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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 210 257
Rank change year-on-year -48 +47 +6
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 198 157 131
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 1.17% 0.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.04% 11.95% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 91 80
10th Percentile £173 £250 £225
25th Percentile £286 £374 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £575 £494
Median % change year-on-year -19.13% +16.46% -1.25%
75th Percentile £540 £651 £600
90th Percentile £638 £750 £678
England median daily rate £465 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.11% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £32.75 £24.72 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £32.61 -
Median hourly rate £62.00 £54.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.76% +172.50% -70.80%
75th Percentile £63.00 £62.75 -
90th Percentile £69.45 £63.05 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

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 1,645 1,314 1,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.17% 9.83% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,047 835 980
10th Percentile £294 £289 £255
25th Percentile £404 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £719 £713 £725
England median daily rate £500 £490 £508
% change year-on-year +2.15% -3.55% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 32 19
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.53 £20.40
25th Percentile £22.50 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -28.14% +13.82%
75th Percentile £78.75 £44.75 £55.88
90th Percentile £155.14 £61.78 £66.38
England median hourly rate £43.50 £40.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +7.41% -29.38% +1.52%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -8 26 £300 -38.46% 21
West London -27 5 £375 -50.00% 9
South London -13 4 - - 8
North London - 2 - - 1
East London - 1 - - 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 29 (14.65%) SharePoint
2 20 (10.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (5.56%) Confluence
4 4 (2.02%) nginx
5 3 (1.52%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.51%) CICS
6 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 66 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (28.79%) Azure
3 47 (23.74%) Entra ID
4 32 (16.16%) AWS
5 18 (9.09%) OneDrive
6 12 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (4.04%) GCP
8 8 (4.04%) GitHub
9 6 (3.03%) Google Workspace
9 6 (3.03%) SaaS
10 5 (2.53%) Akamai
10 5 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.53%) Datadog
11 4 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (1.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 110 (55.56%) DNS
2 72 (36.36%) Firewall
3 61 (30.81%) DHCP
4 59 (29.80%) VPN
5 44 (22.22%) Network Security
6 33 (16.67%) HTTP
7 28 (14.14%) WAN
8 27 (13.64%) SSL
9 23 (11.62%) LAN
10 20 (10.10%) BGP
11 18 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (9.09%) Wireless
12 16 (8.08%) VLAN
13 13 (6.57%) Internet
14 11 (5.56%) Kerberos
15 9 (4.55%) SAN
16 8 (4.04%) Ethernet
16 8 (4.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 7 (3.54%) Cisco IOS
17 7 (3.54%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.04%) SQLite
4 5 (2.53%) MySQL
5 4 (2.02%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.52%) KDB
6 3 (1.52%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.01%) Redis
8 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.51%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.51%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 27 (13.64%) Git
2 18 (9.09%) JIRA
3 13 (6.57%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.54%) GitLab
5 5 (2.53%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.01%) Selenium
6 2 (1.01%) Subversion
7 1 (0.51%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.51%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.51%) MSI
7 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.18%) Finance
3 35 (17.68%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.08%) Banking
5 13 (6.57%) Telecoms
6 12 (6.06%) Front Office
7 10 (5.05%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.02%) Automotive
8 4 (2.02%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.52%) Local Government
10 2 (1.01%) Games
10 2 (1.01%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.51%) Law
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
11 1 (0.51%) Military
11 1 (0.51%) Retail
11 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (19.70%) Support Engineer
2 31 (15.66%) Network Engineer
3 25 (12.63%) Senior
4 22 (11.11%) Analyst
5 20 (10.10%) IT Support
6 19 (9.60%) IT Engineer
7 18 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
7 18 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
7 18 (9.09%) Security Engineer
8 13 (6.57%) Support Analyst
9 12 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.55%) Desktop Analyst
10 9 (4.55%) Desktop Support
10 9 (4.55%) Desktop Support Analyst
10 9 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
11 8 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.04%) Consultant
12 7 (3.54%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.60%) Terraform
2 9 (4.55%) .NET
3 8 (4.04%) SAML
3 8 (4.04%) SPNEGO
4 5 (2.53%) REST
4 5 (2.53%) Software Packaging
5 4 (2.02%) 802.1X
5 4 (2.02%) boto
5 4 (2.02%) HTML
5 4 (2.02%) Kafka
5 4 (2.02%) LDAP
5 4 (2.02%) OpenTofu
5 4 (2.02%) WinForms
6 3 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.52%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.01%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.01%) CSS
7 2 (1.01%) Jinja
7 2 (1.01%) Middleware
7 2 (1.01%) Moose
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.15%) Onboarding
2 20 (10.10%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (4.55%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (3.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (3.54%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
7 6 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.03%) PKI
7 6 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (2.53%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.53%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.02%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.02%) Robotics
9 4 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 88 (44.44%) Windows
2 51 (25.76%) Linux
3 25 (12.63%) Windows 10
4 24 (12.12%) Windows Server
5 22 (11.11%) Mac OS
6 13 (6.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (6.57%) Unix
7 11 (5.56%) Ubuntu
8 8 (4.04%) Android
9 6 (3.03%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.01%) zOS
11 1 (0.51%) CentOS
11 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (17.17%) ITIL
3 30 (15.15%) DevOps
4 29 (14.65%) Customer Service
4 29 (14.65%) Incident Response
4 29 (14.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 29 (14.65%) ITSM
4 29 (14.65%) Migration
5 27 (13.64%) Incident Management
6 26 (13.13%) Change Management
6 26 (13.13%) CI/CD
7 22 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (11.11%) Load Balancing
7 22 (11.11%) Runbook
8 21 (10.61%) Service Management
9 20 (10.10%) SIEM
10 19 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (9.09%) High Availability
11 18 (9.09%) User Experience
12 16 (8.08%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 61 (30.81%) Python
2 37 (18.69%) PowerShell
3 28 (14.14%) Bash
4 11 (5.56%) Perl
5 10 (5.05%) C++
6 9 (4.55%) SQL
7 8 (4.04%) Korn
8 7 (3.54%) Java
9 6 (3.03%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.53%) C#
11 4 (2.02%) C
12 3 (1.52%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.52%) VBScript
13 2 (1.01%) Go
13 2 (1.01%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.51%) Bicep
14 1 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 23 (11.62%) Degree
2 18 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (7.58%) CCNP
3 15 (7.58%) Security Cleared
4 12 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (5.56%) CCNA
5 11 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.05%) CISSP
7 9 (4.55%) SC Cleared
8 8 (4.04%) Network+ Certification
9 6 (3.03%) A+ Certification
10 4 (2.02%) CCIE
10 4 (2.02%) CISM
10 4 (2.02%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.02%) JNCIP
10 4 (2.02%) JNCIS
11 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.01%) CCIE Security
12 2 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (1.01%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.58%) SLA
2 5 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.53%) NIST
2 5 (2.53%) QA
3 3 (1.52%) GDPR
4 2 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.01%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (1.01%) NCSC
4 2 (1.01%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.53%) Docker
5 4 (2.02%) Squid
6 3 (1.52%) vSphere
7 2 (1.01%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.51%) Firmware
8 1 (0.51%) NFS
8 1 (0.51%) RACF
8 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (15.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (13.64%) Ansible
3 15 (7.58%) Grafana
4 13 (6.57%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (6.06%) SCCM
6 8 (4.04%) FortiGate
7 6 (3.03%) systemd
8 5 (2.53%) Kubernetes
9 4 (2.02%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.02%) Suricata
9 4 (2.02%) WSUS
10 3 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.52%) SELinux
11 2 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.51%) CASB
12 1 (0.51%) PingFederate
12 1 (0.51%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 1 (0.51%) Tivoli NetView
12 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 81 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 35 (17.68%) Cisco
3 19 (9.60%) ServiceNow
3 19 (9.60%) Zscaler
4 17 (8.59%) F5
5 16 (8.08%) VMware
6 13 (6.57%) Splunk
7 11 (5.56%) Juniper
8 10 (5.05%) Bloomberg
8 10 (5.05%) Fortinet
8 10 (5.05%) Palo Alto
9 8 (4.04%) NetApp
9 8 (4.04%) Okta
10 7 (3.54%) Citrix
10 7 (3.54%) Google
11 6 (3.03%) Apple
11 6 (3.03%) Arista
11 6 (3.03%) Remedy
12 5 (2.53%) Netskope
12 5 (2.53%) Oracle