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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 119 134
Rank change year-on-year -33 +15 -33
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 83 42 57
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.24% 1.20% 1.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.32% 6.93% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 31 50
10th Percentile £324 £153 £215
25th Percentile £400 £288 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +16.11% +5.88% +28.79%
75th Percentile £604 £538 £525
90th Percentile £769 £560 £560
England median daily rate £495 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 1
10th Percentile £29.38 £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% -54.71%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £19.50
90th Percentile £70.78 - -
England median hourly rate £63.48 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.34% - +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 804 606 964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.01% 17.29% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 417 515
10th Percentile £298 £217 £254
25th Percentile £411 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +7.18%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £638 £658
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 30 102
10th Percentile £17.96 £14.20 £23.10
25th Percentile £23.81 £22.94 £53.40
Median hourly rate £49.36 £54.94 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -10.15% -4.21% -0.26%
75th Percentile £56.21 £67.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.47 £89.63 £75.24
England median hourly rate £28.00 £44.00 £54.94
% change year-on-year -36.36% -19.91% +5.87%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 72 £523 +16.11% 21
Berkshire +2 45 £498 +10.56% 12
Buckinghamshire -18 25 £587 +10.48% 3
Surrey -22 5 £413 -21.43% 10
Hampshire -29 3 £650 +47.06% 17
Oxfordshire -29 2 £363 - 6
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 (14.46%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.82%) FactoryTalk
3 2 (2.41%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.41%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (2.41%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.41%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.41%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.82%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (2.41%) Houdini
3 2 (2.41%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 51 (61.45%) Azure
2 32 (38.55%) AWS
3 16 (19.28%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (13.25%) OneDrive
5 9 (10.84%) Entra ID
5 9 (10.84%) GCP
5 9 (10.84%) Route 53
6 8 (9.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (9.64%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (8.43%) OpenShift
8 5 (6.02%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (4.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (3.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.41%) Google Workspace
12 1 (1.20%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (67.47%) DNS
2 55 (66.27%) Firewall
3 43 (51.81%) DHCP
4 32 (38.55%) VPN
5 24 (28.92%) WAN
6 22 (26.51%) LAN
7 21 (25.30%) BGP
8 20 (24.10%) VLAN
9 17 (20.48%) Network Security
10 15 (18.07%) OSPF
11 13 (15.66%) MPLS
12 10 (12.05%) SD-WAN
13 9 (10.84%) DNSSEC
14 8 (9.64%) BIG-IP
14 8 (9.64%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (9.64%) Cisco Firepower
14 8 (9.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 8 (9.64%) IPsec
15 7 (8.43%) Wi-Fi
16 6 (7.23%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) JIRA
2 2 (2.41%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (2.41%) GitLab
2 2 (2.41%) Introscope
2 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.20%) Git
General
1 42 (50.60%) Social Skills
2 22 (26.51%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.23%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (6.02%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.82%) Aerospace
5 4 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.61%) Finance
6 3 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Military
7 2 (2.41%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.20%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 19 (22.89%) Architect
2 12 (14.46%) IT Support
2 12 (14.46%) Senior
3 11 (13.25%) Network Engineer
4 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (10.84%) Network Architect
5 8 (9.64%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) IT Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Automation Specialist
7 5 (6.02%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Lead
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Lead Architect
9 3 (3.61%) Network Manager
9 3 (3.61%) Senior Network Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Technical Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) ARM Templates
2 4 (4.82%) NETCONF
2 4 (4.82%) OpenConfig
2 4 (4.82%) RESTCONF
2 4 (4.82%) YANG
3 2 (2.41%) JDBC
3 2 (2.41%) JMS
3 2 (2.41%) Kafka
3 2 (2.41%) Middleware
3 2 (2.41%) ModSecurity
3 2 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.41%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (2.41%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (1.20%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.20%) JSON
4 1 (1.20%) RESTful
4 1 (1.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.30%) Data Centre
2 18 (21.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (13.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 8 (9.64%) Operational Technology
4 8 (9.64%) SCADA
5 7 (8.43%) Management Information System
6 6 (7.23%) Cloud Native
6 6 (7.23%) Onboarding
6 6 (7.23%) Private Cloud
7 5 (6.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (6.02%) Public Cloud
8 4 (4.82%) ARM Cortex
8 4 (4.82%) Life Science
9 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (3.61%) Industry 4.0
9 3 (3.61%) Robotics
9 3 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (2.41%) Motion Graphics
10 2 (2.41%) Replication
10 2 (2.41%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 48 (57.83%) Windows
2 20 (24.10%) Linux
2 20 (24.10%) Windows Server
3 12 (14.46%) Mac OS
4 10 (12.05%) Apple iOS
5 4 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.41%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (2.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (2.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (43.37%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (42.17%) ITIL
3 17 (20.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (20.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (19.28%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (18.07%) DevOps
6 14 (16.87%) Customer Service
7 13 (15.66%) AI
7 13 (15.66%) High Availability
7 13 (15.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (15.66%) ITSM
7 13 (15.66%) Load Balancing
8 12 (14.46%) CI/CD
8 12 (14.46%) Validation
9 11 (13.25%) DDoS Mitigation
9 11 (13.25%) Root Cause Analysis
9 11 (13.25%) User Experience
10 10 (12.05%) Data Protection
10 10 (12.05%) Mobile Device Management
10 10 (12.05%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (31.33%) PowerShell
2 20 (24.10%) Python
3 18 (21.69%) Bash
4 8 (9.64%) Bicep
5 3 (3.61%) SQL
6 2 (2.41%) Jython
6 2 (2.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 42 (50.60%) Security Cleared
2 30 (36.14%) SC Cleared
3 27 (32.53%) Degree
4 14 (16.87%) DV Cleared
5 11 (13.25%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (8.43%) CCIE
6 7 (8.43%) CCNP
7 5 (6.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (4.82%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.82%) JNCIE
8 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (4.82%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (3.61%) PMP
10 2 (2.41%) A+ Certification
10 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
10 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (2.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (1.20%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) NCSC
2 4 (4.82%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 4 (4.82%) GxP
3 2 (2.41%) JSP 440
3 2 (2.41%) NIST
3 2 (2.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 21 (25.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (16.87%) Active Directory
3 7 (8.43%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.82%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.61%) Docker
6 2 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.41%) vSphere
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (26.51%) Terraform
2 19 (22.89%) Ansible
3 17 (20.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (12.05%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (9.64%) Kubernetes
6 5 (6.02%) SCCM
7 4 (4.82%) Grafana
7 4 (4.82%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.41%) CA Wily
8 2 (2.41%) Istio
8 2 (2.41%) Nagios
8 2 (2.41%) Tivoli
9 1 (1.20%) Rancher
9 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (51.81%) Microsoft
2 25 (30.12%) VMware
3 17 (20.48%) Cisco
4 13 (15.66%) F5
5 12 (14.46%) ServiceNow
6 11 (13.25%) Google
7 9 (10.84%) Infoblox
8 8 (9.64%) Palo Alto
9 6 (7.23%) Fortinet
9 6 (7.23%) Juniper
9 6 (7.23%) Red Hat
9 6 (7.23%) SolarWinds
10 5 (6.02%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (4.82%) Rockwell
12 3 (3.61%) Siemens
13 2 (2.41%) Adobe
13 2 (2.41%) Citrix
13 2 (2.41%) IBM
13 2 (2.41%) Oracle
13 2 (2.41%) Veeam