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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 111 129
Rank change year-on-year -45 +18 -37
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 79 51 52
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.20% 1.47% 1.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.46% 8.59% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 38 45
10th Percentile £313 £153 £208
25th Percentile £403 £241 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £610 £488 £525
90th Percentile £769 £548 £550
England median daily rate £475 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 1
10th Percentile £25.00 £45.20 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £71.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £35.22 £89.63 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.71% +371.74% -67.74%
75th Percentile £65.22 - £19.50
90th Percentile £70.50 - -
England median hourly rate £63.48 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.34% - +30.00%

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 755 594 858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.44% 17.13% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 412 461
10th Percentile £254 £213 £255
25th Percentile £405 £348 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +10.50%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £608
90th Percentile £650 £638 £672
England median daily rate £500 £490 £508
% change year-on-year +2.04% -3.45% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 26 93
10th Percentile £17.50 £14.20 £27.00
25th Percentile £22.94 £28.00 £53.40
Median hourly rate £50.75 £55.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -4.10% -4.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.16 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.59 £89.63 £75.19
England median hourly rate £28.00 £41.48 £57.35
% change year-on-year -32.49% -27.68% +1.52%

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 8 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in the South East over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the South East

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 8 September 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 -13 66 £527 +17.17% 28
Berkshire -4 41 £509 +40.34% 15
Buckinghamshire -16 23 £587 +10.48% 9
Surrey -18 7 £413 +5.10% 28
Oxfordshire -25 2 £363 - 4
Hampshire -35 2 £700 +21.74% 19
Middlesex - 2 - -
West Sussex - 1 £525 - 6
Isle of Wight - 1 - - 2
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 12 (15.19%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.06%) FactoryTalk
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.53%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (2.53%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.53%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (2.53%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.53%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.53%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (2.53%) Houdini
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.53%) MS Visio
1 2 (2.53%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 53 (67.09%) Azure
2 30 (37.97%) AWS
3 17 (21.52%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (13.92%) OneDrive
5 10 (12.66%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (12.66%) Entra ID
6 9 (11.39%) GCP
6 9 (11.39%) OpenShift
6 9 (11.39%) Route 53
7 8 (10.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (5.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (5.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.53%) Google Workspace
11 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.27%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (69.62%) Firewall
2 54 (68.35%) DNS
3 42 (53.16%) DHCP
4 33 (41.77%) VPN
5 19 (24.05%) LAN
5 19 (24.05%) WAN
6 16 (20.25%) BGP
6 16 (20.25%) Network Security
6 16 (20.25%) VLAN
7 12 (15.19%) OSPF
8 9 (11.39%) DNSSEC
8 9 (11.39%) MPLS
9 8 (10.13%) BIG-IP
9 8 (10.13%) Cisco ASA
9 8 (10.13%) Cisco Firepower
9 8 (10.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 8 (10.13%) IPsec
9 8 (10.13%) SD-WAN
10 7 (8.86%) SSH
10 7 (8.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.80%) JIRA
2 2 (2.53%) GitLab
2 2 (2.53%) Introscope
2 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.27%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.27%) Git
General
1 40 (50.63%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.05%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.59%) Aerospace
3 6 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.06%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.06%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.53%) Advertising
6 2 (2.53%) Finance
6 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Military
6 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (24.05%) Architect
2 15 (18.99%) Senior
3 13 (16.46%) IT Support
4 12 (15.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (11.39%) Network Architect
5 9 (11.39%) Support Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) IT Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) Network Engineer
7 7 (8.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (8.86%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) IT Support Engineer
9 5 (6.33%) Automation Specialist
9 5 (6.33%) Lead
9 5 (6.33%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 3 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (3.80%) Lead Architect
11 3 (3.80%) Senior Network Engineer
11 3 (3.80%) Technical Architect
11 3 (3.80%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (31.65%) Terraform
2 11 (13.92%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.53%) JDBC
3 2 (2.53%) JMS
3 2 (2.53%) Kafka
3 2 (2.53%) Middleware
3 2 (2.53%) ModSecurity
3 2 (2.53%) NETCONF
3 2 (2.53%) OpenConfig
3 2 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.53%) RESTCONF
3 2 (2.53%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (2.53%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (2.53%) YANG
4 1 (1.27%) JSON
4 1 (1.27%) RESTful
4 1 (1.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.05%) Data Centre
1 19 (24.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (13.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 8 (10.13%) Management Information System
3 8 (10.13%) Onboarding
3 8 (10.13%) Operational Technology
3 8 (10.13%) SCADA
4 7 (8.86%) Cloud Native
5 6 (7.59%) Private Cloud
6 5 (6.33%) Public Cloud
7 4 (5.06%) ARM Cortex
7 4 (5.06%) Life Science
8 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.53%) Clustering
9 2 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (2.53%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (2.53%) Motion Graphics
9 2 (2.53%) Replication
9 2 (2.53%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 52 (65.82%) Windows
2 25 (31.65%) Windows Server
3 23 (29.11%) Linux
4 12 (15.19%) Mac OS
5 10 (12.66%) Apple iOS
6 4 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.53%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (2.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (2.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (45.57%) ITIL
2 31 (39.24%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (26.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (21.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (20.25%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (20.25%) DevOps
5 16 (20.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (17.72%) ITSM
6 14 (17.72%) Load Balancing
7 13 (16.46%) AI
8 12 (15.19%) CI/CD
8 12 (15.19%) Customer Service
8 12 (15.19%) High Availability
9 11 (13.92%) DDoS Mitigation
9 11 (13.92%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (13.92%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (13.92%) Root Cause Analysis
9 11 (13.92%) User Experience
9 11 (13.92%) Validation
10 10 (12.66%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.97%) PowerShell
2 21 (26.58%) Bash
3 20 (25.32%) Python
4 10 (12.66%) Bicep
5 2 (2.53%) Jython
5 2 (2.53%) Perl
5 2 (2.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (51.90%) Security Cleared
2 28 (35.44%) SC Cleared
3 25 (31.65%) Degree
4 14 (17.72%) DV Cleared
5 8 (10.13%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (7.59%) CCNP
6 6 (7.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (6.33%) Azure Certification
7 5 (6.33%) CCIE
7 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (2.53%) A+ Certification
9 2 (2.53%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.53%) CCNA
9 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.53%) JNCIE
9 2 (2.53%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (2.53%) PMP
10 1 (1.27%) CISM
10 1 (1.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) NCSC
2 4 (5.06%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 4 (5.06%) GxP
3 2 (2.53%) JSP 440
3 2 (2.53%) NIST
3 2 (2.53%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (29.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (22.78%) Active Directory
3 11 (13.92%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.06%) Docker
4 4 (5.06%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.53%) vSphere
6 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (24.05%) Ansible
2 18 (22.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (12.66%) Jamf Pro
3 10 (12.66%) Kubernetes
4 6 (7.59%) SCCM
5 5 (6.33%) Grafana
5 5 (6.33%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.80%) Istio
7 2 (2.53%) CA Wily
7 2 (2.53%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.27%) Rancher
8 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (56.96%) Microsoft
2 27 (34.18%) VMware
3 14 (17.72%) ServiceNow
4 13 (16.46%) Cisco
5 12 (15.19%) F5
6 11 (13.92%) Google
7 9 (11.39%) Infoblox
8 8 (10.13%) Palo Alto
9 7 (8.86%) Red Hat
10 5 (6.33%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (5.06%) Rockwell
11 4 (5.06%) SolarWinds
12 3 (3.80%) Juniper
13 2 (2.53%) Adobe
13 2 (2.53%) AppDynamics
13 2 (2.53%) Citrix
13 2 (2.53%) Fortinet
13 2 (2.53%) Foundry
13 2 (2.53%) IBM
13 2 (2.53%) Oracle