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

 6 months to
3 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 232 262
Rank change year-on-year -33 +30 -35
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 370 273 322
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.13% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.80% 8.56% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 195 236
10th Percentile £213 £218 £186
25th Percentile £375 £377 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +12.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £560 £625 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -12.20% +7.89% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 14
10th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £28.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £50.00 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.12% +102.02% -60.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £56.49
90th Percentile £66.99 £65.00 £67.88
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £50.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year -16.12% +102.02% -60.43%

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 3,776 3,189 5,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.85% 13.15% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,410 1,995 3,167
10th Percentile £213 £219 £205
25th Percentile £396 £374 £350
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 £498 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +2.05% +2.63% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 119 381
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.80 £17.69
Median hourly rate £42.25 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.71% +7.69% +71.69%
75th Percentile £67.84 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.08 £68.63
UK median hourly rate £42.10 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +20.27% +7.69% +71.05%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -70 118 £470 -1.05% 42
North of England -15 93 £450 -4.81% 49
South East -32 61 £525 -4.55% 50
North West -2 59 £540 +44.00% 26
East of England -9 53 £280 -34.88% 20
Midlands -41 35 £300 -45.45% 25
West Midlands -37 32 £225 +7.14% 17
Yorkshire -49 31 £447 -22.35% 17
South West -26 25 £638 +3.66% 25
North East -16 3 £200 -11.11% 7
East Midlands -34 3 £625 +13.64% 8
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 18 (4.86%) Confluence
2 14 (3.78%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.70%) nginx
5 7 (1.89%) Skype for Business
6 6 (1.62%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.81%) Apache
8 2 (0.54%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.54%) IIS
8 2 (0.54%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.54%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.54%) WebSphere Portal
8 2 (0.54%) WordPress
9 1 (0.27%) Traefik
Applications
1 36 (9.73%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.70%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.35%) Acrobat
3 5 (1.35%) Weka
4 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 94 (25.41%) Azure
2 83 (22.43%) AWS
3 66 (17.84%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (7.03%) GCP
5 23 (6.22%) Entra ID
6 19 (5.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 14 (3.78%) Amazon S3
7 14 (3.78%) Route 53
8 13 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.24%) Serverless
10 10 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.43%) Google Workspace
12 8 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.89%) Nutanix
13 7 (1.89%) OneDrive
13 7 (1.89%) SaaS
14 6 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (1.62%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 198 (53.51%) DNS
2 126 (34.05%) Firewall
3 91 (24.59%) VPN
4 87 (23.51%) DHCP
5 77 (20.81%) WAN
6 69 (18.65%) LAN
7 55 (14.86%) HTTP
7 55 (14.86%) SSL
8 53 (14.32%) Network Security
9 49 (13.24%) VLAN
10 45 (12.16%) BIG-IP
11 40 (10.81%) BGP
12 35 (9.46%) OSPF
13 33 (8.92%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (8.92%) Wireshark
14 30 (8.11%) Ethernet
15 28 (7.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 21 (5.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 16 (4.32%) Wireless
18 13 (3.51%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
1 12 (3.24%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.35%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.54%) MySQL
5 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (10.81%) JIRA
2 29 (7.84%) Fiddler
3 17 (4.59%) GitLab
4 14 (3.78%) Eclipse
4 14 (3.78%) Visual Studio
5 12 (3.24%) Git
6 10 (2.70%) Jenkins
7 9 (2.43%) Browser DevTools
8 7 (1.89%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.89%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.54%) Introscope
10 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.54%) Subversion
11 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.27%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.27%) Maven
11 1 (0.27%) Travis CI
General
1 135 (36.49%) Social Skills
2 45 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (11.35%) Finance
4 39 (10.54%) Banking
5 26 (7.03%) Presentation Skills
5 26 (7.03%) Public Sector
6 25 (6.76%) Investment Banking
7 21 (5.68%) Military
8 18 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.97%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.16%) Front Office
12 6 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.35%) Law
14 3 (0.81%) Legal
15 2 (0.54%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.54%) Games
15 2 (0.54%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 88 (23.78%) Network Engineer
2 42 (11.35%) Analyst
3 40 (10.81%) Support Engineer
4 39 (10.54%) Web Engineer
5 29 (7.84%) Senior
6 28 (7.57%) Architect
7 22 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (5.68%) Technical Engineer
9 19 (5.14%) Blue Coat Engineer
9 19 (5.14%) IP Network Engineer
10 17 (4.59%) Systems Engineer
11 16 (4.32%) Integration Engineer
11 16 (4.32%) Security Engineer
11 16 (4.32%) Technical Support
12 15 (4.05%) IT Engineer
12 15 (4.05%) Junior
12 15 (4.05%) Technical Analyst
13 13 (3.51%) IT Support
14 12 (3.24%) IT Support Engineer
15 11 (2.97%) Junior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.14%) LDAP
2 16 (4.32%) Web Services
3 14 (3.78%) Node.js
4 11 (2.97%) SAML
5 9 (2.43%) 802.1X
5 9 (2.43%) OpenID
6 8 (2.16%) JSON
7 5 (1.35%) Kafka
7 5 (1.35%) REST
8 4 (1.08%) Middleware
8 4 (1.08%) NETCONF
8 4 (1.08%) OAuth
8 4 (1.08%) OpenConfig
8 4 (1.08%) RESTCONF
8 4 (1.08%) YANG
9 3 (0.81%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.81%) HTML
9 3 (0.81%) React
10 2 (0.54%) .NET
10 2 (0.54%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.38%) Data Centre
2 28 (7.57%) Management Information System
3 19 (5.14%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.05%) Industry 4.0
4 15 (4.05%) Robotics
5 13 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.51%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.97%) NHS
6 11 (2.97%) PKI
7 10 (2.70%) Cyberattack
7 10 (2.70%) Driving Licence
7 10 (2.70%) Private Cloud
7 10 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
7 10 (2.70%) Security Posture
8 9 (2.43%) CMDB
8 9 (2.43%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (1.62%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 157 (42.43%) Windows
2 87 (23.51%) Linux
3 52 (14.05%) Windows Server
4 22 (5.95%) Windows 10
5 16 (4.32%) Android
6 13 (3.51%) Unix
7 9 (2.43%) Apple iOS
7 9 (2.43%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (2.16%) Mac OS
9 6 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.62%) zOS
10 5 (1.35%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.81%) Debian
12 3 (0.81%) VMS
12 3 (0.81%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.54%) AIX
13 2 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (15.41%) ITIL
3 56 (15.14%) Agile
4 50 (13.51%) Load Balancing
5 39 (10.54%) DevOps
6 36 (9.73%) Customer Service
7 35 (9.46%) Cybersecurity
7 35 (9.46%) SIEM
8 34 (9.19%) Incident Response
8 34 (9.19%) Validation
9 33 (8.92%) CI/CD
10 31 (8.38%) Data Loss Prevention
11 30 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 29 (7.84%) Decision-Making
12 29 (7.84%) Malware Detection/Protection
12 29 (7.84%) Migration
13 27 (7.30%) Security Operations
14 25 (6.76%) Infrastructure as Code
15 23 (6.22%) Root Cause Analysis
16 22 (5.95%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 84 (22.70%) Python
2 61 (16.49%) PowerShell
3 42 (11.35%) Bash
4 27 (7.30%) JavaScript
5 19 (5.14%) C++
6 16 (4.32%) C#
6 16 (4.32%) SQL
7 7 (1.89%) C
7 7 (1.89%) Java
7 7 (1.89%) Perl
8 6 (1.62%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.35%) Go
9 5 (1.35%) VBA
10 2 (0.54%) Jython
10 2 (0.54%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.54%) VBScript
11 1 (0.27%) Bicep
11 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 117 (31.62%) Security Cleared
2 97 (26.22%) SC Cleared
3 44 (11.89%) Degree
4 43 (11.62%) Cisco Certification
5 35 (9.46%) CCNP
6 27 (7.30%) DV Cleared
7 22 (5.95%) CCNA
8 17 (4.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 15 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (3.51%) CISSP
11 12 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (2.43%) Azure Certification
12 9 (2.43%) JNCIS
13 8 (2.16%) MCSA
13 8 (2.16%) MCSE
14 7 (1.89%) CCIE
14 7 (1.89%) CompTIA CySA+
15 6 (1.62%) Network+ Certification
16 4 (1.08%) JNCIE
16 4 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.43%) SLA
2 6 (1.62%) GDPR
2 6 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.08%) NCSC
3 4 (1.08%) NIST
4 2 (0.54%) QA
5 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.27%) GRC
5 1 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 79 (21.35%) Active Directory
2 48 (12.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (7.03%) Docker
4 19 (5.14%) Firmware
5 10 (2.70%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.43%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.43%) Squid
7 8 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (2.16%) vSphere
8 6 (1.62%) Lustre
8 6 (1.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (1.35%) GPFS
10 4 (1.08%) KVM
10 4 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.81%) NFS
12 2 (0.54%) Ceph
12 2 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.27%) iptables
13 1 (0.27%) RHEV
13 1 (0.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (15.68%) Ansible
2 37 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 35 (9.46%) Terraform
4 30 (8.11%) SCCM
5 24 (6.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (6.22%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (4.86%) Grafana
8 15 (4.05%) Prometheus
9 14 (3.78%) FortiGate
10 9 (2.43%) Nagios
10 9 (2.43%) WSUS
11 7 (1.89%) Consul
12 6 (1.62%) Tivoli NetView
13 5 (1.35%) CASB
13 5 (1.35%) Nessus
13 5 (1.35%) Puppet
14 4 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (1.08%) QRadar
15 3 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
16 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 103 (27.84%) Microsoft
2 68 (18.38%) VMware
3 62 (16.76%) F5
4 48 (12.97%) Cisco
5 33 (8.92%) Blue Coat
6 31 (8.38%) McAfee
7 24 (6.49%) Palo Alto
7 24 (6.49%) Splunk
8 23 (6.22%) Fortinet
8 23 (6.22%) Juniper
9 22 (5.95%) NetApp
10 19 (5.14%) Citrix
10 19 (5.14%) Red Hat
11 18 (4.86%) ServiceNow
12 15 (4.05%) Siemens
13 13 (3.51%) SolarWinds
14 12 (3.24%) CheckPoint
15 11 (2.97%) Bloomberg
15 11 (2.97%) Google
15 11 (2.97%) Veeam
197 TCP/IP jobs in England