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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 36 34
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 0
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 17 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.80% 1.59% 3.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.15% 14.81% 23.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 9
10th Percentile £545 £513 £450
25th Percentile £607 £514 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £532 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.06% +1.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £769 £547 £550
90th Percentile £775 £555 £590
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £622 £532 £525
% change year-on-year +17.06% +1.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £21.88 - -
25th Percentile £33.70 - -
Median hourly rate £38.72 - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 - -

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 65 27 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 10.71% 10.76% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 12 37
10th Percentile £456 £281 £394
25th Percentile £557 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year +16.19% +3.96% -6.48%
75th Percentile £629 £547 £550
90th Percentile £714 £574 £588
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £605 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +27.37% -5.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £16.45 - -
25th Percentile £17.50 - -
Median hourly rate £38.72 - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile £52.75 - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 - -

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 6 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in Milton Keynes

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) FactoryTalk
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (29.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (23.53%) AWS
4 4 (23.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
4 4 (23.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (88.24%) Firewall
2 12 (70.59%) DNS
3 11 (64.71%) VPN
4 8 (47.06%) DHCP
4 8 (47.06%) VLAN
5 6 (35.29%) SSH
6 5 (29.41%) Network Security
7 4 (23.53%) BGP
7 4 (23.53%) BIG-IP
7 4 (23.53%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (23.53%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (23.53%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (23.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (23.53%) IPsec
7 4 (23.53%) LAN
7 4 (23.53%) MPLS
7 4 (23.53%) OSPF
7 4 (23.53%) SD-WAN
7 4 (23.53%) WAN
8 2 (11.76%) ICMP
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Manufacturing
2 4 (23.53%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
4 2 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Military
5 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Senior
1 5 (29.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Automation Specialist
3 3 (17.65%) Lead
3 3 (17.65%) Lead Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Network Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Network Technical Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) Terraform
2 7 (41.18%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (35.29%) Onboarding
3 4 (23.53%) ARM Cortex
3 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
3 4 (23.53%) Life Science
3 4 (23.53%) Operational Technology
3 4 (23.53%) Private Cloud
3 4 (23.53%) SCADA
4 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
4 3 (17.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 11 (64.71%) Windows Server
3 7 (41.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (58.82%) Validation
2 8 (47.06%) ITIL
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 7 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (35.29%) Analytics
4 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
4 6 (35.29%) Data Collection
4 6 (35.29%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (35.29%) Log Analytics
5 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (29.41%) Network Virtualisation
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) Resource Management
5 5 (29.41%) Security Hardening
5 5 (29.41%) Server Patching
5 5 (29.41%) Service Management
5 5 (29.41%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) PowerShell
2 7 (41.18%) Bash
2 7 (41.18%) Bicep
3 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 11 (64.71%) Degree
3 10 (58.82%) DV Cleared
4 3 (17.65%) CCNP
4 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (17.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (11.76%) CCIE
5 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
6 1 (5.88%) A+ Certification
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (23.53%) GxP
1 4 (23.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
2 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (23.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Ansible
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (23.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (47.06%) VMware
3 5 (29.41%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (23.53%) Cisco
4 4 (23.53%) F5
4 4 (23.53%) Palo Alto
4 4 (23.53%) Rockwell
4 4 (23.53%) SolarWinds
5 2 (11.76%) Google
6 1 (5.88%) Remedy
6 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow