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

 6 months to
25 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 201 214
Rank change year-on-year -60 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 459 372 380
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.34% 1.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.56% 11.37% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 208 206
10th Percentile £189 £192 £213
25th Percentile £310 £286 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £688 £665
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 38 29
10th Percentile £26.17 £20.36 £43.00
25th Percentile £32.47 £33.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £69.13 - -
90th Percentile £93.79 £71.98 £65.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +29.49%

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 4,345 3,273 3,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.34% 11.75% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,564 2,061 2,306
10th Percentile £250 £225 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.21% +1.25%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £610
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 168 194
10th Percentile £16.02 £15.50 £15.54
25th Percentile £21.33 £24.75 £23.90
Median hourly rate £43.50 £39.66 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -30.85% +1.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £42.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -22.94% -15.84% -10.60%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -59 197 £465 -19.13% 318
North of England -50 73 £425 -17.87% 90
South East -59 69 £530 +41.20% 139
South West -4 48 £638 +10.87% 56
Midlands -35 43 £401 +3.90% 60
East of England -24 41 £425 -10.53% 71
North West -41 41 £240 -55.76% 51
West Midlands -34 37 £438 +9.38% 36
Yorkshire -42 28 £500 - 29
East Midlands -6 6 £326 +97.58% 24
North East -42 4 £438 +75.00% 13
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 50 (10.89%) SharePoint
2 36 (7.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.61%) Confluence
3 12 (2.61%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.09%) nginx
5 4 (0.87%) FactoryTalk
6 2 (0.44%) IIS
6 2 (0.44%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.22%) CICS
7 1 (0.22%) Traefik
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.44%) Houdini
5 2 (0.44%) NUKE
6 1 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (1.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 164 (35.73%) Azure
2 117 (25.49%) Microsoft 365
3 103 (22.44%) AWS
4 74 (16.12%) Entra ID
5 36 (7.84%) OneDrive
6 29 (6.32%) GCP
7 22 (4.79%) GitHub
8 18 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (3.27%) OpenShift
10 14 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (2.18%) Google Workspace
12 10 (2.18%) Route 53
13 9 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.53%) IaaS
15 7 (1.53%) SaaS
16 6 (1.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 283 (61.66%) DNS
2 198 (43.14%) Firewall
3 194 (42.27%) DHCP
4 143 (31.15%) VPN
5 86 (18.74%) Network Security
6 73 (15.90%) WAN
7 70 (15.25%) LAN
8 67 (14.60%) VLAN
9 66 (14.38%) BGP
10 61 (13.29%) HTTP
11 54 (11.76%) SSL
12 44 (9.59%) Wi-Fi
13 41 (8.93%) OSPF
14 35 (7.63%) Wireless
15 30 (6.54%) BIG-IP
16 28 (6.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 24 (5.23%) Ethernet
18 23 (5.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 23 (5.01%) SD-WAN
19 19 (4.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (2.83%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.74%) MySQL
3 8 (1.74%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.74%) SQLite
4 7 (1.53%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.31%) Redis
6 3 (0.65%) KDB
7 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.22%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.22%) Kdb+
8 1 (0.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 47 (10.24%) JIRA
2 43 (9.37%) Git
3 33 (7.19%) Jenkins
4 25 (5.45%) GitLab
5 13 (2.83%) Fiddler
5 13 (2.83%) Visual Studio
6 12 (2.61%) Eclipse
7 7 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (1.09%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.09%) Selenium
9 4 (0.87%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.22%) MSI
11 1 (0.22%) Postman
11 1 (0.22%) Subversion
General
1 179 (39.00%) Social Skills
2 71 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (11.11%) Finance
4 38 (8.28%) Banking
5 30 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 28 (6.10%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.49%) Investment Banking
7 16 (3.49%) Military
8 13 (2.83%) Front Office
9 9 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.74%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.31%) Legal
11 6 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.09%) Police
13 4 (0.87%) Automotive
13 4 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 90 (19.61%) Network Engineer
2 62 (13.51%) Support Engineer
3 60 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 56 (12.20%) Senior
5 41 (8.93%) IT Support
6 35 (7.63%) IT Engineer
7 34 (7.41%) Architect
8 33 (7.19%) Analyst
9 31 (6.75%) IT Support Engineer
10 23 (5.01%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.01%) Senior Network Engineer
11 20 (4.36%) Linux Engineer
11 20 (4.36%) Security Engineer
11 20 (4.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (3.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (3.70%) Support Analyst
13 16 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (3.27%) Web Engineer
15 13 (2.83%) IP Network Engineer
15 13 (2.83%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (19.39%) Terraform
2 15 (3.27%) REST
2 15 (3.27%) SAML
3 12 (2.61%) ARM Templates
3 12 (2.61%) Node.js
3 12 (2.61%) Web Services
4 11 (2.40%) JSON
5 9 (1.96%) .NET
6 8 (1.74%) Kafka
6 8 (1.74%) SPNEGO
7 7 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (1.53%) HTML
7 7 (1.53%) LDAP
8 6 (1.31%) 802.1X
8 6 (1.31%) CSS
8 6 (1.31%) FastAPI
8 6 (1.31%) Flask
8 6 (1.31%) Jinja
8 6 (1.31%) RESTful
8 6 (1.31%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 74 (16.12%) Data Centre
2 55 (11.98%) Onboarding
3 33 (7.19%) PKI
4 31 (6.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (5.66%) Management Information System
6 21 (4.58%) Linux Command Line
7 20 (4.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 20 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (3.70%) Public Cloud
9 14 (3.05%) Cloud Native
9 14 (3.05%) Operational Technology
9 14 (3.05%) Video Conferencing
10 11 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
10 11 (2.40%) SCADA
11 10 (2.18%) Driving Licence
11 10 (2.18%) Enterprise Storage
12 9 (1.96%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.96%) Security Posture
13 8 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 227 (49.46%) Windows
2 155 (33.77%) Linux
3 76 (16.56%) Windows Server
4 45 (9.80%) Windows 10
5 41 (8.93%) Mac OS
6 30 (6.54%) Unix
7 29 (6.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (4.14%) Apple iOS
9 15 (3.27%) Android
9 15 (3.27%) Ubuntu
10 6 (1.31%) CentOS
11 4 (0.87%) zOS
12 3 (0.65%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.44%) SUSE
13 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.22%) AIX
14 1 (0.22%) Solaris
14 1 (0.22%) VMS
14 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (25.05%) Problem-Solving
2 101 (22.00%) ITIL
3 85 (18.52%) CI/CD
4 83 (18.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 78 (16.99%) Infrastructure as Code
6 71 (15.47%) DevOps
7 62 (13.51%) Agile
8 58 (12.64%) Load Balancing
9 56 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
9 56 (12.20%) ITSM
10 55 (11.98%) Customer Service
11 51 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (10.02%) Incident Response
12 46 (10.02%) Platform Engineering
13 45 (9.80%) Migration
13 45 (9.80%) Service Management
14 44 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
15 43 (9.37%) SIEM
16 42 (9.15%) Validation
17 41 (8.93%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 148 (32.24%) Python
2 104 (22.66%) PowerShell
3 87 (18.95%) Bash
4 23 (5.01%) C++
5 22 (4.79%) JavaScript
6 19 (4.14%) SQL
7 17 (3.70%) C#
8 16 (3.49%) Shell Script
9 13 (2.83%) Perl
10 12 (2.61%) Bicep
11 9 (1.96%) Java
12 8 (1.74%) Korn
13 7 (1.53%) VBA
14 6 (1.31%) Go
15 5 (1.09%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.65%) C
16 3 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.65%) VBScript
17 2 (0.44%) Groovy
17 2 (0.44%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 123 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 65 (14.16%) SC Cleared
3 57 (12.42%) Degree
4 55 (11.98%) DV Cleared
5 53 (11.55%) Cisco Certification
6 43 (9.37%) CCNP
7 25 (5.45%) CCNA
7 25 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.05%) CCIE
9 14 (3.05%) Network+ Certification
10 13 (2.83%) A+ Certification
11 12 (2.61%) AWS Certification
11 12 (2.61%) CISSP
11 12 (2.61%) VCAP
12 11 (2.40%) Azure Certification
13 8 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (1.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 6 (1.31%) JNCIS
15 5 (1.09%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.23%) SLA
2 15 (3.27%) QA
3 10 (2.18%) NCSC
4 8 (1.74%) NIST
5 7 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.87%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (0.87%) GxP
6 4 (0.87%) NIST 800
6 4 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.65%) GDPR
8 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.22%) RMADS
System Software
1 152 (33.12%) Active Directory
2 98 (21.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (9.15%) Hyper-V
4 33 (7.19%) Docker
4 33 (7.19%) vSphere
5 23 (5.01%) VMware NSX
6 18 (3.92%) Firmware
7 15 (3.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.87%) NFS
10 4 (0.87%) Squid
11 3 (0.65%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.44%) KVM
12 2 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.22%) GPFS
13 1 (0.22%) NetIQ eDirectory
13 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.22%) zsh
Systems Management
1 105 (22.88%) Ansible
2 66 (14.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 49 (10.68%) Kubernetes
4 32 (6.97%) SCCM
5 29 (6.32%) Grafana
6 19 (4.14%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (3.70%) Prometheus
8 16 (3.49%) VxRail
9 15 (3.27%) Jamf Pro
10 11 (2.40%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.74%) Nagios
12 6 (1.31%) Istio
12 6 (1.31%) systemd
13 5 (1.09%) Puppet
13 5 (1.09%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.87%) Consul
14 4 (0.87%) Suricata
14 4 (0.87%) WSUS
14 4 (0.87%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.65%) Packer
Vendors
1 193 (42.05%) Microsoft
2 113 (24.62%) VMware
3 90 (19.61%) Cisco
4 53 (11.55%) F5
5 50 (10.89%) ServiceNow
6 24 (5.23%) Zscaler
7 23 (5.01%) Google
8 21 (4.58%) Fortinet
8 21 (4.58%) NetApp
9 20 (4.36%) Infoblox
10 19 (4.14%) Juniper
11 18 (3.92%) Palo Alto
12 17 (3.70%) SolarWinds
12 17 (3.70%) Splunk
13 16 (3.49%) Blue Coat
14 15 (3.27%) Citrix
14 15 (3.27%) McAfee
15 13 (2.83%) Red Hat
16 12 (2.61%) Bloomberg
16 12 (2.61%) CheckPoint
734 TCP/IP jobs in England