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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 126 134
Rank change year-on-year -31 +8 -33
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 79 41 57
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.19% 1.19% 1.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.86% 6.84% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 30 50
10th Percentile £324 £153 £203
25th Percentile £400 £269 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £417 £425
Median % change year-on-year +26.44% -1.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £622 £538 £534
90th Percentile £769 £562 £560
England median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -3.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 1
10th Percentile £27.50 £45.20 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £71.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £89.63 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.74% +371.74% -68.71%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.72 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -40.43% - +28.92%

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 801 599 1,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.10% 17.43% 19.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 405 529
10th Percentile £280 £204 £260
25th Percentile £410 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -1.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £608
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 31 111
10th Percentile £17.61 £14.20 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.63 £51.06
Median hourly rate £42.48 £55.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -22.77% -4.10% -0.26%
75th Percentile £56.21 £70.16 £70.00
90th Percentile £63.54 £89.63 £85.25
England median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -40.62% -9.09% -

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -5 67 £525 +16.67% 15
Berkshire +1 40 £495 +10.00% 7
Buckinghamshire -22 25 £587 +10.48% 3
Surrey -27 5 £413 -21.43% 16
Hampshire -33 4 £688 +79.04% 13
Oxfordshire -26 2 £363 - 5
Middlesex - 2 - - 1
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 12 (15.19%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.06%) FactoryTalk
3 2 (2.53%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
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 7 (8.86%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (5.06%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.53%) Houdini
3 2 (2.53%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 46 (58.23%) Azure
2 32 (40.51%) AWS
3 16 (20.25%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (13.92%) OneDrive
5 9 (11.39%) Entra ID
5 9 (11.39%) GCP
5 9 (11.39%) Route 53
6 8 (10.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (7.59%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (6.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (5.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (3.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.53%) Google Workspace
11 2 (2.53%) OpenShift
12 1 (1.27%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (64.56%) DNS
1 51 (64.56%) Firewall
2 38 (48.10%) DHCP
3 28 (35.44%) VPN
4 24 (30.38%) WAN
5 22 (27.85%) BGP
5 22 (27.85%) LAN
6 21 (26.58%) VLAN
7 17 (21.52%) Network Security
8 16 (20.25%) OSPF
9 14 (17.72%) MPLS
10 10 (12.66%) SD-WAN
11 9 (11.39%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (11.39%) DNSSEC
12 8 (10.13%) BIG-IP
12 8 (10.13%) Cisco Firepower
12 8 (10.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 8 (10.13%) IPsec
13 7 (8.86%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (7.59%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) JIRA
2 2 (2.53%) Browser DevTools
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%) Git
General
1 39 (49.37%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.32%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.86%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (7.59%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.06%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.06%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.80%) Finance
6 3 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Military
7 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.27%) Advertising
8 1 (1.27%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 19 (24.05%) Architect
2 12 (15.19%) IT Support
3 11 (13.92%) Network Engineer
4 10 (12.66%) Senior
5 9 (11.39%) Network Architect
6 8 (10.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (8.86%) IT Engineer
7 7 (8.86%) Support Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Automation Specialist
8 5 (6.33%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Lead
9 4 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Network Manager
10 3 (3.80%) Project Manager
10 3 (3.80%) Senior Network Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.80%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) ARM Templates
2 4 (5.06%) NETCONF
2 4 (5.06%) OpenConfig
2 4 (5.06%) RESTCONF
2 4 (5.06%) YANG
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%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.53%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (2.53%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (1.27%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.27%) JSON
4 1 (1.27%) RESTful
4 1 (1.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.58%) Data Centre
2 14 (17.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (13.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 8 (10.13%) Operational Technology
4 8 (10.13%) SCADA
5 7 (8.86%) Management Information System
6 6 (7.59%) Onboarding
6 6 (7.59%) Private Cloud
7 5 (6.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (6.33%) Public Cloud
8 4 (5.06%) ARM Cortex
8 4 (5.06%) Cloud Native
8 4 (5.06%) Life Science
9 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (3.80%) Industry 4.0
9 3 (3.80%) Robotics
9 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (2.53%) Motion Graphics
10 2 (2.53%) Replication
10 2 (2.53%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 43 (54.43%) Windows
2 15 (18.99%) Linux
2 15 (18.99%) Windows Server
3 12 (15.19%) Mac OS
4 10 (12.66%) Apple iOS
5 4 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.53%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (2.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (2.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.04%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (39.24%) ITIL
3 16 (20.25%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (20.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (17.72%) Customer Service
5 13 (16.46%) AI
5 13 (16.46%) High Availability
5 13 (16.46%) ITSM
5 13 (16.46%) Validation
6 12 (15.19%) CI/CD
6 12 (15.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (13.92%) DDoS Mitigation
7 11 (13.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (13.92%) Load Balancing
7 11 (13.92%) User Experience
8 10 (12.66%) Data Protection
8 10 (12.66%) DevOps
8 10 (12.66%) Incident Response
8 10 (12.66%) Mobile Device Management
8 10 (12.66%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.58%) PowerShell
2 17 (21.52%) Python
3 15 (18.99%) Bash
4 6 (7.59%) Bicep
5 3 (3.80%) SQL
6 2 (2.53%) Jython
6 2 (2.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (48.10%) Security Cleared
2 26 (32.91%) Degree
2 26 (32.91%) SC Cleared
3 14 (17.72%) DV Cleared
4 12 (15.19%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (10.13%) CCIE
5 8 (10.13%) CCNP
6 4 (5.06%) JNCIE
6 4 (5.06%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.80%) PMP
7 3 (3.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.53%) A+ Certification
8 2 (2.53%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.27%) CISM
9 1 (1.27%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.86%) 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
System Software
1 16 (20.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (17.72%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.06%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.53%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.53%) vSphere
5 1 (1.27%) Docker
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (21.52%) Microsoft Intune
1 17 (21.52%) Terraform
2 15 (18.99%) Ansible
3 10 (12.66%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (6.33%) SCCM
5 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.53%) CA Wily
6 2 (2.53%) Grafana
6 2 (2.53%) Nagios
6 2 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.53%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.27%) Iperf
7 1 (1.27%) Nmap
7 1 (1.27%) Rancher
7 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (48.10%) Microsoft
2 20 (25.32%) VMware
3 18 (22.78%) Cisco
4 13 (16.46%) F5
5 12 (15.19%) ServiceNow
6 11 (13.92%) Google
7 9 (11.39%) Infoblox
7 9 (11.39%) Palo Alto
8 7 (8.86%) Fortinet
8 7 (8.86%) SolarWinds
9 6 (7.59%) Juniper
10 5 (6.33%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (5.06%) Red Hat
11 4 (5.06%) Rockwell
12 3 (3.80%) Siemens
13 2 (2.53%) AppDynamics
13 2 (2.53%) Aruba
13 2 (2.53%) Citrix
13 2 (2.53%) Foundry
13 2 (2.53%) Veeam