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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 217 284
Rank change year-on-year -72 +67 -32
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 116 132 111
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 1.06% 0.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.29% 9.98% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 93 67
10th Percentile £251 £220 £275
25th Percentile £358 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -3.23%
75th Percentile £538 £628 £625
90th Percentile £575 £685 £675
England median daily rate £470 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -6.00% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £46.18 £16.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £46.81 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +161.25% -60.33%
75th Percentile £28.75 £59.94 £22.81
90th Percentile - £61.93 £24.25
England median hourly rate £52.22 £54.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.18% -16.15% +1.92%

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 1,400 1,322 1,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.87% 10.61% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 926 847 1,126
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £700 £717 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 55
10th Percentile £19.49 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.65 £32.33 £17.32
Median hourly rate £25.63 £42.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.69% +80.85% -45.35%
75th Percentile £29.00 £51.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £93.25 £62.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.52% -21.48% +116.22%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -14 7 £519 - 4
Central London -23 4 £475 -5.00% 13
East London -6 2 - - 7
West London -28 1 £223 -70.27% 2
North London - 1 - - 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 10 (8.62%) nginx
2 8 (6.90%) Confluence
3 5 (4.31%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.72%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.86%) Apache
5 1 (0.86%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.86%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 42 (36.21%) AWS
2 33 (28.45%) Azure
3 26 (22.41%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (14.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 14 (12.07%) Amazon S3
5 14 (12.07%) Route 53
6 12 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (10.34%) GCP
6 12 (10.34%) Serverless
7 11 (9.48%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (7.76%) Entra ID
9 8 (6.90%) Google Workspace
10 3 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.59%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.59%) Google Drive
10 3 (2.59%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.72%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 61 (52.59%) DNS
2 51 (43.97%) Firewall
3 47 (40.52%) VPN
4 23 (19.83%) Network Security
5 20 (17.24%) DHCP
6 18 (15.52%) HTTP
7 13 (11.21%) SSL
8 11 (9.48%) BGP
9 10 (8.62%) OSPF
10 9 (7.76%) OpenVPN
10 9 (7.76%) VLAN
10 9 (7.76%) WAN
11 8 (6.90%) DMZ
12 7 (6.03%) HTTPS
12 7 (6.03%) LAN
13 6 (5.17%) APPN
13 6 (5.17%) SNA
14 5 (4.31%) Kerberos
14 5 (4.31%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (4.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.48%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.72%) MySQL
3 2 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (10.34%) JIRA
2 7 (6.03%) Bitbucket
2 7 (6.03%) SonarQube
3 6 (5.17%) Git
3 6 (5.17%) GitLab
4 5 (4.31%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (1.72%) Subversion
General
1 42 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.41%) Finance
3 10 (8.62%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.76%) Banking
5 8 (6.90%) Front Office
5 8 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.03%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.03%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.72%) Games
7 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.72%) Japanese Language
7 2 (1.72%) Military
7 2 (1.72%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.86%) Korean Language
8 1 (0.86%) Law
8 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (16.38%) Network Engineer
2 17 (14.66%) Security Engineer
3 16 (13.79%) Support Engineer
4 14 (12.07%) Architect
5 12 (10.34%) Analyst
6 8 (6.90%) Help Desk Analyst
6 8 (6.90%) Web Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) AWS Architect
7 7 (6.03%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) IT Analyst
7 7 (6.03%) Senior
8 6 (5.17%) Network Security Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Desktop Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) IT Support
10 4 (3.45%) Network Specialist
10 4 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Technical Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.21%) LDAP
2 9 (7.76%) OpenID
2 9 (7.76%) SAML
3 4 (3.45%) OAuth
4 3 (2.59%) 802.1X
4 3 (2.59%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.59%) HTML
5 2 (1.72%) eBPF
5 2 (1.72%) HTML5
5 2 (1.72%) Loki
6 1 (0.86%) .NET
6 1 (0.86%) CSS
6 1 (0.86%) EDI
6 1 (0.86%) LAMP
6 1 (0.86%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (0.86%) Middleware
6 1 (0.86%) SOAP
6 1 (0.86%) WCF
6 1 (0.86%) Web Services
6 1 (0.86%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.62%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.17%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (5.17%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.17%) Mainframe
3 5 (4.31%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (3.45%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.59%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.72%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.72%) FPGA
6 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.72%) iPhone
6 2 (1.72%) PKI
6 2 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.72%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.86%) iPad
7 1 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (29.31%) Windows
2 14 (12.07%) Linux
3 8 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.03%) Mac OS
5 6 (5.17%) Windows 10
5 6 (5.17%) zOS
6 5 (4.31%) Apple iOS
7 4 (3.45%) Android
8 3 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.72%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.86%) CentOS
10 1 (0.86%) Unix
10 1 (0.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (28.45%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (12.93%) DevOps
3 14 (12.07%) ITIL
3 14 (12.07%) Roadmaps
4 13 (11.21%) Runbook
4 13 (11.21%) Security Operations
4 13 (11.21%) SIEM
5 12 (10.34%) Agile
5 12 (10.34%) Incident Response
6 11 (9.48%) Decision-Making
6 11 (9.48%) Service Management
7 10 (8.62%) High Availability
7 10 (8.62%) Load Balancing
7 10 (8.62%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (7.76%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (7.76%) Information Security
8 9 (7.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (6.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (6.03%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (6.03%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (24.14%) Python
2 20 (17.24%) Bash
3 16 (13.79%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.17%) C
5 4 (3.45%) C++
5 4 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.59%) SQL
7 2 (1.72%) Go
8 1 (0.86%) C#
8 1 (0.86%) Perl
8 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.34%) Degree
4 10 (8.62%) CCNP
4 10 (8.62%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (6.03%) CCNA
7 6 (5.17%) Azure Certification
8 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (3.45%) MCSA
10 3 (2.59%) CISSP
11 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.86%) CCSA
12 1 (0.86%) CCSE
12 1 (0.86%) CEH
12 1 (0.86%) CISM
12 1 (0.86%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.86%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.31%) GDPR
1 5 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.59%) NIST
3 1 (0.86%) QA
3 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (12.07%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.76%) Squid
3 8 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.59%) Docker
4 3 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.72%) Ceph
5 2 (1.72%) KVM
5 2 (1.72%) Lustre
5 2 (1.72%) NFS
5 2 (1.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.72%) vSphere
6 1 (0.86%) GPFS
6 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.86%) iptables
6 1 (0.86%) Samba
6 1 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (15.52%) Terraform
2 17 (14.66%) SCCM
3 16 (13.79%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (12.93%) Kubernetes
5 14 (12.07%) Ansible
6 13 (11.21%) Prometheus
7 12 (10.34%) FortiGate
7 12 (10.34%) Grafana
8 10 (8.62%) WSUS
9 7 (6.03%) Consul
10 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (5.17%) Tivoli NetView
11 4 (3.45%) QRadar
12 2 (1.72%) Cilium
12 2 (1.72%) HAProxy
12 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.86%) Puppet
13 1 (0.86%) Salt
13 1 (0.86%) SELinux
Vendors
1 25 (21.55%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.34%) Red Hat
3 11 (9.48%) Bloomberg
4 10 (8.62%) Citrix
5 9 (7.76%) Dynatrace
5 9 (7.76%) Zscaler
6 8 (6.90%) Atlassian
6 8 (6.90%) Netskope
6 8 (6.90%) Reuters
7 7 (6.03%) Cisco
7 7 (6.03%) ION Trading
8 6 (5.17%) F5
8 6 (5.17%) Google
8 6 (5.17%) IBM
8 6 (5.17%) Palo Alto
9 5 (4.31%) Fortinet
9 5 (4.31%) Sophos
10 4 (3.45%) Apple
10 4 (3.45%) Blue Coat
10 4 (3.45%) VMware