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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 201 196
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 +25
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 398 383 490
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.29% 1.23% 1.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.63% 10.04% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 206 314
10th Percentile £185 £210 £183
25th Percentile £270 £275 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +8.57% -16.04%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £577
90th Percentile £725 £700 £677
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £438
% change year-on-year -2.11% +8.57% -15.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 19 58
10th Percentile £15.50 £31.00 £23.13
25th Percentile £33.00 £62.50 £33.83
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile - - £56.49
90th Percentile £81.20 £67.50 £69.62
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -23.08%

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 3,422 3,815 5,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.13% 12.25% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,205 3,419
10th Percentile £206 £234 £210
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £608
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 136 328
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.83 £18.82
25th Percentile £20.56 £23.47 £23.07
Median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +27.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £56.40
% change year-on-year -20.00% -24.65% +35.90%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +5 153 £550 +12.82% 72
North of England -32 72 £463 +4.23% 30
South East -2 56 £380 -15.67% 112
East of England +3 55 £413 -29.79% 44
North West -10 37 £535 +15.68% 18
Midlands -20 35 £213 -43.33% 25
West Midlands -15 34 £225 - 15
Yorkshire -43 32 £365 -39.17% 9
South West -6 28 £700 +47.37% 42
North East -11 3 £400 +166.67% 3
East Midlands -29 1 £165 -56.00% 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 34 (8.54%) SharePoint
2 25 (6.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.52%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.76%) Confluence
4 7 (1.76%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.50%) IIS
7 2 (0.50%) nginx
7 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.50%) WordPress
8 1 (0.25%) Apache
8 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 39 (9.80%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.51%) Weka
3 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.50%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.25%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.25%) Eikon
1 1 (0.25%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.25%) Finacle
1 1 (0.25%) RMDS
1 1 (0.25%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 84 (21.11%) Azure
2 83 (20.85%) Microsoft 365
3 78 (19.60%) AWS
4 26 (6.53%) Amazon S3
5 25 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
5 25 (6.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (5.78%) Entra ID
7 22 (5.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (5.53%) Amazon ELB
8 21 (5.28%) GCP
9 14 (3.52%) GitHub
10 9 (2.26%) SaaS
11 7 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (1.76%) OneDrive
12 6 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.51%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (0.75%) AWS Direct Connect
14 3 (0.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 206 (51.76%) DNS
2 137 (34.42%) Firewall
3 117 (29.40%) DHCP
4 113 (28.39%) VPN
5 71 (17.84%) SSL
6 60 (15.08%) LAN
7 59 (14.82%) WAN
8 54 (13.57%) Network Security
9 53 (13.32%) VLAN
10 43 (10.80%) HTTP
11 26 (6.53%) Wireshark
12 25 (6.28%) BGP
12 25 (6.28%) Internet
13 23 (5.78%) Ethernet
14 22 (5.53%) SAN
14 22 (5.53%) Wi-Fi
15 19 (4.77%) OSPF
15 19 (4.77%) Wireless
16 16 (4.02%) BIG-IP
17 14 (3.52%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.77%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.26%) NoSQL
3 6 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.26%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.01%) Big Data
6 3 (0.75%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.75%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.75%) Parquet
7 2 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.25%) Impala
8 1 (0.25%) MySQL
8 1 (0.25%) Power BI
8 1 (0.25%) Redis
8 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (11.06%) Git
2 39 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 30 (7.54%) GitLab
4 22 (5.53%) Eclipse
4 22 (5.53%) Visual Studio
5 17 (4.27%) JIRA
6 14 (3.52%) Fiddler
7 9 (2.26%) Postman
8 8 (2.01%) Subversion
9 4 (1.01%) Robot Framework
9 4 (1.01%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.75%) MLflow
10 3 (0.75%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.50%) Maven
11 2 (0.50%) Mercurial
11 2 (0.50%) Poetry
11 2 (0.50%) PyCharm
11 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 150 (37.69%) Social Skills
2 72 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (11.56%) Finance
4 33 (8.29%) Public Sector
5 29 (7.29%) Military
6 27 (6.78%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (5.28%) Banking
8 15 (3.77%) Investment Banking
9 13 (3.27%) Front Office
10 11 (2.76%) Legal
11 10 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.26%) Telecoms
13 8 (2.01%) Financial Institution
13 8 (2.01%) Law
13 8 (2.01%) Local Government
14 3 (0.75%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Electronics
15 2 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 73 (18.34%) Support Engineer
2 67 (16.83%) Network Engineer
3 54 (13.57%) Senior
4 52 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 46 (11.56%) Analyst
6 36 (9.05%) IT Support
7 29 (7.29%) IT Engineer
8 25 (6.28%) Support Analyst
8 25 (6.28%) Technical Support
9 21 (5.28%) 2nd Line Support
10 20 (5.03%) C# Software Engineer
10 20 (5.03%) Developer
10 20 (5.03%) Software Engineer
10 20 (5.03%) Technical Engineer
11 18 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (4.02%) IT Support Engineer
12 16 (4.02%) Junior
12 16 (4.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (3.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.28%) Node.js
1 25 (6.28%) Web Services
2 20 (5.03%) Middleware
3 11 (2.76%) FIX Protocol
3 11 (2.76%) LDAP
4 9 (2.26%) REST
5 7 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (1.26%) FpML
6 5 (1.26%) Ultra Messaging
7 4 (1.01%) React
7 4 (1.01%) SAML
7 4 (1.01%) SOAP
8 3 (0.75%) .NET
8 3 (0.75%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.75%) Apache Avro
8 3 (0.75%) Bootstrap
8 3 (0.75%) Express.js
8 3 (0.75%) NumPy
8 3 (0.75%) WCF
8 3 (0.75%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.54%) Data Centre
2 24 (6.03%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.27%) NHS
4 13 (3.27%) Private Cloud
5 12 (3.02%) Driving Licence
6 11 (2.76%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.76%) Replication
6 11 (2.76%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.01%) CMDB
8 8 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.01%) iPhone
8 8 (2.01%) PKI
9 7 (1.76%) Clustering
9 7 (1.76%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.76%) SCADA
10 6 (1.51%) Derivative
10 6 (1.51%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 189 (47.49%) Windows
2 125 (31.41%) Linux
3 52 (13.07%) Windows Server
4 47 (11.81%) Windows 10
5 21 (5.28%) Unix
6 16 (4.02%) Mac OS
7 15 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (3.52%) Android
9 12 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (2.01%) Ubuntu
10 8 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (1.76%) Apple iOS
11 7 (1.76%) Windows 7
12 6 (1.51%) CentOS
12 6 (1.51%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (1.26%) Solaris
13 5 (1.26%) VMS
14 4 (1.01%) Debian
15 3 (0.75%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (26.38%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (17.59%) Agile
3 69 (17.34%) CI/CD
4 63 (15.83%) ITIL
5 59 (14.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 58 (14.57%) DevOps
7 48 (12.06%) High Availability
8 44 (11.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (8.79%) Continuous Integration
9 35 (8.79%) Load Balancing
9 35 (8.79%) Validation
10 29 (7.29%) Infrastructure Automation
11 27 (6.78%) Cybersecurity
11 27 (6.78%) Incident Response
12 26 (6.53%) Knowledge Transfer
13 25 (6.28%) Configuration Management
13 25 (6.28%) Customer Service
13 25 (6.28%) Migration
13 25 (6.28%) Verification and Validation
14 24 (6.03%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 126 (31.66%) Python
2 69 (17.34%) Bash
3 64 (16.08%) PowerShell
4 34 (8.54%) C++
5 30 (7.54%) C#
6 24 (6.03%) JavaScript
7 22 (5.53%) Perl
8 21 (5.28%) SQL
9 13 (3.27%) Java
10 5 (1.26%) Go
10 5 (1.26%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.01%) C
11 4 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.75%) Groovy
12 3 (0.75%) PHP
12 3 (0.75%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.25%) Ruby
13 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 107 (26.88%) Security Cleared
2 79 (19.85%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.79%) Cisco Certification
4 34 (8.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 32 (8.04%) Degree
6 28 (7.04%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.78%) CCNP
8 18 (4.52%) CCNA
9 14 (3.52%) MCP
9 14 (3.52%) Network+ Certification
10 13 (3.27%) Azure Certification
11 12 (3.02%) MCSE
12 11 (2.76%) Server+ Certification
13 10 (2.51%) CISSP
14 9 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (2.01%) MCSA
16 7 (1.76%) A+ Certification
17 6 (1.51%) CCIE
17 6 (1.51%) ECDL
17 6 (1.51%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.77%) GDPR
2 6 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.26%) SLA
4 4 (1.01%) NIST
5 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.25%) NCSC
6 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 95 (23.87%) Active Directory
2 71 (17.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (10.80%) Docker
4 34 (8.54%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.27%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (2.76%) Firmware
7 7 (1.76%) Lustre
7 7 (1.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 6 (1.51%) GPFS
8 6 (1.51%) Terminal Services
8 6 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.26%) NFS
9 5 (1.26%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.01%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 4 (1.01%) Veritas File System
10 4 (1.01%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 4 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.75%) KVM
12 2 (0.50%) NetIQ eDirectory
12 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 85 (21.36%) Ansible
2 58 (14.57%) Terraform
3 33 (8.29%) SCCM
4 24 (6.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (5.28%) Kubernetes
6 19 (4.77%) Puppet
7 13 (3.27%) Grafana
7 13 (3.27%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.26%) FortiGate
8 9 (2.26%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.51%) Nessus
10 6 (1.51%) WSUS
11 5 (1.26%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (1.26%) QRadar
11 5 (1.26%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (1.01%) CASB
12 4 (1.01%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.75%) Istio
Vendors
1 149 (37.44%) Microsoft
2 91 (22.86%) VMware
3 57 (14.32%) F5
4 50 (12.56%) Cisco
4 50 (12.56%) Palo Alto
5 40 (10.05%) CheckPoint
6 22 (5.53%) Citrix
7 20 (5.03%) Blue Coat
7 20 (5.03%) ServiceNow
8 19 (4.77%) Fortinet
8 19 (4.77%) Red Hat
9 17 (4.27%) NetApp
10 16 (4.02%) McAfee
10 16 (4.02%) Splunk
11 15 (3.77%) SolarWinds
12 13 (3.27%) Juniper
12 13 (3.27%) Oracle
13 11 (2.76%) Zscaler
14 10 (2.51%) CyberArk
15 9 (2.26%) Meraki
279 TCP/IP jobs in England