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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 224 269
Rank change year-on-year -60 +45 -43
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 347 283 306
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 1.16% 0.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.98% 8.84% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 202 211
10th Percentile £261 £225 £188
25th Percentile £381 £352 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £550
90th Percentile £630 £724 £645
UK median daily rate £450 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -11.33% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 21
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.63 £28.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £52.22 £54.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -16.15% +1.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £66.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £54.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.67% -16.15% +1.92%

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 3,864 3,202 4,938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.49% 13.14% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 1,984 2,985
10th Percentile £250 £220 £206
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +1.54% -2.50% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 125 398
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.26 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.05% -18.75% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.54 £36.57 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.85% -8.57% +111.92%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -77 116 £475 - 61
North of England -7 91 £450 +3.09% 41
South East -22 60 £510 -5.12% 67
North West +3 58 £555 +122.00% 20
East of England -13 43 £280 -34.88% 30
Midlands -54 35 £388 -29.55% 21
West Midlands -36 32 £375 +78.57% 17
Yorkshire -42 28 £447 -22.26% 16
South West -36 18 £500 -18.70% 27
North East -16 5 £306 +6.52% 7
East Midlands -35 3 £625 +13.64% 4
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 18 (5.19%) Confluence
2 10 (2.88%) nginx
3 9 (2.59%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.15%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.86%) Apache
6 3 (0.86%) IIS
7 2 (0.58%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.58%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.58%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.58%) WebSphere Portal
7 2 (0.58%) WordPress
8 1 (0.29%) Traefik
Applications
1 29 (8.36%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.88%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.15%) Acrobat
3 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.86%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 85 (24.50%) Azure
2 81 (23.34%) AWS
3 47 (13.54%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (6.92%) GCP
5 20 (5.76%) Entra ID
5 20 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 15 (4.32%) Amazon S3
7 14 (4.03%) Route 53
8 13 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (3.75%) Serverless
9 12 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.59%) Google Workspace
11 7 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.02%) GitHub
11 7 (2.02%) Nutanix
11 7 (2.02%) SaaS
12 5 (1.44%) Akamai
12 5 (1.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 189 (54.47%) DNS
2 125 (36.02%) Firewall
3 85 (24.50%) VPN
4 77 (22.19%) DHCP
5 65 (18.73%) WAN
6 59 (17.00%) LAN
7 58 (16.71%) SSL
8 57 (16.43%) HTTP
9 54 (15.56%) Network Security
10 46 (13.26%) VLAN
11 45 (12.97%) BIG-IP
12 42 (12.10%) BGP
13 35 (10.09%) OSPF
14 33 (9.51%) Wireshark
15 32 (9.22%) Ethernet
16 28 (8.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 26 (7.49%) Wi-Fi
18 21 (6.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
19 15 (4.32%) Wireless
20 13 (3.75%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.59%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.44%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.58%) MySQL
7 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (11.82%) JIRA
2 29 (8.36%) Fiddler
3 16 (4.61%) GitLab
4 14 (4.03%) Eclipse
4 14 (4.03%) Git
4 14 (4.03%) Visual Studio
5 12 (3.46%) Jenkins
6 9 (2.59%) Browser DevTools
7 7 (2.02%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.02%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.15%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.58%) Introscope
10 2 (0.58%) Subversion
11 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.29%) Postman
11 1 (0.29%) Travis CI
General
1 124 (35.73%) Social Skills
2 46 (13.26%) Finance
3 44 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.10%) Banking
5 27 (7.78%) Investment Banking
6 26 (7.49%) Presentation Skills
7 24 (6.92%) Public Sector
8 20 (5.76%) Military
9 18 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.88%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.31%) Front Office
13 6 (1.73%) Law
14 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.58%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.58%) Aviation
15 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.58%) Games
15 2 (0.58%) Retail
15 2 (0.58%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 84 (24.21%) Network Engineer
2 39 (11.24%) Analyst
3 37 (10.66%) Web Engineer
4 30 (8.65%) Senior
5 26 (7.49%) Architect
5 26 (7.49%) Support Engineer
6 22 (6.34%) Security Engineer
7 21 (6.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (5.76%) Blue Coat Engineer
8 20 (5.76%) IP Network Engineer
9 19 (5.48%) Technical Engineer
10 17 (4.90%) Systems Engineer
11 15 (4.32%) Integration Engineer
12 12 (3.46%) Junior
13 11 (3.17%) IT Engineer
13 11 (3.17%) Software Engineer
13 11 (3.17%) Technical Analyst
14 10 (2.88%) C# Software Engineer
14 10 (2.88%) Junior Network Engineer
14 10 (2.88%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.34%) LDAP
2 15 (4.32%) Web Services
3 14 (4.03%) Node.js
3 14 (4.03%) SAML
4 11 (3.17%) OpenID
5 10 (2.88%) JSON
6 9 (2.59%) 802.1X
7 5 (1.44%) Kafka
7 5 (1.44%) OAuth
8 4 (1.15%) NETCONF
8 4 (1.15%) OpenConfig
8 4 (1.15%) REST
8 4 (1.15%) RESTCONF
8 4 (1.15%) YANG
9 3 (0.86%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.86%) HTML
9 3 (0.86%) Middleware
10 2 (0.58%) JDBC
10 2 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.20%) Data Centre
2 24 (6.92%) Management Information System
3 22 (6.34%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.32%) Industry 4.0
4 15 (4.32%) Robotics
5 12 (3.46%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.17%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.17%) Security Operations Centre
7 10 (2.88%) Cyberattack
7 10 (2.88%) PKI
7 10 (2.88%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.31%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.73%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 138 (39.77%) Windows
2 81 (23.34%) Linux
3 43 (12.39%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.32%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.03%) Unix
6 13 (3.75%) Android
7 10 (2.88%) Mac OS
8 9 (2.59%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (1.73%) Apple iOS
10 6 (1.73%) Ubuntu
10 6 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (1.73%) zOS
11 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.86%) Debian
12 3 (0.86%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.58%) AIX
13 2 (0.58%) CentOS
13 2 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (30.26%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (15.27%) Agile
2 53 (15.27%) ITIL
3 46 (13.26%) Load Balancing
4 37 (10.66%) DevOps
4 37 (10.66%) Incident Response
5 35 (10.09%) SIEM
6 33 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
6 33 (9.51%) Validation
7 32 (9.22%) CI/CD
8 31 (8.93%) Data Loss Prevention
9 30 (8.65%) Customer Service
10 29 (8.36%) Malware Detection/Protection
10 29 (8.36%) Migration
11 28 (8.07%) Decision-Making
11 28 (8.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (7.78%) Security Operations
13 25 (7.20%) High Availability
14 23 (6.63%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 82 (23.63%) Python
2 45 (12.97%) PowerShell
3 39 (11.24%) Bash
4 29 (8.36%) JavaScript
5 19 (5.48%) C++
6 18 (5.19%) SQL
7 15 (4.32%) C#
8 7 (2.02%) Java
8 7 (2.02%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.02%) VBA
9 6 (1.73%) C
9 6 (1.73%) Go
10 4 (1.15%) Perl
11 2 (0.58%) Jython
12 1 (0.29%) Groovy
12 1 (0.29%) Ruby
12 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 104 (29.97%) Security Cleared
2 87 (25.07%) SC Cleared
3 47 (13.54%) Degree
4 40 (11.53%) Cisco Certification
5 33 (9.51%) CCNP
6 22 (6.34%) CCNA
7 18 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (5.19%) DV Cleared
8 16 (4.61%) CompTIA Security+
9 13 (3.75%) CISSP
10 12 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (2.59%) Azure Certification
11 9 (2.59%) MCSA
12 8 (2.31%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (2.02%) CCIE
13 7 (2.02%) CompTIA CySA+
13 7 (2.02%) JNCIS
13 7 (2.02%) MCSE
14 5 (1.44%) CISM
15 4 (1.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.88%) SLA
2 5 (1.44%) GDPR
2 5 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.86%) NCSC
3 3 (0.86%) NIST
3 3 (0.86%) QA
4 2 (0.58%) RMADS
5 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.29%) GRC
System Software
1 68 (19.60%) Active Directory
2 50 (14.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (6.63%) Docker
4 20 (5.76%) Firmware
5 11 (3.17%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.59%) Squid
6 9 (2.59%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.59%) vSphere
7 8 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (1.44%) KVM
10 4 (1.15%) Lustre
10 4 (1.15%) NFS
10 4 (1.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.86%) GPFS
12 2 (0.58%) Ceph
13 1 (0.29%) iptables
13 1 (0.29%) RHEV
13 1 (0.29%) Samba
13 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 62 (17.87%) Ansible
2 36 (10.37%) Kubernetes
3 35 (10.09%) Terraform
4 28 (8.07%) SCCM
5 22 (6.34%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (6.05%) Grafana
6 21 (6.05%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (4.90%) Prometheus
8 15 (4.32%) FortiGate
9 10 (2.88%) Nagios
9 10 (2.88%) WSUS
10 9 (2.59%) Consul
11 6 (1.73%) CASB
11 6 (1.73%) Tivoli NetView
12 5 (1.44%) Nessus
12 5 (1.44%) Puppet
13 4 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (1.15%) QRadar
14 3 (0.86%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 88 (25.36%) Microsoft
2 67 (19.31%) VMware
3 61 (17.58%) F5
4 44 (12.68%) Cisco
5 33 (9.51%) Blue Coat
6 29 (8.36%) McAfee
7 26 (7.49%) Splunk
8 22 (6.34%) NetApp
9 20 (5.76%) Fortinet
9 20 (5.76%) Palo Alto
9 20 (5.76%) Red Hat
10 19 (5.48%) Citrix
11 18 (5.19%) Juniper
11 18 (5.19%) ServiceNow
12 16 (4.61%) Siemens
13 13 (3.75%) Bloomberg
13 13 (3.75%) SolarWinds
13 13 (3.75%) Zscaler
14 11 (3.17%) Veeam
15 10 (2.88%) CheckPoint