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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 217 262
Rank change year-on-year -44 +45 -39
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 380 282 335
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.16% 0.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.10% 8.76% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 201 242
10th Percentile £213 £213 £185
25th Percentile £381 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.44% +12.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £550
90th Percentile £640 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £460 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -10.24% +5.13% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 9 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £28.00 £21.63
Median hourly rate £41.94 £50.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.12% +33.33% -40.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £58.25
90th Percentile £66.70 £65.00 £75.30
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.12% +33.33% -40.05%

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 3,762 3,218 5,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.91% 13.27% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,409 2,010 3,174
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £385 £363 £346
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 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +1.54% +2.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 120 378
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.91 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.09 £21.31 £17.72
Median hourly rate £40.02 £35.75 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -8.92% +106.58%
75th Percentile £66.94 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.89% +96.89%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -49 127 £477 +0.32% 42
North of England -19 94 £448 +2.69% 49
South East -34 61 £525 -5.83% 50
North West +4 60 £540 +66.15% 26
East of England -2 55 £315 -26.74% 20
Yorkshire -43 31 £443 -23.04% 17
Midlands -58 31 £225 -59.09% 25
West Midlands -34 29 £213 +1.19% 17
South West -20 28 £700 +13.82% 25
North East -13 3 £200 -11.11% 7
East Midlands -39 2 £625 +13.64% 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 19 (5.00%) Confluence
2 16 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 15 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.63%) nginx
4 10 (2.63%) Skype for Business
5 7 (1.84%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.79%) Apache
7 2 (0.53%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.53%) IIS
7 2 (0.53%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.53%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.53%) WebSphere Portal
7 2 (0.53%) WordPress
8 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 37 (9.74%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.63%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.58%) Weka
4 5 (1.32%) Acrobat
5 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 94 (24.74%) Azure
2 88 (23.16%) AWS
3 66 (17.37%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (7.63%) GCP
5 22 (5.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 21 (5.53%) Entra ID
7 17 (4.47%) Amazon S3
8 16 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (3.68%) Route 53
10 12 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.16%) Serverless
11 10 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.37%) Google Workspace
13 8 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (2.11%) GitHub
14 7 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (1.84%) Nutanix
14 7 (1.84%) SaaS
15 6 (1.58%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 202 (53.16%) DNS
2 130 (34.21%) Firewall
3 95 (25.00%) VPN
4 86 (22.63%) DHCP
5 79 (20.79%) WAN
6 70 (18.42%) LAN
7 56 (14.74%) SSL
8 55 (14.47%) HTTP
8 55 (14.47%) Network Security
9 50 (13.16%) VLAN
10 42 (11.05%) BIG-IP
11 39 (10.26%) BGP
12 38 (10.00%) Wireshark
13 34 (8.95%) OSPF
13 34 (8.95%) Wi-Fi
14 30 (7.89%) Ethernet
15 27 (7.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 21 (5.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 18 (4.74%) Wireless
18 13 (3.42%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
1 12 (3.16%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.32%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.53%) MySQL
5 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (9.74%) JIRA
2 30 (7.89%) Fiddler
3 22 (5.79%) GitLab
4 15 (3.95%) Git
4 15 (3.95%) Jenkins
5 14 (3.68%) Eclipse
5 14 (3.68%) Visual Studio
6 7 (1.84%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.84%) Browser DevTools
6 7 (1.84%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.05%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.53%) Introscope
8 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.53%) Subversion
9 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.26%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.26%) Maven
9 1 (0.26%) Travis CI
General
1 141 (37.11%) Social Skills
2 45 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (11.32%) Finance
4 37 (9.74%) Banking
5 26 (6.84%) Investment Banking
5 26 (6.84%) Presentation Skills
5 26 (6.84%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.53%) Military
7 18 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.16%) Front Office
10 10 (2.63%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.32%) Law
13 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.79%) Legal
14 2 (0.53%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.53%) Games
14 2 (0.53%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.53%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 95 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 45 (11.84%) Support Engineer
3 43 (11.32%) Analyst
4 40 (10.53%) Web Engineer
5 32 (8.42%) Senior
6 25 (6.58%) Architect
7 23 (6.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (5.79%) Technical Engineer
9 19 (5.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
9 19 (5.00%) IP Network Engineer
10 18 (4.74%) Technical Support
11 17 (4.47%) Junior
11 17 (4.47%) Systems Engineer
12 16 (4.21%) Integration Engineer
12 16 (4.21%) Technical Analyst
13 15 (3.95%) IT Engineer
13 15 (3.95%) Security Engineer
14 13 (3.42%) IT Support
15 12 (3.16%) IT Support Engineer
15 12 (3.16%) Junior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.00%) LDAP
2 16 (4.21%) Web Services
3 14 (3.68%) Node.js
4 9 (2.37%) 802.1X
4 9 (2.37%) OpenID
4 9 (2.37%) SAML
5 8 (2.11%) Middleware
6 5 (1.32%) JSON
6 5 (1.32%) Kafka
6 5 (1.32%) REST
7 4 (1.05%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (1.05%) NETCONF
7 4 (1.05%) OAuth
7 4 (1.05%) OpenConfig
7 4 (1.05%) RESTCONF
7 4 (1.05%) Ultra Messaging
7 4 (1.05%) YANG
8 3 (0.79%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.79%) HTML
8 3 (0.79%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.16%) Data Centre
2 29 (7.63%) Management Information System
3 19 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.21%) Public Cloud
5 15 (3.95%) Industry 4.0
5 15 (3.95%) Robotics
6 12 (3.16%) NHS
7 11 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.89%) PKI
7 11 (2.89%) Private Cloud
8 10 (2.63%) CMDB
8 10 (2.63%) Cyberattack
8 10 (2.63%) Driving Licence
8 10 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
8 10 (2.63%) Security Posture
9 9 (2.37%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.58%) Grid Computing
10 6 (1.58%) Mainframe
10 6 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 157 (41.32%) Windows
2 92 (24.21%) Linux
3 52 (13.68%) Windows Server
4 22 (5.79%) Windows 10
5 16 (4.21%) Android
6 13 (3.42%) Unix
7 9 (2.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (2.11%) Apple iOS
9 6 (1.58%) Mac OS
9 6 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.58%) zOS
10 5 (1.32%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.05%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.79%) Debian
12 3 (0.79%) VMS
12 3 (0.79%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.53%) AIX
13 2 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (15.00%) Agile
3 54 (14.21%) ITIL
4 50 (13.16%) Load Balancing
5 43 (11.32%) DevOps
6 42 (11.05%) CI/CD
7 41 (10.79%) Incident Response
8 36 (9.47%) Customer Service
9 35 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
9 35 (9.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (9.21%) SIEM
10 34 (8.95%) Validation
11 33 (8.68%) Decision-Making
11 33 (8.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 32 (8.42%) Data Loss Prevention
13 30 (7.89%) Malware Detection/Protection
14 29 (7.63%) Migration
15 27 (7.11%) Root Cause Analysis
15 27 (7.11%) Security Operations
16 25 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 92 (24.21%) Python
2 69 (18.16%) PowerShell
3 50 (13.16%) Bash
4 24 (6.32%) JavaScript
5 20 (5.26%) C++
6 17 (4.47%) SQL
7 16 (4.21%) C#
8 8 (2.11%) Java
8 8 (2.11%) Perl
9 7 (1.84%) C
10 6 (1.58%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.32%) Go
12 2 (0.53%) Jython
12 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.53%) VBA
12 2 (0.53%) VBScript
13 1 (0.26%) Bicep
13 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.26%) Ruby
13 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 121 (31.84%) Security Cleared
2 99 (26.05%) SC Cleared
3 45 (11.84%) Degree
4 44 (11.58%) Cisco Certification
5 35 (9.21%) CCNP
6 31 (8.16%) DV Cleared
7 22 (5.79%) CCNA
8 17 (4.47%) CompTIA Security+
9 15 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (3.42%) CISSP
10 13 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (2.63%) JNCIS
12 9 (2.37%) MCSA
13 8 (2.11%) MCSE
14 7 (1.84%) Azure Certification
14 7 (1.84%) CCIE
14 7 (1.84%) CompTIA CySA+
14 7 (1.84%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (1.05%) AWS Certification
15 4 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.11%) SLA
2 6 (1.58%) GDPR
2 6 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.05%) NCSC
3 4 (1.05%) NIST
4 2 (0.53%) QA
5 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.26%) GRC
5 1 (0.26%) RMADS
System Software
1 78 (20.53%) Active Directory
2 48 (12.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (7.89%) Docker
4 21 (5.53%) Firmware
5 11 (2.89%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.37%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.37%) Squid
7 8 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (2.11%) vSphere
8 7 (1.84%) Lustre
8 7 (1.84%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 6 (1.58%) GPFS
10 4 (1.05%) KVM
10 4 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.79%) NFS
12 2 (0.53%) Ceph
12 2 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.26%) iptables
13 1 (0.26%) RHEV
13 1 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 62 (16.32%) Ansible
2 41 (10.79%) Terraform
3 38 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 31 (8.16%) SCCM
5 24 (6.32%) Grafana
5 24 (6.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (5.53%) Prometheus
6 21 (5.53%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (3.42%) FortiGate
8 9 (2.37%) Nagios
8 9 (2.37%) WSUS
9 8 (2.11%) Consul
10 6 (1.58%) Puppet
10 6 (1.58%) Tivoli NetView
11 5 (1.32%) CASB
11 5 (1.32%) Nessus
12 4 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
12 4 (1.05%) QRadar
13 3 (0.79%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 104 (27.37%) Microsoft
2 69 (18.16%) VMware
3 62 (16.32%) F5
4 49 (12.89%) Cisco
5 34 (8.95%) Blue Coat
6 32 (8.42%) McAfee
7 27 (7.11%) Palo Alto
8 24 (6.32%) Juniper
8 24 (6.32%) Splunk
9 22 (5.79%) Fortinet
9 22 (5.79%) NetApp
10 19 (5.00%) Red Hat
11 18 (4.74%) ServiceNow
12 17 (4.47%) Citrix
13 15 (3.95%) CheckPoint
13 15 (3.95%) Siemens
14 13 (3.42%) SolarWinds
15 12 (3.16%) Aruba
16 11 (2.89%) Google
16 11 (2.89%) Veeam