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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 116 139
Rank change year-on-year -40 +23 -28
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 72 38 60
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.11% 1.12% 1.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.20% 6.39% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 32 53
10th Percentile £323 £201 £203
25th Percentile £403 £334 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.67% +5.88% +7.59%
75th Percentile £619 £539 £538
90th Percentile £769 £575 £558
England median daily rate £470 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 1
10th Percentile £26.25 £32.30 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £38.75 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +176.32% -68.71%
75th Percentile £35.22 £69.25 £19.50
90th Percentile £43.75 £77.50 -
England median hourly rate £35.22 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -43.65% -3.85% +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 783 595 1,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.07% 17.57% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 397 562
10th Percentile £276 £209 £221
25th Percentile £409 £338 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% -1.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £599 £588 £608
90th Percentile £674 £625 £650
England median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 29 137
10th Percentile £17.50 £14.20 £17.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £27.00
Median hourly rate £40.49 £54.88 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -26.22% -4.32% -0.26%
75th Percentile £56.21 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £76.60 £85.65
England median hourly rate £26.66 £42.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.27% -1.16% +56.36%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -6 62 £523 +7.18% 23
Berkshire -5 41 £470 +4.44% 11
Buckinghamshire -17 20 £560 +5.31% 7
Hampshire - 5 £675 - 12
Surrey -25 3 £439 +25.43% 22
Oxfordshire -30 1 £325 - 5
Isle of Wight - 1 - -
Middlesex - 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 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.78%) FactoryTalk
2 2 (2.78%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (2.78%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.78%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (2.78%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.78%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (2.78%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (5.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.39%) Houdini
3 1 (1.39%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 37 (51.39%) Azure
2 31 (43.06%) AWS
3 15 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (15.28%) OneDrive
5 9 (12.50%) GCP
5 9 (12.50%) Route 53
6 8 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (4.17%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.78%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.39%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.39%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (63.89%) DNS
2 43 (59.72%) Firewall
3 30 (41.67%) DHCP
4 24 (33.33%) BGP
4 24 (33.33%) WAN
5 22 (30.56%) LAN
6 21 (29.17%) VPN
7 19 (26.39%) VLAN
8 18 (25.00%) OSPF
9 16 (22.22%) MPLS
10 14 (19.44%) Network Security
11 11 (15.28%) SD-WAN
12 10 (13.89%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (12.50%) DNSSEC
14 8 (11.11%) BIG-IP
14 8 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
14 8 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 8 (11.11%) IPsec
15 7 (9.72%) Wi-Fi
16 6 (8.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (2.78%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (2.78%) GitLab
2 2 (2.78%) Introscope
2 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.39%) Git
General
1 38 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.61%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.72%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (9.72%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Finance
5 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Aviation
6 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Architect
2 11 (15.28%) IT Support
2 11 (15.28%) Network Engineer
3 9 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 7 (9.72%) Senior
5 6 (8.33%) IT Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Lead
6 5 (6.94%) Network Manager
6 5 (6.94%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Network Project Manager
7 4 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.56%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Lead Architect
8 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared Project Manager
8 3 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Technical Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.56%) NETCONF
1 4 (5.56%) OpenConfig
1 4 (5.56%) RESTCONF
1 4 (5.56%) YANG
2 2 (2.78%) JDBC
2 2 (2.78%) JMS
2 2 (2.78%) Kafka
2 2 (2.78%) Middleware
2 2 (2.78%) ModSecurity
2 2 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (2.78%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (1.39%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.39%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.39%) JSON
3 1 (1.39%) RESTful
3 1 (1.39%) SAML
3 1 (1.39%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.56%) Data Centre
2 11 (15.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 8 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (8.33%) Operational Technology
4 6 (8.33%) Private Cloud
4 6 (8.33%) SCADA
5 5 (6.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (6.94%) Management Information System
6 4 (5.56%) Cloud Native
6 4 (5.56%) Cyberattack
6 4 (5.56%) Public Cloud
6 4 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (4.17%) Industry 4.0
7 3 (4.17%) Robotics
7 3 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.78%) Clustering
8 2 (2.78%) Life Science
8 2 (2.78%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 34 (47.22%) Windows
2 12 (16.67%) Mac OS
3 10 (13.89%) Apple iOS
3 10 (13.89%) Linux
4 5 (6.94%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.78%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (2.78%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (48.61%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (38.89%) ITIL
3 14 (19.44%) Customer Service
3 14 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (18.06%) AI
4 13 (18.06%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (18.06%) High Availability
4 13 (18.06%) ITSM
5 12 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 11 (15.28%) DDoS Mitigation
6 11 (15.28%) Load Balancing
6 11 (15.28%) User Experience
7 10 (13.89%) Data Protection
7 10 (13.89%) Migration
7 10 (13.89%) Mobile Device Management
7 10 (13.89%) Time Management
8 9 (12.50%) Agile
8 9 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (11.11%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.00%) Python
2 12 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 10 (13.89%) Bash
4 2 (2.78%) Jython
4 2 (2.78%) Perl
4 2 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (40.28%) SC Cleared
3 23 (31.94%) Degree
4 13 (18.06%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (13.89%) DV Cleared
6 9 (12.50%) CCIE
6 9 (12.50%) CCNP
7 4 (5.56%) JNCIE
7 4 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (5.56%) PMP
8 3 (4.17%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (2.78%) A+ Certification
9 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.78%) BC Cleared
9 2 (2.78%) ISTQB
9 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) NCSC
2 2 (2.78%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 2 (2.78%) GxP
2 2 (2.78%) JSP 440
2 2 (2.78%) NIST
2 2 (2.78%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.39%) GRC
3 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 12 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.56%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.39%) Docker
5 1 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (16.67%) Ansible
2 11 (15.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (15.28%) Terraform
3 10 (13.89%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.78%) CA Wily
5 2 (2.78%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (2.78%) Grafana
5 2 (2.78%) Iperf
5 2 (2.78%) Nagios
5 2 (2.78%) Nmap
5 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.78%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.39%) Rancher
6 1 (1.39%) SCCM
6 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (43.06%) Microsoft
2 19 (26.39%) Cisco
3 16 (22.22%) VMware
4 13 (18.06%) F5
5 12 (16.67%) ServiceNow
6 10 (13.89%) Google
6 10 (13.89%) Palo Alto
7 9 (12.50%) Infoblox
8 8 (11.11%) Fortinet
8 8 (11.11%) SolarWinds
9 6 (8.33%) Juniper
10 4 (5.56%) Red Hat
10 4 (5.56%) Splunk
11 3 (4.17%) Siemens
12 2 (2.78%) CheckPoint
12 2 (2.78%) Citrix
12 2 (2.78%) IBM
12 2 (2.78%) Oracle
12 2 (2.78%) Rockwell
12 2 (2.78%) Tufin