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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 193 189
Rank change year-on-year -32 -4 +39
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 374 357 462
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.20% 1.33% 1.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.36% 10.39% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 206 303
10th Percentile £200 £213 £180
25th Percentile £300 £380 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £516 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.99% +14.72% -14.29%
75th Percentile £597 £625 £575
90th Percentile £713 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £465 £508 £450
% change year-on-year -8.37% +12.78% -14.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 5 50
10th Percentile £15.50 £23.60 £23.88
25th Percentile £32.00 £31.25 £40.68
Median hourly rate £62.82 £65.00 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +29.49% -22.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £56.49
90th Percentile £80.60 £70.25 £69.62
UK median hourly rate £62.82 £48.75 £50.20
% change year-on-year +28.86% -2.88% -22.78%

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 3,291 3,436 5,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.57% 12.75% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,119 2,003 3,151
10th Percentile £204 £220 £206
25th Percentile £356 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £600
90th Percentile £681 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 100 315
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.75 £20.30 £24.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -38.04% +125.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +9.23% -42.47% +125.96%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -30 120 £538 +2.38% 50
North of England -17 82 £445 -4.87% 50
South East 0 61 £490 +2.08% 95
North West -8 48 £425 -8.11% 24
East of England -3 47 £350 -30.00% 38
West Midlands -5 36 £200 -11.11% 12
Midlands -29 36 £200 -11.11% 28
South West -21 32 £700 +13.82% 31
Yorkshire -43 30 £447 -36.14% 19
North East -13 4 £400 +166.67% 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 31 (8.29%) SharePoint
2 21 (5.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.74%) Skype for Business
4 12 (3.21%) Confluence
5 8 (2.14%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.80%) Apache
6 3 (0.80%) IIS
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.53%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.53%) WordPress
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 33 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.60%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.60%) Weka
3 5 (1.34%) Acrobat
4 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Finacle
1 1 (0.27%) RMDS
1 1 (0.27%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 98 (26.20%) AWS
2 95 (25.40%) Azure
3 77 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (7.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 25 (6.68%) Amazon EC2
6 24 (6.42%) Amazon S3
7 22 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (5.88%) Amazon ELB
7 22 (5.88%) GCP
8 20 (5.35%) Entra ID
9 14 (3.74%) GitHub
10 10 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (2.67%) SaaS
11 7 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.87%) OneDrive
12 6 (1.60%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.07%) AWS KMS
13 4 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (0.80%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 205 (54.81%) DNS
2 134 (35.83%) Firewall
3 110 (29.41%) VPN
4 107 (28.61%) DHCP
5 76 (20.32%) SSL
6 65 (17.38%) WAN
7 62 (16.58%) LAN
8 58 (15.51%) Network Security
9 50 (13.37%) VLAN
10 45 (12.03%) HTTP
11 33 (8.82%) Wireshark
12 29 (7.75%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (7.49%) BGP
14 24 (6.42%) BIG-IP
15 22 (5.88%) OSPF
16 19 (5.08%) Wireless
17 18 (4.81%) SAN
18 17 (4.55%) Internet
19 16 (4.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
19 16 (4.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.28%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.07%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.80%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.53%) Big Data
5 2 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.27%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.27%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.27%) Impala
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.27%) Parquet
6 1 (0.27%) Power BI
6 1 (0.27%) Redis
6 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (10.43%) Git
2 36 (9.63%) Jenkins
3 33 (8.82%) GitLab
4 25 (6.68%) JIRA
5 22 (5.88%) Fiddler
6 15 (4.01%) Eclipse
6 15 (4.01%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.34%) Subversion
8 4 (1.07%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.07%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.80%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.53%) Maven
10 2 (0.53%) Postman
11 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.27%) GCC
11 1 (0.27%) MLflow
11 1 (0.27%) Poetry
11 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 135 (36.10%) Social Skills
2 64 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 29 (7.75%) Finance
5 28 (7.49%) Banking
6 26 (6.95%) Military
7 19 (5.08%) Investment Banking
8 18 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.14%) Front Office
11 7 (1.87%) Law
11 7 (1.87%) Legal
11 7 (1.87%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.60%) Local Government
13 5 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.34%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.80%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.53%) Advertising
16 1 (0.27%) Games
16 1 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 77 (20.59%) Network Engineer
2 60 (16.04%) Support Engineer
3 52 (13.90%) Senior
4 47 (12.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 45 (12.03%) Analyst
6 29 (7.75%) IT Support
7 23 (6.15%) IT Engineer
8 21 (5.61%) 2nd Line Support
8 21 (5.61%) Web Engineer
9 18 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (4.28%) Support Analyst
11 15 (4.01%) IT Support Engineer
11 15 (4.01%) Junior
11 15 (4.01%) Senior DevOps
11 15 (4.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (4.01%) Technical Support
12 14 (3.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 14 (3.74%) Technical Analyst
13 13 (3.48%) C# Software Engineer
13 13 (3.48%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.81%) Web Services
2 16 (4.28%) Node.js
3 14 (3.74%) Middleware
4 6 (1.60%) REST
5 5 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.34%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (1.34%) LDAP
6 4 (1.07%) Kafka
6 4 (1.07%) React
6 4 (1.07%) SAML
6 4 (1.07%) SOAP
6 4 (1.07%) Ultra Messaging
7 3 (0.80%) .NET
7 3 (0.80%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.80%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.80%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (0.80%) Bootstrap
7 3 (0.80%) Express.js
7 3 (0.80%) JSON
7 3 (0.80%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.22%) Data Centre
2 26 (6.95%) Management Information System
3 22 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (3.21%) CMDB
5 12 (3.21%) Driving Licence
5 12 (3.21%) Private Cloud
6 11 (2.94%) NHS
6 11 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.67%) PKI
7 10 (2.67%) Replication
8 9 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.14%) Clustering
9 8 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.60%) Cyberattack
11 6 (1.60%) Grid Computing
11 6 (1.60%) Security Operations Centre
12 5 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.34%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 177 (47.33%) Windows
2 116 (31.02%) Linux
3 48 (12.83%) Windows Server
4 34 (9.09%) Windows 10
5 19 (5.08%) Unix
6 12 (3.21%) Android
6 12 (3.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (2.14%) Mac OS
8 8 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.60%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.60%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.60%) VMS
9 6 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.07%) CentOS
10 4 (1.07%) Solaris
11 3 (0.80%) Debian
11 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.53%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.53%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (28.34%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (16.04%) CI/CD
3 57 (15.24%) ITIL
4 56 (14.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 55 (14.71%) Agile
5 55 (14.71%) DevOps
6 43 (11.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (11.23%) Incident Response
8 41 (10.96%) Load Balancing
9 39 (10.43%) High Availability
10 36 (9.63%) SIEM
11 34 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
12 31 (8.29%) Infrastructure Automation
13 30 (8.02%) Root Cause Analysis
14 29 (7.75%) Validation
15 27 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (7.22%) Customer Service
15 27 (7.22%) Disaster Recovery
15 27 (7.22%) Knowledge Transfer
15 27 (7.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 109 (29.14%) Python
2 70 (18.72%) PowerShell
3 63 (16.84%) Bash
4 21 (5.61%) Perl
5 20 (5.35%) C++
6 19 (5.08%) C#
6 19 (5.08%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.55%) SQL
8 11 (2.94%) Java
9 10 (2.67%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.07%) C
10 4 (1.07%) Go
11 3 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.27%) Bicep
12 1 (0.27%) Groovy
12 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.27%) Ruby
12 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 129 (34.49%) Security Cleared
2 95 (25.40%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.82%) DV Cleared
4 32 (8.56%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (6.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (6.68%) Degree
7 23 (6.15%) CCNP
8 16 (4.28%) Azure Certification
8 16 (4.28%) Network+ Certification
9 13 (3.48%) CCNA
10 11 (2.94%) MCP
10 11 (2.94%) Server+ Certification
11 10 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
12 9 (2.41%) CISSP
13 8 (2.14%) JNCIS
14 6 (1.60%) CCIE
14 6 (1.60%) ECDL
15 5 (1.34%) A+ Certification
15 5 (1.34%) AWS Certification
15 5 (1.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.81%) GDPR
2 8 (2.14%) SLA
3 7 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.80%) NIST
6 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) QA
7 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 82 (21.93%) Active Directory
2 59 (15.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (13.10%) Docker
4 27 (7.22%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.48%) Firmware
6 9 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (1.87%) Lustre
8 7 (1.87%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 7 (1.87%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.60%) GPFS
10 5 (1.34%) KVM
10 5 (1.34%) NFS
11 4 (1.07%) Veritas File System
11 4 (1.07%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 4 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (1.07%) vSphere
12 3 (0.80%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.53%) NDS
13 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 83 (22.19%) Ansible
2 55 (14.71%) Terraform
3 36 (9.63%) SCCM
4 30 (8.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (7.22%) Kubernetes
6 15 (4.01%) Grafana
7 10 (2.67%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.67%) Puppet
8 9 (2.41%) FortiGate
8 9 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (2.14%) WSUS
10 7 (1.87%) Nagios
10 7 (1.87%) QRadar
11 5 (1.34%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.34%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (1.34%) vCenter Server
12 4 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.80%) Iperf
13 3 (0.80%) Nessus
13 3 (0.80%) Nmap
Vendors
1 121 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 82 (21.93%) VMware
3 68 (18.18%) F5
4 53 (14.17%) Cisco
5 50 (13.37%) Palo Alto
6 35 (9.36%) CheckPoint
7 28 (7.49%) Blue Coat
8 26 (6.95%) Splunk
9 24 (6.42%) McAfee
10 22 (5.88%) Fortinet
10 22 (5.88%) SolarWinds
11 21 (5.61%) NetApp
11 21 (5.61%) ServiceNow
12 18 (4.81%) Juniper
13 16 (4.28%) Meraki
14 15 (4.01%) Citrix
14 15 (4.01%) Red Hat
15 14 (3.74%) Oracle
16 12 (3.21%) Veeam
17 11 (2.94%) Zscaler