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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 119 145
Rank change year-on-year -37 +26 -27
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 64 35 62
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.02% 1.12% 1.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.49% 6.29% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 30 55
10th Percentile £375 £210 £227
25th Percentile £425 £352 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.67% - +4.65%
75th Percentile £640 £541 £538
90th Percentile £769 £575 £550
England median daily rate £470 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +1.62% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 1
10th Percentile £25.00 - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +47.37% -68.71%
75th Percentile £34.49 - £19.50
90th Percentile £35.22 - -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -48.00% -3.85% +16.26%

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 754 556 1,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.99% 17.80% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 366 560
10th Percentile £281 £220 £212
25th Percentile £411 £325 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
England median daily rate £500 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 27 141
10th Percentile £17.55 £14.20 £17.63
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.76 £36.75
Median hourly rate £42.25 £50.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -15.50% -12.82% -0.26%
75th Percentile £56.21 £58.72 £70.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.56 £85.65
England median hourly rate £27.88 £41.00 £46.69
% change year-on-year -32.00% -12.19% +125.50%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -14 55 £525 +7.69% 20
Berkshire -14 37 £470 +4.44% 12
Buckinghamshire -23 18 £560 +5.31% 5
Hampshire - 6 £663 - 16
Surrey -26 2 £439 +25.43% 15
Isle of Wight - 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 10 (15.63%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (3.13%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.13%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (3.13%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (1.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.25%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (51.56%) Azure
2 30 (46.88%) AWS
3 13 (20.31%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (15.63%) OneDrive
5 9 (14.06%) GCP
5 9 (14.06%) Route 53
6 8 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.56%) IaaS
9 1 (1.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 40 (62.50%) DNS
2 38 (59.38%) Firewall
3 27 (42.19%) DHCP
4 23 (35.94%) WAN
5 21 (32.81%) BGP
5 21 (32.81%) LAN
6 18 (28.13%) OSPF
7 17 (26.56%) VLAN
7 17 (26.56%) VPN
8 15 (23.44%) MPLS
8 15 (23.44%) Network Security
9 11 (17.19%) SD-WAN
10 10 (15.63%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (14.06%) DNSSEC
12 8 (12.50%) BIG-IP
12 8 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
12 8 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 8 (12.50%) IPsec
13 6 (9.38%) ICMP
13 6 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) JIRA
2 2 (3.13%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (3.13%) GitLab
2 2 (3.13%) Introscope
2 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (54.69%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.94%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (9.38%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Finance
6 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Aviation
7 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 16 (25.00%) Architect
2 11 (17.19%) Network Engineer
3 10 (15.63%) IT Support
4 8 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 8 (12.50%) Senior
5 5 (7.81%) IT Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Lead
5 5 (7.81%) Network Manager
6 4 (6.25%) Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Network Project Manager
6 4 (6.25%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared Project Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.69%) NETCONF
1 3 (4.69%) OpenConfig
1 3 (4.69%) RESTCONF
1 3 (4.69%) YANG
2 2 (3.13%) JDBC
2 2 (3.13%) JMS
2 2 (3.13%) Kafka
2 2 (3.13%) Middleware
2 2 (3.13%) ModSecurity
2 2 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (3.13%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (1.56%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.38%) Data Centre
2 11 (17.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 7 (10.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (7.81%) Private Cloud
5 4 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.25%) Cyberattack
5 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 4 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.69%) Industry 4.0
6 3 (4.69%) Robotics
6 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (3.13%) Clustering
7 2 (3.13%) Operational Technology
7 2 (3.13%) SCADA
7 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (45.31%) Windows
2 12 (18.75%) Mac OS
3 10 (15.63%) Apple iOS
4 7 (10.94%) Linux
5 2 (3.13%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (3.13%) Unix
5 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (48.44%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (42.19%) ITIL
3 14 (21.88%) Customer Service
4 13 (20.31%) High Availability
4 13 (20.31%) ITSM
5 12 (18.75%) AI
5 12 (18.75%) Incident Response
5 12 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (17.19%) DDoS Mitigation
6 11 (17.19%) Load Balancing
6 11 (17.19%) User Experience
7 10 (15.63%) Data Protection
7 10 (15.63%) Migration
7 10 (15.63%) Mobile Device Management
7 10 (15.63%) Time Management
8 9 (14.06%) Agile
8 9 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (14.06%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (14.06%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (12.50%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.00%) Python
2 10 (15.63%) Bash
3 9 (14.06%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.13%) Jython
4 2 (3.13%) Perl
4 2 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 28 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 21 (32.81%) Degree
4 12 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (17.19%) DV Cleared
6 9 (14.06%) CCNP
7 8 (12.50%) CCIE
8 4 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (6.25%) PMP
9 3 (4.69%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (4.69%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (4.69%) JNCIE
9 3 (4.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (3.13%) A+ Certification
10 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
10 2 (3.13%) BC Cleared
10 2 (3.13%) ISTQB
11 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) NCSC
2 2 (3.13%) JSP 440
2 2 (3.13%) NIST
2 2 (3.13%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.56%) GRC
3 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.25%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (15.63%) Ansible
1 10 (15.63%) Jamf Pro
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (15.63%) Terraform
2 3 (4.69%) Nagios
3 2 (3.13%) CA Wily
3 2 (3.13%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (3.13%) Iperf
3 2 (3.13%) Nmap
3 2 (3.13%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.56%) SCCM
4 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 18 (28.13%) Cisco
3 13 (20.31%) F5
4 12 (18.75%) ServiceNow
5 10 (15.63%) Palo Alto
6 9 (14.06%) Google
6 9 (14.06%) Infoblox
6 9 (14.06%) SolarWinds
6 9 (14.06%) VMware
7 7 (10.94%) Fortinet
8 6 (9.38%) Juniper
9 4 (6.25%) Splunk
10 3 (4.69%) Siemens
11 2 (3.13%) Aruba
11 2 (3.13%) CheckPoint
11 2 (3.13%) Citrix
11 2 (3.13%) IBM
11 2 (3.13%) Oracle
11 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
11 2 (3.13%) Tufin