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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 224 273
Rank change year-on-year -57 +49 -50
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 341 280 304
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 1.15% 0.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.91% 8.79% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 200 211
10th Percentile £260 £225 £188
25th Percentile £385 £355 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £550
90th Percentile £630 £725 £645
UK median daily rate £450 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 19
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.63 £28.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £52.22 £54.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -3.52% -13.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 - £66.25
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £54.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -3.67% -3.52% -13.09%

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 3,827 3,186 4,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 13.07% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,402 1,972 2,964
10th Percentile £250 £220 £206
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £495
% change year-on-year +1.54% -1.52% -4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 125 395
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.26 £16.93
Median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.05% -18.75% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £36.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.45% -8.39% +111.30%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -67 111 £475 - 59
North of England -18 90 £450 +3.09% 38
South East -33 60 £523 -5.00% 56
North West +2 56 £559 +78.80% 17
East of England -15 44 £315 -26.74% 30
Midlands -52 34 £375 -31.82% 16
West Midlands -38 31 £300 +42.86% 14
Yorkshire -37 29 £447 -22.26% 15
South West -41 17 £550 -10.57% 31
North East -21 5 £306 +22.50% 7
East Midlands -36 3 £625 +13.64% 2
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 17 (4.99%) Confluence
2 10 (2.93%) nginx
3 8 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.47%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.88%) Apache
5 3 (0.88%) IIS
6 2 (0.59%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.59%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.59%) WebSphere Portal
6 2 (0.59%) WordPress
7 1 (0.29%) Traefik
Applications
1 30 (8.80%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.93%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.47%) Acrobat
4 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.17%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 84 (24.63%) Azure
2 81 (23.75%) AWS
3 47 (13.78%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (7.33%) GCP
5 20 (5.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 19 (5.57%) Entra ID
7 15 (4.40%) Amazon S3
8 14 (4.11%) Route 53
9 13 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.81%) Serverless
10 12 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.64%) Google Workspace
12 8 (2.35%) SaaS
13 7 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.05%) GitHub
13 7 (2.05%) Nutanix
14 4 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 185 (54.25%) DNS
2 122 (35.78%) Firewall
3 83 (24.34%) VPN
4 74 (21.70%) DHCP
5 65 (19.06%) WAN
6 59 (17.30%) LAN
7 55 (16.13%) SSL
8 54 (15.84%) HTTP
9 52 (15.25%) Network Security
10 45 (13.20%) VLAN
11 44 (12.90%) BIG-IP
12 41 (12.02%) BGP
13 35 (10.26%) OSPF
14 32 (9.38%) Wireshark
15 31 (9.09%) Ethernet
16 27 (7.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 27 (7.92%) Wi-Fi
17 20 (5.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 13 (3.81%) MPLS
18 13 (3.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.64%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.47%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.59%) MySQL
6 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (11.73%) JIRA
2 28 (8.21%) Fiddler
3 16 (4.69%) GitLab
4 14 (4.11%) Eclipse
4 14 (4.11%) Visual Studio
5 13 (3.81%) Git
6 12 (3.52%) Jenkins
7 9 (2.64%) Browser DevTools
8 7 (2.05%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.05%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.17%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.59%) Introscope
11 2 (0.59%) Subversion
12 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.29%) Postman
12 1 (0.29%) Travis CI
General
1 123 (36.07%) Social Skills
2 44 (12.90%) Finance
3 41 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (12.02%) Banking
4 26 (7.62%) Investment Banking
4 26 (7.62%) Presentation Skills
5 24 (7.04%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.87%) Military
7 18 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.93%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.35%) Front Office
11 6 (1.76%) Law
12 2 (0.59%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.59%) Games
12 2 (0.59%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.59%) Legal
12 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.59%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 81 (23.75%) Network Engineer
2 39 (11.44%) Analyst
3 36 (10.56%) Web Engineer
4 29 (8.50%) Senior
5 26 (7.62%) Architect
6 24 (7.04%) Support Engineer
7 20 (5.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (5.87%) Security Engineer
8 19 (5.57%) Blue Coat Engineer
8 19 (5.57%) IP Network Engineer
9 18 (5.28%) Technical Engineer
10 17 (4.99%) Systems Engineer
11 15 (4.40%) Integration Engineer
12 11 (3.23%) Junior
12 11 (3.23%) Software Engineer
12 11 (3.23%) Technical Analyst
13 10 (2.93%) C# Software Engineer
13 10 (2.93%) Junior Network Engineer
14 9 (2.64%) Technical Architect
14 9 (2.64%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.16%) LDAP
2 15 (4.40%) Web Services
3 14 (4.11%) Node.js
3 14 (4.11%) SAML
4 11 (3.23%) OpenID
5 10 (2.93%) JSON
6 9 (2.64%) 802.1X
7 5 (1.47%) Kafka
7 5 (1.47%) OAuth
8 4 (1.17%) NETCONF
8 4 (1.17%) OpenConfig
8 4 (1.17%) REST
8 4 (1.17%) RESTCONF
8 4 (1.17%) YANG
9 3 (0.88%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.88%) HTML
9 3 (0.88%) Middleware
10 2 (0.59%) JDBC
10 2 (0.59%) JMS
10 2 (0.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.04%) Data Centre
2 23 (6.74%) Management Information System
3 21 (6.16%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.40%) Industry 4.0
4 15 (4.40%) Robotics
5 12 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.52%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.93%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (2.93%) Cyberattack
6 10 (2.93%) PKI
6 10 (2.93%) Security Operations Centre
6 10 (2.93%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.64%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.76%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 137 (40.18%) Windows
2 82 (24.05%) Linux
3 44 (12.90%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.11%) Unix
4 14 (4.11%) Windows 10
5 13 (3.81%) Android
6 9 (2.64%) Mac OS
6 9 (2.64%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (1.76%) zOS
8 5 (1.47%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.47%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.88%) Debian
10 3 (0.88%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.59%) AIX
11 2 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (30.21%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (15.84%) ITIL
3 52 (15.25%) Agile
4 45 (13.20%) Load Balancing
5 38 (11.14%) DevOps
6 35 (10.26%) Incident Response
7 34 (9.97%) Cybersecurity
7 34 (9.97%) SIEM
8 33 (9.68%) Validation
9 32 (9.38%) CI/CD
10 31 (9.09%) Customer Service
11 30 (8.80%) Data Loss Prevention
12 28 (8.21%) Decision-Making
12 28 (8.21%) Malware Detection/Protection
12 28 (8.21%) Migration
13 26 (7.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (7.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 26 (7.62%) Security Operations
14 24 (7.04%) High Availability
15 23 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 81 (23.75%) Python
2 45 (13.20%) PowerShell
3 39 (11.44%) Bash
4 29 (8.50%) JavaScript
5 19 (5.57%) C++
6 18 (5.28%) SQL
7 15 (4.40%) C#
8 7 (2.05%) Java
8 7 (2.05%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.05%) VBA
9 6 (1.76%) C
9 6 (1.76%) Go
10 4 (1.17%) Perl
11 2 (0.59%) Jython
12 1 (0.29%) Groovy
12 1 (0.29%) Ruby
12 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 104 (30.50%) Security Cleared
2 88 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 46 (13.49%) Degree
4 39 (11.44%) Cisco Certification
5 32 (9.38%) CCNP
6 21 (6.16%) CCNA
7 17 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.99%) DV Cleared
8 16 (4.69%) CompTIA Security+
9 12 (3.52%) CISSP
9 12 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.64%) Azure Certification
10 9 (2.64%) MCSA
11 7 (2.05%) CCIE
11 7 (2.05%) CompTIA CySA+
11 7 (2.05%) JNCIS
11 7 (2.05%) MCSE
11 7 (2.05%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.47%) CISM
13 4 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.93%) SLA
2 5 (1.47%) GDPR
2 5 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.88%) NCSC
3 3 (0.88%) NIST
4 2 (0.59%) QA
4 2 (0.59%) RMADS
5 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.29%) GRC
System Software
1 66 (19.35%) Active Directory
2 47 (13.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (6.74%) Docker
4 19 (5.57%) Firmware
5 9 (2.64%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.64%) Squid
5 9 (2.64%) VMware NSX
5 9 (2.64%) vSphere
6 8 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.47%) Lustre
7 5 (1.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (1.17%) GPFS
8 4 (1.17%) KVM
8 4 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.88%) NFS
10 2 (0.59%) Ceph
11 1 (0.29%) iptables
11 1 (0.29%) RHEV
11 1 (0.29%) Samba
11 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 61 (17.89%) Ansible
2 37 (10.85%) Kubernetes
3 35 (10.26%) Terraform
4 28 (8.21%) SCCM
5 23 (6.74%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (6.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (5.57%) Grafana
8 16 (4.69%) Prometheus
9 14 (4.11%) FortiGate
10 10 (2.93%) WSUS
11 9 (2.64%) Consul
11 9 (2.64%) Nagios
12 6 (1.76%) CASB
12 6 (1.76%) Puppet
12 6 (1.76%) Tivoli NetView
13 5 (1.47%) Nessus
14 4 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (1.17%) QRadar
15 3 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
16 2 (0.59%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 87 (25.51%) Microsoft
2 64 (18.77%) VMware
3 60 (17.60%) F5
4 44 (12.90%) Cisco
5 31 (9.09%) Blue Coat
6 28 (8.21%) McAfee
7 25 (7.33%) Splunk
8 21 (6.16%) NetApp
9 20 (5.87%) Fortinet
9 20 (5.87%) Palo Alto
9 20 (5.87%) Red Hat
10 19 (5.57%) Citrix
11 18 (5.28%) Juniper
11 18 (5.28%) ServiceNow
12 16 (4.69%) Siemens
13 13 (3.81%) Bloomberg
13 13 (3.81%) SolarWinds
14 12 (3.52%) Zscaler
15 11 (3.23%) Meraki
15 11 (3.23%) Veeam