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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 111 138
Rank change year-on-year -42 +27 -12
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 56 39 63
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.94% 1.33% 1.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.55% 7.59% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 56
10th Percentile £375 £258 £184
25th Percentile £425 £370 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - -6.36%
75th Percentile £606 £578 £538
90th Percentile £653 £629 £550
England median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +47.37% -69.62%
75th Percentile £34.49 - £19.50
90th Percentile £53.55 - -
England median hourly rate £35.22 £58.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -39.79% -10.00% +13.38%

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 742 514 1,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.49% 17.47% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 346 585
10th Percentile £300 £211 £205
25th Percentile £420 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 27 134
10th Percentile £17.06 £14.20 £16.68
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.76 £27.13
Median hourly rate £42.48 £50.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -15.05% -12.82% -0.26%
75th Percentile £56.21 £58.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.00 £85.65
England median hourly rate £32.50 £38.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.39% -3.98% +135.29%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -29 48 £525 -4.55% 17
Berkshire -21 25 £428 -5.00% 9
Buckinghamshire -22 23 £560 -8.94% 4
Hampshire -23 7 £500 +150.00% 12
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 6 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.57%) Apache
2 2 (3.57%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (3.57%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.57%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (3.57%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 6 (10.71%) MS Visio
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (33.93%) AWS
1 19 (33.93%) Azure
2 8 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (10.71%) OneDrive
4 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.79%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (51.79%) DNS
1 29 (51.79%) Firewall
2 21 (37.50%) WAN
3 19 (33.93%) BGP
3 19 (33.93%) LAN
4 18 (32.14%) DHCP
5 17 (30.36%) OSPF
5 17 (30.36%) VLAN
5 17 (30.36%) VPN
6 15 (26.79%) Network Security
7 10 (17.86%) MPLS
8 7 (12.50%) SD-WAN
9 6 (10.71%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (8.93%) Wireless
10 5 (8.93%) WLAN
11 4 (7.14%) BIG-IP
11 4 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (7.14%) IPsec
11 4 (7.14%) IPv4
11 4 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (3.57%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (3.57%) GitLab
2 2 (3.57%) Introscope
2 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (48.21%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.57%) Aviation
5 2 (3.57%) Finance
5 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) Network Engineer
2 12 (21.43%) Senior
3 9 (16.07%) Analyst
4 7 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) IT Support
6 5 (8.93%) Network Manager
6 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Network Project Manager
7 4 (7.14%) Project Manager
7 4 (7.14%) Test Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Designer
8 3 (5.36%) IT Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Network Designer
8 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared Project Manager
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Designer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Network Designer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) JDBC
1 2 (3.57%) JMS
1 2 (3.57%) Kafka
1 2 (3.57%) Middleware
1 2 (3.57%) NETCONF
1 2 (3.57%) OpenConfig
1 2 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (3.57%) RESTCONF
1 2 (3.57%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (3.57%) YANG
2 1 (1.79%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.36%) Data Centre
2 8 (14.29%) Cyberattack
2 8 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.36%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.36%) Industry 4.0
4 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.36%) Robotics
4 3 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.57%) Clustering
5 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.79%) PKI
6 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (44.64%) Windows
2 15 (26.79%) Linux
3 7 (12.50%) Mac OS
4 6 (10.71%) Apple iOS
5 3 (5.36%) Debian
5 3 (5.36%) Ubuntu
5 3 (5.36%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.57%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (44.64%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (37.50%) ITIL
3 13 (23.21%) Customer Service
4 12 (21.43%) Incident Response
4 12 (21.43%) Security Operations
5 9 (16.07%) Agile
5 9 (16.07%) ITSM
5 9 (16.07%) Migration
5 9 (16.07%) SIEM
6 8 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (14.29%) Network Design
7 7 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
7 7 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (12.50%) User Experience
8 6 (10.71%) AI
8 6 (10.71%) Data Protection
8 6 (10.71%) High Availability
8 6 (10.71%) Mobile Device Management
8 6 (10.71%) Time Management
9 5 (8.93%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.50%) Python
2 4 (7.14%) Bash
3 2 (3.57%) Jython
3 2 (3.57%) Perl
3 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (66.07%) Security Cleared
2 31 (55.36%) SC Cleared
3 14 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (25.00%) Degree
4 13 (23.21%) DV Cleared
5 12 (21.43%) CCNP
6 7 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (8.93%) CCIE
7 5 (8.93%) CompTIA CySA+
7 5 (8.93%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (7.14%) CCNA
8 4 (7.14%) JNCIS
8 4 (7.14%) PMP
9 2 (3.57%) A+ Certification
9 2 (3.57%) BC Cleared
9 2 (3.57%) ISTQB
9 2 (3.57%) JNCIE
10 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.79%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) NCSC
2 1 (1.79%) GRC
2 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.79%) KVM
3 1 (1.79%) RHEV
3 1 (1.79%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (16.07%) Nagios
2 7 (12.50%) Ansible
3 6 (10.71%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.57%) CA Wily
4 2 (3.57%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (3.57%) Iperf
4 2 (3.57%) Nmap
4 2 (3.57%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.79%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (33.93%) Cisco
2 11 (19.64%) F5
2 11 (19.64%) Juniper
2 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 11 (19.64%) SolarWinds
3 9 (16.07%) Splunk
3 9 (16.07%) VMware
4 8 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 6 (10.71%) Fortinet
5 6 (10.71%) Palo Alto
6 5 (8.93%) Red Hat
7 3 (5.36%) Siemens
8 2 (3.57%) AppDynamics
8 2 (3.57%) Aruba
8 2 (3.57%) CheckPoint
8 2 (3.57%) IBM
8 2 (3.57%) Oracle
8 2 (3.57%) Tufin
9 1 (1.79%) HP
9 1 (1.79%) Zscaler