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

 6 months to
20 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 199 196
Rank change year-on-year -15 -3 +26
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 398 393 500
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.31% 1.27% 1.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.48% 10.36% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 218 322
10th Percentile £185 £205 £180
25th Percentile £273 £262 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +8.57% -16.44%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £580
90th Percentile £725 £691 £681
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -17.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 18 60
10th Percentile £15.50 £41.75 £20.50
25th Percentile £33.00 £63.13 £32.96
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile - - £56.49
90th Percentile £80.60 £67.50 £69.66
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 3,467 3,794 5,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 12.22% 14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,223 2,216 3,504
10th Percentile £213 £237 £210
25th Percentile £361 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 131 324
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £18.52
25th Percentile £20.82 £26.25 £23.07
Median hourly rate £34.00 £49.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -30.61% -13.26% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.21
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -18.18% +27.91%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -19 147 £550 +12.82% 142
North of England -35 79 £475 +15.15% 38
East of England -1 55 £413 -29.79% 49
South East -8 54 £369 -15.71% 108
Yorkshire -36 40 £450 +100.00% 10
North West -16 36 £535 +11.17% 24
Midlands -21 36 £213 -43.33% 34
West Midlands -10 35 £225 - 22
South West -11 28 £700 +30.23% 44
North East -14 3 £400 +166.67% 4
East Midlands -35 1 £165 -56.00% 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 (8.54%) SharePoint
2 25 (6.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.52%) Skype for Business
4 8 (2.01%) Confluence
5 7 (1.76%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.50%) IIS
8 2 (0.50%) nginx
8 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.50%) WordPress
9 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 38 (9.55%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.51%) Weka
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.50%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.25%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
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 83 (20.85%) Microsoft 365
2 82 (20.60%) Azure
3 76 (19.10%) AWS
4 26 (6.53%) Amazon S3
4 26 (6.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 25 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (5.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (5.53%) Amazon ELB
7 22 (5.53%) Entra ID
8 21 (5.28%) GCP
9 15 (3.77%) GitHub
10 8 (2.01%) 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 5 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.01%) AWS Direct Connect
14 4 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (0.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 206 (51.76%) DNS
2 144 (36.18%) Firewall
3 118 (29.65%) DHCP
4 115 (28.89%) VPN
5 72 (18.09%) SSL
6 60 (15.08%) LAN
7 57 (14.32%) WAN
8 54 (13.57%) VLAN
9 53 (13.32%) Network Security
10 41 (10.30%) HTTP
11 25 (6.28%) Ethernet
11 25 (6.28%) Internet
11 25 (6.28%) Wireshark
12 23 (5.78%) SAN
12 23 (5.78%) Wi-Fi
13 22 (5.53%) BGP
13 22 (5.53%) Wireless
14 17 (4.27%) OSPF
15 15 (3.77%) BIG-IP
16 14 (3.52%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.02%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.26%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.26%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.01%) Big Data
5 3 (0.75%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.75%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.75%) Parquet
6 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.25%) Impala
7 1 (0.25%) Power BI
7 1 (0.25%) Redis
7 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (12.31%) Git
2 47 (11.81%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.29%) GitLab
4 23 (5.78%) Eclipse
4 23 (5.78%) Visual Studio
5 18 (4.52%) JIRA
6 16 (4.02%) Postman
7 13 (3.27%) Fiddler
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
1 151 (37.94%) Social Skills
2 75 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (12.31%) Finance
4 31 (7.79%) Public Sector
5 30 (7.54%) Military
6 28 (7.04%) 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%) Local Government
13 8 (2.01%) Law
14 7 (1.76%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.76%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.75%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.75%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.50%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 71 (17.84%) Support Engineer
2 64 (16.08%) Network Engineer
3 57 (14.32%) Senior
4 53 (13.32%) 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 23 (5.78%) Technical Engineer
10 21 (5.28%) 2nd Line Support
10 21 (5.28%) C# Software Engineer
10 21 (5.28%) Software Engineer
11 19 (4.77%) Developer
11 19 (4.77%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (4.02%) IT Support Engineer
12 16 (4.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (3.77%) C++ Software Engineer
13 15 (3.77%) Junior
13 15 (3.77%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.53%) Node.js
2 25 (6.28%) Web Services
3 19 (4.77%) Middleware
4 11 (2.76%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (2.26%) LDAP
5 9 (2.26%) REST
6 7 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.26%) FpML
7 5 (1.26%) Ultra Messaging
8 4 (1.01%) SAML
9 3 (0.75%) Apache Avro
9 3 (0.75%) Flask
9 3 (0.75%) NumPy
9 3 (0.75%) Pandas
9 3 (0.75%) React
9 3 (0.75%) SOAP
10 2 (0.50%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.50%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (0.50%) Bootstrap
10 2 (0.50%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.78%) Data Centre
2 24 (6.03%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.52%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (3.27%) Driving Licence
5 13 (3.27%) NHS
5 13 (3.27%) Private Cloud
6 11 (2.76%) Replication
7 10 (2.51%) Video Conferencing
8 9 (2.26%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.01%) CMDB
9 8 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (2.01%) iPhone
9 8 (2.01%) PKI
9 8 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.76%) Clustering
10 7 (1.76%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.76%) SCADA
11 6 (1.51%) Derivative
11 6 (1.51%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 193 (48.49%) Windows
2 126 (31.66%) Linux
3 50 (12.56%) Windows Server
4 48 (12.06%) Windows 10
5 23 (5.78%) Unix
6 17 (4.27%) Mac OS
7 15 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (3.52%) Android
9 13 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (2.01%) Apple iOS
10 8 (2.01%) Ubuntu
10 8 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (1.76%) Solaris
11 7 (1.76%) Windows 7
12 6 (1.51%) CentOS
12 6 (1.51%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (1.26%) VMS
13 5 (1.26%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (1.01%) Debian
15 3 (0.75%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (26.38%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (18.84%) Agile
3 72 (18.09%) CI/CD
4 66 (16.58%) DevOps
5 63 (15.83%) ITIL
6 59 (14.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 46 (11.56%) High Availability
8 45 (11.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (8.54%) Continuous Integration
9 34 (8.54%) Load Balancing
9 34 (8.54%) Validation
10 33 (8.29%) Configuration Management
11 31 (7.79%) Infrastructure Automation
12 29 (7.29%) Cybersecurity
13 27 (6.78%) Incident Response
14 25 (6.28%) Customer Service
14 25 (6.28%) Migration
14 25 (6.28%) Verification and Validation
15 24 (6.03%) Unit Testing
15 24 (6.03%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 128 (32.16%) Python
2 68 (17.09%) Bash
3 62 (15.58%) PowerShell
4 35 (8.79%) C++
5 30 (7.54%) C#
6 25 (6.28%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.28%) Perl
8 20 (5.03%) SQL
9 13 (3.27%) Java
10 6 (1.51%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.26%) Go
12 4 (1.01%) C
12 4 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.75%) Groovy
13 3 (0.75%) PHP
14 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.25%) Bicep
15 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.25%) Ruby
15 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 105 (26.38%) Security Cleared
2 78 (19.60%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.05%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (8.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 32 (8.04%) Degree
6 27 (6.78%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.78%) CCNP
8 20 (5.03%) CCNA
9 15 (3.77%) MCP
10 14 (3.52%) Network+ Certification
11 13 (3.27%) Azure Certification
12 12 (3.02%) MCSE
13 11 (2.76%) Server+ Certification
14 10 (2.51%) CISSP
15 9 (2.26%) MCSA
16 8 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
17 7 (1.76%) A+ Certification
18 6 (1.51%) ECDL
18 6 (1.51%) HNC
18 6 (1.51%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.03%) GDPR
2 6 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.26%) NIST
3 5 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.26%) SLA
4 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.25%) NCSC
5 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 94 (23.62%) Active Directory
2 77 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (10.80%) Docker
4 36 (9.05%) Hyper-V
5 12 (3.02%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (2.76%) Firmware
7 6 (1.51%) GPFS
7 6 (1.51%) Lustre
7 6 (1.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 6 (1.51%) Terminal Services
7 6 (1.51%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 5 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.01%) NFS
9 4 (1.01%) Veritas File System
9 4 (1.01%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 4 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.01%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.01%) vSphere
10 2 (0.50%) NDS
10 2 (0.50%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 88 (22.11%) Ansible
2 58 (14.57%) Terraform
3 32 (8.04%) SCCM
4 26 (6.53%) Puppet
5 22 (5.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (5.28%) Kubernetes
7 13 (3.27%) Grafana
7 13 (3.27%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.51%) FortiGate
8 10 (2.51%) Microsoft Clustering
9 9 (2.26%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.51%) Nessus
12 5 (1.26%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (1.26%) QRadar
12 5 (1.26%) WSUS
13 4 (1.01%) CASB
13 4 (1.01%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.75%) Argo
14 3 (0.75%) Istio
Vendors
1 154 (38.69%) Microsoft
2 97 (24.37%) VMware
3 54 (13.57%) F5
4 52 (13.07%) Cisco
5 50 (12.56%) Palo Alto
6 41 (10.30%) CheckPoint
7 22 (5.53%) Citrix
8 19 (4.77%) Blue Coat
8 19 (4.77%) Red Hat
8 19 (4.77%) ServiceNow
9 18 (4.52%) Fortinet
10 17 (4.27%) SolarWinds
11 16 (4.02%) MuleSoft
11 16 (4.02%) NetApp
11 16 (4.02%) Splunk
12 15 (3.77%) McAfee
13 13 (3.27%) Oracle
14 12 (3.02%) Juniper
15 10 (2.51%) Veeam
15 10 (2.51%) Zscaler
388 TCP/IP jobs in England