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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 211 272
Rank change year-on-year -37 +61 -12
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 199 157 117
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 1.17% 0.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.08% 11.35% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 95 74
10th Percentile £185 £218 £222
25th Percentile £300 £319 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £644 £596
90th Percentile £638 £765 £650
England median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £30.75 £27.35 -
25th Percentile £37.50 £39.18 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +161.25% -70.15%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 -
90th Percentile £69.25 £62.95 -
England median hourly rate £55.24 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.02% - +30.00%

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 1,647 1,383 1,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.19% 10.33% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 888 999
10th Percentile £303 £286 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £623
90th Percentile £727 £713 £705
England median daily rate £500 £492 £505
% change year-on-year +1.63% -2.48% +0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 33 28
10th Percentile £19.39 £20.32 £18.88
25th Percentile £19.50 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.15 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +17.38% +4.84% -31.98%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.25 £62.05 £65.00
England median hourly rate £26.72 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -22.73% -2.64%

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 27 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in London over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

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 27 August 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 -16 21 £300 -30.64% 11
South London -17 4 - - 5
West London -23 2 £218 -70.97% 6
North London - 2 - - 2
East London +3 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 29 (14.57%) SharePoint
2 18 (9.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (5.03%) Confluence
4 5 (2.51%) nginx
5 2 (1.01%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.50%) CICS
6 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 68 (34.17%) Microsoft 365
2 61 (30.65%) Azure
3 46 (23.12%) Entra ID
4 39 (19.60%) AWS
5 18 (9.05%) OneDrive
6 15 (7.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 13 (6.53%) GCP
8 11 (5.53%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (4.02%) GitHub
10 7 (3.52%) Google Workspace
11 6 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.51%) Akamai
12 5 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (2.51%) Datadog
12 5 (2.51%) SaaS
13 4 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 109 (54.77%) DNS
2 71 (35.68%) Firewall
3 63 (31.66%) VPN
4 54 (27.14%) DHCP
5 42 (21.11%) Network Security
6 34 (17.09%) HTTP
7 27 (13.57%) SSL
8 26 (13.07%) WAN
9 22 (11.06%) LAN
10 19 (9.55%) BGP
11 16 (8.04%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (7.54%) Wireless
13 13 (6.53%) Kerberos
13 13 (6.53%) VLAN
14 11 (5.53%) Internet
15 9 (4.52%) DMZ
15 9 (4.52%) SAN
16 8 (4.02%) HTTPS
17 7 (3.52%) Cisco IOS
17 7 (3.52%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.52%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.02%) SQLite
4 4 (2.01%) MySQL
5 3 (1.51%) KDB
5 3 (1.51%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.50%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.50%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (13.07%) Git
2 16 (8.04%) JIRA
3 12 (6.03%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.02%) GitLab
5 5 (2.51%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.01%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.01%) Subversion
8 1 (0.50%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.50%) MSI
8 1 (0.50%) Selenium
8 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (42.21%) Social Skills
2 42 (21.11%) Finance
3 32 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.05%) Banking
5 14 (7.04%) Front Office
6 13 (6.53%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.02%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.02%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.01%) Automotive
10 3 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.01%) Games
11 2 (1.01%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Korean Language
12 1 (0.50%) Law
12 1 (0.50%) Legal
12 1 (0.50%) Local Government
12 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 43 (21.61%) Support Engineer
2 28 (14.07%) Network Engineer
3 25 (12.56%) Senior
4 23 (11.56%) Analyst
5 19 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (9.05%) IT Engineer
6 18 (9.05%) Linux Engineer
7 17 (8.54%) IT Support
7 17 (8.54%) IT Support Engineer
7 17 (8.54%) Security Engineer
8 13 (6.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (5.53%) Support Analyst
10 9 (4.52%) Architect
10 9 (4.52%) Desktop Analyst
10 9 (4.52%) Desktop Support
10 9 (4.52%) Desktop Support Analyst
11 8 (4.02%) Applications Engineer
11 8 (4.02%) Applications Support
11 8 (4.02%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.02%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.55%) Terraform
2 13 (6.53%) SAML
3 9 (4.52%) .NET
4 8 (4.02%) SPNEGO
5 5 (2.51%) LDAP
6 4 (2.01%) 802.1X
6 4 (2.01%) boto
6 4 (2.01%) OAuth
6 4 (2.01%) OpenTofu
6 4 (2.01%) REST
6 4 (2.01%) WinForms
7 3 (1.51%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.51%) HTML
7 3 (1.51%) Kafka
7 3 (1.51%) Software Packaging
8 2 (1.01%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.01%) HTML5
8 2 (1.01%) Middleware
8 2 (1.01%) Mojolicious
8 2 (1.01%) Moose
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.58%) Onboarding
2 19 (9.55%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.03%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (5.53%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (4.52%) Enterprise Storage
6 8 (4.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 8 (4.02%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.02%) Client/Server
8 6 (3.02%) Distributed Applications
8 6 (3.02%) PKI
8 6 (3.02%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (3.02%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.51%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.01%) iPhone
10 4 (2.01%) Mainframe
10 4 (2.01%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.01%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 86 (43.22%) Windows
2 48 (24.12%) Linux
3 24 (12.06%) Windows Server
4 22 (11.06%) Windows 10
5 19 (9.55%) Mac OS
6 13 (6.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (5.53%) Ubuntu
8 10 (5.03%) Unix
9 8 (4.02%) Android
10 6 (3.02%) Apple iOS
11 4 (2.01%) zOS
12 1 (0.50%) CentOS
12 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (18.09%) ITIL
3 31 (15.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 30 (15.08%) DevOps
5 29 (14.57%) Customer Service
6 28 (14.07%) ITSM
7 27 (13.57%) Incident Response
8 25 (12.56%) CI/CD
8 25 (12.56%) Incident Management
8 25 (12.56%) Migration
9 24 (12.06%) Runbook
10 23 (11.56%) Service Management
11 22 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (10.55%) Change Management
13 20 (10.05%) High Availability
14 19 (9.55%) Load Balancing
15 18 (9.05%) SIEM
16 16 (8.04%) Agile
17 15 (7.54%) Root Cause Analysis
17 15 (7.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (32.16%) Python
2 39 (19.60%) PowerShell
3 31 (15.58%) Bash
4 11 (5.53%) Perl
5 10 (5.03%) C++
6 8 (4.02%) Korn
6 8 (4.02%) SQL
7 7 (3.52%) Java
8 5 (2.51%) C#
8 5 (2.51%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.01%) C
10 3 (1.51%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.51%) VBScript
11 2 (1.01%) Go
11 2 (1.01%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.50%) Bicep
12 1 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 23 (11.56%) Degree
2 20 (10.05%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (8.54%) CCNP
3 17 (8.54%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (6.53%) CCNA
6 11 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.53%) SC Cleared
7 10 (5.03%) CISSP
8 8 (4.02%) Network+ Certification
9 6 (3.02%) A+ Certification
10 4 (2.01%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.01%) CCIE
10 4 (2.01%) CISM
10 4 (2.01%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (2.01%) JNCIP
10 4 (2.01%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.51%) MCSA
12 2 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.04%) SLA
2 7 (3.52%) NIST
3 5 (2.51%) GDPR
3 5 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.01%) QA
5 2 (1.01%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.01%) NCSC
5 2 (1.01%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 60 (30.15%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.52%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (4.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.51%) Squid
5 4 (2.01%) Docker
6 3 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.51%) vSphere
7 2 (1.01%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.50%) Firmware
8 1 (0.50%) NFS
8 1 (0.50%) RACF
8 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (14.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (13.57%) Ansible
3 17 (8.54%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (7.54%) Grafana
4 15 (7.54%) SCCM
5 9 (4.52%) FortiGate
6 7 (3.52%) WSUS
7 6 (3.02%) Kubernetes
7 6 (3.02%) systemd
8 4 (2.01%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.01%) Suricata
9 3 (1.51%) SELinux
9 3 (1.51%) Tivoli NetView
10 2 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.50%) CASB
11 1 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.50%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.50%) QRadar
11 1 (0.50%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 81 (40.70%) Microsoft
2 34 (17.09%) Cisco
3 19 (9.55%) ServiceNow
3 19 (9.55%) Zscaler
4 13 (6.53%) F5
4 13 (6.53%) VMware
5 12 (6.03%) Bloomberg
6 11 (5.53%) Citrix
6 11 (5.53%) Juniper
7 10 (5.03%) Splunk
8 9 (4.52%) Fortinet
8 9 (4.52%) Netskope
9 8 (4.02%) NetApp
10 7 (3.52%) Google
10 7 (3.52%) ION Trading
10 7 (3.52%) Okta
11 6 (3.02%) Apple
11 6 (3.02%) Arista
11 6 (3.02%) Remedy
11 6 (3.02%) Reuters