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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 219 289
Rank change year-on-year -72 +70 -35
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 124 133 108
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 1.07% 0.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.91% 10.16% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 94 66
10th Percentile £241 £224 £275
25th Percentile £350 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £538 £625 £625
90th Percentile £575 £674 £681
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 £41.94 £54.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -23.05% -16.15% +3.92%

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 1,392 1,309 1,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.79% 10.56% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 926 835 1,115
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £409 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -11.31%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 51
10th Percentile £19.34 £24.21 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.21 £24.66 £16.56
Median hourly rate £26.11 £38.75 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.62% +64.89% -45.35%
75th Percentile £37.25 £50.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £62.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +44.62% -27.50% +116.22%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -6 7 £519 - 4
Central London -17 6 £300 -27.27% 15
North London - 2 - - 1
West London -23 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 (8.06%) nginx
2 8 (6.45%) Confluence
3 5 (4.03%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.81%) Apache
5 1 (0.81%) CICS
5 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.81%) Traefik
5 1 (0.81%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 46 (37.10%) AWS
2 33 (26.61%) Azure
3 26 (20.97%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (16.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 16 (12.90%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (12.10%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (11.29%) Amazon S3
7 14 (11.29%) Route 53
8 12 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (9.68%) GCP
8 12 (9.68%) Serverless
9 11 (8.87%) Entra ID
10 6 (4.84%) Google Workspace
11 5 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.42%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (2.42%) Google Drive
12 3 (2.42%) OneDrive
13 2 (1.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 63 (50.81%) DNS
2 53 (42.74%) Firewall
3 47 (37.90%) VPN
4 27 (21.77%) Network Security
5 22 (17.74%) DHCP
6 19 (15.32%) HTTP
7 13 (10.48%) BGP
7 13 (10.48%) SSL
8 10 (8.06%) OSPF
9 9 (7.26%) OpenVPN
9 9 (7.26%) VLAN
9 9 (7.26%) WAN
10 7 (5.65%) HTTPS
10 7 (5.65%) LAN
11 6 (4.84%) APPN
11 6 (4.84%) DMZ
11 6 (4.84%) Internet
11 6 (4.84%) SNA
12 5 (4.03%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (4.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.87%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.42%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.61%) MySQL
3 2 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (11.29%) JIRA
2 10 (8.06%) Git
2 10 (8.06%) GitLab
3 7 (5.65%) Bitbucket
3 7 (5.65%) SonarQube
4 5 (4.03%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (2.42%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.61%) Subversion
General
1 42 (33.87%) Social Skills
2 28 (22.58%) Finance
3 11 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.06%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (7.26%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.65%) Banking
6 7 (5.65%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.84%) Front Office
8 5 (4.03%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.42%) Military
10 2 (1.61%) Games
10 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.61%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.61%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.81%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.81%) Law
11 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Police
11 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (16.94%) Network Engineer
2 17 (13.71%) Security Engineer
3 16 (12.90%) Support Engineer
4 14 (11.29%) Architect
5 12 (9.68%) Analyst
6 8 (6.45%) Web Engineer
7 7 (5.65%) AWS Architect
7 7 (5.65%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (5.65%) Senior
8 6 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) Desktop Support
8 6 (4.84%) Help Desk Analyst
8 6 (4.84%) Junior
8 6 (4.84%) Network Security Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) Technical Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) Technical Support
8 6 (4.84%) Technical Support Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Desktop Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Support Technician
9 5 (4.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.48%) LDAP
2 9 (7.26%) OpenID
2 9 (7.26%) SAML
3 4 (3.23%) OAuth
4 3 (2.42%) 802.1X
4 3 (2.42%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.42%) HTML
5 2 (1.61%) eBPF
5 2 (1.61%) HTML5
5 2 (1.61%) Loki
5 2 (1.61%) Middleware
6 1 (0.81%) .NET
6 1 (0.81%) CSS
6 1 (0.81%) EDI
6 1 (0.81%) LAMP
6 1 (0.81%) SOAP
6 1 (0.81%) WCF
6 1 (0.81%) Web Services
6 1 (0.81%) WPF
6 1 (0.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.68%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.65%) Mainframe
4 6 (4.84%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (4.03%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (3.23%) Client/Server
6 4 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (3.23%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.42%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.42%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.61%) FPGA
8 2 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.61%) iPhone
8 2 (1.61%) PKI
8 2 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.81%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 34 (27.42%) Windows
2 13 (10.48%) Linux
3 9 (7.26%) Mac OS
4 8 (6.45%) Windows Server
5 7 (5.65%) zOS
6 6 (4.84%) Windows 10
7 5 (4.03%) Apple iOS
8 4 (3.23%) Android
9 3 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.61%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.81%) CentOS
11 1 (0.81%) Unix
11 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (15.32%) DevOps
3 14 (11.29%) Roadmaps
4 13 (10.48%) Runbook
4 13 (10.48%) Security Operations
4 13 (10.48%) SIEM
5 12 (9.68%) Incident Response
5 12 (9.68%) ITIL
6 11 (8.87%) Agile
6 11 (8.87%) Decision-Making
6 11 (8.87%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (8.06%) High Availability
7 10 (8.06%) Load Balancing
8 9 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (7.26%) Information Security
8 9 (7.26%) Service Management
9 8 (6.45%) Incident Management
9 8 (6.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (6.45%) Migration
10 7 (5.65%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 31 (25.00%) Python
2 23 (18.55%) Bash
3 14 (11.29%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.84%) C
5 4 (3.23%) C++
5 4 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.42%) SQL
7 2 (1.61%) Go
8 1 (0.81%) C#
8 1 (0.81%) Java
8 1 (0.81%) Perl
8 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.68%) Degree
4 10 (8.06%) CCNP
4 10 (8.06%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.65%) CCNA
7 6 (4.84%) Azure Certification
8 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (3.23%) MCSA
10 3 (2.42%) CISSP
11 2 (1.61%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.81%) CCSA
12 1 (0.81%) CCSE
12 1 (0.81%) CEH
12 1 (0.81%) CISM
12 1 (0.81%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.81%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.03%) GDPR
1 5 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.42%) NIST
3 1 (0.81%) QA
3 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.48%) Squid
3 8 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.42%) Docker
4 3 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.61%) Ceph
5 2 (1.61%) KVM
5 2 (1.61%) NFS
5 2 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.61%) vSphere
6 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.81%) iptables
6 1 (0.81%) Lustre
6 1 (0.81%) RACF
6 1 (0.81%) Samba
6 1 (0.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (16.94%) Terraform
2 16 (12.90%) Grafana
2 16 (12.90%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (12.10%) Ansible
3 15 (12.10%) Kubernetes
3 15 (12.10%) SCCM
4 13 (10.48%) Prometheus
5 12 (9.68%) FortiGate
6 8 (6.45%) WSUS
7 7 (5.65%) Consul
8 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (4.84%) Tivoli NetView
9 4 (3.23%) QRadar
9 4 (3.23%) Suricata
10 2 (1.61%) Cilium
10 2 (1.61%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.81%) Istio
11 1 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.81%) SELinux
Vendors
1 25 (20.16%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.68%) Red Hat
3 11 (8.87%) Bloomberg
4 10 (8.06%) Citrix
5 9 (7.26%) Cisco
5 9 (7.26%) Dynatrace
5 9 (7.26%) Zscaler
6 8 (6.45%) Atlassian
6 8 (6.45%) Netskope
7 7 (5.65%) IBM
8 6 (4.84%) F5
8 6 (4.84%) Google
8 6 (4.84%) Palo Alto
8 6 (4.84%) Reuters
9 5 (4.03%) Fortinet
9 5 (4.03%) ION Trading
9 5 (4.03%) Sophos
10 4 (3.23%) Apple
10 4 (3.23%) Blue Coat
10 4 (3.23%) VMware