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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 218 276
Rank change year-on-year -51 +58 -18
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 180 150 118
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.91% 1.10% 0.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.52% 10.69% 7.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 93 80
10th Percentile £185 £215 £213
25th Percentile £300 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £543 £638 £578
90th Percentile £632 £744 £650
England median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £27.35 £16.80
25th Percentile £26.25 £39.18 £18.00
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 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -27.69% - +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 1,562 1,403 1,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.86% 10.32% 9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,012 915 1,078
10th Percentile £300 £275 £243
25th Percentile £412 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £730 £718 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 29 38
10th Percentile £17.69 £19.33 £15.19
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £17.09
Median hourly rate £26.75 £30.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +39.53% -41.16%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.25 £61.50
England median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -40.62% -5.26% -4.04%

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 24 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 24 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 -16 18 £375 -13.29% 14
South London -16 7 £513 -18.00% 6
West London -14 2 £218 -70.97% 6
North London - 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 21 (11.67%) SharePoint
2 13 (7.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (5.56%) Confluence
4 9 (5.00%) nginx
5 1 (0.56%) CICS
5 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.56%) Traefik
5 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 59 (32.78%) Azure
2 54 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (26.11%) AWS
4 38 (21.11%) Entra ID
5 20 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (8.89%) GCP
7 15 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (7.78%) OneDrive
9 10 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (4.44%) GitHub
11 7 (3.89%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.89%) Google Workspace
11 7 (3.89%) Serverless
12 6 (3.33%) Route 53
13 5 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.78%) SaaS
14 4 (2.22%) Akamai
14 4 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (2.22%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 101 (56.11%) DNS
2 75 (41.67%) Firewall
3 65 (36.11%) VPN
4 42 (23.33%) DHCP
5 39 (21.67%) Network Security
6 29 (16.11%) HTTP
7 23 (12.78%) SSL
8 22 (12.22%) WAN
9 19 (10.56%) BGP
10 17 (9.44%) LAN
11 15 (8.33%) VLAN
12 11 (6.11%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (5.56%) Internet
13 10 (5.56%) Wireless
14 8 (4.44%) DMZ
14 8 (4.44%) HTTPS
14 8 (4.44%) OpenVPN
15 7 (3.89%) Cisco IOS
15 7 (3.89%) Ethernet
15 7 (3.89%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.11%) MySQL
4 2 (1.11%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.11%) SQLite
5 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.56%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.56%) KDB
5 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (9.44%) Git
2 15 (8.33%) JIRA
3 7 (3.89%) GitLab
4 5 (2.78%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (2.22%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.22%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.67%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.11%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.11%) Subversion
8 1 (0.56%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.56%) MSI
8 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 73 (40.56%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.00%) Finance
3 24 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.89%) Banking
5 12 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.44%) Front Office
8 7 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.33%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.67%) Automotive
11 2 (1.11%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.11%) Games
11 2 (1.11%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Korean Language
12 1 (0.56%) Local Government
12 1 (0.56%) Military
12 1 (0.56%) Retail
12 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (17.22%) Network Engineer
1 31 (17.22%) Support Engineer
2 20 (11.11%) Analyst
3 19 (10.56%) Senior
4 18 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 15 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.22%) Architect
7 11 (6.11%) Linux Engineer
8 10 (5.56%) IT Engineer
9 9 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (5.00%) IT Support
9 9 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
9 9 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.44%) Network Security Engineer
10 8 (4.44%) Support Analyst
10 8 (4.44%) Web Engineer
11 7 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.89%) Desktop Support
11 7 (3.89%) Help Desk Analyst
11 7 (3.89%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.22%) SAML
2 8 (4.44%) .NET
3 7 (3.89%) LDAP
4 4 (2.22%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.22%) boto
4 4 (2.22%) eBPF
4 4 (2.22%) OAuth
4 4 (2.22%) OpenID
4 4 (2.22%) WinForms
5 3 (1.67%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.67%) HTML
5 3 (1.67%) REST
6 2 (1.11%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.11%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.11%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.11%) HTML5
6 2 (1.11%) Loki
6 2 (1.11%) Mojolicious
6 2 (1.11%) Moose
6 2 (1.11%) SPNEGO
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.89%) Onboarding
2 19 (10.56%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 7 (3.89%) PKI
4 7 (3.89%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.33%) Client/Server
5 6 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.78%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (2.22%) iPhone
8 3 (1.67%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.67%) CMDB
8 3 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.67%) iPad
8 3 (1.67%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.67%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.67%) Robotics
8 3 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 71 (39.44%) Windows
2 36 (20.00%) Linux
3 19 (10.56%) Windows Server
4 18 (10.00%) Mac OS
5 14 (7.78%) Windows 10
6 10 (5.56%) Ubuntu
7 7 (3.89%) Android
7 7 (3.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (2.78%) Apple iOS
8 5 (2.78%) Unix
9 3 (1.67%) zOS
10 1 (0.56%) CentOS
10 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (15.56%) DevOps
2 28 (15.56%) ITIL
3 25 (13.89%) Incident Response
4 24 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 23 (12.78%) Migration
6 22 (12.22%) Customer Service
6 22 (12.22%) Service Management
7 20 (11.11%) ITSM
8 19 (10.56%) Runbook
9 17 (9.44%) High Availability
9 17 (9.44%) Load Balancing
10 16 (8.89%) Change Management
10 16 (8.89%) CI/CD
10 16 (8.89%) Incident Management
10 16 (8.89%) SIEM
11 15 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (7.78%) Agile
13 12 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
13 12 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (29.44%) Python
2 33 (18.33%) PowerShell
3 27 (15.00%) Bash
4 9 (5.00%) C++
5 6 (3.33%) Java
5 6 (3.33%) SQL
6 5 (2.78%) C
7 4 (2.22%) C#
7 4 (2.22%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.67%) Perl
9 2 (1.11%) Go
9 2 (1.11%) Korn
9 2 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.11%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.11%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 21 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (10.56%) Degree
4 17 (9.44%) CCNP
5 15 (8.33%) SC Cleared
6 14 (7.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (7.22%) CCNA
8 11 (6.11%) CISSP
9 8 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (4.44%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (3.33%) A+ Certification
11 4 (2.22%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.22%) CCIE
11 4 (2.22%) CISM
11 4 (2.22%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.67%) JNCIP
12 3 (1.67%) JNCIS
12 3 (1.67%) MCSA
13 2 (1.11%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.56%) SLA
2 7 (3.89%) NIST
3 5 (2.78%) GDPR
3 5 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.67%) QA
5 2 (1.11%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.11%) NCSC
5 2 (1.11%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (25.56%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.44%) Squid
4 6 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.78%) Docker
6 4 (2.22%) vSphere
7 2 (1.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.56%) NFS
8 1 (0.56%) RACF
8 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (14.44%) Ansible
2 24 (13.33%) Terraform
3 20 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (8.89%) Grafana
5 13 (7.22%) Kubernetes
6 11 (6.11%) SCCM
7 10 (5.56%) FortiGate
8 7 (3.89%) Prometheus
8 7 (3.89%) WSUS
9 5 (2.78%) systemd
10 4 (2.22%) Suricata
11 3 (1.67%) SELinux
12 2 (1.11%) Cilium
12 2 (1.11%) Consul
12 2 (1.11%) QRadar
12 2 (1.11%) Tivoli NetView
13 1 (0.56%) CASB
13 1 (0.56%) Istio
13 1 (0.56%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 65 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.22%) Cisco
3 19 (10.56%) Zscaler
4 18 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 12 (6.67%) Citrix
5 12 (6.67%) VMware
6 11 (6.11%) Juniper
7 10 (5.56%) Bloomberg
7 10 (5.56%) Fortinet
7 10 (5.56%) Google
7 10 (5.56%) Netskope
8 9 (5.00%) F5
9 8 (4.44%) Red Hat
10 7 (3.89%) Okta
10 7 (3.89%) Splunk
11 6 (3.33%) Apple
11 6 (3.33%) Dynatrace
11 6 (3.33%) Palo Alto
11 6 (3.33%) Remedy
11 6 (3.33%) Reuters