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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 210 291
Rank change year-on-year -74 +81 -34
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 154 143 109
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 1.11% 0.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.19% 10.78% 6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 89 69
10th Percentile £201 £209 £225
25th Percentile £303 £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 £625
90th Percentile £626 £725 £650
England median daily rate £470 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +1.62% -2.63% -
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% +16.26%

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 1,512 1,326 1,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.85% 10.34% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 993 854 1,100
10th Percentile £300 £263 £227
25th Percentile £408 £389 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £603 £625 £623
90th Percentile £712 £723 £738
England median daily rate £500 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 25 50
10th Percentile £16.04 £19.07 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £17.09
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +57.56% -37.81%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £90.00 £62.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £27.88 £41.00 £46.69
% change year-on-year -32.00% -12.19% +125.50%

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 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 30 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 -20 13 £475 +6.74% 6
South London -5 10 £519 -17.03% 1
West London -16 2 £218 -70.97% 6
North London - 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 10 (6.49%) Confluence
1 10 (6.49%) nginx
2 9 (5.84%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.65%) CICS
4 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.65%) Traefik
4 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 46 (29.87%) AWS
2 40 (25.97%) Azure
2 40 (25.97%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (14.94%) Entra ID
4 22 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 16 (10.39%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (9.74%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (9.09%) Amazon S3
8 12 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (7.79%) GCP
8 12 (7.79%) Route 53
8 12 (7.79%) Serverless
9 9 (5.84%) Google Workspace
10 6 (3.90%) OneDrive
11 5 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.25%) SaaS
12 3 (1.95%) Akamai
12 3 (1.95%) Datadog
12 3 (1.95%) GitHub
12 3 (1.95%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 79 (51.30%) DNS
2 69 (44.81%) Firewall
3 56 (36.36%) VPN
4 34 (22.08%) Network Security
5 25 (16.23%) DHCP
6 24 (15.58%) HTTP
7 19 (12.34%) SSL
8 18 (11.69%) WAN
9 17 (11.04%) BGP
10 13 (8.44%) LAN
11 10 (6.49%) DMZ
11 10 (6.49%) Internet
11 10 (6.49%) VLAN
12 9 (5.84%) OpenVPN
13 8 (5.19%) OSPF
13 8 (5.19%) Wireless
14 7 (4.55%) HTTPS
14 7 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (3.90%) Cisco IOS
15 6 (3.90%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.60%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.30%) MySQL
3 2 (1.30%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.65%) KDB
4 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (10.39%) JIRA
2 8 (5.19%) Git
2 8 (5.19%) GitLab
3 7 (4.55%) Bitbucket
3 7 (4.55%) SonarQube
4 5 (3.25%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (1.95%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.30%) Subversion
7 1 (0.65%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.65%) MSI
7 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 37 (24.03%) Finance
3 17 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.44%) Banking
5 12 (7.79%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (5.84%) Front Office
7 8 (5.19%) Investment Banking
8 7 (4.55%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.90%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.30%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.30%) Games
10 2 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.30%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.30%) Military
10 2 (1.30%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.65%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Retail
11 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (16.23%) Network Engineer
2 23 (14.94%) Support Engineer
3 19 (12.34%) Architect
4 18 (11.69%) Security Engineer
5 15 (9.74%) Analyst
6 9 (5.84%) Network Security Engineer
7 8 (5.19%) Help Desk Analyst
7 8 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (5.19%) Web Engineer
8 7 (4.55%) AWS Architect
8 7 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (4.55%) IT Analyst
8 7 (4.55%) Junior
8 7 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (4.55%) Senior
8 7 (4.55%) Technical Engineer
8 7 (4.55%) Technical Support
8 7 (4.55%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.79%) LDAP
1 12 (7.79%) SAML
2 9 (5.84%) OpenID
3 6 (3.90%) .NET
4 4 (2.60%) OAuth
5 3 (1.95%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.95%) HTML
5 3 (1.95%) REST
5 3 (1.95%) WinForms
6 2 (1.30%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.30%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.30%) Blazor
6 2 (1.30%) eBPF
6 2 (1.30%) HTML5
6 2 (1.30%) Loki
6 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.65%) CSS
7 1 (0.65%) EDI
7 1 (0.65%) Middleware
7 1 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.94%) Onboarding
2 19 (12.34%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.49%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (3.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (3.90%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.25%) Client/Server
5 5 (3.25%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (3.25%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.60%) PKI
6 4 (2.60%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.95%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.95%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.30%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.30%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.30%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (35.71%) Windows
2 21 (13.64%) Linux
3 15 (9.74%) Mac OS
4 12 (7.79%) Windows Server
5 9 (5.84%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.90%) Ubuntu
7 5 (3.25%) Apple iOS
7 5 (3.25%) zOS
8 4 (2.60%) Android
9 3 (1.95%) Unix
10 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.65%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (13.64%) DevOps
3 19 (12.34%) Incident Response
3 19 (12.34%) ITIL
4 18 (11.69%) Runbook
5 16 (10.39%) Agile
6 15 (9.74%) High Availability
7 14 (9.09%) Migration
7 14 (9.09%) Roadmaps
8 13 (8.44%) Load Balancing
8 13 (8.44%) Service Management
9 12 (7.79%) Customer Service
9 12 (7.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (7.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (7.79%) SIEM
10 11 (7.14%) Decision-Making
11 10 (6.49%) Incident Management
11 10 (6.49%) Security Operations
11 10 (6.49%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (5.84%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 39 (25.32%) Python
2 24 (15.58%) PowerShell
3 23 (14.94%) Bash
4 7 (4.55%) C++
5 5 (3.25%) C
6 4 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.95%) C#
7 3 (1.95%) SQL
8 2 (1.30%) Go
9 1 (0.65%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.34%) Degree
3 16 (10.39%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (10.39%) SC Cleared
4 13 (8.44%) CCNP
5 12 (7.79%) CCNA
6 9 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.19%) CISSP
8 5 (3.25%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (2.60%) MCSA
10 3 (1.95%) CCIE
11 2 (1.30%) CCIE Security
11 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.65%) ECSA
12 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.65%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.25%) GDPR
2 4 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.60%) NIST
3 3 (1.95%) QA
4 2 (1.30%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (20.13%) Active Directory
2 13 (8.44%) Squid
3 6 (3.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.95%) Docker
6 2 (1.30%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.30%) vSphere
7 1 (0.65%) NFS
7 1 (0.65%) RACF
Systems Management
1 21 (13.64%) Single Sign-On
2 19 (12.34%) Grafana
2 19 (12.34%) Terraform
3 17 (11.04%) Ansible
4 16 (10.39%) Kubernetes
5 15 (9.74%) FortiGate
6 14 (9.09%) Prometheus
7 11 (7.14%) SCCM
8 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (5.19%) WSUS
9 7 (4.55%) Consul
10 4 (2.60%) Suricata
10 4 (2.60%) Tivoli NetView
11 2 (1.30%) Cilium
11 2 (1.30%) QRadar
11 2 (1.30%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.65%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.65%) Istio
12 1 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.65%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 45 (29.22%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.99%) Cisco
3 15 (9.74%) Zscaler
4 14 (9.09%) Citrix
5 11 (7.14%) Bloomberg
5 11 (7.14%) Red Hat
6 10 (6.49%) Dynatrace
6 10 (6.49%) Netskope
7 9 (5.84%) F5
7 9 (5.84%) Fortinet
7 9 (5.84%) Google
8 8 (5.19%) Reuters
9 7 (4.55%) Atlassian
9 7 (4.55%) ION Trading
9 7 (4.55%) Okta
10 6 (3.90%) Apple
10 6 (3.90%) Blue Coat
10 6 (3.90%) Palo Alto
10 6 (3.90%) ServiceNow
10 6 (3.90%) VMware