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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 214 282
Rank change year-on-year -43 +68 -13
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 178 150 118
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.10% 0.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.37% 10.70% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 93 79
10th Percentile £185 £211 £213
25th Percentile £313 £305 £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 £633 £744 £650
England median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
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 £38.72 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -40.43% - +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 1,565 1,402 1,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.90% 10.27% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 914 1,082
10th Percentile £300 £275 £231
25th Percentile £410 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £724 £725 £713
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 29 43
10th Percentile £18.02 £19.33 £14.68
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £17.32
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +26.05% -33.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £82.75 £63.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £26.72 £44.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -39.27% +10.00% -9.86%

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 20 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 20 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 -10 18 £484 +11.79% 13
South London -12 11 £519 -17.03% 5
West London -18 2 £218 -70.97% 7
North London - 2 - -
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 17 (9.55%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.87%) Confluence
2 14 (7.87%) nginx
3 8 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.56%) CICS
4 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.56%) Traefik
4 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 53 (29.78%) Azure
2 52 (29.21%) AWS
3 48 (26.97%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (18.54%) Entra ID
5 25 (14.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 20 (11.24%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (7.87%) GCP
9 13 (7.30%) Amazon S3
10 12 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (6.74%) Serverless
11 11 (6.18%) Route 53
12 10 (5.62%) OneDrive
13 7 (3.93%) GitHub
13 7 (3.93%) Google Workspace
14 5 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (2.81%) SaaS
15 3 (1.69%) Akamai
15 3 (1.69%) Datadog
15 3 (1.69%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 98 (55.06%) DNS
2 74 (41.57%) Firewall
3 65 (36.52%) VPN
4 36 (20.22%) Network Security
5 35 (19.66%) DHCP
6 28 (15.73%) HTTP
7 21 (11.80%) SSL
8 19 (10.67%) BGP
9 18 (10.11%) WAN
10 14 (7.87%) LAN
11 13 (7.30%) OpenVPN
11 13 (7.30%) VLAN
12 10 (5.62%) Internet
12 10 (5.62%) Wireless
13 8 (4.49%) DMZ
13 8 (4.49%) HTTPS
14 7 (3.93%) Cisco IOS
14 7 (3.93%) Ethernet
14 7 (3.93%) OSPF
14 7 (3.93%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.62%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.81%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.12%) MySQL
4 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.12%) SQLite
5 1 (0.56%) KDB
5 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (10.67%) JIRA
2 17 (9.55%) Git
3 8 (4.49%) Bitbucket
4 7 (3.93%) GitLab
4 7 (3.93%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.81%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (2.25%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.69%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.12%) Subversion
9 1 (0.56%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.56%) MSI
9 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 74 (41.57%) Social Skills
2 37 (20.79%) Finance
3 22 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.99%) Banking
5 12 (6.74%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (5.62%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.93%) Front Office
7 7 (3.93%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.37%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.12%) Automotive
9 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.12%) Games
9 2 (1.12%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.56%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.56%) Law
10 1 (0.56%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Local Government
10 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 29 (16.29%) Network Engineer
2 28 (15.73%) Support Engineer
3 20 (11.24%) Analyst
4 18 (10.11%) Architect
4 18 (10.11%) Security Engineer
5 13 (7.30%) Senior
6 11 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (6.18%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (5.06%) Network Security Engineer
8 8 (4.49%) IT Engineer
8 8 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.49%) Support Analyst
8 8 (4.49%) Web Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) Desktop Support
9 7 (3.93%) Help Desk Analyst
9 7 (3.93%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) Junior
9 7 (3.93%) Technical Support
9 7 (3.93%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.30%) SAML
2 12 (6.74%) LDAP
3 9 (5.06%) OpenID
4 8 (4.49%) .NET
5 4 (2.25%) boto
5 4 (2.25%) eBPF
5 4 (2.25%) OAuth
5 4 (2.25%) WinForms
6 3 (1.69%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.69%) HTML
6 3 (1.69%) REST
7 2 (1.12%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.12%) 802.1X
7 2 (1.12%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.12%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.12%) HTML5
7 2 (1.12%) Loki
7 2 (1.12%) Mojolicious
7 2 (1.12%) Moose
7 2 (1.12%) SPNEGO
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.92%) Onboarding
2 19 (10.67%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.62%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (5.06%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.93%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.37%) Client/Server
6 6 (3.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 6 (3.37%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (3.37%) PKI
7 5 (2.81%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.69%) iPhone
9 3 (1.69%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 65 (36.52%) Windows
2 35 (19.66%) Linux
3 18 (10.11%) Mac OS
4 16 (8.99%) Windows Server
5 12 (6.74%) Windows 10
6 9 (5.06%) Ubuntu
7 7 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (3.37%) Android
9 5 (2.81%) Apple iOS
10 4 (2.25%) Unix
11 3 (1.69%) zOS
12 1 (0.56%) CentOS
12 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (25.28%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (16.85%) DevOps
3 23 (12.92%) ITIL
4 21 (11.80%) Incident Response
5 20 (11.24%) Customer Service
6 19 (10.67%) Runbook
7 18 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (10.11%) ITSM
7 18 (10.11%) Service Management
8 17 (9.55%) Migration
9 15 (8.43%) High Availability
9 15 (8.43%) Load Balancing
9 15 (8.43%) SIEM
10 14 (7.87%) Agile
10 14 (7.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (7.30%) CI/CD
12 12 (6.74%) Change Management
12 12 (6.74%) Incident Management
12 12 (6.74%) Roadmaps
13 11 (6.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (28.09%) Python
2 30 (16.85%) PowerShell
3 25 (14.04%) Bash
4 10 (5.62%) C++
5 6 (3.37%) C
5 6 (3.37%) Java
6 5 (2.81%) SQL
7 4 (2.25%) C#
7 4 (2.25%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.12%) Go
8 2 (1.12%) Korn
8 2 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.12%) Objective-C
8 2 (1.12%) Perl
8 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.67%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (10.11%) Degree
5 16 (8.99%) CCNP
6 14 (7.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (7.30%) CCNA
8 10 (5.62%) CISSP
9 8 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (3.93%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (2.81%) A+ Certification
11 5 (2.81%) Azure Certification
12 4 (2.25%) CCIE
13 3 (1.69%) CISM
13 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (1.69%) MCSA
14 2 (1.12%) GCIA
14 2 (1.12%) GCIH
14 2 (1.12%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.93%) NIST
2 6 (3.37%) SLA
3 5 (2.81%) GDPR
3 5 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.69%) QA
5 2 (1.12%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.12%) NCSC
5 2 (1.12%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (22.47%) Active Directory
2 13 (7.30%) Squid
3 9 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.25%) Docker
5 4 (2.25%) vSphere
6 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.56%) NFS
7 1 (0.56%) RACF
7 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (14.04%) Single Sign-On
1 25 (14.04%) Terraform
2 24 (13.48%) Ansible
3 20 (11.24%) Grafana
4 17 (9.55%) Kubernetes
5 15 (8.43%) FortiGate
6 14 (7.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (7.30%) Prometheus
8 9 (5.06%) SCCM
9 7 (3.93%) Consul
9 7 (3.93%) WSUS
10 4 (2.25%) Suricata
10 4 (2.25%) systemd
11 3 (1.69%) SELinux
12 2 (1.12%) Cilium
12 2 (1.12%) QRadar
12 2 (1.12%) Tivoli NetView
13 1 (0.56%) Istio
13 1 (0.56%) PingFederate
13 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 59 (33.15%) Microsoft
2 27 (15.17%) Cisco
3 16 (8.99%) Zscaler
4 14 (7.87%) Red Hat
4 14 (7.87%) ServiceNow
5 12 (6.74%) Citrix
6 11 (6.18%) Dynatrace
7 10 (5.62%) F5
7 10 (5.62%) Juniper
7 10 (5.62%) Netskope
8 9 (5.06%) Bloomberg
8 9 (5.06%) Fortinet
8 9 (5.06%) Google
8 9 (5.06%) VMware
9 7 (3.93%) Atlassian
9 7 (3.93%) Okta
9 7 (3.93%) Splunk
10 6 (3.37%) Blue Coat
10 6 (3.37%) ION Trading
10 6 (3.37%) Palo Alto