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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 119 132
Rank change year-on-year -28 +13 -36
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 82 42 56
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.23% 1.19% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.70% 7.11% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 30 49
10th Percentile £325 £153 £214
25th Percentile £400 £253 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £380 £375
Median % change year-on-year +38.34% +1.20% +15.38%
75th Percentile £622 £488 £525
90th Percentile £769 £544 £552
England median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 1
10th Percentile £24.10 £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% -54.71%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £19.50
90th Percentile £70.69 - -
England median hourly rate £64.24 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.17% - +30.00%

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 766 591 904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.47% 16.75% 18.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 406 481
10th Percentile £291 £220 £254
25th Percentile £405 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £589 £608
90th Percentile £660 £638 £670
England median daily rate £500 £492 £505
% change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 31 99
10th Percentile £17.50 £14.20 £25.55
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.63 £51.06
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.10% -1.46%
75th Percentile £56.66 £70.16 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.47 £89.63 £75.05
England median hourly rate £27.11 £43.00 £55.75
% change year-on-year -36.95% -22.86% -1.32%

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 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +5 69 £527 +17.17% 19
Berkshire -1 43 £500 +11.11% 12
Buckinghamshire -17 24 £615 +15.65% 4
Surrey -20 7 £413 +5.10% 8
Hampshire -27 3 £650 +47.06% 16
Oxfordshire -29 2 £363 - 3
Middlesex - 2 - -
Isle of Wight - 1 - - 2
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 (14.63%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.88%) FactoryTalk
3 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.44%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (2.44%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.44%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (2.44%) WebSphere
4 2 (2.44%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (2.44%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (4.88%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (2.44%) Houdini
2 2 (2.44%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 51 (62.20%) Azure
2 30 (36.59%) AWS
3 16 (19.51%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (13.41%) OneDrive
5 10 (12.20%) Entra ID
6 9 (10.98%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (10.98%) GCP
6 9 (10.98%) Route 53
7 8 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (8.54%) OpenShift
9 5 (6.10%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (4.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.44%) Google Workspace
12 1 (1.22%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (68.29%) DNS
2 55 (67.07%) Firewall
3 43 (52.44%) DHCP
4 32 (39.02%) VPN
5 23 (28.05%) WAN
6 21 (25.61%) LAN
7 19 (23.17%) BGP
8 18 (21.95%) VLAN
9 17 (20.73%) Network Security
10 13 (15.85%) MPLS
10 13 (15.85%) OSPF
11 10 (12.20%) SD-WAN
12 9 (10.98%) DNSSEC
13 8 (9.76%) BIG-IP
13 8 (9.76%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (9.76%) Cisco Firepower
13 8 (9.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 8 (9.76%) IPsec
14 7 (8.54%) SSH
14 7 (8.54%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) JIRA
2 2 (2.44%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (2.44%) GitLab
2 2 (2.44%) Introscope
2 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.22%) Git
General
1 40 (48.78%) Social Skills
2 22 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (6.10%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.88%) Aerospace
5 4 (4.88%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.66%) Finance
7 2 (2.44%) Advertising
7 2 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.44%) Military
7 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (23.17%) Architect
2 14 (17.07%) Senior
3 13 (15.85%) IT Support
4 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) Network Architect
5 9 (10.98%) Network Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) Support Engineer
6 8 (9.76%) IT Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Automation Specialist
8 5 (6.10%) Lead
8 5 (6.10%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Network Manager
10 3 (3.66%) Network Project Manager
10 3 (3.66%) Senior Network Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.05%) Terraform
2 10 (12.20%) ARM Templates
3 4 (4.88%) NETCONF
3 4 (4.88%) OpenConfig
3 4 (4.88%) RESTCONF
3 4 (4.88%) YANG
4 2 (2.44%) JDBC
4 2 (2.44%) JMS
4 2 (2.44%) Kafka
4 2 (2.44%) Middleware
4 2 (2.44%) ModSecurity
4 2 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.44%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (2.44%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (1.22%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.22%) JSON
5 1 (1.22%) RESTful
5 1 (1.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.61%) Data Centre
2 19 (23.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (13.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 8 (9.76%) Onboarding
4 8 (9.76%) Operational Technology
4 8 (9.76%) SCADA
5 7 (8.54%) Management Information System
6 6 (7.32%) Cloud Native
6 6 (7.32%) Private Cloud
7 5 (6.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (6.10%) Public Cloud
8 4 (4.88%) ARM Cortex
8 4 (4.88%) Life Science
9 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (2.44%) Clustering
10 2 (2.44%) Motion Graphics
10 2 (2.44%) Replication
10 2 (2.44%) Social Media
11 1 (1.22%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 52 (63.41%) Windows
2 23 (28.05%) Windows Server
3 22 (26.83%) Linux
4 12 (14.63%) Mac OS
5 10 (12.20%) Apple iOS
6 4 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (2.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (42.68%) ITIL
2 33 (40.24%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (20.73%) Cybersecurity
4 17 (20.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (18.29%) DevOps
5 15 (18.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (17.07%) ITSM
7 13 (15.85%) AI
7 13 (15.85%) Load Balancing
7 13 (15.85%) Validation
8 12 (14.63%) CI/CD
8 12 (14.63%) Customer Service
8 12 (14.63%) High Availability
9 11 (13.41%) DDoS Mitigation
9 11 (13.41%) User Experience
10 10 (12.20%) Data Protection
10 10 (12.20%) Mobile Device Management
10 10 (12.20%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (12.20%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.93%) PowerShell
2 20 (24.39%) Python
3 19 (23.17%) Bash
4 9 (10.98%) Bicep
5 4 (4.88%) SQL
6 2 (2.44%) Jython
6 2 (2.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 42 (51.22%) Security Cleared
2 29 (35.37%) SC Cleared
3 25 (30.49%) Degree
4 15 (18.29%) DV Cleared
5 9 (10.98%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (8.54%) CCIE
7 5 (6.10%) CCNP
7 5 (6.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (4.88%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.88%) JNCIE
8 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (3.66%) PMP
10 2 (2.44%) A+ Certification
10 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
10 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (2.44%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (1.22%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) NCSC
2 4 (4.88%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 4 (4.88%) GxP
3 2 (2.44%) JSP 440
3 2 (2.44%) NIST
3 2 (2.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 21 (25.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (20.73%) Active Directory
3 8 (9.76%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.88%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.66%) Docker
6 2 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.44%) vSphere
7 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (23.17%) Ansible
2 18 (21.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (12.20%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (9.76%) Kubernetes
5 5 (6.10%) SCCM
6 4 (4.88%) Grafana
6 4 (4.88%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.44%) CA Wily
7 2 (2.44%) Istio
7 2 (2.44%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.22%) Rancher
8 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (54.88%) Microsoft
2 25 (30.49%) VMware
3 15 (18.29%) Cisco
4 13 (15.85%) F5
4 13 (15.85%) ServiceNow
5 11 (13.41%) Google
6 9 (10.98%) Infoblox
7 8 (9.76%) Palo Alto
8 6 (7.32%) Fortinet
8 6 (7.32%) Red Hat
9 5 (6.10%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (4.88%) Juniper
10 4 (4.88%) Rockwell
10 4 (4.88%) SolarWinds
11 2 (2.44%) AppDynamics
11 2 (2.44%) Aruba
11 2 (2.44%) Citrix
11 2 (2.44%) Foundry
11 2 (2.44%) IBM
11 2 (2.44%) Veeam