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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 220 243
Rank change year-on-year -28 +23 -24
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 458 326 326
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.18% 0.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.58% 9.63% 7.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 192 204
10th Percentile £208 £221 £207
25th Percentile £313 £357 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +11.11% -4.26%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £564
90th Percentile £683 £659 £634
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 30 32
10th Percentile £26.50 £20.62 £31.63
25th Percentile £31.25 £42.53 £63.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £72.59 - -
90th Percentile £98.82 £83.66 £67.25
UK median hourly rate £64.24 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.17% - +30.00%

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 4,328 3,386 4,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.45% 12.23% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 2,088 2,588
10th Percentile £263 £250 £243
25th Percentile £402 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £676 £682 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 168 286
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.38
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £43.75 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -20.27% -0.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.14 £46.25 £48.56
% change year-on-year -43.48% -4.76% -10.07%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -38 190 £475 -15.56% 260
South East -25 84 £520 +24.70% 83
North of England -45 82 £475 -6.17% 70
North West -23 52 £425 -15.84% 34
South West -11 46 £644 +4.04% 38
Midlands -25 42 £402 -10.67% 37
West Midlands -28 34 £406 +1.06% 25
East of England -20 30 £375 -30.23% 25
Yorkshire -51 26 £500 -1.23% 22
East Midlands -11 8 £402 -26.91% 12
North East -41 4 £438 +2.94% 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 47 (10.26%) SharePoint
2 25 (5.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.62%) Confluence
4 9 (1.97%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.53%) nginx
6 4 (0.87%) FactoryTalk
7 3 (0.66%) IIS
7 3 (0.66%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.44%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.44%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.22%) CICS
9 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 30 (6.55%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.49%) 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
1 165 (36.03%) Azure
2 116 (25.33%) AWS
3 106 (23.14%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (15.28%) Entra ID
5 37 (8.08%) GCP
6 34 (7.42%) OneDrive
7 25 (5.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 20 (4.37%) GitHub
9 13 (2.84%) OpenShift
9 13 (2.84%) Route 53
10 12 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (2.40%) Google Workspace
12 10 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (1.75%) Akamai
14 8 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 276 (60.26%) DNS
2 203 (44.32%) Firewall
3 169 (36.90%) DHCP
4 139 (30.35%) VPN
5 84 (18.34%) Network Security
5 84 (18.34%) WAN
6 75 (16.38%) LAN
7 69 (15.07%) VLAN
8 68 (14.85%) BGP
9 64 (13.97%) HTTP
10 55 (12.01%) SSL
11 44 (9.61%) Wi-Fi
12 40 (8.73%) BIG-IP
12 40 (8.73%) OSPF
13 36 (7.86%) Wireless
14 35 (7.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 34 (7.42%) Ethernet
16 26 (5.68%) SD-WAN
17 24 (5.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 23 (5.02%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.84%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.31%) MySQL
4 5 (1.09%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.87%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.66%) Redis
7 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.44%) KDB
7 2 (0.44%) SQLite
8 1 (0.22%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 44 (9.61%) JIRA
2 28 (6.11%) Git
3 25 (5.46%) Jenkins
4 19 (4.15%) GitLab
5 17 (3.71%) Fiddler
6 14 (3.06%) Visual Studio
7 13 (2.84%) Eclipse
8 10 (2.18%) Browser DevTools
9 7 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.09%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.66%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.44%) Introscope
12 2 (0.44%) Selenium
12 2 (0.44%) Subversion
13 1 (0.22%) MSI
13 1 (0.22%) Postman
13 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 182 (39.74%) Social Skills
2 67 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (12.66%) Finance
4 43 (9.39%) Banking
5 28 (6.11%) Public Sector
6 23 (5.02%) Telecoms
7 22 (4.80%) Investment Banking
8 17 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.49%) Military
10 11 (2.40%) Front Office
11 10 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.09%) Legal
12 5 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.09%) Police
13 4 (0.87%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.87%) Automotive
13 4 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.66%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 94 (20.52%) Network Engineer
2 62 (13.54%) Support Engineer
3 56 (12.23%) Senior
4 51 (11.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 38 (8.30%) Architect
6 35 (7.64%) IT Support
7 33 (7.21%) Analyst
8 31 (6.77%) IT Engineer
9 27 (5.90%) IT Support Engineer
10 24 (5.24%) Web Engineer
11 23 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
12 22 (4.80%) Security Engineer
13 21 (4.59%) Senior Network Engineer
13 21 (4.59%) Systems Engineer
14 19 (4.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (3.71%) Technical Engineer
16 16 (3.49%) Blue Coat Engineer
16 16 (3.49%) IP Network Engineer
17 15 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
17 15 (3.28%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.37%) SAML
2 13 (2.84%) Node.js
2 13 (2.84%) REST
2 13 (2.84%) Web Services
3 11 (2.40%) 802.1X
3 11 (2.40%) ARM Templates
3 11 (2.40%) JSON
4 10 (2.18%) LDAP
5 9 (1.97%) .NET
6 6 (1.31%) Kafka
6 6 (1.31%) NETCONF
6 6 (1.31%) OpenConfig
6 6 (1.31%) RESTCONF
6 6 (1.31%) YANG
7 5 (1.09%) HTML
7 5 (1.09%) OAuth
7 5 (1.09%) OpenID
7 5 (1.09%) RESTful
8 4 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.87%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 76 (16.59%) Data Centre
2 53 (11.57%) Onboarding
3 31 (6.77%) PKI
4 29 (6.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (5.90%) Management Information System
6 24 (5.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 19 (4.15%) Linux Command Line
8 17 (3.71%) Public Cloud
9 16 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (3.06%) Robotics
11 13 (2.84%) Operational Technology
12 12 (2.62%) Cloud Native
12 12 (2.62%) Security Posture
13 11 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (2.40%) SCADA
14 10 (2.18%) Driving Licence
14 10 (2.18%) Industry 4.0
15 9 (1.97%) Private Cloud
15 9 (1.97%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 207 (45.20%) Windows
2 125 (27.29%) Linux
3 61 (13.32%) Windows Server
4 37 (8.08%) Windows 10
5 34 (7.42%) Mac OS
6 24 (5.24%) Unix
7 16 (3.49%) Apple iOS
8 14 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (2.84%) Ubuntu
10 12 (2.62%) Android
11 4 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.87%) zOS
12 3 (0.66%) CentOS
12 3 (0.66%) Check Point GAiA
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
1 124 (27.07%) Problem-Solving
2 101 (22.05%) ITIL
3 79 (17.25%) CI/CD
4 73 (15.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 70 (15.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 63 (13.76%) Agile
7 61 (13.32%) DevOps
8 58 (12.66%) Customer Service
9 55 (12.01%) Cybersecurity
10 53 (11.57%) Load Balancing
11 51 (11.14%) ITSM
12 47 (10.26%) High Availability
13 46 (10.04%) Incident Response
14 45 (9.83%) SIEM
15 44 (9.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 44 (9.61%) Service Management
15 44 (9.61%) Technical Leadership
16 43 (9.39%) Migration
17 41 (8.95%) Validation
18 39 (8.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 141 (30.79%) Python
2 93 (20.31%) PowerShell
3 81 (17.69%) Bash
4 25 (5.46%) C++
5 24 (5.24%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.93%) SQL
7 17 (3.71%) C#
8 9 (1.97%) Bicep
8 9 (1.97%) Java
8 9 (1.97%) Perl
8 9 (1.97%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.53%) VBA
10 5 (1.09%) ActionScript
10 5 (1.09%) Go
11 4 (0.87%) C
12 2 (0.44%) Groovy
12 2 (0.44%) Jython
12 2 (0.44%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.44%) Ruby
12 2 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 130 (28.38%) Security Cleared
2 84 (18.34%) SC Cleared
3 70 (15.28%) Degree
4 58 (12.66%) Cisco Certification
5 49 (10.70%) DV Cleared
6 43 (9.39%) CCNP
7 28 (6.11%) CCNA
8 26 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (3.28%) CCIE
10 15 (3.28%) Network+ Certification
11 14 (3.06%) CISSP
12 12 (2.62%) Azure Certification
12 12 (2.62%) VCAP
13 11 (2.40%) A+ Certification
14 10 (2.18%) AWS Certification
15 7 (1.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 7 (1.53%) MCSA
15 7 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 6 (1.31%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.37%) SLA
2 11 (2.40%) QA
3 10 (2.18%) NIST
4 9 (1.97%) NCSC
5 7 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.09%) GDPR
7 4 (0.87%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.87%) GxP
7 4 (0.87%) NIST 800
7 4 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.22%) RMADS
System Software
1 128 (27.95%) Active Directory
2 89 (19.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (7.42%) Hyper-V
4 29 (6.33%) Docker
5 24 (5.24%) vSphere
6 23 (5.02%) VMware NSX
7 18 (3.93%) Firmware
8 12 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (1.31%) Squid
10 3 (0.66%) NFS
10 3 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.66%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.44%) KVM
12 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.22%) GPFS
12 1 (0.22%) Lustre
12 1 (0.22%) NDS
12 1 (0.22%) RACF
12 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 100 (21.83%) Ansible
2 86 (18.78%) Terraform
3 56 (12.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 48 (10.48%) Kubernetes
5 28 (6.11%) SCCM
6 24 (5.24%) Grafana
6 24 (5.24%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (3.49%) VxRail
8 13 (2.84%) Prometheus
9 12 (2.62%) FortiGate
10 11 (2.40%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (1.53%) WSUS
12 6 (1.31%) systemd
13 5 (1.09%) Suricata
14 4 (0.87%) Consul
14 4 (0.87%) Istio
15 3 (0.66%) CASB
15 3 (0.66%) Puppet
15 3 (0.66%) SELinux
15 3 (0.66%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 176 (38.43%) Microsoft
2 99 (21.62%) VMware
3 84 (18.34%) Cisco
4 59 (12.88%) F5
5 48 (10.48%) ServiceNow
6 26 (5.68%) Google
7 25 (5.46%) Zscaler
8 24 (5.24%) Fortinet
9 23 (5.02%) Palo Alto
10 22 (4.80%) Juniper
11 21 (4.59%) Blue Coat
12 18 (3.93%) Citrix
12 18 (3.93%) Infoblox
12 18 (3.93%) McAfee
12 18 (3.93%) NetApp
13 17 (3.71%) CheckPoint
14 16 (3.49%) Splunk
15 13 (2.84%) Red Hat
16 12 (2.62%) Bloomberg
16 12 (2.62%) Siemens