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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 188 208
Rank change year-on-year -44 +20 +26
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 381 358 421
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.16% 1.35% 1.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.11% 10.39% 7.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 211 282
10th Percentile £203 £213 £182
25th Percentile £315 £380 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +12.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £629 £569
90th Percentile £720 £738 £675
UK median daily rate £460 £508 £481
% change year-on-year -9.36% +5.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 7 43
10th Percentile £15.50 £26.15 £23.45
25th Percentile £21.25 £46.25 £40.85
Median hourly rate £41.94 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £56.49
90th Percentile £67.25 £68.50 £67.70
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £63.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -34.21% +27.50% -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 3,429 3,446 5,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.43% 12.95% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,230 1,979 3,207
10th Percentile £204 £220 £205
25th Percentile £355 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -3.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 106 366
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.11 £16.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.46 £22.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £51.65
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -32.24% +140.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.63 £75.89
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £51.65
% change year-on-year -14.29% -32.24% +149.47%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -45 122 £523 +4.50% 48
North of England -25 88 £425 -9.09% 41
South East -21 57 £500 -1.48% 68
North West 0 49 £425 -8.11% 14
East of England -2 47 £381 -18.01% 34
West Midlands -5 39 £200 -8.57% 8
Midlands -38 39 £200 -11.11% 24
Yorkshire -38 34 £433 -39.21% 21
South West -24 33 £700 +13.82% 28
North East -19 5 £200 +33.33% 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 27 (7.09%) SharePoint
2 20 (5.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (4.46%) Confluence
4 14 (3.67%) Skype for Business
5 8 (2.10%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.31%) nginx
7 3 (0.79%) Apache
8 2 (0.52%) IIS
8 2 (0.52%) WordPress
9 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (8.40%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.10%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.57%) Weka
4 5 (1.31%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Finacle
1 1 (0.26%) RMDS
1 1 (0.26%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 103 (27.03%) AWS
2 92 (24.15%) Azure
3 75 (19.69%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (8.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 30 (7.87%) Amazon S3
6 29 (7.61%) Amazon EC2
7 22 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (5.77%) Amazon ELB
8 21 (5.51%) Entra ID
8 21 (5.51%) GCP
9 12 (3.15%) GitHub
10 9 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (2.10%) Route 53
11 8 (2.10%) SaaS
12 7 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.84%) Google Workspace
13 6 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.57%) OneDrive
14 5 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (1.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 214 (56.17%) DNS
2 132 (34.65%) Firewall
3 113 (29.66%) VPN
4 107 (28.08%) DHCP
5 74 (19.42%) SSL
6 69 (18.11%) WAN
7 65 (17.06%) LAN
8 57 (14.96%) Network Security
9 49 (12.86%) VLAN
10 47 (12.34%) HTTP
11 38 (9.97%) Wireshark
12 29 (7.61%) BIG-IP
13 28 (7.35%) Wi-Fi
14 27 (7.09%) BGP
15 22 (5.77%) OSPF
16 20 (5.25%) SAN
17 19 (4.99%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 19 (4.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 16 (4.20%) Internet
19 14 (3.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.94%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.05%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.26%) Big Data
5 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.26%) Impala
5 1 (0.26%) MySQL
5 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.26%) Power BI
5 1 (0.26%) Redis
5 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (10.24%) Git
2 35 (9.19%) GitLab
3 33 (8.66%) Jenkins
4 29 (7.61%) JIRA
5 26 (6.82%) Fiddler
6 13 (3.41%) Eclipse
6 13 (3.41%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.57%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.31%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.31%) Subversion
9 4 (1.05%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.05%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.52%) Maven
11 2 (0.52%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.26%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.26%) MSI
12 1 (0.26%) Travis CI
General
1 132 (34.65%) Social Skills
2 62 (16.27%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (10.24%) Public Sector
4 33 (8.66%) Finance
5 31 (8.14%) Banking
6 24 (6.30%) Military
7 22 (5.77%) Investment Banking
8 16 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.36%) Front Office
11 8 (2.10%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.57%) Local Government
14 5 (1.31%) Law
14 5 (1.31%) Legal
15 4 (1.05%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 2 (0.52%) Aerospace
18 1 (0.26%) Private Banking
18 1 (0.26%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (21.78%) Network Engineer
2 56 (14.70%) Support Engineer
3 50 (13.12%) Analyst
4 49 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 49 (12.86%) Senior
5 25 (6.56%) IT Support
5 25 (6.56%) Web Engineer
6 21 (5.51%) 2nd Line Support
7 20 (5.25%) IT Engineer
8 19 (4.99%) Architect
9 17 (4.46%) Junior
9 17 (4.46%) Technical Analyst
9 17 (4.46%) Technical Support
10 16 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
11 15 (3.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.67%) Infrastructure Support
12 14 (3.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 14 (3.67%) Security Engineer
12 14 (3.67%) Support Analyst
13 13 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.20%) Web Services
2 14 (3.67%) Middleware
2 14 (3.67%) Node.js
3 9 (2.36%) LDAP
4 6 (1.57%) OpenID
4 6 (1.57%) REST
5 5 (1.31%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (1.05%) Kafka
6 4 (1.05%) React
6 4 (1.05%) SAML
6 4 (1.05%) SOAP
6 4 (1.05%) Ultra Messaging
7 3 (0.79%) .NET
7 3 (0.79%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.79%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.79%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (0.79%) Bootstrap
7 3 (0.79%) Express.js
7 3 (0.79%) WCF
7 3 (0.79%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.61%) Data Centre
2 28 (7.35%) Management Information System
3 23 (6.04%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (3.94%) Public Cloud
5 13 (3.41%) Private Cloud
6 12 (3.15%) CMDB
6 12 (3.15%) Driving Licence
6 12 (3.15%) NHS
7 10 (2.62%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (2.62%) PKI
7 10 (2.62%) Replication
8 9 (2.36%) Cyberattack
9 8 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.10%) Security Operations Centre
9 8 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.84%) Clustering
11 6 (1.57%) Grid Computing
12 5 (1.31%) FPGA
12 5 (1.31%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 174 (45.67%) Windows
2 116 (30.45%) Linux
3 50 (13.12%) Windows Server
4 32 (8.40%) Windows 10
5 16 (4.20%) Unix
6 14 (3.67%) Android
7 12 (3.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (2.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (1.84%) Apple iOS
11 6 (1.57%) Ubuntu
11 6 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (1.31%) Mac OS
12 5 (1.31%) VMS
13 4 (1.05%) CentOS
13 4 (1.05%) Solaris
13 4 (1.05%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (1.05%) zOS
14 3 (0.79%) Debian
15 2 (0.52%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (27.82%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (15.49%) DevOps
3 58 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 57 (14.96%) CI/CD
5 54 (14.17%) ITIL
6 53 (13.91%) Agile
7 45 (11.81%) Incident Response
8 44 (11.55%) Load Balancing
9 43 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 38 (9.97%) SIEM
11 35 (9.19%) Cybersecurity
11 35 (9.19%) High Availability
12 33 (8.66%) Root Cause Analysis
13 31 (8.14%) Infrastructure Automation
14 28 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (7.35%) Mentoring
15 27 (7.09%) Disaster Recovery
16 26 (6.82%) Customer Service
16 26 (6.82%) DevSecOps
16 26 (6.82%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 111 (29.13%) Python
2 73 (19.16%) PowerShell
3 64 (16.80%) Bash
4 19 (4.99%) C++
4 19 (4.99%) Perl
5 17 (4.46%) C#
5 17 (4.46%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.20%) SQL
7 10 (2.62%) Java
8 8 (2.10%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.31%) C
10 4 (1.05%) Go
11 3 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.26%) Bicep
12 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.26%) Ruby
12 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 133 (34.91%) Security Cleared
2 98 (25.72%) SC Cleared
3 35 (9.19%) DV Cleared
4 32 (8.40%) Cisco Certification
5 27 (7.09%) Degree
6 25 (6.56%) CCNP
7 22 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (4.46%) Azure Certification
9 15 (3.94%) Network+ Certification
10 14 (3.67%) CCNA
11 11 (2.89%) CompTIA Security+
11 11 (2.89%) Server+ Certification
12 10 (2.62%) JNCIS
12 10 (2.62%) MCP
13 9 (2.36%) CISSP
14 7 (1.84%) CCIE
14 7 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (1.57%) CompTIA CySA+
15 6 (1.57%) ECDL
16 5 (1.31%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.41%) GDPR
2 8 (2.10%) SLA
3 7 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.79%) NCSC
5 3 (0.79%) NIST
6 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.52%) QA
7 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
7 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.26%) RMADS
7 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 86 (22.57%) Active Directory
2 58 (15.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (12.60%) Docker
4 25 (6.56%) Hyper-V
5 15 (3.94%) Firmware
6 9 (2.36%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.84%) Lustre
8 7 (1.84%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 7 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.57%) GPFS
9 6 (1.57%) NFS
9 6 (1.57%) vSphere
10 5 (1.31%) KVM
10 5 (1.31%) Squid
10 5 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (1.05%) Veritas File System
11 4 (1.05%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 2 (0.52%) Ceph
12 2 (0.52%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 89 (23.36%) Ansible
2 59 (15.49%) Terraform
3 36 (9.45%) SCCM
4 32 (8.40%) Kubernetes
5 30 (7.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (4.72%) Grafana
7 15 (3.94%) Prometheus
8 14 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (2.89%) FortiGate
10 9 (2.36%) Puppet
11 8 (2.10%) WSUS
12 7 (1.84%) Nagios
12 7 (1.84%) QRadar
12 7 (1.84%) Red Hat Satellite
13 6 (1.57%) Consul
14 4 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (1.05%) Iperf
14 4 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
14 4 (1.05%) Progress Chef
14 4 (1.05%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 120 (31.50%) Microsoft
2 82 (21.52%) VMware
3 74 (19.42%) F5
4 49 (12.86%) Cisco
5 47 (12.34%) Palo Alto
6 34 (8.92%) CheckPoint
7 29 (7.61%) Blue Coat
8 28 (7.35%) McAfee
9 27 (7.09%) Splunk
10 23 (6.04%) NetApp
11 21 (5.51%) Fortinet
11 21 (5.51%) SolarWinds
12 20 (5.25%) Red Hat
13 19 (4.99%) Juniper
13 19 (4.99%) ServiceNow
14 15 (3.94%) Meraki
15 13 (3.41%) Citrix
15 13 (3.41%) Oracle
15 13 (3.41%) Veeam
16 11 (2.89%) Zscaler