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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 219 293
Rank change year-on-year -61 +74 -42
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 148 137 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.10% 0.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.81% 10.61% 6.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 89 62
10th Percentile £197 £209 £225
25th Percentile £306 £300 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £644
90th Percentile £628 £725 £718
England median daily rate £470 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £24.72 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £32.61 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +150.00% -60.33%
75th Percentile £28.75 £56.63 -
90th Percentile - £60.60 £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 1,508 1,291 1,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.92% 10.32% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 838 1,115
10th Percentile £300 £263 £225
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £706 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +0.46% -0.46% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 22 50
10th Percentile £16.04 £18.88 £14.46
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £16.40
Median hourly rate £29.52 £37.50 £23.65
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% +58.56% -35.28%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £90.63 £63.05 £60.00
England median hourly rate £29.52 £39.32 £41.50
% change year-on-year -24.92% -5.25% +121.75%

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 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 20 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
Central London -22 12 £488 +9.55% 7
South London -6 10 £519 -17.03% 1
West London -27 2 £218 -70.97% 4
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 10 (6.76%) Confluence
1 10 (6.76%) nginx
2 8 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.68%) CICS
4 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.68%) Traefik
4 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 46 (31.08%) AWS
2 38 (25.68%) Azure
2 38 (25.68%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (15.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 21 (14.19%) Entra ID
5 16 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (10.14%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (9.46%) Amazon S3
8 13 (8.78%) Route 53
9 12 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (8.11%) GCP
9 12 (8.11%) Serverless
10 9 (6.08%) Google Workspace
11 5 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.38%) OneDrive
11 5 (3.38%) SaaS
12 3 (2.03%) Akamai
12 3 (2.03%) Datadog
12 3 (2.03%) GitHub
12 3 (2.03%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 74 (50.00%) DNS
2 65 (43.92%) Firewall
3 53 (35.81%) VPN
4 32 (21.62%) Network Security
5 24 (16.22%) DHCP
5 24 (16.22%) HTTP
6 19 (12.84%) SSL
7 17 (11.49%) BGP
8 14 (9.46%) WAN
9 10 (6.76%) DMZ
9 10 (6.76%) LAN
9 10 (6.76%) VLAN
10 9 (6.08%) Internet
10 9 (6.08%) OpenVPN
11 8 (5.41%) OSPF
11 8 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (5.41%) Wireless
12 7 (4.73%) HTTPS
13 6 (4.05%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (4.05%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.43%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.68%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (10.81%) JIRA
2 8 (5.41%) Git
2 8 (5.41%) GitLab
3 7 (4.73%) Bitbucket
3 7 (4.73%) SonarQube
4 5 (3.38%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (2.03%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.35%) Subversion
7 1 (0.68%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.68%) MSI
7 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (41.89%) Social Skills
2 35 (23.65%) Finance
3 15 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (6.76%) Banking
6 8 (5.41%) Front Office
6 8 (5.41%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.41%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.05%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.35%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.35%) Games
8 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.35%) Japanese Language
8 2 (1.35%) Military
8 2 (1.35%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Police
9 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (16.22%) Network Engineer
2 21 (14.19%) Support Engineer
3 19 (12.84%) Architect
4 17 (11.49%) Security Engineer
5 15 (10.14%) Analyst
6 8 (5.41%) Help Desk Analyst
6 8 (5.41%) Network Security Engineer
6 8 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (5.41%) Web Engineer
7 7 (4.73%) AWS Architect
7 7 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (4.73%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (4.73%) IT Analyst
7 7 (4.73%) Junior
7 7 (4.73%) Senior
7 7 (4.73%) Technical Engineer
7 7 (4.73%) Technical Support
7 7 (4.73%) Technical Support Engineer
8 6 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.05%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.11%) LDAP
1 12 (8.11%) SAML
2 9 (6.08%) OpenID
3 6 (4.05%) .NET
4 4 (2.70%) OAuth
5 3 (2.03%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.03%) HTML
5 3 (2.03%) REST
5 3 (2.03%) WinForms
6 2 (1.35%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.35%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.35%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.35%) Blazor
6 2 (1.35%) eBPF
6 2 (1.35%) HTML5
6 2 (1.35%) Loki
7 1 (0.68%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.68%) CSS
7 1 (0.68%) Middleware
7 1 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.54%) Onboarding
2 17 (11.49%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.76%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (4.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 5 (3.38%) Client/Server
5 5 (3.38%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (3.38%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.70%) PKI
6 4 (2.70%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (2.03%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.03%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.35%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.35%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.68%) IoT
9 1 (0.68%) PlayStation
Operating Systems
1 52 (35.14%) Windows
2 19 (12.84%) Linux
3 15 (10.14%) Mac OS
4 10 (6.76%) Windows Server
5 9 (6.08%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.38%) Apple iOS
6 5 (3.38%) Ubuntu
6 5 (3.38%) zOS
7 4 (2.70%) Android
8 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.68%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (14.19%) DevOps
3 18 (12.16%) Incident Response
3 18 (12.16%) ITIL
4 16 (10.81%) Agile
4 16 (10.81%) Runbook
5 14 (9.46%) High Availability
5 14 (9.46%) Roadmaps
6 13 (8.78%) Migration
6 13 (8.78%) Service Management
7 12 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (8.11%) Load Balancing
8 11 (7.43%) Customer Service
8 11 (7.43%) Decision-Making
8 11 (7.43%) Incident Management
8 11 (7.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (6.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (6.08%) ITSM
10 9 (6.08%) Security Operations
10 9 (6.08%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 36 (24.32%) Python
2 22 (14.86%) Bash
2 22 (14.86%) PowerShell
3 7 (4.73%) C++
4 5 (3.38%) C
5 4 (2.70%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.03%) C#
6 3 (2.03%) SQL
7 1 (0.68%) Go
7 1 (0.68%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.49%) Degree
2 17 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.46%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (7.43%) CCNA
4 11 (7.43%) CCNP
5 8 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.73%) CISSP
7 5 (3.38%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (2.70%) MCSA
9 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.68%) CCIE
10 1 (0.68%) CCSA
10 1 (0.68%) CCSE
10 1 (0.68%) CEH
10 1 (0.68%) CISM
10 1 (0.68%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.38%) GDPR
2 4 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.70%) NIST
3 3 (2.03%) QA
4 2 (1.35%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.35%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (20.27%) Active Directory
2 13 (8.78%) Squid
3 6 (4.05%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.03%) Docker
6 2 (1.35%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.35%) vSphere
7 1 (0.68%) NFS
7 1 (0.68%) RACF
Systems Management
1 21 (14.19%) Single Sign-On
2 19 (12.84%) Terraform
3 18 (12.16%) Grafana
4 16 (10.81%) Kubernetes
5 15 (10.14%) Ansible
6 14 (9.46%) FortiGate
7 13 (8.78%) Prometheus
8 11 (7.43%) SCCM
9 8 (5.41%) WSUS
10 7 (4.73%) Consul
10 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (2.70%) Suricata
11 4 (2.70%) Tivoli NetView
12 2 (1.35%) Cilium
12 2 (1.35%) QRadar
12 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.68%) CASB
13 1 (0.68%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.68%) Istio
13 1 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 44 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.84%) Cisco
3 14 (9.46%) Citrix
4 12 (8.11%) Zscaler
5 11 (7.43%) Bloomberg
5 11 (7.43%) Red Hat
6 10 (6.76%) Netskope
7 9 (6.08%) Dynatrace
7 9 (6.08%) F5
7 9 (6.08%) Fortinet
7 9 (6.08%) Google
8 8 (5.41%) Reuters
9 7 (4.73%) Atlassian
9 7 (4.73%) ION Trading
9 7 (4.73%) Palo Alto
10 6 (4.05%) Apple
10 6 (4.05%) Blue Coat
10 6 (4.05%) Okta
10 6 (4.05%) ServiceNow
10 6 (4.05%) VMware