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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 221 242
Rank change year-on-year -29 +21 +24
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 134 169 162
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.93% 1.12% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.48% 11.30% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 110 93
10th Percentile £300 £250 £202
25th Percentile £413 £380 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.86% -5.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £640 £600
90th Percentile £707 £700 £693
England median daily rate £477 £483 £440
% change year-on-year -1.24% +9.66% -16.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £38.15 - £21.41
25th Percentile £41.00 - £27.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £48.75
75th Percentile £62.75 - £65.25
90th Percentile £63.05 - £68.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.39
% change year-on-year - +28.99% -22.48%

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 1,279 1,496 1,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.89% 9.95% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 918 1,339
10th Percentile £311 £256 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £623 £626 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 13 58
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.87 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.41 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +22.27% +14.50%
75th Percentile £27.25 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £76.91 £76.63
England median hourly rate £34.00 £40.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.53% -28.75% +25.53%

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 December 2025.

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -17 8 £600 +9.09% 6
West London - 8 £280 - 2
East London +1 2 - - 4
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 8 (5.97%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.49%) Confluence
2 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.49%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.75%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Eikon
1 1 (0.75%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.75%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.75%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 34 (25.37%) AWS
2 26 (19.40%) Azure
3 25 (18.66%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (8.21%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (8.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (7.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (7.46%) Amazon ELB
5 10 (7.46%) Amazon S3
6 9 (6.72%) GCP
7 8 (5.97%) GitHub
8 7 (5.22%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.24%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.49%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.49%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.75%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 74 (55.22%) DNS
2 52 (38.81%) VPN
3 48 (35.82%) Firewall
4 39 (29.10%) DHCP
5 33 (24.63%) SSL
6 25 (18.66%) Network Security
7 20 (14.93%) WAN
8 19 (14.18%) HTTP
9 17 (12.69%) LAN
10 13 (9.70%) Internet
11 11 (8.21%) VLAN
12 10 (7.46%) BGP
12 10 (7.46%) OSPF
13 9 (6.72%) Wireshark
14 8 (5.97%) Multicast
15 6 (4.48%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (4.48%) Wireless
16 5 (3.73%) SD-WAN
16 5 (3.73%) SMTP
16 5 (3.73%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.24%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.75%) MySQL
2 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (13.43%) Git
2 13 (9.70%) GitLab
2 13 (9.70%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.48%) Subversion
4 5 (3.73%) JIRA
5 4 (2.99%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.99%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.75%) GCC
6 1 (0.75%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.75%) Maven
6 1 (0.75%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.75%) MSI
General
1 50 (37.31%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.91%) Finance
3 14 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.97%) Front Office
6 6 (4.48%) Banking
6 6 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.73%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.73%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.99%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.24%) Legal
9 3 (2.24%) Military
10 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Games
10 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.75%) Marketing
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (17.16%) Network Engineer
2 21 (15.67%) Support Engineer
3 15 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (10.45%) Analyst
4 14 (10.45%) Senior
5 12 (8.96%) IT Support
6 11 (8.21%) Security Engineer
7 8 (5.97%) Developer
8 7 (5.22%) 1st Line Support
8 7 (5.22%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 7 (5.22%) 1st Line Support Technician
8 7 (5.22%) Consultant
8 7 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.22%) IT Engineer
8 7 (5.22%) Junior
8 7 (5.22%) Junior Support Engineer
8 7 (5.22%) Support Technician
8 7 (5.22%) Technical Engineer
8 7 (5.22%) Technical Support
8 7 (5.22%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.97%) Middleware
2 6 (4.48%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (3.73%) REST
3 5 (3.73%) Ultra Messaging
4 4 (2.99%) LDAP
4 4 (2.99%) SAML
5 3 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.24%) React
6 2 (1.49%) .NET
6 2 (1.49%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.49%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.49%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.49%) Express.js
6 2 (1.49%) SOAP
6 2 (1.49%) WCF
6 2 (1.49%) Web Services
6 2 (1.49%) WPF
7 1 (0.75%) Kafka
7 1 (0.75%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.75%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.72%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.48%) Private Cloud
3 5 (3.73%) FPGA
3 5 (3.73%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.73%) Replication
4 4 (2.99%) Clustering
4 4 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.99%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.99%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.24%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.24%) iPad
5 3 (2.24%) iPhone
5 3 (2.24%) SCADA
6 2 (1.49%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.49%) BYOD
6 2 (1.49%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.49%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 52 (38.81%) Windows
2 39 (29.10%) Linux
3 15 (11.19%) Windows 10
4 11 (8.21%) Unix
5 6 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.48%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (4.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.73%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.99%) Solaris
8 3 (2.24%) Android
9 2 (1.49%) VMS
9 2 (1.49%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.49%) zOS
10 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.75%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (17.16%) DevOps
2 23 (17.16%) High Availability
3 22 (16.42%) CI/CD
4 21 (15.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (15.67%) SIEM
5 20 (14.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (14.18%) Low Latency
7 17 (12.69%) Incident Response
7 17 (12.69%) Security Operations
8 16 (11.94%) Agile
9 15 (11.19%) Infrastructure Automation
10 14 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (10.45%) Information Security
11 12 (8.96%) Load Balancing
12 11 (8.21%) Data Security
12 11 (8.21%) Patch Management
12 11 (8.21%) Test Automation
13 10 (7.46%) Project Delivery
13 10 (7.46%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 48 (35.82%) Python
2 31 (23.13%) Bash
3 22 (16.42%) PowerShell
4 13 (9.70%) Perl
5 6 (4.48%) C++
6 5 (3.73%) C
7 4 (2.99%) Go
7 4 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.24%) C#
8 3 (2.24%) Java
8 3 (2.24%) SQL
9 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.49%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.75%) PHP
10 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.45%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (8.96%) Degree
5 8 (5.97%) CCNP
6 7 (5.22%) CCNA
7 6 (4.48%) CISSP
7 6 (4.48%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.73%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (2.99%) JNCIS
10 3 (2.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.24%) CCSP
10 3 (2.24%) CEH
10 3 (2.24%) CompTIA CySA+
10 3 (2.24%) GCIH
10 3 (2.24%) JNCIP
10 3 (2.24%) OSCP
11 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.21%) GDPR
2 5 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.24%) NIST
5 2 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (15.67%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.21%) Docker
3 7 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (5.22%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.73%) NFS
5 4 (2.99%) Veritas File System
5 4 (2.99%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (1.49%) Ceph
6 2 (1.49%) Firmware
6 2 (1.49%) KVM
6 2 (1.49%) Lustre
6 2 (1.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.75%) GPFS
7 1 (0.75%) iptables
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.75%) Samba
7 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (26.87%) Ansible
2 31 (23.13%) Terraform
3 20 (14.93%) SCCM
4 12 (8.96%) Grafana
4 12 (8.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (8.96%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.97%) WSUS
6 7 (5.22%) QRadar
7 5 (3.73%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (2.99%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.24%) CSIRT
9 3 (2.24%) Puppet
10 2 (1.49%) Consul
10 2 (1.49%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.49%) Nessus
10 2 (1.49%) Tivoli NetView
11 1 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.75%) Salt
11 1 (0.75%) SELinux
Vendors
1 25 (18.66%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.93%) F5
2 20 (14.93%) Palo Alto
3 16 (11.94%) CheckPoint
3 16 (11.94%) Cisco
4 13 (9.70%) Splunk
5 11 (8.21%) Fortinet
6 10 (7.46%) Qualys
6 10 (7.46%) VMware
7 8 (5.97%) Bloomberg
7 8 (5.97%) ServiceNow
7 8 (5.97%) Zscaler
8 7 (5.22%) Red Hat
8 7 (5.22%) Sophos
9 6 (4.48%) CyberArk
9 6 (4.48%) Google
9 6 (4.48%) Juniper
9 6 (4.48%) Solace
9 6 (4.48%) TIBCO
10 5 (3.73%) Reuters