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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
22 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 200 201
Rank change year-on-year -27 +1 +23
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 375 358 433
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.16% 1.33% 1.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.10% 10.41% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 211 287
10th Percentile £200 £213 £182
25th Percentile £308 £378 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +12.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £572
90th Percentile £713 £738 £675
UK median daily rate £465 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -11.43% +16.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 7 47
10th Percentile £15.50 £26.15 £23.85
25th Percentile £22.38 £46.25 £40.74
Median hourly rate £41.94 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £56.49
90th Percentile £67.25 £68.50 £69.62
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £63.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -34.21% +27.50% -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 3,377 3,439 5,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.43% 12.82% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,191 1,987 3,175
10th Percentile £204 £220 £206
25th Percentile £350 £368 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +1.52% -5.29%
75th Percentile £588 £604 £600
90th Percentile £684 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 106 344
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.11 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.46 £23.21
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -36.36% +150.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.63 £75.47
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -8.57% -36.36% +158.82%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -49 121 £525 - 52
North of England -28 85 £445 -3.84% 49
South East -25 56 £500 -1.48% 96
North West -5 50 £450 -2.70% 16
East of England -8 48 £381 -18.01% 46
West Midlands -16 37 £200 -8.57% 9
Midlands -34 37 £200 -11.11% 31
South West -21 33 £700 +13.82% 41
Yorkshire -42 31 £445 -36.46% 23
North East -18 4 £400 +166.67% 12
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 28 (7.47%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.73%) Skype for Business
4 12 (3.20%) Confluence
5 8 (2.13%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.80%) Apache
6 3 (0.80%) IIS
7 2 (0.53%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.53%) WordPress
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 31 (8.27%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.87%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.60%) Weka
4 5 (1.33%) Acrobat
5 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Finacle
1 1 (0.27%) RMDS
1 1 (0.27%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 99 (26.40%) AWS
2 97 (25.87%) Azure
3 75 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (7.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 24 (6.40%) Amazon EC2
5 24 (6.40%) Amazon S3
6 22 (5.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 22 (5.87%) Amazon ELB
7 21 (5.60%) Entra ID
7 21 (5.60%) GCP
8 12 (3.20%) GitHub
9 10 (2.67%) SaaS
10 9 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.87%) Google Workspace
12 6 (1.60%) OneDrive
13 4 (1.07%) AWS KMS
13 4 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 207 (55.20%) DNS
2 127 (33.87%) Firewall
3 106 (28.27%) VPN
4 104 (27.73%) DHCP
5 73 (19.47%) SSL
6 68 (18.13%) WAN
7 65 (17.33%) LAN
8 58 (15.47%) Network Security
9 49 (13.07%) VLAN
10 46 (12.27%) HTTP
11 36 (9.60%) Wireshark
12 29 (7.73%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (7.47%) BIG-IP
14 25 (6.67%) BGP
15 20 (5.33%) SAN
16 19 (5.07%) OSPF
17 18 (4.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 18 (4.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 16 (4.27%) Internet
18 16 (4.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.53%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.07%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.27%) Big Data
6 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.27%) Impala
6 1 (0.27%) MySQL
6 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.27%) Power BI
6 1 (0.27%) Redis
6 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (10.13%) Git
2 34 (9.07%) GitLab
3 33 (8.80%) Jenkins
4 25 (6.67%) Fiddler
5 23 (6.13%) JIRA
6 14 (3.73%) Eclipse
6 14 (3.73%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.33%) Subversion
8 4 (1.07%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.07%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.53%) Maven
9 2 (0.53%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.27%) GCC
10 1 (0.27%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.27%) MSI
10 1 (0.27%) Travis CI
General
1 129 (34.40%) Social Skills
2 59 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (10.40%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.00%) Banking
4 30 (8.00%) Finance
5 25 (6.67%) Military
6 21 (5.60%) Investment Banking
7 17 (4.53%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.40%) Front Office
9 7 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.87%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.60%) Law
10 6 (1.60%) Legal
10 6 (1.60%) Local Government
11 5 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.07%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 82 (21.87%) Network Engineer
2 58 (15.47%) Support Engineer
3 51 (13.60%) Senior
4 50 (13.33%) Analyst
5 47 (12.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 29 (7.73%) IT Support
7 24 (6.40%) Web Engineer
8 22 (5.87%) IT Engineer
9 21 (5.60%) 2nd Line Support
10 17 (4.53%) Junior
10 17 (4.53%) Technical Analyst
10 17 (4.53%) Technical Support
11 16 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (4.27%) Support Analyst
12 15 (4.00%) IT Support Engineer
12 15 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.73%) Architect
13 14 (3.73%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 14 (3.73%) Security Engineer
13 14 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.53%) Web Services
2 15 (4.00%) Node.js
3 14 (3.73%) Middleware
4 6 (1.60%) REST
5 5 (1.33%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (1.07%) Kafka
6 4 (1.07%) LDAP
6 4 (1.07%) React
6 4 (1.07%) SAML
6 4 (1.07%) SOAP
6 4 (1.07%) Ultra Messaging
7 3 (0.80%) .NET
7 3 (0.80%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.80%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.80%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (0.80%) Bootstrap
7 3 (0.80%) Express.js
7 3 (0.80%) JSON
7 3 (0.80%) WCF
7 3 (0.80%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.20%) Data Centre
1 27 (7.20%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.13%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (3.20%) CMDB
4 12 (3.20%) Driving Licence
4 12 (3.20%) NHS
4 12 (3.20%) Public Cloud
5 11 (2.93%) Private Cloud
6 10 (2.67%) PKI
6 10 (2.67%) Replication
7 9 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.13%) Clustering
8 8 (2.13%) Cyberattack
8 8 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (1.60%) Grid Computing
10 5 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 177 (47.20%) Windows
2 115 (30.67%) Linux
3 50 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 34 (9.07%) Windows 10
5 17 (4.53%) Unix
6 12 (3.20%) Android
7 11 (2.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (1.60%) Apple iOS
10 6 (1.60%) Ubuntu
10 6 (1.60%) VMS
10 6 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (1.33%) Mac OS
12 4 (1.07%) CentOS
12 4 (1.07%) Solaris
12 4 (1.07%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (1.07%) zOS
13 3 (0.80%) Debian
14 2 (0.53%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (15.47%) CI/CD
3 56 (14.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 55 (14.67%) ITIL
5 54 (14.40%) Agile
5 54 (14.40%) DevOps
6 44 (11.73%) Incident Response
7 42 (11.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (11.20%) Load Balancing
8 38 (10.13%) SIEM
9 37 (9.87%) High Availability
10 36 (9.60%) Cybersecurity
11 31 (8.27%) Root Cause Analysis
12 30 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
13 28 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (7.47%) Mentoring
14 27 (7.20%) Disaster Recovery
14 27 (7.20%) Validation
15 26 (6.93%) Data Loss Prevention
15 26 (6.93%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 108 (28.80%) Python
2 73 (19.47%) PowerShell
3 62 (16.53%) Bash
4 20 (5.33%) Perl
5 19 (5.07%) C++
6 18 (4.80%) C#
6 18 (4.80%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.27%) SQL
8 11 (2.93%) Java
9 9 (2.40%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.07%) C
10 4 (1.07%) Go
11 3 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.27%) Bicep
12 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.27%) Ruby
12 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 127 (33.87%) Security Cleared
2 93 (24.80%) SC Cleared
3 34 (9.07%) DV Cleared
4 31 (8.27%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (6.93%) Degree
6 24 (6.40%) CCNP
7 23 (6.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (4.53%) Azure Certification
9 16 (4.27%) Network+ Certification
10 14 (3.73%) CCNA
11 11 (2.93%) MCP
11 11 (2.93%) Server+ Certification
12 10 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
13 9 (2.40%) JNCIS
14 8 (2.13%) CISSP
15 6 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (1.60%) ECDL
16 5 (1.33%) AWS Certification
16 5 (1.33%) CCIE
16 5 (1.33%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.73%) GDPR
2 8 (2.13%) SLA
3 7 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.80%) NIST
6 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) QA
7 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (22.13%) Active Directory
2 58 (15.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (12.53%) Docker
4 26 (6.93%) Hyper-V
5 14 (3.73%) Firmware
6 9 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (2.40%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.87%) Lustre
7 7 (1.87%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 7 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (1.60%) GPFS
9 5 (1.33%) KVM
9 5 (1.33%) NFS
9 5 (1.33%) vSphere
10 4 (1.07%) Veritas File System
10 4 (1.07%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 4 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.53%) Ceph
11 2 (0.53%) NetIQ eDirectory
11 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 84 (22.40%) Ansible
2 54 (14.40%) Terraform
3 37 (9.87%) SCCM
4 30 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (6.93%) Kubernetes
6 13 (3.47%) Grafana
7 9 (2.40%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.40%) Puppet
7 9 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.40%) WSUS
8 7 (1.87%) FortiGate
8 7 (1.87%) Nagios
8 7 (1.87%) QRadar
9 6 (1.60%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (1.07%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.07%) Tivoli NetView
10 4 (1.07%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.80%) Iperf
Vendors
1 119 (31.73%) Microsoft
2 83 (22.13%) VMware
3 72 (19.20%) F5
4 49 (13.07%) Cisco
5 46 (12.27%) Palo Alto
6 32 (8.53%) CheckPoint
7 30 (8.00%) Blue Coat
8 27 (7.20%) McAfee
8 27 (7.20%) Splunk
9 22 (5.87%) NetApp
9 22 (5.87%) SolarWinds
10 20 (5.33%) Fortinet
11 18 (4.80%) Juniper
11 18 (4.80%) ServiceNow
12 16 (4.27%) Meraki
13 15 (4.00%) Citrix
14 14 (3.73%) Oracle
14 14 (3.73%) Red Hat
15 13 (3.47%) Veeam
16 11 (2.93%) Zscaler
294 TCP/IP jobs in England