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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 237 254
Rank change year-on-year +12 +17 +14
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 158 149 172
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 0.96% 0.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.41% 9.95% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 87 106
10th Percentile £235 £223 £203
25th Percentile £400 £269 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £617
90th Percentile £760 £700 £697
England median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £24.50 - £25.64
25th Percentile £32.05 - £36.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £62.50 - £67.00
90th Percentile £62.95 - £68.80
England median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.87% +30.00% -23.08%

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 1,273 1,498 2,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.28% 9.65% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 924 1,478
10th Percentile £290 £258 £225
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £638
90th Percentile £712 £724 £745
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 16 52
10th Percentile £18.75 £23.70 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.75 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £28.63
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% +30.13% +14.50%
75th Percentile £43.75 £55.06 £60.44
90th Percentile £62.45 £74.10 £79.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £56.13 £56.45
% change year-on-year -39.42% -0.57% +34.15%

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 4 November 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 4 November 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 4 November 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 -14 13 £475 -15.56% 69
West London - 8 £280 - 34
South London -2 7 £625 +31.58% 9
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 9 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.27%) Confluence
3 2 (1.27%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (6.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.27%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.63%) Eikon
1 1 (0.63%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.63%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.63%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 32 (20.25%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (18.35%) AWS
3 27 (17.09%) Azure
4 13 (8.23%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (6.96%) GitHub
6 10 (6.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (6.33%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (6.33%) Amazon S3
6 10 (6.33%) GCP
6 10 (6.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (3.80%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.90%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.90%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.90%) SaaS
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.27%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 91 (57.59%) DNS
2 57 (36.08%) VPN
3 50 (31.65%) Firewall
4 49 (31.01%) DHCP
5 32 (20.25%) SSL
6 30 (18.99%) LAN
7 29 (18.35%) WAN
8 27 (17.09%) Network Security
9 24 (15.19%) HTTP
10 23 (14.56%) Internet
11 19 (12.03%) VLAN
12 11 (6.96%) Wireless
13 10 (6.33%) BGP
13 10 (6.33%) OSPF
14 9 (5.70%) Multicast
14 9 (5.70%) Wireshark
15 8 (5.06%) SMTP
15 8 (5.06%) Wi-Fi
16 7 (4.43%) IP Telephony
17 6 (3.80%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.16%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (12.66%) Git
2 15 (9.49%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.23%) GitLab
4 7 (4.43%) JIRA
4 7 (4.43%) Subversion
5 4 (2.53%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.53%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.90%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.27%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.63%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.63%) GCC
8 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.63%) Maven
8 1 (0.63%) MSI
General
1 69 (43.67%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.89%) Finance
3 25 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.59%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.96%) Front Office
6 7 (4.43%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.80%) Banking
7 6 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.53%) Legal
8 4 (2.53%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.90%) Local Government
10 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Electronics
10 2 (1.27%) Games
10 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.27%) Marketing
10 2 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (17.09%) Support Engineer
2 25 (15.82%) Network Engineer
3 17 (10.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (10.76%) Senior
4 15 (9.49%) Analyst
5 13 (8.23%) IT Support
6 12 (7.59%) Developer
6 12 (7.59%) Technical Support
7 11 (6.96%) 1st Line Engineer
7 11 (6.96%) Technical Engineer
7 11 (6.96%) Technical Support Engineer
8 10 (6.33%) 1st Line Support
8 10 (6.33%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 10 (6.33%) 1st Line Support Technician
8 10 (6.33%) 1st Line Technical Support
8 10 (6.33%) Junior
8 10 (6.33%) Junior Support Engineer
8 10 (6.33%) Junior Technical Engineer
8 10 (6.33%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
8 10 (6.33%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.59%) FIX Protocol
1 12 (7.59%) Middleware
2 6 (3.80%) LDAP
2 6 (3.80%) REST
3 5 (3.16%) FpML
3 5 (3.16%) Ultra Messaging
4 4 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.53%) SAML
5 2 (1.27%) Node.js
5 2 (1.27%) React
6 1 (0.63%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.63%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.63%) Bootstrap
6 1 (0.63%) Express.js
6 1 (0.63%) Kafka
6 1 (0.63%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.63%) OpenID
6 1 (0.63%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.63%) WCF
6 1 (0.63%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.86%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.33%) Video Conferencing
3 9 (5.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (4.43%) Fixed Income
4 7 (4.43%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.80%) Derivative
5 6 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.80%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.16%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.16%) Clustering
6 5 (3.16%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.16%) iPad
6 5 (3.16%) iPhone
6 5 (3.16%) Replication
7 4 (2.53%) FPGA
7 4 (2.53%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.53%) SCADA
7 4 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 60 (37.97%) Windows
2 41 (25.95%) Linux
3 20 (12.66%) Windows 10
4 13 (8.23%) Mac OS
5 11 (6.96%) Unix
6 6 (3.80%) Android
6 6 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.80%) Windows 7
6 6 (3.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (3.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (3.16%) Windows Server
8 4 (2.53%) Apple iOS
8 4 (2.53%) Solaris
9 2 (1.27%) CentOS
10 1 (0.63%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.63%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (18.35%) High Availability
3 25 (15.82%) CI/CD
3 25 (15.82%) DevOps
4 22 (13.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (13.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (12.66%) Agile
6 19 (12.03%) Low Latency
7 15 (9.49%) Infrastructure Automation
8 14 (8.86%) Incident Response
9 13 (8.23%) ITIL
9 13 (8.23%) Load Balancing
9 13 (8.23%) Security Operations
9 13 (8.23%) SIEM
10 12 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (6.96%) Computer Science
11 11 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (6.96%) ITSM
11 11 (6.96%) Project Delivery
11 11 (6.96%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (32.91%) Python
2 31 (19.62%) Bash
3 21 (13.29%) PowerShell
4 12 (7.59%) Perl
5 10 (6.33%) C++
6 9 (5.70%) Java
6 9 (5.70%) SQL
7 6 (3.80%) C#
8 4 (2.53%) C
8 4 (2.53%) Go
8 4 (2.53%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.27%) PHP
9 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (15.82%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.39%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (11.39%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.76%) Degree
4 9 (5.70%) CCNA
4 9 (5.70%) CCNP
5 6 (3.80%) CISSP
5 6 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.16%) MCSA
6 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.53%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.90%) CCSP
8 3 (1.90%) CEH
8 3 (1.90%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (1.90%) JNCIA
8 3 (1.90%) JNCIP
8 3 (1.90%) JNCIS
8 3 (1.90%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.06%) GDPR
2 5 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.90%) NIST
4 3 (1.90%) SLA
5 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (18.99%) Active Directory
2 13 (8.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (7.59%) Docker
4 8 (5.06%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.53%) Firmware
5 4 (2.53%) NFS
5 4 (2.53%) Veritas File System
5 4 (2.53%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 4 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.27%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.27%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (22.15%) Ansible
2 31 (19.62%) Terraform
3 16 (10.13%) SCCM
4 14 (8.86%) Prometheus
5 13 (8.23%) Grafana
6 9 (5.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (3.80%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (3.16%) QRadar
9 4 (2.53%) FortiGate
9 4 (2.53%) Puppet
9 4 (2.53%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.90%) CSIRT
10 3 (1.90%) WSUS
11 2 (1.27%) Consul
11 2 (1.27%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.27%) Kubernetes
11 2 (1.27%) Nessus
11 2 (1.27%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (20.89%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.92%) F5
2 22 (13.92%) Palo Alto
3 21 (13.29%) Cisco
4 17 (10.76%) CheckPoint
5 16 (10.13%) VMware
6 13 (8.23%) ServiceNow
7 12 (7.59%) Fortinet
8 11 (6.96%) Splunk
9 8 (5.06%) Google
9 8 (5.06%) Juniper
9 8 (5.06%) Red Hat
9 8 (5.06%) Zscaler
10 7 (4.43%) Qualys
10 7 (4.43%) Solace
11 6 (3.80%) Apple
11 6 (3.80%) CyberArk
11 6 (3.80%) TIBCO
12 4 (2.53%) Bloomberg
12 4 (2.53%) Citrix