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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 209 257
Rank change year-on-year -57 +48 +12
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 119 147 146
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 1.06% 0.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.30% 10.80% 7.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 95 86
10th Percentile £286 £275 £188
25th Percentile £396 £413 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year - -8.05% -1.14%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £645
90th Percentile £694 £738 £713
England median daily rate £460 £503 £450
% change year-on-year -8.46% +11.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £18.90
25th Percentile £36.25 - £23.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 - £24.50
75th Percentile £42.75 - £38.75
90th Percentile - - £51.50
England median hourly rate £40.72 £63.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -36.13% +27.50% -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 1,279 1,361 1,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.64% 9.84% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 809 1,297
10th Percentile £280 £260 £210
25th Percentile £406 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £520 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% - -5.45%
75th Percentile £615 £630 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
England median daily rate £490 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 15 71
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.02 £18.00
25th Percentile - £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +27.45% -0.82%
75th Percentile £28.88 £39.75 £58.38
90th Percentile £90.50 £43.75 £73.65
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% -30.00% +141.49%

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 31 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
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 31 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
West London - 8 £280 - 1
Central London -27 6 £500 -13.04% 13
South London -2 4 £534 +12.48% 4
East London 0 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 8 (6.72%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.88%) Confluence
3 5 (4.20%) nginx
4 2 (1.68%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.84%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.84%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 38 (31.93%) AWS
2 25 (21.01%) Azure
3 24 (20.17%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (12.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 14 (11.76%) Amazon S3
6 12 (10.08%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (6.72%) Route 53
8 7 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (5.88%) Amazon ELB
8 7 (5.88%) Entra ID
8 7 (5.88%) GCP
9 5 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.20%) GitHub
9 5 (4.20%) Google Workspace
9 5 (4.20%) Serverless
10 2 (1.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.68%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 60 (50.42%) DNS
2 51 (42.86%) VPN
3 44 (36.97%) Firewall
4 32 (26.89%) DHCP
5 22 (18.49%) Network Security
5 22 (18.49%) SSL
5 22 (18.49%) WAN
6 17 (14.29%) LAN
7 11 (9.24%) BGP
7 11 (9.24%) HTTP
7 11 (9.24%) OSPF
8 10 (8.40%) Internet
9 9 (7.56%) Multicast
10 8 (6.72%) VLAN
10 8 (6.72%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (6.72%) Wireshark
11 6 (5.04%) Wireless
12 5 (4.20%) NGFW
12 5 (4.20%) OpenVPN
12 5 (4.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.84%) MySQL
3 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (12.61%) Git
2 14 (11.76%) GitLab
3 12 (10.08%) JIRA
4 9 (7.56%) Jenkins
5 6 (5.04%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.20%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.36%) Subversion
8 3 (2.52%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.84%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.84%) GCC
9 1 (0.84%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.84%) Maven
9 1 (0.84%) MSI
9 1 (0.84%) Robot Framework
General
1 45 (37.82%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.81%) Finance
3 12 (10.08%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.56%) Front Office
5 8 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.88%) Banking
6 7 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.20%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.20%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.52%) Military
10 2 (1.68%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.84%) Legal
11 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.84%) Police
11 1 (0.84%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 27 (22.69%) Network Engineer
2 16 (13.45%) Support Engineer
3 12 (10.08%) Architect
3 12 (10.08%) Security Engineer
4 11 (9.24%) Analyst
5 10 (8.40%) IT Support
6 9 (7.56%) Senior
7 8 (6.72%) Developer
8 7 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) 2nd Line Support
9 6 (5.04%) Desktop Support
9 6 (5.04%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) IT Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Junior
9 6 (5.04%) Network Security Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Support Technician
9 6 (5.04%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.20%) 1st Line Support
10 5 (4.20%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.88%) LDAP
1 7 (5.88%) Middleware
2 6 (5.04%) OpenID
3 5 (4.20%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (3.36%) SAML
4 4 (3.36%) Ultra Messaging
5 3 (2.52%) 802.1X
5 3 (2.52%) React
5 3 (2.52%) REST
6 2 (1.68%) .NET
6 2 (1.68%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.68%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.68%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.68%) Express.js
6 2 (1.68%) SOAP
6 2 (1.68%) WCF
6 2 (1.68%) Web Services
6 2 (1.68%) WPF
7 1 (0.84%) OAuth
7 1 (0.84%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.72%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.04%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.04%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.20%) FPGA
4 4 (3.36%) Mainframe
4 4 (3.36%) Replication
5 3 (2.52%) Clustering
5 3 (2.52%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.52%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.52%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.68%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.68%) PKI
6 2 (1.68%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.84%) iPhone
7 1 (0.84%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.84%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 45 (37.82%) Windows
2 30 (25.21%) Linux
3 12 (10.08%) Windows 10
4 6 (5.04%) Unix
4 6 (5.04%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.04%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (5.04%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (4.20%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.36%) zOS
7 3 (2.52%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.52%) Solaris
8 2 (1.68%) Android
9 1 (0.84%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (18.49%) DevOps
3 17 (14.29%) SIEM
4 16 (13.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (12.61%) Agile
5 15 (12.61%) CI/CD
6 14 (11.76%) Incident Response
6 14 (11.76%) Low Latency
6 14 (11.76%) Roadmaps
7 13 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (10.92%) High Availability
7 13 (10.92%) Information Security
8 12 (10.08%) Infrastructure Automation
8 12 (10.08%) Security Operations
9 11 (9.24%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (8.40%) Decision-Making
10 10 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (7.56%) Patch Management
11 9 (7.56%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (7.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (28.57%) Python
2 23 (19.33%) Bash
3 20 (16.81%) PowerShell
4 9 (7.56%) Perl
5 5 (4.20%) C
5 5 (4.20%) C++
6 3 (2.52%) C#
7 2 (1.68%) Java
7 2 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.68%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.84%) Go
8 1 (0.84%) SQL
8 1 (0.84%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.84%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (21.85%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.81%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.24%) Degree
4 9 (7.56%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.04%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.04%) CCNP
5 6 (5.04%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.36%) JNCIS
7 3 (2.52%) CCNA
7 3 (2.52%) CISSP
7 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.52%) JNCIP
7 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.68%) MCSA
9 1 (0.84%) CCIE
9 1 (0.84%) CCSP
9 1 (0.84%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.40%) GDPR
2 5 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.84%) SLA
5 1 (0.84%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (13.45%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.88%) Docker
3 6 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.20%) Squid
4 5 (4.20%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.36%) NFS
5 4 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (2.52%) Veritas File System
6 3 (2.52%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (1.68%) Ceph
7 2 (1.68%) Firmware
7 2 (1.68%) KVM
7 2 (1.68%) Lustre
7 2 (1.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.84%) GPFS
8 1 (0.84%) iptables
8 1 (0.84%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.84%) Samba
8 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (23.53%) Ansible
2 24 (20.17%) Terraform
3 19 (15.97%) SCCM
4 14 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 12 (10.08%) Grafana
6 11 (9.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (7.56%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (6.72%) WSUS
9 6 (5.04%) Kubernetes
9 6 (5.04%) QRadar
10 5 (4.20%) Consul
10 5 (4.20%) FortiGate
10 5 (4.20%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (3.36%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (3.36%) Tivoli NetView
12 1 (0.84%) BladeLogic
12 1 (0.84%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.84%) Puppet
12 1 (0.84%) Salt
12 1 (0.84%) SELinux
Vendors
1 20 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.29%) F5
2 17 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 12 (10.08%) CheckPoint
4 11 (9.24%) Red Hat
5 10 (8.40%) Cisco
5 10 (8.40%) Fortinet
5 10 (8.40%) Splunk
6 9 (7.56%) ServiceNow
7 8 (6.72%) Qualys
7 8 (6.72%) Zscaler
8 7 (5.88%) Atlassian
8 7 (5.88%) Bloomberg
9 6 (5.04%) Juniper
9 6 (5.04%) Sophos
9 6 (5.04%) VMware
10 5 (4.20%) Dynatrace
10 5 (4.20%) Solace
10 5 (4.20%) TIBCO
11 4 (3.36%) Reuters