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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 198 193
Rank change year-on-year -31 -5 +41
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 386 384 467
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.22% 1.34% 1.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.30% 10.46% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 220 300
10th Percentile £186 £212 £161
25th Percentile £300 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £488 £438
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +11.43% -16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £713 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -1.96% +7.67% -14.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 10 50
10th Percentile £15.50 £28.85 £24.93
25th Percentile £31.00 £39.69 £40.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.70
Median % change year-on-year - +25.74% -20.47%
75th Percentile - - £56.49
90th Percentile £82.40 £65.88 £69.62
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.70
% change year-on-year - +25.74% -20.47%

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 3,415 3,670 5,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.80% 12.81% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,209 2,151 3,235
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 112 311
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £18.57
25th Percentile £20.42 £21.28 £23.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -2.86% -37.16% +35.75%

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 23 December 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 23 December 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 23 December 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 -35 132 £538 +7.50% 84
North of England -29 76 £449 -10.30% 121
South East -9 65 £458 +1.78% 166
East of England -3 51 £413 -25.00% 80
North West -9 46 £475 +2.70% 61
West Midlands -4 37 £225 - 45
Midlands -32 37 £225 -40.00% 79
South West -7 27 £700 +47.37% 78
Yorkshire -46 26 £424 -39.46% 49
North East -13 4 £400 +166.67% 12
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 (8.81%) SharePoint
2 21 (5.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.63%) Skype for Business
4 8 (2.07%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.81%) Confluence
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 37 (9.59%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.55%) Weka
3 5 (1.30%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.26%) Acrobat
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 96 (24.87%) AWS
2 92 (23.83%) Azure
3 78 (20.21%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (6.74%) Amazon S3
4 26 (6.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 25 (6.48%) Amazon EC2
5 25 (6.48%) GCP
6 22 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 22 (5.70%) Amazon ELB
6 22 (5.70%) Entra ID
7 16 (4.15%) GitHub
8 10 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (1.81%) OneDrive
10 6 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.55%) SaaS
11 5 (1.30%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.04%) AWS KMS
12 4 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 221 (57.25%) DNS
2 143 (37.05%) Firewall
3 117 (30.31%) VPN
4 115 (29.79%) DHCP
5 77 (19.95%) SSL
6 60 (15.54%) Network Security
7 59 (15.28%) LAN
8 58 (15.03%) WAN
9 52 (13.47%) VLAN
10 44 (11.40%) HTTP
11 30 (7.77%) Wireshark
12 27 (6.99%) BGP
13 21 (5.44%) OSPF
13 21 (5.44%) Wi-Fi
14 20 (5.18%) BIG-IP
15 19 (4.92%) Internet
15 19 (4.92%) SAN
16 18 (4.66%) Ethernet
16 18 (4.66%) Wireless
17 14 (3.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.30%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.04%) Big Data
4 4 (1.04%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.78%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.78%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.78%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.78%) Parquet
6 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.26%) Impala
7 1 (0.26%) MySQL
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.26%) Power BI
7 1 (0.26%) Redis
7 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (10.10%) Git
2 37 (9.59%) Jenkins
3 32 (8.29%) GitLab
4 21 (5.44%) JIRA
5 18 (4.66%) Fiddler
6 17 (4.40%) Eclipse
6 17 (4.40%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.30%) Subversion
8 4 (1.04%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.04%) Robot Framework
8 4 (1.04%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.78%) MLflow
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
1 142 (36.79%) Social Skills
2 70 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (9.59%) Finance
4 33 (8.55%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.48%) Banking
5 25 (6.48%) Military
6 20 (5.18%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (4.40%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.85%) Legal
9 10 (2.59%) Law
9 10 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.07%) Front Office
10 8 (2.07%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.55%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.55%) Local Government
12 3 (0.78%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.52%) Advertising
14 1 (0.26%) Games
14 1 (0.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 71 (18.39%) Network Engineer
2 65 (16.84%) Support Engineer
3 53 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 50 (12.95%) Senior
5 48 (12.44%) Analyst
6 32 (8.29%) IT Support
7 26 (6.74%) IT Engineer
8 21 (5.44%) 2nd Line Support
8 21 (5.44%) Support Analyst
8 21 (5.44%) Technical Support
9 18 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (4.40%) Web Engineer
11 16 (4.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (3.89%) C# Software Engineer
12 15 (3.89%) IT Support Engineer
12 15 (3.89%) Junior
12 15 (3.89%) Security Engineer
12 15 (3.89%) Senior DevOps
12 15 (3.89%) Software Engineer
12 15 (3.89%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.18%) Web Services
2 18 (4.66%) Node.js
3 15 (3.89%) Middleware
4 8 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (2.07%) LDAP
5 6 (1.55%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (1.55%) REST
6 5 (1.30%) Ultra Messaging
7 4 (1.04%) Kafka
7 4 (1.04%) React
7 4 (1.04%) SAML
7 4 (1.04%) SOAP
8 3 (0.78%) .NET
8 3 (0.78%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.78%) Apache Avro
8 3 (0.78%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (0.78%) Bootstrap
8 3 (0.78%) Express.js
8 3 (0.78%) Flask
8 3 (0.78%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.99%) Data Centre
2 24 (6.22%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.40%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (3.37%) NHS
5 13 (3.37%) Private Cloud
6 12 (3.11%) Driving Licence
7 11 (2.85%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.85%) Replication
8 10 (2.59%) PKI
9 9 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.07%) Clustering
10 8 (2.07%) CMDB
11 7 (1.81%) SCADA
12 6 (1.55%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.55%) Grid Computing
12 6 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.55%) iPhone
12 6 (1.55%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 185 (47.93%) Windows
2 122 (31.61%) Linux
3 53 (13.73%) Windows Server
4 40 (10.36%) Windows 10
5 22 (5.70%) Unix
6 13 (3.37%) Android
6 13 (3.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (3.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (2.85%) Mac OS
9 9 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (1.55%) Apple iOS
11 6 (1.55%) Ubuntu
11 6 (1.55%) VMS
12 4 (1.04%) CentOS
12 4 (1.04%) Solaris
13 3 (0.78%) Debian
13 3 (0.78%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (28.50%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (17.10%) CI/CD
3 61 (15.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 59 (15.28%) ITIL
5 58 (15.03%) DevOps
6 56 (14.51%) Agile
7 48 (12.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 44 (11.40%) High Availability
9 41 (10.62%) Load Balancing
10 40 (10.36%) Incident Response
11 36 (9.33%) SIEM
12 33 (8.55%) Infrastructure Automation
13 31 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
14 29 (7.51%) Validation
15 28 (7.25%) Knowledge Transfer
16 27 (6.99%) Disaster Recovery
16 27 (6.99%) Root Cause Analysis
17 26 (6.74%) Continuous Integration
17 26 (6.74%) DevSecOps
18 25 (6.48%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 115 (29.79%) Python
2 71 (18.39%) Bash
2 71 (18.39%) PowerShell
3 23 (5.96%) C++
4 22 (5.70%) Perl
5 21 (5.44%) C#
5 21 (5.44%) SQL
6 19 (4.92%) JavaScript
7 10 (2.59%) Java
7 10 (2.59%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.55%) Go
9 5 (1.30%) C
10 4 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.78%) Groovy
11 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.26%) Bicep
12 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.26%) Ruby
12 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 120 (31.09%) Security Cleared
2 87 (22.54%) SC Cleared
3 35 (9.07%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (8.29%) DV Cleared
5 31 (8.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 30 (7.77%) Degree
7 24 (6.22%) CCNP
8 16 (4.15%) Azure Certification
8 16 (4.15%) Network+ Certification
9 15 (3.89%) CCNA
10 13 (3.37%) MCP
11 12 (3.11%) CompTIA Security+
12 11 (2.85%) CISSP
12 11 (2.85%) Server+ Certification
13 10 (2.59%) MCSE
14 7 (1.81%) JNCIS
15 6 (1.55%) A+ Certification
15 6 (1.55%) CCIE
15 6 (1.55%) HNC
15 6 (1.55%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.70%) GDPR
2 7 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.81%) SLA
3 5 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.04%) NIST
5 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
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 93 (24.09%) Active Directory
2 62 (16.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (12.95%) Docker
4 32 (8.29%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.85%) Firmware
6 9 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.81%) Lustre
7 7 (1.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 6 (1.55%) GPFS
8 6 (1.55%) Terminal Services
9 5 (1.30%) KVM
9 5 (1.30%) NFS
9 5 (1.30%) VMware NSX
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%) NDS
11 2 (0.52%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 82 (21.24%) Ansible
2 60 (15.54%) Terraform
3 36 (9.33%) SCCM
4 28 (7.25%) Kubernetes
5 26 (6.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (4.66%) Grafana
7 14 (3.63%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.59%) FortiGate
8 10 (2.59%) Puppet
9 9 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (2.07%) WSUS
11 7 (1.81%) QRadar
12 6 (1.55%) Nagios
12 6 (1.55%) Nessus
12 6 (1.55%) vCenter Server
13 5 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (1.30%) Progress Chef
13 5 (1.30%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (1.04%) CASB
Vendors
1 133 (34.46%) Microsoft
2 83 (21.50%) VMware
3 64 (16.58%) F5
4 51 (13.21%) Cisco
5 50 (12.95%) Palo Alto
6 38 (9.84%) CheckPoint
7 28 (7.25%) Splunk
8 24 (6.22%) Blue Coat
9 22 (5.70%) ServiceNow
10 21 (5.44%) Fortinet
10 21 (5.44%) SolarWinds
11 20 (5.18%) Citrix
11 20 (5.18%) McAfee
12 19 (4.92%) NetApp
13 17 (4.40%) Juniper
14 16 (4.15%) Oracle
14 16 (4.15%) Red Hat
15 11 (2.85%) Zscaler
16 10 (2.59%) CyberArk
16 10 (2.59%) Meraki