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

 6 months to
9 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 201 201
Rank change year-on-year -19 0 +28
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 388 386 509
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.32% 1.25% 1.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.56% 10.31% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 210 330
10th Percentile £185 £203 £182
25th Percentile £270 £260 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% +8.57% -16.04%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £592
90th Percentile £725 £675 £683
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £431
% change year-on-year - +10.14% -17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 18 60
10th Percentile £15.50 £41.75 £20.50
25th Percentile £29.00 £63.13 £32.96
Median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £56.49
90th Percentile £67.72 £67.50 £69.66
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.87% +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 3,357 3,743 5,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 12.13% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,160 2,175 3,566
10th Percentile £213 £233 £213
25th Percentile £362 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £684 £687 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 129 330
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £27.00 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.77 £50.00 £56.45
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% -11.42% +27.13%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -28.42% -13.64% +30.72%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +5 152 £550 +4.76% 238
North of England -19 79 £475 +18.75% 93
South East -9 49 £270 -37.39% 259
East of England -4 47 £413 -31.25% 76
Yorkshire -22 41 £450 +104.55% 23
North West -6 35 £535 +15.68% 60
Midlands -20 35 £263 -30.00% 44
West Midlands -6 34 £300 -2.04% 26
South West -1 26 £700 +30.23% 63
North East -15 3 £400 +166.67% 10
East Midlands -27 1 £165 -56.00% 17
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 33 (8.51%) SharePoint
2 26 (6.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.61%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.80%) Confluence
5 5 (1.29%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.52%) IIS
8 2 (0.52%) nginx
8 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 36 (9.28%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.03%) Weka
3 2 (0.52%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.26%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
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 83 (21.39%) Microsoft 365
2 81 (20.88%) Azure
3 73 (18.81%) AWS
4 27 (6.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 26 (6.70%) Amazon S3
6 25 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (5.67%) Amazon ELB
8 22 (5.67%) Entra ID
9 20 (5.15%) GCP
10 18 (4.64%) GitHub
11 8 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.06%) OneDrive
11 8 (2.06%) SaaS
12 5 (1.29%) AWS Direct Connect
12 5 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.29%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 208 (53.61%) DNS
2 144 (37.11%) Firewall
3 117 (30.15%) DHCP
4 115 (29.64%) VPN
5 74 (19.07%) SSL
6 64 (16.49%) LAN
7 59 (15.21%) WAN
8 55 (14.18%) Network Security
9 54 (13.92%) VLAN
10 40 (10.31%) HTTP
11 25 (6.44%) Internet
12 24 (6.19%) Wireless
12 24 (6.19%) Wireshark
13 23 (5.93%) SAN
14 21 (5.41%) BGP
14 21 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
15 20 (5.15%) Ethernet
16 17 (4.38%) OSPF
17 14 (3.61%) BIG-IP
17 14 (3.61%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.12%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.32%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.29%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.03%) Big Data
5 3 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (0.77%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.77%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.77%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.77%) Parquet
6 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.26%) Impala
6 1 (0.26%) Power BI
6 1 (0.26%) Redis
6 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (13.14%) Git
2 49 (12.63%) Jenkins
3 30 (7.73%) GitLab
4 18 (4.64%) Eclipse
4 18 (4.64%) Visual Studio
5 17 (4.38%) JIRA
6 16 (4.12%) Postman
7 12 (3.09%) Fiddler
8 8 (2.06%) Subversion
9 4 (1.03%) Robot Framework
9 4 (1.03%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.77%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.77%) MLflow
10 3 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.52%) Maven
11 2 (0.52%) Mercurial
11 2 (0.52%) Poetry
11 2 (0.52%) PyCharm
11 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 143 (36.86%) Social Skills
2 75 (19.33%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (12.63%) Finance
4 31 (7.99%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.93%) Military
5 23 (5.93%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (4.90%) Banking
7 13 (3.35%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.84%) Front Office
8 11 (2.84%) Legal
9 10 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.32%) Local Government
11 7 (1.80%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.80%) Law
11 7 (1.80%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.52%) Advertising
14 2 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 72 (18.56%) Support Engineer
2 64 (16.49%) Network Engineer
3 55 (14.18%) Senior
4 51 (13.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 44 (11.34%) Analyst
6 35 (9.02%) IT Support
7 28 (7.22%) IT Engineer
8 25 (6.44%) Support Analyst
8 25 (6.44%) Technical Support
9 23 (5.93%) Technical Engineer
10 21 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support
10 21 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
11 18 (4.64%) C# Software Engineer
11 18 (4.64%) Developer
11 18 (4.64%) Software Engineer
12 16 (4.12%) Technical Analyst
13 15 (3.87%) Automation Engineer
13 15 (3.87%) IT Support Engineer
13 15 (3.87%) Junior
13 15 (3.87%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.41%) Node.js
2 20 (5.15%) Web Services
3 19 (4.90%) Middleware
4 12 (3.09%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (2.32%) LDAP
5 9 (2.32%) REST
6 8 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.29%) FpML
7 5 (1.29%) Ultra Messaging
8 4 (1.03%) SAML
9 3 (0.77%) Apache Avro
9 3 (0.77%) Flask
9 3 (0.77%) NumPy
9 3 (0.77%) Pandas
9 3 (0.77%) React
9 3 (0.77%) SOAP
10 2 (0.52%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.52%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (0.52%) Bootstrap
10 2 (0.52%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.96%) Data Centre
2 23 (5.93%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.87%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (3.35%) Driving Licence
4 13 (3.35%) NHS
5 11 (2.84%) Private Cloud
5 11 (2.84%) Replication
6 10 (2.58%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.06%) Clustering
8 8 (2.06%) CMDB
8 8 (2.06%) iPhone
8 8 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.06%) SCADA
8 8 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.80%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.55%) Derivative
11 5 (1.29%) iPad
11 5 (1.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 184 (47.42%) Windows
2 115 (29.64%) Linux
3 48 (12.37%) Windows 10
3 48 (12.37%) Windows Server
4 23 (5.93%) Unix
5 19 (4.90%) Mac OS
6 15 (3.87%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (3.09%) Android
9 8 (2.06%) Apple iOS
9 8 (2.06%) Ubuntu
9 8 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (1.80%) Solaris
10 7 (1.80%) Windows 7
11 6 (1.55%) CentOS
11 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (1.29%) VMS
13 4 (1.03%) Debian
14 3 (0.77%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (17.27%) DevOps
3 66 (17.01%) CI/CD
4 65 (16.75%) Agile
5 63 (16.24%) ITIL
6 57 (14.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 46 (11.86%) High Availability
8 42 (10.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (8.51%) Configuration Management
9 33 (8.51%) Infrastructure Automation
9 33 (8.51%) Load Balancing
10 29 (7.47%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (7.22%) Incident Response
11 28 (7.22%) Validation
12 25 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (6.44%) Migration
13 24 (6.19%) Customer Service
13 24 (6.19%) Knowledge Transfer
14 23 (5.93%) Disaster Recovery
15 21 (5.41%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 123 (31.70%) Python
2 62 (15.98%) Bash
3 53 (13.66%) PowerShell
4 30 (7.73%) C++
5 25 (6.44%) C#
6 21 (5.41%) Perl
7 19 (4.90%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.90%) SQL
8 14 (3.61%) Java
9 7 (1.80%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.29%) Go
11 4 (1.03%) C
11 4 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.77%) Groovy
12 3 (0.77%) PHP
13 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.26%) Bicep
14 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.26%) Ruby
14 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 99 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 73 (18.81%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.28%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (9.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 32 (8.25%) Degree
6 27 (6.96%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.93%) CCNP
8 20 (5.15%) CCNA
9 15 (3.87%) MCP
10 14 (3.61%) Network+ Certification
11 13 (3.35%) Azure Certification
12 12 (3.09%) MCSE
13 11 (2.84%) Server+ Certification
14 10 (2.58%) CISSP
15 9 (2.32%) MCSA
16 8 (2.06%) CompTIA Security+
17 7 (1.80%) A+ Certification
18 6 (1.55%) ECDL
18 6 (1.55%) HNC
18 6 (1.55%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.41%) GDPR
2 7 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.55%) NIST
4 5 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.29%) SLA
5 3 (0.77%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
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%) PMO
System Software
1 90 (23.20%) Active Directory
2 70 (18.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (10.05%) Docker
4 33 (8.51%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.35%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (2.58%) Firmware
7 6 (1.55%) Terminal Services
7 6 (1.55%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 6 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (1.55%) vSphere
8 5 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.03%) GPFS
9 4 (1.03%) Lustre
9 4 (1.03%) NFS
9 4 (1.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (1.03%) Veritas File System
9 4 (1.03%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 4 (1.03%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.52%) NDS
10 2 (0.52%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 84 (21.65%) Ansible
2 55 (14.18%) Terraform
3 33 (8.51%) SCCM
4 26 (6.70%) Puppet
5 21 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (4.38%) Kubernetes
7 16 (4.12%) Prometheus
8 15 (3.87%) Grafana
9 11 (2.84%) FortiGate
10 10 (2.58%) Microsoft Clustering
11 9 (2.32%) vCenter Server
12 7 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (1.55%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (1.55%) Nessus
14 5 (1.29%) QRadar
15 4 (1.03%) CASB
15 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
15 4 (1.03%) Tivoli
16 3 (0.77%) Nmap
16 3 (0.77%) WSUS
Vendors
1 144 (37.11%) Microsoft
2 92 (23.71%) VMware
3 53 (13.66%) Cisco
4 52 (13.40%) F5
5 51 (13.14%) Palo Alto
6 42 (10.82%) CheckPoint
7 23 (5.93%) Citrix
8 19 (4.90%) Fortinet
8 19 (4.90%) Red Hat
8 19 (4.90%) ServiceNow
9 18 (4.64%) Blue Coat
9 18 (4.64%) SolarWinds
9 18 (4.64%) Splunk
10 16 (4.12%) MuleSoft
11 15 (3.87%) NetApp
12 14 (3.61%) McAfee
12 14 (3.61%) Oracle
13 11 (2.84%) Juniper
13 11 (2.84%) Veeam
14 10 (2.58%) Google
662 TCP/IP jobs in England