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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 214 243
Rank change year-on-year -41 +29 +30
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 120 150 158
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 1.07% 0.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.62% 10.81% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 96 89
10th Percentile £300 £350 £188
25th Percentile £413 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £619
90th Percentile £728 £738 £713
England median daily rate £475 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £37.90 - £17.54
25th Percentile £40.38 - £21.41
Median hourly rate £48.50 - £37.50
75th Percentile £57.38 - £63.50
90th Percentile £60.30 - £68.20
England median hourly rate £41.94 £65.00 £50.39
% change year-on-year -35.48% +28.99% -22.48%

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 1,247 1,387 1,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.64% 9.89% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 844 1,278
10th Percentile £283 £265 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £627 £632 £634
90th Percentile £700 £736 £745
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 14 62
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.91 £18.93
25th Percentile - £24.75 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.75 £28.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.48% +17.90% +14.50%
75th Percentile £26.40 £40.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.78 £43.75 £75.99
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -14.29% -38.04% +132.95%

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 17 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in London over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

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 17 January 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
West London - 8 £280 - 2
Central London -21 7 £675 +17.39% 13
East London +1 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 8 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.67%) Confluence
2 2 (1.67%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.83%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 36 (30.00%) AWS
2 26 (21.67%) Azure
3 24 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (10.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (9.17%) Amazon S3
6 10 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
7 7 (5.83%) Entra ID
7 7 (5.83%) GCP
8 6 (5.00%) GitHub
9 5 (4.17%) Google Workspace
10 3 (2.50%) Route 53
11 2 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.67%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.83%) Akamai
12 1 (0.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (0.83%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 60 (50.00%) DNS
2 47 (39.17%) VPN
3 42 (35.00%) Firewall
4 33 (27.50%) DHCP
5 31 (25.83%) SSL
6 23 (19.17%) Network Security
7 22 (18.33%) WAN
8 17 (14.17%) LAN
9 16 (13.33%) HTTP
10 11 (9.17%) BGP
10 11 (9.17%) OSPF
11 10 (8.33%) Internet
12 9 (7.50%) VLAN
13 8 (6.67%) Multicast
13 8 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (6.67%) Wireless
13 8 (6.67%) Wireshark
14 5 (4.17%) NGFW
14 5 (4.17%) SD-WAN
15 4 (3.33%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.83%) MySQL
2 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (15.00%) Git
2 14 (11.67%) GitLab
3 12 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.00%) JIRA
5 5 (4.17%) Subversion
6 4 (3.33%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.50%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.83%) GCC
8 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.83%) Maven
8 1 (0.83%) MSI
General
1 43 (35.83%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.67%) Finance
3 14 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.50%) Front Office
5 8 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.83%) Banking
6 7 (5.83%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.17%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.33%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.33%) Military
8 4 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.67%) Legal
10 1 (0.83%) Games
10 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.83%) Police
10 1 (0.83%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 25 (20.83%) Network Engineer
2 17 (14.17%) Support Engineer
3 13 (10.83%) Senior
4 12 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (10.00%) IT Support
5 11 (9.17%) Analyst
5 11 (9.17%) Security Engineer
6 7 (5.83%) Developer
6 7 (5.83%) IT Engineer
6 7 (5.83%) Operations Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support
7 6 (5.00%) Architect
7 6 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) 1st Line Support
8 5 (4.17%) Administrator
8 5 (4.17%) Desktop Support
8 5 (4.17%) Junior
8 5 (4.17%) Network Security Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Support Technician
8 5 (4.17%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.83%) Middleware
2 5 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (3.33%) REST
3 4 (3.33%) SAML
3 4 (3.33%) Ultra Messaging
4 3 (2.50%) 802.1X
4 3 (2.50%) LDAP
4 3 (2.50%) React
5 2 (1.67%) .NET
5 2 (1.67%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.67%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (1.67%) Bootstrap
5 2 (1.67%) Express.js
5 2 (1.67%) SOAP
5 2 (1.67%) WCF
5 2 (1.67%) Web Services
5 2 (1.67%) WPF
6 1 (0.83%) Kafka
6 1 (0.83%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.83%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.17%) Private Cloud
2 5 (4.17%) Public Cloud
2 5 (4.17%) Replication
3 4 (3.33%) Clustering
3 4 (3.33%) FPGA
3 4 (3.33%) Mainframe
3 4 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.67%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.67%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.83%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 47 (39.17%) Windows
2 32 (26.67%) Linux
3 12 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 9 (7.50%) Unix
5 6 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.33%) Solaris
6 4 (3.33%) zOS
7 3 (2.50%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.67%) VMS
9 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.83%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (16.67%) DevOps
3 19 (15.83%) High Availability
3 19 (15.83%) SIEM
4 17 (14.17%) CI/CD
5 16 (13.33%) Agile
5 16 (13.33%) Incident Response
5 16 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (13.33%) Security Operations
6 15 (12.50%) Low Latency
7 14 (11.67%) Information Security
8 13 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (10.83%) Infrastructure Automation
9 12 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (9.17%) Data Security
10 11 (9.17%) Patch Management
11 10 (8.33%) Project Delivery
11 10 (8.33%) Test Automation
12 9 (7.50%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 39 (32.50%) Python
2 26 (21.67%) Bash
3 21 (17.50%) PowerShell
4 12 (10.00%) Perl
5 4 (3.33%) C
5 4 (3.33%) C++
6 3 (2.50%) C#
6 3 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.67%) Java
7 2 (1.67%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.67%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.83%) Go
8 1 (0.83%) SQL
8 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.83%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.17%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (9.17%) Degree
4 7 (5.83%) CCNP
5 6 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.17%) CCNA
7 4 (3.33%) CISSP
7 4 (3.33%) JNCIS
8 3 (2.50%) JNCIP
9 2 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.67%) CCSP
9 2 (1.67%) CEH
9 2 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.67%) GCIH
9 2 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.67%) MCSA
9 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.17%) GDPR
2 5 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.67%) NIST
5 1 (0.83%) SLA
5 1 (0.83%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.33%) Docker
3 7 (5.83%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (4.17%) NFS
6 4 (3.33%) Veritas File System
6 4 (3.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (1.67%) Ceph
7 2 (1.67%) Firmware
7 2 (1.67%) KVM
7 2 (1.67%) Lustre
7 2 (1.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.83%) GPFS
8 1 (0.83%) iptables
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.83%) Samba
8 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (26.67%) Ansible
2 24 (20.00%) Terraform
3 20 (16.67%) SCCM
4 12 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (7.50%) WSUS
6 7 (5.83%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.83%) QRadar
7 6 (5.00%) Grafana
8 5 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (3.33%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (3.33%) Tivoli NetView
10 2 (1.67%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.83%) BladeLogic
11 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.83%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.83%) Puppet
11 1 (0.83%) Salt
11 1 (0.83%) SELinux
Vendors
1 21 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.67%) F5
2 20 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 15 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 12 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 12 (10.00%) Splunk
5 11 (9.17%) Cisco
6 10 (8.33%) Qualys
7 9 (7.50%) VMware
8 8 (6.67%) Bloomberg
8 8 (6.67%) ServiceNow
8 8 (6.67%) Zscaler
9 7 (5.83%) Red Hat
9 7 (5.83%) Sophos
10 6 (5.00%) Juniper
11 5 (4.17%) CyberArk
11 5 (4.17%) Reuters
11 5 (4.17%) Solace
11 5 (4.17%) TIBCO
12 4 (3.33%) SaltStack