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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 232 276
Rank change year-on-year -34 +44 -45
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 395 296 321
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 1.12% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.44% 8.88% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 186 213
10th Percentile £206 £213 £201
25th Percentile £319 £328 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £469 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% +1.35% -2.63%
75th Percentile £564 £613 £560
90th Percentile £638 £666 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 18 32
10th Percentile £21.25 £18.96 £18.65
25th Percentile £23.88 £31.36 £53.93
Median hourly rate £32.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% -3.85% +16.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - £67.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -48.00% -3.85% +16.26%

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 4,184 3,335 4,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.51% 12.66% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,579 2,064 2,876
10th Percentile £250 £235 £214
25th Percentile £400 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 143 390
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.75 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.63 £20.84 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £40.00 £45.44
Median % change year-on-year -33.20% -11.97% +103.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.35 £74.10
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £44.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.58% -1.11% +100.00%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -55 156 £470 -3.59% 66
North of England -31 89 £447 -5.89% 41
South East -25 67 £527 +17.17% 85
North West +5 57 £475 +68.05% 18
Midlands -34 40 £402 -26.91% 36
East of England -20 36 £168 -60.59% 33
West Midlands -41 33 £400 -20.00% 21
Yorkshire -58 28 £447 -11.70% 22
South West -25 21 £425 -30.89% 41
East Midlands -16 7 £451 -18.00% 15
North East -33 4 £306 +6.52% 5
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 27 (6.84%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.29%) Confluence
4 10 (2.53%) nginx
5 5 (1.27%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.76%) IIS
6 3 (0.76%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.51%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.51%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.51%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.25%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 32 (8.10%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Houdini
5 1 (0.25%) NUKE
5 1 (0.25%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 111 (28.10%) Azure
2 93 (23.54%) AWS
3 76 (19.24%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (10.13%) Entra ID
5 31 (7.85%) GCP
6 28 (7.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 21 (5.32%) Route 53
8 20 (5.06%) OneDrive
9 16 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (3.80%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.29%) Serverless
12 11 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (2.78%) GitHub
12 11 (2.78%) Google Workspace
13 8 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (1.77%) IaaS
15 6 (1.52%) Akamai
15 6 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 223 (56.46%) DNS
2 154 (38.99%) Firewall
3 109 (27.59%) DHCP
4 101 (25.57%) VPN
5 76 (19.24%) WAN
6 74 (18.73%) Network Security
7 67 (16.96%) LAN
8 57 (14.43%) BGP
9 56 (14.18%) SSL
9 56 (14.18%) VLAN
10 55 (13.92%) HTTP
11 49 (12.41%) BIG-IP
12 39 (9.87%) Ethernet
13 36 (9.11%) OSPF
14 34 (8.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 29 (7.34%) Wireshark
16 27 (6.84%) Wi-Fi
17 25 (6.33%) Wireless
18 23 (5.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 23 (5.82%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.28%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.51%) MySQL
5 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.25%) KDB
6 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 46 (11.65%) JIRA
2 22 (5.57%) Fiddler
3 15 (3.80%) GitLab
4 14 (3.54%) Visual Studio
5 13 (3.29%) Eclipse
5 13 (3.29%) Jenkins
6 12 (3.04%) Git
7 10 (2.53%) Browser DevTools
8 7 (1.77%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.77%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.76%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.51%) Introscope
11 2 (0.51%) Subversion
12 1 (0.25%) MSI
12 1 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 155 (39.24%) Social Skills
2 57 (14.43%) Finance
3 51 (12.91%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.87%) Banking
5 24 (6.08%) Investment Banking
6 22 (5.57%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (5.32%) Public Sector
8 19 (4.81%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (3.80%) Military
10 13 (3.29%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.03%) Front Office
12 6 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.01%) Legal
14 3 (0.76%) Police
14 3 (0.76%) Retail
15 2 (0.51%) Aviation
15 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.51%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 89 (22.53%) Network Engineer
2 46 (11.65%) Architect
3 41 (10.38%) Support Engineer
4 35 (8.86%) Analyst
5 29 (7.34%) Web Engineer
6 26 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (6.08%) Security Engineer
8 23 (5.82%) IT Support
8 23 (5.82%) Senior
9 22 (5.57%) Technical Engineer
10 20 (5.06%) Systems Engineer
11 18 (4.56%) IT Engineer
12 17 (4.30%) Blue Coat Engineer
12 17 (4.30%) IP Network Engineer
13 14 (3.54%) IT Support Engineer
13 14 (3.54%) Software Engineer
14 13 (3.29%) C# Software Engineer
14 13 (3.29%) Junior
14 13 (3.29%) Technical Support
15 12 (3.04%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.06%) LDAP
2 19 (4.81%) SAML
3 13 (3.29%) Node.js
3 13 (3.29%) Web Services
4 12 (3.04%) JSON
5 11 (2.78%) OpenID
6 10 (2.53%) REST
7 7 (1.77%) 802.1X
8 6 (1.52%) .NET
9 5 (1.27%) OAuth
10 4 (1.01%) ARM Templates
10 4 (1.01%) NETCONF
10 4 (1.01%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.01%) RESTCONF
10 4 (1.01%) XML
10 4 (1.01%) YANG
11 3 (0.76%) HTML
11 3 (0.76%) Kafka
11 3 (0.76%) Middleware
11 3 (0.76%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.18%) Data Centre
2 34 (8.61%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 22 (5.57%) Management Information System
4 16 (4.05%) Security Posture
5 15 (3.80%) Industry 4.0
5 15 (3.80%) Robotics
6 11 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.53%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.53%) Private Cloud
7 10 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.28%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.03%) PKI
9 8 (2.03%) Security Operations Centre
10 7 (1.77%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 152 (38.48%) Windows
2 68 (17.22%) Linux
3 41 (10.38%) Windows Server
4 32 (8.10%) Mac OS
5 25 (6.33%) Windows 10
6 17 (4.30%) Apple iOS
6 17 (4.30%) Unix
7 11 (2.78%) Android
8 8 (2.03%) Ubuntu
9 7 (1.77%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (1.27%) zOS
12 3 (0.76%) CentOS
12 3 (0.76%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.76%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.51%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (27.85%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (18.48%) ITIL
3 56 (14.18%) Agile
4 50 (12.66%) Load Balancing
5 45 (11.39%) Customer Service
6 42 (10.63%) CI/CD
7 41 (10.38%) DevOps
8 40 (10.13%) Incident Response
9 38 (9.62%) High Availability
9 38 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 38 (9.62%) Migration
10 36 (9.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (7.85%) Decision-Making
11 31 (7.85%) ITSM
12 29 (7.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (6.84%) Root Cause Analysis
13 27 (6.84%) Validation
14 25 (6.33%) Risk Assessment
14 25 (6.33%) SIEM
14 25 (6.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 99 (25.06%) Python
2 45 (11.39%) PowerShell
3 43 (10.89%) Bash
4 27 (6.84%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.57%) C++
6 16 (4.05%) C#
7 10 (2.53%) SQL
8 9 (2.28%) VBA
9 5 (1.27%) ActionScript
9 5 (1.27%) C
10 4 (1.01%) Perl
11 3 (0.76%) Go
11 3 (0.76%) Java
12 2 (0.51%) Jython
12 2 (0.51%) Ruby
12 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.25%) Groovy
13 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 96 (24.30%) Security Cleared
2 75 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 69 (17.47%) Degree
4 47 (11.90%) Cisco Certification
5 36 (9.11%) CCNP
6 25 (6.33%) CCNA
7 20 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (4.56%) DV Cleared
9 17 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (4.05%) CISSP
11 13 (3.29%) CCIE
12 11 (2.78%) Azure Certification
13 10 (2.53%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (2.53%) MCSA
14 9 (2.28%) MCSE
15 8 (2.03%) Network+ Certification
16 5 (1.27%) CompTIA CySA+
17 4 (1.01%) JNCIE
17 4 (1.01%) PMP
18 3 (0.76%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.53%) NCSC
2 7 (1.77%) NIST
2 7 (1.77%) QA
2 7 (1.77%) SLA
3 6 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.27%) GDPR
5 4 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.51%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.51%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.51%) RMADS
7 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 86 (21.77%) Active Directory
2 50 (12.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.56%) Firmware
4 13 (3.29%) Squid
5 12 (3.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (2.53%) Docker
6 10 (2.53%) Hyper-V
7 8 (2.03%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.03%) vSphere
8 5 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.01%) NFS
10 2 (0.51%) KVM
10 2 (0.51%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.25%) GPFS
11 1 (0.25%) Lustre
11 1 (0.25%) RACF
11 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.25%) Snort
Systems Management
1 62 (15.70%) Ansible
2 42 (10.63%) Terraform
3 31 (7.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (7.09%) Kubernetes
5 26 (6.58%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (5.32%) Grafana
7 20 (5.06%) SCCM
8 17 (4.30%) FortiGate
9 16 (4.05%) Prometheus
10 11 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (2.28%) Consul
12 8 (2.03%) WSUS
13 6 (1.52%) CASB
14 5 (1.27%) Nessus
14 5 (1.27%) Suricata
15 4 (1.01%) Nagios
15 4 (1.01%) Tivoli NetView
16 3 (0.76%) Puppet
16 3 (0.76%) Tivoli
17 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 136 (34.43%) Microsoft
2 65 (16.46%) Cisco
3 63 (15.95%) F5
4 60 (15.19%) VMware
5 35 (8.86%) ServiceNow
6 27 (6.84%) Blue Coat
7 26 (6.58%) Google
8 24 (6.08%) Fortinet
9 23 (5.82%) Palo Alto
10 21 (5.32%) Citrix
10 21 (5.32%) Infoblox
10 21 (5.32%) McAfee
10 21 (5.32%) Zscaler
11 19 (4.81%) Juniper
12 18 (4.56%) NetApp
13 17 (4.30%) Siemens
14 16 (4.05%) CheckPoint
14 16 (4.05%) Splunk
15 14 (3.54%) Red Hat
16 13 (3.29%) SolarWinds
280 TCP/IP jobs in England