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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 213 240
Rank change year-on-year -43 +27 +21
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 132 168 162
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 1.12% 0.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.29% 11.19% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 109 91
10th Percentile £300 £250 £200
25th Percentile £413 £380 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £645 £606
90th Percentile £707 £700 £694
England median daily rate £477 £486 £438
% change year-on-year -2.01% +11.14% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £38.15 - £21.41
25th Percentile £41.00 - £27.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £48.75
75th Percentile £62.75 - £65.25
90th Percentile £63.05 - £68.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.70
% change year-on-year - +25.74% -20.47%

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 1,283 1,501 1,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.91% 10.01% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 920 1,301
10th Percentile £307 £256 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 13 57
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.87 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.41 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +23.00%
75th Percentile £27.94 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £57.98 £76.91 £76.75
England median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -8.57% -38.04% +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 24 December 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 24 December 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 24 December 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 -24 8 £600 +9.09% 16
West London - 8 £280 - 1
East London +1 2 - - 3
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 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.52%) Confluence
2 2 (1.52%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.76%) Apache
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.76%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Eikon
1 1 (0.76%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.76%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.76%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 35 (26.52%) AWS
2 26 (19.70%) Azure
3 25 (18.94%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (7.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (7.58%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (7.58%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.82%) GCP
8 8 (6.06%) GitHub
9 7 (5.30%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.27%) Google Workspace
11 2 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.52%) Google Compute Engine
11 2 (1.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.52%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.52%) Route 53
12 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (55.30%) DNS
2 52 (39.39%) VPN
3 49 (37.12%) Firewall
4 38 (28.79%) DHCP
5 33 (25.00%) SSL
6 25 (18.94%) Network Security
7 20 (15.15%) WAN
8 19 (14.39%) HTTP
9 17 (12.88%) LAN
10 12 (9.09%) Internet
11 11 (8.33%) BGP
11 11 (8.33%) OSPF
11 11 (8.33%) VLAN
12 9 (6.82%) Wireshark
13 8 (6.06%) Multicast
14 7 (5.30%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (5.30%) Wireless
15 5 (3.79%) SD-WAN
15 5 (3.79%) SMTP
15 5 (3.79%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.76%) MySQL
2 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (12.88%) Git
2 13 (9.85%) GitLab
2 13 (9.85%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.79%) JIRA
3 5 (3.79%) Subversion
4 4 (3.03%) Robot Framework
4 4 (3.03%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.76%) GCC
5 1 (0.76%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.76%) Maven
5 1 (0.76%) MSI
General
1 49 (37.12%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.42%) Finance
3 14 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.06%) Front Office
6 6 (4.55%) Banking
6 6 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.79%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.03%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.03%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.27%) Legal
9 3 (2.27%) Military
10 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Games
10 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (17.42%) Network Engineer
2 20 (15.15%) Support Engineer
3 15 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (10.61%) Senior
5 13 (9.85%) Analyst
6 11 (8.33%) IT Support
6 11 (8.33%) Security Engineer
7 8 (6.06%) Developer
8 7 (5.30%) Consultant
8 7 (5.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) IT Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) 1st Line Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) 1st Line Technical Support
9 6 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Junior Support Technician
9 6 (4.55%) Junior Technical Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Junior Technical Support
9 6 (4.55%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.06%) Middleware
2 6 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (3.79%) Ultra Messaging
4 4 (3.03%) LDAP
4 4 (3.03%) REST
4 4 (3.03%) SAML
5 3 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.27%) React
6 2 (1.52%) .NET
6 2 (1.52%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.52%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.52%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.52%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.52%) Express.js
6 2 (1.52%) SOAP
6 2 (1.52%) WCF
6 2 (1.52%) Web Services
6 2 (1.52%) WPF
7 1 (0.76%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.76%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.55%) Private Cloud
3 5 (3.79%) FPGA
3 5 (3.79%) Replication
4 4 (3.03%) Clustering
4 4 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.27%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.27%) iPad
5 3 (2.27%) iPhone
5 3 (2.27%) SCADA
6 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.52%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.52%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 51 (38.64%) Windows
2 38 (28.79%) Linux
3 14 (10.61%) Windows 10
4 11 (8.33%) Unix
5 6 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.79%) Mac OS
7 4 (3.03%) Solaris
8 3 (2.27%) Android
9 2 (1.52%) VMS
9 2 (1.52%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.52%) zOS
10 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.76%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (17.42%) DevOps
2 23 (17.42%) High Availability
3 21 (15.91%) CI/CD
3 21 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (15.91%) SIEM
4 20 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (14.39%) Low Latency
6 17 (12.88%) Incident Response
6 17 (12.88%) Security Operations
7 15 (11.36%) Agile
7 15 (11.36%) Infrastructure Automation
8 14 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (9.85%) Information Security
10 12 (9.09%) Load Balancing
11 11 (8.33%) Data Security
11 11 (8.33%) Patch Management
11 11 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
11 11 (8.33%) Test Automation
12 10 (7.58%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 47 (35.61%) Python
2 31 (23.48%) Bash
3 22 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 13 (9.85%) Perl
5 5 (3.79%) C
5 5 (3.79%) C++
6 4 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.27%) C#
7 3 (2.27%) Go
7 3 (2.27%) SQL
8 2 (1.52%) Java
8 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.52%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.85%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (9.09%) Degree
5 7 (5.30%) CCNP
6 6 (4.55%) CCNA
6 6 (4.55%) CISSP
6 6 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 5 (3.79%) Azure Certification
8 4 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (3.03%) JNCIS
9 3 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.27%) CCSP
9 3 (2.27%) CEH
9 3 (2.27%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (2.27%) GCIH
9 3 (2.27%) JNCIP
9 3 (2.27%) OSCP
10 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.33%) GDPR
2 5 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.27%) NIST
5 2 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.76%) SLA
6 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.33%) Docker
3 7 (5.30%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (3.79%) NFS
6 4 (3.03%) Veritas File System
6 4 (3.03%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (1.52%) Ceph
7 2 (1.52%) Firmware
7 2 (1.52%) KVM
7 2 (1.52%) Lustre
7 2 (1.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.76%) GPFS
8 1 (0.76%) iptables
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.76%) Samba
8 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (26.52%) Ansible
2 30 (22.73%) Terraform
3 19 (14.39%) SCCM
4 12 (9.09%) Grafana
4 12 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.06%) WSUS
6 7 (5.30%) QRadar
7 5 (3.79%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (3.03%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.27%) CSIRT
10 2 (1.52%) Consul
10 2 (1.52%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.52%) Nessus
10 2 (1.52%) Puppet
10 2 (1.52%) Tivoli NetView
11 1 (0.76%) BladeLogic
11 1 (0.76%) Salt
11 1 (0.76%) SELinux
Vendors
1 24 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.91%) Palo Alto
3 20 (15.15%) F5
4 16 (12.12%) CheckPoint
5 14 (10.61%) Cisco
6 13 (9.85%) Splunk
7 12 (9.09%) Fortinet
8 10 (7.58%) Qualys
9 9 (6.82%) VMware
10 8 (6.06%) ServiceNow
10 8 (6.06%) Zscaler
11 7 (5.30%) Bloomberg
11 7 (5.30%) Red Hat
11 7 (5.30%) Sophos
12 6 (4.55%) CyberArk
12 6 (4.55%) Google
12 6 (4.55%) Juniper
12 6 (4.55%) Solace
12 6 (4.55%) TIBCO
13 4 (3.03%) SaltStack