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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 234 271
Rank change year-on-year -52 +37 -11
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 114 125 124
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.98% 0.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.17% 9.36% 7.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 87 74
10th Percentile £239 £258 £207
25th Percentile £350 £380 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £538 £633 £650
90th Percentile £575 £680 £721
England median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -12.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £27.25 £46.18 £16.00
25th Percentile £28.75 £46.81 £19.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £52.25 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.89% +140.23% -42.76%
75th Percentile £39.25 £59.94 £28.25
90th Percentile £41.35 £61.93 £45.13
England median hourly rate £52.22 £52.25 £47.00
% change year-on-year -0.06% +11.18% -24.87%

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 1,396 1,335 1,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.04% 10.51% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 865 1,158
10th Percentile £300 £265 £206
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £611
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £481
% change year-on-year - +4.06% -8.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 66
10th Percentile £20.23 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.84 £25.60 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £43.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.78% +98.86% -45.00%
75th Percentile £33.90 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £84.50 £62.65 £60.00
England median hourly rate £48.72 £36.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +32.95% -8.39% +111.30%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -11 7 £519 - 1
Central London -27 4 £475 - 13
East London -4 2 - - 2
West London -26 1 £223 -70.27% 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 10 (8.77%) nginx
2 7 (6.14%) Confluence
3 5 (4.39%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.75%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.88%) Apache
5 1 (0.88%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.88%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 42 (36.84%) AWS
2 33 (28.95%) Azure
3 27 (23.68%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (14.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 14 (12.28%) Amazon S3
5 14 (12.28%) Route 53
6 12 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (10.53%) GCP
6 12 (10.53%) Serverless
7 11 (9.65%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (7.89%) Entra ID
9 8 (7.02%) Google Workspace
10 3 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.63%) Google Drive
10 3 (2.63%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.75%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 61 (53.51%) DNS
2 51 (44.74%) Firewall
3 47 (41.23%) VPN
4 22 (19.30%) DHCP
5 20 (17.54%) Network Security
6 15 (13.16%) HTTP
7 11 (9.65%) VLAN
7 11 (9.65%) WAN
8 10 (8.77%) BGP
9 9 (7.89%) OpenVPN
9 9 (7.89%) OSPF
9 9 (7.89%) SSL
10 8 (7.02%) LAN
11 7 (6.14%) DMZ
11 7 (6.14%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (5.26%) APPN
12 6 (5.26%) SNA
13 5 (4.39%) HTTPS
13 5 (4.39%) Kerberos
14 4 (3.51%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.65%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.75%) MySQL
3 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (10.53%) JIRA
2 7 (6.14%) Bitbucket
2 7 (6.14%) SonarQube
3 6 (5.26%) Git
3 6 (5.26%) GitLab
4 5 (4.39%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (1.75%) Subversion
General
1 43 (37.72%) Social Skills
2 27 (23.68%) Finance
3 10 (8.77%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.89%) Banking
4 9 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.02%) Front Office
6 7 (6.14%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.14%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Games
8 2 (1.75%) Japanese Language
8 2 (1.75%) Military
8 2 (1.75%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.88%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.88%) Legal
9 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 17 (14.91%) Support Engineer
3 15 (13.16%) Architect
4 13 (11.40%) Analyst
5 11 (9.65%) Security Engineer
6 8 (7.02%) Help Desk Analyst
6 8 (7.02%) Web Engineer
7 7 (6.14%) AWS Architect
7 7 (6.14%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (6.14%) IT Analyst
8 6 (5.26%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.39%) Desktop Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Developer
9 5 (4.39%) Network Security Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Operations Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Senior
10 4 (3.51%) Applications Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) IT Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.53%) LDAP
2 9 (7.89%) OpenID
3 8 (7.02%) SAML
4 4 (3.51%) OAuth
5 3 (2.63%) 802.1X
5 3 (2.63%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.63%) HTML
6 2 (1.75%) .NET
6 2 (1.75%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.75%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.75%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.75%) eBPF
6 2 (1.75%) Express.js
6 2 (1.75%) HTML5
6 2 (1.75%) Loki
6 2 (1.75%) Middleware
6 2 (1.75%) React
6 2 (1.75%) SOAP
6 2 (1.75%) WCF
6 2 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.14%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.26%) Mainframe
3 5 (4.39%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (3.51%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.51%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.63%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.63%) FPGA
6 2 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) iPhone
6 2 (1.75%) PKI
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.88%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 38 (33.33%) Windows
2 14 (12.28%) Linux
3 9 (7.89%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.14%) Windows 10
5 6 (5.26%) Mac OS
5 6 (5.26%) zOS
6 4 (3.51%) Android
6 4 (3.51%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.75%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.88%) CentOS
9 1 (0.88%) Unix
9 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (12.28%) DevOps
2 14 (12.28%) Roadmaps
3 13 (11.40%) ITIL
3 13 (11.40%) Security Operations
4 12 (10.53%) Agile
4 12 (10.53%) SIEM
5 11 (9.65%) Decision-Making
5 11 (9.65%) Runbook
5 11 (9.65%) Service Management
6 10 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (8.77%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (7.89%) High Availability
7 9 (7.89%) Incident Response
7 9 (7.89%) Information Security
7 9 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (7.02%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (7.02%) Load Balancing
9 7 (6.14%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.68%) Python
2 20 (17.54%) Bash
3 18 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.14%) C
5 5 (4.39%) C++
6 4 (3.51%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.63%) SQL
8 2 (1.75%) C#
8 2 (1.75%) Go
8 2 (1.75%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.88%) Perl
9 1 (0.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.65%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (9.65%) Degree
4 10 (8.77%) CCNP
5 7 (6.14%) CCNA
6 6 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.51%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (3.51%) MCSA
9 2 (1.75%) CISSP
9 2 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.75%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.88%) CCSE
10 1 (0.88%) CCSP
10 1 (0.88%) CEH
10 1 (0.88%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.88%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.39%) GDPR
1 5 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (14.04%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.89%) Squid
3 8 (7.02%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.63%) Docker
4 3 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.75%) Ceph
5 2 (1.75%) KVM
5 2 (1.75%) Lustre
5 2 (1.75%) NFS
5 2 (1.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.75%) vSphere
6 1 (0.88%) GPFS
6 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.88%) iptables
6 1 (0.88%) Samba
Systems Management
1 19 (16.67%) SCCM
2 18 (15.79%) Terraform
3 15 (13.16%) Kubernetes
3 15 (13.16%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (12.28%) Ansible
5 13 (11.40%) Prometheus
6 11 (9.65%) FortiGate
6 11 (9.65%) Grafana
7 10 (8.77%) WSUS
8 7 (6.14%) Consul
8 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (5.26%) Tivoli NetView
10 4 (3.51%) QRadar
11 2 (1.75%) Cilium
11 2 (1.75%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.75%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.88%) Puppet
12 1 (0.88%) Salt
12 1 (0.88%) SELinux
Vendors
1 25 (21.93%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.53%) Red Hat
3 11 (9.65%) Bloomberg
4 10 (8.77%) Citrix
5 9 (7.89%) Atlassian
5 9 (7.89%) Dynatrace
6 8 (7.02%) Reuters
7 7 (6.14%) Cisco
7 7 (6.14%) Google
7 7 (6.14%) ION Trading
7 7 (6.14%) Palo Alto
8 6 (5.26%) F5
8 6 (5.26%) Fortinet
8 6 (5.26%) IBM
8 6 (5.26%) ServiceNow
8 6 (5.26%) Zscaler
9 5 (4.39%) Netskope
9 5 (4.39%) Sophos
9 5 (4.39%) VMware
10 4 (3.51%) Apple