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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 108 129
Rank change year-on-year -48 +21 -31
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 72 57 56
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.09% 1.66% 1.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.86% 9.50% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 43 47
10th Percentile £305 £162 £211
25th Percentile £400 £219 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £375
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £622 £475 £525
90th Percentile £769 £542 £565
England median daily rate £465 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.11% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 1
10th Percentile £25.00 £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% -71.21%
75th Percentile £65.22 - £19.50
90th Percentile £70.50 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +29.49%

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 730 600 824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.07% 17.46% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 419 450
10th Percentile £292 £204 £240
25th Percentile £405 £329 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £608
90th Percentile £653 £638 £663
England median daily rate £500 £490 £508
% change year-on-year +2.04% -3.45% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 24 74
10th Percentile £19.34 £15.22 £27.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £31.58 £53.40
Median hourly rate £52.43 £55.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -4.68% -4.10% -4.42%
75th Percentile £63.18 £70.87 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £89.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £41.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +6.10% -28.51% +1.52%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -24 56 £550 +22.22% 34
Berkshire -13 36 £524 +61.08% 18
Buckinghamshire -18 18 £615 +15.65% 5
Surrey -21 8 £413 +5.10% 28
Hampshire -38 4 £550 +16.16% 30
Oxfordshire -30 2 £363 - 11
Middlesex - 2 - - 1
West Sussex - 1 £525 - 4
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 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.56%) FactoryTalk
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.78%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.39%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (1.39%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.39%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.39%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (2.78%) Houdini
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.78%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.78%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 49 (68.06%) Azure
2 28 (38.89%) AWS
3 15 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (15.28%) OneDrive
5 10 (13.89%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (12.50%) GCP
6 9 (12.50%) OpenShift
6 9 (12.50%) Route 53
7 8 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (11.11%) Entra ID
8 5 (6.94%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.78%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 53 (73.61%) DNS
2 48 (66.67%) Firewall
3 42 (58.33%) DHCP
4 32 (44.44%) VPN
5 17 (23.61%) VLAN
6 15 (20.83%) LAN
6 15 (20.83%) WAN
7 10 (13.89%) BGP
7 10 (13.89%) Network Security
8 9 (12.50%) DNSSEC
9 7 (9.72%) MPLS
9 7 (9.72%) SSH
10 6 (8.33%) OSPF
11 5 (6.94%) SD-WAN
11 5 (6.94%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (5.56%) BIG-IP
12 4 (5.56%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 4 (5.56%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.39%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) GitLab
2 1 (1.39%) Introscope
2 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.39%) JIRA
General
1 37 (51.39%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Aerospace
3 6 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (6.94%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.78%) Advertising
6 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Military
7 1 (1.39%) Back Office
7 1 (1.39%) Finance
7 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Architect
2 13 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (18.06%) IT Support
3 11 (15.28%) Senior
4 9 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 9 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) IT Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Automation Specialist
8 5 (6.94%) Lead
8 5 (6.94%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support
10 3 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) Network Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (34.72%) Terraform
2 11 (15.28%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.78%) ModSecurity
3 2 (2.78%) NETCONF
3 2 (2.78%) OpenConfig
3 2 (2.78%) RESTCONF
3 2 (2.78%) Unreal Engine
3 2 (2.78%) YANG
4 1 (1.39%) JDBC
4 1 (1.39%) JMS
4 1 (1.39%) JSON
4 1 (1.39%) Kafka
4 1 (1.39%) Middleware
4 1 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.39%) RESTful
4 1 (1.39%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (23.61%) Data Centre
3 11 (15.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 8 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 8 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 8 (11.11%) Operational Technology
4 8 (11.11%) SCADA
5 7 (9.72%) Cloud Native
6 6 (8.33%) Private Cloud
7 5 (6.94%) Public Cloud
8 4 (5.56%) ARM Cortex
8 4 (5.56%) Life Science
9 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (2.78%) Motion Graphics
9 2 (2.78%) Replication
9 2 (2.78%) Social Media
10 1 (1.39%) Clustering
10 1 (1.39%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 52 (72.22%) Windows
2 26 (36.11%) Windows Server
3 22 (30.56%) Linux
4 12 (16.67%) Mac OS
5 10 (13.89%) Apple iOS
6 3 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (40.28%) ITIL
1 29 (40.28%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (23.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (19.44%) DevOps
6 13 (18.06%) AI
6 13 (18.06%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (18.06%) Load Balancing
7 12 (16.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 12 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (15.28%) CI/CD
8 11 (15.28%) Customer Service
8 11 (15.28%) DDoS Mitigation
8 11 (15.28%) ITSM
8 11 (15.28%) Validation
9 10 (13.89%) Data Protection
9 10 (13.89%) Time Management
9 10 (13.89%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 31 (43.06%) PowerShell
2 20 (27.78%) Bash
3 19 (26.39%) Python
4 10 (13.89%) Bicep
5 2 (2.78%) SQL
6 1 (1.39%) Jython
6 1 (1.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 35 (48.61%) Security Cleared
2 26 (36.11%) Degree
3 22 (30.56%) SC Cleared
4 12 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 8 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (8.33%) CCNP
6 6 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (6.94%) CCIE
7 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (5.56%) Azure Certification
9 3 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (2.78%) A+ Certification
10 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
10 2 (2.78%) CCNA
10 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (2.78%) JNCIE
10 2 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (1.39%) CISM
11 1 (1.39%) CISSP
11 1 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) NCSC
2 4 (5.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 4 (5.56%) GxP
3 2 (2.78%) JSP 440
3 2 (2.78%) NIST
3 2 (2.78%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (30.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 12 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.56%) Docker
4 4 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (5.56%) VMware NSX
4 4 (5.56%) vSphere
5 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (25.00%) Ansible
1 18 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (13.89%) Jamf Pro
2 10 (13.89%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.33%) SCCM
4 5 (6.94%) Grafana
4 5 (6.94%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.17%) Istio
6 2 (2.78%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.39%) CA Wily
7 1 (1.39%) Rancher
7 1 (1.39%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 45 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 26 (36.11%) VMware
3 12 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 11 (15.28%) Google
5 9 (12.50%) Cisco
5 9 (12.50%) Infoblox
6 8 (11.11%) F5
7 6 (8.33%) Red Hat
8 5 (6.94%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (5.56%) Palo Alto
9 4 (5.56%) Rockwell
9 4 (5.56%) SolarWinds
10 3 (4.17%) Juniper
11 2 (2.78%) Adobe
11 2 (2.78%) Fortinet
11 2 (2.78%) Foundry
11 2 (2.78%) Veeam
12 1 (1.39%) Citrix
12 1 (1.39%) Dell
12 1 (1.39%) HP