TCP/IP Contracts in England

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring TCP/IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TCP/IP over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 280 240
Rank change year-on-year +54 -40 +24
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 276 295 541
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.14% 0.81% 1.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.71% 6.16% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 201 334
10th Percentile £225 £188 £213
25th Percentile £350 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £478
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.03% +4.72%
75th Percentile £623 £560 £650
90th Percentile £675 £645 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 21 44
10th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £21.02
25th Percentile £28.00 £20.00 £34.50
Median hourly rate £54.50 £65.00 £60.73
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +7.04% +68.13%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £66.56
90th Percentile - - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £65.00 £60.73
% change year-on-year -16.15% +7.04% +68.13%

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 3,168 4,788 5,911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.17% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 2,877 3,859
10th Percentile £220 £210 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £520
% change year-on-year -0.51% -5.68% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 390 424
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.06 £16.44 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%
75th Percentile £62.88 £63.75 £59.28
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.71 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.24% +116.22% -34.70%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in England

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in England.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in England

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in England

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in England.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in England

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

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 16 May 2025. 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 +52 134 £475 -9.52% 194
South East +32 39 £488 +8.33% 128
North of England +23 36 £375 -25.00% 101
East of England +28 23 £430 +14.67% 95
South West +35 22 £615 +2.50% 66
North West +6 18 £250 -44.44% 42
Midlands -13 16 £550 +7.32% 43
Yorkshire +18 15 £513 -18.00% 45
West Midlands +1 9 £550 +4.76% 22
East Midlands -8 7 £550 +12.82% 16
North East - 3 £250 - 18
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (5.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.35%) Confluence
3 9 (3.26%) nginx
4 8 (2.90%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.81%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.45%) Apache
6 4 (1.45%) IIS
7 3 (1.09%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.09%) Traefik
8 2 (0.72%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 20 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.81%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 94 (34.06%) AWS
2 93 (33.70%) Azure
3 36 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (9.06%) GCP
5 24 (8.70%) Entra ID
6 21 (7.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (7.61%) GitHub
7 18 (6.52%) OpenShift
8 12 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (3.26%) Nutanix
11 9 (3.26%) Serverless
12 8 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (1.81%) AWS Fargate
15 5 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 162 (58.70%) DNS
2 100 (36.23%) Firewall
3 96 (34.78%) DHCP
4 84 (30.43%) VPN
5 52 (18.84%) HTTP
6 50 (18.12%) Network Security
7 49 (17.75%) WAN
8 48 (17.39%) BGP
9 43 (15.58%) OSPF
10 42 (15.22%) LAN
11 38 (13.77%) VLAN
12 25 (9.06%) Wireless
13 19 (6.88%) SMTP
13 19 (6.88%) SSL
14 17 (6.16%) MPLS
15 16 (5.80%) Cisco Nexus
16 15 (5.43%) Internet
16 15 (5.43%) SD-WAN
17 14 (5.07%) Wi-Fi
18 13 (4.71%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.16%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.71%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (2.90%) Hadoop
5 7 (2.54%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.81%) Apache Hive
6 5 (1.81%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (1.81%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.81%) MySQL
6 5 (1.81%) Parquet
6 5 (1.81%) Presto
7 3 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.09%) InfluxDB
7 3 (1.09%) Looker
7 3 (1.09%) Power BI
8 2 (0.72%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.72%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.72%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.16%) JIRA
3 16 (5.80%) Git
4 12 (4.35%) GitLab
5 10 (3.62%) Subversion
6 9 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (3.26%) TeamCity
7 7 (2.54%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.81%) Eclipse
8 5 (1.81%) Poetry
9 3 (1.09%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.36%) Gerrit
General
1 100 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (8.33%) Finance
4 16 (5.80%) Telecoms
5 15 (5.43%) Banking
6 11 (3.99%) Military
7 10 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.90%) Legal
8 8 (2.90%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.45%) French Language
11 4 (1.45%) Games
11 4 (1.45%) Police
12 3 (1.09%) Automotive
13 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.72%) Front Office
13 2 (0.72%) Korean Language
13 2 (0.72%) Law
13 2 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 31 (11.23%) Senior
3 28 (10.14%) Architect
4 26 (9.42%) Analyst
5 25 (9.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (8.70%) Support Engineer
7 23 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (6.16%) IT Support
9 15 (5.43%) IT Engineer
10 14 (5.07%) IT Support Engineer
11 13 (4.71%) Administrator
12 12 (4.35%) Lead
13 11 (3.99%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.62%) Network Architect
15 9 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
15 9 (3.26%) Linux Administrator
15 9 (3.26%) Technical Architect
16 8 (2.90%) Support Analyst
16 8 (2.90%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.16%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (5.07%) .NET
3 11 (3.99%) REST
4 9 (3.26%) LDAP
5 8 (2.90%) Node.js
6 7 (2.54%) React
7 6 (2.17%) 802.1X
8 5 (1.81%) Dask
8 5 (1.81%) LAPP Stack
8 5 (1.81%) Web Services
9 4 (1.45%) cloud-init
9 4 (1.45%) Kafka
9 4 (1.45%) Keycloak
10 3 (1.09%) JSON
10 3 (1.09%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (1.09%) YAML
10 3 (1.09%) Yocto
11 2 (0.72%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
11 2 (0.72%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.25%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.43%) PKI
3 11 (3.99%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.62%) Clustering
5 9 (3.26%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.90%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.54%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.54%) Replication
7 7 (2.54%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (2.17%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.81%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.81%) Video\Live Streaming
10 4 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 103 (37.32%) Windows
2 94 (34.06%) Linux
3 43 (15.58%) Windows Server
4 30 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (5.43%) Unix
6 12 (4.35%) Windows 10
7 9 (3.26%) CentOS
7 9 (3.26%) Mac OS
7 9 (3.26%) Solaris
7 9 (3.26%) Ubuntu
8 6 (2.17%) Check Point GAiA
9 5 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (1.45%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.09%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (1.09%) Mac OS X
11 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.72%) Debian
12 2 (0.72%) OpenWrt
12 2 (0.72%) SUSE
12 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (19.93%) DevOps
3 50 (18.12%) CI/CD
4 43 (15.58%) ITIL
5 38 (13.77%) Containerisation
6 37 (13.41%) Agile
7 36 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 34 (12.32%) High Availability
9 31 (11.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 30 (10.87%) SIEM
11 29 (10.51%) Computer Science
12 26 (9.42%) Security Operations
13 25 (9.06%) Continuous Integration
14 22 (7.97%) Cybersecurity
15 21 (7.61%) Service Management
16 20 (7.25%) Customer Service
16 20 (7.25%) ITSM
17 19 (6.88%) Disaster Recovery
18 18 (6.52%) Incident Management
19 17 (6.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 92 (33.33%) Python
2 44 (15.94%) PowerShell
3 38 (13.77%) Bash
4 23 (8.33%) SQL
5 20 (7.25%) Java
6 16 (5.80%) Perl
7 15 (5.43%) C#
8 13 (4.71%) C++
8 13 (4.71%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.26%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.90%) Go
11 6 (2.17%) C
11 6 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.81%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.09%) Bicep
14 2 (0.72%) PHP
14 2 (0.72%) VB
14 2 (0.72%) VBScript
15 1 (0.36%) Fortran
15 1 (0.36%) JCL
Qualifications
1 73 (26.45%) Security Cleared
2 59 (21.38%) Cisco Certification
3 51 (18.48%) SC Cleared
4 44 (15.94%) CCNP
5 39 (14.13%) Degree
6 37 (13.41%) CCNA
7 22 (7.97%) DV Cleared
8 16 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (4.35%) CCSE
10 11 (3.99%) AWS Certification
10 11 (3.99%) CCIE
11 10 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (2.90%) JNCIA
13 7 (2.54%) CCSA
14 6 (2.17%) A+ Certification
14 6 (2.17%) Check Point Certification
15 5 (1.81%) CCSP
15 5 (1.81%) CISSP
15 5 (1.81%) GCIH
15 5 (1.81%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.35%) NCSC
1 12 (4.35%) SLA
2 11 (3.99%) GDPR
3 9 (3.26%) NIST
4 8 (2.90%) QA
5 7 (2.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.81%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.72%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (18.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 44 (15.94%) Docker
4 19 (6.88%) Hyper-V
5 13 (4.71%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (3.62%) vSphere
7 9 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (2.90%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.81%) NFS
10 4 (1.45%) Veritas File System
10 4 (1.45%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.72%) iptables
11 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.72%) XenApp
12 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.36%) Firmware
12 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.36%) Samba
12 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 66 (23.91%) Ansible
2 57 (20.65%) Terraform
3 51 (18.48%) Kubernetes
4 28 (10.14%) Puppet
5 20 (7.25%) Grafana
6 17 (6.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (5.80%) Prometheus
7 16 (5.80%) SCCM
8 14 (5.07%) Progress Chef
9 12 (4.35%) FortiGate
10 11 (3.99%) Red Hat Satellite
11 9 (3.26%) Tivoli
12 8 (2.90%) QRadar
13 7 (2.54%) ZABBIX
14 6 (2.17%) WSUS
15 5 (1.81%) EMC NetWorker
15 5 (1.81%) Packer
15 5 (1.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 4 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (1.45%) linkerd
Vendors
1 82 (29.71%) Microsoft
2 72 (26.09%) Cisco
3 66 (23.91%) VMware
4 52 (18.84%) Red Hat
5 28 (10.14%) CheckPoint
6 26 (9.42%) Splunk
7 23 (8.33%) Palo Alto
8 20 (7.25%) ServiceNow
9 16 (5.80%) Fortinet
10 13 (4.71%) Google
10 13 (4.71%) SolarWinds
11 12 (4.35%) Juniper
12 11 (3.99%) Dell
13 10 (3.62%) CyberArk
14 9 (3.26%) Meraki
14 9 (3.26%) Qualys
15 8 (2.90%) Citrix
15 8 (2.90%) HP
15 8 (2.90%) IBM
15 8 (2.90%) SaltStack