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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 218 256
Rank change year-on-year -43 +38 -7
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 120 146 136
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 1.08% 0.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.21% 10.74% 7.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 93 77
10th Percentile £278 £275 £188
25th Percentile £400 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £650
90th Percentile £619 £738 £713
England median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile £36.25 £45.75 £17.81
Median hourly rate £39.50 £54.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.52% +127.08% -20.00%
75th Percentile £42.75 £63.25 £35.25
90th Percentile - - £49.38
England median hourly rate £34.00 £58.50 £50.20
% change year-on-year -41.88% +16.55% -22.78%

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 1,303 1,360 1,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.54% 10.02% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 816 1,230
10th Percentile £263 £255 £206
25th Percentile £404 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £625
90th Percentile £694 £728 £750
England median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 15 70
10th Percentile £20.18 £24.02 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +28.71% -1.79%
75th Percentile £28.07 £39.75 £56.06
90th Percentile £93.75 £55.45 £72.62
England median hourly rate £28.38 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -12.68% -31.58% +137.50%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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
West London - 8 £280 - 3
South London -6 6 £519 +9.17% 5
Central London -29 5 £443 -23.04% 13
East London 0 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 8 (6.67%) Confluence
1 8 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.83%) nginx
3 2 (1.67%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.83%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.83%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 40 (33.33%) AWS
2 29 (24.17%) Azure
3 24 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 15 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 13 (10.83%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (9.17%) Route 53
8 8 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (6.67%) GCP
8 8 (6.67%) Serverless
9 7 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (5.83%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
11 4 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.33%) GitHub
11 4 (3.33%) Google Workspace
12 3 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 66 (55.00%) DNS
2 56 (46.67%) VPN
3 50 (41.67%) Firewall
4 33 (27.50%) DHCP
5 26 (21.67%) Network Security
6 22 (18.33%) WAN
7 17 (14.17%) LAN
8 16 (13.33%) SSL
9 12 (10.00%) BGP
9 12 (10.00%) OSPF
10 11 (9.17%) VLAN
11 10 (8.33%) Internet
12 9 (7.50%) Multicast
13 8 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (6.67%) Wireshark
14 7 (5.83%) HTTP
14 7 (5.83%) OpenVPN
15 6 (5.00%) Wireless
16 5 (4.17%) NGFW
16 5 (4.17%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.83%) MySQL
3 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (12.50%) GitLab
2 12 (10.00%) JIRA
3 11 (9.17%) Git
4 7 (5.83%) Jenkins
5 6 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 6 (5.00%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.50%) Subversion
7 2 (1.67%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.83%) GCC
8 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.83%) Maven
8 1 (0.83%) MSI
General
1 43 (35.83%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.00%) Finance
3 11 (9.17%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.50%) Front Office
5 8 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.83%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (5.00%) Banking
8 5 (4.17%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.17%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.50%) Military
11 2 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.83%) Legal
12 1 (0.83%) Police
12 1 (0.83%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 28 (23.33%) Network Engineer
2 15 (12.50%) Architect
2 15 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 14 (11.67%) Security Engineer
4 10 (8.33%) Analyst
4 10 (8.33%) IT Support
5 9 (7.50%) Senior
6 8 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (6.67%) Network Security Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Developer
7 7 (5.83%) Operations Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Technical Architect
8 6 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support
8 6 (5.00%) Desktop Support
8 6 (5.00%) IT Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Junior
8 6 (5.00%) Support Technician
9 5 (4.17%) 1st Line Support
9 5 (4.17%) Network Architect
9 5 (4.17%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.50%) LDAP
2 8 (6.67%) OpenID
3 6 (5.00%) Middleware
4 5 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (3.33%) SAML
5 4 (3.33%) Ultra Messaging
6 3 (2.50%) 802.1X
6 3 (2.50%) React
7 2 (1.67%) .NET
7 2 (1.67%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.67%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.67%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.67%) eBPF
7 2 (1.67%) Express.js
7 2 (1.67%) Loki
7 2 (1.67%) REST
7 2 (1.67%) SOAP
7 2 (1.67%) WCF
7 2 (1.67%) Web Services
7 2 (1.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.50%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (3.33%) FPGA
4 4 (3.33%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.50%) PKI
6 2 (1.67%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.67%) Clustering
6 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.67%) Replication
6 2 (1.67%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.83%) Anti-Spyware
7 1 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.83%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 45 (37.50%) Windows
2 24 (20.00%) Linux
3 12 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 6 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (4.17%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.33%) zOS
7 3 (2.50%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.67%) Android
8 2 (1.67%) Solaris
9 1 (0.83%) Unix
9 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (19.17%) DevOps
3 18 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (15.00%) SIEM
4 17 (14.17%) Roadmaps
5 15 (12.50%) Agile
5 15 (12.50%) Incident Response
6 13 (10.83%) CI/CD
6 13 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (10.83%) Decision-Making
6 13 (10.83%) Information Security
6 13 (10.83%) Security Operations
7 11 (9.17%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (8.33%) High Availability
8 10 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
8 10 (8.33%) ITIL
9 9 (7.50%) Low Latency
9 9 (7.50%) Patch Management
9 9 (7.50%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 31 (25.83%) Python
2 23 (19.17%) Bash
3 21 (17.50%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.00%) C
5 4 (3.33%) C++
5 4 (3.33%) Perl
6 3 (2.50%) C#
6 3 (2.50%) SQL
7 2 (1.67%) Java
7 2 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.67%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.83%) Go
8 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.83%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.17%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (9.17%) Degree
4 8 (6.67%) CCNP
5 6 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.33%) CCNA
6 4 (3.33%) CISSP
6 4 (3.33%) JNCIS
7 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.50%) JNCIP
7 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.67%) CCSA
8 2 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.67%) MCSA
9 1 (0.83%) CCIE
9 1 (0.83%) CCSP
9 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) GDPR
2 5 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.67%) NIST
3 2 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.83%) SLA
4 1 (0.83%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (5.83%) Docker
3 7 (5.83%) Squid
4 4 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.50%) NFS
6 2 (1.67%) Ceph
6 2 (1.67%) Firmware
6 2 (1.67%) KVM
6 2 (1.67%) Lustre
6 2 (1.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (1.67%) Veritas File System
6 2 (1.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.83%) GPFS
7 1 (0.83%) iptables
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.83%) Samba
7 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (20.00%) Ansible
2 23 (19.17%) Terraform
3 19 (15.83%) SCCM
4 17 (14.17%) Prometheus
5 15 (12.50%) Grafana
6 11 (9.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (9.17%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (8.33%) Kubernetes
8 8 (6.67%) FortiGate
8 8 (6.67%) WSUS
9 6 (5.00%) Consul
9 6 (5.00%) QRadar
10 4 (3.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (3.33%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (3.33%) Tivoli NetView
11 2 (1.67%) Cilium
12 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.83%) BladeLogic
12 1 (0.83%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.83%) SELinux
Vendors
1 21 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.33%) Palo Alto
3 12 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 11 (9.17%) CheckPoint
4 11 (9.17%) F5
4 11 (9.17%) Fortinet
5 10 (8.33%) Cisco
5 10 (8.33%) Splunk
6 9 (7.50%) ServiceNow
6 9 (7.50%) Zscaler
7 8 (6.67%) Atlassian
8 7 (5.83%) Bloomberg
8 7 (5.83%) Dynatrace
8 7 (5.83%) Juniper
8 7 (5.83%) Qualys
9 6 (5.00%) Sophos
9 6 (5.00%) VMware
10 5 (4.17%) Citrix
11 4 (3.33%) IBM
11 4 (3.33%) TIBCO