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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 117 102
Rank change year-on-year -10 -15 +18
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 50 62 119
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.29% 1.50% 2.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.28% 8.46% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 49 95
10th Percentile £153 £214 £148
25th Percentile £219 £260 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £316 £425 £306
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% +39.12% -38.90%
75th Percentile £500 £536 £550
90th Percentile £562 £644 £577
England median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% -15.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £76.59 - £17.50
25th Percentile £84.97 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £89.63 - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £62.81
90th Percentile - - £76.12
England median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.87% +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 604 733 1,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.55% 17.70% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 412 652
10th Percentile £204 £237 £205
25th Percentile £329 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £464
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +7.76% +0.32%
75th Percentile £588 £602 £578
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 40 77
10th Percentile £18.32 £26.93 £16.95
25th Percentile £27.01 £35.00 £24.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £86.32 £75.00 £75.67
90th Percentile £90.45 - £77.39
England median hourly rate £31.39 £53.75 £56.49
% change year-on-year -41.61% -4.85% +28.39%

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 8 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 8 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 -1 28 £267 -49.14% 66
Berkshire +13 19 £238 -48.54% 53
Kent - 9 £155 - 12
Hampshire -1 7 £474 -12.52% 6
Surrey -18 6 £410 +57.69% 5
Oxfordshire -9 5 - - 6
Buckinghamshire +1 4 £532 -1.07% 8
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 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) IIS
3 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.00%) Azure
2 14 (28.00%) AWS
3 10 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.00%) GCP
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (72.00%) DNS
2 25 (50.00%) DHCP
3 23 (46.00%) VPN
4 22 (44.00%) Firewall
5 21 (42.00%) VLAN
6 8 (16.00%) SSL
7 7 (14.00%) Network Security
8 6 (12.00%) BGP
8 6 (12.00%) LAN
8 6 (12.00%) OSPF
8 6 (12.00%) WAN
9 5 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (10.00%) Wireless
10 4 (8.00%) SAN
11 3 (6.00%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (6.00%) Intranet
11 3 (6.00%) IPv6
11 3 (6.00%) MPLS
11 3 (6.00%) Multicast
11 3 (6.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Big Data
2 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) MLflow
3 1 (2.00%) Poetry
3 1 (2.00%) PyCharm
3 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (38.00%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Law
3 5 (10.00%) Legal
4 4 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.00%) Advertising
5 2 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.00%) Finance
6 1 (2.00%) French Language
6 1 (2.00%) German Language
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) Support Engineer
2 18 (36.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 8 (16.00%) IT Support
5 6 (12.00%) Senior
6 5 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Help Desk Officer
6 5 (10.00%) Help Desk Support
6 5 (10.00%) Service Desk Officer
6 5 (10.00%) Service Desk Support
6 5 (10.00%) Support Officer
7 4 (8.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Developer
7 4 (8.00%) IT Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Windows Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.00%) Flask
1 1 (2.00%) JSON
1 1 (2.00%) NumPy
1 1 (2.00%) Pandas
1 1 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (6.00%) SCADA
3 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 35 (70.00%) Windows
2 20 (40.00%) Linux
3 12 (24.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (18.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (12.00%) Ubuntu
6 5 (10.00%) Mac OS
6 5 (10.00%) Windows 10
6 5 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (8.00%) Debian
7 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (6.00%) Unix
9 2 (4.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (56.00%) ITIL
2 26 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (36.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (32.00%) Preventative Maintenance
5 15 (30.00%) Service Management
6 13 (26.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (22.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 5 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 5 (10.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.00%) CRM
8 5 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (10.00%) PRINCE2
9 4 (8.00%) Configuration Management
9 4 (8.00%) Data Engineering
9 4 (8.00%) Data Modelling
9 4 (8.00%) ITSM
9 4 (8.00%) Migration
9 4 (8.00%) Time Management
10 3 (6.00%) Containerisation
10 3 (6.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.00%) Python
2 6 (12.00%) Bash
3 2 (4.00%) Java
3 2 (4.00%) Perl
3 2 (4.00%) SQL
4 1 (2.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 22 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (36.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (24.00%) Network+ Certification
5 11 (22.00%) Azure Certification
5 11 (22.00%) Server+ Certification
6 5 (10.00%) A+ Certification
6 5 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (10.00%) Degree
7 3 (6.00%) CCNP
8 2 (4.00%) CCIE
8 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
8 2 (4.00%) RHCE
8 2 (4.00%) RHCSA
9 1 (2.00%) CCSA
9 1 (2.00%) CCSE
9 1 (2.00%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
2 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 18 (36.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (22.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (10.00%) Terminal Services
5 4 (8.00%) Docker
5 4 (8.00%) vSphere
6 2 (4.00%) KVM
6 2 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.00%) NDS
7 1 (2.00%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Ansible
2 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.00%) Tivoli
3 3 (6.00%) Iperf
3 3 (6.00%) Nmap
4 2 (4.00%) FortiGate
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (4.00%) Puppet
4 2 (4.00%) SCCM
4 2 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.00%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.00%) Argo
5 1 (2.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 26 (52.00%) Microsoft
1 26 (52.00%) VMware
2 11 (22.00%) Citrix
3 8 (16.00%) CheckPoint
3 8 (16.00%) Cisco
3 8 (16.00%) Palo Alto
4 7 (14.00%) Red Hat
4 7 (14.00%) SolarWinds
5 5 (10.00%) Fortinet
6 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow
6 4 (8.00%) Veeam
7 2 (4.00%) Wyse
8 1 (2.00%) Cloudera
8 1 (2.00%) NetIQ
8 1 (2.00%) OpenText
8 1 (2.00%) Oracle
8 1 (2.00%) Remedy