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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 129 96
Rank change year-on-year +23 -33 +39
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 55 55 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.58% 1.20% 2.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.17% 6.53% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 46 96
10th Percentile £157 £210 £159
25th Percentile £219 £260 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £363 £325
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -29.73%
75th Percentile £488 £525 £543
90th Percentile £542 £569 £577
England median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £45.20 - £17.70
25th Percentile £71.00 £18.50 £21.50
Median hourly rate £89.63 £19.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +371.74% -71.21% +76.00%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £70.63
90th Percentile - - £75.95
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 600 842 1,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.23% 18.34% 19.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 456 654
10th Percentile £204 £252 £207
25th Percentile £329 £400 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £588
90th Percentile £638 £672 £675
England median daily rate £490 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +1.50% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 84 72
10th Percentile £15.22 £27.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £31.58 £53.40 £32.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -5.98% +35.56%
75th Percentile £70.87 £70.94 £75.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.24 £77.90
England median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP 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 17 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in the South East over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 +26 33 £450 -14.29% 18
Berkshire +34 23 £325 -29.73% 14
Kent - 10 £259 - 6
Surrey -16 7 £393 +50.96% 7
Oxfordshire -4 6 - - 5
Hampshire +9 5 £500 -7.62% 14
Buckinghamshire +3 4 £532 -1.07%
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (14.55%) SharePoint
2 5 (9.09%) Confluence
3 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.82%) Apache
4 1 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.82%) IIS
4 1 (1.82%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (40.00%) Azure
2 12 (21.82%) AWS
3 11 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.64%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.82%) Akamai
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.82%) GCP
5 1 (1.82%) GitHub
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.82%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.82%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.82%) SaaS
5 1 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (61.82%) DNS
2 30 (54.55%) VPN
3 27 (49.09%) Firewall
4 25 (45.45%) VLAN
5 23 (41.82%) DHCP
6 13 (23.64%) Network Security
7 11 (20.00%) BGP
7 11 (20.00%) OSPF
8 9 (16.36%) SSL
9 8 (14.55%) WAN
10 7 (12.73%) LAN
10 7 (12.73%) Wireless
11 5 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (9.09%) SAN
12 4 (7.27%) MPLS
13 3 (5.45%) Internet
13 3 (5.45%) Intranet
13 3 (5.45%) IPv6
13 3 (5.45%) Multicast
13 3 (5.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.82%) Big Data
2 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.82%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.82%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (16.36%) JIRA
2 2 (3.64%) Git
3 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.82%) MLflow
3 1 (1.82%) Poetry
3 1 (1.82%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 16 (29.09%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.09%) Law
3 5 (9.09%) Legal
4 4 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.64%) Advertising
6 2 (3.64%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.82%) Finance
7 1 (1.82%) French Language
7 1 (1.82%) German Language
Job Titles
1 18 (32.73%) Support Engineer
2 16 (29.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure Support
3 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 9 (16.36%) IT Support
4 6 (10.91%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Senior
5 5 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Help Desk Officer
5 5 (9.09%) Help Desk Support
5 5 (9.09%) Service Desk Officer
5 5 (9.09%) Service Desk Support
5 5 (9.09%) Support Officer
5 5 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Developer
6 4 (7.27%) IT Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.82%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.82%) Apache Avro
1 1 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.82%) Flask
1 1 (1.82%) JSON
1 1 (1.82%) NumPy
1 1 (1.82%) Pandas
1 1 (1.82%) Software Packaging
1 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (5.45%) SCADA
3 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (65.45%) Windows
2 17 (30.91%) Linux
3 12 (21.82%) Windows Server
4 9 (16.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (10.91%) Mac OS
5 6 (10.91%) Windows 10
6 5 (9.09%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (7.27%) Debian
7 4 (7.27%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (52.73%) ITIL
2 26 (47.27%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (29.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (25.45%) Preventative Maintenance
5 13 (23.64%) Service Management
6 12 (21.82%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (16.36%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 7 (12.73%) Security Operations
9 6 (10.91%) Computer Science
9 6 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (10.91%) Proactive Monitoring
9 6 (10.91%) Security Monitoring
9 6 (10.91%) SIEM
10 5 (9.09%) Creative Problem-Solving
10 5 (9.09%) CRM
10 5 (9.09%) PRINCE2
11 4 (7.27%) Data Modelling
11 4 (7.27%) ITSM
11 4 (7.27%) Migration
11 4 (7.27%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.27%) Python
2 4 (7.27%) Bash
2 4 (7.27%) SQL
3 2 (3.64%) Java
4 1 (1.82%) Groovy
4 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (32.73%) SC Cleared
3 14 (25.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (18.18%) Network+ Certification
5 9 (16.36%) Azure Certification
5 9 (16.36%) Server+ Certification
6 8 (14.55%) CCNP
7 6 (10.91%) A+ Certification
7 6 (10.91%) CCSA
7 6 (10.91%) CCSE
7 6 (10.91%) Check Point Certification
7 6 (10.91%) Degree
8 2 (3.64%) CCIE
8 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.82%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.36%) GDPR
2 2 (3.64%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.82%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (36.36%) Hyper-V
2 15 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (23.64%) Active Directory
4 6 (10.91%) vSphere
5 5 (9.09%) Terminal Services
6 2 (3.64%) Docker
6 2 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.82%) NDS
7 1 (1.82%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 1 (1.82%) NFS
7 1 (1.82%) Samba
7 1 (1.82%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (16.36%) Ansible
2 5 (9.09%) SCCM
2 5 (9.09%) Tivoli
3 3 (5.45%) Iperf
3 3 (5.45%) Nmap
4 2 (3.64%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.64%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.82%) Argo
5 1 (1.82%) Istio
5 1 (1.82%) Terraform
5 1 (1.82%) yum
Vendors
1 25 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 24 (43.64%) VMware
3 15 (27.27%) Cisco
4 14 (25.45%) Palo Alto
5 13 (23.64%) CheckPoint
5 13 (23.64%) Citrix
6 9 (16.36%) SolarWinds
7 5 (9.09%) Fortinet
7 5 (9.09%) Red Hat
7 5 (9.09%) Veeam
8 4 (7.27%) ServiceNow
9 2 (3.64%) Wyse
10 1 (1.82%) Dell KACE
10 1 (1.82%) F5
10 1 (1.82%) Meraki
10 1 (1.82%) NetIQ
10 1 (1.82%) OpenText
10 1 (1.82%) Oracle
10 1 (1.82%) Remedy
10 1 (1.82%) Ubiquiti