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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 212 255
Rank change year-on-year -41 +43 -32
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 373 295 342
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.19% 0.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.99% 8.90% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 206 246
10th Percentile £216 £213 £184
25th Percentile £381 £380 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £550
90th Percentile £646 £738 £650
UK median daily rate £460 £525 £481
% change year-on-year -12.38% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 8 15
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.55 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £28.06 £21.63
Median hourly rate £41.94 £52.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.73% +39.33% -40.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.06 £58.25
90th Percentile - £65.00 £75.30
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £52.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.73% +39.33% -40.05%

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 3,733 3,314 5,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.99% 13.42% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,401 2,040 3,165
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £375 £370 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £489 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -0.20% +3.16% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 117 373
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.99 £13.88
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +7.69% +71.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +2.86% +12.00% +64.47%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -55 119 £475 -5.00% 40
North of England -20 95 £448 +2.69% 50
North West +15 61 £540 +66.15% 25
South East -40 59 £525 -5.83% 52
East of England -1 54 £350 -24.73% 26
Midlands -44 32 £213 -61.36% 22
South West -17 31 £700 +13.82% 26
West Midlands -32 31 £200 -4.76% 15
Yorkshire -53 31 £443 -23.04% 19
North East -17 3 £200 -11.11% 9
East Midlands -42 1 £625 +13.64% 7
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 19 (5.09%) Confluence
2 17 (4.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.56%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.49%) Skype for Business
4 10 (2.68%) nginx
5 7 (1.88%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.80%) Apache
7 2 (0.54%) IIS
7 2 (0.54%) WordPress
8 1 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.27%) Traefik
8 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 37 (9.92%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.68%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.61%) Weka
4 5 (1.34%) Acrobat
5 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) RMDS
1 1 (0.27%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 90 (24.13%) Azure
2 86 (23.06%) AWS
3 69 (18.50%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (7.24%) GCP
5 21 (5.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 19 (5.09%) Entra ID
7 16 (4.29%) Amazon S3
8 15 (4.02%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (3.75%) Route 53
10 11 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (2.95%) Serverless
11 9 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.41%) Google Workspace
12 8 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.14%) GitHub
13 7 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.88%) Nutanix
13 7 (1.88%) SaaS
14 5 (1.34%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 198 (53.08%) DNS
2 123 (32.98%) Firewall
3 93 (24.93%) VPN
4 90 (24.13%) DHCP
5 76 (20.38%) WAN
6 68 (18.23%) LAN
7 56 (15.01%) SSL
8 54 (14.48%) Network Security
9 51 (13.67%) HTTP
10 47 (12.60%) VLAN
11 42 (11.26%) BIG-IP
12 39 (10.46%) Wireshark
13 38 (10.19%) BGP
14 33 (8.85%) OSPF
14 33 (8.85%) Wi-Fi
15 30 (8.04%) Ethernet
16 27 (7.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 22 (5.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 19 (5.09%) Wireless
19 13 (3.49%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.22%) Elasticsearch
1 12 (3.22%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.07%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.27%) MySQL
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (9.12%) JIRA
2 31 (8.31%) Fiddler
3 22 (5.90%) GitLab
4 14 (3.75%) Eclipse
4 14 (3.75%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.75%) Visual Studio
5 13 (3.49%) Git
6 7 (1.88%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.88%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.61%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (1.07%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.27%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.27%) Introscope
10 1 (0.27%) Maven
10 1 (0.27%) Subversion
10 1 (0.27%) Travis CI
General
1 140 (37.53%) Social Skills
2 51 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (11.26%) Finance
4 39 (10.46%) Banking
5 28 (7.51%) Presentation Skills
5 28 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 27 (7.24%) Investment Banking
7 21 (5.63%) Military
8 18 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (3.22%) Front Office
11 9 (2.41%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.34%) Law
14 3 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.80%) Legal
15 2 (0.54%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.54%) Aviation
15 2 (0.54%) Spanish Language
16 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (25.47%) Network Engineer
2 47 (12.60%) Support Engineer
3 45 (12.06%) Analyst
4 38 (10.19%) Web Engineer
5 32 (8.58%) Senior
6 26 (6.97%) Architect
7 23 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (5.63%) Technical Engineer
9 20 (5.36%) Blue Coat Engineer
9 20 (5.36%) IP Network Engineer
10 18 (4.83%) Technical Support
11 17 (4.56%) Junior
11 17 (4.56%) Systems Engineer
11 17 (4.56%) Technical Analyst
12 14 (3.75%) IT Engineer
12 14 (3.75%) IT Support
13 13 (3.49%) Integration Engineer
13 13 (3.49%) Security Engineer
14 12 (3.22%) IT Support Engineer
14 12 (3.22%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.83%) LDAP
2 16 (4.29%) Web Services
3 14 (3.75%) Node.js
4 9 (2.41%) 802.1X
4 9 (2.41%) OpenID
5 7 (1.88%) Middleware
5 7 (1.88%) SAML
6 5 (1.34%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (1.34%) JSON
6 5 (1.34%) REST
7 4 (1.07%) Kafka
7 4 (1.07%) NETCONF
7 4 (1.07%) OpenConfig
7 4 (1.07%) RESTCONF
7 4 (1.07%) Ultra Messaging
7 4 (1.07%) YANG
8 3 (0.80%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.80%) OAuth
8 3 (0.80%) React
9 2 (0.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.31%) Management Information System
2 30 (8.04%) Data Centre
3 19 (5.09%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.29%) Public Cloud
5 15 (4.02%) Industry 4.0
5 15 (4.02%) Robotics
6 12 (3.22%) NHS
7 11 (2.95%) CMDB
7 11 (2.95%) PKI
7 11 (2.95%) Private Cloud
8 10 (2.68%) Cyberattack
8 10 (2.68%) Driving Licence
8 10 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.68%) Security Operations Centre
8 10 (2.68%) Security Posture
9 9 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.61%) Grid Computing
12 6 (1.61%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 156 (41.82%) Windows
2 89 (23.86%) Linux
3 50 (13.40%) Windows Server
4 23 (6.17%) Windows 10
5 15 (4.02%) Android
6 12 (3.22%) Unix
7 9 (2.41%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (2.14%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.61%) zOS
10 5 (1.34%) Mac OS
11 4 (1.07%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.80%) Debian
12 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.80%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.80%) VMS
12 3 (0.80%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.54%) AIX
14 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (15.01%) Agile
3 55 (14.75%) ITIL
4 49 (13.14%) Load Balancing
5 43 (11.53%) DevOps
6 40 (10.72%) CI/CD
7 39 (10.46%) Incident Response
8 36 (9.65%) Customer Service
9 35 (9.38%) SIEM
10 34 (9.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (8.85%) Decision-Making
11 33 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 33 (8.85%) Validation
12 32 (8.58%) Cybersecurity
12 32 (8.58%) Data Loss Prevention
13 31 (8.31%) Malware Detection/Protection
14 29 (7.77%) Migration
15 27 (7.24%) Root Cause Analysis
16 26 (6.97%) Security Operations
17 25 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 88 (23.59%) Python
2 70 (18.77%) PowerShell
3 45 (12.06%) Bash
4 21 (5.63%) JavaScript
5 18 (4.83%) C++
5 18 (4.83%) SQL
6 17 (4.56%) C#
7 9 (2.41%) Java
8 7 (1.88%) Perl
9 6 (1.61%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.34%) C
10 5 (1.34%) Go
11 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.54%) VBA
11 2 (0.54%) VBScript
12 1 (0.27%) Bicep
12 1 (0.27%) Jython
12 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.27%) Ruby
12 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 122 (32.71%) Security Cleared
2 99 (26.54%) SC Cleared
3 43 (11.53%) Degree
4 41 (10.99%) Cisco Certification
5 34 (9.12%) DV Cleared
6 32 (8.58%) CCNP
7 19 (5.09%) CCNA
8 17 (4.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 16 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (3.49%) CISSP
12 10 (2.68%) JNCIS
13 9 (2.41%) MCSA
14 8 (2.14%) Azure Certification
14 8 (2.14%) MCSE
14 8 (2.14%) Network+ Certification
15 7 (1.88%) CCIE
15 7 (1.88%) CompTIA CySA+
16 5 (1.34%) ECDL
16 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.14%) SLA
2 6 (1.61%) GDPR
3 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.07%) NCSC
5 3 (0.80%) NIST
6 2 (0.54%) QA
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.27%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 79 (21.18%) Active Directory
2 49 (13.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (7.77%) Docker
4 22 (5.90%) Firmware
5 11 (2.95%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.41%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.41%) Squid
7 8 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (2.14%) vSphere
8 7 (1.88%) Lustre
8 7 (1.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 6 (1.61%) GPFS
10 4 (1.07%) KVM
10 4 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.54%) Ceph
11 2 (0.54%) NFS
11 2 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.27%) Samba
12 1 (0.27%) XenApp
12 1 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 62 (16.62%) Ansible
2 41 (10.99%) Terraform
3 37 (9.92%) Kubernetes
4 31 (8.31%) SCCM
5 24 (6.43%) Grafana
5 24 (6.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (5.63%) Prometheus
7 20 (5.36%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (3.22%) FortiGate
9 9 (2.41%) Nagios
9 9 (2.41%) WSUS
10 8 (2.14%) Consul
11 6 (1.61%) Puppet
11 6 (1.61%) Tivoli NetView
12 5 (1.34%) CASB
12 5 (1.34%) Nessus
13 4 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
13 4 (1.07%) QRadar
14 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 107 (28.69%) Microsoft
2 70 (18.77%) VMware
3 63 (16.89%) F5
4 47 (12.60%) Cisco
5 35 (9.38%) Blue Coat
6 33 (8.85%) McAfee
7 27 (7.24%) Palo Alto
8 25 (6.70%) Splunk
9 24 (6.43%) Juniper
10 23 (6.17%) NetApp
11 22 (5.90%) Fortinet
12 19 (5.09%) ServiceNow
13 18 (4.83%) Red Hat
14 17 (4.56%) Citrix
15 15 (4.02%) CheckPoint
15 15 (4.02%) Siemens
16 13 (3.49%) SolarWinds
17 12 (3.22%) Aruba
18 11 (2.95%) Bloomberg
18 11 (2.95%) Veeam