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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 214 287
Rank change year-on-year -70 +73 -31
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 157 148 118
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 1.11% 0.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.30% 10.80% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 91 76
10th Percentile £189 £210 £213
25th Percentile £303 £303 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £544 £638 £591
90th Percentile £620 £719 £650
England median daily rate £470 £488 £456
% change year-on-year -3.59% +6.85% -3.95%
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% +17.49%

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 1,525 1,371 1,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.86% 10.32% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 879 1,114
10th Percentile £300 £263 £229
25th Percentile £408 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £601 £625 £622
90th Percentile £716 £717 £738
England median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 49
10th Percentile £17.03 £19.20 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.28 £24.91 £16.86
Median hourly rate £28.96 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +26.05% -34.87%
75th Percentile £53.75 £49.38 £41.25
90th Percentile £85.75 £62.05 £60.00
England median hourly rate £26.72 £40.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -33.20% -12.82% +108.55%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -19 13 £475 +6.74% 16
South London -4 10 £519 -17.03% 1
West London -21 2 £218 -70.97% 7
North London - 2 - -
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 (6.37%) Confluence
1 10 (6.37%) nginx
1 10 (6.37%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.64%) CICS
3 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.64%) Traefik
3 1 (0.64%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 46 (29.30%) AWS
2 43 (27.39%) Azure
3 41 (26.11%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (16.56%) Entra ID
5 21 (13.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (10.19%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (8.92%) Amazon S3
9 12 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (7.64%) GCP
9 12 (7.64%) Serverless
10 11 (7.01%) Route 53
11 8 (5.10%) Google Workspace
12 7 (4.46%) OneDrive
13 5 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (3.18%) SaaS
14 3 (1.91%) Akamai
14 3 (1.91%) Datadog
14 3 (1.91%) GitHub
14 3 (1.91%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 82 (52.23%) DNS
2 69 (43.95%) Firewall
3 57 (36.31%) VPN
4 34 (21.66%) Network Security
5 27 (17.20%) DHCP
6 25 (15.92%) HTTP
7 19 (12.10%) SSL
8 18 (11.46%) BGP
8 18 (11.46%) WAN
9 13 (8.28%) LAN
10 10 (6.37%) Internet
10 10 (6.37%) VLAN
11 9 (5.73%) DMZ
11 9 (5.73%) OpenVPN
12 8 (5.10%) OSPF
12 8 (5.10%) Wireless
13 7 (4.46%) Cisco IOS
13 7 (4.46%) Ethernet
13 7 (4.46%) HTTPS
14 6 (3.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.01%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.55%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.27%) MySQL
3 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.64%) KDB
4 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (10.19%) JIRA
2 8 (5.10%) Git
2 8 (5.10%) GitLab
3 7 (4.46%) Bitbucket
3 7 (4.46%) SonarQube
4 5 (3.18%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (1.91%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.27%) Subversion
7 1 (0.64%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.64%) MSI
7 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (42.04%) Social Skills
2 36 (22.93%) Finance
3 17 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.28%) Banking
5 12 (7.64%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (5.10%) Front Office
6 8 (5.10%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.46%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.82%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.27%) Games
9 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.27%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.27%) Military
10 1 (0.64%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Police
10 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 26 (16.56%) Network Engineer
2 23 (14.65%) Support Engineer
3 19 (12.10%) Architect
4 18 (11.46%) Security Engineer
5 16 (10.19%) Analyst
6 9 (5.73%) Network Security Engineer
7 8 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (5.10%) Web Engineer
8 7 (4.46%) AWS Architect
8 7 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (4.46%) Help Desk Analyst
8 7 (4.46%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (4.46%) Junior
8 7 (4.46%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (4.46%) Senior
8 7 (4.46%) Technical Engineer
8 7 (4.46%) Technical Support
8 7 (4.46%) Technical Support Engineer
9 6 (3.82%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.28%) SAML
2 12 (7.64%) LDAP
3 9 (5.73%) OpenID
4 6 (3.82%) .NET
5 4 (2.55%) OAuth
6 3 (1.91%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.91%) HTML
6 3 (1.91%) REST
6 3 (1.91%) WinForms
7 2 (1.27%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.27%) Blazor
7 2 (1.27%) eBPF
7 2 (1.27%) HTML5
7 2 (1.27%) Loki
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.64%) CSS
8 1 (0.64%) EDI
8 1 (0.64%) Middleware
8 1 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.01%) Onboarding
2 19 (12.10%) Data Centre
3 11 (7.01%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (3.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 6 (3.82%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.18%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (3.18%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.55%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.55%) PKI
6 4 (2.55%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.91%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.91%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.91%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.27%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.27%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (35.67%) Windows
2 21 (13.38%) Linux
3 16 (10.19%) Mac OS
4 13 (8.28%) Windows Server
5 9 (5.73%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.82%) Ubuntu
7 5 (3.18%) Apple iOS
7 5 (3.18%) zOS
8 4 (2.55%) Android
9 3 (1.91%) Unix
10 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.64%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (27.39%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (13.38%) DevOps
3 20 (12.74%) Incident Response
4 19 (12.10%) ITIL
5 18 (11.46%) Runbook
6 15 (9.55%) Agile
6 15 (9.55%) High Availability
6 15 (9.55%) Migration
7 14 (8.92%) Roadmaps
7 14 (8.92%) Service Management
8 13 (8.28%) Customer Service
8 13 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (8.28%) Load Balancing
8 13 (8.28%) SIEM
9 12 (7.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (7.01%) Decision-Making
10 11 (7.01%) Security Operations
11 10 (6.37%) Incident Management
11 10 (6.37%) ITSM
12 9 (5.73%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (26.11%) Python
2 24 (15.29%) PowerShell
3 23 (14.65%) Bash
4 7 (4.46%) C++
5 6 (3.82%) C
6 4 (2.55%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.91%) C#
7 3 (1.91%) SQL
8 2 (1.27%) Go
9 1 (0.64%) Java
9 1 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.64%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 21 (13.38%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.46%) Degree
3 16 (10.19%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 13 (8.28%) CCNP
5 12 (7.64%) CCNA
6 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.10%) CISSP
7 8 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.18%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.91%) CCIE
9 3 (1.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.91%) MCSA
9 3 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (1.27%) CCIE Security
10 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.64%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.18%) GDPR
1 5 (3.18%) NIST
2 4 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.91%) QA
4 2 (1.27%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.27%) SLA
5 1 (0.64%) NCSC
5 1 (0.64%) NIST 800
System Software
1 33 (21.02%) Active Directory
2 13 (8.28%) Squid
3 7 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.91%) Docker
6 3 (1.91%) vSphere
7 2 (1.27%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.64%) NFS
8 1 (0.64%) RACF
Systems Management
1 21 (13.38%) Single Sign-On
2 19 (12.10%) Grafana
2 19 (12.10%) Terraform
3 17 (10.83%) Ansible
4 16 (10.19%) Kubernetes
5 15 (9.55%) FortiGate
6 14 (8.92%) Prometheus
7 10 (6.37%) SCCM
8 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (5.10%) WSUS
10 7 (4.46%) Consul
11 4 (2.55%) Suricata
11 4 (2.55%) Tivoli NetView
12 2 (1.27%) Cilium
12 2 (1.27%) QRadar
12 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.64%) CASB
13 1 (0.64%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.64%) Istio
13 1 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 46 (29.30%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.01%) Cisco
3 15 (9.55%) Zscaler
4 13 (8.28%) Citrix
5 11 (7.01%) Red Hat
6 10 (6.37%) Bloomberg
6 10 (6.37%) Dynatrace
6 10 (6.37%) Netskope
7 9 (5.73%) F5
7 9 (5.73%) Fortinet
7 9 (5.73%) Google
8 8 (5.10%) Juniper
9 7 (4.46%) Atlassian
9 7 (4.46%) Okta
9 7 (4.46%) Reuters
9 7 (4.46%) VMware
10 6 (3.82%) Blue Coat
10 6 (3.82%) ION Trading
10 6 (3.82%) Palo Alto
10 6 (3.82%) ServiceNow