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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 222 272
Rank change year-on-year -73 +50 -16
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 117 126 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 1.00% 0.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.35% 9.62% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 86 72
10th Percentile £239 £256 £188
25th Percentile £350 £380 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £627 £650
90th Percentile £575 £681 £724
England median daily rate £460 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -12.20%
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 £52.25 £24.50
% change year-on-year -19.73% +113.27% -60.83%

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 1,401 1,310 1,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.09% 10.36% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 853 1,166
10th Percentile £300 £263 £205
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £601
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 15 65
10th Percentile £20.23 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.84 £26.54 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.07% +93.18% -38.89%
75th Percentile £33.90 £51.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £84.50 £62.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £37.07 £40.00
% change year-on-year +28.13% -7.32% +111.30%

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 12 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 12 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 -27 4 £475 -2.56% 8
East London -3 2 - - 1
West London -21 1 £223 -70.27% 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 (8.55%) nginx
2 7 (5.98%) Confluence
3 5 (4.27%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.71%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.85%) Apache
5 1 (0.85%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.85%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 42 (35.90%) AWS
2 34 (29.06%) Azure
3 26 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (14.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 14 (11.97%) Amazon S3
5 14 (11.97%) Route 53
6 12 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (10.26%) GCP
6 12 (10.26%) Serverless
7 11 (9.40%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (7.69%) Entra ID
9 7 (5.98%) Google Workspace
10 3 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.56%) Google Drive
10 3 (2.56%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.71%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 64 (54.70%) DNS
2 51 (43.59%) Firewall
3 48 (41.03%) VPN
4 24 (20.51%) DHCP
5 22 (18.80%) Network Security
6 17 (14.53%) HTTP
7 13 (11.11%) WAN
8 11 (9.40%) BGP
8 11 (9.40%) SSL
8 11 (9.40%) VLAN
9 10 (8.55%) OSPF
10 9 (7.69%) LAN
10 9 (7.69%) OpenVPN
11 7 (5.98%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (5.13%) APPN
12 6 (5.13%) DMZ
12 6 (5.13%) SNA
13 5 (4.27%) HTTPS
13 5 (4.27%) Internet
13 5 (4.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.40%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.42%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.71%) MySQL
3 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (10.26%) JIRA
2 7 (5.98%) Bitbucket
2 7 (5.98%) SonarQube
3 6 (5.13%) Git
3 6 (5.13%) GitLab
4 5 (4.27%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (1.71%) Subversion
General
1 43 (36.75%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.22%) Finance
3 10 (8.55%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.84%) Banking
6 7 (5.98%) Front Office
6 7 (5.98%) Telecoms
7 6 (5.13%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.71%) Games
10 2 (1.71%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.71%) Military
10 2 (1.71%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.85%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.85%) Legal
11 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 21 (17.95%) Network Engineer
2 18 (15.38%) Support Engineer
3 16 (13.68%) Architect
4 12 (10.26%) Analyst
4 12 (10.26%) Security Engineer
5 9 (7.69%) Web Engineer
6 8 (6.84%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) AWS Architect
7 7 (5.98%) Help Desk Analyst
8 6 (5.13%) IT Analyst
8 6 (5.13%) Network Security Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.27%) Desktop Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Developer
9 5 (4.27%) Operations Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Technical Engineer
9 5 (4.27%) Technical Support
9 5 (4.27%) Technical Support Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.42%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.26%) LDAP
2 9 (7.69%) OpenID
3 8 (6.84%) SAML
4 4 (3.42%) OAuth
5 3 (2.56%) 802.1X
5 3 (2.56%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.56%) HTML
6 2 (1.71%) .NET
6 2 (1.71%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.71%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.71%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.71%) eBPF
6 2 (1.71%) Express.js
6 2 (1.71%) HTML5
6 2 (1.71%) Loki
6 2 (1.71%) Middleware
6 2 (1.71%) React
6 2 (1.71%) SOAP
6 2 (1.71%) WCF
6 2 (1.71%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.84%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.13%) Mainframe
2 6 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.27%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (3.42%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.56%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.56%) FPGA
6 2 (1.71%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.71%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.71%) iPhone
6 2 (1.71%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.71%) PKI
6 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) PlayStation
7 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (31.62%) Windows
2 15 (12.82%) Linux
3 9 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.98%) Windows 10
5 6 (5.13%) Mac OS
5 6 (5.13%) zOS
6 4 (3.42%) Android
6 4 (3.42%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.71%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.85%) CentOS
9 1 (0.85%) Unix
9 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.06%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (11.97%) DevOps
2 14 (11.97%) Roadmaps
3 13 (11.11%) Agile
3 13 (11.11%) Security Operations
3 13 (11.11%) SIEM
4 12 (10.26%) Decision-Making
4 12 (10.26%) ITIL
5 11 (9.40%) Runbook
6 10 (8.55%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (8.55%) Incident Response
6 10 (8.55%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (8.55%) Service Management
7 9 (7.69%) High Availability
7 9 (7.69%) Information Security
7 9 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (7.69%) Load Balancing
8 8 (6.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (5.98%) Service Delivery
9 7 (5.98%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (23.93%) Python
2 21 (17.95%) Bash
3 17 (14.53%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.98%) C
5 5 (4.27%) C++
6 4 (3.42%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.56%) SQL
8 2 (1.71%) C#
8 2 (1.71%) Go
8 2 (1.71%) Perl
8 2 (1.71%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.24%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (9.40%) CCNP
5 10 (8.55%) Degree
6 7 (5.98%) CCNA
7 6 (5.13%) Azure Certification
8 5 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (3.42%) CISSP
9 4 (3.42%) DV Cleared
9 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (2.56%) MCSA
11 2 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.71%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.85%) CCSA
12 1 (0.85%) CCSE
12 1 (0.85%) CEH
12 1 (0.85%) GCIH
12 1 (0.85%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.13%) GDPR
1 6 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.42%) NIST
3 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (14.53%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.69%) Squid
3 8 (6.84%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.56%) Docker
4 3 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.71%) Ceph
5 2 (1.71%) KVM
5 2 (1.71%) Lustre
5 2 (1.71%) NFS
5 2 (1.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.85%) GPFS
6 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.85%) iptables
6 1 (0.85%) Samba
6 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (15.38%) SCCM
1 18 (15.38%) Terraform
2 15 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 15 (12.82%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (11.97%) Ansible
4 13 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 11 (9.40%) FortiGate
5 11 (9.40%) Grafana
6 9 (7.69%) WSUS
7 7 (5.98%) Consul
7 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (5.13%) Tivoli NetView
9 4 (3.42%) QRadar
10 2 (1.71%) Cilium
10 2 (1.71%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.71%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.85%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.85%) Istio
11 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.26%) Red Hat
3 10 (8.55%) Bloomberg
4 9 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 9 (7.69%) Cisco
4 9 (7.69%) Citrix
4 9 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 9 (7.69%) Palo Alto
5 8 (6.84%) F5
5 8 (6.84%) Fortinet
6 7 (5.98%) Google
6 7 (5.98%) Reuters
6 7 (5.98%) Zscaler
7 6 (5.13%) IBM
7 6 (5.13%) ION Trading
7 6 (5.13%) ServiceNow
8 5 (4.27%) Juniper
8 5 (4.27%) Netskope
8 5 (4.27%) Sophos
8 5 (4.27%) VMware