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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 221 278
Rank change year-on-year -53 +57 -43
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 348 270 299
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 1.13% 0.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.90% 8.69% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 194 205
10th Percentile £253 £225 £184
25th Percentile £400 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +1.44%
75th Percentile £550 £623 £560
90th Percentile £638 £675 £642
UK median daily rate £461 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.75% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 10 21
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.54 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £20.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.58 £52.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.16% -19.62% +7.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.69 -
90th Percentile - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £52.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -19.73% -19.62% +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 3,912 3,107 4,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.47% 12.96% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 1,935 2,876
10th Percentile £263 £214 £210
25th Percentile £400 £361 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +1.52% -6.19%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £488
% change year-on-year +4.06% -1.44% -5.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 114 389
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £36.25 £37.07 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -7.32% +122.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £64.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.25 £70.13
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -59 126 £475 -2.56% 57
North of England -18 89 £450 +16.13% 38
South East -37 58 £510 +13.33% 66
North West -4 57 £540 +116.00% 23
East of England -14 37 £175 -59.30% 26
Midlands -51 33 £400 -27.27% 24
West Midlands -35 30 £388 -29.55% 17
Yorkshire -40 27 £447 -11.70% 12
South West -29 19 £500 -18.70% 22
North East -26 5 £306 +22.50% 4
East Midlands -28 3 £625 +13.64% 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 18 (5.17%) Confluence
2 11 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.87%) nginx
4 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.15%) IIS
6 3 (0.86%) Apache
6 3 (0.86%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.57%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.57%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.57%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.29%) CICS
8 1 (0.29%) Traefik
Applications
1 27 (7.76%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.59%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.15%) Acrobat
4 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 89 (25.57%) AWS
1 89 (25.57%) Azure
2 52 (14.94%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (7.18%) GCP
3 25 (7.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 24 (6.90%) Entra ID
5 17 (4.89%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (4.31%) Amazon S3
8 14 (4.02%) Route 53
9 13 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.74%) Serverless
10 9 (2.59%) GitHub
11 8 (2.30%) OneDrive
12 7 (2.01%) Akamai
12 7 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.01%) Google Workspace
12 7 (2.01%) Nutanix
12 7 (2.01%) SaaS
13 6 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 186 (53.45%) DNS
2 126 (36.21%) Firewall
3 84 (24.14%) VPN
4 76 (21.84%) DHCP
5 64 (18.39%) WAN
6 63 (18.10%) Network Security
7 59 (16.95%) HTTP
7 59 (16.95%) LAN
7 59 (16.95%) SSL
8 46 (13.22%) VLAN
9 45 (12.93%) BGP
10 43 (12.36%) BIG-IP
11 36 (10.34%) OSPF
12 31 (8.91%) Ethernet
12 31 (8.91%) Wireshark
13 26 (7.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 24 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
15 19 (5.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 17 (4.89%) Wireless
17 13 (3.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.59%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.44%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.57%) MySQL
7 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.29%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (11.49%) JIRA
2 27 (7.76%) Fiddler
3 22 (6.32%) GitLab
4 18 (5.17%) Git
5 14 (4.02%) Jenkins
6 12 (3.45%) Eclipse
6 12 (3.45%) Visual Studio
7 9 (2.59%) Browser DevTools
8 7 (2.01%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.01%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.15%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.86%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.57%) Introscope
11 2 (0.57%) Subversion
12 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.29%) Postman
12 1 (0.29%) Travis CI
General
1 120 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 50 (14.37%) Finance
3 45 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.63%) Banking
5 24 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.61%) Investment Banking
7 22 (6.32%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (4.89%) Military
10 8 (2.30%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.72%) Front Office
12 5 (1.44%) Law
13 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.57%) Aviation
14 2 (0.57%) Games
14 2 (0.57%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.57%) Retail
14 2 (0.57%) Spanish Language
15 1 (0.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 84 (24.14%) Network Engineer
2 38 (10.92%) Analyst
3 35 (10.06%) Web Engineer
4 27 (7.76%) Senior
5 25 (7.18%) Architect
5 25 (7.18%) Security Engineer
5 25 (7.18%) Support Engineer
6 22 (6.32%) Technical Engineer
7 18 (5.17%) Blue Coat Engineer
7 18 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (5.17%) IP Network Engineer
8 17 (4.89%) Junior
8 17 (4.89%) Systems Engineer
9 13 (3.74%) Integration Engineer
9 13 (3.74%) Technical Support
10 12 (3.45%) Junior Network Engineer
11 11 (3.16%) IT Support
11 11 (3.16%) Software Engineer
11 11 (3.16%) Technical Analyst
12 10 (2.87%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.03%) LDAP
2 15 (4.31%) SAML
3 12 (3.45%) Node.js
3 12 (3.45%) Web Services
4 11 (3.16%) OpenID
5 9 (2.59%) 802.1X
5 9 (2.59%) JSON
6 5 (1.44%) Kafka
6 5 (1.44%) OAuth
6 5 (1.44%) REST
7 3 (0.86%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.86%) HTML
7 3 (0.86%) Middleware
7 3 (0.86%) NETCONF
7 3 (0.86%) OpenConfig
7 3 (0.86%) RESTCONF
7 3 (0.86%) XML
7 3 (0.86%) YANG
8 2 (0.57%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.77%) Data Centre
2 27 (7.76%) Onboarding
3 22 (6.32%) Management Information System
4 15 (4.31%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (4.31%) Industry 4.0
4 15 (4.31%) Robotics
5 12 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
6 10 (2.87%) Cyberattack
6 10 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.87%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.87%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.72%) NHS
8 6 (1.72%) PKI
8 6 (1.72%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.44%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.44%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 131 (37.64%) Windows
2 73 (20.98%) Linux
3 41 (11.78%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.60%) Mac OS
5 15 (4.31%) Unix
5 15 (4.31%) Windows 10
6 11 (3.16%) Android
7 10 (2.87%) Apple iOS
7 10 (2.87%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.72%) Ubuntu
10 5 (1.44%) zOS
11 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.86%) Debian
12 3 (0.86%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.57%) CentOS
13 2 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (15.52%) ITIL
3 48 (13.79%) Agile
4 44 (12.64%) Load Balancing
5 42 (12.07%) DevOps
6 41 (11.78%) Incident Response
7 34 (9.77%) CI/CD
8 33 (9.48%) Customer Service
8 33 (9.48%) SIEM
9 30 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
9 30 (8.62%) Migration
9 30 (8.62%) Validation
10 29 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
10 29 (8.33%) Decision-Making
10 29 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 28 (8.05%) Security Operations
12 27 (7.76%) Malware Detection/Protection
13 26 (7.47%) High Availability
13 26 (7.47%) Infrastructure as Code
14 23 (6.61%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 81 (23.28%) Python
2 38 (10.92%) Bash
3 36 (10.34%) PowerShell
4 26 (7.47%) JavaScript
5 18 (5.17%) C++
6 16 (4.60%) SQL
7 13 (3.74%) C#
8 8 (2.30%) Java
9 7 (2.01%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.01%) VBA
10 6 (1.72%) C
10 6 (1.72%) Go
11 4 (1.15%) Perl
12 2 (0.57%) Jython
13 1 (0.29%) Groovy
13 1 (0.29%) Ruby
13 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 101 (29.02%) Security Cleared
2 82 (23.56%) SC Cleared
3 53 (15.23%) Degree
4 41 (11.78%) Cisco Certification
5 35 (10.06%) CCNP
6 23 (6.61%) CCNA
7 19 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (5.46%) DV Cleared
8 16 (4.60%) CompTIA Security+
9 14 (4.02%) CISSP
10 12 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (2.59%) Azure Certification
11 9 (2.59%) MCSA
12 8 (2.30%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (2.01%) CCIE
13 7 (2.01%) CompTIA CySA+
13 7 (2.01%) JNCIS
13 7 (2.01%) MCSE
14 5 (1.44%) CISM
15 4 (1.15%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.87%) SLA
2 6 (1.72%) GDPR
2 6 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.15%) QA
4 3 (0.86%) NCSC
4 3 (0.86%) NIST
5 2 (0.57%) RMADS
6 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.29%) GRC
System Software
1 64 (18.39%) Active Directory
2 43 (12.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.17%) Docker
3 18 (5.17%) Firmware
4 13 (3.74%) Squid
5 9 (2.59%) VMware NSX
5 9 (2.59%) vSphere
6 8 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (2.01%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.44%) KVM
9 4 (1.15%) NFS
10 2 (0.57%) Ceph
10 2 (0.57%) Lustre
10 2 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.29%) iptables
11 1 (0.29%) RACF
11 1 (0.29%) Samba
11 1 (0.29%) Snort
11 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 63 (18.10%) Ansible
2 37 (10.63%) Terraform
3 33 (9.48%) Kubernetes
4 27 (7.76%) Grafana
5 25 (7.18%) SCCM
6 24 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (6.32%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (4.89%) Prometheus
9 16 (4.60%) FortiGate
10 10 (2.87%) Nagios
11 9 (2.59%) Consul
12 8 (2.30%) WSUS
13 6 (1.72%) CASB
14 5 (1.44%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (1.44%) Nessus
14 5 (1.44%) Suricata
15 4 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (1.15%) Puppet
15 4 (1.15%) QRadar
15 4 (1.15%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 86 (24.71%) Microsoft
2 59 (16.95%) VMware
3 58 (16.67%) F5
4 48 (13.79%) Cisco
5 32 (9.20%) Blue Coat
6 27 (7.76%) McAfee
7 26 (7.47%) Splunk
8 21 (6.03%) Palo Alto
8 21 (6.03%) ServiceNow
9 20 (5.75%) NetApp
9 20 (5.75%) Red Hat
10 19 (5.46%) Fortinet
11 18 (5.17%) Citrix
12 17 (4.89%) Juniper
12 17 (4.89%) Siemens
13 14 (4.02%) Zscaler
14 13 (3.74%) SolarWinds
15 11 (3.16%) Bloomberg
15 11 (3.16%) Veeam
16 10 (2.87%) Google