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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 230 246
Rank change year-on-year -17 +16 -36
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 457 322 314
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.17% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.72% 9.36% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 190 201
10th Percentile £208 £219 £203
25th Percentile £325 £357 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £575 £613 £560
90th Percentile £672 £653 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 26 31
10th Percentile £26.05 £20.11 £30.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £42.53 £63.13
Median hourly rate £62.99 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% - +28.92%
75th Percentile £69.18 - -
90th Percentile £98.82 £86.32 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +28.92%

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 4,264 3,441 4,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.37% 12.45% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,581 2,138 2,580
10th Percentile £263 £241 £240
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 162 291
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £45.00 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% -18.00% +5.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £50.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -46.68% +5.26% -5.79%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -37 189 £475 -13.64% 125
North of England -40 86 £475 -5.00% 46
South East -19 81 £525 +16.67% 79
North West -15 56 £475 -0.05% 25
South West -11 41 £638 +3.03% 34
Midlands -32 39 £402 -19.60% 26
East of England -13 35 £375 -28.57% 26
West Midlands -38 31 £406 +1.06% 18
Yorkshire -55 26 £500 - 14
East Midlands -4 8 £402 -26.91% 8
North East -38 4 £438 +2.94% 9
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 45 (9.85%) SharePoint
2 22 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.84%) Confluence
4 9 (1.97%) nginx
4 9 (1.97%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.88%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (0.66%) IIS
6 3 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.44%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.44%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.22%) CICS
8 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 35 (7.66%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.75%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.44%) Houdini
5 2 (0.44%) NUKE
6 1 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 160 (35.01%) Azure
2 113 (24.73%) AWS
3 100 (21.88%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (14.22%) Entra ID
5 35 (7.66%) GCP
6 32 (7.00%) OneDrive
7 28 (6.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 18 (3.94%) GitHub
9 16 (3.50%) Route 53
10 15 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (2.41%) Google Workspace
12 11 (2.41%) OpenShift
13 10 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (1.97%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (1.97%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (1.97%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 273 (59.74%) DNS
2 200 (43.76%) Firewall
3 158 (34.57%) DHCP
4 134 (29.32%) VPN
5 87 (19.04%) Network Security
6 83 (18.16%) WAN
7 74 (16.19%) LAN
8 70 (15.32%) VLAN
9 68 (14.88%) BGP
10 64 (14.00%) HTTP
11 59 (12.91%) SSL
12 41 (8.97%) BIG-IP
13 40 (8.75%) OSPF
13 40 (8.75%) Wi-Fi
14 39 (8.53%) Ethernet
15 35 (7.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 33 (7.22%) Wireless
17 24 (5.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 24 (5.25%) SD-WAN
17 24 (5.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.63%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.09%) MySQL
3 5 (1.09%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.88%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.66%) Redis
6 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.44%) SQLite
7 1 (0.22%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.22%) KDB
Development Applications
1 44 (9.63%) JIRA
2 27 (5.91%) Git
3 22 (4.81%) Jenkins
4 19 (4.16%) GitLab
5 18 (3.94%) Fiddler
6 14 (3.06%) Visual Studio
7 13 (2.84%) Eclipse
8 10 (2.19%) Browser DevTools
9 7 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.88%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.66%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.44%) Introscope
12 2 (0.44%) Selenium
12 2 (0.44%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.44%) Subversion
13 1 (0.22%) MSI
13 1 (0.22%) Postman
General
1 180 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 64 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (12.69%) Finance
4 43 (9.41%) Banking
5 29 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 23 (5.03%) Telecoms
7 22 (4.81%) Investment Banking
7 22 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.50%) Military
10 13 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.97%) Front Office
12 5 (1.09%) Legal
12 5 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.88%) Automotive
13 4 (0.88%) Police
14 3 (0.66%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 97 (21.23%) Network Engineer
2 56 (12.25%) Support Engineer
3 51 (11.16%) Senior
4 48 (10.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 41 (8.97%) Architect
6 32 (7.00%) IT Support
7 31 (6.78%) Analyst
8 28 (6.13%) IT Engineer
9 25 (5.47%) Security Engineer
9 25 (5.47%) Web Engineer
10 24 (5.25%) IT Support Engineer
11 23 (5.03%) Systems Engineer
12 22 (4.81%) Technical Engineer
13 20 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
14 19 (4.16%) Senior Network Engineer
15 18 (3.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 16 (3.50%) Blue Coat Engineer
16 16 (3.50%) IP Network Engineer
17 15 (3.28%) Software Engineer
18 14 (3.06%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.38%) SAML
2 15 (3.28%) LDAP
3 13 (2.84%) ARM Templates
3 13 (2.84%) Node.js
3 13 (2.84%) REST
3 13 (2.84%) Web Services
4 11 (2.41%) 802.1X
4 11 (2.41%) JSON
5 8 (1.75%) .NET
6 7 (1.53%) OpenID
7 6 (1.31%) HTML
7 6 (1.31%) NETCONF
7 6 (1.31%) OpenConfig
7 6 (1.31%) RESTCONF
7 6 (1.31%) YANG
8 5 (1.09%) Kafka
8 5 (1.09%) OAuth
8 5 (1.09%) RESTful
9 4 (0.88%) boto
9 4 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 74 (16.19%) Data Centre
2 50 (10.94%) Onboarding
3 28 (6.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (6.13%) PKI
4 26 (5.69%) Management Information System
5 24 (5.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 19 (4.16%) Robotics
7 18 (3.94%) Linux Command Line
8 16 (3.50%) Security Posture
9 15 (3.28%) Industry 4.0
9 15 (3.28%) Public Cloud
10 14 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (2.84%) Cloud Native
12 11 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (2.41%) Operational Technology
13 10 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (2.19%) Driving Licence
13 10 (2.19%) SCADA
14 9 (1.97%) Private Cloud
15 8 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 198 (43.33%) Windows
2 116 (25.38%) Linux
3 57 (12.47%) Windows Server
4 35 (7.66%) Windows 10
5 33 (7.22%) Mac OS
6 23 (5.03%) Unix
7 15 (3.28%) Apple iOS
8 14 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (2.84%) Ubuntu
10 11 (2.41%) Android
11 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.66%) CentOS
12 3 (0.66%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.66%) zOS
13 2 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.22%) Rocky
14 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (28.01%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (21.66%) ITIL
3 75 (16.41%) CI/CD
4 69 (15.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 65 (14.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 63 (13.79%) Agile
7 61 (13.35%) DevOps
8 59 (12.91%) Customer Service
9 52 (11.38%) Load Balancing
10 51 (11.16%) Cybersecurity
11 46 (10.07%) ITSM
12 45 (9.85%) Migration
13 44 (9.63%) High Availability
13 44 (9.63%) Incident Response
14 43 (9.41%) Service Management
14 43 (9.41%) SIEM
15 41 (8.97%) Validation
16 40 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 40 (8.75%) Technical Leadership
17 38 (8.32%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 135 (29.54%) Python
2 87 (19.04%) PowerShell
3 78 (17.07%) Bash
4 25 (5.47%) JavaScript
5 24 (5.25%) C++
6 18 (3.94%) SQL
7 17 (3.72%) C#
8 9 (1.97%) Bicep
9 8 (1.75%) Java
9 8 (1.75%) Perl
9 8 (1.75%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.53%) VBA
11 5 (1.09%) ActionScript
11 5 (1.09%) C
12 4 (0.88%) Go
13 2 (0.44%) Jython
13 2 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.44%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.44%) Ruby
13 2 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 125 (27.35%) Security Cleared
2 82 (17.94%) SC Cleared
3 74 (16.19%) Degree
4 57 (12.47%) Cisco Certification
5 45 (9.85%) DV Cleared
6 42 (9.19%) CCNP
7 28 (6.13%) CCNA
7 28 (6.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.94%) CISSP
10 14 (3.06%) CCIE
10 14 (3.06%) Network+ Certification
11 12 (2.63%) Azure Certification
12 10 (2.19%) A+ Certification
12 10 (2.19%) MCSA
12 10 (2.19%) VCAP
13 9 (1.97%) MCSE
14 8 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
15 7 (1.53%) AWS Certification
15 7 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.94%) SLA
2 10 (2.19%) NIST
3 9 (1.97%) NCSC
3 9 (1.97%) QA
4 7 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.09%) GDPR
6 4 (0.88%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (0.88%) GxP
6 4 (0.88%) NIST 800
6 4 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.22%) RMADS
System Software
1 123 (26.91%) Active Directory
2 84 (18.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (6.78%) Hyper-V
4 30 (6.56%) Docker
5 23 (5.03%) vSphere
6 22 (4.81%) VMware NSX
7 17 (3.72%) Firmware
8 11 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.75%) Squid
10 6 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (0.66%) NFS
11 3 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.44%) KVM
12 2 (0.44%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.22%) GPFS
13 1 (0.22%) NDS
13 1 (0.22%) NetIQ eDirectory
13 1 (0.22%) RACF
13 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.22%) Snort
Systems Management
1 94 (20.57%) Ansible
2 81 (17.72%) Terraform
3 51 (11.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 44 (9.63%) Kubernetes
5 27 (5.91%) SCCM
6 26 (5.69%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (5.03%) Grafana
8 14 (3.06%) FortiGate
8 14 (3.06%) VxRail
9 13 (2.84%) Prometheus
10 11 (2.41%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (1.53%) WSUS
12 6 (1.31%) CASB
12 6 (1.31%) systemd
13 5 (1.09%) Consul
13 5 (1.09%) Nessus
13 5 (1.09%) Suricata
14 3 (0.66%) Nagios
14 3 (0.66%) Tivoli
14 3 (0.66%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 171 (37.42%) Microsoft
2 95 (20.79%) VMware
3 83 (18.16%) Cisco
4 59 (12.91%) F5
5 46 (10.07%) ServiceNow
6 27 (5.91%) Zscaler
7 26 (5.69%) Google
8 23 (5.03%) Blue Coat
8 23 (5.03%) Fortinet
8 23 (5.03%) Juniper
9 22 (4.81%) Palo Alto
10 19 (4.16%) Citrix
11 18 (3.94%) Infoblox
11 18 (3.94%) McAfee
11 18 (3.94%) NetApp
11 18 (3.94%) Splunk
12 17 (3.72%) CheckPoint
12 17 (3.72%) Siemens
13 15 (3.28%) Red Hat
14 12 (2.63%) Bloomberg