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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 228 243
Rank change year-on-year -29 +15 -24
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 456 324 326
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.17% 0.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.61% 9.55% 7.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 191 205
10th Percentile £208 £220 £208
25th Percentile £322 £357 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £614 £575
90th Percentile £684 £660 £633
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 30 32
10th Percentile £26.50 £20.62 £31.63
25th Percentile £31.25 £42.53 £63.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £72.59 - -
90th Percentile £98.82 £83.66 £67.25
UK median hourly rate £64.24 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.17% - +28.92%

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 4,296 3,394 4,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.42% 12.28% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 2,104 2,581
10th Percentile £263 £250 £243
25th Percentile £402 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -0.96% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 169 286
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.75 £44.00 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -36.93% -19.82% -0.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.33 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.14 £46.88 £49.00
% change year-on-year -44.23% -4.34% -9.26%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -39 189 £483 -14.22% 121
South East -30 83 £523 +16.11% 73
North of England -43 82 £475 -6.17% 52
North West -15 52 £425 -15.84% 27
South West -8 46 £644 +4.04% 27
Midlands -25 42 £402 -5.63% 28
West Midlands -34 34 £406 +1.31% 20
East of England -19 30 £375 -28.57% 19
Yorkshire -47 26 £500 -1.23% 14
East Midlands -16 8 £402 -26.91% 8
North East -41 4 £438 +2.94% 13
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 46 (10.09%) SharePoint
2 23 (5.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.63%) Confluence
4 9 (1.97%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.54%) nginx
6 4 (0.88%) FactoryTalk
7 3 (0.66%) IIS
7 3 (0.66%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.44%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.44%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.22%) CICS
9 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 30 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.75%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.44%) Houdini
5 2 (0.44%) NUKE
6 1 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 165 (36.18%) Azure
2 116 (25.44%) AWS
3 105 (23.03%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (15.13%) Entra ID
5 37 (8.11%) GCP
6 34 (7.46%) OneDrive
7 25 (5.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 20 (4.39%) GitHub
9 13 (2.85%) OpenShift
9 13 (2.85%) Route 53
10 12 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (2.41%) Google Workspace
12 10 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (1.75%) Akamai
14 8 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 274 (60.09%) DNS
2 203 (44.52%) Firewall
3 168 (36.84%) DHCP
4 140 (30.70%) VPN
5 85 (18.64%) Network Security
6 84 (18.42%) WAN
7 75 (16.45%) LAN
8 70 (15.35%) VLAN
9 68 (14.91%) BGP
10 64 (14.04%) HTTP
11 55 (12.06%) SSL
12 44 (9.65%) Wi-Fi
13 40 (8.77%) BIG-IP
13 40 (8.77%) OSPF
14 36 (7.89%) Wireless
15 35 (7.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 34 (7.46%) Ethernet
17 26 (5.70%) SD-WAN
18 24 (5.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
19 23 (5.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.85%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.10%) MySQL
3 5 (1.10%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.88%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.66%) Redis
6 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.44%) SQLite
7 1 (0.22%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.22%) KDB
Development Applications
1 44 (9.65%) JIRA
2 28 (6.14%) Git
3 25 (5.48%) Jenkins
4 19 (4.17%) GitLab
5 17 (3.73%) Fiddler
6 14 (3.07%) Visual Studio
7 13 (2.85%) Eclipse
8 10 (2.19%) Browser DevTools
9 7 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.10%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.66%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.44%) Introscope
12 2 (0.44%) Selenium
12 2 (0.44%) Subversion
13 1 (0.22%) MSI
13 1 (0.22%) Postman
13 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 181 (39.69%) Social Skills
2 66 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (12.50%) Finance
4 43 (9.43%) Banking
5 28 (6.14%) Public Sector
6 23 (5.04%) Telecoms
7 22 (4.82%) Investment Banking
8 17 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.51%) Military
10 10 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.19%) Front Office
11 5 (1.10%) Legal
11 5 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.10%) Police
12 4 (0.88%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.88%) Automotive
13 3 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 95 (20.83%) Network Engineer
2 59 (12.94%) Support Engineer
3 55 (12.06%) Senior
4 51 (11.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 38 (8.33%) Architect
6 34 (7.46%) IT Support
7 33 (7.24%) Analyst
8 30 (6.58%) IT Engineer
9 26 (5.70%) IT Support Engineer
10 24 (5.26%) Web Engineer
11 23 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
12 22 (4.82%) Security Engineer
13 21 (4.61%) Senior Network Engineer
13 21 (4.61%) Systems Engineer
14 19 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (3.73%) Technical Engineer
16 16 (3.51%) Blue Coat Engineer
16 16 (3.51%) IP Network Engineer
17 15 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
17 15 (3.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.39%) SAML
2 13 (2.85%) Node.js
2 13 (2.85%) REST
2 13 (2.85%) Web Services
3 11 (2.41%) 802.1X
3 11 (2.41%) ARM Templates
3 11 (2.41%) JSON
4 10 (2.19%) LDAP
5 9 (1.97%) .NET
6 6 (1.32%) NETCONF
6 6 (1.32%) OpenConfig
6 6 (1.32%) RESTCONF
6 6 (1.32%) YANG
7 5 (1.10%) HTML
7 5 (1.10%) Kafka
7 5 (1.10%) OAuth
7 5 (1.10%) OpenID
7 5 (1.10%) RESTful
8 4 (0.88%) Middleware
8 4 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 76 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 53 (11.62%) Onboarding
3 31 (6.80%) PKI
4 29 (6.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (5.92%) Management Information System
6 24 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 19 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
8 17 (3.73%) Public Cloud
9 15 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (3.07%) Robotics
11 13 (2.85%) Operational Technology
12 12 (2.63%) Cloud Native
12 12 (2.63%) Security Posture
13 11 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (2.41%) SCADA
14 10 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (2.19%) Driving Licence
14 10 (2.19%) Industry 4.0
15 9 (1.97%) Private Cloud
15 9 (1.97%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 205 (44.96%) Windows
2 124 (27.19%) Linux
3 60 (13.16%) Windows Server
4 36 (7.89%) Windows 10
5 33 (7.24%) Mac OS
6 23 (5.04%) Unix
7 15 (3.29%) Apple iOS
8 14 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (2.85%) Ubuntu
10 11 (2.41%) Android
11 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.88%) zOS
12 3 (0.66%) CentOS
12 3 (0.66%) Check Point GAiA
13 2 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
2 100 (21.93%) ITIL
3 79 (17.32%) CI/CD
4 73 (16.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 69 (15.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 63 (13.82%) Agile
7 61 (13.38%) DevOps
8 57 (12.50%) Customer Service
9 55 (12.06%) Cybersecurity
10 53 (11.62%) Load Balancing
11 51 (11.18%) ITSM
12 46 (10.09%) High Availability
12 46 (10.09%) Incident Response
13 45 (9.87%) SIEM
14 44 (9.65%) Service Management
14 44 (9.65%) Technical Leadership
15 43 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (9.43%) Migration
16 41 (8.99%) Validation
17 39 (8.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 140 (30.70%) Python
2 93 (20.39%) PowerShell
3 80 (17.54%) Bash
4 25 (5.48%) C++
5 24 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 17 (3.73%) C#
6 17 (3.73%) SQL
7 9 (1.97%) Bicep
7 9 (1.97%) Java
7 9 (1.97%) Perl
7 9 (1.97%) Shell Script
8 7 (1.54%) VBA
9 5 (1.10%) ActionScript
10 4 (0.88%) C
10 4 (0.88%) Go
11 2 (0.44%) Jython
11 2 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.44%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.44%) Ruby
11 2 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 130 (28.51%) Security Cleared
2 84 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 70 (15.35%) Degree
4 58 (12.72%) Cisco Certification
5 49 (10.75%) DV Cleared
6 43 (9.43%) CCNP
7 28 (6.14%) CCNA
8 26 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (3.29%) CCIE
10 15 (3.29%) Network+ Certification
11 14 (3.07%) CISSP
12 12 (2.63%) Azure Certification
12 12 (2.63%) VCAP
13 11 (2.41%) A+ Certification
14 10 (2.19%) AWS Certification
15 7 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 7 (1.54%) MCSA
15 7 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 6 (1.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.17%) SLA
2 11 (2.41%) QA
3 10 (2.19%) NIST
4 9 (1.97%) NCSC
5 7 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.10%) GDPR
7 4 (0.88%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.88%) GxP
7 4 (0.88%) NIST 800
7 4 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.22%) RMADS
System Software
1 126 (27.63%) Active Directory
2 90 (19.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (7.24%) Hyper-V
4 29 (6.36%) Docker
5 25 (5.48%) vSphere
6 23 (5.04%) VMware NSX
7 18 (3.95%) Firmware
8 12 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (1.32%) Squid
10 3 (0.66%) NFS
10 3 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.66%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.44%) KVM
12 1 (0.22%) GPFS
12 1 (0.22%) NDS
12 1 (0.22%) NetIQ eDirectory
12 1 (0.22%) RACF
12 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.22%) Snort
Systems Management
1 99 (21.71%) Ansible
2 86 (18.86%) Terraform
3 54 (11.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 48 (10.53%) Kubernetes
5 28 (6.14%) SCCM
6 24 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (5.04%) Grafana
8 16 (3.51%) VxRail
9 13 (2.85%) FortiGate
10 12 (2.63%) Prometheus
11 11 (2.41%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (1.54%) WSUS
13 6 (1.32%) systemd
14 5 (1.10%) Suricata
15 4 (0.88%) Consul
15 4 (0.88%) Istio
16 3 (0.66%) Nagios
16 3 (0.66%) Puppet
16 3 (0.66%) SELinux
16 3 (0.66%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 176 (38.60%) Microsoft
2 100 (21.93%) VMware
3 84 (18.42%) Cisco
4 59 (12.94%) F5
5 48 (10.53%) ServiceNow
6 26 (5.70%) Google
7 25 (5.48%) Fortinet
7 25 (5.48%) Zscaler
8 23 (5.04%) Juniper
8 23 (5.04%) Palo Alto
9 21 (4.61%) Blue Coat
10 19 (4.17%) Citrix
11 18 (3.95%) Infoblox
11 18 (3.95%) McAfee
11 18 (3.95%) NetApp
12 17 (3.73%) CheckPoint
13 15 (3.29%) Splunk
14 13 (2.85%) Red Hat
15 12 (2.63%) Bloomberg
15 12 (2.63%) Siemens