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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 213 261
Rank change year-on-year -65 +48 -3
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 112 150 142
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 1.10% 0.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.74% 11.03% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 96 82
10th Percentile £284 £268 £188
25th Percentile £393 £409 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £571 £650 £650
90th Percentile £624 £738 £712
England median daily rate £450 £505 £463
% change year-on-year -10.89% +9.19% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile £36.25 £45.75 £17.81
Median hourly rate £39.50 £54.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.52% +127.08% -20.00%
75th Percentile £42.75 £63.25 £35.25
90th Percentile - - £49.38
England median hourly rate £39.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -36.80% +25.00% -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 1,282 1,360 1,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.60% 9.97% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 834 811 1,281
10th Percentile £263 £255 £206
25th Percentile £406 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £619
90th Percentile £688 £725 £745
England median daily rate £488 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.17% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 72
10th Percentile £20.31 £24.13 £16.18
25th Percentile £22.21 £24.66 £19.86
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.75 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.48% +33.66% -1.79%
75th Percentile £27.25 £41.50 £57.63
90th Percentile £90.50 £53.50 £72.25
England median hourly rate £29.44 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.89% -30.00% +143.90%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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
West London - 8 £280 - 1
South London -8 4 £534 +12.48% 6
Central London -29 4 £471 -18.04% 20
East London +1 2 - - 1
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 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.25%) Confluence
3 6 (5.36%) nginx
4 2 (1.79%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.89%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.89%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 38 (33.93%) AWS
2 25 (22.32%) Azure
3 24 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (13.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 14 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 12 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (8.93%) Route 53
8 7 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.25%) Entra ID
8 7 (6.25%) GCP
8 7 (6.25%) Serverless
9 6 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (4.46%) Amazon ELB
11 4 (3.57%) GitHub
11 4 (3.57%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.79%) Google Drive
12 2 (1.79%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.79%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 60 (53.57%) DNS
2 50 (44.64%) VPN
3 44 (39.29%) Firewall
4 32 (28.57%) DHCP
5 22 (19.64%) WAN
6 21 (18.75%) Network Security
7 17 (15.18%) LAN
8 15 (13.39%) SSL
9 11 (9.82%) BGP
9 11 (9.82%) OSPF
10 10 (8.93%) Internet
11 9 (8.04%) Multicast
12 8 (7.14%) VLAN
12 8 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (7.14%) Wireshark
13 7 (6.25%) HTTP
14 6 (5.36%) OpenVPN
14 6 (5.36%) Wireless
15 5 (4.46%) NGFW
15 5 (4.46%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.68%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.89%) MySQL
3 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (11.61%) GitLab
2 11 (9.82%) Git
2 11 (9.82%) JIRA
3 7 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.46%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.46%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.68%) Subversion
6 2 (1.79%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.89%) GCC
7 1 (0.89%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.89%) Maven
7 1 (0.89%) MSI
General
1 42 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.29%) Finance
3 11 (9.82%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.04%) Front Office
5 7 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.36%) Banking
6 6 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.46%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.46%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.68%) Military
10 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Legal
10 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.89%) Police
10 1 (0.89%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 25 (22.32%) Network Engineer
2 15 (13.39%) Support Engineer
3 14 (12.50%) Architect
4 12 (10.71%) Security Engineer
5 10 (8.93%) Analyst
5 10 (8.93%) IT Support
6 8 (7.14%) Senior
7 7 (6.25%) Developer
7 7 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) 2nd Line Support
8 6 (5.36%) Desktop Support
8 6 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) IT Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Junior
8 6 (5.36%) Network Security Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Support Technician
8 6 (5.36%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.46%) AWS Architect
9 5 (4.46%) Junior Support Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.14%) LDAP
2 7 (6.25%) OpenID
3 6 (5.36%) Middleware
4 5 (4.46%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (3.57%) SAML
5 4 (3.57%) Ultra Messaging
6 3 (2.68%) 802.1X
6 3 (2.68%) React
7 2 (1.79%) .NET
7 2 (1.79%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.79%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.79%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.79%) eBPF
7 2 (1.79%) Express.js
7 2 (1.79%) Loki
7 2 (1.79%) REST
7 2 (1.79%) SOAP
7 2 (1.79%) WCF
7 2 (1.79%) Web Services
7 2 (1.79%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.36%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (3.57%) FPGA
4 4 (3.57%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.68%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.68%) PKI
6 2 (1.79%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.79%) Clustering
6 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.79%) Replication
6 2 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.89%) IoT
7 1 (0.89%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.89%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.89%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 45 (40.18%) Windows
2 24 (21.43%) Linux
3 12 (10.71%) Windows 10
4 6 (5.36%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (5.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (4.46%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.57%) zOS
7 3 (2.68%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.79%) Android
8 2 (1.79%) Solaris
9 1 (0.89%) Unix
9 1 (0.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (17.86%) DevOps
3 17 (15.18%) SIEM
4 16 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 15 (13.39%) Agile
5 15 (13.39%) Incident Response
5 15 (13.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (11.61%) CI/CD
6 13 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (11.61%) Information Security
7 12 (10.71%) Decision-Making
7 12 (10.71%) Security Operations
8 11 (9.82%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (8.93%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (8.04%) High Availability
10 9 (8.04%) ITIL
10 9 (8.04%) Low Latency
10 9 (8.04%) Patch Management
10 9 (8.04%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (7.14%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 27 (24.11%) Python
2 20 (17.86%) Bash
2 20 (17.86%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.57%) C
3 4 (3.57%) C++
3 4 (3.57%) Perl
4 3 (2.68%) C#
5 2 (1.79%) Java
5 2 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.79%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.89%) Go
6 1 (0.89%) SQL
6 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.89%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (24.11%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.82%) Degree
4 9 (8.04%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.36%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.36%) CCNP
5 6 (5.36%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.57%) JNCIS
7 3 (2.68%) CCNA
7 3 (2.68%) CISSP
7 3 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.68%) JNCIP
7 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.79%) MCSA
9 1 (0.89%) CCDE
9 1 (0.89%) CCIE
9 1 (0.89%) CCSP
9 1 (0.89%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.04%) GDPR
2 5 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.79%) NIST
3 2 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.89%) SLA
4 1 (0.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.36%) Squid
2 6 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.46%) Docker
4 4 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.68%) NFS
5 3 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.79%) Ceph
6 2 (1.79%) Firmware
6 2 (1.79%) KVM
6 2 (1.79%) Lustre
6 2 (1.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (1.79%) Veritas File System
6 2 (1.79%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.89%) GPFS
7 1 (0.89%) iptables
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.89%) Samba
7 1 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (18.75%) Ansible
2 19 (16.96%) SCCM
2 19 (16.96%) Terraform
3 16 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 14 (12.50%) Grafana
5 11 (9.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (8.93%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (8.04%) Kubernetes
8 8 (7.14%) WSUS
9 6 (5.36%) FortiGate
10 5 (4.46%) Consul
10 5 (4.46%) QRadar
11 4 (3.57%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (3.57%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (3.57%) Tivoli NetView
12 2 (1.79%) Cilium
13 1 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.89%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.89%) Salt
13 1 (0.89%) SELinux
Vendors
1 20 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.39%) Palo Alto
3 11 (9.82%) F5
3 11 (9.82%) Red Hat
4 10 (8.93%) CheckPoint
4 10 (8.93%) Cisco
4 10 (8.93%) Fortinet
5 9 (8.04%) ServiceNow
5 9 (8.04%) Splunk
6 7 (6.25%) Atlassian
6 7 (6.25%) Bloomberg
6 7 (6.25%) Qualys
6 7 (6.25%) Zscaler
7 6 (5.36%) Dynatrace
7 6 (5.36%) Juniper
7 6 (5.36%) Sophos
8 5 (4.46%) VMware
9 4 (3.57%) Citrix
9 4 (3.57%) ION Trading
9 4 (3.57%) Solace