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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 204 238
Rank change year-on-year -32 +34 -19
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 399 322 371
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 1.27% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.88% 9.55% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 210 263
10th Percentile £206 £213 £184
25th Percentile £365 £387 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £629 £561
90th Percentile £661 £738 £660
UK median daily rate £465 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -11.43% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 7 21
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £24.88 £25.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £54.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -23.05% -3.52% -13.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.38 £57.50
90th Percentile - £68.50 £69.62
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £43.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -3.59% -23.00% -13.09%

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 3,666 3,371 5,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.09% 13.29% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,365 2,029 3,163
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £366 £367 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £677 £700
UK median daily rate £481 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -3.75% +4.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 103 365
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.11 £19.99
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -12.50% +108.88%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £74.60
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -1.43% -12.50% +107.25%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -66 123 £492 -2.81% 51
North of England -12 100 £449 -5.08% 60
North West +3 60 £559 +49.00% 30
East of England +1 60 £381 -18.01% 36
South East -38 55 £500 -9.09% 66
Yorkshire -49 37 £443 -30.59% 20
West Midlands -25 36 £173 -18.34% 15
Midlands -40 36 £173 -61.67% 23
South West -26 35 £638 +3.66% 29
North East -14 3 £200 +6.67% 12
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 22 (5.51%) SharePoint
2 20 (5.01%) Confluence
2 20 (5.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.51%) Skype for Business
4 9 (2.26%) nginx
5 7 (1.75%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.75%) Apache
7 2 (0.50%) WordPress
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.25%) IIS
8 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 44 (11.03%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.51%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.50%) Weka
4 5 (1.25%) Acrobat
5 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) RMDS
1 1 (0.25%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 100 (25.06%) AWS
2 96 (24.06%) Azure
3 74 (18.55%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (7.52%) GCP
5 28 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (6.02%) Amazon S3
7 23 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (5.26%) Entra ID
9 13 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (3.26%) Amazon ELB
10 12 (3.01%) Route 53
11 10 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.26%) GitHub
12 9 (2.26%) Serverless
13 7 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.75%) Nutanix
14 6 (1.50%) Google Workspace
14 6 (1.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 219 (54.89%) DNS
2 132 (33.08%) Firewall
3 108 (27.07%) VPN
4 100 (25.06%) DHCP
5 69 (17.29%) SSL
5 69 (17.29%) WAN
6 63 (15.79%) LAN
7 57 (14.29%) Network Security
8 52 (13.03%) HTTP
9 50 (12.53%) VLAN
10 41 (10.28%) Wireshark
11 36 (9.02%) BIG-IP
12 33 (8.27%) BGP
13 32 (8.02%) Ethernet
14 30 (7.52%) Wi-Fi
15 28 (7.02%) OSPF
16 21 (5.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 21 (5.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 15 (3.76%) Wireless
18 14 (3.51%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.76%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.25%) Big Data
5 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.25%) Impala
5 1 (0.25%) MySQL
5 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.25%) Power BI
5 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (8.27%) JIRA
2 31 (7.77%) GitLab
3 30 (7.52%) Fiddler
4 25 (6.27%) Git
5 23 (5.76%) Jenkins
6 16 (4.01%) Eclipse
6 16 (4.01%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.75%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.75%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.00%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (1.00%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.50%) Maven
10 2 (0.50%) Subversion
11 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.25%) GCC
11 1 (0.25%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.25%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.25%) Travis CI
General
1 153 (38.35%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (9.77%) Finance
4 35 (8.77%) Banking
5 34 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 33 (8.27%) Presentation Skills
7 26 (6.52%) Military
8 24 (6.02%) Investment Banking
9 18 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (2.26%) Front Office
11 9 (2.26%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.25%) Law
14 4 (1.00%) Legal
15 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.75%) Local Government
16 2 (0.50%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.50%) Aviation
16 2 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 95 (23.81%) Network Engineer
2 50 (12.53%) Support Engineer
3 49 (12.28%) Analyst
4 41 (10.28%) Senior
5 33 (8.27%) Web Engineer
6 28 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (5.76%) Architect
8 21 (5.26%) IT Support
9 20 (5.01%) Security Engineer
9 20 (5.01%) Technical Engineer
10 19 (4.76%) IT Engineer
10 19 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
11 18 (4.51%) Junior
11 18 (4.51%) Technical Support
12 17 (4.26%) 2nd Line Support
12 17 (4.26%) Blue Coat Engineer
12 17 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (4.26%) IP Network Engineer
12 17 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
13 13 (3.26%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.76%) Web Services
2 18 (4.51%) LDAP
3 16 (4.01%) Node.js
4 10 (2.51%) Middleware
5 9 (2.26%) OpenID
5 9 (2.26%) SAML
6 7 (1.75%) 802.1X
7 5 (1.25%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (1.25%) JSON
7 5 (1.25%) REST
8 4 (1.00%) NETCONF
8 4 (1.00%) OAuth
8 4 (1.00%) OpenConfig
8 4 (1.00%) React
8 4 (1.00%) RESTCONF
8 4 (1.00%) SOAP
8 4 (1.00%) Ultra Messaging
8 4 (1.00%) YANG
9 3 (0.75%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (0.75%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.77%) Management Information System
2 29 (7.27%) Data Centre
3 19 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.01%) Public Cloud
5 15 (3.76%) Industry 4.0
5 15 (3.76%) Robotics
6 13 (3.26%) NHS
7 12 (3.01%) CMDB
7 12 (3.01%) PKI
8 11 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.76%) Driving Licence
8 11 (2.76%) Private Cloud
9 10 (2.51%) Cyber Threat
9 10 (2.51%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.26%) Cyberattack
10 9 (2.26%) Security Operations Centre
11 8 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.50%) Grid Computing
13 5 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 171 (42.86%) Windows
2 106 (26.57%) Linux
3 51 (12.78%) Windows Server
4 30 (7.52%) Windows 10
5 14 (3.51%) Android
6 13 (3.26%) Unix
7 8 (2.01%) Apple iOS
7 8 (2.01%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (1.50%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.25%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.25%) VMS
9 5 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (1.00%) zOS
11 3 (0.75%) Debian
11 3 (0.75%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.50%) AIX
12 2 (0.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (14.04%) Agile
3 53 (13.28%) CI/CD
4 52 (13.03%) DevOps
4 52 (13.03%) ITIL
5 48 (12.03%) Incident Response
6 47 (11.78%) Load Balancing
7 43 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (10.28%) Customer Service
9 39 (9.77%) SIEM
10 37 (9.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 33 (8.27%) Validation
12 32 (8.02%) Cybersecurity
12 32 (8.02%) Root Cause Analysis
13 31 (7.77%) Data Loss Prevention
13 31 (7.77%) Decision-Making
14 29 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (7.27%) Mentoring
15 28 (7.02%) Malware Detection/Protection
16 25 (6.27%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 106 (26.57%) Python
2 69 (17.29%) PowerShell
3 59 (14.79%) Bash
4 23 (5.76%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.26%) C++
6 20 (5.01%) C#
7 18 (4.51%) SQL
8 11 (2.76%) Java
9 9 (2.26%) Perl
10 7 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.50%) C
12 5 (1.25%) Go
13 3 (0.75%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.50%) VBA
14 2 (0.50%) VBScript
15 1 (0.25%) Bicep
15 1 (0.25%) Ruby
15 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 131 (32.83%) Security Cleared
2 100 (25.06%) SC Cleared
3 44 (11.03%) Degree
4 40 (10.03%) Cisco Certification
5 33 (8.27%) DV Cleared
6 31 (7.77%) CCNP
7 21 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (4.26%) CCNA
8 17 (4.26%) CompTIA Security+
9 14 (3.51%) CISSP
10 12 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (2.76%) Azure Certification
11 11 (2.76%) Network+ Certification
12 10 (2.51%) JNCIS
12 10 (2.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (2.01%) CCIE
13 8 (2.01%) MCSE
14 7 (1.75%) MCSA
15 6 (1.50%) CompTIA CySA+
15 6 (1.50%) ECDL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.51%) GDPR
2 9 (2.26%) SLA
3 7 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.25%) NIST
5 4 (1.00%) NCSC
6 2 (0.50%) QA
6 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) RMADS
7 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 90 (22.56%) Active Directory
2 50 (12.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (10.78%) Docker
4 19 (4.76%) Firmware
5 17 (4.26%) Hyper-V
6 11 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (2.76%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.01%) Squid
8 7 (1.75%) Lustre
8 7 (1.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 7 (1.75%) vSphere
9 6 (1.50%) GPFS
9 6 (1.50%) KVM
10 5 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.75%) NFS
13 2 (0.50%) Ceph
13 2 (0.50%) NDS
13 2 (0.50%) NetIQ eDirectory
14 1 (0.25%) iptables
Systems Management
1 79 (19.80%) Ansible
2 51 (12.78%) Terraform
3 39 (9.77%) Kubernetes
4 35 (8.77%) SCCM
5 29 (7.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (5.76%) Grafana
7 20 (5.01%) Prometheus
7 20 (5.01%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (3.26%) FortiGate
9 9 (2.26%) Nagios
10 8 (2.01%) Consul
10 8 (2.01%) Puppet
10 8 (2.01%) WSUS
11 5 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (1.25%) CASB
11 5 (1.25%) Nessus
11 5 (1.25%) QRadar
12 4 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
12 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (1.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 118 (29.57%) Microsoft
2 74 (18.55%) VMware
3 68 (17.04%) F5
4 43 (10.78%) Cisco
5 36 (9.02%) Palo Alto
6 34 (8.52%) Blue Coat
7 32 (8.02%) McAfee
8 29 (7.27%) Splunk
9 26 (6.52%) CheckPoint
10 24 (6.02%) Juniper
11 22 (5.51%) NetApp
12 21 (5.26%) Fortinet
13 20 (5.01%) ServiceNow
14 19 (4.76%) Red Hat
15 15 (3.76%) Siemens
16 14 (3.51%) SolarWinds
16 14 (3.51%) Zscaler
17 13 (3.26%) Citrix
18 12 (3.01%) Oracle
19 11 (2.76%) Meraki