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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 224 284
Rank change year-on-year -54 +60 -30
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 141 129 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 1.07% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.56% 10.33% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 86 63
10th Percentile £205 £213 £225
25th Percentile £341 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £548 £638 £638
90th Percentile £614 £703 £700
England median daily rate £470 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -6.00% +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 £35.22 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -43.65% -3.85% +13.38%

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 1,475 1,249 1,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.99% 10.32% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 806 1,118
10th Percentile £300 £263 £215
25th Percentile £409 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
England median daily rate £500 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +0.46% -0.46% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 52
10th Percentile £16.04 £21.03 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.28 £24.66 £16.71
Median hourly rate £25.63 £38.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -33.86% +62.82% -34.38%
75th Percentile £38.38 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £61.85 £59.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £39.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.05% -0.85% +135.29%

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 June 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 June 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 -10 10 £519 -17.03% 4
Central London -16 9 £425 -4.49% 10
North London - 2 - - 1
West London -22 1 £223 -70.27% 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 (7.09%) Confluence
1 10 (7.09%) nginx
2 5 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.42%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.71%) CICS
5 1 (0.71%) Traefik
5 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 49 (34.75%) AWS
2 37 (26.24%) Azure
3 34 (24.11%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (15.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 16 (11.35%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (10.64%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (9.93%) Amazon S3
7 14 (9.93%) Entra ID
7 14 (9.93%) Route 53
8 12 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (8.51%) GCP
8 12 (8.51%) Serverless
9 9 (6.38%) Google Workspace
10 5 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.13%) Akamai
11 3 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.13%) Datadog
11 3 (2.13%) Google Drive
11 3 (2.13%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (48.23%) DNS
2 62 (43.97%) Firewall
3 53 (37.59%) VPN
4 33 (23.40%) Network Security
5 23 (16.31%) HTTP
6 22 (15.60%) DHCP
7 18 (12.77%) SSL
8 15 (10.64%) BGP
9 11 (7.80%) WAN
10 10 (7.09%) DMZ
10 10 (7.09%) VLAN
11 9 (6.38%) OpenVPN
12 8 (5.67%) LAN
12 8 (5.67%) OSPF
12 8 (5.67%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (4.96%) HTTPS
13 7 (4.96%) Internet
13 7 (4.96%) Wireless
14 4 (2.84%) Ethernet
14 4 (2.84%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.80%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.84%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.42%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (10.64%) JIRA
2 8 (5.67%) Git
2 8 (5.67%) GitLab
3 7 (4.96%) Bitbucket
3 7 (4.96%) SonarQube
4 5 (3.55%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (2.13%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.42%) Subversion
General
1 54 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 34 (24.11%) Finance
3 13 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.80%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (7.09%) Banking
6 9 (6.38%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.67%) Front Office
7 8 (5.67%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.26%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.13%) Military
10 2 (1.42%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.42%) Games
10 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.42%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.42%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.71%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Police
11 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (16.31%) Network Engineer
2 19 (13.48%) Security Engineer
3 18 (12.77%) Support Engineer
4 17 (12.06%) Architect
5 15 (10.64%) Analyst
6 8 (5.67%) Help Desk Analyst
6 8 (5.67%) Network Security Engineer
6 8 (5.67%) Senior
6 8 (5.67%) Web Engineer
7 7 (4.96%) AWS Architect
7 7 (4.96%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (4.96%) IT Analyst
7 7 (4.96%) Junior
7 7 (4.96%) Technical Engineer
7 7 (4.96%) Technical Support
7 7 (4.96%) Technical Support Engineer
8 6 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.26%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.51%) LDAP
2 10 (7.09%) SAML
3 9 (6.38%) OpenID
4 5 (3.55%) .NET
5 4 (2.84%) OAuth
6 3 (2.13%) 802.1X
6 3 (2.13%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.13%) HTML
6 3 (2.13%) WinForms
7 2 (1.42%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.42%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.42%) Blazor
7 2 (1.42%) eBPF
7 2 (1.42%) HTML5
7 2 (1.42%) Loki
7 2 (1.42%) REST
8 1 (0.71%) CSS
8 1 (0.71%) EDI
8 1 (0.71%) Middleware
8 1 (0.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.60%) Onboarding
2 13 (9.22%) Data Centre
3 10 (7.09%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (4.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 5 (3.55%) Client/Server
5 5 (3.55%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (3.55%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.84%) PKI
6 4 (2.84%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (2.13%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.42%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.42%) FPGA
8 2 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.42%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.42%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.71%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.71%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 47 (33.33%) Windows
2 18 (12.77%) Linux
3 13 (9.22%) Mac OS
4 11 (7.80%) Windows Server
5 7 (4.96%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.55%) Apple iOS
6 5 (3.55%) zOS
7 4 (2.84%) Android
8 3 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.42%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.71%) CentOS
10 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.24%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (14.89%) DevOps
3 18 (12.77%) Incident Response
4 17 (12.06%) ITIL
5 16 (11.35%) Agile
6 15 (10.64%) Runbook
7 14 (9.93%) High Availability
7 14 (9.93%) Roadmaps
8 13 (9.22%) SIEM
9 12 (8.51%) Security Operations
9 12 (8.51%) Service Management
10 11 (7.80%) Decision-Making
10 11 (7.80%) Incident Management
10 11 (7.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (7.80%) Load Balancing
11 10 (7.09%) Migration
11 10 (7.09%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (6.38%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (5.67%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (23.40%) Python
2 23 (16.31%) Bash
3 19 (13.48%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.96%) C++
5 6 (4.26%) C
6 4 (2.84%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.13%) C#
7 3 (2.13%) SQL
8 2 (1.42%) Go
9 1 (0.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.22%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (9.22%) Degree
4 11 (7.80%) CCNP
5 10 (7.09%) CCNA
6 8 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (4.96%) Azure Certification
8 6 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (3.55%) CISSP
10 4 (2.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (2.84%) MCSA
11 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.71%) CCSA
12 1 (0.71%) CCSE
12 1 (0.71%) CEH
12 1 (0.71%) CISM
12 1 (0.71%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.71%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.26%) GDPR
2 5 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.84%) NIST
4 3 (2.13%) QA
5 2 (1.42%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.42%) SLA
6 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (15.60%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.22%) Squid
3 6 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.13%) Docker
6 2 (1.42%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.42%) vSphere
7 1 (0.71%) Ceph
7 1 (0.71%) KVM
7 1 (0.71%) NFS
7 1 (0.71%) RACF
Systems Management
1 20 (14.18%) Terraform
2 19 (13.48%) Single Sign-On
3 18 (12.77%) Grafana
4 16 (11.35%) Kubernetes
5 14 (9.93%) Ansible
6 13 (9.22%) FortiGate
6 13 (9.22%) Prometheus
6 13 (9.22%) SCCM
7 9 (6.38%) WSUS
8 7 (4.96%) Consul
9 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.84%) QRadar
10 4 (2.84%) Suricata
10 4 (2.84%) Tivoli NetView
11 2 (1.42%) Cilium
11 2 (1.42%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.71%) CASB
12 1 (0.71%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.71%) Istio
12 1 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 39 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.06%) Cisco
3 14 (9.93%) Citrix
4 12 (8.51%) Bloomberg
4 12 (8.51%) Red Hat
5 11 (7.80%) Zscaler
6 10 (7.09%) Netskope
7 9 (6.38%) Dynatrace
8 8 (5.67%) Google
8 8 (5.67%) Reuters
9 7 (4.96%) Atlassian
9 7 (4.96%) F5
9 7 (4.96%) Fortinet
9 7 (4.96%) ION Trading
9 7 (4.96%) Palo Alto
10 6 (4.26%) Blue Coat
10 6 (4.26%) ServiceNow
10 6 (4.26%) VMware
11 5 (3.55%) Apple
11 5 (3.55%) Juniper