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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 229 259
Rank change year-on-year -44 +30 -12
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 124 125 133
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 0.99% 0.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.05% 9.71% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 85 73
10th Percentile £263 £233 £188
25th Percentile £385 £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 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -8.29% +13.89% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £27.25 £46.18 £16.00
25th Percentile £28.75 £46.81 £18.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £52.25 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.89% +122.34% -31.39%
75th Percentile £39.25 £59.94 £31.75
90th Percentile £41.35 £61.93 £47.25
England median hourly rate £41.94 £52.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.73% +39.33% -40.05%

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 1,370 1,287 1,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.22% 10.18% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 891 828 1,164
10th Percentile £283 £263 £205
25th Percentile £409 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +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 31 15 64
10th Percentile £20.18 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.84 £26.54 £18.64
Median hourly rate £25.47 £39.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.52% +79.55% -34.81%
75th Percentile £40.75 £49.38 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £62.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £36.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.22% -8.75% +110.53%

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 26 March 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 26 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
South London -11 7 £519 -
Central London -32 4 £475 -7.32% 8
East London -3 2 - - 1
West London - 1 £275 - 3
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 (8.06%) nginx
2 8 (6.45%) Confluence
3 3 (2.42%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.61%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.81%) Apache
5 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.81%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.81%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 45 (36.29%) AWS
2 35 (28.23%) Azure
3 26 (20.97%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (14.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 15 (12.10%) Amazon S3
6 14 (11.29%) GCP
6 14 (11.29%) Route 53
7 13 (10.48%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (9.68%) Serverless
9 11 (8.87%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (5.65%) Entra ID
10 7 (5.65%) Google Workspace
11 4 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.42%) Google Drive
13 2 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (1.61%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 64 (51.61%) DNS
2 55 (44.35%) Firewall
3 53 (42.74%) VPN
4 24 (19.35%) DHCP
4 24 (19.35%) Network Security
5 18 (14.52%) WAN
6 14 (11.29%) HTTP
6 14 (11.29%) VLAN
7 11 (8.87%) LAN
8 10 (8.06%) BGP
8 10 (8.06%) OSPF
8 10 (8.06%) SSL
9 9 (7.26%) Multicast
9 9 (7.26%) OpenVPN
9 9 (7.26%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (5.65%) Internet
11 6 (4.84%) APPN
11 6 (4.84%) DMZ
11 6 (4.84%) SNA
12 5 (4.03%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.87%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.61%) MySQL
3 2 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (11.29%) JIRA
2 10 (8.06%) GitLab
3 7 (5.65%) Bitbucket
3 7 (5.65%) Git
3 7 (5.65%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.23%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.61%) Subversion
7 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.81%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.81%) Maven
General
1 48 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.97%) Finance
3 12 (9.68%) Front Office
4 10 (8.06%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.26%) Banking
6 7 (5.65%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.65%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.65%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.61%) Games
8 2 (1.61%) Japanese Language
8 2 (1.61%) Military
8 2 (1.61%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.81%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.81%) Legal
9 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.81%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (21.77%) Network Engineer
2 19 (15.32%) Support Engineer
3 17 (13.71%) Architect
4 12 (9.68%) Analyst
5 11 (8.87%) Security Engineer
6 8 (6.45%) Integration Engineer
6 8 (6.45%) Web Engineer
7 7 (5.65%) AWS Architect
7 7 (5.65%) Help Desk Analyst
7 7 (5.65%) Technical Architect
8 6 (4.84%) Developer
8 6 (4.84%) IT Analyst
8 6 (4.84%) Junior
8 6 (4.84%) Support Technician
8 6 (4.84%) Technical Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) Technical Support
8 6 (4.84%) Technical Support Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Junior Support Technician
9 5 (4.03%) Junior Technical Support
9 5 (4.03%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.68%) LDAP
2 9 (7.26%) OpenID
3 6 (4.84%) Middleware
3 6 (4.84%) SAML
4 4 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (3.23%) Ultra Messaging
5 3 (2.42%) 802.1X
5 3 (2.42%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.42%) HTML
5 3 (2.42%) OAuth
5 3 (2.42%) React
6 2 (1.61%) .NET
6 2 (1.61%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.61%) eBPF
6 2 (1.61%) HTML5
6 2 (1.61%) Loki
6 2 (1.61%) SOAP
6 2 (1.61%) WCF
6 2 (1.61%) Web Services
6 2 (1.61%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.06%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.65%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.84%) Mainframe
3 6 (4.84%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.23%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.42%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.42%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.42%) FPGA
6 2 (1.61%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.61%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.61%) PKI
6 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.81%) Anti-Spyware
7 1 (0.81%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.81%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.81%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (29.84%) Windows
2 17 (13.71%) Linux
3 8 (6.45%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.65%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.84%) zOS
6 4 (3.23%) Mac OS
7 3 (2.42%) Android
7 3 (2.42%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.81%) Unix
9 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (14.52%) DevOps
2 18 (14.52%) Roadmaps
3 17 (13.71%) Agile
4 16 (12.90%) Decision-Making
4 16 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (10.48%) Incident Response
5 13 (10.48%) SIEM
6 12 (9.68%) Security Operations
7 11 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (8.87%) ITIL
8 10 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (8.06%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (7.26%) Information Security
9 9 (7.26%) Runbook
9 9 (7.26%) Service Management
10 8 (6.45%) Load Balancing
10 8 (6.45%) Low Latency
10 8 (6.45%) Network Design
10 8 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (26.61%) Python
2 25 (20.16%) Bash
3 21 (16.94%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.65%) C
5 5 (4.03%) C++
6 3 (2.42%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.42%) SQL
7 2 (1.61%) C#
7 2 (1.61%) Go
7 2 (1.61%) Perl
7 2 (1.61%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.81%) Java
8 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.81%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (20.97%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.94%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.10%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (10.48%) CCNP
5 8 (6.45%) CCNA
5 8 (6.45%) Degree
6 6 (4.84%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.84%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.23%) CISSP
8 4 (3.23%) JNCIS
8 4 (3.23%) MCSA
9 3 (2.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (2.42%) JNCIP
10 2 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.81%) CEH
11 1 (0.81%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.81%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.84%) GDPR
2 5 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.42%) NIST
4 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (12.10%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.26%) Squid
3 8 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.23%) Docker
5 2 (1.61%) Ceph
5 2 (1.61%) Firmware
5 2 (1.61%) KVM
5 2 (1.61%) Lustre
5 2 (1.61%) NFS
5 2 (1.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.81%) GPFS
6 1 (0.81%) iptables
6 1 (0.81%) Samba
6 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (16.94%) Terraform
2 19 (15.32%) Prometheus
2 19 (15.32%) SCCM
3 17 (13.71%) Ansible
3 17 (13.71%) Grafana
4 15 (12.10%) Kubernetes
5 14 (11.29%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (8.87%) FortiGate
7 9 (7.26%) WSUS
8 7 (5.65%) Consul
8 7 (5.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (4.84%) Tivoli NetView
10 4 (3.23%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (3.23%) QRadar
11 2 (1.61%) Cilium
11 2 (1.61%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.81%) Puppet
12 1 (0.81%) Salt
12 1 (0.81%) SELinux
Vendors
1 25 (20.16%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.68%) Red Hat
3 11 (8.87%) Palo Alto
4 10 (8.06%) Bloomberg
5 9 (7.26%) Atlassian
5 9 (7.26%) Cisco
5 9 (7.26%) Citrix
5 9 (7.26%) Dynatrace
6 8 (6.45%) F5
6 8 (6.45%) Fortinet
7 7 (5.65%) Google
7 7 (5.65%) Reuters
7 7 (5.65%) Zscaler
8 6 (4.84%) IBM
8 6 (4.84%) ION Trading
8 6 (4.84%) Juniper
8 6 (4.84%) ServiceNow
9 5 (4.03%) CheckPoint
9 5 (4.03%) Netskope
9 5 (4.03%) Sophos