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

 6 months to
15 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 193 202
Rank change year-on-year -33 +9 +25
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 375 355 445
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.18% 1.32% 1.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.28% 10.27% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 208 291
10th Percentile £200 £216 £180
25th Percentile £300 £380 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £516 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.99% +14.72% -14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £575
90th Percentile £713 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £465 £516 £450
% change year-on-year -9.93% +14.72% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 5 50
10th Percentile £15.50 £23.60 £23.88
25th Percentile £29.00 £31.25 £40.68
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +29.49% -22.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £56.49
90th Percentile £80.60 £70.25 £69.62
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £48.75 £50.20
% change year-on-year +23.08% -2.88% -22.78%

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 3,324 3,456 5,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.47% 12.82% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,150 2,015 3,116
10th Percentile £204 £220 £207
25th Percentile £356 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £588 £604 £600
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 103 313
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.30 £24.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +125.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £74.26 £71.00 £75.59
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +4.62% -42.47% +125.96%

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 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 15 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 15 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 -45 121 £538 +2.38% 54
North of England -13 84 £445 -3.84% 37
South East -7 60 £495 +3.13% 75
North West -1 50 £425 -8.11% 20
East of England -8 46 £381 -23.75% 30
West Midlands -8 37 £200 -11.11% 9
Midlands -23 37 £200 -11.11% 22
South West -26 32 £700 +13.82% 23
Yorkshire -39 30 £447 -36.14% 12
North East -16 4 £400 +166.67% 6
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 30 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 20 (5.33%) 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 32 (8.53%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.60%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.60%) Weka
3 5 (1.33%) Acrobat
4 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Finacle
1 1 (0.27%) RMDS
1 1 (0.27%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 98 (26.13%) AWS
2 95 (25.33%) Azure
3 76 (20.27%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (7.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 25 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (6.13%) Amazon S3
7 22 (5.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (5.87%) Amazon ELB
8 21 (5.60%) GCP
9 20 (5.33%) Entra ID
10 13 (3.47%) GitHub
11 10 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (2.67%) SaaS
12 7 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.87%) OneDrive
13 6 (1.60%) Google Workspace
14 4 (1.07%) AWS KMS
14 4 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 205 (54.67%) DNS
2 133 (35.47%) Firewall
3 110 (29.33%) VPN
4 106 (28.27%) DHCP
5 77 (20.53%) SSL
6 66 (17.60%) WAN
7 63 (16.80%) LAN
8 57 (15.20%) Network Security
9 50 (13.33%) VLAN
10 47 (12.53%) HTTP
11 35 (9.33%) Wireshark
12 29 (7.73%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (7.47%) BGP
14 26 (6.93%) BIG-IP
15 22 (5.87%) OSPF
16 19 (5.07%) Wireless
17 18 (4.80%) SAN
18 17 (4.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 17 (4.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 17 (4.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.53%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.07%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.80%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
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 35 (9.33%) Jenkins
3 33 (8.80%) GitLab
4 25 (6.67%) JIRA
5 24 (6.40%) Fiddler
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 3 (0.80%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.53%) Maven
10 2 (0.53%) Postman
11 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.27%) GCC
11 1 (0.27%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.27%) MSI
11 1 (0.27%) Travis CI
General
1 134 (35.73%) Social Skills
2 63 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (9.87%) Public Sector
4 29 (7.73%) Banking
4 29 (7.73%) Finance
5 25 (6.67%) Military
6 20 (5.33%) Investment Banking
7 17 (4.53%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.13%) Front Office
10 7 (1.87%) Law
10 7 (1.87%) Legal
10 7 (1.87%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.60%) Local Government
12 5 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.33%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.80%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.53%) Advertising
14 2 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (21.33%) Network Engineer
2 59 (15.73%) Support Engineer
3 52 (13.87%) Senior
4 47 (12.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 46 (12.27%) Analyst
6 28 (7.47%) IT Support
7 23 (6.13%) Web Engineer
8 22 (5.87%) IT Engineer
9 21 (5.60%) 2nd Line Support
10 17 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (4.53%) Support Analyst
11 16 (4.27%) Junior
11 16 (4.27%) Technical Support
12 15 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
12 15 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
13 14 (3.73%) IT Support Engineer
13 14 (3.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 13 (3.47%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 13 (3.47%) Security Engineer
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
5 5 (1.33%) LDAP
6 4 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.07%) Kafka
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%) 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 22 (5.87%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (3.20%) CMDB
4 12 (3.20%) Driving Licence
4 12 (3.20%) Private Cloud
5 11 (2.93%) NHS
5 11 (2.93%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.67%) PKI
6 10 (2.67%) Replication
7 9 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.13%) Clustering
8 8 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.60%) Cyberattack
10 6 (1.60%) Grid Computing
10 6 (1.60%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 177 (47.20%) Windows
2 114 (30.40%) Linux
3 48 (12.80%) Windows Server
4 34 (9.07%) Windows 10
5 19 (5.07%) Unix
6 12 (3.20%) Android
6 12 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (2.13%) Mac OS
8 8 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.60%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.60%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.60%) VMS
9 6 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.07%) CentOS
10 4 (1.07%) Solaris
11 3 (0.80%) Debian
11 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.80%) zOS
12 2 (0.53%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (27.73%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (15.73%) CI/CD
3 58 (15.47%) ITIL
4 56 (14.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 54 (14.40%) Agile
5 54 (14.40%) DevOps
6 43 (11.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 43 (11.47%) Load Balancing
7 42 (11.20%) Incident Response
8 39 (10.40%) High Availability
9 36 (9.60%) SIEM
10 34 (9.07%) Cybersecurity
11 31 (8.27%) Infrastructure Automation
12 30 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
13 28 (7.47%) Validation
14 27 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (7.20%) Disaster Recovery
14 27 (7.20%) Knowledge Transfer
14 27 (7.20%) Mentoring
15 26 (6.93%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 109 (29.07%) Python
2 70 (18.67%) PowerShell
3 62 (16.53%) Bash
4 21 (5.60%) 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 10 (2.67%) 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
1 129 (34.40%) Security Cleared
2 95 (25.33%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.80%) DV Cleared
4 31 (8.27%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (6.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (6.67%) Degree
7 23 (6.13%) CCNP
8 16 (4.27%) Azure Certification
8 16 (4.27%) Network+ Certification
9 13 (3.47%) CCNA
10 11 (2.93%) MCP
10 11 (2.93%) Server+ Certification
11 10 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
12 9 (2.40%) CISSP
13 8 (2.13%) JNCIS
14 6 (1.60%) ECDL
15 5 (1.33%) A+ Certification
15 5 (1.33%) CCIE
15 5 (1.33%) MCDST
15 5 (1.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.80%) 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 81 (21.60%) Active Directory
2 60 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (12.80%) Docker
4 27 (7.20%) Hyper-V
5 14 (3.73%) Firmware
6 9 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.13%) VMware NSX
8 7 (1.87%) Lustre
8 7 (1.87%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 6 (1.60%) GPFS
10 5 (1.33%) KVM
10 5 (1.33%) NFS
11 4 (1.07%) Veritas File System
11 4 (1.07%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 4 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (1.07%) vSphere
12 3 (0.80%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.53%) NDS
13 2 (0.53%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 84 (22.40%) Ansible
2 55 (14.67%) Terraform
3 36 (9.60%) SCCM
4 30 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (6.93%) Kubernetes
6 15 (4.00%) Grafana
7 10 (2.67%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.67%) Puppet
8 9 (2.40%) FortiGate
8 9 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (2.13%) WSUS
10 7 (1.87%) Nagios
10 7 (1.87%) QRadar
11 5 (1.33%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.33%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (1.33%) vCenter Server
12 4 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.80%) Iperf
13 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 120 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 84 (22.40%) VMware
3 70 (18.67%) F5
4 52 (13.87%) Cisco
5 49 (13.07%) Palo Alto
6 35 (9.33%) CheckPoint
7 30 (8.00%) Blue Coat
8 26 (6.93%) McAfee
8 26 (6.93%) Splunk
9 22 (5.87%) Fortinet
9 22 (5.87%) NetApp
9 22 (5.87%) SolarWinds
10 21 (5.60%) ServiceNow
11 18 (4.80%) Juniper
12 16 (4.27%) Meraki
13 15 (4.00%) Citrix
14 14 (3.73%) Oracle
14 14 (3.73%) Red Hat
15 12 (3.20%) Veeam
16 11 (2.93%) Zscaler
219 TCP/IP jobs in England