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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 224 247
Rank change year-on-year -25 +23 -27
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 463 321 323
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 1.16% 0.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.78% 9.37% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 191 201
10th Percentile £208 £220 £205
25th Percentile £325 £357 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £614 £560
90th Percentile £675 £653 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 27 32
10th Percentile £26.09 £20.23 £31.63
25th Percentile £31.25 £43.60 £63.44
Median hourly rate £63.48 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% - +28.92%
75th Percentile £70.97 - -
90th Percentile £98.82 £85.65 £67.25
UK median hourly rate £62.99 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +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 4,294 3,427 4,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.42% 12.40% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 2,130 2,572
10th Percentile £263 £250 £243
25th Percentile £400 £375 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 165 282
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £44.00 £54.94
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -19.91% +5.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.07 £46.88 £49.50
% change year-on-year -44.38% -5.30% -3.24%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -55 189 £475 -15.56% 130
North of England -48 85 £475 -5.00% 44
South East -33 83 £523 +16.11% 75
North West -5 55 £475 -0.05% 24
South West +1 44 £594 -4.04% 35
Midlands -31 42 £402 -19.60% 26
East of England -15 35 £375 -28.57% 21
West Midlands -35 34 £406 +1.06% 18
Yorkshire -52 26 £500 - 13
East Midlands -7 8 £402 -26.91% 8
North East -40 4 £438 +2.94% 9
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 45 (9.72%) SharePoint
2 23 (4.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.59%) Confluence
4 9 (1.94%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.51%) nginx
6 4 (0.86%) FactoryTalk
7 3 (0.65%) IIS
7 3 (0.65%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.43%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.43%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.22%) CICS
9 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 35 (7.56%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.73%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.43%) Houdini
5 2 (0.43%) NUKE
6 1 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 167 (36.07%) Azure
2 115 (24.84%) AWS
3 104 (22.46%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (14.69%) Entra ID
5 37 (7.99%) GCP
6 33 (7.13%) OneDrive
7 25 (5.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 20 (4.32%) GitHub
9 13 (2.81%) OpenShift
9 13 (2.81%) Route 53
10 12 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.38%) Google Workspace
12 10 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.94%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (1.73%) Akamai
14 8 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 276 (59.61%) DNS
2 205 (44.28%) Firewall
3 167 (36.07%) DHCP
4 138 (29.81%) VPN
5 89 (19.22%) Network Security
6 85 (18.36%) WAN
7 76 (16.41%) LAN
8 72 (15.55%) VLAN
9 69 (14.90%) BGP
10 63 (13.61%) HTTP
11 58 (12.53%) SSL
12 42 (9.07%) Wi-Fi
13 41 (8.86%) OSPF
14 40 (8.64%) BIG-IP
15 39 (8.42%) Ethernet
16 35 (7.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 35 (7.56%) Wireless
17 26 (5.62%) SD-WAN
18 24 (5.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
19 23 (4.97%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.59%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.08%) MySQL
3 5 (1.08%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.86%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.65%) Redis
6 2 (0.43%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.43%) SQLite
7 1 (0.22%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.22%) KDB
Development Applications
1 43 (9.29%) JIRA
2 27 (5.83%) Git
3 24 (5.18%) Jenkins
4 20 (4.32%) GitLab
5 17 (3.67%) Fiddler
6 14 (3.02%) Visual Studio
7 13 (2.81%) Eclipse
8 10 (2.16%) Browser DevTools
9 7 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.86%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.43%) Introscope
11 2 (0.43%) Selenium
11 2 (0.43%) Subversion
12 1 (0.22%) MSI
12 1 (0.22%) Postman
12 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 182 (39.31%) Social Skills
2 66 (14.25%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (12.74%) Finance
4 43 (9.29%) Banking
5 28 (6.05%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.97%) Telecoms
7 22 (4.75%) Investment Banking
7 22 (4.75%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (4.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (3.46%) Military
10 11 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.16%) Front Office
12 5 (1.08%) Legal
12 5 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.86%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.86%) Automotive
13 4 (0.86%) Police
14 3 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 96 (20.73%) Network Engineer
2 57 (12.31%) Support Engineer
3 53 (11.45%) Senior
4 50 (10.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 38 (8.21%) Architect
6 33 (7.13%) Analyst
7 32 (6.91%) IT Support
8 28 (6.05%) IT Engineer
9 26 (5.62%) Systems Engineer
10 24 (5.18%) IT Support Engineer
10 24 (5.18%) Security Engineer
10 24 (5.18%) Web Engineer
11 22 (4.75%) Technical Engineer
12 21 (4.54%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (4.10%) Senior Network Engineer
14 16 (3.46%) Blue Coat Engineer
14 16 (3.46%) IP Network Engineer
15 15 (3.24%) Software Engineer
16 14 (3.02%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.32%) SAML
2 13 (2.81%) LDAP
2 13 (2.81%) Node.js
2 13 (2.81%) REST
2 13 (2.81%) Web Services
3 12 (2.59%) ARM Templates
4 11 (2.38%) 802.1X
4 11 (2.38%) JSON
5 8 (1.73%) .NET
6 6 (1.30%) HTML
6 6 (1.30%) NETCONF
6 6 (1.30%) OpenConfig
6 6 (1.30%) RESTCONF
6 6 (1.30%) YANG
7 5 (1.08%) Kafka
7 5 (1.08%) OAuth
7 5 (1.08%) OpenID
7 5 (1.08%) RESTful
8 4 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.86%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 75 (16.20%) Data Centre
2 51 (11.02%) Onboarding
3 29 (6.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (6.26%) PKI
4 27 (5.83%) Management Information System
5 24 (5.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 19 (4.10%) Linux Command Line
6 19 (4.10%) Robotics
7 16 (3.46%) Public Cloud
7 16 (3.46%) Security Posture
8 15 (3.24%) Industry 4.0
9 14 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (2.81%) Cloud Native
10 13 (2.81%) Operational Technology
11 11 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
11 11 (2.38%) SCADA
12 10 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (2.16%) Driving Licence
13 9 (1.94%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 205 (44.28%) Windows
2 122 (26.35%) Linux
3 59 (12.74%) Windows Server
4 37 (7.99%) Windows 10
5 33 (7.13%) Mac OS
6 25 (5.40%) Unix
7 15 (3.24%) Apple iOS
8 14 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (2.81%) Ubuntu
10 11 (2.38%) Android
11 4 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.86%) zOS
12 3 (0.65%) CentOS
12 3 (0.65%) Check Point GAiA
13 2 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.22%) Rocky
14 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (27.21%) Problem-Solving
2 104 (22.46%) ITIL
3 77 (16.63%) CI/CD
4 72 (15.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 70 (15.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 63 (13.61%) Agile
7 61 (13.17%) Customer Service
8 60 (12.96%) DevOps
9 53 (11.45%) Cybersecurity
10 51 (11.02%) Load Balancing
11 49 (10.58%) ITSM
12 47 (10.15%) High Availability
13 44 (9.50%) Incident Response
13 44 (9.50%) Migration
13 44 (9.50%) Service Management
13 44 (9.50%) SIEM
13 44 (9.50%) Validation
14 42 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (9.07%) Technical Leadership
15 39 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (29.59%) Python
2 91 (19.65%) PowerShell
3 79 (17.06%) Bash
4 25 (5.40%) C++
4 25 (5.40%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.89%) SQL
6 17 (3.67%) C#
7 9 (1.94%) Bicep
8 8 (1.73%) Java
8 8 (1.73%) Perl
8 8 (1.73%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.51%) VBA
10 5 (1.08%) ActionScript
10 5 (1.08%) C
11 4 (0.86%) Go
12 3 (0.65%) VBScript
13 2 (0.43%) Groovy
13 2 (0.43%) Jython
13 2 (0.43%) Korn
13 2 (0.43%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 128 (27.65%) Security Cleared
2 83 (17.93%) SC Cleared
3 76 (16.41%) Degree
4 59 (12.74%) Cisco Certification
5 47 (10.15%) DV Cleared
6 44 (9.50%) CCNP
7 29 (6.26%) CCNA
7 29 (6.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.89%) CISSP
10 15 (3.24%) CCIE
10 15 (3.24%) Network+ Certification
11 12 (2.59%) Azure Certification
12 11 (2.38%) A+ Certification
12 11 (2.38%) VCAP
13 10 (2.16%) MCSA
14 9 (1.94%) MCSE
15 8 (1.73%) AWS Certification
15 8 (1.73%) CompTIA Security+
16 7 (1.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.89%) SLA
2 11 (2.38%) QA
3 10 (2.16%) NIST
4 9 (1.94%) NCSC
5 7 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.08%) GDPR
7 4 (0.86%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.86%) GxP
7 4 (0.86%) NIST 800
7 4 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.43%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.22%) RMADS
System Software
1 128 (27.65%) Active Directory
2 89 (19.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (7.13%) Hyper-V
4 30 (6.48%) Docker
5 24 (5.18%) vSphere
6 22 (4.75%) VMware NSX
7 18 (3.89%) Firmware
8 12 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (1.30%) Squid
10 5 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (0.65%) NFS
11 3 (0.65%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.43%) KVM
13 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.22%) GPFS
13 1 (0.22%) Lustre
13 1 (0.22%) NDS
13 1 (0.22%) RACF
13 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 98 (21.17%) Ansible
2 84 (18.14%) Terraform
3 54 (11.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 46 (9.94%) Kubernetes
5 29 (6.26%) SCCM
6 24 (5.18%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (4.75%) Grafana
8 15 (3.24%) VxRail
9 13 (2.81%) FortiGate
10 12 (2.59%) Prometheus
11 11 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (1.51%) WSUS
13 6 (1.30%) CASB
13 6 (1.30%) systemd
14 5 (1.08%) Nessus
14 5 (1.08%) Suricata
15 4 (0.86%) Consul
16 3 (0.65%) Istio
16 3 (0.65%) Puppet
16 3 (0.65%) SELinux
Vendors
1 178 (38.44%) Microsoft
2 99 (21.38%) VMware
3 84 (18.14%) Cisco
4 58 (12.53%) F5
5 47 (10.15%) ServiceNow
6 26 (5.62%) Google
6 26 (5.62%) Zscaler
7 25 (5.40%) Fortinet
8 24 (5.18%) Palo Alto
9 23 (4.97%) Juniper
10 22 (4.75%) Blue Coat
11 19 (4.10%) Citrix
12 18 (3.89%) Infoblox
12 18 (3.89%) McAfee
12 18 (3.89%) NetApp
12 18 (3.89%) Splunk
13 17 (3.67%) CheckPoint
13 17 (3.67%) Siemens
14 13 (2.81%) Red Hat
15 12 (2.59%) Bloomberg