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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 219 239
Rank change year-on-year -35 +20 +23
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 127 155 160
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.88% 1.06% 0.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.98% 10.70% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 99 89
10th Percentile £300 £273 £198
25th Percentile £413 £406 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £613
90th Percentile £713 £738 £702
England median daily rate £477 £500 £446
% change year-on-year -4.70% +12.04% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £38.15 - £21.41
25th Percentile £41.00 - £27.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £48.75
75th Percentile £62.75 - £65.25
90th Percentile £63.05 - £68.50
England median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £50.39
% change year-on-year -2.87% +28.99% -22.48%

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 1,272 1,448 1,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.82% 9.91% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 884 1,259
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -0.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 13 59
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £18.93
25th Percentile - £25.00 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +23.00%
75th Percentile £29.31 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.55 £75.31 £76.50
England median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -1.43% -38.04% +50.64%

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 1 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

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 1 January 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 -21 8 £600 +9.09% 30
West London - 8 £280 - 3
East London +1 2 - - 4
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 (6.30%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.57%) Confluence
2 2 (1.57%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.79%) Apache
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.79%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Eikon
1 1 (0.79%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.79%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.79%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 36 (28.35%) AWS
2 26 (20.47%) Azure
3 25 (19.69%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (10.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (8.66%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (7.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (7.87%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (7.87%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.30%) GCP
8 7 (5.51%) Entra ID
8 7 (5.51%) GitHub
9 4 (3.15%) Google Workspace
10 3 (2.36%) Route 53
11 2 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.57%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 69 (54.33%) DNS
2 50 (39.37%) VPN
3 48 (37.80%) Firewall
4 36 (28.35%) DHCP
5 33 (25.98%) SSL
6 24 (18.90%) Network Security
7 20 (15.75%) WAN
8 19 (14.96%) HTTP
9 17 (13.39%) LAN
10 11 (8.66%) BGP
10 11 (8.66%) Internet
10 11 (8.66%) OSPF
11 10 (7.87%) VLAN
12 9 (7.09%) Wireshark
13 8 (6.30%) Multicast
13 8 (6.30%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (6.30%) Wireless
14 5 (3.94%) SD-WAN
14 5 (3.94%) SMTP
14 5 (3.94%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.36%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.79%) MySQL
2 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (13.39%) Git
2 13 (10.24%) GitLab
2 13 (10.24%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.94%) JIRA
3 5 (3.94%) Subversion
4 4 (3.15%) Robot Framework
4 4 (3.15%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.79%) GCC
5 1 (0.79%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.79%) Maven
5 1 (0.79%) MSI
General
1 47 (37.01%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.11%) Finance
3 14 (11.02%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.09%) Front Office
6 7 (5.51%) Banking
7 6 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.94%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.94%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.15%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.36%) Legal
10 3 (2.36%) Military
11 1 (0.79%) Games
11 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.79%) Retail
11 1 (0.79%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 24 (18.90%) Network Engineer
2 19 (14.96%) Support Engineer
3 14 (11.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (11.02%) Senior
4 13 (10.24%) Analyst
5 11 (8.66%) IT Support
5 11 (8.66%) Security Engineer
6 7 (5.51%) Developer
6 7 (5.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.51%) IT Engineer
6 7 (5.51%) Operations Engineer
7 6 (4.72%) 2nd Line Support
7 6 (4.72%) Architect
7 6 (4.72%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (4.72%) Consultant
7 6 (4.72%) Desktop Engineer
7 6 (4.72%) Desktop Support
7 6 (4.72%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 6 (4.72%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (4.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.30%) Middleware
2 6 (4.72%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (3.94%) Ultra Messaging
4 4 (3.15%) LDAP
4 4 (3.15%) REST
4 4 (3.15%) SAML
5 3 (2.36%) 802.1X
5 3 (2.36%) React
6 2 (1.57%) .NET
6 2 (1.57%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.57%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.57%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.57%) Express.js
6 2 (1.57%) SOAP
6 2 (1.57%) WCF
6 2 (1.57%) Web Services
6 2 (1.57%) WPF
7 1 (0.79%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.79%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.51%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.72%) Private Cloud
3 5 (3.94%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.94%) Replication
4 4 (3.15%) Clustering
4 4 (3.15%) FPGA
4 4 (3.15%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.15%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.36%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.36%) SCADA
5 3 (2.36%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.57%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.57%) iPad
6 2 (1.57%) iPhone
6 2 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.57%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.57%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (39.37%) Windows
2 36 (28.35%) Linux
3 13 (10.24%) Windows 10
4 11 (8.66%) Unix
5 6 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.72%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (4.72%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.15%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.15%) Solaris
7 2 (1.57%) VMS
7 2 (1.57%) zOS
8 1 (0.79%) Android
8 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.79%) CentOS
8 1 (0.79%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (17.32%) DevOps
2 22 (17.32%) High Availability
3 21 (16.54%) SIEM
4 19 (14.96%) CI/CD
4 19 (14.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (14.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (14.17%) Low Latency
6 17 (13.39%) Incident Response
6 17 (13.39%) Security Operations
7 15 (11.81%) Agile
7 15 (11.81%) Infrastructure Automation
8 14 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (10.24%) Information Security
10 12 (9.45%) Root Cause Analysis
11 11 (8.66%) Data Security
11 11 (8.66%) Patch Management
11 11 (8.66%) Test Automation
12 10 (7.87%) Configuration Management
12 10 (7.87%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 44 (34.65%) Python
2 29 (22.83%) Bash
3 23 (18.11%) PowerShell
4 13 (10.24%) Perl
5 4 (3.15%) C
5 4 (3.15%) C++
5 4 (3.15%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (2.36%) C#
7 2 (1.57%) Go
7 2 (1.57%) Java
7 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.57%) SQL
7 2 (1.57%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (21.26%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.96%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.24%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (10.24%) Degree
4 7 (5.51%) CCNP
5 6 (4.72%) CCNA
5 6 (4.72%) CISSP
5 6 (4.72%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.94%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.15%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (3.15%) JNCIS
8 3 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (2.36%) CCSP
8 3 (2.36%) CEH
8 3 (2.36%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (2.36%) GCIH
8 3 (2.36%) JNCIP
8 3 (2.36%) MCSA
8 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.36%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.66%) GDPR
2 5 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.36%) NIST
5 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.79%) SLA
5 1 (0.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (14.96%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.66%) Docker
3 7 (5.51%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (4.72%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (3.94%) NFS
6 4 (3.15%) Veritas File System
6 4 (3.15%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (1.57%) Ceph
7 2 (1.57%) Firmware
7 2 (1.57%) KVM
7 2 (1.57%) Lustre
7 2 (1.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.79%) GPFS
8 1 (0.79%) iptables
8 1 (0.79%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.79%) Samba
8 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (26.77%) Ansible
2 28 (22.05%) Terraform
3 20 (15.75%) SCCM
4 12 (9.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (7.87%) Grafana
5 10 (7.87%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.30%) WSUS
7 7 (5.51%) QRadar
8 5 (3.94%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (3.15%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.36%) CSIRT
11 2 (1.57%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.57%) Nessus
11 2 (1.57%) Puppet
11 2 (1.57%) Tivoli NetView
12 1 (0.79%) BladeLogic
12 1 (0.79%) Consul
12 1 (0.79%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.32%) Palo Alto
3 20 (15.75%) F5
4 16 (12.60%) CheckPoint
5 13 (10.24%) Cisco
5 13 (10.24%) Fortinet
5 13 (10.24%) Splunk
6 10 (7.87%) Qualys
7 9 (7.09%) VMware
8 8 (6.30%) Bloomberg
8 8 (6.30%) ServiceNow
8 8 (6.30%) Zscaler
9 7 (5.51%) Red Hat
9 7 (5.51%) Sophos
10 6 (4.72%) CyberArk
10 6 (4.72%) Juniper
10 6 (4.72%) Solace
10 6 (4.72%) TIBCO
11 5 (3.94%) Google
11 5 (3.94%) Reuters