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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 235 258
Rank change year-on-year -11 +23 -37
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 448 303 327
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.10% 0.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.52% 8.79% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 186 213
10th Percentile £206 £208 £203
25th Percentile £325 £341 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £611 £553
90th Percentile £657 £653 £644
UK median daily rate £461 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -5.38% +8.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 23 32
10th Percentile £21.25 £19.72 £20.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £43.60 £61.00
Median hourly rate £38.72 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% - +28.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile £92.53 £88.30 £67.25
UK median hourly rate £42.86 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -34.06% - +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 4,260 3,449 4,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.49% 12.58% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,612 2,138 2,780
10th Percentile £250 £237 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 159 357
10th Percentile £16.03 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.83 £16.86
Median hourly rate £26.72 £44.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.27% +10.00% -9.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -45.26% +18.75% -11.11%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -43 178 £475 -5.00% 81
North of England -34 94 £448 -10.35% 39
South East -34 79 £527 +37.30% 78
North West -7 59 £450 +19.87% 14
Midlands -24 40 £401 -19.80% 24
East of England -4 35 £250 -52.38% 25
South West -9 35 £525 -14.63% 31
West Midlands -42 32 £400 -6.10% 14
Yorkshire -54 31 £460 -9.14% 22
East Midlands -13 8 £402 -26.91% 10
North East -33 4 £306 +22.50% 7
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 37 (8.26%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (3.57%) Confluence
4 14 (3.13%) nginx
5 7 (1.56%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.67%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (0.67%) IIS
6 3 (0.67%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.45%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.45%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.45%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.22%) CICS
8 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 33 (7.37%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.13%) 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 4 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 144 (32.14%) Azure
2 113 (25.22%) AWS
3 91 (20.31%) Microsoft 365
4 54 (12.05%) Entra ID
5 33 (7.37%) GCP
6 32 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 24 (5.36%) OneDrive
8 21 (4.69%) Route 53
9 20 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (3.35%) GitHub
11 14 (3.13%) Amazon S3
12 13 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.90%) Serverless
13 11 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (2.46%) Google Workspace
14 9 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (2.01%) OpenShift
15 8 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (1.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 263 (58.71%) DNS
2 190 (42.41%) Firewall
3 143 (31.92%) DHCP
4 128 (28.57%) VPN
5 80 (17.86%) Network Security
6 79 (17.63%) WAN
7 71 (15.85%) LAN
8 69 (15.40%) BGP
8 69 (15.40%) VLAN
9 59 (13.17%) HTTP
10 57 (12.72%) SSL
11 47 (10.49%) BIG-IP
12 42 (9.38%) OSPF
13 39 (8.71%) Ethernet
14 35 (7.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 34 (7.59%) Wi-Fi
16 31 (6.92%) Wireless
17 27 (6.03%) Wireshark
18 24 (5.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
19 23 (5.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (1.79%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.45%) MySQL
5 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.45%) SQLite
6 1 (0.22%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.22%) KDB
6 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (11.16%) JIRA
2 22 (4.91%) Git
3 20 (4.46%) Fiddler
4 16 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 14 (3.13%) GitLab
5 14 (3.13%) Visual Studio
6 13 (2.90%) Eclipse
7 10 (2.23%) Browser DevTools
8 8 (1.79%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.56%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.89%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.45%) Introscope
11 2 (0.45%) Subversion
12 1 (0.22%) MSI
12 1 (0.22%) Postman
General
1 174 (38.84%) Social Skills
2 63 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (13.17%) Finance
4 41 (9.15%) Banking
5 31 (6.92%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.91%) Investment Banking
6 22 (4.91%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (3.57%) Military
9 16 (3.57%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.56%) Front Office
11 5 (1.12%) Legal
11 5 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.89%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.89%) Police
13 3 (0.67%) Retail
14 2 (0.45%) Advertising
14 2 (0.45%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 96 (21.43%) Network Engineer
2 50 (11.16%) Support Engineer
3 49 (10.94%) Architect
4 40 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 40 (8.93%) Senior
5 35 (7.81%) Analyst
6 27 (6.03%) IT Support
6 27 (6.03%) Web Engineer
7 24 (5.36%) Security Engineer
8 23 (5.13%) IT Engineer
9 22 (4.91%) Technical Engineer
10 20 (4.46%) Systems Engineer
11 19 (4.24%) IT Support Engineer
12 16 (3.57%) Blue Coat Engineer
12 16 (3.57%) IP Network Engineer
13 15 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (3.35%) Software Engineer
14 14 (3.13%) C# Software Engineer
14 14 (3.13%) Senior Network Engineer
15 13 (2.90%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.69%) LDAP
2 19 (4.24%) SAML
3 13 (2.90%) JSON
3 13 (2.90%) Node.js
3 13 (2.90%) Web Services
4 11 (2.46%) OpenID
5 10 (2.23%) REST
6 9 (2.01%) 802.1X
6 9 (2.01%) ARM Templates
7 8 (1.79%) .NET
8 6 (1.34%) NETCONF
8 6 (1.34%) OpenConfig
8 6 (1.34%) RESTCONF
8 6 (1.34%) YANG
9 5 (1.12%) OAuth
10 4 (0.89%) boto
10 4 (0.89%) eBPF
10 4 (0.89%) WinForms
10 4 (0.89%) XML
11 3 (0.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 68 (15.18%) Data Centre
2 42 (9.38%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.58%) Management Information System
4 22 (4.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 22 (4.91%) PKI
5 20 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (3.79%) Robotics
6 17 (3.79%) Security Posture
7 15 (3.35%) Industry 4.0
7 15 (3.35%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (3.35%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.68%) Private Cloud
10 10 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (2.23%) Cloud Native
10 10 (2.23%) Cyber Threat
10 10 (2.23%) Driving Licence
10 10 (2.23%) Operational Technology
11 9 (2.01%) SCADA
12 8 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 183 (40.85%) Windows
2 99 (22.10%) Linux
3 52 (11.61%) Windows Server
4 35 (7.81%) Mac OS
5 30 (6.70%) Windows 10
6 18 (4.02%) Unix
7 17 (3.79%) Apple iOS
8 14 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (2.90%) Android
10 11 (2.46%) Ubuntu
11 6 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.67%) CentOS
13 3 (0.67%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.67%) zOS
14 2 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.45%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.22%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (27.90%) Problem-Solving
2 88 (19.64%) ITIL
3 61 (13.62%) CI/CD
4 59 (13.17%) Agile
5 56 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 54 (12.05%) Customer Service
6 54 (12.05%) DevOps
7 51 (11.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 50 (11.16%) Load Balancing
9 42 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
10 40 (8.93%) High Availability
10 40 (8.93%) Incident Response
10 40 (8.93%) ITSM
11 39 (8.71%) Migration
12 36 (8.04%) Service Management
12 36 (8.04%) SIEM
13 35 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
13 35 (7.81%) Validation
14 31 (6.92%) Decision-Making
14 31 (6.92%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 122 (27.23%) Python
2 73 (16.29%) PowerShell
3 62 (13.84%) Bash
4 27 (6.03%) JavaScript
5 25 (5.58%) C++
6 17 (3.79%) C#
7 13 (2.90%) SQL
8 9 (2.01%) VBA
9 8 (1.79%) Java
10 6 (1.34%) C
10 6 (1.34%) Perl
11 5 (1.12%) ActionScript
11 5 (1.12%) Bicep
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
1 123 (27.46%) Security Cleared
2 85 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 70 (15.63%) Degree
4 55 (12.28%) Cisco Certification
5 41 (9.15%) CCNP
6 38 (8.48%) DV Cleared
7 26 (5.80%) CCNA
8 25 (5.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (4.02%) CISSP
10 16 (3.57%) CCIE
11 15 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (2.68%) Network+ Certification
13 11 (2.46%) Azure Certification
14 10 (2.23%) MCSA
15 9 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
16 8 (1.79%) MCSE
17 7 (1.56%) A+ Certification
18 6 (1.34%) CompTIA CySA+
18 6 (1.34%) JNCIE
19 5 (1.12%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.68%) NCSC
1 12 (2.68%) SLA
2 10 (2.23%) NIST
3 7 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.56%) QA
4 5 (1.12%) GDPR
5 4 (0.89%) NIST 800
5 4 (0.89%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 3 (0.67%) GxP
7 2 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.45%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.45%) RMADS
8 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 114 (25.45%) Active Directory
2 73 (16.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.91%) Hyper-V
4 21 (4.69%) Docker
5 20 (4.46%) vSphere
6 17 (3.79%) Firmware
6 17 (3.79%) VMware NSX
7 13 (2.90%) Squid
8 12 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.89%) NFS
11 3 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.45%) KVM
12 2 (0.45%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.22%) GPFS
13 1 (0.22%) Lustre
13 1 (0.22%) RACF
13 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.22%) Snort
Systems Management
1 88 (19.64%) Ansible
2 67 (14.96%) Terraform
3 42 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 42 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (6.70%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (5.36%) Grafana
5 24 (5.36%) SCCM
6 17 (3.79%) FortiGate
6 17 (3.79%) Prometheus
7 11 (2.46%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (2.01%) Consul
9 8 (1.79%) VxRail
10 7 (1.56%) WSUS
11 6 (1.34%) CASB
12 5 (1.12%) Nessus
12 5 (1.12%) Suricata
13 4 (0.89%) systemd
14 3 (0.67%) Nagios
14 3 (0.67%) Puppet
14 3 (0.67%) SELinux
Vendors
1 159 (35.49%) Microsoft
2 82 (18.30%) VMware
3 79 (17.63%) Cisco
4 63 (14.06%) F5
5 45 (10.04%) ServiceNow
6 27 (6.03%) Google
7 26 (5.80%) Fortinet
8 25 (5.58%) Blue Coat
9 24 (5.36%) Palo Alto
10 22 (4.91%) Juniper
10 22 (4.91%) Zscaler
11 21 (4.69%) Infoblox
12 19 (4.24%) CheckPoint
12 19 (4.24%) Citrix
12 19 (4.24%) McAfee
12 19 (4.24%) NetApp
12 19 (4.24%) Red Hat
13 17 (3.79%) Siemens
14 16 (3.57%) Splunk
15 13 (2.90%) SolarWinds