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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 230 267
Rank change year-on-year -59 +37 -33
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 346 271 305
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 1.14% 0.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.77% 8.72% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 194 210
10th Percentile £250 £225 £184
25th Percentile £382 £350 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +1.27% +2.74%
75th Percentile £550 £623 £560
90th Percentile £638 £675 £645
UK median daily rate £460 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +2.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 11 21
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.79 £16.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £23.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.22 £54.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.38% -16.15% +7.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £38.58 £54.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -29.21% -16.15% +7.04%

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 3,944 3,109 4,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 13.06% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,448 1,942 2,891
10th Percentile £263 £219 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £490
% change year-on-year +3.09% -1.02% -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 117 386
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +128.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.35 £70.33
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £38.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year -24.81% -3.98% +116.22%

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 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -69 124 £475 - 56
North of England -22 89 £450 +12.50% 35
South East -45 57 £520 +15.56% 66
North West +2 56 £540 +116.00% 21
East of England -24 36 £175 -59.30% 30
Midlands -45 34 £400 -27.27% 26
West Midlands -40 31 £388 -29.55% 17
Yorkshire -44 28 £447 -12.78% 11
South West -31 20 £500 -18.70% 25
North East -20 5 £306 +22.50% 4
East Midlands -33 3 £625 +13.64% 9
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 (5.20%) Confluence
2 12 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.89%) nginx
4 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.16%) IIS
6 3 (0.87%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.87%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.58%) Apache
7 2 (0.58%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.58%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.58%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.29%) CICS
8 1 (0.29%) Traefik
Applications
1 26 (7.51%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.31%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.16%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 90 (26.01%) Azure
2 89 (25.72%) AWS
3 53 (15.32%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (7.51%) GCP
5 25 (7.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (6.94%) Entra ID
7 17 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (4.34%) Amazon S3
10 14 (4.05%) Route 53
11 13 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.76%) Serverless
12 9 (2.60%) GitHub
12 9 (2.60%) OneDrive
13 7 (2.02%) Akamai
13 7 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.02%) Google Workspace
13 7 (2.02%) Nutanix
13 7 (2.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 186 (53.76%) DNS
2 125 (36.13%) Firewall
3 85 (24.57%) VPN
4 76 (21.97%) DHCP
5 63 (18.21%) WAN
6 62 (17.92%) Network Security
7 59 (17.05%) SSL
8 58 (16.76%) HTTP
8 58 (16.76%) LAN
9 46 (13.29%) VLAN
10 43 (12.43%) BGP
11 42 (12.14%) BIG-IP
12 34 (9.83%) OSPF
13 31 (8.96%) Ethernet
13 31 (8.96%) Wireshark
14 26 (7.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 25 (7.23%) Wi-Fi
16 19 (5.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 17 (4.91%) Wireless
18 13 (3.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (2.31%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.45%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.29%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.29%) MySQL
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (11.56%) JIRA
2 26 (7.51%) Fiddler
3 20 (5.78%) GitLab
4 16 (4.62%) Git
5 14 (4.05%) Jenkins
6 12 (3.47%) Eclipse
6 12 (3.47%) Visual Studio
7 9 (2.60%) Browser DevTools
8 7 (2.02%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.02%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.16%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.87%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.58%) Introscope
11 2 (0.58%) Subversion
12 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.29%) Postman
12 1 (0.29%) Travis CI
General
1 122 (35.26%) Social Skills
2 50 (14.45%) Finance
3 44 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.69%) Banking
5 23 (6.65%) Investment Banking
5 23 (6.65%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.36%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (4.91%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (4.91%) Military
9 8 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.73%) Front Office
11 5 (1.45%) Law
12 3 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.58%) Aviation
13 2 (0.58%) Games
13 2 (0.58%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.58%) Retail
13 2 (0.58%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.29%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 82 (23.70%) Network Engineer
2 37 (10.69%) Analyst
3 34 (9.83%) Web Engineer
4 27 (7.80%) Senior
4 27 (7.80%) Support Engineer
5 25 (7.23%) Architect
6 24 (6.94%) Security Engineer
7 22 (6.36%) Technical Engineer
8 18 (5.20%) Blue Coat Engineer
8 18 (5.20%) IP Network Engineer
9 17 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (4.91%) Systems Engineer
10 16 (4.62%) Junior
11 13 (3.76%) Integration Engineer
11 13 (3.76%) Technical Support
12 12 (3.47%) IT Support
13 11 (3.18%) Junior Network Engineer
13 11 (3.18%) Software Engineer
13 11 (3.18%) Technical Analyst
14 10 (2.89%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.78%) LDAP
2 15 (4.34%) SAML
3 12 (3.47%) Node.js
3 12 (3.47%) Web Services
4 11 (3.18%) OpenID
5 9 (2.60%) 802.1X
5 9 (2.60%) JSON
6 6 (1.73%) REST
7 5 (1.45%) Kafka
7 5 (1.45%) OAuth
8 3 (0.87%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.87%) HTML
8 3 (0.87%) Middleware
8 3 (0.87%) XML
9 2 (0.58%) eBPF
9 2 (0.58%) NETCONF
9 2 (0.58%) OpenConfig
9 2 (0.58%) RESTCONF
9 2 (0.58%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.54%) Data Centre
2 29 (8.38%) Onboarding
3 22 (6.36%) Management Information System
4 15 (4.34%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (4.34%) Industry 4.0
4 15 (4.34%) Robotics
5 12 (3.47%) Security Operations Centre
6 10 (2.89%) Cyberattack
6 10 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.89%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 8 (2.31%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.73%) NHS
9 6 (1.73%) PKI
9 6 (1.73%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.45%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 134 (38.73%) Windows
2 73 (21.10%) Linux
3 40 (11.56%) Windows Server
4 18 (5.20%) Mac OS
5 17 (4.91%) Windows 10
6 14 (4.05%) Unix
7 11 (3.18%) Android
7 11 (3.18%) Apple iOS
8 10 (2.89%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (1.73%) Ubuntu
11 5 (1.45%) zOS
12 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.87%) Debian
13 3 (0.87%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.87%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.58%) AIX
14 2 (0.58%) CentOS
14 2 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (28.90%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (15.61%) ITIL
3 48 (13.87%) Agile
4 44 (12.72%) Load Balancing
5 43 (12.43%) DevOps
6 41 (11.85%) Incident Response
7 36 (10.40%) Customer Service
8 35 (10.12%) CI/CD
9 32 (9.25%) SIEM
10 30 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (8.38%) Decision-Making
11 29 (8.38%) Validation
12 28 (8.09%) Data Loss Prevention
12 28 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 28 (8.09%) Migration
13 27 (7.80%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (7.51%) Malware Detection/Protection
14 26 (7.51%) Security Operations
15 25 (7.23%) High Availability
15 25 (7.23%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 78 (22.54%) Python
2 39 (11.27%) Bash
3 36 (10.40%) PowerShell
4 26 (7.51%) JavaScript
5 18 (5.20%) C++
6 16 (4.62%) SQL
7 13 (3.76%) C#
8 8 (2.31%) Java
9 7 (2.02%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.02%) VBA
10 6 (1.73%) C
10 6 (1.73%) Go
11 4 (1.16%) Perl
12 2 (0.58%) Jython
12 2 (0.58%) Ruby
13 1 (0.29%) Groovy
13 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 100 (28.90%) Security Cleared
2 82 (23.70%) SC Cleared
3 54 (15.61%) Degree
4 40 (11.56%) Cisco Certification
5 34 (9.83%) CCNP
6 24 (6.94%) CCNA
7 19 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (5.49%) DV Cleared
8 15 (4.34%) CompTIA Security+
9 14 (4.05%) CISSP
10 12 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (2.60%) Azure Certification
11 9 (2.60%) MCSA
12 8 (2.31%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (2.02%) CompTIA CySA+
13 7 (2.02%) JNCIS
13 7 (2.02%) MCSE
14 6 (1.73%) CCIE
15 5 (1.45%) CISM
16 4 (1.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.18%) SLA
2 6 (1.73%) GDPR
2 6 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.16%) NIST
3 4 (1.16%) QA
4 3 (0.87%) NCSC
5 2 (0.58%) RMADS
6 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.29%) GRC
6 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 66 (19.08%) Active Directory
2 43 (12.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.49%) Docker
4 18 (5.20%) Firmware
5 13 (3.76%) Squid
6 9 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (2.60%) vSphere
7 8 (2.31%) Hyper-V
7 8 (2.31%) VMware NSX
8 7 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.16%) KVM
10 3 (0.87%) NFS
11 1 (0.29%) Ceph
11 1 (0.29%) GPFS
11 1 (0.29%) Lustre
11 1 (0.29%) RACF
11 1 (0.29%) RHEV
11 1 (0.29%) Snort
11 1 (0.29%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 59 (17.05%) Ansible
2 37 (10.69%) Terraform
3 35 (10.12%) Kubernetes
4 27 (7.80%) Grafana
5 24 (6.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (6.65%) SCCM
7 22 (6.36%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (4.91%) Prometheus
9 16 (4.62%) FortiGate
10 10 (2.89%) Nagios
11 9 (2.60%) Consul
12 7 (2.02%) WSUS
13 6 (1.73%) CASB
13 6 (1.73%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (1.45%) Nessus
14 5 (1.45%) Puppet
14 5 (1.45%) Suricata
15 4 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (1.16%) QRadar
15 4 (1.16%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 88 (25.43%) Microsoft
2 58 (16.76%) VMware
3 56 (16.18%) F5
4 47 (13.58%) Cisco
5 31 (8.96%) Blue Coat
6 26 (7.51%) McAfee
6 26 (7.51%) Splunk
7 23 (6.65%) ServiceNow
8 20 (5.78%) Palo Alto
8 20 (5.78%) Red Hat
9 19 (5.49%) NetApp
10 18 (5.20%) Fortinet
11 17 (4.91%) Citrix
11 17 (4.91%) Siemens
12 16 (4.62%) Juniper
13 14 (4.05%) Zscaler
14 13 (3.76%) SolarWinds
15 11 (3.18%) Bloomberg
15 11 (3.18%) Google
15 11 (3.18%) Veeam