TCP/IP Contract Job Trends in the South East

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 114 138
Rank change year-on-year -32 +24 -3
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 61 40 73
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.11% 1.35% 1.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.39% 7.68% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 21 69
10th Percentile £375 £210 £148
25th Percentile £425 £350 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -14.69%
75th Percentile £606 £615 £538
90th Percentile £655 £675 £550
England median daily rate £470 £503 £450
% change year-on-year -6.47% +11.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £72.21 £19.45 -
25th Percentile £75.53 £20.88 -
Median hourly rate £81.05 £23.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +244.89% -6.00% -45.89%
75th Percentile £83.53 £25.88 -
90th Percentile £85.01 £27.15 -
England median hourly rate £41.94 £50.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year -16.12% +60.00% -50.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 727 521 1,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.24% 17.64% 23.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 317 644
10th Percentile £261 £209 £205
25th Percentile £406 £350 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £568
90th Percentile £675 £643 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 30 120
10th Percentile £16.06 £14.20 £16.23
25th Percentile £20.32 £25.50 £24.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £44.94 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% -21.64% +27.44%
75th Percentile £56.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.78 £71.63 £85.65
England median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +19.83% +7.69% +71.05%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in the South East

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing TCP/IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the South East over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the South East

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing TCP/IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 31 March 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
Thames Valley -21 48 £538 -7.73% 15
Berkshire -36 24 £430 -21.82% 9
Buckinghamshire -7 22 £560 -9.31% 5
Hampshire -19 8 £500 +150.00% 13
Surrey -11 4 £560 +60.00% 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £425 - 1
Isle of Wight - 1 - - 1
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (3.28%) Apache
1 2 (3.28%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (3.28%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.28%) WebSphere
1 2 (3.28%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (3.28%) WebSphere Portal
1 2 (3.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (13.11%) MS Visio
2 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (32.79%) Azure
2 18 (29.51%) AWS
3 5 (8.20%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (8.20%) Entra ID
3 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.64%) Akamai
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.64%) IaaS
5 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (54.10%) Firewall
2 32 (52.46%) DNS
3 22 (36.07%) WAN
4 20 (32.79%) BGP
4 20 (32.79%) DHCP
4 20 (32.79%) VLAN
5 18 (29.51%) LAN
6 17 (27.87%) VPN
7 16 (26.23%) OSPF
8 15 (24.59%) Network Security
9 11 (18.03%) MPLS
10 6 (9.84%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (9.84%) SD-WAN
11 5 (8.20%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (8.20%) Wireless
11 5 (8.20%) WLAN
12 4 (6.56%) IPv4
12 4 (6.56%) IPv6
12 4 (6.56%) SAN
12 4 (6.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (6.56%) JIRA
2 3 (4.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.28%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (3.28%) GitLab
3 2 (3.28%) Introscope
General
1 24 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.28%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.28%) Aviation
5 2 (3.28%) Finance
5 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Senior
2 15 (24.59%) Network Engineer
3 9 (14.75%) Analyst
3 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) SOC Analyst
5 5 (8.20%) Network Manager
5 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) IP Specialist
6 4 (6.56%) Network Project Manager
6 4 (6.56%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Designer
7 3 (4.92%) Lead
7 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared Project Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Designer
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Network Designer
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.56%) NETCONF
1 4 (6.56%) OpenConfig
1 4 (6.56%) RESTCONF
1 4 (6.56%) YANG
2 2 (3.28%) JDBC
2 2 (3.28%) JMS
2 2 (3.28%) Kafka
2 2 (3.28%) Middleware
2 2 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (3.28%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (1.64%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.64%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.31%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.11%) Cyberattack
2 8 (13.11%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (9.84%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (8.20%) PKI
4 5 (8.20%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (4.92%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.92%) Industry 4.0
6 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.92%) Robotics
7 2 (3.28%) Clustering
8 1 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.64%) Smartphone
8 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (45.90%) Windows
2 21 (34.43%) Linux
3 9 (14.75%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.92%) Debian
4 3 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.92%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.28%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (3.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (3.28%) Unix
6 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (39.34%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (26.23%) ITIL
3 13 (21.31%) Incident Response
3 13 (21.31%) SIEM
4 12 (19.67%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (19.67%) Security Operations
5 10 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (16.39%) Network Design
6 9 (14.75%) Agile
6 9 (14.75%) Migration
7 7 (11.48%) Customer Service
7 7 (11.48%) High Availability
7 7 (11.48%) Network Monitoring
7 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (11.48%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (9.84%) CI/CD
8 6 (9.84%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (9.84%) Project Management
9 5 (8.20%) Computer Science
9 5 (8.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.95%) Python
2 10 (16.39%) PowerShell
3 9 (14.75%) Bash
4 5 (8.20%) SQL
5 2 (3.28%) Jython
5 2 (3.28%) Perl
5 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (65.57%) Security Cleared
2 33 (54.10%) SC Cleared
3 15 (24.59%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (21.31%) DV Cleared
5 11 (18.03%) CCNP
6 8 (13.11%) Degree
7 6 (9.84%) CCIE
7 6 (9.84%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (8.20%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (8.20%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (6.56%) AWS Certification
9 4 (6.56%) CCNA
9 4 (6.56%) JNCIE
9 4 (6.56%) JNCIS
9 4 (6.56%) PMP
10 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (3.28%) BC Cleared
11 2 (3.28%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) NCSC
2 1 (1.64%) GRC
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 14 (22.95%) Active Directory
2 13 (21.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.20%) Docker
3 5 (8.20%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.64%) KVM
4 1 (1.64%) RHEV
4 1 (1.64%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (21.31%) Ansible
2 9 (14.75%) Nagios
3 5 (8.20%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.20%) Terraform
4 4 (6.56%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.28%) CA Wily
6 2 (3.28%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (3.28%) Iperf
6 2 (3.28%) Nmap
6 2 (3.28%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.64%) Grafana
7 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.64%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.64%) Puppet
7 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.64%) SCCM
7 1 (1.64%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 20 (32.79%) Cisco
2 16 (26.23%) VMware
3 14 (22.95%) Microsoft
4 13 (21.31%) Juniper
5 12 (19.67%) F5
6 11 (18.03%) SolarWinds
7 10 (16.39%) Splunk
8 9 (14.75%) Fortinet
9 7 (11.48%) Red Hat
10 6 (9.84%) Palo Alto
11 3 (4.92%) Siemens
12 2 (3.28%) AppDynamics
12 2 (3.28%) Aruba
12 2 (3.28%) CheckPoint
12 2 (3.28%) Citrix
12 2 (3.28%) IBM
12 2 (3.28%) Oracle
12 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
12 2 (3.28%) Tufin
12 2 (3.28%) Zscaler