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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 206 215
Rank change year-on-year -35 +9 +9
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 368 343 415
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 1.31% 1.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.59% 10.08% 7.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 207 283
10th Percentile £200 £213 £181
25th Percentile £300 £380 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +6.32% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £572
90th Percentile £713 £738 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 6 42
10th Percentile £15.50 £24.88 £20.78
25th Percentile £21.25 £38.75 £40.68
Median hourly rate £40.72 £63.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.13% +27.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £67.25 £69.38 £68.66
UK median hourly rate £40.72 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -34.85% +25.00% -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 3,476 3,403 5,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.41% 12.95% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,269 1,968 3,237
10th Percentile £204 £213 £205
25th Percentile £356 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +3.09% -7.62%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.52% -4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 105 384
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.38
25th Percentile £18.97 £20.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -30.00% +143.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.00 £75.47
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -8.57% -30.00% +150.00%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -65 112 £500 - 56
North of England -18 91 £425 -10.05% 45
South East -16 57 £500 -4.76% 64
North West 0 51 £425 - 25
East of England -9 44 £381 -18.01% 43
West Midlands -10 40 £200 -8.57% 16
Midlands -37 40 £200 -11.11% 25
Yorkshire -38 36 £447 -37.33% 14
South West -24 32 £700 +13.82% 30
North East -17 4 £200 +6.67% 8
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 27 (7.34%) SharePoint
2 20 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (4.89%) Confluence
4 14 (3.80%) Skype for Business
5 8 (2.17%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.36%) nginx
7 3 (0.82%) Apache
8 2 (0.54%) IIS
8 2 (0.54%) WordPress
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.17%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.63%) Weka
4 5 (1.36%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Finacle
1 1 (0.27%) RMDS
1 1 (0.27%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 95 (25.82%) AWS
2 92 (25.00%) Azure
3 77 (20.92%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (5.98%) Amazon S3
4 22 (5.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 21 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
5 21 (5.71%) Entra ID
5 21 (5.71%) GCP
6 14 (3.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (3.80%) Amazon ELB
7 11 (2.99%) GitHub
8 9 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (2.17%) Route 53
10 7 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.90%) Google Workspace
10 7 (1.90%) SaaS
11 6 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.63%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 209 (56.79%) DNS
2 124 (33.70%) Firewall
3 110 (29.89%) DHCP
4 106 (28.80%) VPN
5 70 (19.02%) WAN
6 65 (17.66%) LAN
7 63 (17.12%) SSL
8 53 (14.40%) Network Security
9 47 (12.77%) VLAN
10 44 (11.96%) HTTP
11 40 (10.87%) Wireshark
12 34 (9.24%) BIG-IP
13 29 (7.88%) Wi-Fi
14 27 (7.34%) BGP
15 22 (5.98%) OSPF
16 20 (5.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 20 (5.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 18 (4.89%) SAN
18 16 (4.35%) Internet
19 14 (3.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.80%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.09%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.27%) Big Data
5 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.27%) Impala
5 1 (0.27%) MySQL
5 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.27%) Power BI
5 1 (0.27%) Redis
5 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (8.42%) JIRA
2 30 (8.15%) GitLab
3 28 (7.61%) Fiddler
3 28 (7.61%) Git
4 24 (6.52%) Jenkins
5 11 (2.99%) Eclipse
5 11 (2.99%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.36%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.36%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.09%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.09%) Subversion
8 3 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.82%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.54%) Maven
10 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.27%) GCC
10 1 (0.27%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.27%) MSI
10 1 (0.27%) Travis CI
General
1 131 (35.60%) Social Skills
2 60 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (9.24%) Public Sector
4 31 (8.42%) Banking
5 28 (7.61%) Finance
6 23 (6.25%) Investment Banking
7 21 (5.71%) Military
8 14 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.72%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.45%) Front Office
12 7 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.63%) Local Government
14 4 (1.09%) Law
14 4 (1.09%) Legal
15 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.54%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.54%) Aviation
17 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 84 (22.83%) Network Engineer
2 55 (14.95%) Support Engineer
3 50 (13.59%) Analyst
4 42 (11.41%) Senior
5 38 (10.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 26 (7.07%) Web Engineer
7 25 (6.79%) IT Support
8 22 (5.98%) Architect
9 21 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support
10 20 (5.43%) IT Engineer
11 19 (5.16%) Junior
12 16 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
12 16 (4.35%) Technical Support
13 14 (3.80%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 14 (3.80%) Infrastructure Support
13 14 (3.80%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 14 (3.80%) IP Network Engineer
13 14 (3.80%) Junior Network Engineer
13 14 (3.80%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.80%) Web Services
2 13 (3.53%) Middleware
3 12 (3.26%) Node.js
4 9 (2.45%) LDAP
5 6 (1.63%) OpenID
5 6 (1.63%) REST
6 5 (1.36%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (1.36%) JSON
7 4 (1.09%) React
7 4 (1.09%) SAML
7 4 (1.09%) SOAP
7 4 (1.09%) Ultra Messaging
8 3 (0.82%) .NET
8 3 (0.82%) 802.1X
8 3 (0.82%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.82%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (0.82%) Bootstrap
8 3 (0.82%) Express.js
8 3 (0.82%) Kafka
8 3 (0.82%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.15%) Management Information System
2 29 (7.88%) Data Centre
3 24 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 15 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (3.26%) CMDB
6 12 (3.26%) Driving Licence
6 12 (3.26%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.99%) NHS
7 11 (2.99%) PKI
8 10 (2.72%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (2.45%) Cyberattack
10 8 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
10 8 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.90%) Replication
12 6 (1.63%) Grid Computing
13 5 (1.36%) Clustering
13 5 (1.36%) SCADA
13 5 (1.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 169 (45.92%) Windows
2 107 (29.08%) Linux
3 48 (13.04%) Windows Server
4 32 (8.70%) Windows 10
5 15 (4.08%) Android
6 13 (3.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (2.99%) Unix
8 9 (2.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (2.17%) Apple iOS
10 7 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (1.63%) Mac OS
11 6 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (1.63%) Ubuntu
12 5 (1.36%) VMS
13 4 (1.09%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (1.09%) zOS
14 3 (0.82%) CentOS
14 3 (0.82%) Debian
14 3 (0.82%) Solaris
15 2 (0.54%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (28.80%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (14.95%) ITIL
3 54 (14.67%) Agile
4 50 (13.59%) CI/CD
4 50 (13.59%) DevOps
5 48 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 46 (12.50%) Load Balancing
7 42 (11.41%) Incident Response
8 38 (10.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 37 (10.05%) SIEM
10 34 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
11 31 (8.42%) Root Cause Analysis
12 29 (7.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (7.34%) Customer Service
13 27 (7.34%) Data Loss Prevention
13 27 (7.34%) Mentoring
14 26 (7.07%) Disaster Recovery
14 26 (7.07%) High Availability
14 26 (7.07%) Migration
15 25 (6.79%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 101 (27.45%) Python
2 71 (19.29%) PowerShell
3 55 (14.95%) Bash
4 17 (4.62%) JavaScript
5 16 (4.35%) C++
5 16 (4.35%) SQL
6 15 (4.08%) C#
7 14 (3.80%) Perl
8 10 (2.72%) Java
9 7 (1.90%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.09%) C
10 4 (1.09%) Go
11 3 (0.82%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.54%) VBA
13 1 (0.27%) Bicep
13 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.27%) Ruby
13 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 129 (35.05%) Security Cleared
2 94 (25.54%) SC Cleared
3 35 (9.51%) DV Cleared
4 32 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (7.07%) CCNP
5 26 (7.07%) Degree
6 21 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (4.62%) Azure Certification
8 15 (4.08%) Network+ Certification
9 13 (3.53%) CCNA
10 11 (2.99%) Server+ Certification
11 10 (2.72%) CompTIA Security+
11 10 (2.72%) JNCIS
12 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 8 (2.17%) CCIE
13 8 (2.17%) CISSP
13 8 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (1.63%) ECDL
15 5 (1.36%) CISM
15 5 (1.36%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.26%) GDPR
2 8 (2.17%) SLA
3 7 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.09%) NCSC
4 4 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.82%) NIST
6 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.54%) QA
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.27%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.27%) RMADS
7 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 87 (23.64%) Active Directory
2 56 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (11.14%) Docker
4 25 (6.79%) Hyper-V
5 16 (4.35%) Firmware
6 10 (2.72%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.90%) Lustre
8 7 (1.90%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 7 (1.90%) vSphere
9 6 (1.63%) GPFS
9 6 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (1.36%) KVM
10 5 (1.36%) NFS
10 5 (1.36%) Squid
11 3 (0.82%) Veritas File System
11 3 (0.82%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 2 (0.54%) NDS
12 2 (0.54%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 79 (21.47%) Ansible
2 46 (12.50%) Terraform
3 36 (9.78%) SCCM
4 34 (9.24%) Kubernetes
5 31 (8.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (5.16%) Grafana
7 16 (4.35%) Prometheus
8 14 (3.80%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (2.99%) FortiGate
10 8 (2.17%) Puppet
10 8 (2.17%) WSUS
11 7 (1.90%) Nagios
12 6 (1.63%) Consul
12 6 (1.63%) QRadar
12 6 (1.63%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (1.09%) Iperf
14 4 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
14 4 (1.09%) Progress Chef
14 4 (1.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 116 (31.52%) Microsoft
2 81 (22.01%) VMware
3 68 (18.48%) F5
4 48 (13.04%) Cisco
5 39 (10.60%) Palo Alto
6 31 (8.42%) Blue Coat
7 30 (8.15%) McAfee
8 26 (7.07%) CheckPoint
8 26 (7.07%) Splunk
9 23 (6.25%) NetApp
10 21 (5.71%) Fortinet
11 20 (5.43%) ServiceNow
11 20 (5.43%) SolarWinds
12 19 (5.16%) Juniper
13 18 (4.89%) Red Hat
14 16 (4.35%) Meraki
15 13 (3.53%) Veeam
16 12 (3.26%) Citrix
16 12 (3.26%) Oracle
17 9 (2.45%) Zscaler