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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 214 254
Rank change year-on-year -39 +40 +12
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 203 163 125
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 1.21% 0.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.26% 12.27% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 97 74
10th Percentile £174 £250 £225
25th Percentile £292 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £486
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +13.11% -2.75%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £750 £650
England median daily rate £470 £469 £469
% change year-on-year +0.27% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £32.75 £24.72 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £32.61 -
Median hourly rate £62.00 £54.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.76% +172.50% -70.80%
75th Percentile £63.00 £62.75 -
90th Percentile £69.45 £63.05 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

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 1,656 1,328 1,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.20% 9.86% 9.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 845 972
10th Percentile £297 £289 £250
25th Percentile £405 £404 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £722 £713 £725
England median daily rate £500 £488 £508
% change year-on-year +2.56% -3.94% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 33 19
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.56 £20.40
25th Percentile £22.50 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -28.14% +13.82%
75th Percentile £81.25 £44.75 £55.88
90th Percentile £155.17 £62.05 £66.38
England median hourly rate £43.50 £41.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +4.82% -27.64% +1.52%

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 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 26 £300 -30.64% 22
West London -25 5 £375 -50.00% 6
South London -13 4 - - 7
North London - 2 - - 1
East London - 1 - - 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 29 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 20 (9.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (5.42%) Confluence
4 5 (2.46%) nginx
5 3 (1.48%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.49%) CICS
6 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 71 (34.98%) Microsoft 365
2 59 (29.06%) Azure
3 48 (23.65%) Entra ID
4 36 (17.73%) AWS
5 18 (8.87%) OneDrive
6 14 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (4.43%) Google Workspace
9 8 (3.94%) GCP
9 8 (3.94%) GitHub
10 6 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.96%) SaaS
11 5 (2.46%) Akamai
11 5 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.46%) Datadog
12 4 (1.97%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 113 (55.67%) DNS
2 75 (36.95%) Firewall
3 64 (31.53%) VPN
4 62 (30.54%) DHCP
5 43 (21.18%) Network Security
6 33 (16.26%) HTTP
7 27 (13.30%) SSL
7 27 (13.30%) WAN
8 22 (10.84%) LAN
9 20 (9.85%) BGP
10 18 (8.87%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (8.87%) Wireless
11 15 (7.39%) VLAN
12 13 (6.40%) Internet
13 11 (5.42%) Kerberos
14 9 (4.43%) DMZ
14 9 (4.43%) SAN
15 8 (3.94%) Ethernet
15 8 (3.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 7 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.43%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.94%) SQLite
4 5 (2.46%) MySQL
5 4 (1.97%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.48%) KDB
6 3 (1.48%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.99%) Redis
8 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.49%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.49%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 27 (13.30%) Git
2 18 (8.87%) JIRA
3 13 (6.40%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.45%) GitLab
5 5 (2.46%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.99%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.99%) Selenium
6 2 (0.99%) Subversion
7 1 (0.49%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.49%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.49%) MSI
7 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (42.36%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.21%) Finance
3 34 (16.75%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.37%) Banking
5 15 (7.39%) Front Office
6 13 (6.40%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.93%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.96%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.97%) Automotive
9 4 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.48%) Local Government
11 2 (0.99%) Games
11 2 (0.99%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.49%) Korean Language
12 1 (0.49%) Law
12 1 (0.49%) Legal
12 1 (0.49%) Military
12 1 (0.49%) Retail
12 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (19.21%) Support Engineer
2 30 (14.78%) Network Engineer
3 25 (12.32%) Analyst
3 25 (12.32%) Senior
4 20 (9.85%) IT Support
5 19 (9.36%) IT Engineer
6 18 (8.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (8.87%) IT Support Engineer
6 18 (8.87%) Linux Engineer
6 18 (8.87%) Security Engineer
7 13 (6.40%) Support Analyst
8 12 (5.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.43%) Desktop Analyst
9 9 (4.43%) Desktop Support
9 9 (4.43%) Desktop Support Analyst
9 9 (4.43%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (3.94%) Architect
10 8 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.45%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.85%) Terraform
2 9 (4.43%) .NET
3 8 (3.94%) SAML
3 8 (3.94%) SPNEGO
4 5 (2.46%) LDAP
4 5 (2.46%) REST
4 5 (2.46%) Software Packaging
5 4 (1.97%) 802.1X
5 4 (1.97%) boto
5 4 (1.97%) HTML
5 4 (1.97%) Kafka
5 4 (1.97%) OpenTofu
5 4 (1.97%) WinForms
6 3 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.48%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.99%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.99%) CSS
7 2 (0.99%) Jinja
7 2 (0.99%) Middleware
7 2 (0.99%) Moose
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.26%) Onboarding
2 19 (9.36%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.91%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (5.42%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (4.43%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (4.43%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (3.45%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.96%) Client/Server
7 6 (2.96%) Distributed Applications
7 6 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.96%) PKI
7 6 (2.96%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (2.46%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.97%) iPhone
9 4 (1.97%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.97%) Robotics
9 4 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 91 (44.83%) Windows
2 51 (25.12%) Linux
3 25 (12.32%) Windows 10
4 24 (11.82%) Windows Server
5 22 (10.84%) Mac OS
6 13 (6.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (5.91%) Unix
8 11 (5.42%) Ubuntu
9 8 (3.94%) Android
10 6 (2.96%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.99%) zOS
12 1 (0.49%) CentOS
12 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (18.23%) ITIL
3 31 (15.27%) DevOps
4 30 (14.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 29 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 29 (14.29%) Incident Response
5 29 (14.29%) ITSM
6 28 (13.79%) Migration
7 27 (13.30%) Incident Management
8 26 (12.81%) CI/CD
9 25 (12.32%) Change Management
10 24 (11.82%) Service Management
11 23 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (10.84%) Load Balancing
12 22 (10.84%) Runbook
13 21 (10.34%) SIEM
14 18 (8.87%) Agile
14 18 (8.87%) High Availability
14 18 (8.87%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (8.37%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 61 (30.05%) Python
2 41 (20.20%) PowerShell
3 28 (13.79%) Bash
4 11 (5.42%) Perl
5 10 (4.93%) C++
6 9 (4.43%) SQL
7 8 (3.94%) Korn
8 7 (3.45%) Java
9 6 (2.96%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.46%) C#
11 4 (1.97%) C
12 3 (1.48%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.48%) VBScript
13 2 (0.99%) Go
13 2 (0.99%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.49%) Bicep
14 1 (0.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 25 (12.32%) Degree
2 18 (8.87%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (8.37%) Security Cleared
4 15 (7.39%) CCNP
5 14 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (5.42%) CCNA
7 11 (5.42%) SC Cleared
8 10 (4.93%) CISSP
9 8 (3.94%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (2.96%) A+ Certification
11 4 (1.97%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.97%) CCIE
11 4 (1.97%) CISM
11 4 (1.97%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.97%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.97%) JNCIS
12 3 (1.48%) MCSA
13 2 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.39%) SLA
2 5 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.46%) NIST
2 5 (2.46%) QA
3 4 (1.97%) GDPR
4 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.99%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.99%) NCSC
4 2 (0.99%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (31.03%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.46%) Docker
4 5 (2.46%) Squid
5 3 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.48%) vSphere
6 2 (0.99%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.49%) Firmware
7 1 (0.49%) NFS
7 1 (0.49%) RACF
7 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (15.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (13.30%) Ansible
3 16 (7.88%) Grafana
3 16 (7.88%) SCCM
4 14 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (4.43%) FortiGate
6 7 (3.45%) Kubernetes
6 7 (3.45%) WSUS
7 6 (2.96%) systemd
8 5 (2.46%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.97%) Suricata
10 3 (1.48%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.48%) SELinux
11 2 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.49%) CASB
12 1 (0.49%) PingFederate
12 1 (0.49%) QRadar
12 1 (0.49%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 1 (0.49%) Tivoli NetView
12 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 85 (41.87%) Microsoft
2 36 (17.73%) Cisco
3 20 (9.85%) ServiceNow
4 18 (8.87%) Zscaler
5 17 (8.37%) F5
6 16 (7.88%) VMware
7 13 (6.40%) Bloomberg
8 12 (5.91%) Splunk
9 11 (5.42%) Juniper
10 10 (4.93%) Citrix
10 10 (4.93%) Fortinet
10 10 (4.93%) Palo Alto
11 8 (3.94%) Google
11 8 (3.94%) NetApp
11 8 (3.94%) Okta
12 7 (3.45%) ION Trading
13 6 (2.96%) Apple
13 6 (2.96%) Arista
13 6 (2.96%) Remedy
13 6 (2.96%) Reuters