TCP/IP Contracts in London

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring TCP/IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TCP/IP over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 287 256
Rank change year-on-year +74 -31 +49
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 148 118 245
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.11% 0.67% 0.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.80% 6.98% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 76 163
10th Percentile £210 £213 £228
25th Percentile £303 £272 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £591 £683
90th Percentile £719 £650 £806
England median daily rate £488 £456 £475
% change year-on-year +6.85% -3.95% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 9
10th Percentile £24.72 - £31.25
25th Percentile £32.61 £16.00 £35.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £20.00 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -60.33% +12.04%
75th Percentile £56.63 - -
90th Percentile £60.60 £22.25 £56.94
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.33
% change year-on-year -3.85% +17.49% +16.47%

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 1,371 1,690 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.32% 9.59% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 1,114 1,887
10th Percentile £263 £229 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £622 £669
90th Percentile £717 £738 £775
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 49 49
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.48 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.91 £16.86 £22.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% -34.87% +32.87%
75th Percentile £49.38 £41.25 £69.50
90th Percentile £62.05 £60.00 £76.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.27% +108.55% -12.00%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in London.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in London.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in London over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +15 17 £445 -21.59% 51
South London - 10 £625 - 8
West London +11 2 £750 +837.50% 10
East London +8 2 £218 -3.33% 3
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.38%) Confluence
1 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.03%) nginx
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.68%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.03%) AutoCAD
2 3 (2.03%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (29.05%) Azure
2 34 (22.97%) AWS
3 32 (21.62%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (12.16%) GitHub
5 12 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
5 12 (8.11%) Entra ID
5 12 (8.11%) GCP
6 11 (7.43%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.73%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (4.05%) Nutanix
10 5 (3.38%) Serverless
11 4 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.70%) SaaS
12 3 (2.03%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.03%) OneDrive
12 3 (2.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 89 (60.14%) DNS
2 43 (29.05%) DHCP
2 43 (29.05%) Firewall
3 40 (27.03%) VPN
4 34 (22.97%) LAN
5 30 (20.27%) HTTP
5 30 (20.27%) WAN
6 23 (15.54%) Internet
7 19 (12.84%) Network Security
8 18 (12.16%) VLAN
9 17 (11.49%) SMTP
10 16 (10.81%) Wireless
11 12 (8.11%) BGP
11 12 (8.11%) OSPF
12 10 (6.76%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (6.08%) SSL
14 8 (5.41%) SSH
15 7 (4.73%) FTP
15 7 (4.73%) IP Telephony
15 7 (4.73%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.78%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (4.73%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.03%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.03%) Power BI
6 2 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.35%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.35%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.35%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.68%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 10 (6.76%) Git
1 10 (6.76%) Jenkins
1 10 (6.76%) JIRA
2 6 (4.05%) Subversion
3 5 (3.38%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.03%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.35%) GitLab
5 2 (1.35%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.68%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.68%) Robot Framework
General
1 68 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.95%) Finance
3 24 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.43%) Banking
5 8 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.73%) Front Office
7 6 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.38%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.38%) Games
8 5 (3.38%) Legal
8 5 (3.38%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.03%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.03%) Local Government
10 2 (1.35%) Electronics
10 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.35%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.35%) Marketing
10 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.35%) Retail
11 1 (0.68%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 25 (16.89%) Network Engineer
2 19 (12.84%) Support Engineer
3 18 (12.16%) Senior
4 15 (10.14%) Analyst
5 14 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (6.08%) Support Analyst
7 8 (5.41%) 1st Line Engineer
7 8 (5.41%) Architect
7 8 (5.41%) Developer
7 8 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.73%) 1st Line Support
8 7 (4.73%) IT Support
8 7 (4.73%) Technical Support
9 6 (4.05%) IT Engineer
9 6 (4.05%) Junior Support Engineer
9 6 (4.05%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.05%) Technical Engineer
9 6 (4.05%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.43%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (6.08%) .NET
3 7 (4.73%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (4.73%) LDAP
3 7 (4.73%) Middleware
4 6 (4.05%) REST
5 5 (3.38%) FpML
6 4 (2.70%) Node.js
7 3 (2.03%) JSON
7 3 (2.03%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (2.03%) YAML
8 2 (1.35%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.35%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.35%) React
9 1 (0.68%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.68%) SAP Basis
9 1 (0.68%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.11%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (6.76%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (4.73%) Algorithms
4 7 (4.73%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.73%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.73%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.05%) Clustering
5 6 (4.05%) Derivative
5 6 (4.05%) Fixed Income
5 6 (4.05%) iPad
5 6 (4.05%) iPhone
5 6 (4.05%) PKI
5 6 (4.05%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (2.70%) Digital Signage
6 4 (2.70%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.70%) Replication
6 4 (2.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 50 (33.78%) Windows
2 40 (27.03%) Linux
3 14 (9.46%) Mac OS
4 13 (8.78%) Windows 10
5 11 (7.43%) Windows Server
6 8 (5.41%) Unix
7 6 (4.05%) Android
7 6 (4.05%) Windows 7
8 5 (3.38%) Apple iOS
8 5 (3.38%) Solaris
9 4 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (2.03%) CentOS
11 2 (1.35%) Mac OS X
11 2 (1.35%) SUSE
11 2 (1.35%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.68%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (18.92%) DevOps
3 24 (16.22%) Agile
4 23 (15.54%) CI/CD
4 23 (15.54%) Computer Science
4 23 (15.54%) High Availability
5 21 (14.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (11.49%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (10.14%) Containerisation
7 15 (10.14%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 15 (10.14%) Security Operations
8 14 (9.46%) Customer Service
9 12 (8.11%) Configuration Management
9 12 (8.11%) ITIL
9 12 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (7.43%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (7.43%) Mentoring
11 10 (6.76%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (6.76%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 42 (28.38%) Python
2 25 (16.89%) PowerShell
3 17 (11.49%) Bash
4 14 (9.46%) C#
5 13 (8.78%) SQL
6 9 (6.08%) Perl
7 8 (5.41%) C++
7 8 (5.41%) Java
8 6 (4.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.70%) Go
9 4 (2.70%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.03%) Bicep
11 2 (1.35%) PHP
11 2 (1.35%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.35%) VB
11 2 (1.35%) VBScript
12 1 (0.68%) C
Qualifications
1 24 (16.22%) Degree
2 23 (15.54%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (13.51%) Security Cleared
4 17 (11.49%) SC Cleared
5 16 (10.81%) CCNA
5 16 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (9.46%) CCNP
7 8 (5.41%) JNCIA
8 4 (2.70%) GCIH
8 4 (2.70%) MCSA
8 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.03%) CCSP
9 3 (2.03%) CEH
9 3 (2.03%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (2.03%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.03%) GCIA
9 3 (2.03%) JNCIS
9 3 (2.03%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (2.03%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.05%) GDPR
2 5 (3.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (3.38%) SLA
3 4 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.03%) NCSC
4 3 (2.03%) NIST
5 2 (1.35%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.35%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.35%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 37 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 20 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (9.46%) Docker
4 9 (6.08%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.03%) Firmware
6 3 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.03%) vSphere
7 2 (1.35%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.35%) iptables
7 2 (1.35%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.68%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.68%) NFS
8 1 (0.68%) Veritas File System
8 1 (0.68%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.68%) XenApp
8 1 (0.68%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (19.59%) Ansible
1 29 (19.59%) Terraform
2 17 (11.49%) Kubernetes
3 15 (10.14%) Grafana
4 14 (9.46%) Prometheus
5 12 (8.11%) Puppet
6 11 (7.43%) SCCM
7 10 (6.76%) Progress Chef
8 7 (4.73%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (3.38%) FortiGate
10 5 (3.38%) Tivoli
11 4 (2.70%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (2.70%) QRadar
11 4 (2.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 3 (2.03%) WSUS
13 2 (1.35%) CSIRT
13 2 (1.35%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (1.35%) Netcool
13 2 (1.35%) Packer
Vendors
1 45 (30.41%) Microsoft
2 30 (20.27%) Cisco
3 25 (16.89%) VMware
4 16 (10.81%) Red Hat
5 13 (8.78%) ServiceNow
6 11 (7.43%) Palo Alto
7 10 (6.76%) Google
8 8 (5.41%) Fortinet
8 8 (5.41%) Juniper
9 7 (4.73%) Citrix
9 7 (4.73%) Splunk
10 6 (4.05%) CyberArk
11 5 (3.38%) Apple
11 5 (3.38%) CheckPoint
11 5 (3.38%) EMC
11 5 (3.38%) F5
11 5 (3.38%) IBM
11 5 (3.38%) Qualys
12 4 (2.70%) Meraki
12 4 (2.70%) Oracle