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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 222 250
Rank change year-on-year -19 +28 +19
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 146 162 169
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.02% 1.03% 0.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.13% 10.63% 8.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 103 98
10th Percentile £267 £250 £188
25th Percentile £413 £359 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.26% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £619 £648 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £689
England median daily rate £478 £475 £443
% change year-on-year +0.63% +7.34% -15.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £24.50 - £21.41
25th Percentile £32.05 - £27.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £48.75
75th Percentile £62.50 - £65.25
90th Percentile £62.95 - £68.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -23.08%

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 1,312 1,524 2,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.13% 9.69% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 937 1,365
10th Percentile £306 £256 £214
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £622 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £734 £750
England median daily rate £482 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 12 57
10th Percentile £20.24 £23.73 £18.93
25th Percentile - £29.69 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% +40.57% +6.00%
75th Percentile £29.31 £45.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £61.78 £80.06 £77.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £48.56 £56.45
% change year-on-year -38.22% -13.97% +25.43%

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 4 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in London over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in London

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 4 December 2025. 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 -21 8 £600 +6.67% 8
West London - 8 £280 - 1
South London -4 3 £560 +17.89% 9
East London 0 2 - - 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 9 (6.16%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.37%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (6.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.37%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.68%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Eikon
1 1 (0.68%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.68%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.68%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 30 (20.55%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (19.18%) AWS
3 23 (15.75%) Azure
4 11 (7.53%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (6.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (6.85%) Amazon ELB
5 10 (6.85%) Amazon S3
5 10 (6.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (5.48%) GCP
6 8 (5.48%) GitHub
7 7 (4.79%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.74%) Google Workspace
9 3 (2.05%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.37%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (1.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.68%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.68%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 80 (54.79%) DNS
2 52 (35.62%) VPN
3 45 (30.82%) DHCP
4 44 (30.14%) Firewall
5 32 (21.92%) SSL
6 25 (17.12%) Network Security
7 23 (15.75%) HTTP
8 22 (15.07%) WAN
9 19 (13.01%) LAN
10 18 (12.33%) Internet
11 14 (9.59%) VLAN
12 9 (6.16%) BGP
12 9 (6.16%) OSPF
12 9 (6.16%) Wireshark
13 8 (5.48%) Multicast
13 8 (5.48%) SMTP
14 7 (4.79%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (4.11%) IP Telephony
16 5 (3.42%) SSH
16 5 (3.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.05%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.68%) MySQL
3 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (13.01%) Git
2 13 (8.90%) GitLab
2 13 (8.90%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.79%) Subversion
4 5 (3.42%) JIRA
5 4 (2.74%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.74%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.37%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.68%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.68%) GCC
7 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.68%) Maven
7 1 (0.68%) MSI
General
1 62 (42.47%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.55%) Finance
3 19 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.59%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.85%) Front Office
6 7 (4.79%) Banking
7 6 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.11%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.42%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.74%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.05%) Legal
11 2 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.37%) Electronics
11 2 (1.37%) Games
11 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.37%) Marketing
11 2 (1.37%) Military
12 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (17.81%) Support Engineer
2 21 (14.38%) Network Engineer
3 16 (10.96%) Analyst
4 15 (10.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (9.59%) IT Support
5 14 (9.59%) Senior
6 10 (6.85%) Technical Engineer
6 10 (6.85%) Technical Support
6 10 (6.85%) Technical Support Engineer
7 9 (6.16%) 1st Line Engineer
7 9 (6.16%) 1st Line Support
7 9 (6.16%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 9 (6.16%) 1st Line Support Technician
7 9 (6.16%) 1st Line Technical Support
7 9 (6.16%) Developer
7 9 (6.16%) Junior
7 9 (6.16%) Junior Support Engineer
7 9 (6.16%) Junior Support Technician
7 9 (6.16%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
7 9 (6.16%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.85%) Middleware
2 8 (5.48%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (4.79%) LDAP
4 6 (4.11%) REST
5 5 (3.42%) Ultra Messaging
6 4 (2.74%) SAML
7 3 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.05%) React
8 2 (1.37%) .NET
8 2 (1.37%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.37%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.37%) Bootstrap
8 2 (1.37%) Express.js
8 2 (1.37%) FpML
8 2 (1.37%) Node.js
8 2 (1.37%) SOAP
8 2 (1.37%) WCF
8 2 (1.37%) Web Services
8 2 (1.37%) WPF
9 1 (0.68%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.53%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.16%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (4.79%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.11%) iPad
4 6 (4.11%) iPhone
4 6 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.11%) Private Cloud
5 5 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.42%) Replication
6 4 (2.74%) Clustering
6 4 (2.74%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.74%) FPGA
6 4 (2.74%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.05%) Derivative
7 3 (2.05%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.05%) SCADA
8 2 (1.37%) Blackberry
8 2 (1.37%) Blog
8 2 (1.37%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.37%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 56 (38.36%) Windows
2 39 (26.71%) Linux
3 20 (13.70%) Windows 10
4 11 (7.53%) Mac OS
4 11 (7.53%) Unix
5 6 (4.11%) Android
5 6 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (4.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.42%) Windows 7
6 5 (3.42%) Windows Server
7 4 (2.74%) Solaris
8 3 (2.05%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.37%) CentOS
9 2 (1.37%) zOS
10 1 (0.68%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (17.12%) High Availability
3 23 (15.75%) CI/CD
3 23 (15.75%) DevOps
4 21 (14.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (13.70%) Agile
5 20 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 18 (12.33%) Low Latency
7 15 (10.27%) SIEM
8 14 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (9.59%) Incident Response
8 14 (9.59%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (8.90%) Security Operations
10 12 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (8.22%) Load Balancing
11 11 (7.53%) Information Security
11 11 (7.53%) ITIL
11 11 (7.53%) Project Delivery
11 11 (7.53%) Test Automation
12 10 (6.85%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 50 (34.25%) Python
2 32 (21.92%) Bash
3 22 (15.07%) PowerShell
4 13 (8.90%) Perl
5 7 (4.79%) C++
6 5 (3.42%) Java
6 5 (3.42%) SQL
7 4 (2.74%) C
7 4 (2.74%) C#
7 4 (2.74%) Go
7 4 (2.74%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.37%) PHP
8 2 (1.37%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.37%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.59%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (8.90%) Degree
5 8 (5.48%) CCNA
5 8 (5.48%) CCNP
6 6 (4.11%) CISSP
7 5 (3.42%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.74%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (2.74%) MCSA
8 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.05%) CCSP
9 3 (2.05%) CEH
9 3 (2.05%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.05%) GCIH
9 3 (2.05%) JNCIP
9 3 (2.05%) JNCIS
9 3 (2.05%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.48%) GDPR
2 5 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.05%) NIST
4 3 (2.05%) SLA
5 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (19.18%) Active Directory
2 11 (7.53%) Docker
3 10 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.48%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.42%) NFS
5 5 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.74%) Veritas File System
6 4 (2.74%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (1.37%) Firmware
7 2 (1.37%) Lustre
7 2 (1.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.68%) Ceph
8 1 (0.68%) GPFS
8 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.68%) iptables
8 1 (0.68%) KVM
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.68%) Samba
Systems Management
1 35 (23.97%) Ansible
2 31 (21.23%) Terraform
3 19 (13.01%) SCCM
4 12 (8.22%) Grafana
4 12 (8.22%) Prometheus
5 11 (7.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (4.79%) WSUS
7 5 (3.42%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (3.42%) QRadar
8 4 (2.74%) Puppet
8 4 (2.74%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.05%) CSIRT
10 2 (1.37%) Consul
10 2 (1.37%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.37%) Nessus
10 2 (1.37%) Tivoli NetView
10 2 (1.37%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.68%) BladeLogic
11 1 (0.68%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 31 (21.23%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.70%) F5
3 18 (12.33%) Palo Alto
4 16 (10.96%) CheckPoint
5 14 (9.59%) Cisco
6 13 (8.90%) VMware
7 11 (7.53%) Splunk
8 10 (6.85%) Fortinet
8 10 (6.85%) ServiceNow
9 8 (5.48%) Zscaler
10 7 (4.79%) Bloomberg
10 7 (4.79%) Google
10 7 (4.79%) Qualys
10 7 (4.79%) Red Hat
11 6 (4.11%) CyberArk
11 6 (4.11%) Solace
11 6 (4.11%) TIBCO
12 5 (3.42%) Apple
12 5 (3.42%) Juniper
12 5 (3.42%) Reuters