
4 45 (12.53%) Load Balancing
5 42 (11.70%) Incident Response
6 38 (10.58%) CI/CD
7 37 (10.31%) Customer Service
8 32 (8.91%) SIEM
9 31 (8.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 30 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (8.08%) Decision-Making
11 29 (8.08%) Migration
11 29 (8.08%) Validation
12 28 (7.80%) Data Loss Prevention
12 28 (7.80%) High Availability
13 26 (7.24%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (7.24%) ITSM
13 26 (7.24%) Malware Detection/Protection
13 26 (7.24%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 83 (23.12%) Python
2 38 (10.58%) Bash
3 36 (10.03%) PowerShell
4 29 (8.08%) JavaScript
5 20 (5.57%) C++
6 16 (4.46%) SQL
7 15 (4.18%) C#
8 9 (2.51%) VBA
9 8 (2.23%) Java
10 7 (1.95%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.67%) C
11 6 (1.67%) Go
12 4 (1.11%) Perl
13 2 (0.56%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.56%) Jython
13 2 (0.56%) Ruby
14 1 (0.28%) Groovy
14 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 100 (27.86%) Security Cleared
2 80 (22.28%) SC Cleared
3 55 (15.32%) Degree
4 40 (11.14%) Cisco Certification
5 34 (9.47%) CCNP
6 24 (6.69%) CCNA
7 21 (5.85%) DV Cleared
8 19 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (4.18%) CISSP
9 15 (4.18%) CompTIA Security+
10 12 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (2.51%) Azure Certification
11 9 (2.51%) MCSA
12 8 (2.23%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (1.95%) CompTIA CySA+
13 7 (1.95%) JNCIS
13 7 (1.95%) MCSE
14 6 (1.67%) CCIE
15 5 (1.39%) CISM
16 4 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.34%) SLA
2 6 (1.67%) GDPR
2 6 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.67%) QA
3 4 (1.11%) NIST
4 3 (0.84%) NCSC
5 2 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.56%) RMADS
6 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.28%) GRC
6 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (19.50%) Active Directory
2 45 (12.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.01%) Docker
3 18 (5.01%) Firmware
4 13 (3.62%) Squid
5 10 (2.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (2.51%) vSphere
7 8 (2.23%) Hyper-V
7 8 (2.23%) VMware NSX
8 7 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.11%) KVM
10 3 (0.84%) NFS
11 1 (0.28%) Ceph
11 1 (0.28%) GPFS
11 1 (0.28%) Lustre
11 1 (0.28%) RACF
11 1 (0.28%) RHEV
11 1 (0.28%) Snort
11 1 (0.28%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 60 (16.71%) Ansible
2 36 (10.03%) Terraform
3 34 (9.47%) Kubernetes
4 27 (7.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (7.24%) Grafana
6 24 (6.69%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (6.13%) SCCM
8 16 (4.46%) FortiGate
8 16 (4.46%) Prometheus
9 10 (2.79%) Nagios
10 9 (2.51%) Consul
11 7 (1.95%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (1.95%) WSUS
12 6 (1.67%) CASB
13 5 (1.39%) Nessus
13 5 (1.39%) Suricata
14 4 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (1.11%) Puppet
14 4 (1.11%) QRadar
14 4 (1.11%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 97 (27.02%) Microsoft
2 61 (16.99%) F5
3 60 (16.71%) VMware
4 51 (14.21%) Cisco
5 32 (8.91%) Blue Coat
6 26 (7.24%) McAfee
7 25 (6.96%) ServiceNow
7 25 (6.96%) Splunk
8 20 (5.57%) Palo Alto
9 19 (5.29%) NetApp
10 18 (5.01%) Citrix
10 18 (5.01%) Fortinet
10 18 (5.01%) Red Hat
11 17 (4.74%) Juniper
11 17 (4.74%) Siemens
12 14 (3.90%) Zscaler
13 13 (3.62%) SolarWinds
14 12 (3.34%) Bloomberg
15 11 (3.06%) Infoblox
15 11 (3.06%) Veeam