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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 230 262
Rank change year-on-year -30 +32 -50
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 448 313 314
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.14% 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.54% 9.12% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 188 207
10th Percentile £211 £204 £203
25th Percentile £328 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £575
90th Percentile £675 £653 £645
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 26 32
10th Percentile £25.17 £20.11 £21.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £45.75 £62.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% - +28.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile £98.82 £86.32 £67.25
UK median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -23.46% - +28.92%

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 4,250 3,433 4,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.38% 12.47% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,576 2,141 2,650
10th Percentile £263 £235 £231
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 163 305
10th Percentile £16.02 £14.99 £14.26
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £18.27
Median hourly rate £27.88 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.04% -10.89% +1.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.21 £87.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £50.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -46.68% +8.98% -8.24%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -45 181 £475 -9.52% 109
North of England -37 89 £475 -5.00% 48
South East -26 80 £527 +26.44% 71
North West -17 57 £475 -0.05% 25
South West -7 40 £638 +3.03% 37
Midlands -34 39 £402 -19.60% 30
East of England -14 33 £250 -52.38% 20
West Midlands -44 31 £406 +1.06% 19
Yorkshire -56 29 £475 -6.17% 15
East Midlands -11 8 £402 -26.91% 11
North East -41 3 £413 +65.00% 10
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 42 (9.38%) SharePoint
2 22 (4.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.90%) Confluence
4 9 (2.01%) nginx
5 7 (1.56%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.89%) FactoryTalk
7 3 (0.67%) IIS
7 3 (0.67%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.45%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.45%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.45%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.22%) CICS
9 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 35 (7.81%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.79%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.45%) Houdini
5 2 (0.45%) NUKE
6 1 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (1.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 154 (34.38%) Azure
2 112 (25.00%) AWS
3 96 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (13.62%) Entra ID
5 35 (7.81%) GCP
6 30 (6.70%) OneDrive
7 27 (6.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 17 (3.79%) GitHub
9 16 (3.57%) Route 53
10 15 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (2.46%) Google Workspace
12 10 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (2.01%) OpenShift
14 8 (1.79%) Akamai
14 8 (1.79%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 266 (59.38%) DNS
2 197 (43.97%) Firewall
3 154 (34.38%) DHCP
4 129 (28.79%) VPN
5 87 (19.42%) Network Security
6 83 (18.53%) WAN
7 73 (16.29%) LAN
8 71 (15.85%) VLAN
9 67 (14.96%) BGP
10 58 (12.95%) HTTP
11 56 (12.50%) SSL
12 45 (10.04%) BIG-IP
13 40 (8.93%) OSPF
14 39 (8.71%) Ethernet
15 38 (8.48%) Wi-Fi
16 34 (7.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 32 (7.14%) Wireless
18 25 (5.58%) Wireshark
19 24 (5.36%) SD-WAN
20 23 (5.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.68%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.45%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.45%) MySQL
5 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.45%) SQLite
6 1 (0.22%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.22%) KDB
6 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 46 (10.27%) JIRA
2 24 (5.36%) Git
3 19 (4.24%) Fiddler
4 18 (4.02%) Jenkins
5 15 (3.35%) GitLab
6 14 (3.13%) Visual Studio
7 13 (2.90%) Eclipse
8 10 (2.23%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.89%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.45%) Introscope
12 2 (0.45%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.45%) Subversion
13 1 (0.22%) MSI
13 1 (0.22%) Postman
General
1 177 (39.51%) Social Skills
2 63 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (12.72%) Finance
4 43 (9.60%) Banking
5 30 (6.70%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.91%) Investment Banking
6 22 (4.91%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (4.69%) Telecoms
8 19 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.57%) Military
10 14 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (2.01%) Front Office
12 5 (1.12%) Legal
12 5 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.89%) Automotive
13 4 (0.89%) Police
14 3 (0.67%) Retail
15 2 (0.45%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 98 (21.88%) Network Engineer
2 53 (11.83%) Support Engineer
3 50 (11.16%) Senior
4 45 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 44 (9.82%) Architect
6 32 (7.14%) Analyst
7 29 (6.47%) IT Support
8 26 (5.80%) Web Engineer
9 25 (5.58%) IT Engineer
9 25 (5.58%) Security Engineer
10 22 (4.91%) Technical Engineer
11 21 (4.69%) IT Support Engineer
11 21 (4.69%) Systems Engineer
12 19 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (4.24%) Senior Network Engineer
13 16 (3.57%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 16 (3.57%) IP Network Engineer
13 16 (3.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (3.35%) Software Engineer
15 14 (3.13%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.24%) SAML
2 15 (3.35%) LDAP
3 14 (3.13%) JSON
4 13 (2.90%) Node.js
4 13 (2.90%) Web Services
5 12 (2.68%) ARM Templates
6 11 (2.46%) 802.1X
6 11 (2.46%) REST
7 8 (1.79%) .NET
8 6 (1.34%) NETCONF
8 6 (1.34%) OpenConfig
8 6 (1.34%) OpenID
8 6 (1.34%) RESTCONF
8 6 (1.34%) YANG
9 5 (1.12%) OAuth
10 4 (0.89%) boto
10 4 (0.89%) WinForms
10 4 (0.89%) XML
11 3 (0.67%) eBPF
11 3 (0.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 73 (16.29%) Data Centre
2 46 (10.27%) Onboarding
3 29 (6.47%) PKI
4 26 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 26 (5.80%) Management Information System
5 24 (5.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 19 (4.24%) Robotics
7 17 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
8 16 (3.57%) Security Posture
9 15 (3.35%) Industry 4.0
9 15 (3.35%) Public Cloud
10 14 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.68%) Cloud Native
12 11 (2.46%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (2.46%) Operational Technology
13 10 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (2.23%) Driving Licence
13 10 (2.23%) SCADA
14 9 (2.01%) Private Cloud
15 8 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 193 (43.08%) Windows
2 108 (24.11%) Linux
3 56 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 35 (7.81%) Windows 10
5 33 (7.37%) Mac OS
6 21 (4.69%) Unix
7 15 (3.35%) Apple iOS
8 14 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (2.90%) Ubuntu
10 11 (2.46%) Android
11 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.67%) CentOS
12 3 (0.67%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.67%) zOS
13 2 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.22%) Rocky
14 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (27.68%) Problem-Solving
2 96 (21.43%) ITIL
3 70 (15.63%) CI/CD
4 65 (14.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 62 (13.84%) Agile
6 61 (13.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 56 (12.50%) Customer Service
8 54 (12.05%) DevOps
9 50 (11.16%) Load Balancing
10 49 (10.94%) Cybersecurity
11 45 (10.04%) Incident Response
12 44 (9.82%) Migration
13 43 (9.60%) High Availability
13 43 (9.60%) ITSM
13 43 (9.60%) SIEM
14 42 (9.38%) Service Management
15 39 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (8.71%) Validation
16 38 (8.48%) Technical Leadership
17 37 (8.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 131 (29.24%) Python
2 84 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 72 (16.07%) Bash
4 27 (6.03%) JavaScript
5 24 (5.36%) C++
6 17 (3.79%) C#
7 15 (3.35%) SQL
8 9 (2.01%) VBA
9 8 (1.79%) Bicep
9 8 (1.79%) Java
10 7 (1.56%) Perl
11 5 (1.12%) ActionScript
11 5 (1.12%) C
12 4 (0.89%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.67%) Go
14 2 (0.45%) Jython
14 2 (0.45%) Korn
14 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.45%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 122 (27.23%) Security Cleared
2 80 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 71 (15.85%) Degree
4 57 (12.72%) Cisco Certification
5 44 (9.82%) DV Cleared
6 42 (9.38%) CCNP
7 27 (6.03%) CCNA
7 27 (6.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (4.02%) CISSP
9 15 (3.35%) CCIE
9 15 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
11 11 (2.46%) Azure Certification
12 10 (2.23%) A+ Certification
12 10 (2.23%) MCSA
12 10 (2.23%) VCAP
13 9 (2.01%) MCSE
14 8 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
15 7 (1.56%) AWS Certification
16 6 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.02%) SLA
2 10 (2.23%) NCSC
2 10 (2.23%) NIST
3 7 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.34%) QA
5 5 (1.12%) GDPR
6 4 (0.89%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (0.89%) GxP
6 4 (0.89%) NIST 800
6 4 (0.89%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.45%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.22%) RMADS
System Software
1 120 (26.79%) Active Directory
2 81 (18.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 25 (5.58%) Docker
5 23 (5.13%) VMware NSX
5 23 (5.13%) vSphere
6 17 (3.79%) Firmware
7 11 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.79%) Squid
9 6 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.67%) NFS
10 3 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.45%) KVM
11 2 (0.45%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.22%) GPFS
12 1 (0.22%) NDS
12 1 (0.22%) NetIQ eDirectory
12 1 (0.22%) RACF
12 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.22%) Snort
Systems Management
1 94 (20.98%) Ansible
2 75 (16.74%) Terraform
3 50 (11.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (9.38%) Kubernetes
5 27 (6.03%) SCCM
6 25 (5.58%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (4.46%) Grafana
8 14 (3.13%) VxRail
9 12 (2.68%) FortiGate
10 11 (2.46%) Jamf Pro
11 10 (2.23%) Prometheus
12 7 (1.56%) WSUS
13 6 (1.34%) CASB
13 6 (1.34%) systemd
14 5 (1.12%) Nessus
14 5 (1.12%) Suricata
15 4 (0.89%) Consul
16 3 (0.67%) Nagios
16 3 (0.67%) Puppet
16 3 (0.67%) SELinux
Vendors
1 167 (37.28%) Microsoft
2 92 (20.54%) VMware
3 83 (18.53%) Cisco
4 60 (13.39%) F5
5 46 (10.27%) ServiceNow
6 27 (6.03%) Zscaler
7 26 (5.80%) Google
8 24 (5.36%) Blue Coat
8 24 (5.36%) Fortinet
9 23 (5.13%) Juniper
9 23 (5.13%) Palo Alto
10 21 (4.69%) Infoblox
11 19 (4.24%) Citrix
11 19 (4.24%) McAfee
12 18 (4.02%) NetApp
13 17 (3.79%) CheckPoint
13 17 (3.79%) Siemens
14 16 (3.57%) Splunk
15 14 (3.13%) Red Hat
16 12 (2.68%) Bloomberg