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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 239 265
Rank change year-on-year -20 +26 -41
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 419 301 333
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 1.11% 0.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.84% 8.81% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 189 219
10th Percentile £206 £213 £200
25th Percentile £313 £350 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% -5.01%
75th Percentile £569 £615 £556
90th Percentile £648 £664 £646
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £469
% change year-on-year -10.00% +6.67% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 20 34
10th Percentile £21.25 £19.29 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £38.09 £56.49
Median hourly rate £35.22 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.65% -3.85% +22.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £81.05 - £66.75
UK median hourly rate £36.97 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -40.85% -3.85% +22.94%

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 4,256 3,417 4,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 12.64% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,623 2,129 2,881
10th Percentile £250 £235 £215
25th Percentile £400 £364 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 149 388
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.93 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.98 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £41.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.83% -6.82% +60.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.03 £81.50 £74.30
UK median hourly rate £26.55 £45.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.00% +8.43% +38.33%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -54 161 £470 -6.00% 84
North of England -41 91 £447 -10.60% 47
South East -24 72 £530 +17.67% 84
North West 0 58 £475 +2.65% 19
Midlands -33 41 £401 -27.09% 34
East of England -21 37 £175 -58.82% 30
West Midlands -44 33 £400 -20.00% 21
South West -14 31 £475 -22.76% 50
Yorkshire -51 29 £447 -11.70% 23
East Midlands -14 8 £402 -26.91% 13
North East -35 4 £306 +6.52% 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 29 (6.92%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.86%) Confluence
4 10 (2.39%) nginx
5 7 (1.67%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.72%) IIS
6 3 (0.72%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.48%) FactoryTalk
7 2 (0.48%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.48%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.24%) CICS
8 1 (0.24%) Traefik
Applications
1 34 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.24%) Houdini
4 1 (0.24%) NUKE
4 1 (0.24%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 124 (29.59%) Azure
2 104 (24.82%) AWS
3 83 (19.81%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (10.98%) Entra ID
5 31 (7.40%) GCP
6 28 (6.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 21 (5.01%) OneDrive
7 21 (5.01%) Route 53
8 16 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (3.58%) Amazon S3
10 13 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.10%) Serverless
11 11 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.63%) GitHub
11 11 (2.63%) Google Workspace
12 8 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.91%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.67%) IaaS
14 6 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 241 (57.52%) DNS
2 169 (40.33%) Firewall
3 121 (28.88%) DHCP
4 107 (25.54%) VPN
5 78 (18.62%) WAN
6 75 (17.90%) Network Security
7 69 (16.47%) LAN
8 63 (15.04%) BGP
9 61 (14.56%) VLAN
10 58 (13.84%) HTTP
11 56 (13.37%) SSL
12 49 (11.69%) BIG-IP
13 39 (9.31%) Ethernet
14 38 (9.07%) OSPF
15 34 (8.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 29 (6.92%) Wi-Fi
16 29 (6.92%) Wireshark
17 26 (6.21%) Wireless
18 23 (5.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 23 (5.49%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.15%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.48%) MySQL
5 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.24%) KDB
6 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 48 (11.46%) JIRA
2 22 (5.25%) Fiddler
3 15 (3.58%) GitLab
4 14 (3.34%) Visual Studio
5 13 (3.10%) Eclipse
5 13 (3.10%) Git
5 13 (3.10%) Jenkins
6 10 (2.39%) Browser DevTools
7 7 (1.67%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.67%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.72%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.48%) Introscope
10 2 (0.48%) Subversion
11 1 (0.24%) MSI
11 1 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 164 (39.14%) Social Skills
2 57 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
2 57 (13.60%) Finance
3 39 (9.31%) Banking
4 25 (5.97%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.73%) Investment Banking
6 22 (5.25%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (3.58%) Telecoms
10 14 (3.34%) Military
11 8 (1.91%) Front Office
12 6 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.95%) Legal
14 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.72%) Retail
15 2 (0.48%) Games
15 2 (0.48%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 92 (21.96%) Network Engineer
2 49 (11.69%) Architect
3 46 (10.98%) Support Engineer
4 37 (8.83%) Analyst
5 30 (7.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 29 (6.92%) Web Engineer
7 27 (6.44%) Senior
8 26 (6.21%) IT Support
9 24 (5.73%) Security Engineer
10 22 (5.25%) Technical Engineer
11 21 (5.01%) IT Engineer
12 20 (4.77%) Systems Engineer
13 17 (4.06%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 17 (4.06%) IP Network Engineer
13 17 (4.06%) IT Support Engineer
14 14 (3.34%) Software Engineer
15 13 (3.10%) C# Software Engineer
15 13 (3.10%) Junior
15 13 (3.10%) Network Architect
15 13 (3.10%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.77%) LDAP
2 19 (4.53%) SAML
3 13 (3.10%) JSON
3 13 (3.10%) Node.js
3 13 (3.10%) Web Services
4 11 (2.63%) OpenID
5 10 (2.39%) REST
6 7 (1.67%) 802.1X
7 6 (1.43%) .NET
7 6 (1.43%) NETCONF
7 6 (1.43%) OpenConfig
7 6 (1.43%) RESTCONF
7 6 (1.43%) YANG
8 5 (1.19%) OAuth
9 4 (0.95%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.95%) XML
10 3 (0.72%) eBPF
10 3 (0.72%) HTML
10 3 (0.72%) Middleware
10 3 (0.72%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 61 (14.56%) Data Centre
2 36 (8.59%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 22 (5.25%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.82%) Security Posture
5 15 (3.58%) Industry 4.0
5 15 (3.58%) Robotics
6 13 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.10%) PKI
7 12 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
7 12 (2.86%) Private Cloud
7 12 (2.86%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (2.39%) Cloud Native
8 10 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.15%) Operational Technology
9 9 (2.15%) Security Operations Centre
10 8 (1.91%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.91%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 166 (39.62%) Windows
2 79 (18.85%) Linux
3 43 (10.26%) Windows Server
4 32 (7.64%) Mac OS
5 29 (6.92%) Windows 10
6 17 (4.06%) Apple iOS
6 17 (4.06%) Unix
7 13 (3.10%) Android
8 9 (2.15%) Ubuntu
9 8 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (1.19%) zOS
12 3 (0.72%) CentOS
12 3 (0.72%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.72%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.48%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (19.09%) ITIL
3 59 (14.08%) Agile
4 51 (12.17%) CI/CD
5 50 (11.93%) Load Balancing
6 49 (11.69%) Customer Service
7 43 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 42 (10.02%) DevOps
8 42 (10.02%) Incident Response
8 42 (10.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 38 (9.07%) High Availability
9 38 (9.07%) Migration
10 36 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (8.11%) ITSM
11 34 (8.11%) SIEM
12 32 (7.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (7.40%) Decision-Making
14 29 (6.92%) Technical Leadership
15 28 (6.68%) Validation
16 27 (6.44%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (26.73%) Python
2 57 (13.60%) PowerShell
3 51 (12.17%) Bash
4 27 (6.44%) JavaScript
5 23 (5.49%) C++
6 16 (3.82%) C#
7 10 (2.39%) SQL
8 9 (2.15%) VBA
9 6 (1.43%) C
10 5 (1.19%) ActionScript
11 4 (0.95%) Perl
12 3 (0.72%) Go
12 3 (0.72%) Java
13 2 (0.48%) Jython
13 2 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.48%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.48%) Ruby
13 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.24%) Groovy
14 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 106 (25.30%) Security Cleared
2 76 (18.14%) SC Cleared
3 71 (16.95%) Degree
4 50 (11.93%) Cisco Certification
5 36 (8.59%) CCNP
6 29 (6.92%) DV Cleared
7 26 (6.21%) CCNA
8 22 (5.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (3.82%) CISSP
11 15 (3.58%) CCIE
12 11 (2.63%) Azure Certification
13 10 (2.39%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (2.39%) MCSA
13 10 (2.39%) Network+ Certification
14 9 (2.15%) MCSE
15 7 (1.67%) CompTIA CySA+
16 6 (1.43%) JNCIE
17 5 (1.19%) A+ Certification
18 4 (0.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.86%) NCSC
2 10 (2.39%) SLA
3 9 (2.15%) NIST
4 7 (1.67%) QA
5 6 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.19%) GDPR
7 4 (0.95%) NIST 800
7 4 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.48%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.48%) GxP
8 2 (0.48%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.48%) RMADS
9 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.24%) GRC
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 98 (23.39%) Active Directory
2 65 (15.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.30%) Firmware
3 18 (4.30%) Hyper-V
4 17 (4.06%) Docker
5 15 (3.58%) VMware NSX
5 15 (3.58%) vSphere
6 13 (3.10%) Squid
7 12 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.95%) NFS
10 2 (0.48%) KVM
10 2 (0.48%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.24%) GPFS
11 1 (0.24%) Lustre
11 1 (0.24%) RACF
11 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.24%) Snort
Systems Management
1 76 (18.14%) Ansible
2 54 (12.89%) Terraform
3 37 (8.83%) Kubernetes
4 34 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (6.21%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (5.49%) Grafana
7 21 (5.01%) SCCM
8 18 (4.30%) Prometheus
9 17 (4.06%) FortiGate
10 11 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (2.15%) Consul
12 8 (1.91%) WSUS
13 6 (1.43%) CASB
14 5 (1.19%) Nessus
14 5 (1.19%) Suricata
14 5 (1.19%) VxRail
15 4 (0.95%) Tivoli NetView
16 3 (0.72%) Nagios
16 3 (0.72%) Puppet
16 3 (0.72%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 142 (33.89%) Microsoft
2 75 (17.90%) VMware
3 71 (16.95%) Cisco
4 64 (15.27%) F5
5 38 (9.07%) ServiceNow
6 27 (6.44%) Blue Coat
7 26 (6.21%) Fortinet
7 26 (6.21%) Google
8 24 (5.73%) Palo Alto
9 21 (5.01%) Citrix
9 21 (5.01%) Infoblox
9 21 (5.01%) McAfee
9 21 (5.01%) Zscaler
10 20 (4.77%) Juniper
11 18 (4.30%) NetApp
12 17 (4.06%) Siemens
13 16 (3.82%) CheckPoint
13 16 (3.82%) Red Hat
13 16 (3.82%) Splunk
14 13 (3.10%) SolarWinds