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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 220 252
Rank change year-on-year -24 +32 +19
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 136 167 164
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.95% 1.10% 0.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.52% 11.01% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 109 93
10th Percentile £300 £250 £202
25th Percentile £413 £380 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £645 £600
90th Percentile £733 £700 £693
England median daily rate £475 £483 £438
% change year-on-year -1.55% +10.29% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £38.15 - £21.41
25th Percentile £41.00 - £27.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £48.75
75th Percentile £62.75 - £65.25
90th Percentile £63.05 - £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 1,293 1,517 2,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.00% 10.02% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 824 933 1,345
10th Percentile £313 £256 £213
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 £620 £626 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 13 57
10th Percentile £20.69 £23.87 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.41 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +32.08% +6.00%
75th Percentile £36.38 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.45 £76.91 £76.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £41.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -14.63% -27.36% +27.13%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -20 8 £600 +9.09% 9
West London - 8 £280 - 1
East London +1 2 - - 4
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 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.47%) Confluence
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.47%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.74%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.74%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Eikon
1 1 (0.74%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.74%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.74%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 32 (23.53%) AWS
2 26 (19.12%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (17.65%) Azure
4 11 (8.09%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (7.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (7.35%) Amazon ELB
5 10 (7.35%) Amazon S3
5 10 (7.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (5.88%) GCP
6 8 (5.88%) GitHub
7 7 (5.15%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.21%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.47%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (1.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.47%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.74%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 75 (55.15%) DNS
2 53 (38.97%) VPN
3 46 (33.82%) Firewall
4 41 (30.15%) DHCP
5 32 (23.53%) SSL
6 25 (18.38%) Network Security
7 20 (14.71%) WAN
8 19 (13.97%) HTTP
9 17 (12.50%) LAN
10 13 (9.56%) Internet
11 12 (8.82%) VLAN
12 9 (6.62%) BGP
12 9 (6.62%) OSPF
12 9 (6.62%) Wireshark
13 8 (5.88%) Multicast
14 5 (3.68%) Remote Desktop
14 5 (3.68%) SMTP
14 5 (3.68%) tcpdump
14 5 (3.68%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (3.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.21%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.74%) MySQL
2 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (13.97%) Git
2 13 (9.56%) GitLab
2 13 (9.56%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.15%) Subversion
4 5 (3.68%) JIRA
5 4 (2.94%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.94%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.47%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.74%) GCC
7 1 (0.74%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.74%) Maven
7 1 (0.74%) MSI
General
1 51 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.12%) Finance
3 14 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.62%) Front Office
6 6 (4.41%) Banking
6 6 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.41%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.68%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.94%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.21%) Legal
10 2 (1.47%) Electronics
10 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.47%) Marketing
10 2 (1.47%) Military
11 1 (0.74%) Games
11 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (16.91%) Support Engineer
2 21 (15.44%) Network Engineer
3 15 (11.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (10.29%) Analyst
4 14 (10.29%) Senior
5 12 (8.82%) IT Support
6 10 (7.35%) Security Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Developer
8 7 (5.15%) 1st Line Support
8 7 (5.15%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 7 (5.15%) 1st Line Support Technician
8 7 (5.15%) Consultant
8 7 (5.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.15%) Junior
8 7 (5.15%) Junior Support Engineer
8 7 (5.15%) Junior Technical Engineer
8 7 (5.15%) Support Technician
8 7 (5.15%) Technical Engineer
8 7 (5.15%) Technical Support
8 7 (5.15%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.62%) Middleware
2 7 (5.15%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (4.41%) REST
4 5 (3.68%) Ultra Messaging
5 4 (2.94%) LDAP
5 4 (2.94%) SAML
6 3 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.21%) React
7 2 (1.47%) .NET
7 2 (1.47%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.47%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.47%) Express.js
7 2 (1.47%) Node.js
7 2 (1.47%) SOAP
7 2 (1.47%) WCF
7 2 (1.47%) Web Services
7 2 (1.47%) WPF
8 1 (0.74%) FpML
8 1 (0.74%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.62%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.41%) Private Cloud
3 5 (3.68%) FPGA
3 5 (3.68%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.68%) Replication
3 5 (3.68%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (2.94%) Clustering
4 4 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.94%) iPad
4 4 (2.94%) iPhone
4 4 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.21%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.21%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.21%) SCADA
6 2 (1.47%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.47%) Derivative
6 2 (1.47%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.47%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 54 (39.71%) Windows
2 39 (28.68%) Linux
3 16 (11.76%) Windows 10
4 11 (8.09%) Unix
5 6 (4.41%) Mac OS
5 6 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.41%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (4.41%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.94%) Android
6 4 (2.94%) Solaris
7 3 (2.21%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.47%) VMS
8 2 (1.47%) zOS
9 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.74%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (17.65%) High Availability
1 24 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (16.91%) CI/CD
2 23 (16.91%) DevOps
3 21 (15.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (13.97%) Low Latency
5 19 (13.97%) SIEM
6 17 (12.50%) Agile
7 16 (11.76%) Security Operations
8 15 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (11.03%) Incident Response
8 15 (11.03%) Infrastructure Automation
9 14 (10.29%) Information Security
10 12 (8.82%) Load Balancing
11 11 (8.09%) Data Security
11 11 (8.09%) Patch Management
11 11 (8.09%) Test Automation
12 10 (7.35%) Root Cause Analysis
12 10 (7.35%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 50 (36.76%) Python
2 31 (22.79%) Bash
3 22 (16.18%) PowerShell
4 13 (9.56%) Perl
5 7 (5.15%) C++
6 5 (3.68%) C
6 5 (3.68%) Go
7 4 (2.94%) Java
7 4 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (2.94%) SQL
8 3 (2.21%) C#
9 2 (1.47%) PHP
9 2 (1.47%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.47%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.74%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (18.38%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.29%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (9.56%) Degree
5 8 (5.88%) CCNA
5 8 (5.88%) CCNP
6 6 (4.41%) CISSP
7 5 (3.68%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.68%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (2.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.21%) CCSP
9 3 (2.21%) CEH
9 3 (2.21%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.21%) GCIH
9 3 (2.21%) JNCIP
9 3 (2.21%) JNCIS
9 3 (2.21%) OSCP
10 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.09%) GDPR
2 5 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.21%) NIST
5 1 (0.74%) SLA
5 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (16.91%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.09%) Docker
3 8 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.15%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (3.68%) NFS
6 4 (2.94%) Veritas File System
6 4 (2.94%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (1.47%) Ceph
7 2 (1.47%) Firmware
7 2 (1.47%) KVM
7 2 (1.47%) Lustre
7 2 (1.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.74%) GPFS
8 1 (0.74%) iptables
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.74%) Samba
8 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (26.47%) Ansible
2 31 (22.79%) Terraform
3 20 (14.71%) SCCM
4 12 (8.82%) Grafana
4 12 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (8.82%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.88%) WSUS
6 7 (5.15%) QRadar
7 5 (3.68%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (2.94%) Puppet
8 4 (2.94%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.21%) CSIRT
10 2 (1.47%) Consul
10 2 (1.47%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.47%) Nessus
10 2 (1.47%) Tivoli NetView
10 2 (1.47%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.74%) BladeLogic
11 1 (0.74%) SELinux
Vendors
1 26 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.71%) F5
3 18 (13.24%) Palo Alto
4 16 (11.76%) CheckPoint
5 15 (11.03%) Cisco
6 11 (8.09%) Splunk
6 11 (8.09%) VMware
7 10 (7.35%) Fortinet
7 10 (7.35%) Qualys
7 10 (7.35%) ServiceNow
8 8 (5.88%) Bloomberg
8 8 (5.88%) Zscaler
9 7 (5.15%) Red Hat
9 7 (5.15%) Sophos
10 6 (4.41%) CyberArk
10 6 (4.41%) Google
10 6 (4.41%) Solace
10 6 (4.41%) TIBCO
11 5 (3.68%) Juniper
11 5 (3.68%) Reuters