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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 220 278
Rank change year-on-year -37 +58 -30
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 179 154 112
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.13% 0.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.45% 11.02% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 96 77
10th Percentile £189 £211 £213
25th Percentile £309 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £519 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +22.06% -19.05%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £585
90th Percentile £633 £750 £650
England median daily rate £483 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -3.50% +11.11% -3.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £29.98 £16.80
25th Percentile £26.25 £45.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £54.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.54% +172.50% -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 1,564 1,397 1,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.88% 10.27% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,016 911 1,044
10th Percentile £300 £275 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £620
90th Percentile £734 £715 £724
England median daily rate £500 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +0.45% -0.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 31 33
10th Percentile £18.68 £19.46 £15.60
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £16.86
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +36.36% -37.14%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £67.75 £63.25 £64.00
England median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -40.62% -10.89% +1.00%

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 29 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 29 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 -8 18 £375 -13.29% 13
South London -21 7 £513 -18.00% 8
West London -16 2 £218 -70.97% 5
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 22 (12.29%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (6.15%) Confluence
4 9 (5.03%) nginx
5 1 (0.56%) CICS
5 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.56%) Traefik
5 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 60 (33.52%) Azure
2 54 (30.17%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (26.26%) AWS
4 39 (21.79%) Entra ID
5 20 (11.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (8.94%) GCP
7 15 (8.38%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (8.38%) OneDrive
8 10 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (4.47%) GitHub
10 7 (3.91%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.91%) Google Workspace
10 7 (3.91%) Serverless
11 6 (3.35%) Route 53
12 5 (2.79%) Akamai
12 5 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.79%) Datadog
12 5 (2.79%) SaaS
13 4 (2.23%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 101 (56.42%) DNS
2 75 (41.90%) Firewall
3 62 (34.64%) VPN
4 42 (23.46%) DHCP
5 41 (22.91%) Network Security
6 30 (16.76%) HTTP
7 24 (13.41%) SSL
8 22 (12.29%) WAN
9 19 (10.61%) BGP
10 17 (9.50%) LAN
11 15 (8.38%) VLAN
12 11 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (5.59%) Internet
13 10 (5.59%) Wireless
14 8 (4.47%) DMZ
14 8 (4.47%) HTTPS
14 8 (4.47%) OpenVPN
15 7 (3.91%) Cisco IOS
15 7 (3.91%) Ethernet
15 7 (3.91%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.03%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.12%) MySQL
4 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.12%) SQLite
5 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.56%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.56%) KDB
5 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (9.50%) Git
2 15 (8.38%) JIRA
3 7 (3.91%) GitLab
4 5 (2.79%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (2.23%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.23%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.68%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.12%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.12%) Subversion
8 1 (0.56%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.56%) MSI
8 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 73 (40.78%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.11%) Finance
3 24 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.94%) Banking
5 12 (6.70%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.59%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.47%) Front Office
8 7 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.35%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.68%) Automotive
11 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.12%) Games
11 2 (1.12%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Korean Language
12 1 (0.56%) Local Government
12 1 (0.56%) Military
12 1 (0.56%) Retail
12 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (17.32%) Network Engineer
1 31 (17.32%) Support Engineer
2 20 (11.17%) Senior
3 19 (10.61%) Analyst
3 19 (10.61%) Security Engineer
4 16 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (7.26%) Architect
6 11 (6.15%) Linux Engineer
7 10 (5.59%) IT Engineer
7 10 (5.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (5.03%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (5.03%) IT Support
8 9 (5.03%) IT Support Engineer
9 8 (4.47%) Network Security Engineer
9 8 (4.47%) Support Analyst
9 8 (4.47%) Web Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Junior
10 7 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.91%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.26%) SAML
2 8 (4.47%) .NET
3 7 (3.91%) LDAP
4 4 (2.23%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.23%) boto
4 4 (2.23%) OAuth
4 4 (2.23%) OpenID
4 4 (2.23%) WinForms
5 3 (1.68%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.68%) eBPF
5 3 (1.68%) HTML
5 3 (1.68%) REST
6 2 (1.12%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.12%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.12%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.12%) HTML5
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.12%) Mojolicious
6 2 (1.12%) Moose
6 2 (1.12%) SPNEGO
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.97%) Onboarding
2 19 (10.61%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.15%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (5.59%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (4.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (3.91%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.35%) Client/Server
7 6 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.35%) PKI
8 5 (2.79%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (2.23%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (2.23%) iPhone
10 3 (1.68%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.68%) CMDB
10 3 (1.68%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.68%) iPad
10 3 (1.68%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.68%) Robotics
10 3 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 70 (39.11%) Windows
2 35 (19.55%) Linux
3 21 (11.73%) Windows Server
4 16 (8.94%) Mac OS
5 15 (8.38%) Windows 10
6 10 (5.59%) Ubuntu
7 7 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (2.79%) Android
8 5 (2.79%) Unix
9 3 (1.68%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.68%) zOS
10 1 (0.56%) CentOS
10 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (16.20%) ITIL
3 28 (15.64%) DevOps
4 26 (14.53%) Incident Response
5 25 (13.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 23 (12.85%) Migration
7 22 (12.29%) Service Management
8 21 (11.73%) Customer Service
9 20 (11.17%) Runbook
10 19 (10.61%) ITSM
11 17 (9.50%) Change Management
11 17 (9.50%) High Availability
11 17 (9.50%) Incident Management
11 17 (9.50%) SIEM
12 16 (8.94%) CI/CD
12 16 (8.94%) Load Balancing
13 15 (8.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (7.82%) Agile
15 13 (7.26%) Root Cause Analysis
16 12 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 53 (29.61%) Python
2 33 (18.44%) PowerShell
3 27 (15.08%) Bash
4 9 (5.03%) C++
5 6 (3.35%) Java
5 6 (3.35%) SQL
6 5 (2.79%) C
7 4 (2.23%) C#
7 4 (2.23%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.68%) Perl
9 2 (1.12%) Go
9 2 (1.12%) Korn
9 2 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.12%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (11.17%) Cisco Certification
1 20 (11.17%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.61%) Degree
3 17 (9.50%) CCNP
4 14 (7.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (7.82%) SC Cleared
5 13 (7.26%) CCNA
6 11 (6.15%) CISSP
7 8 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (4.47%) Network+ Certification
8 6 (3.35%) A+ Certification
9 4 (2.23%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.23%) CCIE
9 4 (2.23%) CISM
9 4 (2.23%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.68%) JNCIP
10 3 (1.68%) JNCIS
10 3 (1.68%) MCSA
11 2 (1.12%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.70%) SLA
2 7 (3.91%) NIST
3 5 (2.79%) GDPR
3 5 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.68%) QA
5 2 (1.12%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.12%) NCSC
5 2 (1.12%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (25.70%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.47%) Squid
4 6 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.79%) Docker
6 4 (2.23%) vSphere
7 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.56%) NFS
8 1 (0.56%) RACF
8 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (13.97%) Ansible
2 24 (13.41%) Terraform
3 21 (11.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (11.17%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (8.94%) Grafana
6 12 (6.70%) Kubernetes
7 11 (6.15%) SCCM
8 10 (5.59%) FortiGate
9 7 (3.91%) WSUS
10 6 (3.35%) Prometheus
11 5 (2.79%) systemd
12 4 (2.23%) Suricata
13 3 (1.68%) SELinux
14 2 (1.12%) Consul
14 2 (1.12%) QRadar
14 2 (1.12%) Tivoli NetView
15 1 (0.56%) HAProxy
15 1 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
15 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
15 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 67 (37.43%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.32%) Cisco
3 20 (11.17%) Zscaler
4 16 (8.94%) ServiceNow
5 13 (7.26%) VMware
6 12 (6.70%) Citrix
7 11 (6.15%) Juniper
8 10 (5.59%) Bloomberg
8 10 (5.59%) Fortinet
8 10 (5.59%) Netskope
9 9 (5.03%) F5
10 8 (4.47%) Google
10 8 (4.47%) Red Hat
11 7 (3.91%) Okta
11 7 (3.91%) Splunk
12 6 (3.35%) Apple
12 6 (3.35%) Dynatrace
12 6 (3.35%) Palo Alto
12 6 (3.35%) Remedy
12 6 (3.35%) Reuters