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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 221 284
Rank change year-on-year -59 +63 -27
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 126 128 108
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 1.05% 0.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.97% 10.02% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 90 65
10th Percentile £239 £212 £268
25th Percentile £393 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £544 £635 £625
90th Percentile £581 £691 £650
England median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £46.18 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £46.81 £16.00
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 -
90th Percentile - £61.93 £22.25
England median hourly rate £38.58 £52.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -26.16% -19.62% +7.04%

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 1,405 1,277 1,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.77% 10.44% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 928 810 1,115
10th Percentile £300 £256 £213
25th Percentile £409 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -11.31%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £709 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £493
% change year-on-year - +1.52% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 51
10th Percentile £19.34 £21.03 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £16.56
Median hourly rate £26.11 £38.75 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.62% +64.89% -34.72%
75th Percentile £37.25 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £61.85 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.25 £37.07 £40.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -7.32% +122.22%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -14 8 £519 +107.42% 2
Central London -21 6 £300 -27.27% 9
North London - 2 - - 1
West London -27 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 (7.94%) Confluence
1 10 (7.94%) nginx
2 5 (3.97%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.79%) Apache
4 1 (0.79%) CICS
4 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.79%) Traefik
4 1 (0.79%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 48 (38.10%) AWS
2 36 (28.57%) Azure
3 28 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (17.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 16 (12.70%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 14 (11.11%) Route 53
8 13 (10.32%) Entra ID
9 12 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (9.52%) GCP
9 12 (9.52%) Serverless
10 6 (4.76%) Google Workspace
11 5 (3.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.38%) Akamai
12 3 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (2.38%) Datadog
12 3 (2.38%) Google Drive
12 3 (2.38%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 63 (50.00%) DNS
2 55 (43.65%) Firewall
3 49 (38.89%) VPN
4 32 (25.40%) Network Security
5 22 (17.46%) HTTP
6 20 (15.87%) DHCP
7 17 (13.49%) SSL
8 13 (10.32%) BGP
9 10 (7.94%) OSPF
9 10 (7.94%) WAN
10 9 (7.14%) OpenVPN
10 9 (7.14%) VLAN
11 8 (6.35%) LAN
12 7 (5.56%) DMZ
12 7 (5.56%) HTTPS
12 7 (5.56%) Internet
12 7 (5.56%) Wireless
13 5 (3.97%) Kerberos
13 5 (3.97%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (3.17%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.73%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.59%) MySQL
2 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.59%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (11.11%) JIRA
2 10 (7.94%) Git
2 10 (7.94%) GitLab
3 7 (5.56%) Bitbucket
3 7 (5.56%) SonarQube
4 5 (3.97%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.59%) Subversion
General
1 44 (34.92%) Social Skills
2 29 (23.02%) Finance
3 11 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.94%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.56%) Banking
7 6 (4.76%) Front Office
8 5 (3.97%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.97%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.38%) Military
10 2 (1.59%) Games
10 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.59%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.59%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.79%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.79%) Law
11 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.79%) Police
11 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (15.87%) Network Engineer
1 20 (15.87%) Security Engineer
2 15 (11.90%) Architect
2 15 (11.90%) Support Engineer
3 12 (9.52%) Analyst
4 8 (6.35%) Senior
4 8 (6.35%) Web Engineer
5 7 (5.56%) AWS Architect
5 7 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
5 7 (5.56%) Junior
5 7 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
5 7 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
5 7 (5.56%) Technical Support
5 7 (5.56%) Technical Support Engineer
6 6 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (4.76%) Help Desk Analyst
6 6 (4.76%) Support Technician
7 5 (3.97%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 5 (3.97%) 1st Line Support Technician
7 5 (3.97%) Junior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.32%) LDAP
2 10 (7.94%) SAML
3 9 (7.14%) OpenID
4 4 (3.17%) OAuth
5 3 (2.38%) 802.1X
5 3 (2.38%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.38%) HTML
6 2 (1.59%) eBPF
6 2 (1.59%) HTML5
6 2 (1.59%) Loki
7 1 (0.79%) .NET
7 1 (0.79%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.79%) CSS
7 1 (0.79%) EDI
7 1 (0.79%) LAMP
7 1 (0.79%) libvirt
7 1 (0.79%) Middleware
7 1 (0.79%) REST
7 1 (0.79%) WinForms
7 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.90%) Onboarding
2 10 (7.94%) Data Centre
3 9 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 5 (3.97%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (3.97%) Mainframe
6 4 (3.17%) Client/Server
6 4 (3.17%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.59%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.59%) FPGA
8 2 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.59%) iPhone
8 2 (1.59%) PKI
8 2 (1.59%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.79%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 33 (26.19%) Windows
2 14 (11.11%) Linux
3 9 (7.14%) Mac OS
4 7 (5.56%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.76%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.97%) Apple iOS
6 5 (3.97%) zOS
7 4 (3.17%) Android
8 3 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.59%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.79%) CentOS
10 1 (0.79%) Unix
10 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (15.87%) DevOps
3 15 (11.90%) Incident Response
3 15 (11.90%) Runbook
3 15 (11.90%) SIEM
4 14 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 14 (11.11%) Security Operations
5 12 (9.52%) ITIL
6 11 (8.73%) Agile
6 11 (8.73%) Decision-Making
6 11 (8.73%) High Availability
6 11 (8.73%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (7.94%) Load Balancing
8 9 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (7.14%) Incident Management
8 9 (7.14%) Information Security
8 9 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (7.14%) Service Management
9 8 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (6.35%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 32 (25.40%) Python
2 23 (18.25%) Bash
3 14 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.76%) C
5 5 (3.97%) C++
6 4 (3.17%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.38%) SQL
8 2 (1.59%) Go
9 1 (0.79%) C#
9 1 (0.79%) Java
9 1 (0.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.52%) Degree
4 11 (8.73%) CCNP
4 11 (8.73%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (6.35%) CCNA
5 8 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.76%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.17%) CISSP
8 4 (3.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (3.17%) MCSA
9 1 (0.79%) CCSA
9 1 (0.79%) CCSE
9 1 (0.79%) CEH
9 1 (0.79%) CISM
9 1 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.79%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.76%) GDPR
2 5 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.38%) NIST
4 1 (0.79%) QA
4 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (12.70%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.32%) Squid
3 8 (6.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.38%) Docker
4 3 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.59%) Ceph
5 2 (1.59%) KVM
5 2 (1.59%) NFS
5 2 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.59%) vSphere
6 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.79%) iptables
6 1 (0.79%) Lustre
6 1 (0.79%) RACF
6 1 (0.79%) Samba
6 1 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 21 (16.67%) Terraform
2 18 (14.29%) Grafana
3 16 (12.70%) Ansible
3 16 (12.70%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (11.90%) Kubernetes
5 13 (10.32%) FortiGate
5 13 (10.32%) Prometheus
5 13 (10.32%) SCCM
6 8 (6.35%) WSUS
7 7 (5.56%) Consul
8 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (3.17%) QRadar
9 4 (3.17%) Suricata
9 4 (3.17%) Tivoli NetView
10 2 (1.59%) Cilium
10 2 (1.59%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.59%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.79%) CASB
11 1 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.79%) SELinux
Vendors
1 26 (20.63%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.52%) Red Hat
3 10 (7.94%) Cisco
3 10 (7.94%) Citrix
3 10 (7.94%) Zscaler
4 9 (7.14%) Bloomberg
4 9 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 9 (7.14%) Netskope
5 7 (5.56%) Atlassian
5 7 (5.56%) Palo Alto
6 6 (4.76%) F5
6 6 (4.76%) Google
6 6 (4.76%) Reuters
7 5 (3.97%) Blue Coat
7 5 (3.97%) Fortinet
7 5 (3.97%) IBM
7 5 (3.97%) ION Trading
7 5 (3.97%) Sophos
8 4 (3.17%) Qualys
8 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow