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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 226 205
Rank change year-on-year +13 -21 +37
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 350 347 521
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.28% 1.06% 1.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.80% 8.84% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 190 337
10th Percentile £200 £206 £184
25th Percentile £300 £260 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £456 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% +1.39% -8.16%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £678 £646 £750
UK median daily rate £458 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -0.92% +2.78% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 28 58
10th Percentile £28.30 £41.38 £19.92
25th Percentile £42.53 - £27.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile - - £57.12
90th Percentile £78.28 - £72.03
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -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 3,242 3,927 5,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 12.05% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,020 2,310 3,639
10th Percentile £235 £248 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% +2.12% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £623
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £478 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -5.43% +1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 223 280
10th Percentile £15.02 £14.33 £16.73
25th Percentile £25.08 £22.58 £23.07
Median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.78
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £76.12
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £51.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.69% -9.72% +34.50%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 +50 161 £553 +13.62% 66
North of England -18 59 £543 +17.30% 42
South East +24 53 £375 +7.14% 82
Yorkshire -20 31 £525 +5.00% 13
East of England +1 30 £475 -17.39% 53
Midlands -20 29 £402 +3.74% 41
West Midlands +3 27 £402 -5.41% 20
North West -15 25 £550 +18.92% 24
South West -7 8 £550 -4.35% 20
North East -2 3 £250 +78.57% 6
East Midlands -24 2 £358 -4.67% 20
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.71%) Confluence
4 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.57%) IIS
5 2 (0.57%) nginx
5 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.29%) Apache
6 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.86%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.29%) Eikon
1 1 (0.29%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.29%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.29%) Finacle
1 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (20.86%) Azure
2 70 (20.00%) AWS
3 56 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (8.29%) Amazon EC2
5 24 (6.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (6.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 23 (6.57%) Amazon S3
7 19 (5.43%) Amazon ELB
7 19 (5.43%) GitHub
8 18 (5.14%) Entra ID
9 17 (4.86%) GCP
10 11 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (2.29%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.00%) SaaS
13 7 (2.00%) Serverless
14 5 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 185 (52.86%) DNS
2 154 (44.00%) Firewall
3 122 (34.86%) VPN
4 96 (27.43%) DHCP
5 67 (19.14%) Network Security
5 67 (19.14%) SSL
6 61 (17.43%) LAN
6 61 (17.43%) VLAN
7 52 (14.86%) WAN
8 40 (11.43%) BGP
9 37 (10.57%) HTTP
10 36 (10.29%) OSPF
11 32 (9.14%) Wireless
12 25 (7.14%) Internet
13 22 (6.29%) Ethernet
13 22 (6.29%) SAN
14 16 (4.57%) IPsec
15 14 (4.00%) SMTP
15 14 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
16 12 (3.43%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (3.14%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (1.43%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.43%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.86%) Big Data
7 3 (0.86%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.86%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.86%) Parquet
7 3 (0.86%) Power BI
8 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.57%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 50 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 47 (13.43%) Git
3 21 (6.00%) GitLab
3 21 (6.00%) Visual Studio
4 19 (5.43%) Eclipse
5 16 (4.57%) JIRA
5 16 (4.57%) Postman
6 9 (2.57%) Subversion
7 4 (1.14%) Robot Framework
7 4 (1.14%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.86%) MLflow
8 3 (0.86%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.57%) Fiddler
9 2 (0.57%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.57%) Poetry
9 2 (0.57%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
General
1 135 (38.57%) Social Skills
2 68 (19.43%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (14.00%) Finance
4 27 (7.71%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.57%) Military
6 20 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (4.57%) Telecoms
8 14 (4.00%) Banking
9 12 (3.43%) Legal
10 9 (2.57%) Local Government
11 7 (2.00%) Law
12 6 (1.71%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.71%) Front Office
12 6 (1.71%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.14%) French Language
14 4 (1.14%) Games
14 4 (1.14%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.86%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 58 (16.57%) Senior
2 51 (14.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 48 (13.71%) Network Engineer
4 44 (12.57%) Support Engineer
5 33 (9.43%) Analyst
6 30 (8.57%) IT Support
7 22 (6.29%) IT Engineer
8 21 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 21 (6.00%) Support Analyst
9 19 (5.43%) C# Software Engineer
9 19 (5.43%) Software Engineer
10 18 (5.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (5.14%) Technical Engineer
11 16 (4.57%) Developer
12 15 (4.29%) C++ Software Engineer
12 15 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
12 15 (4.29%) Technical Support
12 15 (4.29%) Windows Engineer
13 14 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.43%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.29%) Node.js
2 20 (5.71%) Web Services
3 14 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (3.71%) Middleware
5 10 (2.86%) LDAP
6 9 (2.57%) .NET
7 7 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (2.00%) REST
8 5 (1.43%) FpML
9 4 (1.14%) JSON
10 3 (0.86%) 802.1X
10 3 (0.86%) Apache Avro
10 3 (0.86%) Flask
10 3 (0.86%) NumPy
10 3 (0.86%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (0.86%) Pandas
10 3 (0.86%) React
10 3 (0.86%) SAML
10 3 (0.86%) YAML
11 2 (0.57%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.71%) Data Centre
2 12 (3.43%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.14%) Replication
3 11 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.57%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (2.29%) Clustering
7 7 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.00%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.00%) SCADA
8 6 (1.71%) Fixed Income
8 6 (1.71%) iPad
8 6 (1.71%) iPhone
8 6 (1.71%) PKI
8 6 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (1.71%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.43%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 156 (44.57%) Windows
2 100 (28.57%) Linux
3 35 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 34 (9.71%) Windows 10
5 23 (6.57%) Unix
6 19 (5.43%) Mac OS
7 15 (4.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (2.00%) Android
10 7 (2.00%) Solaris
10 7 (2.00%) Windows 7
11 6 (1.71%) Check Point GAiA
11 6 (1.71%) Ubuntu
11 6 (1.71%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (1.14%) Apple iOS
13 4 (1.14%) CentOS
13 4 (1.14%) Debian
14 3 (0.86%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (18.57%) DevOps
3 63 (18.00%) CI/CD
4 59 (16.86%) Agile
5 54 (15.43%) High Availability
6 53 (15.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 52 (14.86%) ITIL
8 41 (11.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (9.71%) Configuration Management
10 33 (9.43%) Continuous Integration
11 29 (8.29%) SIEM
12 28 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
12 28 (8.00%) Validation
13 27 (7.71%) Cybersecurity
14 25 (7.14%) Computer Science
14 25 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
14 25 (7.14%) Security Operations
15 23 (6.57%) Customer Service
15 23 (6.57%) Incident Response
16 22 (6.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 101 (28.86%) Python
2 46 (13.14%) Bash
3 32 (9.14%) C#
4 31 (8.86%) C++
5 29 (8.29%) PowerShell
6 24 (6.86%) SQL
7 21 (6.00%) JavaScript
8 14 (4.00%) Perl
9 9 (2.57%) Java
10 8 (2.29%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.43%) Go
11 5 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.86%) Bicep
12 3 (0.86%) C
12 3 (0.86%) Groovy
12 3 (0.86%) PHP
13 2 (0.57%) VB
14 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (21.71%) Security Cleared
2 63 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 50 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 39 (11.14%) Degree
5 36 (10.29%) CCNP
6 32 (9.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (7.43%) CCNA
8 12 (3.43%) CCSE
9 11 (3.14%) MCP
9 11 (3.14%) MCSE
10 10 (2.86%) A+ Certification
10 10 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (2.86%) DV Cleared
10 10 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
11 9 (2.57%) Azure Certification
12 8 (2.29%) CCIE
12 8 (2.29%) CCSA
12 8 (2.29%) MCSA
12 8 (2.29%) Server+ Certification
13 6 (1.71%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.86%) GDPR
2 6 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.43%) NIST
4 4 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.86%) NCSC
5 3 (0.86%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.86%) SLA
5 3 (0.86%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.29%) PMO
7 1 (0.29%) QA
System Software
1 69 (19.71%) Active Directory
2 60 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (8.86%) Docker
4 30 (8.57%) Hyper-V
5 12 (3.43%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.29%) vSphere
7 7 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.71%) Terminal Services
8 6 (1.71%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 5 (1.43%) NFS
9 5 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.14%) Veritas File System
10 4 (1.14%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.57%) Firmware
11 2 (0.57%) iptables
11 2 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.57%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.29%) Samba
12 1 (0.29%) Snort
12 1 (0.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 80 (22.86%) Ansible
2 56 (16.00%) Terraform
3 28 (8.00%) Puppet
3 28 (8.00%) SCCM
4 21 (6.00%) FortiGate
5 17 (4.86%) Grafana
5 17 (4.86%) Kubernetes
6 16 (4.57%) Prometheus
7 13 (3.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (2.86%) Microsoft Clustering
9 7 (2.00%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.71%) Nessus
10 6 (1.71%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.43%) Tivoli
12 4 (1.14%) CASB
12 4 (1.14%) QRadar
12 4 (1.14%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.86%) Argo
13 3 (0.86%) Istio
13 3 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 78 (22.29%) VMware
3 69 (19.71%) Cisco
4 55 (15.71%) Palo Alto
5 50 (14.29%) CheckPoint
6 37 (10.57%) F5
7 27 (7.71%) Fortinet
8 26 (7.43%) Citrix
9 23 (6.57%) SolarWinds
10 22 (6.29%) Red Hat
11 18 (5.14%) Splunk
12 16 (4.57%) MuleSoft
13 15 (4.29%) ServiceNow
14 13 (3.71%) Google
14 13 (3.71%) Meraki
15 11 (3.14%) Veeam
16 10 (2.86%) Oracle
17 9 (2.57%) CyberArk
17 9 (2.57%) Dell
17 9 (2.57%) Juniper