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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 217 277
Rank change year-on-year -37 +60 -9
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 186 148 118
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.94% 1.09% 0.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.83% 10.56% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 91 79
10th Percentile £187 £213 £213
25th Percentile £313 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £580
90th Percentile £635 £750 £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 £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 1,572 1,401 1,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.93% 10.33% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 912 1,078
10th Percentile £300 £275 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £725 £724 £716
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 29 40
10th Percentile £17.36 £19.33 £15.40
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £17.55
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £22.90
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +31.00% -37.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.00 £43.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.25 £60.50
England median hourly rate £26.69 £44.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.34% -2.22% -1.10%

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 22 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 22 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 -13 17 £425 -1.73% 15
South London -13 11 £519 -17.03% 5
West London -11 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 (11.29%) SharePoint
2 15 (8.06%) Confluence
3 14 (7.53%) nginx
4 12 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.54%) CICS
5 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.54%) Traefik
5 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 59 (31.72%) Azure
2 53 (28.49%) AWS
2 53 (28.49%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (20.43%) Entra ID
4 25 (13.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 20 (10.75%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (8.60%) GCP
7 15 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (7.53%) OneDrive
9 13 (6.99%) Amazon S3
10 12 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (6.45%) Serverless
11 11 (5.91%) Route 53
12 8 (4.30%) GitHub
13 7 (3.76%) Google Workspace
14 5 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (2.69%) SaaS
15 4 (2.15%) Akamai
15 4 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (2.15%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 105 (56.45%) DNS
2 80 (43.01%) Firewall
3 69 (37.10%) VPN
4 41 (22.04%) DHCP
5 39 (20.97%) Network Security
6 29 (15.59%) HTTP
7 23 (12.37%) SSL
8 22 (11.83%) WAN
9 19 (10.22%) BGP
10 17 (9.14%) LAN
11 15 (8.06%) VLAN
12 13 (6.99%) OpenVPN
13 11 (5.91%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (5.38%) Internet
14 10 (5.38%) Wireless
15 8 (4.30%) DMZ
15 8 (4.30%) HTTPS
16 7 (3.76%) Cisco IOS
16 7 (3.76%) Ethernet
16 7 (3.76%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (4.30%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.08%) MySQL
4 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.08%) SQLite
5 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.54%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (0.54%) KDB
5 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (10.75%) JIRA
2 18 (9.68%) Git
3 8 (4.30%) Bitbucket
3 8 (4.30%) GitLab
4 7 (3.76%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.69%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (2.15%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.15%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.08%) Subversion
8 1 (0.54%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.54%) MSI
8 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 77 (41.40%) Social Skills
2 37 (19.89%) Finance
3 24 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.60%) Banking
5 12 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (6.45%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.38%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.76%) Front Office
8 6 (3.23%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.61%) Automotive
10 2 (1.08%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.08%) Games
10 2 (1.08%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.54%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.54%) Local Government
11 1 (0.54%) Military
11 1 (0.54%) Retail
11 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 30 (16.13%) Support Engineer
3 20 (10.75%) Analyst
4 19 (10.22%) Senior
5 18 (9.68%) Architect
5 18 (9.68%) Security Engineer
6 15 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (5.91%) Linux Engineer
8 10 (5.38%) IT Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) IT Support
9 9 (4.84%) IT Support Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) Network Security Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (4.30%) Support Analyst
10 8 (4.30%) Web Engineer
11 7 (3.76%) AWS Architect
11 7 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.76%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.99%) SAML
2 12 (6.45%) LDAP
3 9 (4.84%) OpenID
4 8 (4.30%) .NET
5 4 (2.15%) ARM Templates
5 4 (2.15%) boto
5 4 (2.15%) eBPF
5 4 (2.15%) OAuth
5 4 (2.15%) WinForms
6 3 (1.61%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.61%) HTML
6 3 (1.61%) REST
7 2 (1.08%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.08%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.08%) HTML5
7 2 (1.08%) Loki
7 2 (1.08%) Mojolicious
7 2 (1.08%) Moose
7 2 (1.08%) SPNEGO
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.44%) Onboarding
2 19 (10.22%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.91%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (5.38%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 7 (3.76%) PKI
5 7 (3.76%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.23%) Client/Server
6 6 (3.23%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.69%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (2.15%) iPhone
8 4 (2.15%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.61%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.61%) CMDB
9 3 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.61%) iPad
9 3 (1.61%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.61%) Robotics
9 3 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 70 (37.63%) Windows
2 38 (20.43%) Linux
3 19 (10.22%) Windows Server
4 18 (9.68%) Mac OS
5 13 (6.99%) Windows 10
6 10 (5.38%) Ubuntu
7 7 (3.76%) Android
7 7 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (2.69%) Apple iOS
8 5 (2.69%) Unix
9 3 (1.61%) zOS
10 1 (0.54%) CentOS
10 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (17.74%) DevOps
3 28 (15.05%) ITIL
4 25 (13.44%) Incident Response
5 24 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (11.83%) Customer Service
6 22 (11.83%) Migration
6 22 (11.83%) Service Management
7 20 (10.75%) ITSM
8 19 (10.22%) Runbook
9 17 (9.14%) Load Balancing
10 16 (8.60%) Change Management
10 16 (8.60%) CI/CD
10 16 (8.60%) High Availability
10 16 (8.60%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (8.60%) SIEM
11 15 (8.06%) Incident Management
12 14 (7.53%) Agile
13 12 (6.45%) Roadmaps
13 12 (6.45%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 54 (29.03%) Python
2 33 (17.74%) PowerShell
3 28 (15.05%) Bash
4 10 (5.38%) C++
5 6 (3.23%) C
5 6 (3.23%) Java
5 6 (3.23%) SQL
6 4 (2.15%) C#
6 4 (2.15%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.61%) Perl
8 2 (1.08%) Go
8 2 (1.08%) Korn
8 2 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.08%) Objective-C
8 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.54%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 26 (13.98%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.75%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (10.75%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.22%) Degree
4 17 (9.14%) CCNP
5 14 (7.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (6.99%) CCNA
7 11 (5.91%) CISSP
8 8 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (4.30%) Network+ Certification
9 6 (3.23%) A+ Certification
10 4 (2.15%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.15%) CCIE
10 4 (2.15%) CISM
10 4 (2.15%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (1.61%) JNCIP
11 3 (1.61%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.61%) MCSA
12 2 (1.08%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.38%) SLA
2 7 (3.76%) NIST
3 5 (2.69%) GDPR
3 5 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.61%) QA
5 2 (1.08%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.08%) NCSC
5 2 (1.08%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (24.19%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.99%) Squid
3 9 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.69%) Docker
6 4 (2.15%) vSphere
7 2 (1.08%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.54%) NFS
8 1 (0.54%) RACF
8 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (15.59%) Terraform
2 27 (14.52%) Ansible
3 25 (13.44%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (11.29%) Grafana
5 20 (10.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (9.68%) Kubernetes
7 15 (8.06%) FortiGate
8 13 (6.99%) Prometheus
9 10 (5.38%) SCCM
10 7 (3.76%) Consul
10 7 (3.76%) WSUS
11 5 (2.69%) systemd
12 4 (2.15%) Suricata
13 3 (1.61%) SELinux
14 2 (1.08%) Cilium
14 2 (1.08%) QRadar
14 2 (1.08%) Tivoli NetView
15 1 (0.54%) CASB
15 1 (0.54%) PingFederate
15 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (34.95%) Microsoft
2 31 (16.67%) Cisco
3 19 (10.22%) Zscaler
4 17 (9.14%) ServiceNow
5 14 (7.53%) Red Hat
6 12 (6.45%) Citrix
6 12 (6.45%) VMware
7 11 (5.91%) Dynatrace
7 11 (5.91%) Juniper
8 10 (5.38%) F5
8 10 (5.38%) Fortinet
8 10 (5.38%) Google
8 10 (5.38%) Netskope
9 9 (4.84%) Bloomberg
10 7 (3.76%) Atlassian
10 7 (3.76%) Okta
10 7 (3.76%) Splunk
11 6 (3.23%) Blue Coat
11 6 (3.23%) ION Trading
11 6 (3.23%) Palo Alto