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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 212 241
Rank change year-on-year -42 +29 -15
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 378 309 369
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 1.25% 0.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.38% 9.29% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 211 263
10th Percentile £213 £213 £184
25th Percentile £379 £391 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £634 £555
90th Percentile £643 £738 £650
UK median daily rate £460 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -12.38% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 9 20
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £31.25 £24.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £54.50 £53.44
Median % change year-on-year -25.28% +1.98% -17.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.37
90th Percentile - £66.75 £71.93
UK median hourly rate £40.72 £54.50 £53.44
% change year-on-year -25.28% +1.98% -17.78%

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 3,641 3,327 5,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.00% 13.50% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,341 2,038 3,226
10th Percentile £205 £210 £205
25th Percentile £368 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £487 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.60% +5.26% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 113 377
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.04 £14.26
25th Percentile £20.09 £21.46 £19.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +110.53%
75th Percentile £65.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.50% +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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -69 113 £477 -8.14% 43
North of England -17 98 £447 +11.61% 49
North West +6 62 £540 +44.00% 23
South East -31 59 £523 -5.00% 51
East of England -5 55 £350 -30.00% 33
South West -13 34 £700 +13.82% 23
Midlands -39 34 £200 -55.56% 17
West Midlands -34 33 £200 -4.76% 10
Yorkshire -51 33 £433 -24.67% 18
North East -17 3 £200 +6.67% 11
East Midlands -38 1 £625 +25.00% 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 20 (5.29%) Confluence
1 20 (5.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (5.03%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.70%) Skype for Business
4 9 (2.38%) nginx
5 7 (1.85%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.79%) Apache
7 2 (0.53%) IIS
7 2 (0.53%) WordPress
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.26%) Traefik
8 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.26%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 41 (10.85%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.65%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.59%) Weka
4 5 (1.32%) Acrobat
5 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) RMDS
1 1 (0.26%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 96 (25.40%) Azure
2 89 (23.54%) AWS
3 71 (18.78%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (7.41%) GCP
5 22 (5.82%) Entra ID
6 19 (5.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 14 (3.70%) Amazon S3
8 13 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (3.17%) Route 53
10 10 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.38%) Serverless
12 8 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.12%) GitHub
13 7 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.85%) Nutanix
13 7 (1.85%) SaaS
14 6 (1.59%) Google Workspace
14 6 (1.59%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 203 (53.70%) DNS
2 121 (32.01%) Firewall
3 96 (25.40%) DHCP
4 89 (23.54%) VPN
5 74 (19.58%) WAN
6 67 (17.72%) LAN
7 58 (15.34%) SSL
8 55 (14.55%) HTTP
9 50 (13.23%) Network Security
10 46 (12.17%) VLAN
11 41 (10.85%) BIG-IP
12 38 (10.05%) Wireshark
13 36 (9.52%) BGP
14 32 (8.47%) Wi-Fi
15 31 (8.20%) OSPF
16 29 (7.67%) Ethernet
17 26 (6.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 22 (5.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
19 19 (5.03%) Wireless
20 15 (3.97%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.06%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.26%) Big Data
5 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.26%) Impala
5 1 (0.26%) MySQL
5 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.26%) Power BI
5 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (9.52%) JIRA
2 31 (8.20%) Fiddler
3 23 (6.08%) GitLab
4 14 (3.70%) Git
4 14 (3.70%) Jenkins
5 13 (3.44%) Eclipse
5 13 (3.44%) Visual Studio
6 7 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.85%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.59%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (1.06%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.53%) Maven
11 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.26%) GCC
11 1 (0.26%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.26%) Introscope
11 1 (0.26%) MSI
11 1 (0.26%) Travis CI
General
1 138 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 58 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (10.58%) Finance
4 37 (9.79%) Banking
5 31 (8.20%) Public Sector
6 30 (7.94%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (6.61%) Investment Banking
8 20 (5.29%) Military
9 18 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (2.38%) Front Office
12 8 (2.12%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.32%) Law
15 4 (1.06%) Legal
16 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
17 2 (0.53%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.53%) Aviation
17 2 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
18 1 (0.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 94 (24.87%) Network Engineer
2 49 (12.96%) Support Engineer
3 47 (12.43%) Analyst
4 35 (9.26%) Web Engineer
5 33 (8.73%) Senior
6 25 (6.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (6.08%) Architect
8 21 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
9 19 (5.03%) Technical Analyst
9 19 (5.03%) Technical Support
10 18 (4.76%) Blue Coat Engineer
10 18 (4.76%) IP Network Engineer
10 18 (4.76%) Junior
11 17 (4.50%) Systems Engineer
12 16 (4.23%) IT Engineer
12 16 (4.23%) IT Support
13 14 (3.70%) Security Engineer
14 13 (3.44%) 2nd Line Support
14 13 (3.44%) IT Support Engineer
14 13 (3.44%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.76%) LDAP
2 15 (3.97%) Web Services
3 13 (3.44%) Node.js
4 9 (2.38%) 802.1X
4 9 (2.38%) OpenID
5 8 (2.12%) Middleware
5 8 (2.12%) SAML
6 5 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (1.32%) JSON
7 4 (1.06%) Kafka
7 4 (1.06%) NETCONF
7 4 (1.06%) OAuth
7 4 (1.06%) OpenConfig
7 4 (1.06%) REST
7 4 (1.06%) RESTCONF
7 4 (1.06%) Ultra Messaging
7 4 (1.06%) YANG
8 3 (0.79%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.79%) React
9 2 (0.53%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.47%) Management Information System
2 29 (7.67%) Data Centre
3 19 (5.03%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.23%) Public Cloud
5 15 (3.97%) Industry 4.0
5 15 (3.97%) Robotics
6 13 (3.44%) NHS
7 12 (3.17%) CMDB
7 12 (3.17%) PKI
8 11 (2.91%) Driving Licence
8 11 (2.91%) Private Cloud
9 10 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
9 10 (2.65%) Cyberattack
9 10 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
9 10 (2.65%) Security Posture
10 8 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.59%) Grid Computing
11 6 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 165 (43.65%) Windows
2 96 (25.40%) Linux
3 53 (14.02%) Windows Server
4 26 (6.88%) Windows 10
5 14 (3.70%) Android
5 14 (3.70%) Unix
6 9 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (2.12%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.85%) Mac OS
9 6 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (1.32%) Ubuntu
10 5 (1.32%) zOS
11 4 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.79%) Debian
12 3 (0.79%) VMS
12 3 (0.79%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.53%) AIX
13 2 (0.53%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (30.42%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (14.81%) ITIL
3 52 (13.76%) Agile
4 49 (12.96%) Load Balancing
5 44 (11.64%) DevOps
6 40 (10.58%) CI/CD
6 40 (10.58%) Incident Response
7 38 (10.05%) Customer Service
8 35 (9.26%) SIEM
9 34 (8.99%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 32 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
11 31 (8.20%) Decision-Making
11 31 (8.20%) Validation
12 30 (7.94%) Data Loss Prevention
13 29 (7.67%) Malware Detection/Protection
13 29 (7.67%) Migration
14 28 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
16 26 (6.88%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 95 (25.13%) Python
2 70 (18.52%) PowerShell
3 47 (12.43%) Bash
4 20 (5.29%) JavaScript
4 20 (5.29%) SQL
5 17 (4.50%) C++
6 16 (4.23%) C#
7 11 (2.91%) Java
8 9 (2.38%) Perl
9 6 (1.59%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.32%) C
10 5 (1.32%) Go
11 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.53%) VBA
11 2 (0.53%) VBScript
12 1 (0.26%) Bicep
12 1 (0.26%) Jython
12 1 (0.26%) Ruby
12 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 125 (33.07%) Security Cleared
2 98 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 42 (11.11%) Degree
4 39 (10.32%) Cisco Certification
5 35 (9.26%) DV Cleared
6 31 (8.20%) CCNP
7 18 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
8 17 (4.50%) CCNA
9 16 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (3.70%) CISSP
11 13 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (2.65%) JNCIS
13 9 (2.38%) Azure Certification
13 9 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
14 8 (2.12%) MCSE
15 7 (1.85%) CCIE
15 7 (1.85%) CompTIA CySA+
15 7 (1.85%) MCSA
15 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 6 (1.59%) ECDL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.65%) SLA
2 8 (2.12%) GDPR
3 5 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.06%) NCSC
5 3 (0.79%) NIST
6 2 (0.53%) QA
7 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
7 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.26%) RMADS
7 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 87 (23.02%) Active Directory
2 50 (13.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (8.73%) Docker
4 20 (5.29%) Firmware
5 11 (2.91%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.91%) VMware NSX
6 8 (2.12%) Squid
6 8 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.12%) vSphere
7 7 (1.85%) Lustre
7 7 (1.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 6 (1.59%) GPFS
8 6 (1.59%) KVM
9 5 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.53%) Ceph
10 2 (0.53%) NDS
10 2 (0.53%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 2 (0.53%) NFS
10 2 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.26%) Samba
Systems Management
1 67 (17.72%) Ansible
2 41 (10.85%) Terraform
3 39 (10.32%) Kubernetes
4 32 (8.47%) SCCM
5 28 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (6.08%) Grafana
7 20 (5.29%) Prometheus
8 19 (5.03%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (3.17%) FortiGate
10 9 (2.38%) Nagios
11 8 (2.12%) Consul
11 8 (2.12%) Puppet
12 7 (1.85%) WSUS
13 5 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (1.32%) CASB
13 5 (1.32%) Nessus
13 5 (1.32%) Tivoli NetView
14 4 (1.06%) ITRS Geneos
14 4 (1.06%) Progress Chef
14 4 (1.06%) QRadar
Vendors
1 110 (29.10%) Microsoft
2 72 (19.05%) VMware
3 63 (16.67%) F5
4 45 (11.90%) Cisco
5 36 (9.52%) Blue Coat
6 33 (8.73%) McAfee
7 27 (7.14%) Palo Alto
8 25 (6.61%) Splunk
9 24 (6.35%) Juniper
10 23 (6.08%) NetApp
11 22 (5.82%) Fortinet
12 21 (5.56%) ServiceNow
13 19 (5.03%) Red Hat
14 15 (3.97%) CheckPoint
14 15 (3.97%) Siemens
15 14 (3.70%) Citrix
16 13 (3.44%) SolarWinds
17 12 (3.17%) Oracle
18 11 (2.91%) Aruba
18 11 (2.91%) Veeam