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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 231 256
Rank change year-on-year +12 +25 +3
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 151 151 171
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.08% 0.97% 0.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.47% 10.24% 7.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 91 100
10th Percentile £245 £225 £188
25th Percentile £413 £275 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £603
90th Percentile £775 £738 £688
England median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% -16.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £24.50 - £21.41
25th Percentile £32.05 - £27.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £48.75
75th Percentile £62.50 - £65.25
90th Percentile £62.95 - £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 1,316 1,475 2,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.42% 9.51% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 915 1,464
10th Percentile £300 £258 £233
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £711 £725 £745
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 16 55
10th Percentile £19.68 £23.70 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.75 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% +40.57% +6.00%
75th Percentile £33.19 £49.50 £60.88
90th Percentile £60.83 £74.10 £77.50
England median hourly rate £34.00 £49.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -30.61% -13.26% +26.38%

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 November 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 18 November 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 18 November 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 -21 11 £488 -15.22% 57
West London - 8 £280 - 6
South London -2 7 £625 +31.58% 5
East London +1 2 - - 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 9 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.32%) Confluence
3 2 (1.32%) nginx
4 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (6.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.32%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.66%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.66%) Eikon
1 1 (0.66%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.66%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.66%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 31 (20.53%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (18.54%) AWS
3 25 (16.56%) Azure
4 12 (7.95%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (7.28%) GitHub
6 10 (6.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (6.62%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (6.62%) Amazon S3
6 10 (6.62%) GCP
6 10 (6.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (3.97%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.65%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.99%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.99%) SaaS
10 2 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.32%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (1.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.66%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 82 (54.30%) DNS
2 56 (37.09%) VPN
3 47 (31.13%) Firewall
4 44 (29.14%) DHCP
5 32 (21.19%) SSL
6 26 (17.22%) Network Security
6 26 (17.22%) WAN
7 25 (16.56%) LAN
8 23 (15.23%) HTTP
9 21 (13.91%) Internet
10 17 (11.26%) VLAN
11 9 (5.96%) BGP
11 9 (5.96%) Multicast
11 9 (5.96%) OSPF
11 9 (5.96%) Wireshark
12 8 (5.30%) SMTP
12 8 (5.30%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (5.30%) Wireless
13 7 (4.64%) IP Telephony
14 5 (3.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.31%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 20 (13.25%) Git
2 14 (9.27%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.61%) GitLab
4 7 (4.64%) Subversion
5 5 (3.31%) JIRA
6 4 (2.65%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.65%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.99%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.32%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.66%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.66%) GCC
9 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.66%) Maven
9 1 (0.66%) MSI
General
1 67 (44.37%) Social Skills
2 34 (22.52%) Finance
3 24 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.61%) Front Office
5 12 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.30%) Banking
7 7 (4.64%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.31%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.65%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.99%) Legal
12 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.32%) Electronics
12 2 (1.32%) Games
12 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.32%) Local Government
12 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.32%) Marketing
12 2 (1.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (17.88%) Support Engineer
2 22 (14.57%) Network Engineer
3 16 (10.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (9.93%) Analyst
4 15 (9.93%) Senior
5 14 (9.27%) IT Support
6 12 (7.95%) Developer
7 11 (7.28%) Technical Engineer
7 11 (7.28%) Technical Support
7 11 (7.28%) Technical Support Engineer
8 10 (6.62%) 1st Line Engineer
8 10 (6.62%) 1st Line Support
8 10 (6.62%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 10 (6.62%) 1st Line Support Technician
8 10 (6.62%) 1st Line Technical Support
8 10 (6.62%) Junior
8 10 (6.62%) Junior Support Engineer
8 10 (6.62%) Junior Technical Engineer
8 10 (6.62%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
8 10 (6.62%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.95%) FIX Protocol
1 12 (7.95%) Middleware
2 6 (3.97%) LDAP
2 6 (3.97%) REST
3 5 (3.31%) FpML
3 5 (3.31%) Ultra Messaging
4 4 (2.65%) SAML
5 3 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.32%) Node.js
6 2 (1.32%) React
7 1 (0.66%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.66%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.66%) Express.js
7 1 (0.66%) OAuth
7 1 (0.66%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.66%) OpenID
7 1 (0.66%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.66%) TIBCO EMS
7 1 (0.66%) WCF
7 1 (0.66%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.27%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.62%) Video Conferencing
3 9 (5.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (5.30%) Private Cloud
5 7 (4.64%) Fixed Income
6 6 (3.97%) Derivative
6 6 (3.97%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.97%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.31%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.31%) Clustering
7 5 (3.31%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.31%) iPad
7 5 (3.31%) iPhone
7 5 (3.31%) Replication
8 4 (2.65%) FPGA
8 4 (2.65%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.99%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.99%) SCADA
9 3 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (37.09%) Windows
2 40 (26.49%) Linux
3 20 (13.25%) Windows 10
4 11 (7.28%) Mac OS
4 11 (7.28%) Unix
5 6 (3.97%) Android
5 6 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.97%) Windows 7
5 6 (3.97%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (3.97%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.31%) Windows Server
7 4 (2.65%) Apple iOS
7 4 (2.65%) Solaris
8 2 (1.32%) CentOS
9 1 (0.66%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.66%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (19.21%) High Availability
3 25 (16.56%) CI/CD
3 25 (16.56%) DevOps
4 23 (15.23%) Agile
5 22 (14.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (13.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (12.58%) Low Latency
8 15 (9.93%) Infrastructure Automation
9 14 (9.27%) Incident Response
9 14 (9.27%) ITIL
10 13 (8.61%) Load Balancing
10 13 (8.61%) SIEM
11 12 (7.95%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (7.95%) Security Operations
12 11 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (7.28%) Project Delivery
12 11 (7.28%) Server Management
13 10 (6.62%) Computer Science
13 10 (6.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 53 (35.10%) Python
2 32 (21.19%) Bash
3 23 (15.23%) PowerShell
4 12 (7.95%) Perl
5 10 (6.62%) C++
6 9 (5.96%) Java
7 8 (5.30%) SQL
8 6 (3.97%) C#
9 4 (2.65%) C
9 4 (2.65%) Go
9 4 (2.65%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.32%) PHP
10 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.66%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.26%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.60%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (10.60%) Degree
4 8 (5.30%) CCNA
4 8 (5.30%) CCNP
5 6 (3.97%) CISSP
5 6 (3.97%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.31%) MCSA
6 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.65%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.99%) CCSP
8 3 (1.99%) CEH
8 3 (1.99%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (1.99%) GCIH
8 3 (1.99%) JNCIP
8 3 (1.99%) JNCIS
8 3 (1.99%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.30%) GDPR
2 5 (3.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.99%) NIST
4 3 (1.99%) SLA
5 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (18.54%) Active Directory
2 13 (8.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.28%) Docker
4 7 (4.64%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.65%) Firmware
5 4 (2.65%) NFS
5 4 (2.65%) Veritas File System
5 4 (2.65%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 4 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.32%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.66%) GPFS
8 1 (0.66%) Lustre
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 35 (23.18%) Ansible
2 31 (20.53%) Terraform
3 16 (10.60%) SCCM
4 13 (8.61%) Prometheus
5 12 (7.95%) Grafana
6 9 (5.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (3.97%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (3.31%) QRadar
8 5 (3.31%) WSUS
9 4 (2.65%) Puppet
9 4 (2.65%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.99%) CSIRT
10 3 (1.99%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.32%) Consul
11 2 (1.32%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.32%) Nessus
11 2 (1.32%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.66%) BladeLogic
12 1 (0.66%) Salt
Vendors
1 32 (21.19%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.57%) F5
3 20 (13.25%) Palo Alto
4 18 (11.92%) Cisco
5 16 (10.60%) CheckPoint
6 15 (9.93%) VMware
7 11 (7.28%) Splunk
8 10 (6.62%) Fortinet
8 10 (6.62%) ServiceNow
9 8 (5.30%) Zscaler
10 7 (4.64%) Google
10 7 (4.64%) Juniper
10 7 (4.64%) Qualys
10 7 (4.64%) Red Hat
10 7 (4.64%) Solace
11 6 (3.97%) Apple
11 6 (3.97%) Bloomberg
11 6 (3.97%) CyberArk
11 6 (3.97%) TIBCO
12 5 (3.31%) Reuters