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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 217 266
Rank change year-on-year -37 +49 -14
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 189 162 112
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.94% 1.19% 0.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.86% 11.54% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 99 74
10th Percentile £190 £223 £213
25th Percentile £306 £338 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +29.41% -19.05%
75th Percentile £550 £644 £575
90th Percentile £638 £755 £649
England median daily rate £491 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.80% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £30.75 £27.35 -
25th Percentile £37.50 £39.18 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +161.25% -60.33%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 -
90th Percentile £69.25 £62.95 -
England median hourly rate £62.99 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +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 1,593 1,404 1,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.90% 10.33% 9.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 914 1,017
10th Percentile £305 £281 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -8.18%
75th Percentile £600 £637 £619
90th Percentile £725 £718 £713
England median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 30 31
10th Percentile £19.48 £19.40 £16.24
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.27 £27.58 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +2.52% +15.86% -34.87%
75th Percentile £53.75 £51.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.25 £62.35 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £45.00 £54.88
% change year-on-year -37.78% -18.00% +5.75%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -12 18 £375 -21.05% 13
South London -18 7 £513 -18.00% 4
West London -15 2 £218 -70.97% 6
North London - 2 - - 1
East London +3 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 25 (13.23%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (6.35%) Confluence
4 9 (4.76%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) CICS
5 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.53%) Traefik
5 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 65 (34.39%) Azure
2 59 (31.22%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (24.87%) AWS
4 43 (22.75%) Entra ID
5 20 (10.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 17 (8.99%) OneDrive
7 16 (8.47%) GCP
8 15 (7.94%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (5.29%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (4.23%) GitHub
11 7 (3.70%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.70%) Google Workspace
11 7 (3.70%) Serverless
12 6 (3.17%) Route 53
13 5 (2.65%) Akamai
13 5 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.65%) Datadog
13 5 (2.65%) SaaS
14 4 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 108 (57.14%) DNS
2 78 (41.27%) Firewall
3 68 (35.98%) VPN
4 48 (25.40%) DHCP
5 44 (23.28%) Network Security
6 33 (17.46%) HTTP
7 27 (14.29%) SSL
8 24 (12.70%) WAN
9 21 (11.11%) BGP
10 20 (10.58%) LAN
11 16 (8.47%) VLAN
12 13 (6.88%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (6.35%) Wireless
14 11 (5.82%) Internet
15 9 (4.76%) DMZ
16 8 (4.23%) HTTPS
16 8 (4.23%) OpenVPN
16 8 (4.23%) OSPF
17 7 (3.70%) Cisco IOS
17 7 (3.70%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.06%) MySQL
4 2 (1.06%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.06%) SQLite
5 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.53%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.53%) KDB
5 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (9.52%) Git
2 16 (8.47%) JIRA
3 7 (3.70%) GitLab
4 5 (2.65%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (2.12%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.12%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.59%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.06%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.06%) Subversion
8 1 (0.53%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.53%) MSI
8 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 80 (42.33%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.11%) Finance
3 26 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.99%) Banking
5 12 (6.35%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.29%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.76%) Front Office
8 7 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.17%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.12%) Automotive
11 2 (1.06%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.06%) Games
11 2 (1.06%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Korean Language
12 1 (0.53%) Local Government
12 1 (0.53%) Military
12 1 (0.53%) Retail
12 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (17.99%) Support Engineer
2 31 (16.40%) Network Engineer
3 22 (11.64%) Senior
4 20 (10.58%) Analyst
5 19 (10.05%) Security Engineer
6 18 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (6.88%) Architect
7 13 (6.88%) IT Engineer
8 12 (6.35%) IT Support
8 12 (6.35%) IT Support Engineer
8 12 (6.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (5.82%) Linux Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Support Analyst
11 8 (4.23%) Network Security Engineer
11 8 (4.23%) Web Engineer
12 7 (3.70%) Desktop Analyst
12 7 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
12 7 (3.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.70%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.88%) SAML
2 8 (4.23%) .NET
3 7 (3.70%) LDAP
4 4 (2.12%) 802.1X
4 4 (2.12%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.12%) boto
4 4 (2.12%) OAuth
4 4 (2.12%) OpenID
4 4 (2.12%) WinForms
5 3 (1.59%) HTML
5 3 (1.59%) REST
6 2 (1.06%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.06%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.06%) Blazor
6 2 (1.06%) eBPF
6 2 (1.06%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.06%) HTML5
6 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.06%) Moose
6 2 (1.06%) SPNEGO
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.34%) Onboarding
2 21 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.35%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (5.82%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (4.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.70%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.17%) Client/Server
7 6 (3.17%) PKI
8 5 (2.65%) Distributed Applications
8 5 (2.65%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (2.12%) iPhone
9 4 (2.12%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.12%) Robotics
9 4 (2.12%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.59%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.59%) CMDB
10 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.59%) iPad
10 3 (1.59%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 75 (39.68%) Windows
2 37 (19.58%) Linux
3 22 (11.64%) Windows Server
4 16 (8.47%) Mac OS
4 16 (8.47%) Windows 10
5 11 (5.82%) Ubuntu
6 7 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.70%) Unix
7 5 (2.65%) Android
8 3 (1.59%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.59%) zOS
9 1 (0.53%) CentOS
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (16.40%) ITIL
3 30 (15.87%) DevOps
4 29 (15.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (13.23%) Incident Response
6 24 (12.70%) Customer Service
6 24 (12.70%) Migration
7 23 (12.17%) ITSM
7 23 (12.17%) Service Management
8 22 (11.64%) Runbook
9 20 (10.58%) Change Management
10 19 (10.05%) Incident Management
11 18 (9.52%) High Availability
11 18 (9.52%) Load Balancing
11 18 (9.52%) SIEM
12 17 (8.99%) CI/CD
13 16 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (7.94%) Agile
15 14 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (6.88%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 56 (29.63%) Python
2 34 (17.99%) PowerShell
3 27 (14.29%) Bash
4 9 (4.76%) C++
5 7 (3.70%) SQL
6 6 (3.17%) Java
7 5 (2.65%) C
8 4 (2.12%) C#
8 4 (2.12%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.12%) Perl
9 3 (1.59%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.06%) Go
10 2 (1.06%) Korn
10 2 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.06%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.53%) Bicep
11 1 (0.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (11.64%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (10.58%) Security Cleared
3 19 (10.05%) CCNP
3 19 (10.05%) Degree
4 14 (7.41%) CCNA
4 14 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (7.41%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.82%) CISSP
6 8 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.23%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (3.17%) A+ Certification
8 4 (2.12%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.12%) CCIE
8 4 (2.12%) CISM
8 4 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (2.12%) JNCIP
8 4 (2.12%) JNCIS
9 3 (1.59%) MCSA
10 2 (1.06%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.35%) SLA
2 7 (3.70%) NIST
3 5 (2.65%) GDPR
3 5 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.59%) QA
5 2 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.06%) NCSC
5 2 (1.06%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (26.98%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.23%) Squid
4 7 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.65%) Docker
7 4 (2.12%) vSphere
8 2 (1.06%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.53%) NFS
9 1 (0.53%) RACF
9 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (14.29%) Ansible
1 27 (14.29%) Terraform
2 23 (12.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (10.58%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (7.94%) Grafana
5 12 (6.35%) FortiGate
5 12 (6.35%) SCCM
6 11 (5.82%) Kubernetes
7 7 (3.70%) WSUS
8 6 (3.17%) systemd
9 5 (2.65%) Prometheus
10 4 (2.12%) Suricata
11 3 (1.59%) SELinux
12 2 (1.06%) Consul
12 2 (1.06%) QRadar
12 2 (1.06%) Tivoli NetView
13 1 (0.53%) CASB
13 1 (0.53%) Istio
13 1 (0.53%) PingFederate
13 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 73 (38.62%) Microsoft
2 33 (17.46%) Cisco
3 21 (11.11%) Zscaler
4 16 (8.47%) ServiceNow
5 14 (7.41%) VMware
6 12 (6.35%) Citrix
6 12 (6.35%) F5
6 12 (6.35%) Juniper
7 10 (5.29%) Bloomberg
7 10 (5.29%) Fortinet
7 10 (5.29%) Netskope
8 9 (4.76%) Splunk
9 8 (4.23%) Google
9 8 (4.23%) Red Hat
10 7 (3.70%) Okta
11 6 (3.17%) Apple
11 6 (3.17%) Arista
11 6 (3.17%) Dynatrace
11 6 (3.17%) ION Trading
11 6 (3.17%) Palo Alto