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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 224 279
Rank change year-on-year -36 +55 -23
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 177 150 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 1.11% 0.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.24% 10.75% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 93 79
10th Percentile £197 £211 £213
25th Percentile £313 £305 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £580
90th Percentile £634 £744 £650
England median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £27.35 £17.20
25th Percentile £26.25 £39.18 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +161.25% -60.33%
75th Percentile £28.75 £63.25 £20.94
90th Percentile - - £22.63
England median hourly rate £38.72 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -40.43% - +28.92%

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 1,575 1,395 1,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.92% 10.29% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,022 908 1,081
10th Percentile £300 £275 £228
25th Percentile £408 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £724 £725 £725
England median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +0.97% -0.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 29 45
10th Percentile £18.35 £19.33 £14.89
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.15 £17.78
Median hourly rate £28.19 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -6.03% +26.05% -32.96%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £81.75 £63.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £26.72 £44.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -39.96% +11.25% +14.29%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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
Central London -12 18 £484 +11.79% 13
South London -12 11 £519 -17.03% 5
West London -12 2 £218 -70.97% 7
North London - 2 - -
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 16 (9.04%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.91%) Confluence
2 14 (7.91%) nginx
3 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.56%) CICS
4 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.56%) Traefik
4 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 52 (29.38%) AWS
1 52 (29.38%) Azure
2 47 (26.55%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (18.08%) Entra ID
4 25 (14.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 20 (11.30%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (8.47%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (7.91%) GCP
8 13 (7.34%) Amazon S3
9 12 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (6.78%) Serverless
10 11 (6.21%) Route 53
11 9 (5.08%) OneDrive
12 7 (3.95%) GitHub
12 7 (3.95%) Google Workspace
13 5 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.82%) SaaS
14 3 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (1.69%) Datadog
14 3 (1.69%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 97 (54.80%) DNS
2 74 (41.81%) Firewall
3 64 (36.16%) VPN
4 36 (20.34%) Network Security
5 34 (19.21%) DHCP
6 28 (15.82%) HTTP
7 21 (11.86%) SSL
8 19 (10.73%) BGP
9 18 (10.17%) WAN
10 14 (7.91%) LAN
11 13 (7.34%) OpenVPN
11 13 (7.34%) VLAN
12 10 (5.65%) Internet
13 9 (5.08%) Wireless
14 8 (4.52%) DMZ
14 8 (4.52%) HTTPS
15 7 (3.95%) Cisco IOS
15 7 (3.95%) Ethernet
15 7 (3.95%) OSPF
15 7 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.82%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.13%) MySQL
4 2 (1.13%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.13%) SQLite
5 1 (0.56%) KDB
5 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (10.73%) JIRA
2 17 (9.60%) Git
3 8 (4.52%) Bitbucket
4 7 (3.95%) GitLab
4 7 (3.95%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.82%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (2.26%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.69%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.13%) Subversion
9 1 (0.56%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.56%) MSI
9 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 73 (41.24%) Social Skills
2 37 (20.90%) Finance
3 22 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.04%) Banking
5 12 (6.78%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (5.65%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.95%) Front Office
7 7 (3.95%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.39%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.13%) Automotive
9 2 (1.13%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.13%) Games
9 2 (1.13%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.56%) Law
10 1 (0.56%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 29 (16.38%) Network Engineer
2 28 (15.82%) Support Engineer
3 19 (10.73%) Analyst
4 18 (10.17%) Architect
4 18 (10.17%) Security Engineer
5 13 (7.34%) Senior
6 11 (6.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (6.21%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (5.08%) Network Security Engineer
8 8 (4.52%) IT Engineer
8 8 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.52%) Web Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Help Desk Analyst
9 7 (3.95%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Junior
9 7 (3.95%) Support Analyst
9 7 (3.95%) Technical Engineer
9 7 (3.95%) Technical Support
9 7 (3.95%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.34%) SAML
2 12 (6.78%) LDAP
3 9 (5.08%) OpenID
4 8 (4.52%) .NET
5 4 (2.26%) boto
5 4 (2.26%) eBPF
5 4 (2.26%) OAuth
5 4 (2.26%) WinForms
6 3 (1.69%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.69%) HTML
6 3 (1.69%) REST
7 2 (1.13%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.13%) 802.1X
7 2 (1.13%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.13%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.13%) HTML5
7 2 (1.13%) Loki
7 2 (1.13%) Mojolicious
7 2 (1.13%) Moose
7 2 (1.13%) SPNEGO
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.99%) Onboarding
2 19 (10.73%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.65%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (5.08%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.95%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.39%) Client/Server
6 6 (3.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 6 (3.39%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (3.39%) PKI
7 5 (2.82%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.69%) iPhone
9 3 (1.69%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.13%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 64 (36.16%) Windows
2 35 (19.77%) Linux
3 17 (9.60%) Mac OS
4 16 (9.04%) Windows Server
5 12 (6.78%) Windows 10
6 9 (5.08%) Ubuntu
7 7 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (3.39%) Android
9 5 (2.82%) Apple iOS
10 4 (2.26%) Unix
11 3 (1.69%) zOS
12 1 (0.56%) CentOS
12 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (16.95%) DevOps
3 22 (12.43%) ITIL
4 21 (11.86%) Incident Response
5 19 (10.73%) Customer Service
5 19 (10.73%) Runbook
6 18 (10.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (9.60%) ITSM
7 17 (9.60%) Migration
7 17 (9.60%) Service Management
8 15 (8.47%) High Availability
8 15 (8.47%) Load Balancing
8 15 (8.47%) SIEM
9 14 (7.91%) Agile
9 14 (7.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (7.34%) CI/CD
11 12 (6.78%) Change Management
11 12 (6.78%) Incident Management
11 12 (6.78%) Roadmaps
12 11 (6.21%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (28.25%) Python
2 30 (16.95%) PowerShell
3 25 (14.12%) Bash
4 10 (5.65%) C++
5 6 (3.39%) C
5 6 (3.39%) Java
6 5 (2.82%) SQL
7 4 (2.26%) C#
7 4 (2.26%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.13%) Go
8 2 (1.13%) Korn
8 2 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.13%) Objective-C
8 2 (1.13%) Perl
8 2 (1.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (14.12%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.30%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.73%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (10.17%) Degree
5 16 (9.04%) CCNP
6 13 (7.34%) CCNA
6 13 (7.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (5.65%) CISSP
8 8 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.39%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (2.82%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.26%) A+ Certification
11 4 (2.26%) CCIE
12 3 (1.69%) CISM
12 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.69%) MCSA
13 2 (1.13%) CCIE Security
13 2 (1.13%) JNCIP
13 2 (1.13%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.95%) NIST
2 6 (3.39%) SLA
3 5 (2.82%) GDPR
3 5 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.69%) QA
5 2 (1.13%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.13%) NCSC
5 2 (1.13%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (22.03%) Active Directory
2 13 (7.34%) Squid
3 9 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.26%) Docker
5 4 (2.26%) vSphere
6 2 (1.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.56%) NFS
7 1 (0.56%) RACF
7 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (14.12%) Single Sign-On
1 25 (14.12%) Terraform
2 24 (13.56%) Ansible
3 20 (11.30%) Grafana
4 17 (9.60%) Kubernetes
5 15 (8.47%) FortiGate
6 13 (7.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (7.34%) Prometheus
7 9 (5.08%) SCCM
8 7 (3.95%) Consul
8 7 (3.95%) WSUS
9 4 (2.26%) Suricata
9 4 (2.26%) systemd
10 3 (1.69%) SELinux
11 2 (1.13%) Cilium
11 2 (1.13%) QRadar
11 2 (1.13%) Tivoli NetView
12 1 (0.56%) PingFederate
12 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 58 (32.77%) Microsoft
2 27 (15.25%) Cisco
3 16 (9.04%) Zscaler
4 14 (7.91%) Red Hat
4 14 (7.91%) ServiceNow
5 12 (6.78%) Citrix
6 11 (6.21%) Dynatrace
7 10 (5.65%) F5
7 10 (5.65%) Juniper
7 10 (5.65%) Netskope
8 9 (5.08%) Bloomberg
8 9 (5.08%) Fortinet
8 9 (5.08%) Google
8 9 (5.08%) VMware
9 7 (3.95%) Atlassian
9 7 (3.95%) Okta
9 7 (3.95%) Splunk
10 6 (3.39%) Blue Coat
10 6 (3.39%) ION Trading
10 6 (3.39%) Palo Alto