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

 6 months to
16 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 198 199
Rank change year-on-year -22 +1 +26
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 393 388 513
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.31% 1.25% 1.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.41% 10.25% 8.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 214 333
10th Percentile £185 £204 £180
25th Percentile £269 £261 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +8.57% -16.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £581
90th Percentile £725 £696 £681
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% -15.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 18 60
10th Percentile £15.50 £41.75 £20.50
25th Percentile £30.00 £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 £67.54 £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 3,445 3,784 5,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.47% 12.16% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,212 2,204 3,584
10th Percentile £213 £236 £213
25th Percentile £363 £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 189 133 326
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.25 £23.32
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 £76.18
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% -18.18% +30.95%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -3 152 £550 +4.76% 179
North of England -24 79 £475 +11.76% 57
East of England +2 52 £413 -31.25% 84
South East -10 49 £269 -38.63% 230
Yorkshire -36 40 £450 +100.00% 18
North West -16 36 £535 +15.68% 33
Midlands -30 36 £213 -43.33% 46
West Midlands -2 35 £225 - 23
South West -3 26 £700 +27.27% 63
North East -15 3 £400 +166.67% 6
East Midlands -27 1 £165 -56.00% 23
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 (8.40%) SharePoint
2 26 (6.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.56%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.78%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.53%) Confluence
6 4 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.51%) IIS
8 2 (0.51%) nginx
8 2 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 38 (9.67%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.53%) Weka
3 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.51%) 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 86 (21.88%) Microsoft 365
2 81 (20.61%) Azure
3 72 (18.32%) AWS
4 26 (6.62%) Amazon S3
4 26 (6.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 25 (6.36%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (5.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (5.60%) Amazon ELB
7 22 (5.60%) Entra ID
8 21 (5.34%) GCP
9 16 (4.07%) GitHub
10 8 (2.04%) OneDrive
10 8 (2.04%) SaaS
11 6 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.53%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.02%) AWS Direct Connect
12 4 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 205 (52.16%) DNS
2 143 (36.39%) Firewall
3 116 (29.52%) DHCP
4 115 (29.26%) VPN
5 72 (18.32%) SSL
6 61 (15.52%) LAN
7 58 (14.76%) WAN
8 54 (13.74%) Network Security
9 53 (13.49%) VLAN
10 41 (10.43%) HTTP
11 25 (6.36%) Internet
11 25 (6.36%) Wireshark
12 24 (6.11%) Ethernet
13 23 (5.85%) SAN
13 23 (5.85%) Wireless
14 22 (5.60%) BGP
15 21 (5.34%) Wi-Fi
16 17 (4.33%) OSPF
17 15 (3.82%) BIG-IP
18 14 (3.56%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.07%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.29%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.27%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.02%) Big Data
5 3 (0.76%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.76%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.76%) Parquet
6 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.51%) 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 (12.47%) Git
2 47 (11.96%) Jenkins
3 29 (7.38%) GitLab
4 22 (5.60%) Eclipse
4 22 (5.60%) Visual Studio
5 16 (4.07%) JIRA
5 16 (4.07%) Postman
6 13 (3.31%) Fiddler
7 8 (2.04%) Subversion
8 4 (1.02%) Robot Framework
8 4 (1.02%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.76%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.76%) MLflow
9 3 (0.76%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.51%) Maven
10 2 (0.51%) Mercurial
10 2 (0.51%) Poetry
10 2 (0.51%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 150 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 75 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (12.72%) Finance
4 31 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.87%) Military
5 27 (6.87%) Presentation Skills
6 22 (5.60%) Banking
7 16 (4.07%) Investment Banking
8 13 (3.31%) Front Office
9 11 (2.80%) Legal
10 10 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.29%) Local Government
12 8 (2.04%) Law
13 7 (1.78%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.78%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.76%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.51%) Advertising
15 2 (0.51%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 73 (18.58%) Support Engineer
2 65 (16.54%) Network Engineer
3 54 (13.74%) Senior
4 50 (12.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 46 (11.70%) Analyst
6 36 (9.16%) IT Support
7 29 (7.38%) IT Engineer
8 25 (6.36%) Support Analyst
8 25 (6.36%) Technical Support
9 23 (5.85%) Technical Engineer
10 21 (5.34%) 2nd Line Support
11 20 (5.09%) C# Software Engineer
11 20 (5.09%) Developer
11 20 (5.09%) Software Engineer
12 19 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
13 16 (4.07%) IT Support Engineer
14 15 (3.82%) Automation Engineer
14 15 (3.82%) C++ Software Engineer
14 15 (3.82%) Junior
14 15 (3.82%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.36%) Node.js
2 24 (6.11%) Web Services
3 19 (4.83%) Middleware
4 12 (3.05%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (2.29%) LDAP
5 9 (2.29%) REST
6 7 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.27%) FpML
7 5 (1.27%) Ultra Messaging
8 4 (1.02%) SAML
9 3 (0.76%) Apache Avro
9 3 (0.76%) Flask
9 3 (0.76%) NumPy
9 3 (0.76%) Pandas
9 3 (0.76%) React
9 3 (0.76%) SOAP
10 2 (0.51%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.51%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (0.51%) Bootstrap
10 2 (0.51%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.87%) Data Centre
2 24 (6.11%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.82%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (3.31%) Driving Licence
5 13 (3.31%) NHS
5 13 (3.31%) Private Cloud
6 11 (2.80%) Replication
7 10 (2.54%) Video Conferencing
8 9 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (2.29%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.04%) Clustering
9 8 (2.04%) CMDB
9 8 (2.04%) iPhone
10 7 (1.78%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.78%) SCADA
11 6 (1.53%) Derivative
11 6 (1.53%) Grid Computing
12 5 (1.27%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 187 (47.58%) Windows
2 120 (30.53%) Linux
3 48 (12.21%) Windows 10
3 48 (12.21%) Windows Server
4 23 (5.85%) Unix
5 17 (4.33%) Mac OS
6 15 (3.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (3.05%) Android
9 8 (2.04%) Apple iOS
9 8 (2.04%) Ubuntu
9 8 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (1.78%) Solaris
10 7 (1.78%) Windows 7
11 6 (1.53%) CentOS
11 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (1.27%) VMS
12 5 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (1.02%) Debian
14 3 (0.76%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (18.32%) Agile
3 68 (17.30%) CI/CD
4 67 (17.05%) DevOps
5 65 (16.54%) ITIL
6 56 (14.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 47 (11.96%) High Availability
8 41 (10.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (8.65%) Load Balancing
10 33 (8.40%) Configuration Management
10 33 (8.40%) Continuous Integration
11 32 (8.14%) Validation
12 31 (7.89%) Infrastructure Automation
13 27 (6.87%) Incident Response
14 25 (6.36%) Customer Service
14 25 (6.36%) Cybersecurity
15 24 (6.11%) Knowledge Transfer
15 24 (6.11%) Migration
16 23 (5.85%) Disaster Recovery
16 23 (5.85%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (31.81%) Python
2 64 (16.28%) Bash
3 55 (13.99%) PowerShell
4 34 (8.65%) C++
5 29 (7.38%) C#
6 23 (5.85%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.34%) Perl
8 18 (4.58%) SQL
9 14 (3.56%) Java
10 6 (1.53%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.27%) Go
12 4 (1.02%) C
12 4 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.76%) Groovy
13 3 (0.76%) PHP
14 2 (0.51%) 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 97 (24.68%) Security Cleared
2 71 (18.07%) SC Cleared
3 36 (9.16%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (8.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 32 (8.14%) Degree
6 27 (6.87%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.85%) CCNP
8 20 (5.09%) CCNA
9 15 (3.82%) MCP
10 14 (3.56%) Network+ Certification
11 13 (3.31%) Azure Certification
12 12 (3.05%) MCSE
13 11 (2.80%) Server+ Certification
14 10 (2.54%) CISSP
15 9 (2.29%) MCSA
16 8 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
17 7 (1.78%) A+ Certification
18 6 (1.53%) ECDL
18 6 (1.53%) HNC
18 6 (1.53%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.09%) GDPR
2 6 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.27%) NIST
3 5 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.27%) SLA
4 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.51%) 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 90 (22.90%) Active Directory
2 71 (18.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (9.92%) Docker
4 32 (8.14%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.31%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (2.80%) Firmware
7 6 (1.53%) GPFS
7 6 (1.53%) Lustre
7 6 (1.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 6 (1.53%) Terminal Services
7 6 (1.53%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 6 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.27%) vSphere
9 4 (1.02%) NFS
9 4 (1.02%) Veritas File System
9 4 (1.02%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 4 (1.02%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.51%) KVM
10 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 84 (21.37%) Ansible
2 54 (13.74%) Terraform
3 34 (8.65%) SCCM
4 26 (6.62%) Puppet
5 22 (5.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (4.33%) Kubernetes
7 14 (3.56%) Prometheus
8 13 (3.31%) Grafana
9 11 (2.80%) FortiGate
10 10 (2.54%) Microsoft Clustering
11 9 (2.29%) vCenter Server
12 7 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (1.53%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (1.53%) Nessus
14 5 (1.27%) QRadar
14 5 (1.27%) WSUS
15 4 (1.02%) CASB
15 4 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
16 3 (0.76%) Argo
16 3 (0.76%) Istio
Vendors
1 151 (38.42%) Microsoft
2 92 (23.41%) VMware
3 54 (13.74%) F5
4 53 (13.49%) Cisco
5 51 (12.98%) Palo Alto
6 42 (10.69%) CheckPoint
7 24 (6.11%) Citrix
8 19 (4.83%) Blue Coat
8 19 (4.83%) Fortinet
8 19 (4.83%) Red Hat
8 19 (4.83%) ServiceNow
9 17 (4.33%) SolarWinds
10 16 (4.07%) MuleSoft
10 16 (4.07%) NetApp
10 16 (4.07%) Splunk
11 15 (3.82%) McAfee
12 13 (3.31%) Oracle
13 12 (3.05%) Juniper
14 10 (2.54%) Veeam
14 10 (2.54%) Zscaler
632 TCP/IP jobs in England