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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 238 271
Rank change year-on-year -34 +33 -51
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 356 276 309
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 1.13% 0.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.39% 8.58% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 195 224
10th Percentile £213 £225 £188
25th Percentile £366 £368 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +11.11% -11.98%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £550
90th Percentile £638 £725 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £505 £488
% change year-on-year -10.89% +3.59% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 10 15
10th Percentile £20.85 £18.18 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £28.81 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £52.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.73% +39.33% -42.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.69 £62.50
90th Percentile £67.27 £65.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £52.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.73% +39.33% -42.31%

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 3,793 3,217 5,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.66% 13.18% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,394 2,010 3,087
10th Percentile £225 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £370 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £486
% change year-on-year +1.54% +0.31% -5.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 123 399
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.88 £17.69
Median hourly rate £43.85 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% -6.25% +111.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.81 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.60 £38.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.92% -3.98% +110.53%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -59 113 £470 -1.05% 44
North of England -23 90 £450 +3.09% 40
South East -32 60 £523 -5.00% 43
North West +5 56 £559 +78.80% 16
East of England -9 51 £235 -45.35% 25
Midlands -45 35 £300 -40.00% 16
West Midlands -32 32 £225 +7.14% 10
Yorkshire -43 31 £447 -22.35% 19
South West -31 22 £575 -6.50% 23
North East -20 3 £200 -20.00% 7
East Midlands -37 3 £625 +13.64% 6
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 (5.06%) Confluence
2 11 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.81%) nginx
4 9 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.69%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.12%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.84%) Apache
8 2 (0.56%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.56%) IIS
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.56%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.56%) WebSphere Portal
8 2 (0.56%) WordPress
9 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 35 (9.83%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.81%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.40%) Acrobat
3 5 (1.40%) Weka
4 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 91 (25.56%) Azure
2 82 (23.03%) AWS
3 61 (17.13%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (7.30%) GCP
5 23 (6.46%) Entra ID
6 19 (5.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 14 (3.93%) Amazon S3
7 14 (3.93%) Route 53
8 13 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.37%) Serverless
10 9 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (2.53%) Google Workspace
11 8 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.97%) Nutanix
12 7 (1.97%) OneDrive
12 7 (1.97%) SaaS
13 6 (1.69%) GitHub
14 5 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 190 (53.37%) DNS
2 124 (34.83%) Firewall
3 85 (23.88%) VPN
4 81 (22.75%) DHCP
5 71 (19.94%) WAN
6 65 (18.26%) LAN
7 52 (14.61%) HTTP
7 52 (14.61%) SSL
8 51 (14.33%) Network Security
9 48 (13.48%) VLAN
10 42 (11.80%) BIG-IP
11 40 (11.24%) BGP
12 34 (9.55%) OSPF
13 32 (8.99%) Wi-Fi
13 32 (8.99%) Wireshark
14 31 (8.71%) Ethernet
15 27 (7.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 20 (5.62%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 15 (4.21%) Wireless
18 13 (3.65%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (3.09%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.40%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.56%) MySQL
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (11.24%) JIRA
2 28 (7.87%) Fiddler
3 16 (4.49%) GitLab
4 14 (3.93%) Eclipse
4 14 (3.93%) Visual Studio
5 12 (3.37%) Git
6 10 (2.81%) Jenkins
7 9 (2.53%) Browser DevTools
8 7 (1.97%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.97%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.12%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.56%) Introscope
10 2 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.56%) Subversion
11 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.28%) Travis CI
General
1 131 (36.80%) Social Skills
2 43 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (11.80%) Finance
4 39 (10.96%) Banking
5 26 (7.30%) Presentation Skills
6 25 (7.02%) Investment Banking
6 25 (7.02%) Public Sector
7 21 (5.90%) Military
8 18 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.81%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.97%) Front Office
12 5 (1.40%) Law
13 4 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.84%) Legal
15 2 (0.56%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.56%) Games
15 2 (0.56%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 83 (23.31%) Network Engineer
2 40 (11.24%) Analyst
3 36 (10.11%) Support Engineer
3 36 (10.11%) Web Engineer
4 30 (8.43%) Senior
5 25 (7.02%) Architect
6 22 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (5.34%) Blue Coat Engineer
7 19 (5.34%) IP Network Engineer
7 19 (5.34%) Technical Engineer
8 17 (4.78%) Systems Engineer
9 16 (4.49%) IT Engineer
9 16 (4.49%) Security Engineer
10 15 (4.21%) Integration Engineer
11 14 (3.93%) IT Support
12 13 (3.65%) IT Support Engineer
12 13 (3.65%) Technical Analyst
13 12 (3.37%) Junior
13 12 (3.37%) Technical Support
14 11 (3.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.34%) LDAP
2 16 (4.49%) Web Services
3 14 (3.93%) Node.js
4 11 (3.09%) SAML
5 9 (2.53%) 802.1X
5 9 (2.53%) OpenID
6 8 (2.25%) JSON
7 5 (1.40%) Kafka
7 5 (1.40%) REST
8 4 (1.12%) Middleware
8 4 (1.12%) NETCONF
8 4 (1.12%) OAuth
8 4 (1.12%) OpenConfig
8 4 (1.12%) RESTCONF
8 4 (1.12%) YANG
9 3 (0.84%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.84%) HTML
10 2 (0.56%) .NET
10 2 (0.56%) JDBC
10 2 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.30%) Data Centre
1 26 (7.30%) Management Information System
2 18 (5.06%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.21%) Industry 4.0
3 15 (4.21%) Robotics
4 13 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (3.65%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.09%) PKI
6 10 (2.81%) Cyberattack
6 10 (2.81%) Private Cloud
6 10 (2.81%) Security Operations Centre
7 9 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (2.53%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.53%) NHS
7 9 (2.53%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.97%) CMDB
8 7 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 153 (42.98%) Windows
2 85 (23.88%) Linux
3 50 (14.04%) Windows Server
4 23 (6.46%) Windows 10
5 16 (4.49%) Android
6 13 (3.65%) Unix
7 9 (2.53%) Apple iOS
7 9 (2.53%) Mac OS
8 8 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.69%) zOS
10 5 (1.40%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.84%) Debian
12 3 (0.84%) VMS
12 3 (0.84%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.84%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.56%) AIX
13 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (30.34%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (15.73%) ITIL
3 52 (14.61%) Agile
4 44 (12.36%) Load Balancing
5 38 (10.67%) DevOps
6 36 (10.11%) Customer Service
6 36 (10.11%) Cybersecurity
7 34 (9.55%) Incident Response
7 34 (9.55%) SIEM
7 34 (9.55%) Validation
8 32 (8.99%) CI/CD
9 30 (8.43%) Migration
10 29 (8.15%) Data Loss Prevention
10 29 (8.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 28 (7.87%) Decision-Making
11 28 (7.87%) Malware Detection/Protection
12 27 (7.58%) Security Operations
13 26 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
14 23 (6.46%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (6.46%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 80 (22.47%) Python
2 56 (15.73%) PowerShell
3 39 (10.96%) Bash
4 28 (7.87%) JavaScript
5 20 (5.62%) C++
6 17 (4.78%) SQL
7 16 (4.49%) C#
8 7 (1.97%) C
8 7 (1.97%) Java
9 6 (1.69%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.40%) Go
10 5 (1.40%) Perl
10 5 (1.40%) VBA
11 2 (0.56%) Jython
11 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.56%) VBScript
12 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 110 (30.90%) Security Cleared
2 92 (25.84%) SC Cleared
3 45 (12.64%) Degree
4 41 (11.52%) Cisco Certification
5 33 (9.27%) CCNP
6 23 (6.46%) DV Cleared
7 22 (6.18%) CCNA
8 17 (4.78%) CompTIA Security+
9 15 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (3.37%) CISSP
11 11 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (2.53%) Azure Certification
13 8 (2.25%) CompTIA CySA+
13 8 (2.25%) JNCIS
13 8 (2.25%) MCSA
14 7 (1.97%) CCIE
14 7 (1.97%) MCSE
14 7 (1.97%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (1.12%) CISM
15 4 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.53%) SLA
2 5 (1.40%) GDPR
2 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.84%) NCSC
3 3 (0.84%) NIST
4 2 (0.56%) QA
4 2 (0.56%) RMADS
5 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.28%) GRC
System Software
1 77 (21.63%) Active Directory
2 48 (13.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (6.74%) Docker
4 19 (5.34%) Firmware
5 9 (2.53%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.53%) Squid
5 9 (2.53%) VMware NSX
5 9 (2.53%) vSphere
6 8 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.69%) Lustre
7 6 (1.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 5 (1.40%) GPFS
9 4 (1.12%) KVM
9 4 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.84%) NFS
11 2 (0.56%) Ceph
11 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.28%) iptables
12 1 (0.28%) RHEV
12 1 (0.28%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 57 (16.01%) Ansible
2 37 (10.39%) Kubernetes
3 35 (9.83%) Terraform
4 30 (8.43%) SCCM
5 23 (6.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (5.90%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (5.06%) Grafana
8 15 (4.21%) Prometheus
9 14 (3.93%) FortiGate
10 9 (2.53%) Nagios
10 9 (2.53%) WSUS
11 8 (2.25%) Consul
12 6 (1.69%) Puppet
12 6 (1.69%) Tivoli NetView
13 5 (1.40%) CASB
13 5 (1.40%) Nessus
14 4 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (1.12%) QRadar
15 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Satellite
16 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 98 (27.53%) Microsoft
2 66 (18.54%) VMware
3 58 (16.29%) F5
4 45 (12.64%) Cisco
5 30 (8.43%) Blue Coat
6 28 (7.87%) McAfee
7 24 (6.74%) Splunk
8 21 (5.90%) Fortinet
8 21 (5.90%) NetApp
8 21 (5.90%) Palo Alto
9 20 (5.62%) Juniper
9 20 (5.62%) Red Hat
10 19 (5.34%) Citrix
10 19 (5.34%) ServiceNow
11 16 (4.49%) Siemens
12 13 (3.65%) SolarWinds
13 11 (3.09%) Bloomberg
13 11 (3.09%) Google
13 11 (3.09%) Meraki
13 11 (3.09%) Veeam