TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 222 262
Rank change year-on-year -69 +40 0
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 121 125 130
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 0.99% 0.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.74% 9.70% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 89 73
10th Percentile £250 £297 £188
25th Percentile £382 £380 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £544 £628 £615
90th Percentile £575 £675 £709
England median daily rate £470 £509 £450
% change year-on-year -7.62% +13.06% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £27.25 £46.18 £16.00
25th Percentile £28.75 £46.81 £19.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £52.25 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.89% +140.23% -36.50%
75th Percentile £39.25 £59.94 £28.25
90th Percentile £41.35 £61.93 £45.13
England median hourly rate £41.94 £50.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year -16.12% +60.00% -50.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,384 1,288 1,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.19% 10.20% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 904 835 1,172
10th Percentile £288 £263 £205
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £745
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 65
10th Percentile £20.38 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.02 £27.47 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.79 £41.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +86.36% -37.14%
75th Percentile £39.75 £52.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £94.13 £66.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.83% - +84.21%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TCP/IP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in London

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing TCP/IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in London over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing TCP/IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 April 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
South London -9 7 £519 -
Central London -31 4 £475 -9.52% 8
East London +1 2 - - 1
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 10 (8.26%) nginx
2 8 (6.61%) Confluence
3 5 (4.13%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.65%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.83%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.83%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 44 (36.36%) AWS
2 36 (29.75%) Azure
3 28 (23.14%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (14.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 14 (11.57%) Amazon S3
5 14 (11.57%) GCP
5 14 (11.57%) Route 53
6 12 (9.92%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (9.92%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (9.92%) Serverless
7 11 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (6.61%) Entra ID
9 7 (5.79%) Google Workspace
10 4 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.48%) Google Drive
11 3 (2.48%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (1.65%) GitHub
12 2 (1.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 65 (53.72%) DNS
2 54 (44.63%) Firewall
3 51 (42.15%) VPN
4 23 (19.01%) DHCP
4 23 (19.01%) Network Security
5 18 (14.88%) WAN
6 17 (14.05%) HTTP
7 13 (10.74%) VLAN
8 11 (9.09%) LAN
8 11 (9.09%) SSL
9 10 (8.26%) BGP
9 10 (8.26%) OSPF
10 9 (7.44%) OpenVPN
10 9 (7.44%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (4.96%) APPN
11 6 (4.96%) DMZ
11 6 (4.96%) Internet
11 6 (4.96%) SNA
12 5 (4.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 5 (4.13%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.31%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.65%) MySQL
3 2 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (11.57%) JIRA
2 9 (7.44%) GitLab
3 7 (5.79%) Bitbucket
3 7 (5.79%) SonarQube
4 6 (4.96%) Git
5 5 (4.13%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (1.65%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.65%) Subversion
7 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.83%) Maven
General
1 44 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.49%) Finance
3 10 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.26%) Documentation Skills
3 10 (8.26%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.61%) Banking
4 8 (6.61%) Front Office
4 8 (6.61%) Telecoms
5 6 (4.96%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.65%) Games
8 2 (1.65%) Japanese Language
8 2 (1.65%) Military
8 2 (1.65%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.83%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.83%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (19.83%) Network Engineer
2 18 (14.88%) Support Engineer
3 17 (14.05%) Architect
4 12 (9.92%) Analyst
5 11 (9.09%) Security Engineer
6 9 (7.44%) Web Engineer
7 8 (6.61%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) AWS Architect
8 7 (5.79%) Help Desk Analyst
8 7 (5.79%) Technical Architect
9 6 (4.96%) Developer
9 6 (4.96%) IT Analyst
9 6 (4.96%) Technical Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) Technical Support
9 6 (4.96%) Technical Support Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Desktop Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Junior
10 5 (4.13%) Operations Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.13%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.92%) LDAP
2 9 (7.44%) OpenID
3 8 (6.61%) SAML
4 4 (3.31%) OAuth
5 3 (2.48%) 802.1X
5 3 (2.48%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.48%) HTML
5 3 (2.48%) React
6 2 (1.65%) .NET
6 2 (1.65%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.65%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.65%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.65%) eBPF
6 2 (1.65%) Express.js
6 2 (1.65%) HTML5
6 2 (1.65%) Loki
6 2 (1.65%) SOAP
6 2 (1.65%) WCF
6 2 (1.65%) Web Services
6 2 (1.65%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.44%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.96%) Mainframe
2 6 (4.96%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.96%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.31%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (2.48%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.48%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.48%) FPGA
5 2 (1.65%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (1.65%) iPhone
5 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.65%) PKI
5 2 (1.65%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.83%) Anti-Spyware
6 1 (0.83%) PlayStation
6 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (30.58%) Windows
2 14 (11.57%) Linux
3 8 (6.61%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.96%) Windows 10
4 6 (4.96%) zOS
5 5 (4.13%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.31%) Android
6 4 (3.31%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.65%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.83%) CentOS
9 1 (0.83%) Unix
9 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (28.10%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (14.05%) DevOps
3 16 (13.22%) Agile
4 14 (11.57%) Roadmaps
5 13 (10.74%) Security Operations
5 13 (10.74%) SIEM
6 12 (9.92%) Decision-Making
6 12 (9.92%) ITIL
7 11 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (9.09%) Runbook
8 10 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (8.26%) Incident Response
8 10 (8.26%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (8.26%) Service Management
9 9 (7.44%) Information Security
9 9 (7.44%) Load Balancing
10 8 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (6.61%) High Availability
10 8 (6.61%) Network Design
11 7 (5.79%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 29 (23.97%) Python
2 21 (17.36%) Bash
3 17 (14.05%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.79%) C
5 5 (4.13%) C++
6 4 (3.31%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.48%) SQL
8 2 (1.65%) C#
8 2 (1.65%) Go
8 2 (1.65%) Perl
8 2 (1.65%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.83%) Java
9 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.83%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (20.66%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.53%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.57%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (10.74%) CCNP
5 9 (7.44%) Degree
6 7 (5.79%) CCNA
7 6 (4.96%) Azure Certification
7 6 (4.96%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (3.31%) CISSP
9 4 (3.31%) JNCIS
9 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (2.48%) JNCIP
10 3 (2.48%) MCSA
11 2 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.83%) CCSP
12 1 (0.83%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.83%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.96%) GDPR
1 6 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.31%) NIST
3 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (12.40%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.44%) Squid
3 8 (6.61%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.48%) Docker
5 2 (1.65%) Ceph
5 2 (1.65%) KVM
5 2 (1.65%) Lustre
5 2 (1.65%) NFS
5 2 (1.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.83%) GPFS
6 1 (0.83%) iptables
6 1 (0.83%) Samba
6 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (16.53%) Terraform
2 18 (14.88%) SCCM
3 16 (13.22%) Ansible
4 15 (12.40%) Kubernetes
4 15 (12.40%) Prometheus
4 15 (12.40%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (10.74%) Grafana
6 11 (9.09%) FortiGate
7 9 (7.44%) WSUS
8 7 (5.79%) Consul
8 7 (5.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (4.96%) Tivoli NetView
10 4 (3.31%) QRadar
11 2 (1.65%) Cilium
11 2 (1.65%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.65%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.83%) Istio
12 1 (0.83%) Puppet
12 1 (0.83%) SELinux
Vendors
1 24 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.92%) Red Hat
3 10 (8.26%) Bloomberg
3 10 (8.26%) Palo Alto
4 9 (7.44%) Atlassian
4 9 (7.44%) Cisco
4 9 (7.44%) Citrix
4 9 (7.44%) Dynatrace
5 8 (6.61%) F5
5 8 (6.61%) Fortinet
6 7 (5.79%) Google
6 7 (5.79%) Reuters
6 7 (5.79%) Zscaler
7 6 (4.96%) IBM
7 6 (4.96%) ION Trading
7 6 (4.96%) Juniper
7 6 (4.96%) ServiceNow
8 5 (4.13%) Netskope
8 5 (4.13%) Sophos
9 4 (3.31%) VMware