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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 226 269
Rank change year-on-year -54 +43 -13
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 127 127 129
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 1.00% 0.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.14% 9.81% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 89 73
10th Percentile £254 £253 £188
25th Percentile £384 £380 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £544 £625 £615
90th Percentile £575 £675 £709
England median daily rate £473 £505 £450
% change year-on-year -6.44% +12.22% -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 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.12% +33.33% -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 1,389 1,295 1,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.22% 10.18% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 842 1,173
10th Percentile £286 £263 £205
25th Percentile £410 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 64
10th Percentile £20.18 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.84 £27.47 £18.64
Median hourly rate £25.47 £41.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.88% +86.36% -34.81%
75th Percentile £40.75 £52.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £66.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.02 £35.75 £38.00
% change year-on-year +11.94% -5.92% +100.00%

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 29 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 29 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 -8 7 £519 -
Central London -29 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 (7.87%) nginx
2 8 (6.30%) Confluence
3 4 (3.15%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.57%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.79%) Apache
5 1 (0.79%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.79%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 45 (35.43%) AWS
2 36 (28.35%) Azure
3 27 (21.26%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (14.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 15 (11.81%) Amazon S3
6 14 (11.02%) GCP
6 14 (11.02%) Route 53
7 13 (10.24%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (9.45%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (9.45%) Serverless
9 11 (8.66%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (6.30%) Entra ID
11 7 (5.51%) Google Workspace
12 4 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (2.36%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (2.36%) Google Drive
14 2 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 2 (1.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 2 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (1.57%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 67 (52.76%) DNS
2 55 (43.31%) Firewall
3 54 (42.52%) VPN
4 25 (19.69%) DHCP
5 24 (18.90%) Network Security
6 19 (14.96%) WAN
7 16 (12.60%) HTTP
8 14 (11.02%) VLAN
9 12 (9.45%) LAN
10 11 (8.66%) SSL
11 10 (7.87%) BGP
11 10 (7.87%) OSPF
12 9 (7.09%) Multicast
12 9 (7.09%) OpenVPN
12 9 (7.09%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (5.51%) Internet
14 6 (4.72%) APPN
14 6 (4.72%) DMZ
14 6 (4.72%) SNA
15 5 (3.94%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.66%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.57%) MySQL
3 2 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (11.02%) JIRA
2 10 (7.87%) GitLab
3 7 (5.51%) Bitbucket
3 7 (5.51%) Git
3 7 (5.51%) SonarQube
4 5 (3.94%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (2.36%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.57%) Subversion
7 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.79%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.79%) Maven
General
1 50 (39.37%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.26%) Finance
3 12 (9.45%) Front Office
4 10 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.87%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.09%) Banking
6 7 (5.51%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.51%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.51%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.57%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.57%) Games
8 2 (1.57%) Japanese Language
8 2 (1.57%) Military
8 2 (1.57%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.79%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.79%) Legal
9 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (21.26%) Network Engineer
2 20 (15.75%) Support Engineer
3 17 (13.39%) Architect
4 12 (9.45%) Analyst
5 11 (8.66%) Security Engineer
6 9 (7.09%) Web Engineer
7 8 (6.30%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (5.51%) AWS Architect
8 7 (5.51%) Help Desk Analyst
8 7 (5.51%) Technical Architect
8 7 (5.51%) Technical Engineer
8 7 (5.51%) Technical Support
8 7 (5.51%) Technical Support Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Desktop Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Developer
9 6 (4.72%) IT Analyst
9 6 (4.72%) Junior
9 6 (4.72%) Support Technician
10 5 (3.94%) 1st Line Support Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) 1st Line Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.45%) LDAP
2 9 (7.09%) OpenID
3 8 (6.30%) SAML
4 6 (4.72%) Middleware
5 4 (3.15%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (3.15%) OAuth
5 4 (3.15%) Ultra Messaging
6 3 (2.36%) 802.1X
6 3 (2.36%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.36%) HTML
6 3 (2.36%) React
7 2 (1.57%) .NET
7 2 (1.57%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.57%) eBPF
7 2 (1.57%) HTML5
7 2 (1.57%) Loki
7 2 (1.57%) SOAP
7 2 (1.57%) WCF
7 2 (1.57%) Web Services
7 2 (1.57%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.87%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.51%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.72%) Mainframe
3 6 (4.72%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.15%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.36%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.36%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.36%) FPGA
6 2 (1.57%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.57%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.57%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.57%) PKI
6 2 (1.57%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.79%) Anti-Spyware
7 1 (0.79%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (29.92%) Windows
2 18 (14.17%) Linux
3 8 (6.30%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.51%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.72%) zOS
6 5 (3.94%) Mac OS
7 4 (3.15%) Android
8 3 (2.36%) Apple iOS
8 3 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.57%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.79%) CentOS
10 1 (0.79%) Unix
10 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (27.56%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (14.17%) DevOps
2 18 (14.17%) Roadmaps
3 17 (13.39%) Agile
4 16 (12.60%) Decision-Making
4 16 (12.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (11.02%) Incident Response
6 13 (10.24%) Security Operations
6 13 (10.24%) SIEM
7 12 (9.45%) ITIL
8 11 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (8.66%) Runbook
9 10 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (7.87%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (7.09%) Information Security
10 9 (7.09%) Service Management
11 8 (6.30%) High Availability
11 8 (6.30%) Load Balancing
11 8 (6.30%) Low Latency
11 8 (6.30%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 34 (26.77%) Python
2 26 (20.47%) Bash
3 22 (17.32%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.51%) C
5 5 (3.94%) C++
6 4 (3.15%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.36%) SQL
8 2 (1.57%) C#
8 2 (1.57%) Go
8 2 (1.57%) Perl
8 2 (1.57%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.79%) Java
9 1 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (20.47%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.54%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.81%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (10.24%) CCNP
5 9 (7.09%) Degree
6 8 (6.30%) CCNA
7 6 (4.72%) Azure Certification
7 6 (4.72%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (3.15%) CISSP
9 4 (3.15%) JNCIS
9 4 (3.15%) MCSA
10 3 (2.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (2.36%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.79%) CEH
12 1 (0.79%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.79%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.72%) GDPR
1 6 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.15%) NIST
3 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (12.60%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.09%) Squid
3 8 (6.30%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.15%) Docker
5 2 (1.57%) Ceph
5 2 (1.57%) Firmware
5 2 (1.57%) KVM
5 2 (1.57%) Lustre
5 2 (1.57%) NFS
5 2 (1.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.79%) GPFS
6 1 (0.79%) iptables
6 1 (0.79%) Samba
6 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (16.54%) Terraform
2 19 (14.96%) Prometheus
2 19 (14.96%) SCCM
3 17 (13.39%) Ansible
3 17 (13.39%) Grafana
4 15 (11.81%) Kubernetes
4 15 (11.81%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (8.66%) FortiGate
6 9 (7.09%) WSUS
7 7 (5.51%) Consul
7 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (4.72%) Tivoli NetView
9 4 (3.15%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (3.15%) QRadar
10 2 (1.57%) Cilium
10 2 (1.57%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.57%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.57%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.79%) Salt
11 1 (0.79%) SELinux
Vendors
1 26 (20.47%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.45%) Red Hat
3 11 (8.66%) Palo Alto
4 10 (7.87%) Bloomberg
4 10 (7.87%) Cisco
5 9 (7.09%) Atlassian
5 9 (7.09%) Citrix
5 9 (7.09%) Dynatrace
6 8 (6.30%) F5
6 8 (6.30%) Fortinet
7 7 (5.51%) Google
7 7 (5.51%) Reuters
7 7 (5.51%) Zscaler
8 6 (4.72%) IBM
8 6 (4.72%) ION Trading
8 6 (4.72%) Juniper
8 6 (4.72%) ServiceNow
9 5 (3.94%) CheckPoint
9 5 (3.94%) Netskope
9 5 (3.94%) Sophos