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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 198 203
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +20
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 388 382 490
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.27% 1.25% 1.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.59% 10.15% 8.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 208 313
10th Percentile £185 £210 £180
25th Percentile £269 £275 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -17.48%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £725 £700 £678
UK median daily rate £454 £475 £438
% change year-on-year -4.42% +8.57% -15.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 19 58
10th Percentile £15.50 £31.00 £23.13
25th Percentile £33.00 £62.50 £33.83
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile - - £56.49
90th Percentile £81.20 £67.50 £69.62
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 3,349 3,763 5,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.00% 12.30% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,160 2,175 3,403
10th Percentile £205 £225 £210
25th Percentile £356 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £606
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 134 327
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £18.34
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.22 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.56 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -38.22% -14.04% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -17.07% -25.45% +30.95%

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 1 December 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 +2 147 £538 +10.26% 64
North of England -35 69 £450 -2.70% 40
East of England +6 55 £413 -29.79% 45
South East -7 55 £384 -14.67% 106
North West -11 37 £535 +10.03% 24
Midlands -30 35 £213 -43.33% 28
West Midlands -2 34 £225 - 16
Yorkshire -44 29 £364 -39.38% 11
South West -4 28 £700 +47.37% 42
North East -12 3 £400 +166.67% 6
East Midlands -29 1 £165 -56.00% 11
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 35 (9.02%) SharePoint
2 25 (6.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.61%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.80%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.55%) Confluence
6 4 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.52%) IIS
8 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.52%) WordPress
9 1 (0.26%) Apache
9 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 39 (10.05%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.55%) Weka
3 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.52%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.26%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.26%) Eikon
1 1 (0.26%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.26%) Finacle
1 1 (0.26%) RMDS
1 1 (0.26%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 84 (21.65%) Microsoft 365
2 82 (21.13%) Azure
3 76 (19.59%) AWS
4 26 (6.70%) Amazon S3
5 25 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
5 25 (6.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (6.19%) Entra ID
7 22 (5.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (5.67%) Amazon ELB
8 19 (4.90%) GCP
9 12 (3.09%) GitHub
10 8 (2.06%) OneDrive
11 7 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (1.80%) SaaS
12 6 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.55%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (0.77%) AWS Direct Connect
14 3 (0.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 203 (52.32%) DNS
2 132 (34.02%) Firewall
3 114 (29.38%) DHCP
4 110 (28.35%) VPN
5 70 (18.04%) SSL
6 57 (14.69%) LAN
6 57 (14.69%) WAN
7 54 (13.92%) Network Security
8 49 (12.63%) VLAN
9 43 (11.08%) HTTP
10 26 (6.70%) Wireshark
11 25 (6.44%) Internet
12 23 (5.93%) BGP
12 23 (5.93%) Ethernet
13 22 (5.67%) SAN
13 22 (5.67%) Wi-Fi
14 18 (4.64%) Wireless
15 17 (4.38%) OSPF
16 16 (4.12%) BIG-IP
17 14 (3.61%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.55%) NoSQL
2 6 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.29%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.03%) Big Data
5 3 (0.77%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.77%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.77%) Parquet
6 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.26%) Impala
7 1 (0.26%) MySQL
7 1 (0.26%) Power BI
7 1 (0.26%) Redis
7 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (10.31%) Git
2 37 (9.54%) Jenkins
3 28 (7.22%) GitLab
4 22 (5.67%) Eclipse
4 22 (5.67%) Visual Studio
5 16 (4.12%) JIRA
6 14 (3.61%) Fiddler
7 8 (2.06%) Subversion
8 7 (1.80%) Postman
9 4 (1.03%) Robot Framework
9 4 (1.03%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.77%) MLflow
10 3 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.52%) Maven
11 2 (0.52%) Mercurial
11 2 (0.52%) Poetry
11 2 (0.52%) PyCharm
11 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
General
1 149 (38.40%) Social Skills
2 68 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (10.57%) Finance
4 33 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 29 (7.47%) Military
6 27 (6.96%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (5.41%) Banking
8 15 (3.87%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.84%) Legal
10 10 (2.58%) Front Office
10 10 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.32%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.06%) Law
13 7 (1.80%) Local Government
14 6 (1.55%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.77%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.52%) Electronics
16 2 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 73 (18.81%) Support Engineer
2 63 (16.24%) Network Engineer
3 52 (13.40%) Senior
4 51 (13.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 47 (12.11%) Analyst
6 36 (9.28%) IT Support
7 28 (7.22%) IT Engineer
8 25 (6.44%) Support Analyst
8 25 (6.44%) Technical Support
9 21 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support
10 20 (5.15%) C# Software Engineer
10 20 (5.15%) Software Engineer
11 18 (4.64%) DevOps Engineer
11 18 (4.64%) Technical Engineer
12 17 (4.38%) Developer
13 16 (4.12%) IT Support Engineer
13 16 (4.12%) Junior
13 16 (4.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
15 14 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.44%) Node.js
1 25 (6.44%) Web Services
2 17 (4.38%) Middleware
3 11 (2.84%) LDAP
4 9 (2.32%) REST
5 8 (2.06%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (1.29%) Ultra Messaging
8 4 (1.03%) React
8 4 (1.03%) SAML
8 4 (1.03%) SOAP
9 3 (0.77%) .NET
9 3 (0.77%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.77%) Apache Avro
9 3 (0.77%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (0.77%) Bootstrap
9 3 (0.77%) Express.js
9 3 (0.77%) Flask
9 3 (0.77%) NumPy
9 3 (0.77%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.22%) Data Centre
2 25 (6.44%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.87%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (3.87%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.35%) NHS
5 12 (3.09%) Driving Licence
6 11 (2.84%) Private Cloud
6 11 (2.84%) Replication
6 11 (2.84%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (2.32%) iPhone
7 9 (2.32%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.06%) CMDB
8 8 (2.06%) PKI
9 7 (1.80%) Clustering
9 7 (1.80%) SCADA
10 6 (1.55%) Grid Computing
10 6 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.55%) iPad
11 5 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 188 (48.45%) Windows
2 124 (31.96%) Linux
3 52 (13.40%) Windows Server
4 48 (12.37%) Windows 10
5 20 (5.15%) Unix
6 17 (4.38%) Mac OS
7 15 (3.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (3.61%) Android
9 11 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (2.06%) Ubuntu
10 8 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (1.80%) Apple iOS
11 7 (1.80%) Windows 7
12 6 (1.55%) CentOS
12 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (1.29%) VMS
14 4 (1.03%) Debian
14 4 (1.03%) Solaris
15 3 (0.77%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (17.78%) CI/CD
3 65 (16.75%) Agile
4 63 (16.24%) ITIL
5 58 (14.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 56 (14.43%) DevOps
7 45 (11.60%) High Availability
8 44 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (9.02%) Load Balancing
9 35 (9.02%) Validation
10 32 (8.25%) Continuous Integration
11 29 (7.47%) Infrastructure Automation
12 27 (6.96%) Cybersecurity
12 27 (6.96%) Incident Response
12 27 (6.96%) Knowledge Transfer
13 26 (6.70%) Customer Service
14 25 (6.44%) Migration
14 25 (6.44%) Verification and Validation
15 24 (6.19%) TDD
15 24 (6.19%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 119 (30.67%) Python
2 69 (17.78%) Bash
3 64 (16.49%) PowerShell
4 31 (7.99%) C++
5 27 (6.96%) C#
6 24 (6.19%) JavaScript
7 22 (5.67%) Perl
8 18 (4.64%) SQL
9 10 (2.58%) Java
10 5 (1.29%) Go
10 5 (1.29%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.03%) C
11 4 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.77%) Groovy
12 3 (0.77%) PHP
12 3 (0.77%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.26%) Bicep
13 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.26%) Ruby
13 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 104 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 76 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 33 (8.51%) Cisco Certification
5 30 (7.73%) Degree
6 26 (6.70%) DV Cleared
7 22 (5.67%) CCNP
8 17 (4.38%) CCNA
9 14 (3.61%) MCP
9 14 (3.61%) Network+ Certification
10 13 (3.35%) Azure Certification
11 12 (3.09%) MCSE
12 11 (2.84%) Server+ Certification
13 10 (2.58%) CISSP
14 9 (2.32%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (2.06%) MCSA
16 7 (1.80%) A+ Certification
17 6 (1.55%) CCIE
17 6 (1.55%) ECDL
17 6 (1.55%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.90%) GDPR
2 6 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.29%) SLA
4 4 (1.03%) NIST
5 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.26%) NCSC
6 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 96 (24.74%) Active Directory
2 67 (17.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (11.08%) Docker
4 33 (8.51%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.35%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (2.32%) Firmware
7 7 (1.80%) Lustre
7 7 (1.80%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 6 (1.55%) GPFS
8 6 (1.55%) Terminal Services
8 6 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.29%) NFS
10 4 (1.03%) Veritas File System
10 4 (1.03%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 4 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.77%) KVM
11 3 (0.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 3 (0.77%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.52%) NDS
12 2 (0.52%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 81 (20.88%) Ansible
2 58 (14.95%) Terraform
3 33 (8.51%) SCCM
4 24 (6.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (5.41%) Kubernetes
6 17 (4.38%) Puppet
7 13 (3.35%) Grafana
7 13 (3.35%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.32%) FortiGate
8 9 (2.32%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.55%) Nessus
10 6 (1.55%) WSUS
11 5 (1.29%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (1.29%) QRadar
11 5 (1.29%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (1.03%) CASB
12 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (1.03%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.77%) Consul
Vendors
1 149 (38.40%) Microsoft
2 86 (22.16%) VMware
3 55 (14.18%) F5
4 48 (12.37%) Palo Alto
5 46 (11.86%) Cisco
6 39 (10.05%) CheckPoint
7 21 (5.41%) Citrix
8 20 (5.15%) Blue Coat
8 20 (5.15%) ServiceNow
9 19 (4.90%) Fortinet
10 18 (4.64%) Red Hat
11 17 (4.38%) NetApp
12 16 (4.12%) McAfee
12 16 (4.12%) Splunk
13 14 (3.61%) SolarWinds
14 13 (3.35%) Oracle
15 11 (2.84%) Juniper
15 11 (2.84%) Zscaler
16 10 (2.58%) CyberArk
17 9 (2.32%) Meraki
284 TCP/IP jobs in England