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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 224 296
Rank change year-on-year -55 +72 -40
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 144 133 104
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 1.09% 0.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.63% 10.61% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 88 62
10th Percentile £189 £212 £225
25th Percentile £313 £304 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £456 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% -6.41% -7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £644
90th Percentile £635 £697 £718
England median daily rate £470 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £46.18 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £46.81 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +161.25% -60.33%
75th Percentile £28.75 £59.94 -
90th Percentile - £61.93 £22.25
England median hourly rate £32.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -48.00% -3.85% +17.49%

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 1,495 1,254 1,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.94% 10.24% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 980 813 1,115
10th Percentile £300 £258 £216
25th Percentile £408 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £708 £713 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 17 52
10th Percentile £16.04 £20.13 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.43 £24.66 £16.71
Median hourly rate £26.11 £40.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -34.73% +68.07% -34.38%
75th Percentile £64.06 £52.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £90.63 £62.05 £59.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £39.32 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.34% -1.70% +122.22%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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
South London -7 10 £519 -17.03% 1
Central London -26 10 £425 -4.49% 6
North London - 2 - -
West London -24 1 £223 -70.27% 4
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 10 (6.94%) Confluence
1 10 (6.94%) nginx
2 5 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.69%) CICS
4 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.69%) Traefik
4 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 47 (32.64%) AWS
2 38 (26.39%) Azure
3 34 (23.61%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 17 (11.81%) Entra ID
6 16 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (10.42%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (9.72%) Amazon S3
8 14 (9.72%) Route 53
9 13 (9.03%) GCP
10 12 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (8.33%) Serverless
11 9 (6.25%) Google Workspace
12 5 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.08%) Akamai
13 3 (2.08%) Datadog
13 3 (2.08%) GitHub
13 3 (2.08%) Google Drive
13 3 (2.08%) OneDrive
13 3 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (49.31%) DNS
2 62 (43.06%) Firewall
3 52 (36.11%) VPN
4 31 (21.53%) Network Security
5 24 (16.67%) HTTP
6 22 (15.28%) DHCP
7 20 (13.89%) SSL
8 16 (11.11%) BGP
9 11 (7.64%) WAN
10 10 (6.94%) DMZ
10 10 (6.94%) VLAN
11 9 (6.25%) OpenVPN
11 9 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (6.25%) Wireless
12 8 (5.56%) Internet
12 8 (5.56%) LAN
12 8 (5.56%) OSPF
13 7 (4.86%) HTTPS
14 5 (3.47%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (3.47%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.64%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.39%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (10.42%) JIRA
2 8 (5.56%) Git
2 8 (5.56%) GitLab
3 7 (4.86%) Bitbucket
3 7 (4.86%) SonarQube
4 5 (3.47%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (2.08%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.39%) Subversion
General
1 60 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 34 (23.61%) Finance
3 15 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (6.94%) Banking
6 9 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.56%) Front Office
7 8 (5.56%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.17%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.08%) Military
10 2 (1.39%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.39%) Games
10 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.39%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.39%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Police
11 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 19 (13.19%) Architect
2 19 (13.19%) Support Engineer
3 17 (11.81%) Security Engineer
4 16 (11.11%) Analyst
5 8 (5.56%) Help Desk Analyst
5 8 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
5 8 (5.56%) Senior
5 8 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (5.56%) Web Engineer
6 7 (4.86%) AWS Architect
6 7 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (4.86%) Integration Engineer
6 7 (4.86%) IT Analyst
6 7 (4.86%) Junior
6 7 (4.86%) Technical Engineer
6 7 (4.86%) Technical Support
6 7 (4.86%) Technical Support Engineer
7 6 (4.17%) Support Technician
8 5 (3.47%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.33%) LDAP
1 12 (8.33%) SAML
2 9 (6.25%) OpenID
3 5 (3.47%) .NET
4 4 (2.78%) OAuth
5 3 (2.08%) 802.1X
5 3 (2.08%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.08%) HTML
5 3 (2.08%) WinForms
6 2 (1.39%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.39%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.39%) Blazor
6 2 (1.39%) eBPF
6 2 (1.39%) HTML5
6 2 (1.39%) Loki
6 2 (1.39%) REST
7 1 (0.69%) CSS
7 1 (0.69%) EDI
7 1 (0.69%) Middleware
7 1 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.97%) Onboarding
2 16 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 11 (7.64%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 5 (3.47%) Client/Server
5 5 (3.47%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (3.47%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.78%) PKI
6 4 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (2.08%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.39%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.39%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.39%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.69%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.69%) PlayStation
Operating Systems
1 48 (33.33%) Windows
2 19 (13.19%) Linux
3 14 (9.72%) Mac OS
4 10 (6.94%) Windows Server
5 8 (5.56%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.47%) Apple iOS
6 5 (3.47%) zOS
7 4 (2.78%) Android
7 4 (2.78%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.69%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (14.58%) DevOps
3 19 (13.19%) Incident Response
4 17 (11.81%) ITIL
5 16 (11.11%) Agile
6 15 (10.42%) Runbook
7 14 (9.72%) High Availability
7 14 (9.72%) Roadmaps
8 12 (8.33%) Incident Management
8 12 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (8.33%) Migration
8 12 (8.33%) Service Management
9 11 (7.64%) Decision-Making
9 11 (7.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (7.64%) Load Balancing
10 10 (6.94%) SIEM
11 9 (6.25%) Customer Service
11 9 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (6.25%) Security Operations
11 9 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (22.92%) Python
2 22 (15.28%) Bash
3 18 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.17%) C++
5 5 (3.47%) C
6 4 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.08%) C#
7 3 (2.08%) SQL
8 1 (0.69%) Go
8 1 (0.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.72%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (9.72%) Degree
4 11 (7.64%) CCNA
4 11 (7.64%) CCNP
5 8 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (4.17%) CISSP
8 5 (3.47%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (2.78%) MCSA
10 3 (2.08%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.69%) CCSA
12 1 (0.69%) CCSE
12 1 (0.69%) CEH
12 1 (0.69%) CISM
12 1 (0.69%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.69%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.47%) GDPR
2 4 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.78%) NIST
3 3 (2.08%) QA
4 2 (1.39%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.39%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.03%) Squid
3 6 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.08%) Docker
6 2 (1.39%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.39%) vSphere
7 1 (0.69%) NFS
7 1 (0.69%) RACF
Systems Management
1 20 (13.89%) Single Sign-On
1 20 (13.89%) Terraform
2 18 (12.50%) Grafana
3 16 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 15 (10.42%) Ansible
5 13 (9.03%) FortiGate
5 13 (9.03%) Prometheus
6 11 (7.64%) SCCM
7 8 (5.56%) WSUS
8 7 (4.86%) Consul
9 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.78%) Suricata
9 4 (2.78%) Tivoli NetView
10 2 (1.39%) Cilium
10 2 (1.39%) QRadar
10 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.69%) CASB
11 1 (0.69%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.69%) Istio
11 1 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 41 (28.47%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.19%) Cisco
3 14 (9.72%) Citrix
4 11 (7.64%) Bloomberg
4 11 (7.64%) Red Hat
4 11 (7.64%) Zscaler
5 10 (6.94%) Netskope
6 9 (6.25%) Dynatrace
6 9 (6.25%) Google
6 9 (6.25%) Palo Alto
7 8 (5.56%) Fortinet
7 8 (5.56%) Reuters
8 7 (4.86%) Atlassian
8 7 (4.86%) F5
8 7 (4.86%) ION Trading
9 6 (4.17%) Blue Coat
9 6 (4.17%) Juniper
9 6 (4.17%) Okta
9 6 (4.17%) ServiceNow
9 6 (4.17%) VMware