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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 187 200
Rank change year-on-year -37 +13 +23
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 383 385 476
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.22% 1.33% 1.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.25% 10.39% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 218 305
10th Percentile £185 £213 £176
25th Percentile £300 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £483 £438
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% +10.29% -16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £725 £700 £677
UK median daily rate £458 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -3.58% +5.56% -14.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 13 53
10th Percentile £15.50 £30.25 £21.25
25th Percentile £33.00 £62.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile - - £56.49
90th Percentile £82.10 £67.00 £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 3,404 3,707 5,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.87% 12.77% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,201 2,175 3,285
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 115 324
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.64 £17.73
25th Percentile £20.34 £21.46 £23.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £41.00 £56.45
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% -27.36% +27.13%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.00% -31.82% +32.53%

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 16 December 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 16 December 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 16 December 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 -24 136 £538 +7.50% 54
North of England -31 72 £449 -11.19% 47
South East -20 59 £425 -5.56% 89
East of England -1 53 £346 -38.44% 39
North West -17 43 £505 +3.86% 25
West Midlands -7 36 £225 - 17
Midlands -31 36 £225 -40.00% 22
South West -12 28 £700 +47.37% 34
Yorkshire -50 26 £393 -43.84% 17
North East -14 3 £400 +166.67% 6
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 (8.88%) SharePoint
2 23 (6.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.66%) Skype for Business
4 8 (2.09%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.83%) Confluence
6 4 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.78%) Apache
7 3 (0.78%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.78%) IIS
8 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.52%) WordPress
9 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 37 (9.66%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.57%) Weka
3 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.26%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Eikon
1 1 (0.26%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.26%) Finacle
1 1 (0.26%) RMDS
1 1 (0.26%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 91 (23.76%) AWS
2 89 (23.24%) Azure
3 79 (20.63%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (6.79%) Amazon S3
5 25 (6.53%) Amazon EC2
5 25 (6.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (6.27%) Entra ID
7 22 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (5.74%) Amazon ELB
7 22 (5.74%) GCP
8 15 (3.92%) GitHub
9 9 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (1.83%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.57%) SaaS
12 5 (1.31%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (0.78%) AWS KMS
14 3 (0.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 214 (55.87%) DNS
2 138 (36.03%) Firewall
3 117 (30.55%) DHCP
3 117 (30.55%) VPN
4 75 (19.58%) SSL
5 59 (15.40%) Network Security
6 57 (14.88%) LAN
6 57 (14.88%) WAN
7 52 (13.58%) VLAN
8 43 (11.23%) HTTP
9 29 (7.57%) Wireshark
10 27 (7.05%) BGP
11 21 (5.48%) OSPF
11 21 (5.48%) SAN
12 20 (5.22%) Ethernet
13 19 (4.96%) BIG-IP
13 19 (4.96%) Internet
13 19 (4.96%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (4.44%) Wireless
15 14 (3.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.96%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.31%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.31%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.04%) Big Data
5 3 (0.78%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.78%) Hadoop
5 3 (0.78%) Parquet
6 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.26%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.26%) Impala
7 1 (0.26%) MySQL
7 1 (0.26%) Power BI
7 1 (0.26%) Redis
7 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (10.70%) Git
2 36 (9.40%) Jenkins
3 31 (8.09%) GitLab
4 20 (5.22%) JIRA
5 19 (4.96%) Eclipse
5 19 (4.96%) Visual Studio
6 17 (4.44%) Fiddler
7 8 (2.09%) Subversion
8 4 (1.04%) Robot Framework
8 4 (1.04%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.78%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.78%) MLflow
9 3 (0.78%) Postman
9 3 (0.78%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.52%) Maven
10 2 (0.52%) Mercurial
10 2 (0.52%) Poetry
10 2 (0.52%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 141 (36.81%) Social Skills
2 67 (17.49%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (10.18%) Finance
4 35 (9.14%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.79%) Military
6 24 (6.27%) Presentation Skills
7 23 (6.01%) Banking
8 17 (4.44%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.87%) Legal
10 10 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.35%) Front Office
11 9 (2.35%) Law
11 9 (2.35%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.83%) Local Government
13 6 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.57%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.78%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.52%) Advertising
15 2 (0.52%) Electronics
15 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 69 (18.02%) Network Engineer
2 67 (17.49%) Support Engineer
3 52 (13.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 47 (12.27%) Senior
5 44 (11.49%) Analyst
6 33 (8.62%) IT Support
7 26 (6.79%) IT Engineer
8 23 (6.01%) Support Analyst
9 21 (5.48%) 2nd Line Support
9 21 (5.48%) Technical Support
10 18 (4.70%) DevOps Engineer
11 17 (4.44%) C# Software Engineer
11 17 (4.44%) Software Engineer
12 16 (4.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (4.18%) Web Engineer
13 15 (3.92%) IT Support Engineer
13 15 (3.92%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
14 14 (3.66%) Security Engineer
14 14 (3.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.74%) Node.js
1 22 (5.74%) Web Services
2 16 (4.18%) Middleware
3 9 (2.35%) REST
4 8 (2.09%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (2.09%) LDAP
5 7 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (1.31%) Ultra Messaging
7 4 (1.04%) React
7 4 (1.04%) SAML
7 4 (1.04%) SOAP
8 3 (0.78%) .NET
8 3 (0.78%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.78%) Apache Avro
8 3 (0.78%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (0.78%) Bootstrap
8 3 (0.78%) Express.js
8 3 (0.78%) Flask
8 3 (0.78%) Kafka
8 3 (0.78%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.05%) Data Centre
2 25 (6.53%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.39%) NHS
5 12 (3.13%) Driving Licence
5 12 (3.13%) Private Cloud
6 11 (2.87%) Replication
7 10 (2.61%) PKI
7 10 (2.61%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.09%) Clustering
9 8 (2.09%) CMDB
10 7 (1.83%) iPhone
10 7 (1.83%) SCADA
11 6 (1.57%) Grid Computing
11 6 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (1.31%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 183 (47.78%) Windows
2 119 (31.07%) Linux
3 52 (13.58%) Windows Server
4 42 (10.97%) Windows 10
5 20 (5.22%) Unix
6 13 (3.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (3.13%) Android
7 12 (3.13%) Mac OS
8 11 (2.87%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (2.09%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (1.57%) Ubuntu
11 6 (1.57%) VMS
12 5 (1.31%) Apple iOS
13 4 (1.04%) CentOS
13 4 (1.04%) Solaris
13 4 (1.04%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.78%) Debian
14 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (18.02%) CI/CD
3 60 (15.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 60 (15.67%) ITIL
4 59 (15.40%) Agile
5 56 (14.62%) DevOps
6 47 (12.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (11.75%) High Availability
8 39 (10.18%) Load Balancing
9 32 (8.36%) Infrastructure Automation
10 31 (8.09%) Incident Response
10 31 (8.09%) Validation
11 29 (7.57%) Continuous Integration
12 28 (7.31%) SIEM
13 27 (7.05%) Knowledge Transfer
14 25 (6.53%) Cybersecurity
14 25 (6.53%) DevSecOps
14 25 (6.53%) Disaster Recovery
15 24 (6.27%) Containerisation
15 24 (6.27%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 117 (30.55%) Python
2 70 (18.28%) Bash
3 69 (18.02%) PowerShell
4 28 (7.31%) C++
5 23 (6.01%) C#
6 22 (5.74%) Perl
7 21 (5.48%) JavaScript
8 20 (5.22%) SQL
9 11 (2.87%) Java
10 9 (2.35%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.09%) Go
12 5 (1.31%) C
13 4 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.78%) Groovy
14 3 (0.78%) PHP
14 3 (0.78%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.26%) Bicep
15 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.26%) Ruby
15 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 114 (29.77%) Security Cleared
2 83 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 37 (9.66%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (8.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 29 (7.57%) Degree
6 28 (7.31%) DV Cleared
7 26 (6.79%) CCNP
8 18 (4.70%) CCNA
9 16 (4.18%) Azure Certification
9 16 (4.18%) Network+ Certification
10 13 (3.39%) MCP
11 11 (2.87%) Server+ Certification
12 10 (2.61%) CISSP
12 10 (2.61%) MCSE
13 9 (2.35%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (1.57%) A+ Certification
14 6 (1.57%) CCIE
14 6 (1.57%) ECDL
14 6 (1.57%) HNC
14 6 (1.57%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.74%) GDPR
2 7 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.31%) SLA
4 4 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.04%) NIST
5 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.26%) NCSC
6 1 (0.26%) QA
6 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 94 (24.54%) Active Directory
2 65 (16.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (12.27%) Docker
4 32 (8.36%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (2.87%) Firmware
7 9 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.83%) Lustre
8 7 (1.83%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 6 (1.57%) GPFS
9 6 (1.57%) Terminal Services
10 5 (1.31%) KVM
10 5 (1.31%) NFS
11 4 (1.04%) Veritas File System
11 4 (1.04%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 4 (1.04%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.78%) vSphere
13 2 (0.52%) Ceph
13 2 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 82 (21.41%) Ansible
2 61 (15.93%) Terraform
3 37 (9.66%) SCCM
4 27 (7.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (6.53%) Kubernetes
6 16 (4.18%) Grafana
7 14 (3.66%) Prometheus
7 14 (3.66%) Puppet
8 10 (2.61%) FortiGate
9 9 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (2.35%) vCenter Server
10 8 (2.09%) WSUS
11 7 (1.83%) QRadar
12 6 (1.57%) Nessus
13 5 (1.31%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (1.31%) Nagios
13 5 (1.31%) Progress Chef
13 5 (1.31%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (1.04%) CASB
14 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 137 (35.77%) Microsoft
2 86 (22.45%) VMware
3 61 (15.93%) F5
4 52 (13.58%) Cisco
5 48 (12.53%) Palo Alto
6 38 (9.92%) CheckPoint
7 23 (6.01%) Blue Coat
8 22 (5.74%) ServiceNow
9 20 (5.22%) Citrix
9 20 (5.22%) Fortinet
9 20 (5.22%) SolarWinds
10 19 (4.96%) McAfee
10 19 (4.96%) NetApp
10 19 (4.96%) Splunk
11 16 (4.18%) Juniper
11 16 (4.18%) Red Hat
12 14 (3.66%) Oracle
13 11 (2.87%) Zscaler
14 10 (2.61%) CyberArk
14 10 (2.61%) Qualys
252 TCP/IP jobs in England