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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 226 278
Rank change year-on-year -38 +52 -25
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 180 150 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.91% 1.10% 0.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.49% 10.68% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 93 80
10th Percentile £185 £230 £213
25th Percentile £305 £325 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £578
90th Percentile £638 £744 £650
England median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £27.35 £16.80
25th Percentile £26.25 £39.18 £18.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +161.25% -60.33%
75th Percentile £28.75 £63.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -27.69% - +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 1,567 1,405 1,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.91% 10.33% 9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 916 1,075
10th Percentile £300 £275 £240
25th Percentile £412 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £619
90th Percentile £728 £725 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 29 39
10th Percentile £17.36 £19.33 £15.30
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £17.32
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +36.36% -39.79%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.25 £61.00
England median hourly rate £26.72 £44.50 £45.44
% change year-on-year -39.96% -2.07% +0.98%

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 23 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 23 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 -15 17 £425 -1.73% 15
South London -17 7 £513 -18.00% 6
West London -13 2 £218 -70.97% 6
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 21 (11.67%) SharePoint
2 12 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (5.56%) Confluence
4 9 (5.00%) nginx
5 1 (0.56%) CICS
5 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.56%) Traefik
5 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 59 (32.78%) Azure
2 53 (29.44%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (26.67%) AWS
4 38 (21.11%) Entra ID
5 20 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (8.89%) GCP
7 15 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (7.78%) OneDrive
9 10 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (4.44%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.44%) GitHub
11 7 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.89%) Google Workspace
11 7 (3.89%) Serverless
12 6 (3.33%) Route 53
13 5 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.78%) SaaS
14 4 (2.22%) Akamai
14 4 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (2.22%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 100 (55.56%) DNS
2 75 (41.67%) Firewall
3 64 (35.56%) VPN
4 41 (22.78%) DHCP
5 39 (21.67%) Network Security
6 29 (16.11%) HTTP
7 23 (12.78%) SSL
8 22 (12.22%) WAN
9 19 (10.56%) BGP
10 17 (9.44%) LAN
11 15 (8.33%) VLAN
12 11 (6.11%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (5.56%) Internet
13 10 (5.56%) Wireless
14 8 (4.44%) DMZ
14 8 (4.44%) HTTPS
14 8 (4.44%) OpenVPN
15 7 (3.89%) Cisco IOS
15 7 (3.89%) Ethernet
15 7 (3.89%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.11%) MySQL
4 2 (1.11%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.11%) 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 18 (10.00%) Git
2 15 (8.33%) JIRA
3 8 (4.44%) GitLab
4 5 (2.78%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (2.22%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.22%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.67%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.11%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.11%) Subversion
8 1 (0.56%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.56%) MSI
8 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 72 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 36 (20.00%) Finance
3 24 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.89%) Banking
5 12 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.89%) Front Office
8 6 (3.33%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.67%) Automotive
10 2 (1.11%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.11%) Games
10 2 (1.11%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.56%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Military
11 1 (0.56%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (17.22%) Network Engineer
2 30 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 20 (11.11%) Analyst
4 19 (10.56%) Senior
5 18 (10.00%) Security Engineer
6 15 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (7.22%) Architect
8 11 (6.11%) Linux Engineer
9 10 (5.56%) IT Engineer
10 9 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.00%) IT Support
10 9 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
10 9 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.44%) Network Security Engineer
11 8 (4.44%) Support Analyst
11 8 (4.44%) Web Engineer
12 7 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (3.89%) Desktop Support
12 7 (3.89%) Help Desk Analyst
12 7 (3.89%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.22%) SAML
2 8 (4.44%) .NET
3 7 (3.89%) LDAP
4 4 (2.22%) ARM Templates
4 4 (2.22%) boto
4 4 (2.22%) eBPF
4 4 (2.22%) OAuth
4 4 (2.22%) OpenID
4 4 (2.22%) WinForms
5 3 (1.67%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.67%) HTML
5 3 (1.67%) REST
6 2 (1.11%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.11%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.11%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.11%) HTML5
6 2 (1.11%) Loki
6 2 (1.11%) Mojolicious
6 2 (1.11%) Moose
6 2 (1.11%) SPNEGO
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.89%) Onboarding
2 19 (10.56%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.11%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 7 (3.89%) PKI
5 7 (3.89%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.33%) Client/Server
6 6 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (2.22%) iPhone
8 4 (2.22%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.67%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.67%) CMDB
9 3 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.67%) iPad
9 3 (1.67%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.67%) Robotics
9 3 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 70 (38.89%) Windows
2 37 (20.56%) Linux
3 19 (10.56%) Windows Server
4 18 (10.00%) Mac OS
5 13 (7.22%) Windows 10
6 10 (5.56%) Ubuntu
7 7 (3.89%) Android
7 7 (3.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (2.78%) Apple iOS
8 5 (2.78%) Unix
9 3 (1.67%) zOS
10 1 (0.56%) CentOS
10 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (15.56%) DevOps
2 28 (15.56%) ITIL
3 25 (13.89%) Incident Response
4 24 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 22 (12.22%) Customer Service
5 22 (12.22%) Migration
5 22 (12.22%) Service Management
6 20 (11.11%) ITSM
7 19 (10.56%) Runbook
8 17 (9.44%) Load Balancing
9 16 (8.89%) Change Management
9 16 (8.89%) CI/CD
9 16 (8.89%) High Availability
9 16 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (8.89%) SIEM
10 15 (8.33%) Incident Management
11 14 (7.78%) Agile
12 12 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (6.11%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 54 (30.00%) Python
2 33 (18.33%) PowerShell
3 28 (15.56%) Bash
4 9 (5.00%) C++
5 6 (3.33%) Java
5 6 (3.33%) SQL
6 5 (2.78%) C
7 4 (2.22%) C#
7 4 (2.22%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.67%) Perl
9 2 (1.11%) Go
9 2 (1.11%) Korn
9 2 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.11%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.11%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 21 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (10.56%) Degree
4 17 (9.44%) CCNP
5 15 (8.33%) SC Cleared
6 14 (7.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (7.22%) CCNA
8 11 (6.11%) CISSP
9 8 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (4.44%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (3.33%) A+ Certification
11 4 (2.22%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.22%) CCIE
11 4 (2.22%) CISM
11 4 (2.22%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.67%) JNCIP
12 3 (1.67%) JNCIS
12 3 (1.67%) MCSA
13 2 (1.11%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.56%) SLA
2 7 (3.89%) NIST
3 5 (2.78%) GDPR
3 5 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.67%) QA
5 2 (1.11%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.11%) NCSC
5 2 (1.11%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.44%) Squid
4 6 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.78%) Docker
6 4 (2.22%) vSphere
7 2 (1.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.56%) NFS
8 1 (0.56%) RACF
8 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (15.00%) Ansible
2 24 (13.33%) Terraform
3 20 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (8.89%) Grafana
5 13 (7.22%) Kubernetes
6 10 (5.56%) FortiGate
6 10 (5.56%) SCCM
7 8 (4.44%) Prometheus
8 7 (3.89%) WSUS
9 5 (2.78%) systemd
10 4 (2.22%) Suricata
11 3 (1.67%) SELinux
12 2 (1.11%) Cilium
12 2 (1.11%) Consul
12 2 (1.11%) QRadar
12 2 (1.11%) Tivoli NetView
13 1 (0.56%) CASB
13 1 (0.56%) Istio
13 1 (0.56%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 64 (35.56%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.22%) Cisco
3 19 (10.56%) Zscaler
4 17 (9.44%) ServiceNow
5 12 (6.67%) Citrix
5 12 (6.67%) VMware
6 11 (6.11%) Juniper
7 10 (5.56%) F5
7 10 (5.56%) Fortinet
7 10 (5.56%) Google
7 10 (5.56%) Netskope
8 9 (5.00%) Bloomberg
8 9 (5.00%) Red Hat
9 7 (3.89%) Okta
9 7 (3.89%) Splunk
10 6 (3.33%) Apple
10 6 (3.33%) Dynatrace
10 6 (3.33%) Palo Alto
10 6 (3.33%) Remedy
10 6 (3.33%) Reuters