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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 237 258
Rank change year-on-year +14 +21 -2
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 153 161 167
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.08% 1.02% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.63% 10.59% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 101 97
10th Percentile £259 £243 £188
25th Percentile £400 £356 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £741 £700 £690
England median daily rate £477 £475 £438
% change year-on-year +0.32% +8.57% -16.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £24.50 - £21.41
25th Percentile £32.05 - £27.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £48.75
75th Percentile £62.50 - £65.25
90th Percentile £62.95 - £68.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -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 1,316 1,521 2,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.28% 9.60% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 836 934 1,416
10th Percentile £305 £258 £223
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £625 £636 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £750
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 13 56
10th Percentile £20.24 £23.63 £18.93
25th Percentile - £25.00 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +35.92% +3.00%
75th Percentile £29.31 £43.75 £60.44
90th Percentile £61.78 £76.91 £77.50
England median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +26.38%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -15 9 £538 -6.52% 10
West London - 8 £280 - 1
South London 0 6 £625 +31.58% 6
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 9 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.31%) Confluence
3 2 (1.31%) nginx
4 1 (0.65%) Apache
4 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.31%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.65%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.65%) Eikon
1 1 (0.65%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.65%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.65%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.61%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (18.95%) AWS
3 25 (16.34%) Azure
4 11 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (6.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (6.54%) Amazon ELB
5 10 (6.54%) Amazon S3
5 10 (6.54%) GCP
5 10 (6.54%) GitHub
5 10 (6.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (4.58%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.61%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.96%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.96%) SaaS
9 2 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.31%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (1.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.65%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.65%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 80 (52.29%) DNS
2 54 (35.29%) VPN
3 46 (30.07%) Firewall
4 45 (29.41%) DHCP
5 32 (20.92%) SSL
6 25 (16.34%) Network Security
6 25 (16.34%) WAN
7 23 (15.03%) HTTP
7 23 (15.03%) LAN
8 20 (13.07%) Internet
9 17 (11.11%) VLAN
10 11 (7.19%) BGP
10 11 (7.19%) OSPF
11 10 (6.54%) Multicast
12 9 (5.88%) Wireshark
13 8 (5.23%) SMTP
14 7 (4.58%) IP Telephony
14 7 (4.58%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (3.92%) Wireless
16 5 (3.27%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.27%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.65%) MySQL
3 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (13.73%) Git
2 15 (9.80%) GitLab
3 13 (8.50%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.58%) Subversion
5 5 (3.27%) JIRA
6 4 (2.61%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.61%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.96%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.31%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.65%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.65%) GCC
9 1 (0.65%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.65%) Maven
9 1 (0.65%) MSI
General
1 65 (42.48%) Social Skills
2 33 (21.57%) Finance
3 22 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.50%) Front Office
6 7 (4.58%) Banking
6 7 (4.58%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.92%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.61%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.96%) Legal
10 2 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.31%) Electronics
10 2 (1.31%) Games
10 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.31%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.31%) Marketing
10 2 (1.31%) Military
11 1 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 28 (18.30%) Support Engineer
2 24 (15.69%) Network Engineer
3 16 (10.46%) Analyst
4 15 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (9.15%) IT Support
5 14 (9.15%) Senior
6 12 (7.84%) Developer
7 11 (7.19%) Technical Engineer
7 11 (7.19%) Technical Support
7 11 (7.19%) Technical Support Engineer
8 10 (6.54%) 1st Line Engineer
8 10 (6.54%) 1st Line Support
8 10 (6.54%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 10 (6.54%) 1st Line Support Technician
8 10 (6.54%) 1st Line Technical Support
8 10 (6.54%) Junior
8 10 (6.54%) Junior Support Technician
8 10 (6.54%) Junior Technical Support
8 10 (6.54%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
8 10 (6.54%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.50%) Middleware
2 11 (7.19%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (4.58%) LDAP
4 6 (3.92%) REST
5 5 (3.27%) FpML
5 5 (3.27%) Ultra Messaging
6 4 (2.61%) SAML
7 3 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.96%) React
8 2 (1.31%) .NET
8 2 (1.31%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.31%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.31%) Bootstrap
8 2 (1.31%) Express.js
8 2 (1.31%) Node.js
8 2 (1.31%) SOAP
8 2 (1.31%) WCF
8 2 (1.31%) Web Services
8 2 (1.31%) WPF
9 1 (0.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.15%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.54%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (5.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (5.23%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.58%) Fixed Income
4 7 (4.58%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.92%) Derivative
5 6 (3.92%) iPad
5 6 (3.92%) iPhone
5 6 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.92%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.27%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.27%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.27%) Replication
7 4 (2.61%) Clustering
7 4 (2.61%) FPGA
8 3 (1.96%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.96%) SCADA
9 2 (1.31%) Blog
9 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 57 (37.25%) Windows
2 39 (25.49%) Linux
3 21 (13.73%) Windows 10
4 11 (7.19%) Mac OS
4 11 (7.19%) Unix
5 6 (3.92%) Android
5 6 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.92%) Windows 7
5 6 (3.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (3.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.27%) Windows Server
7 4 (2.61%) Solaris
8 3 (1.96%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.31%) CentOS
9 2 (1.31%) zOS
10 1 (0.65%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.65%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (18.30%) High Availability
3 24 (15.69%) Agile
4 23 (15.03%) CI/CD
4 23 (15.03%) DevOps
5 21 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (11.76%) Low Latency
8 14 (9.15%) Incident Response
8 14 (9.15%) Infrastructure Automation
8 14 (9.15%) SIEM
9 13 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (7.84%) ITIL
10 12 (7.84%) Load Balancing
10 12 (7.84%) Security Operations
11 11 (7.19%) Project Delivery
11 11 (7.19%) Test Automation
12 10 (6.54%) Computer Science
12 10 (6.54%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 55 (35.95%) Python
2 32 (20.92%) Bash
3 22 (14.38%) PowerShell
4 13 (8.50%) Perl
5 10 (6.54%) C++
6 8 (5.23%) Java
6 8 (5.23%) SQL
7 7 (4.58%) C#
8 4 (2.61%) C
8 4 (2.61%) Go
8 4 (2.61%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.31%) PHP
9 2 (1.31%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.31%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (16.99%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.46%) Degree
4 15 (9.80%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (5.23%) CCNA
5 8 (5.23%) CCNP
6 7 (4.58%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.92%) CISSP
8 5 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.27%) MCSA
8 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (1.96%) CCSP
10 3 (1.96%) CEH
10 3 (1.96%) CompTIA CySA+
10 3 (1.96%) GCIH
10 3 (1.96%) JNCIP
10 3 (1.96%) JNCIS
10 3 (1.96%) MCSE
10 3 (1.96%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.23%) GDPR
2 5 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.96%) NIST
4 3 (1.96%) SLA
5 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (18.30%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.19%) Docker
4 8 (5.23%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.27%) NFS
6 4 (2.61%) Firmware
6 4 (2.61%) Veritas File System
6 4 (2.61%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.31%) Lustre
8 2 (1.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (1.31%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.65%) Ceph
9 1 (0.65%) GPFS
9 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.65%) iptables
9 1 (0.65%) KVM
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.65%) Samba
Systems Management
1 37 (24.18%) Ansible
2 31 (20.26%) Terraform
3 19 (12.42%) SCCM
4 12 (7.84%) Grafana
4 12 (7.84%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (3.92%) WSUS
7 5 (3.27%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (3.27%) QRadar
8 4 (2.61%) Puppet
8 4 (2.61%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.96%) CSIRT
9 3 (1.96%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.31%) Consul
10 2 (1.31%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.31%) Nessus
10 2 (1.31%) Tivoli NetView
10 2 (1.31%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.65%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 32 (20.92%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.38%) F5
3 20 (13.07%) Palo Alto
4 17 (11.11%) Cisco
5 16 (10.46%) CheckPoint
6 15 (9.80%) VMware
7 11 (7.19%) Splunk
8 10 (6.54%) Fortinet
8 10 (6.54%) ServiceNow
9 8 (5.23%) Zscaler
10 7 (4.58%) Bloomberg
10 7 (4.58%) Google
10 7 (4.58%) Juniper
10 7 (4.58%) Qualys
10 7 (4.58%) Red Hat
11 6 (3.92%) Apple
11 6 (3.92%) CyberArk
11 6 (3.92%) Solace
11 6 (3.92%) TIBCO
12 5 (3.27%) Reuters