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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 113 99
Rank change year-on-year -11 -14 +18
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 53 61 115
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.30% 1.50% 2.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.67% 8.47% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 45 95
10th Percentile £153 £208 £148
25th Percentile £219 £260 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £438 £300
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +45.83% -40.89%
75th Percentile £525 £536 £550
90th Percentile £565 £658 £575
England median daily rate £477 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +0.32% +11.76% -18.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £70.50 - £18.90
25th Percentile £73.75 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £86.82 - £25.00
75th Percentile £89.63 - £37.94
90th Percentile - - £60.33
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -23.08%

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 611 720 1,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.97% 17.66% 22.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 408 643
10th Percentile £204 £236 £205
25th Percentile £329 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £607 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 35 74
10th Percentile £18.41 £28.70 £21.29
25th Percentile £29.89 £44.81 £28.13
Median hourly rate £70.16 £67.02 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% +9.42% +36.11%
75th Percentile £86.91 £75.00 £75.57
90th Percentile £90.04 - £77.56
England median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +26.38%

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 25 November 2025.

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
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 25 November 2025. 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 +4 34 £270 -49.77% 35
Berkshire +9 23 £238 -48.54% 14
Oxfordshire -5 7 £425 -32.00% 17
Hampshire -9 7 £474 -12.52% 9
Surrey -10 6 £523 +100.96% 12
Kent - 6 £155 - 12
Buckinghamshire -5 4 £532 -3.32% 7
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 8 (15.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.77%) WordPress
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.89%) Confluence
3 1 (1.89%) IIS
3 1 (1.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (49.06%) Azure
2 18 (33.96%) AWS
3 10 (18.87%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (7.55%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.66%) GCP
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.89%) GitHub
6 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (71.70%) DNS
2 27 (50.94%) DHCP
3 25 (47.17%) Firewall
4 19 (35.85%) VLAN
4 19 (35.85%) VPN
5 6 (11.32%) BGP
5 6 (11.32%) Network Security
5 6 (11.32%) WAN
6 5 (9.43%) LAN
6 5 (9.43%) OSPF
6 5 (9.43%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (9.43%) SSL
6 5 (9.43%) Wireless
7 4 (7.55%) MPLS
7 4 (7.55%) SAN
8 3 (5.66%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (5.66%) Intranet
8 3 (5.66%) IPv6
8 3 (5.66%) Multicast
8 3 (5.66%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.89%) Big Data
3 1 (1.89%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.89%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Git
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) MLflow
3 1 (1.89%) Poetry
3 1 (1.89%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (37.74%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Law
3 5 (9.43%) Legal
4 4 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.66%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.77%) Advertising
6 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.89%) Finance
7 1 (1.89%) French Language
7 1 (1.89%) German Language
Job Titles
1 20 (37.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (33.96%) Support Engineer
3 11 (20.75%) Infrastructure Support
3 11 (20.75%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 10 (18.87%) Senior
5 8 (15.09%) IT Support
6 5 (9.43%) Help Desk Officer
6 5 (9.43%) Help Desk Support
6 5 (9.43%) IT Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Service Desk Officer
6 5 (9.43%) Service Desk Support
6 5 (9.43%) Support Officer
7 4 (7.55%) Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Tester
9 2 (3.77%) Linux Specialist
9 2 (3.77%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.89%) Apache Avro
1 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.89%) Flask
1 1 (1.89%) JSON
1 1 (1.89%) NETCONF
1 1 (1.89%) NumPy
1 1 (1.89%) OpenConfig
1 1 (1.89%) Pandas
1 1 (1.89%) RESTCONF
1 1 (1.89%) XML
1 1 (1.89%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (7.55%) PKI
3 3 (5.66%) SCADA
4 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.89%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 38 (71.70%) Windows
2 24 (45.28%) Linux
3 15 (28.30%) Windows Server
4 9 (16.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (11.32%) Ubuntu
6 5 (9.43%) Mac OS
6 5 (9.43%) Windows 10
6 5 (9.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (7.55%) Debian
8 3 (5.66%) Unix
9 2 (3.77%) CentOS
10 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (58.49%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (52.83%) ITIL
3 20 (37.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (30.19%) Preventative Maintenance
5 15 (28.30%) Service Management
6 13 (24.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (20.75%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 9 (16.98%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (13.21%) Containerisation
10 6 (11.32%) PRINCE2
11 5 (9.43%) CI/CD
11 5 (9.43%) Computer Science
11 5 (9.43%) Creative Problem-Solving
11 5 (9.43%) CRM
12 4 (7.55%) Data Engineering
12 4 (7.55%) DevSecOps
12 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure as Code
12 4 (7.55%) Mentoring
12 4 (7.55%) Platform Engineering
12 4 (7.55%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.19%) Python
2 10 (18.87%) Bash
3 7 (13.21%) PowerShell
4 5 (9.43%) SQL
5 2 (3.77%) Java
5 2 (3.77%) Perl
6 1 (1.89%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (43.40%) Security Cleared
2 18 (33.96%) SC Cleared
3 15 (28.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (22.64%) Network+ Certification
5 11 (20.75%) Azure Certification
5 11 (20.75%) Server+ Certification
6 5 (9.43%) A+ Certification
6 5 (9.43%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (9.43%) Degree
7 4 (7.55%) AWS Certification
8 3 (5.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.66%) CCIE
8 3 (5.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (3.77%) CCNP
9 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
9 2 (3.77%) RHCE
9 2 (3.77%) RHCSA
10 1 (1.89%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.89%) NIST
2 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (47.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (41.51%) Hyper-V
3 17 (32.08%) Active Directory
4 8 (15.09%) Docker
5 5 (9.43%) Terminal Services
6 2 (3.77%) KVM
6 2 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.89%) NDS
7 1 (1.89%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 1 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (18.87%) Ansible
2 8 (15.09%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.55%) Terraform
4 3 (5.66%) Iperf
4 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.66%) Nmap
4 3 (5.66%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.77%) FortiGate
5 2 (3.77%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.77%) Puppet
5 2 (3.77%) SCCM
5 2 (3.77%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.89%) Argo
6 1 (1.89%) Istio
6 1 (1.89%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 32 (60.38%) Microsoft
2 30 (56.60%) VMware
3 8 (15.09%) Cisco
3 8 (15.09%) Citrix
4 7 (13.21%) CheckPoint
4 7 (13.21%) Palo Alto
4 7 (13.21%) Red Hat
5 6 (11.32%) Fortinet
6 4 (7.55%) ServiceNow
6 4 (7.55%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.89%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.89%) F5
7 1 (1.89%) Juniper
7 1 (1.89%) NetApp
7 1 (1.89%) NetIQ
7 1 (1.89%) OpenText
7 1 (1.89%) Oracle
7 1 (1.89%) Remedy
7 1 (1.89%) Veeam
7 1 (1.89%) Wyse