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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 216 278
Rank change year-on-year -36 +62 -12
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 184 149 118
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.93% 1.10% 0.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.73% 10.67% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 92 79
10th Percentile £186 £213 £213
25th Percentile £313 £311 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £580
90th Percentile £631 £747 £650
England median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £27.35 £16.80
25th Percentile £26.25 £39.18 £18.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +161.25% -60.33%
75th Percentile £28.75 £63.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.86 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -34.06% - +28.92%

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 1,569 1,397 1,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.93% 10.31% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 909 1,078
10th Percentile £300 £275 £231
25th Percentile £411 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £725 £725 £716
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 30 40
10th Percentile £18.02 £19.40 £15.40
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £17.55
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.58 £22.90
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% +20.41% -35.98%
75th Percentile £53.75 £51.50 £43.13
90th Percentile £82.75 £63.25 £60.50
England median hourly rate £26.72 £44.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -39.27% - -2.22%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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
Central London -15 17 £475 - 14
South London -12 11 £519 -17.03% 5
West London -12 2 £218 -70.97% 6
North London - 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 19 (10.33%) SharePoint
2 15 (8.15%) Confluence
3 14 (7.61%) nginx
4 10 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.54%) CICS
5 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.54%) Traefik
5 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 57 (30.98%) Azure
2 53 (28.80%) AWS
3 51 (27.72%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (20.11%) Entra ID
5 25 (13.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 20 (10.87%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (8.15%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (8.15%) GCP
8 13 (7.07%) Amazon S3
9 12 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (6.52%) OneDrive
9 12 (6.52%) Serverless
10 11 (5.98%) Route 53
11 7 (3.80%) GitHub
11 7 (3.80%) Google Workspace
12 5 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.72%) SaaS
13 4 (2.17%) Akamai
13 4 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (2.17%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 103 (55.98%) DNS
2 77 (41.85%) Firewall
3 66 (35.87%) VPN
4 39 (21.20%) DHCP
5 38 (20.65%) Network Security
6 30 (16.30%) HTTP
7 23 (12.50%) SSL
8 20 (10.87%) WAN
9 19 (10.33%) BGP
10 16 (8.70%) LAN
11 14 (7.61%) VLAN
12 13 (7.07%) OpenVPN
13 10 (5.43%) Internet
13 10 (5.43%) Wireless
14 9 (4.89%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (4.35%) DMZ
15 8 (4.35%) HTTPS
16 7 (3.80%) Cisco IOS
16 7 (3.80%) Ethernet
16 7 (3.80%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (3.80%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.09%) MySQL
4 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.09%) SQLite
5 1 (0.54%) KDB
5 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (10.87%) JIRA
2 17 (9.24%) Git
3 8 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 7 (3.80%) GitLab
4 7 (3.80%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.72%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (2.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.63%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.09%) Subversion
9 1 (0.54%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.54%) MSI
9 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 76 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.65%) Finance
3 23 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.70%) Banking
5 12 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.43%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.80%) Front Office
8 6 (3.26%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.09%) Automotive
9 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.09%) Games
9 2 (1.09%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.54%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.54%) Law
10 1 (0.54%) Legal
10 1 (0.54%) Local Government
10 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 30 (16.30%) Network Engineer
2 29 (15.76%) Support Engineer
3 20 (10.87%) Analyst
4 19 (10.33%) Security Engineer
5 17 (9.24%) Architect
5 17 (9.24%) Senior
6 13 (7.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (5.98%) Linux Engineer
8 9 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (4.89%) IT Engineer
8 9 (4.89%) Network Security Engineer
9 8 (4.35%) IT Support
9 8 (4.35%) IT Support Engineer
9 8 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.35%) Support Analyst
9 8 (4.35%) Web Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Technical Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.07%) SAML
2 12 (6.52%) LDAP
3 9 (4.89%) OpenID
4 8 (4.35%) .NET
5 4 (2.17%) ARM Templates
5 4 (2.17%) boto
5 4 (2.17%) eBPF
5 4 (2.17%) OAuth
5 4 (2.17%) WinForms
6 3 (1.63%) HTML
6 3 (1.63%) REST
7 2 (1.09%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.09%) 802.1X
7 2 (1.09%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.09%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.09%) HTML5
7 2 (1.09%) Loki
7 2 (1.09%) Mojolicious
7 2 (1.09%) Moose
7 2 (1.09%) SPNEGO
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 19 (10.33%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.98%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (4.89%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 7 (3.80%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.26%) Client/Server
6 6 (3.26%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (3.26%) PKI
7 5 (2.72%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.17%) iPhone
9 3 (1.63%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.63%) CMDB
9 3 (1.63%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.63%) iPad
9 3 (1.63%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 69 (37.50%) Windows
2 37 (20.11%) Linux
3 19 (10.33%) Windows Server
4 18 (9.78%) Mac OS
5 13 (7.07%) Windows 10
6 9 (4.89%) Ubuntu
7 7 (3.80%) Android
7 7 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (2.72%) Apple iOS
8 5 (2.72%) Unix
9 3 (1.63%) zOS
10 1 (0.54%) CentOS
10 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (17.39%) DevOps
3 27 (14.67%) ITIL
4 24 (13.04%) Incident Response
5 22 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (11.41%) Customer Service
6 21 (11.41%) Service Management
7 20 (10.87%) Runbook
8 19 (10.33%) ITSM
8 19 (10.33%) Migration
9 16 (8.70%) Load Balancing
9 16 (8.70%) SIEM
10 15 (8.15%) CI/CD
10 15 (8.15%) High Availability
11 14 (7.61%) Agile
11 14 (7.61%) Change Management
11 14 (7.61%) Incident Management
11 14 (7.61%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (6.52%) Roadmaps
13 11 (5.98%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 52 (28.26%) Python
2 33 (17.93%) PowerShell
3 26 (14.13%) Bash
4 10 (5.43%) C++
5 6 (3.26%) C
5 6 (3.26%) Java
6 5 (2.72%) SQL
7 4 (2.17%) C#
7 4 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.63%) Perl
9 2 (1.09%) Go
9 2 (1.09%) Korn
9 2 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.09%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.54%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 26 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.33%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (10.33%) Degree
4 16 (8.70%) CCNP
5 14 (7.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (7.07%) CCNA
7 11 (5.98%) CISSP
8 8 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
9 6 (3.26%) A+ Certification
10 4 (2.17%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.17%) CCIE
10 4 (2.17%) CISM
10 4 (2.17%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (1.63%) MCSA
12 2 (1.09%) GCIA
12 2 (1.09%) GCIH
12 2 (1.09%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.89%) SLA
2 7 (3.80%) NIST
3 5 (2.72%) GDPR
3 5 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.63%) QA
5 2 (1.09%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.09%) NCSC
5 2 (1.09%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (23.91%) Active Directory
2 13 (7.07%) Squid
3 9 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.17%) Docker
5 4 (2.17%) vSphere
6 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.54%) NFS
7 1 (0.54%) RACF
7 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (14.67%) Terraform
2 26 (14.13%) Ansible
3 25 (13.59%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (11.41%) Grafana
5 18 (9.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (9.24%) Kubernetes
7 15 (8.15%) FortiGate
8 13 (7.07%) Prometheus
9 10 (5.43%) SCCM
10 7 (3.80%) Consul
10 7 (3.80%) WSUS
11 4 (2.17%) Suricata
11 4 (2.17%) systemd
12 3 (1.63%) SELinux
13 2 (1.09%) Cilium
13 2 (1.09%) QRadar
13 2 (1.09%) Tivoli NetView
14 1 (0.54%) CASB
14 1 (0.54%) Istio
14 1 (0.54%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 62 (33.70%) Microsoft
2 29 (15.76%) Cisco
3 18 (9.78%) Zscaler
4 16 (8.70%) ServiceNow
5 14 (7.61%) Red Hat
6 12 (6.52%) Citrix
7 11 (5.98%) Dynatrace
7 11 (5.98%) F5
7 11 (5.98%) VMware
8 10 (5.43%) Fortinet
8 10 (5.43%) Juniper
8 10 (5.43%) Netskope
9 9 (4.89%) Bloomberg
9 9 (4.89%) Google
10 7 (3.80%) Atlassian
10 7 (3.80%) Okta
10 7 (3.80%) Splunk
11 6 (3.26%) Blue Coat
11 6 (3.26%) ION Trading
11 6 (3.26%) Palo Alto