TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 15 0 17
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.99% - 4.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.43% - 22.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 17
10th Percentile £339 - £506
25th Percentile £511 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £639 - £550
90th Percentile £654 - £554
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £595 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 70 13 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.30% 7.60% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 8 58
10th Percentile £306 £249 £369
25th Percentile £463 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.87% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £541 £558
90th Percentile £643 £606 £825
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +11.17% -4.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.58
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £14.20 £22.55
% change year-on-year - -37.03% +18.68%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TCP/IP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing TCP/IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in Milton Keynes

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing TCP/IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) DNS
2 4 (26.67%) Network Security
2 4 (26.67%) Wireless
3 3 (20.00%) BGP
3 3 (20.00%) BIG-IP
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall
3 3 (20.00%) ICMP
3 3 (20.00%) IPsec
3 3 (20.00%) LAN
3 3 (20.00%) NGFW
3 3 (20.00%) OSPF
3 3 (20.00%) WAN
4 1 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (6.67%) VLAN
4 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Analyst
2 7 (46.67%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (33.33%) Senior
4 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
5 3 (20.00%) Lead
5 3 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (13.33%) IT Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Field Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Network Field Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Splunk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Cyberattack
1 8 (53.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Security Operations
2 9 (60.00%) SIEM
3 8 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (53.33%) Incident Response
4 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 3 (20.00%) High Availability
6 3 (20.00%) Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
7 2 (13.33%) ITIL
7 2 (13.33%) ITSM
7 2 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (13.33%) Service Management
7 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (6.67%) Network Segmentation
8 1 (6.67%) Security Monitoring
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (46.67%) DV Cleared
4 5 (33.33%) CompTIA CySA+
4 5 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (33.33%) Degree
5 2 (13.33%) A+ Certification
5 2 (13.33%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Splunk
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) F5
2 3 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Aruba
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow