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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 198 199
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 +24
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 404 388 493
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.32% 1.25% 1.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.72% 10.20% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 211 316
10th Percentile £185 £210 £180
25th Percentile £280 £271 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +11.76% -18.27%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £577
90th Percentile £725 £688 £677
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £431
% change year-on-year -2.11% +10.14% -16.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 18 58
10th Percentile £15.50 £41.75 £23.13
25th Percentile £33.00 £63.13 £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 3,446 3,804 5,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.24% 12.26% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,213 2,211 3,433
10th Percentile £206 £238 £210
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £677 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 134 328
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £18.82
25th Percentile £20.69 £23.90 £23.07
Median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +26.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £55.70
% change year-on-year -20.00% -23.70% +34.22%

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 26 November 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 26 November 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 26 November 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 -1 155 £544 +11.54% 70
North of England -29 79 £475 +11.76% 26
East of England +5 55 £413 -29.79% 42
South East -12 54 £375 -14.29% 107
Yorkshire -29 39 £425 -15.00% 9
North West -11 37 £535 +15.68% 14
Midlands -28 35 £213 -43.33% 27
West Midlands 0 34 £225 - 16
South West -15 27 £700 +27.27% 38
North East -12 3 £400 +166.67% 3
East Midlands -30 1 £165 -56.00% 10
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 34 (8.42%) SharePoint
2 25 (6.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.47%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.73%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.49%) Confluence
6 4 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.50%) IIS
8 2 (0.50%) nginx
8 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.50%) WordPress
9 1 (0.25%) Apache
9 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 39 (9.65%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.49%) Weka
3 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.50%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.25%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.25%) Eikon
1 1 (0.25%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.25%) Finacle
1 1 (0.25%) RMDS
1 1 (0.25%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 84 (20.79%) Microsoft 365
2 83 (20.54%) Azure
3 77 (19.06%) AWS
4 26 (6.44%) Amazon S3
5 25 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
5 25 (6.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (5.69%) Entra ID
7 22 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (5.45%) Amazon ELB
8 21 (5.20%) GCP
9 14 (3.47%) GitHub
10 8 (1.98%) SaaS
11 7 (1.73%) OneDrive
12 6 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.49%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (0.74%) AWS Direct Connect
14 3 (0.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 207 (51.24%) DNS
2 143 (35.40%) Firewall
3 118 (29.21%) DHCP
4 113 (27.97%) VPN
5 71 (17.57%) SSL
6 60 (14.85%) LAN
7 59 (14.60%) WAN
8 54 (13.37%) Network Security
9 52 (12.87%) VLAN
10 42 (10.40%) HTTP
11 26 (6.44%) Wireshark
12 25 (6.19%) BGP
12 25 (6.19%) Internet
13 23 (5.69%) Ethernet
13 23 (5.69%) SAN
13 23 (5.69%) Wi-Fi
14 19 (4.70%) OSPF
14 19 (4.70%) Wireless
15 16 (3.96%) BIG-IP
16 14 (3.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.46%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.23%) NoSQL
3 6 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.24%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.99%) Big Data
6 3 (0.74%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.74%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.74%) Parquet
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.25%) Impala
8 1 (0.25%) MySQL
8 1 (0.25%) Power BI
8 1 (0.25%) Redis
8 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (12.38%) Git
2 46 (11.39%) Jenkins
3 30 (7.43%) GitLab
4 22 (5.45%) Eclipse
4 22 (5.45%) Visual Studio
5 16 (3.96%) JIRA
5 16 (3.96%) Postman
6 14 (3.47%) Fiddler
7 8 (1.98%) Subversion
8 4 (0.99%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.99%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.74%) MLflow
9 3 (0.74%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.50%) Maven
10 2 (0.50%) Mercurial
10 2 (0.50%) Poetry
10 2 (0.50%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 150 (37.13%) Social Skills
2 76 (18.81%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (12.38%) Finance
4 33 (8.17%) Public Sector
5 29 (7.18%) Military
6 27 (6.68%) Presentation Skills
7 22 (5.45%) Banking
8 15 (3.71%) Investment Banking
9 13 (3.22%) Front Office
10 11 (2.72%) Legal
11 10 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.98%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.98%) Law
13 8 (1.98%) Local Government
14 3 (0.74%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.50%) Advertising
15 2 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 73 (18.07%) Support Engineer
2 66 (16.34%) Network Engineer
3 57 (14.11%) Senior
4 52 (12.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 46 (11.39%) Analyst
6 36 (8.91%) IT Support
7 29 (7.18%) IT Engineer
8 25 (6.19%) Support Analyst
8 25 (6.19%) Technical Support
9 23 (5.69%) Technical Engineer
10 21 (5.20%) 2nd Line Support
11 20 (4.95%) C# Software Engineer
11 20 (4.95%) Developer
11 20 (4.95%) Software Engineer
12 18 (4.46%) DevOps Engineer
13 16 (3.96%) IT Support Engineer
13 16 (3.96%) Junior
13 16 (3.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (3.71%) Automation Engineer
15 14 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.19%) Node.js
1 25 (6.19%) Web Services
2 20 (4.95%) Middleware
3 11 (2.72%) FIX Protocol
3 11 (2.72%) LDAP
4 9 (2.23%) REST
5 6 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (1.24%) FpML
6 5 (1.24%) Ultra Messaging
7 4 (0.99%) React
7 4 (0.99%) SAML
7 4 (0.99%) SOAP
8 3 (0.74%) .NET
8 3 (0.74%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.74%) Apache Avro
8 3 (0.74%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (0.74%) Bootstrap
8 3 (0.74%) Express.js
8 3 (0.74%) Flask
8 3 (0.74%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.43%) Data Centre
2 24 (5.94%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.71%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (3.71%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.22%) NHS
4 13 (3.22%) Private Cloud
5 12 (2.97%) Driving Licence
6 11 (2.72%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.72%) Replication
6 11 (2.72%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.98%) CMDB
8 8 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.98%) iPhone
8 8 (1.98%) PKI
9 7 (1.73%) Clustering
9 7 (1.73%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.73%) SCADA
10 6 (1.49%) Derivative
10 6 (1.49%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 193 (47.77%) Windows
2 126 (31.19%) Linux
3 52 (12.87%) Windows Server
4 47 (11.63%) Windows 10
5 24 (5.94%) Unix
6 17 (4.21%) Mac OS
7 15 (3.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (3.47%) Android
9 13 (3.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (1.98%) Apple iOS
10 8 (1.98%) Ubuntu
10 8 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (1.73%) Solaris
11 7 (1.73%) Windows 7
12 6 (1.49%) CentOS
12 6 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (1.24%) VMS
14 4 (0.99%) Debian
15 3 (0.74%) AIX
15 3 (0.74%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (25.99%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (18.56%) Agile
3 70 (17.33%) CI/CD
4 65 (16.09%) DevOps
5 64 (15.84%) ITIL
6 58 (14.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 48 (11.88%) High Availability
8 44 (10.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 36 (8.91%) Load Balancing
10 34 (8.42%) Continuous Integration
10 34 (8.42%) Validation
11 32 (7.92%) Configuration Management
12 30 (7.43%) Infrastructure Automation
13 29 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (6.68%) Migration
15 26 (6.44%) Incident Response
15 26 (6.44%) Knowledge Transfer
16 25 (6.19%) Customer Service
17 24 (5.94%) TDD
17 24 (5.94%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 132 (32.67%) Python
2 69 (17.08%) Bash
3 63 (15.59%) PowerShell
4 34 (8.42%) C++
5 30 (7.43%) C#
6 24 (5.94%) JavaScript
7 22 (5.45%) Perl
8 21 (5.20%) SQL
9 13 (3.22%) Java
10 5 (1.24%) Go
10 5 (1.24%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.99%) C
11 4 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.74%) Groovy
12 3 (0.74%) PHP
12 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.25%) Bicep
13 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.25%) Ruby
13 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 105 (25.99%) Security Cleared
2 77 (19.06%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.66%) Cisco Certification
4 34 (8.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 32 (7.92%) Degree
6 28 (6.93%) DV Cleared
7 23 (5.69%) CCNP
8 18 (4.46%) CCNA
9 14 (3.47%) MCP
9 14 (3.47%) Network+ Certification
10 13 (3.22%) Azure Certification
11 12 (2.97%) MCSE
12 11 (2.72%) Server+ Certification
13 10 (2.48%) CISSP
14 9 (2.23%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (1.98%) MCSA
16 7 (1.73%) A+ Certification
17 6 (1.49%) CCIE
17 6 (1.49%) ECDL
17 6 (1.49%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.70%) GDPR
2 6 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.24%) SLA
4 4 (0.99%) NIST
5 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.25%) NCSC
6 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 95 (23.51%) Active Directory
2 79 (19.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (10.40%) Docker
4 35 (8.66%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.22%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (2.72%) Firmware
7 7 (1.73%) Lustre
7 7 (1.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 6 (1.49%) GPFS
8 6 (1.49%) Terminal Services
8 6 (1.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 6 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.24%) NFS
9 5 (1.24%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.99%) Veritas File System
10 4 (0.99%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 4 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.74%) KVM
12 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 92 (22.77%) Ansible
2 58 (14.36%) Terraform
3 36 (8.91%) SCCM
4 25 (6.19%) Puppet
5 24 (5.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (4.95%) Kubernetes
7 12 (2.97%) Grafana
7 12 (2.97%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.48%) Microsoft Clustering
9 9 (2.23%) FortiGate
9 9 (2.23%) vCenter Server
10 8 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.49%) Nessus
11 6 (1.49%) WSUS
12 5 (1.24%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (1.24%) QRadar
13 4 (0.99%) CASB
13 4 (0.99%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.74%) Argo
14 3 (0.74%) Istio
Vendors
1 155 (38.37%) Microsoft
2 99 (24.50%) VMware
3 57 (14.11%) F5
4 50 (12.38%) Cisco
4 50 (12.38%) Palo Alto
5 40 (9.90%) CheckPoint
6 22 (5.45%) Citrix
7 20 (4.95%) Blue Coat
7 20 (4.95%) ServiceNow
8 19 (4.70%) Red Hat
9 18 (4.46%) Fortinet
10 17 (4.21%) NetApp
11 16 (3.96%) McAfee
11 16 (3.96%) MuleSoft
12 15 (3.71%) SolarWinds
12 15 (3.71%) Splunk
13 13 (3.22%) Juniper
13 13 (3.22%) Oracle
14 10 (2.48%) Zscaler
15 9 (2.23%) Meraki
267 TCP/IP jobs in England