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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 229 272
Rank change year-on-year -68 +43 -21
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 107 126 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 1.00% 0.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.51% 9.50% 6.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 90 71
10th Percentile £250 £246 £263
25th Percentile £374 £380 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.28% -2.30% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £620
90th Percentile £575 £721 £694
England median daily rate £470 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £46.18 £16.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £46.81 £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 £59.94 £24.25
90th Percentile - £61.93 £30.35
England median hourly rate £52.22 £54.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -4.18% -3.52% -13.09%

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 1,425 1,327 1,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.05% 10.57% 9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 935 851 1,149
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% - -10.51%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £700 £725 £739
England median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 60
10th Percentile £19.78 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.46 £25.60 £18.64
Median hourly rate £25.31 £43.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.15% +98.86% -52.17%
75th Percentile £28.92 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £89.75 £62.65 £60.00
England median hourly rate £42.38 £36.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.10% -8.75% +112.54%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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
South London -9 7 £519 - 3
Central London -20 4 £475 -15.56% 11
East London -3 2 - - 3
West London -24 1 £223 -70.27% 3
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 (9.35%) nginx
2 7 (6.54%) Confluence
3 5 (4.67%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.87%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.93%) Apache
5 1 (0.93%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 41 (38.32%) AWS
2 31 (28.97%) Azure
3 24 (22.43%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (15.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 14 (13.08%) Amazon S3
5 14 (13.08%) Route 53
6 12 (11.21%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (11.21%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (11.21%) GCP
6 12 (11.21%) Serverless
7 11 (10.28%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (7.48%) Entra ID
8 8 (7.48%) Google Workspace
9 3 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.80%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.80%) Google Drive
9 3 (2.80%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.87%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 57 (53.27%) DNS
2 50 (46.73%) Firewall
3 45 (42.06%) VPN
4 19 (17.76%) DHCP
4 19 (17.76%) Network Security
5 14 (13.08%) HTTP
6 11 (10.28%) SSL
7 10 (9.35%) BGP
8 9 (8.41%) OpenVPN
8 9 (8.41%) OSPF
8 9 (8.41%) VLAN
9 8 (7.48%) WAN
10 7 (6.54%) DMZ
11 6 (5.61%) APPN
11 6 (5.61%) LAN
11 6 (5.61%) SNA
12 5 (4.67%) HTTPS
12 5 (4.67%) Kerberos
12 5 (4.67%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (3.74%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.28%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.87%) MySQL
3 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (10.28%) JIRA
2 7 (6.54%) Bitbucket
2 7 (6.54%) SonarQube
3 6 (5.61%) Git
3 6 (5.61%) GitLab
4 5 (4.67%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (1.87%) Subversion
General
1 38 (35.51%) Social Skills
2 25 (23.36%) Finance
3 10 (9.35%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (8.41%) Banking
5 8 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.48%) Front Office
5 8 (7.48%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.54%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.54%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.87%) Games
7 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.87%) Japanese Language
7 2 (1.87%) Military
7 2 (1.87%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.93%) Korean Language
8 1 (0.93%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.93%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (16.82%) Network Engineer
2 14 (13.08%) Architect
2 14 (13.08%) Support Engineer
3 13 (12.15%) Security Engineer
4 12 (11.21%) Analyst
5 8 (7.48%) Help Desk Analyst
5 8 (7.48%) Web Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) AWS Architect
6 7 (6.54%) Integration Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) IT Analyst
7 5 (4.67%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Network Security Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Senior
7 5 (4.67%) Technical Architect
8 4 (3.74%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Applications Support
8 4 (3.74%) Desktop Support
8 4 (3.74%) IT Support
8 4 (3.74%) Network Specialist
8 4 (3.74%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.21%) LDAP
2 9 (8.41%) OpenID
3 8 (7.48%) SAML
4 4 (3.74%) OAuth
5 3 (2.80%) 802.1X
5 3 (2.80%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.80%) HTML
6 2 (1.87%) eBPF
6 2 (1.87%) HTML5
6 2 (1.87%) Loki
7 1 (0.93%) .NET
7 1 (0.93%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.93%) CSS
7 1 (0.93%) EDI
7 1 (0.93%) LAMP
7 1 (0.93%) Middleware
7 1 (0.93%) SOAP
7 1 (0.93%) WCF
7 1 (0.93%) Web Services
7 1 (0.93%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.54%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.61%) Mainframe
3 5 (4.67%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (3.74%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.74%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (3.74%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.74%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.87%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.87%) FPGA
6 2 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.87%) iPhone
6 2 (1.87%) PKI
6 2 (1.87%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.93%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (29.91%) Windows
2 13 (12.15%) Linux
3 8 (7.48%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.61%) Mac OS
4 6 (5.61%) zOS
5 5 (4.67%) Windows 10
6 4 (3.74%) Android
6 4 (3.74%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.87%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.93%) CentOS
9 1 (0.93%) Unix
9 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.91%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (13.08%) DevOps
2 14 (13.08%) Roadmaps
3 13 (12.15%) ITIL
4 12 (11.21%) Security Operations
4 12 (11.21%) SIEM
5 11 (10.28%) Decision-Making
5 11 (10.28%) Runbook
5 11 (10.28%) Service Management
6 10 (9.35%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (8.41%) Agile
7 9 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (8.41%) High Availability
7 9 (8.41%) Incident Response
7 9 (8.41%) Information Security
7 9 (8.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (7.48%) Load Balancing
9 7 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (6.54%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (6.54%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (24.30%) Python
2 19 (17.76%) Bash
3 16 (14.95%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.61%) C
5 4 (3.74%) C++
5 4 (3.74%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.80%) SQL
7 2 (1.87%) Go
8 1 (0.93%) C#
8 1 (0.93%) Perl
8 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.82%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.35%) Degree
4 9 (8.41%) CCNP
4 9 (8.41%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.61%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.61%) CCNA
5 6 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (3.74%) MCSA
8 2 (1.87%) CISSP
8 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.93%) CCSA
9 1 (0.93%) CCSE
9 1 (0.93%) CEH
9 1 (0.93%) CISM
9 1 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.93%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.93%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) GDPR
1 5 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.80%) NIST
3 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (12.15%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.41%) Squid
3 8 (7.48%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.80%) Docker
4 3 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.87%) Ceph
5 2 (1.87%) KVM
5 2 (1.87%) Lustre
5 2 (1.87%) NFS
5 2 (1.87%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.87%) vSphere
6 1 (0.93%) GPFS
6 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.93%) iptables
6 1 (0.93%) Samba
6 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (16.82%) Terraform
2 17 (15.89%) SCCM
3 15 (14.02%) Kubernetes
4 14 (13.08%) Ansible
4 14 (13.08%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (12.15%) Prometheus
6 11 (10.28%) FortiGate
6 11 (10.28%) Grafana
7 10 (9.35%) WSUS
8 7 (6.54%) Consul
9 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (5.61%) Tivoli NetView
10 4 (3.74%) QRadar
11 2 (1.87%) Cilium
11 2 (1.87%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.93%) Istio
12 1 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.93%) Salt
12 1 (0.93%) SELinux
Vendors
1 22 (20.56%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.21%) Red Hat
3 11 (10.28%) Bloomberg
4 10 (9.35%) Citrix
5 9 (8.41%) Dynatrace
6 8 (7.48%) Atlassian
6 8 (7.48%) Reuters
6 8 (7.48%) Zscaler
7 7 (6.54%) Cisco
7 7 (6.54%) ION Trading
7 7 (6.54%) Netskope
8 6 (5.61%) F5
8 6 (5.61%) Google
8 6 (5.61%) IBM
8 6 (5.61%) Palo Alto
9 5 (4.67%) Fortinet
9 5 (4.67%) Sophos
10 4 (3.74%) Qualys
10 4 (3.74%) ServiceNow
10 4 (3.74%) VMware