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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 225 268
Rank change year-on-year -53 +43 -38
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 369 289 308
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.86% 1.16% 0.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.04% 9.02% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 195 206
10th Percentile £211 £222 £188
25th Percentile £350 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £623 £560
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 14 27
10th Percentile £21.25 £18.29 £17.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £32.44 £34.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% -3.85% +15.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile - - £66.00
UK median hourly rate £33.86 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -45.82% -3.85% +15.40%

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 4,082 3,205 4,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.47% 12.89% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,534 1,993 2,881
10th Percentile £250 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 130 393
10th Percentile £16.22 £14.64 £13.57
25th Percentile £21.29 £16.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -12.79% +134.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.43 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £44.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% +10.00% +110.53%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -57 148 £475 +2.70% 37
North of England -28 91 £450 - 34
North West +5 55 £515 +37.33% 22
South East -50 51 £500 +11.11% 61
East of England -14 37 £263 -38.95% 25
Midlands -42 33 £406 -26.14% 28
Yorkshire -58 32 £450 -10.00% 8
West Midlands -41 29 £388 -29.55% 19
South West -23 22 £500 -18.70% 22
East Midlands -21 4 £563 +2.27% 9
North East -34 4 £306 +22.50% 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 22 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.61%) Confluence
3 12 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.71%) nginx
5 3 (0.81%) IIS
5 3 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.81%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.54%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.54%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.27%) CICS
7 1 (0.27%) Traefik
Applications
1 28 (7.59%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.90%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.08%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.27%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 93 (25.20%) Azure
2 82 (22.22%) AWS
3 69 (18.70%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (8.67%) Entra ID
5 27 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (6.23%) GCP
7 17 (4.61%) OneDrive
8 16 (4.34%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (4.07%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.79%) Route 53
11 13 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.52%) GitHub
11 13 (3.52%) Serverless
12 11 (2.98%) Google Workspace
13 9 (2.44%) SaaS
14 7 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (1.90%) IaaS
15 6 (1.63%) Akamai
15 6 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 192 (52.03%) DNS
2 137 (37.13%) Firewall
3 86 (23.31%) DHCP
3 86 (23.31%) VPN
4 65 (17.62%) Network Security
4 65 (17.62%) WAN
5 58 (15.72%) LAN
6 56 (15.18%) SSL
7 55 (14.91%) HTTP
8 49 (13.28%) BGP
9 47 (12.74%) BIG-IP
9 47 (12.74%) VLAN
10 37 (10.03%) Ethernet
11 31 (8.40%) OSPF
12 30 (8.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 30 (8.13%) Wi-Fi
12 30 (8.13%) Wireshark
13 23 (6.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 21 (5.69%) Wireless
15 15 (4.07%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.98%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.44%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.27%) MySQL
6 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 48 (13.01%) JIRA
2 24 (6.50%) Fiddler
3 17 (4.61%) GitLab
4 15 (4.07%) Jenkins
5 14 (3.79%) Visual Studio
6 13 (3.52%) Eclipse
7 12 (3.25%) Git
8 9 (2.44%) Browser DevTools
9 7 (1.90%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.90%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.81%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.54%) Introscope
11 2 (0.54%) Subversion
12 1 (0.27%) MSI
12 1 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 145 (39.30%) Social Skills
2 55 (14.91%) Finance
3 41 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.30%) Banking
5 25 (6.78%) Investment Banking
6 22 (5.96%) Presentation Skills
6 22 (5.96%) Public Sector
7 20 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (4.88%) Military
9 15 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.17%) Front Office
10 8 (2.17%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.81%) Legal
11 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Aviation
12 2 (0.54%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.54%) Games
12 2 (0.54%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.54%) Retail
12 2 (0.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 90 (24.39%) Network Engineer
2 36 (9.76%) Analyst
2 36 (9.76%) Support Engineer
3 31 (8.40%) Web Engineer
4 30 (8.13%) Architect
5 25 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (6.50%) Senior
7 23 (6.23%) Security Engineer
8 22 (5.96%) Technical Engineer
9 21 (5.69%) IT Support
9 21 (5.69%) Systems Engineer
10 17 (4.61%) Blue Coat Engineer
10 17 (4.61%) IP Network Engineer
11 15 (4.07%) IT Engineer
11 15 (4.07%) Junior
12 14 (3.79%) Software Engineer
13 13 (3.52%) C# Software Engineer
13 13 (3.52%) Technical Support
14 12 (3.25%) Integration Engineer
14 12 (3.25%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.42%) LDAP
2 17 (4.61%) SAML
3 13 (3.52%) Node.js
3 13 (3.52%) Web Services
4 11 (2.98%) OpenID
5 10 (2.71%) 802.1X
5 10 (2.71%) JSON
6 8 (2.17%) REST
7 6 (1.63%) .NET
8 5 (1.36%) OAuth
9 3 (0.81%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.81%) HTML
9 3 (0.81%) Middleware
9 3 (0.81%) WinForms
10 2 (0.54%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.54%) eBPF
10 2 (0.54%) JDBC
10 2 (0.54%) Software Packaging
10 2 (0.54%) WebSphere MQ
10 2 (0.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.01%) Data Centre
2 40 (10.84%) Onboarding
3 21 (5.69%) Management Information System
4 15 (4.07%) Industry 4.0
4 15 (4.07%) Robotics
5 14 (3.79%) Cyber Threat
5 14 (3.79%) Security Posture
6 10 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 9 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (1.90%) Cyberattack
8 7 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.63%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.63%) NHS
9 6 (1.63%) PKI
9 6 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.36%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.36%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 147 (39.84%) Windows
2 70 (18.97%) Linux
3 38 (10.30%) Windows Server
4 30 (8.13%) Mac OS
5 22 (5.96%) Windows 10
6 16 (4.34%) Apple iOS
7 15 (4.07%) Unix
8 10 (2.71%) Android
9 7 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (1.36%) Ubuntu
10 5 (1.36%) zOS
11 3 (0.81%) Check Point GAiA
11 3 (0.81%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.54%) CentOS
12 2 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (27.64%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (17.62%) ITIL
3 55 (14.91%) Agile
4 45 (12.20%) Customer Service
5 42 (11.38%) DevOps
6 41 (11.11%) Load Balancing
7 40 (10.84%) CI/CD
7 40 (10.84%) Incident Response
8 37 (10.03%) Migration
9 36 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 33 (8.94%) ITSM
11 31 (8.40%) Validation
12 29 (7.86%) Decision-Making
12 29 (7.86%) High Availability
13 27 (7.32%) Risk Assessment
13 27 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (7.05%) SIEM
15 25 (6.78%) Cybersecurity
15 25 (6.78%) Data Protection
15 25 (6.78%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 85 (23.04%) Python
2 36 (9.76%) PowerShell
3 35 (9.49%) Bash
4 29 (7.86%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.69%) C++
6 16 (4.34%) C#
7 12 (3.25%) SQL
8 9 (2.44%) VBA
9 5 (1.36%) ActionScript
9 5 (1.36%) C
9 5 (1.36%) Java
10 4 (1.08%) Perl
11 2 (0.54%) Go
11 2 (0.54%) Jython
11 2 (0.54%) Ruby
11 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.27%) Groovy
12 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 87 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 71 (19.24%) SC Cleared
3 65 (17.62%) Degree
4 39 (10.57%) Cisco Certification
5 30 (8.13%) CCNP
6 25 (6.78%) CCNA
7 18 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (4.61%) CISSP
9 16 (4.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (3.79%) DV Cleared
11 13 (3.52%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (2.71%) MCSA
13 9 (2.44%) Azure Certification
14 8 (2.17%) MCSE
15 7 (1.90%) CCIE
15 7 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
16 6 (1.63%) CompTIA CySA+
17 5 (1.36%) CISM
17 5 (1.36%) JNCIS
18 4 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.44%) SLA
2 6 (1.63%) QA
3 5 (1.36%) GDPR
3 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.36%) NIST
4 3 (0.81%) NCSC
4 3 (0.81%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.54%) RMADS
6 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.27%) GRC
System Software
1 75 (20.33%) Active Directory
2 44 (11.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.88%) Firmware
4 13 (3.52%) Squid
5 12 (3.25%) Docker
5 12 (3.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (2.44%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.63%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.63%) vSphere
8 4 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.81%) NFS
10 2 (0.54%) KVM
10 2 (0.54%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.27%) GPFS
11 1 (0.27%) Lustre
11 1 (0.27%) RACF
11 1 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.27%) Snort
Systems Management
1 59 (15.99%) Ansible
2 33 (8.94%) Terraform
3 31 (8.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (8.13%) Kubernetes
5 25 (6.78%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (5.96%) Grafana
7 20 (5.42%) SCCM
8 16 (4.34%) FortiGate
9 15 (4.07%) Prometheus
10 11 (2.98%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (2.44%) Consul
12 8 (2.17%) WSUS
13 6 (1.63%) CASB
14 5 (1.36%) Nagios
14 5 (1.36%) Nessus
14 5 (1.36%) Suricata
15 4 (1.08%) Tivoli NetView
16 3 (0.81%) Puppet
16 3 (0.81%) Tivoli
17 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 113 (30.62%) Microsoft
2 60 (16.26%) F5
3 56 (15.18%) Cisco
4 52 (14.09%) VMware
5 30 (8.13%) ServiceNow
6 29 (7.86%) Blue Coat
7 23 (6.23%) Fortinet
7 23 (6.23%) McAfee
8 21 (5.69%) Citrix
8 21 (5.69%) Palo Alto
9 18 (4.88%) NetApp
9 18 (4.88%) Splunk
10 17 (4.61%) Siemens
10 17 (4.61%) Zscaler
11 16 (4.34%) Juniper
12 15 (4.07%) Google
13 14 (3.79%) CheckPoint
13 14 (3.79%) Red Hat
14 13 (3.52%) Bloomberg
15 11 (2.98%) Netskope