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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 212 239
Rank change year-on-year -53 +27 +28
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 195 161 148
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 1.20% 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.88% 12.32% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 94 90
10th Percentile £181 £233 £225
25th Percentile £296 £389 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £551 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.83% +5.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £649
90th Percentile £638 £750 £704
England median daily rate £475 £492 £475
% change year-on-year -3.46% +3.58% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £48.05 £24.72 -
25th Percentile £56.38 £32.61 -
Median hourly rate £62.00 £54.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.76% - -
75th Percentile £65.69 £62.75 -
90th Percentile £70.53 £63.05 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +29.49%

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 1,642 1,307 1,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.07% 9.75% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,035 838 950
10th Percentile £294 £282 £256
25th Percentile £404 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.31%
75th Percentile £615 £630 £631
90th Percentile £725 £711 £725
England median daily rate £500 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 36 19
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.66 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.50 - £24.59
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -28.14% +32.08%
75th Percentile £95.00 £39.06 £55.88
90th Percentile £155.00 £59.88 £66.38
England median hourly rate £38.72 £35.00 £57.43
% change year-on-year +10.63% -39.05% +1.66%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 25 £299 -37.11% 29
West London -22 5 £450 -13.04% 9
South London -13 4 - - 2
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 26 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 19 (9.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (5.64%) Confluence
4 4 (2.05%) nginx
5 3 (1.54%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.51%) CICS
6 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 66 (33.85%) Microsoft 365
2 54 (27.69%) Azure
3 46 (23.59%) Entra ID
4 31 (15.90%) AWS
5 16 (8.21%) OneDrive
6 12 (6.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (4.10%) GCP
7 8 (4.10%) GitHub
8 6 (3.08%) Google Workspace
8 6 (3.08%) SaaS
9 5 (2.56%) Akamai
9 5 (2.56%) Datadog
10 4 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.03%) Cloudflare
12 2 (1.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 108 (55.38%) DNS
2 71 (36.41%) Firewall
3 62 (31.79%) DHCP
4 58 (29.74%) VPN
5 43 (22.05%) Network Security
6 29 (14.87%) HTTP
7 28 (14.36%) WAN
8 25 (12.82%) SSL
9 22 (11.28%) BGP
9 22 (11.28%) LAN
10 18 (9.23%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (9.23%) Wireless
11 17 (8.72%) VLAN
12 14 (7.18%) Internet
13 9 (4.62%) Kerberos
13 9 (4.62%) SAN
14 8 (4.10%) Ethernet
14 8 (4.10%) OSPF
15 7 (3.59%) DMZ
15 7 (3.59%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.10%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.10%) SQLite
3 4 (2.05%) MySQL
3 4 (2.05%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.54%) KDB
5 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.03%) Redis
6 1 (0.51%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.51%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 26 (13.33%) Git
2 16 (8.21%) JIRA
3 15 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.10%) GitLab
5 6 (3.08%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.03%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.03%) Selenium
6 2 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.51%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.51%) MSI
7 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (42.56%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.00%) Finance
3 36 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.72%) Banking
5 13 (6.67%) Front Office
6 11 (5.64%) Telecoms
7 10 (5.13%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.05%) Automotive
8 4 (2.05%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.54%) Local Government
10 1 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.51%) Law
10 1 (0.51%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Military
10 1 (0.51%) Retail
10 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (18.46%) Network Engineer
1 36 (18.46%) Support Engineer
2 26 (13.33%) Senior
3 21 (10.77%) Analyst
4 20 (10.26%) IT Engineer
4 20 (10.26%) IT Support
5 19 (9.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (9.23%) IT Support Engineer
6 18 (9.23%) Linux Engineer
7 17 (8.72%) Security Engineer
8 12 (6.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (6.15%) Support Analyst
9 10 (5.13%) Senior Network Engineer
10 9 (4.62%) Desktop Analyst
10 9 (4.62%) Desktop Support
10 9 (4.62%) Desktop Support Analyst
11 8 (4.10%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.10%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.28%) Terraform
2 9 (4.62%) .NET
3 8 (4.10%) SPNEGO
4 7 (3.59%) SAML
5 5 (2.56%) Kafka
5 5 (2.56%) REST
5 5 (2.56%) Software Packaging
6 4 (2.05%) 802.1X
6 4 (2.05%) boto
6 4 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.05%) OpenTofu
6 4 (2.05%) WinForms
7 3 (1.54%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.54%) LDAP
7 3 (1.54%) pytest
8 2 (1.03%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.03%) CSS
8 2 (1.03%) Middleware
8 2 (1.03%) OAuth
8 2 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.90%) Onboarding
2 22 (11.28%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.15%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (5.64%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (4.62%) Enterprise Storage
6 8 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.10%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.59%) PKI
7 7 (3.59%) Security Posture
8 6 (3.08%) Distributed Applications
8 6 (3.08%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (2.56%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (2.56%) IoT
9 5 (2.56%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.56%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.05%) Robotics
10 4 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 89 (45.64%) Windows
2 52 (26.67%) Linux
3 26 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 24 (12.31%) Windows 10
5 20 (10.26%) Mac OS
6 13 (6.67%) Unix
7 11 (5.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (4.62%) Ubuntu
9 7 (3.59%) Android
10 5 (2.56%) Apple iOS
11 2 (1.03%) zOS
12 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (17.44%) ITIL
3 33 (16.92%) DevOps
4 32 (16.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 32 (16.41%) Migration
5 29 (14.87%) Incident Response
6 28 (14.36%) CI/CD
6 28 (14.36%) Customer Service
6 28 (14.36%) ITSM
7 27 (13.85%) Incident Management
8 26 (13.33%) Change Management
9 22 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (10.26%) Load Balancing
11 20 (10.26%) Service Management
11 20 (10.26%) SIEM
12 19 (9.74%) Runbook
12 19 (9.74%) User Experience
13 18 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (8.72%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 59 (30.26%) Python
2 39 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 26 (13.33%) Bash
4 11 (5.64%) Perl
4 11 (5.64%) SQL
5 9 (4.62%) C++
6 8 (4.10%) Java
6 8 (4.10%) Korn
7 7 (3.59%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.08%) C#
9 4 (2.05%) Go
10 3 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.54%) VBScript
11 2 (1.03%) Bicep
11 2 (1.03%) C
11 2 (1.03%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (9.74%) Degree
2 16 (8.21%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (8.21%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.67%) CCNP
4 12 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (5.13%) CISSP
5 10 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.62%) CCNA
6 9 (4.62%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.10%) Network+ Certification
8 6 (3.08%) A+ Certification
9 5 (2.56%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.05%) CCIE
10 4 (2.05%) CISM
10 4 (2.05%) JNCIP
10 4 (2.05%) JNCIS
11 2 (1.03%) GCIA
11 2 (1.03%) GCIH
11 2 (1.03%) GIAC
11 2 (1.03%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.69%) SLA
2 5 (2.56%) QA
3 4 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.05%) NIST
4 3 (1.54%) GDPR
5 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.03%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.03%) NCSC
5 2 (1.03%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 64 (32.82%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.08%) Docker
5 4 (2.05%) Squid
6 3 (1.54%) vSphere
7 2 (1.03%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.51%) Firmware
8 1 (0.51%) RACF
8 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.51%) zsh
Systems Management
1 31 (15.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (14.36%) Ansible
3 17 (8.72%) Grafana
4 13 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (6.15%) SCCM
6 8 (4.10%) FortiGate
7 6 (3.08%) Kubernetes
7 6 (3.08%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.08%) systemd
8 4 (2.05%) Suricata
8 4 (2.05%) WSUS
9 3 (1.54%) SELinux
10 2 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.51%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.51%) Puppet
11 1 (0.51%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 1 (0.51%) Tivoli NetView
11 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 83 (42.56%) Microsoft
2 34 (17.44%) Cisco
3 21 (10.77%) ServiceNow
4 19 (9.74%) Zscaler
5 17 (8.72%) VMware
6 15 (7.69%) F5
7 13 (6.67%) Splunk
8 11 (5.64%) Bloomberg
8 11 (5.64%) Juniper
9 10 (5.13%) Fortinet
10 9 (4.62%) Palo Alto
11 8 (4.10%) Citrix
11 8 (4.10%) Google
11 8 (4.10%) NetApp
12 7 (3.59%) Arista
12 7 (3.59%) Okta
13 6 (3.08%) Remedy
14 5 (2.56%) ION Trading
14 5 (2.56%) Netskope
15 4 (2.05%) Refinitiv