TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 101 126
Rank change year-on-year -33 +25 +24
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 70 61 63
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.51% 1.70% 1.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.48% 11.15% 9.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 24 50
10th Percentile £213 £150 £185
25th Percentile £300 £241 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £459
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +10.08% -8.25%
75th Percentile £578 £728 £636
90th Percentile £614 £750 £675
England median daily rate £475 £483 £438
% change year-on-year -1.55% +10.29% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £27.46 - -
25th Percentile £36.77 - £40.63
Median hourly rate £54.22 - £43.75
75th Percentile £67.25 - £46.88
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -23.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 561 547 692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.10% 15.28% 14.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 304 510
10th Percentile £170 £180 £250
25th Percentile £306 £275 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £487
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -7.55% +5.41%
75th Percentile £550 £558 £593
90th Percentile £666 £675 £672
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 23
10th Percentile - £12.59 £15.73
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.33 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £32.88 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -39.17% +85.55% -17.58%
75th Percentile £67.25 £51.23 £24.39
90th Percentile £74.26 £51.91 £46.88
England median hourly rate £34.50 £41.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -15.85% -27.36% +26.28%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in the North of England

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing TCP/IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing TCP/IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
North West -8 43 £505 +3.86% 29
Yorkshire -50 24 £331 -52.68% 18
North East -15 3 £400 +166.67% 6
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.86%) IIS
3 1 (1.43%) Confluence
3 1 (1.43%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.43%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Finacle
1 1 (1.43%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.71%) Azure
2 13 (18.57%) AWS
3 12 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (12.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 6 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (8.57%) Amazon ELB
6 6 (8.57%) Entra ID
7 4 (5.71%) SaaS
8 3 (4.29%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (2.86%) GCP
10 1 (1.43%) Apigee
10 1 (1.43%) AWS KMS
10 1 (1.43%) GitHub
10 1 (1.43%) IaaS
10 1 (1.43%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.43%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.43%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (71.43%) DNS
2 33 (47.14%) Firewall
3 31 (44.29%) SSL
4 19 (27.14%) HTTP
5 18 (25.71%) BIG-IP
6 17 (24.29%) VPN
6 17 (24.29%) Wireshark
7 15 (21.43%) DHCP
8 13 (18.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 13 (18.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 12 (17.14%) Network Security
10 11 (15.71%) LAN
10 11 (15.71%) WAN
11 8 (11.43%) VLAN
12 6 (8.57%) DMZ
13 5 (7.14%) BGP
14 4 (5.71%) SAN
14 4 (5.71%) SNMP
14 4 (5.71%) VoIP
14 4 (5.71%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.43%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (1.43%) Redis
1 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (24.29%) Fiddler
2 11 (15.71%) Jenkins
3 10 (14.29%) Git
4 6 (8.57%) GitLab
5 3 (4.29%) Postman
6 2 (2.86%) JIRA
7 1 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.43%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.43%) Travis CI
General
1 15 (21.43%) Banking
2 13 (18.57%) Investment Banking
3 9 (12.86%) Finance
4 8 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (7.14%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.43%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (47.14%) Network Engineer
2 14 (20.00%) Web Engineer
3 13 (18.57%) Senior
4 9 (12.86%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 9 (12.86%) IP Network Engineer
5 7 (10.00%) Analyst
5 7 (10.00%) Junior
5 7 (10.00%) Junior Network Engineer
5 7 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Service Analyst
6 6 (8.57%) Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) IT Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) IT Support
8 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) LDAP
2 1 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.43%) JSON
2 1 (1.43%) Middleware
2 1 (1.43%) Node.js
2 1 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.43%) RESTful
2 1 (1.43%) XML
2 1 (1.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 8 (11.43%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.14%) Replication
4 3 (4.29%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (4.29%) Clustering
4 3 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.29%) iPhone
4 3 (4.29%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.86%) PKI
6 1 (1.43%) CMDB
6 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.43%) IBM XIV
6 1 (1.43%) NHS
6 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 23 (32.86%) Windows
2 10 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 8 (11.43%) Linux
3 8 (11.43%) Windows 10
4 5 (7.14%) Android
5 4 (5.71%) Unix
6 3 (4.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.43%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.43%) Windows 8
7 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.71%) Load Balancing
2 14 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 13 (18.57%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 12 (17.14%) DevOps
5 11 (15.71%) High Availability
6 10 (14.29%) ITIL
7 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (12.86%) Migration
7 9 (12.86%) Project Delivery
8 8 (11.43%) CI/CD
8 8 (11.43%) Mentoring
9 7 (10.00%) DevSecOps
9 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (8.57%) Agile
10 6 (8.57%) Incident Response
11 5 (7.14%) Containerisation
11 5 (7.14%) Network Segmentation
11 5 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (41.43%) Python
2 14 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 11 (15.71%) Bash
4 6 (8.57%) Perl
5 2 (2.86%) SQL
6 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (7.14%) CCNP
5 4 (5.71%) CISSP
5 4 (5.71%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (4.29%) CCDP
6 3 (4.29%) CCNA
6 3 (4.29%) MCSA
6 3 (4.29%) MCSE
6 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.43%) CCA
7 1 (1.43%) CISM
7 1 (1.43%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.43%) QA
1 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (31.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 11 (15.71%) Docker
4 9 (12.86%) Firmware
5 4 (5.71%) VMware NSX
6 3 (4.29%) vSphere
7 2 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.43%) XenApp
8 1 (1.43%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (30.00%) Ansible
2 11 (15.71%) Terraform
3 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (10.00%) SCCM
4 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.71%) Puppet
5 3 (4.29%) CASB
5 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (4.29%) Nessus
6 2 (2.86%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.43%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.43%) Grafana
7 1 (1.43%) Kibana
7 1 (1.43%) logstash
7 1 (1.43%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (44.29%) F5
2 28 (40.00%) VMware
3 19 (27.14%) Blue Coat
4 18 (25.71%) McAfee
5 17 (24.29%) NetApp
6 16 (22.86%) Cisco
7 12 (17.14%) Microsoft
8 11 (15.71%) Palo Alto
9 9 (12.86%) SolarWinds
10 8 (11.43%) CheckPoint
11 6 (8.57%) Veeam
12 5 (7.14%) Meraki
12 5 (7.14%) Splunk
13 4 (5.71%) Dell
14 3 (4.29%) Citrix
14 3 (4.29%) CyberArk
14 3 (4.29%) Juniper
14 3 (4.29%) MuleSoft
14 3 (4.29%) Remedy
14 3 (4.29%) Tenable