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

 6 months to
1 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 241 276
Rank change year-on-year -26 +35 -48
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 394 285 313
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 1.11% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.47% 8.73% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 181 207
10th Percentile £207 £213 £200
25th Percentile £338 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £566 £613 £575
90th Percentile £638 £663 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 17 32
10th Percentile £21.25 £18.79 £18.65
25th Percentile £24.44 £41.45 £53.93
Median hourly rate £32.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% -3.85% +16.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - £67.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -48.00% -3.85% +16.26%

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 4,159 3,265 4,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.49% 12.74% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,569 2,018 2,856
10th Percentile £250 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 140 395
10th Percentile £16.03 £14.69 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.75 £22.45 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £41.23 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -35.18% -10.15% +121.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.43 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.76% - +114.29%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -58 155 £470 +1.62% 69
North of England -30 91 £450 -0.11% 42
South East -34 65 £530 +17.67% 86
North West +7 58 £500 +76.99% 20
Midlands -39 38 £402 -26.91% 36
East of England -9 36 £168 -60.59% 37
West Midlands -32 31 £400 -20.00% 23
Yorkshire -52 29 £449 -10.30% 21
South West -22 22 £475 -22.76% 39
East Midlands -13 7 £451 -18.00% 13
North East -30 4 £306 +6.52% 5
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 25 (6.35%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.81%) Confluence
3 13 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.54%) nginx
5 5 (1.27%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.76%) IIS
6 3 (0.76%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.51%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.51%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.51%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.25%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 31 (7.87%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.51%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.25%) Houdini
6 1 (0.25%) NUKE
6 1 (0.25%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 110 (27.92%) Azure
2 93 (23.60%) AWS
3 74 (18.78%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (9.64%) Entra ID
5 31 (7.87%) GCP
6 28 (7.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 21 (5.33%) Route 53
8 19 (4.82%) OneDrive
9 16 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (3.81%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.30%) Serverless
12 11 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (2.79%) GitHub
13 10 (2.54%) Google Workspace
14 7 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (1.78%) IaaS
14 7 (1.78%) SaaS
15 6 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 218 (55.33%) DNS
2 150 (38.07%) Firewall
3 104 (26.40%) DHCP
4 97 (24.62%) VPN
5 77 (19.54%) WAN
6 73 (18.53%) Network Security
7 67 (17.01%) LAN
8 56 (14.21%) HTTP
8 56 (14.21%) SSL
9 55 (13.96%) BGP
10 54 (13.71%) VLAN
11 50 (12.69%) BIG-IP
12 38 (9.64%) Ethernet
13 35 (8.88%) OSPF
14 34 (8.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 30 (7.61%) Wireshark
16 28 (7.11%) Wi-Fi
17 23 (5.84%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 23 (5.84%) Wireless
18 22 (5.58%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.28%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.51%) MySQL
5 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.25%) KDB
6 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 47 (11.93%) JIRA
2 23 (5.84%) Fiddler
3 15 (3.81%) GitLab
4 14 (3.55%) Visual Studio
5 13 (3.30%) Eclipse
5 13 (3.30%) Jenkins
6 12 (3.05%) Git
7 9 (2.28%) Browser DevTools
8 7 (1.78%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.78%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.76%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.51%) Introscope
11 2 (0.51%) Subversion
12 1 (0.25%) MSI
12 1 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 157 (39.85%) Social Skills
2 56 (14.21%) Finance
3 52 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.64%) Banking
5 24 (6.09%) Investment Banking
6 22 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (5.08%) Public Sector
8 19 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (4.06%) Military
10 13 (3.30%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.03%) Front Office
12 6 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.02%) Legal
14 3 (0.76%) Retail
15 2 (0.51%) Aviation
15 2 (0.51%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.51%) Games
15 2 (0.51%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 89 (22.59%) Network Engineer
2 45 (11.42%) Architect
3 40 (10.15%) Support Engineer
4 35 (8.88%) Analyst
5 30 (7.61%) Web Engineer
6 26 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (6.09%) Security Engineer
8 23 (5.84%) Senior
9 22 (5.58%) IT Support
9 22 (5.58%) Technical Engineer
10 21 (5.33%) Systems Engineer
11 17 (4.31%) Blue Coat Engineer
11 17 (4.31%) IP Network Engineer
11 17 (4.31%) IT Engineer
12 14 (3.55%) Junior
12 14 (3.55%) Software Engineer
13 13 (3.30%) C# Software Engineer
13 13 (3.30%) IT Support Engineer
13 13 (3.30%) Technical Support
14 12 (3.05%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.08%) LDAP
2 18 (4.57%) SAML
3 13 (3.30%) Node.js
3 13 (3.30%) Web Services
4 12 (3.05%) JSON
5 11 (2.79%) OpenID
6 10 (2.54%) REST
7 7 (1.78%) 802.1X
8 6 (1.52%) .NET
9 5 (1.27%) OAuth
10 4 (1.02%) ARM Templates
10 4 (1.02%) NETCONF
10 4 (1.02%) OpenConfig
10 4 (1.02%) RESTCONF
10 4 (1.02%) XML
10 4 (1.02%) YANG
11 3 (0.76%) HTML
11 3 (0.76%) Kafka
11 3 (0.76%) Middleware
11 3 (0.76%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 55 (13.96%) Data Centre
2 36 (9.14%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.58%) Management Information System
4 21 (5.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 16 (4.06%) Security Posture
6 15 (3.81%) Industry 4.0
6 15 (3.81%) Robotics
7 12 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
8 11 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.54%) Cloud Native
9 10 (2.54%) Private Cloud
10 9 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.28%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (2.03%) Security Operations Centre
11 8 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.78%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.78%) PKI
13 6 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 154 (39.09%) Windows
2 70 (17.77%) Linux
3 41 (10.41%) Windows Server
4 31 (7.87%) Mac OS
5 25 (6.35%) Windows 10
6 17 (4.31%) Apple iOS
6 17 (4.31%) Unix
7 11 (2.79%) Android
8 7 (1.78%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.27%) zOS
10 3 (0.76%) Check Point GAiA
10 3 (0.76%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.51%) CentOS
11 2 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.51%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (18.78%) ITIL
3 57 (14.47%) Agile
4 51 (12.94%) Load Balancing
5 47 (11.93%) Customer Service
6 42 (10.66%) CI/CD
7 41 (10.41%) Incident Response
8 40 (10.15%) DevOps
9 39 (9.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 38 (9.64%) High Availability
11 37 (9.39%) Migration
12 36 (9.14%) Infrastructure as Code
13 33 (8.38%) ITSM
14 31 (7.87%) Decision-Making
15 29 (7.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (7.36%) Validation
16 27 (6.85%) Root Cause Analysis
17 26 (6.60%) SIEM
18 25 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
18 25 (6.35%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 100 (25.38%) Python
2 45 (11.42%) PowerShell
3 43 (10.91%) Bash
4 28 (7.11%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.58%) C++
6 16 (4.06%) C#
7 10 (2.54%) SQL
8 9 (2.28%) VBA
9 5 (1.27%) ActionScript
9 5 (1.27%) C
10 4 (1.02%) Perl
11 3 (0.76%) Go
11 3 (0.76%) Java
12 2 (0.51%) Jython
12 2 (0.51%) Ruby
12 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.25%) Groovy
13 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 96 (24.37%) Security Cleared
2 75 (19.04%) SC Cleared
3 69 (17.51%) Degree
4 46 (11.68%) Cisco Certification
5 35 (8.88%) CCNP
6 25 (6.35%) CCNA
7 19 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (4.57%) DV Cleared
9 17 (4.31%) CISSP
9 17 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (3.30%) CCIE
11 11 (2.79%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (2.54%) Azure Certification
12 10 (2.54%) MCSA
13 9 (2.28%) MCSE
14 8 (2.03%) Network+ Certification
15 5 (1.27%) CompTIA CySA+
16 4 (1.02%) CISM
16 4 (1.02%) JNCIE
16 4 (1.02%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.28%) NCSC
2 7 (1.78%) NIST
2 7 (1.78%) QA
2 7 (1.78%) SLA
3 5 (1.27%) GDPR
3 5 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.51%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.51%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.51%) RMADS
6 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 83 (21.07%) Active Directory
2 49 (12.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.57%) Firmware
4 13 (3.30%) Squid
5 12 (3.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (2.54%) Docker
7 9 (2.28%) Hyper-V
7 9 (2.28%) VMware NSX
8 8 (2.03%) vSphere
9 5 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.02%) NFS
11 2 (0.51%) KVM
11 2 (0.51%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.25%) GPFS
12 1 (0.25%) Lustre
12 1 (0.25%) RACF
12 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.25%) Snort
Systems Management
1 63 (15.99%) Ansible
2 42 (10.66%) Terraform
3 32 (8.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (7.11%) Kubernetes
5 25 (6.35%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (5.33%) Grafana
7 20 (5.08%) SCCM
8 17 (4.31%) FortiGate
9 16 (4.06%) Prometheus
10 11 (2.79%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (2.28%) Consul
12 8 (2.03%) WSUS
13 6 (1.52%) CASB
14 5 (1.27%) Nessus
14 5 (1.27%) Suricata
15 4 (1.02%) Nagios
15 4 (1.02%) Tivoli NetView
16 3 (0.76%) Puppet
16 3 (0.76%) Tivoli
17 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 134 (34.01%) Microsoft
2 65 (16.50%) Cisco
3 64 (16.24%) F5
4 59 (14.97%) VMware
5 34 (8.63%) ServiceNow
6 28 (7.11%) Blue Coat
7 25 (6.35%) Google
8 23 (5.84%) Fortinet
8 23 (5.84%) Palo Alto
9 22 (5.58%) McAfee
10 20 (5.08%) Citrix
10 20 (5.08%) Infoblox
10 20 (5.08%) Zscaler
11 18 (4.57%) Juniper
11 18 (4.57%) NetApp
12 17 (4.31%) Siemens
13 16 (4.06%) Splunk
14 15 (3.81%) CheckPoint
15 14 (3.55%) Red Hat
16 13 (3.30%) SolarWinds
285 TCP/IP jobs in England