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

 6 months to
24 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 190 199
Rank change year-on-year -35 +9 +38
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 388 387 466
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.23% 1.34% 1.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.36% 10.48% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 222 300
10th Percentile £188 £213 £161
25th Percentile £300 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £486 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% +11.14% -16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £713 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £482 £450
% change year-on-year -1.45% +7.11% -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 3,691 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.81% 12.82% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,211 2,165 3,209
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 £600
90th Percentile £675 £684 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 112 312
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £18.61
25th Percentile £20.26 £21.28 £23.07
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -38.04% +26.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £75.50 £73.75 £76.24
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -14.29% -38.04% +37.68%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -43 132 £538 +7.50% 79
North of England -36 77 £447 -8.07% 98
South East -7 65 £458 +1.78% 147
East of England +3 52 £381 -30.68% 60
North West -14 46 £475 +1.60% 52
West Midlands -1 37 £225 - 36
Midlands -36 37 £225 -40.00% 65
South West -10 27 £700 +47.37% 63
Yorkshire -40 27 £433 -38.13% 36
North East -11 4 £400 +166.67% 11
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 (8.76%) SharePoint
2 21 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.61%) Skype for Business
4 8 (2.06%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.80%) Confluence
6 4 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.77%) Apache
7 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.77%) IIS
8 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.52%) WordPress
9 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 37 (9.54%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.55%) Weka
3 5 (1.29%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.03%) 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 98 (25.26%) AWS
2 93 (23.97%) Azure
3 78 (20.10%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (6.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 26 (6.70%) Amazon S3
5 26 (6.70%) GCP
6 25 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
7 22 (5.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (5.67%) Amazon ELB
7 22 (5.67%) Entra ID
8 17 (4.38%) GitHub
9 10 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.80%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.55%) SaaS
12 5 (1.29%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.03%) AWS KMS
13 4 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (0.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 222 (57.22%) DNS
2 145 (37.37%) Firewall
3 118 (30.41%) VPN
4 115 (29.64%) DHCP
5 77 (19.85%) SSL
6 60 (15.46%) LAN
6 60 (15.46%) Network Security
7 59 (15.21%) WAN
8 52 (13.40%) VLAN
9 44 (11.34%) HTTP
10 30 (7.73%) Wireshark
11 28 (7.22%) BGP
12 23 (5.93%) Wi-Fi
13 22 (5.67%) OSPF
14 20 (5.15%) BIG-IP
15 19 (4.90%) SAN
15 19 (4.90%) Wireless
16 18 (4.64%) Ethernet
16 18 (4.64%) Internet
17 14 (3.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.29%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.03%) Big Data
4 4 (1.03%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.03%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.77%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.77%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.77%) 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%) Redis
7 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (10.31%) Git
2 38 (9.79%) Jenkins
3 33 (8.51%) GitLab
4 21 (5.41%) JIRA
5 18 (4.64%) Fiddler
6 17 (4.38%) Eclipse
6 17 (4.38%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.29%) Subversion
8 4 (1.03%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.03%) Robot Framework
8 4 (1.03%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.77%) MLflow
9 3 (0.77%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.77%) 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 (36.60%) Social Skills
2 70 (18.04%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (9.54%) Finance
4 36 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.70%) Banking
6 25 (6.44%) Military
7 20 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (4.38%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.84%) Legal
10 10 (2.58%) Law
10 10 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.06%) Front Office
11 8 (2.06%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.55%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.55%) Local Government
13 3 (0.77%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.52%) Advertising
15 1 (0.26%) Games
15 1 (0.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (18.56%) Network Engineer
2 64 (16.49%) Support Engineer
3 53 (13.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 50 (12.89%) Senior
5 48 (12.37%) Analyst
6 32 (8.25%) IT Support
7 26 (6.70%) IT Engineer
8 21 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support
8 21 (5.41%) Support Analyst
9 20 (5.15%) Technical Support
10 18 (4.64%) DevOps Engineer
11 17 (4.38%) Web Engineer
12 16 (4.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (3.87%) C# Software Engineer
13 15 (3.87%) IT Support Engineer
13 15 (3.87%) Security Engineer
13 15 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
13 15 (3.87%) Software Engineer
13 15 (3.87%) Technical Analyst
14 14 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.15%) Web Services
2 18 (4.64%) Node.js
3 15 (3.87%) Middleware
4 8 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (2.06%) LDAP
5 6 (1.55%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (1.55%) REST
6 5 (1.29%) Ultra Messaging
7 4 (1.03%) Kafka
7 4 (1.03%) React
7 4 (1.03%) SAML
7 4 (1.03%) SOAP
8 3 (0.77%) .NET
8 3 (0.77%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.77%) Apache Avro
8 3 (0.77%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (0.77%) Bootstrap
8 3 (0.77%) Express.js
8 3 (0.77%) Flask
8 3 (0.77%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.70%) Data Centre
2 24 (6.19%) Management Information System
3 18 (4.64%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (3.35%) NHS
5 13 (3.35%) Private Cloud
6 12 (3.09%) Driving Licence
7 11 (2.84%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.84%) Replication
8 10 (2.58%) PKI
9 9 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.06%) Clustering
10 8 (2.06%) CMDB
11 7 (1.80%) 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 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 186 (47.94%) Windows
2 123 (31.70%) Linux
3 53 (13.66%) Windows Server
4 40 (10.31%) Windows 10
5 23 (5.93%) Unix
6 13 (3.35%) Android
6 13 (3.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (3.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (2.84%) Mac OS
9 9 (2.32%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (1.55%) Apple iOS
11 6 (1.55%) Ubuntu
11 6 (1.55%) VMS
12 4 (1.03%) CentOS
12 4 (1.03%) Solaris
13 3 (0.77%) Debian
13 3 (0.77%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (28.35%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (17.27%) CI/CD
3 61 (15.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 59 (15.21%) DevOps
4 59 (15.21%) ITIL
5 55 (14.18%) Agile
6 48 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (11.34%) High Availability
8 41 (10.57%) Incident Response
8 41 (10.57%) Load Balancing
9 36 (9.28%) SIEM
10 33 (8.51%) Infrastructure Automation
11 32 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
12 29 (7.47%) Root Cause Analysis
12 29 (7.47%) Validation
13 28 (7.22%) Disaster Recovery
13 28 (7.22%) Knowledge Transfer
14 26 (6.70%) Continuous Integration
14 26 (6.70%) DevSecOps
15 25 (6.44%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 115 (29.64%) Python
2 71 (18.30%) Bash
2 71 (18.30%) PowerShell
3 23 (5.93%) C++
4 22 (5.67%) Perl
4 22 (5.67%) SQL
5 21 (5.41%) C#
6 19 (4.90%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.84%) Java
8 10 (2.58%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.55%) Go
10 5 (1.29%) C
11 4 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.77%) Groovy
12 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.26%) Bicep
13 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.26%) Ruby
13 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 123 (31.70%) Security Cleared
2 89 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 35 (9.02%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (8.25%) DV Cleared
5 31 (7.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 30 (7.73%) Degree
7 24 (6.19%) CCNP
8 16 (4.12%) Azure Certification
8 16 (4.12%) Network+ Certification
9 15 (3.87%) CCNA
10 13 (3.35%) MCP
11 12 (3.09%) CompTIA Security+
12 11 (2.84%) CISSP
12 11 (2.84%) Server+ Certification
13 10 (2.58%) MCSE
14 7 (1.80%) 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 (5.67%) GDPR
2 8 (2.06%) SLA
3 7 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.03%) NIST
6 3 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.26%) NCSC
8 1 (0.26%) QA
8 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 93 (23.97%) Active Directory
2 62 (15.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (13.14%) Docker
4 32 (8.25%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.84%) Firmware
6 9 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (2.32%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.80%) Lustre
7 7 (1.80%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 6 (1.55%) GPFS
8 6 (1.55%) Terminal Services
9 5 (1.29%) KVM
9 5 (1.29%) NFS
9 5 (1.29%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.03%) Veritas File System
10 4 (1.03%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 4 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.03%) vSphere
11 2 (0.52%) NDS
11 2 (0.52%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 83 (21.39%) Ansible
2 60 (15.46%) Terraform
3 36 (9.28%) SCCM
4 29 (7.47%) Kubernetes
5 26 (6.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (4.90%) Grafana
7 14 (3.61%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.58%) FortiGate
8 10 (2.58%) Puppet
9 9 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (2.06%) WSUS
11 7 (1.80%) QRadar
12 6 (1.55%) Nagios
12 6 (1.55%) Nessus
12 6 (1.55%) vCenter Server
13 5 (1.29%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (1.29%) Progress Chef
13 5 (1.29%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (1.03%) CASB
Vendors
1 133 (34.28%) Microsoft
2 83 (21.39%) VMware
3 64 (16.49%) F5
4 51 (13.14%) Cisco
4 51 (13.14%) Palo Alto
5 38 (9.79%) CheckPoint
6 29 (7.47%) Splunk
7 24 (6.19%) Blue Coat
8 22 (5.67%) Fortinet
8 22 (5.67%) ServiceNow
9 21 (5.41%) SolarWinds
10 20 (5.15%) Citrix
10 20 (5.15%) McAfee
11 19 (4.90%) NetApp
12 17 (4.38%) Juniper
12 17 (4.38%) Oracle
13 16 (4.12%) Red Hat
14 11 (2.84%) Meraki
14 11 (2.84%) Zscaler
15 10 (2.58%) CyberArk
483 TCP/IP jobs in England