TCP/IP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring TCP/IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TCP/IP over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 198 180
Rank change year-on-year +20 -18 -11
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 170 205 319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.32% 0.99% 1.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.32% 6.19% 9.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 153 196
10th Percentile £216 £185 £179
25th Percentile £362 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £562
90th Percentile £630 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 32
10th Percentile £17.05 £37.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.45 £61.94 £25.31
Median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £62.55
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +3.92% +76.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £71.13
90th Percentile - £68.13 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £65.00 £57.33
% change year-on-year -10.00% +13.38% +27.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,044 3,310 3,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 15.99% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,883 2,194
10th Percentile £200 £205 £210
25th Percentile £313 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% +1.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £637 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 355 304
10th Percentile £13.97 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £15.33 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £30.00 £45.88 £18.22
Median % change year-on-year -34.61% +151.88% -15.28%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.22 £70.66 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% +116.22% -32.73%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the UK excluding London

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
North of England +21 45 £400 -20.00% 275
South East +33 38 £450 - 329
Yorkshire +28 25 £506 -18.61% 134
East of England +36 24 £430 +14.67% 197
South West +33 21 £615 +2.50% 160
North West +7 17 £250 -47.37% 113
Midlands -8 17 £550 +7.32% 209
Scotland +14 13 £443 +38.71% 60
West Midlands +7 10 £550 +4.76% 97
Wales +7 7 £450 -30.18% 32
East Midlands -6 7 £550 +15.79% 98
Northern Ireland -7 7 £160 - 15
North East - 3 £250 - 31
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (9.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.29%) Confluence
3 8 (4.71%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.76%) Apache
4 3 (1.76%) IIS
5 2 (1.18%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.59%) nginx
6 1 (0.59%) Traefik
Applications
1 21 (12.35%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 45 (26.47%) Azure
2 37 (21.76%) AWS
3 17 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (8.82%) OpenShift
5 7 (4.12%) GCP
6 6 (3.53%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.94%) GitHub
7 5 (2.94%) Serverless
8 4 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.35%) OneDrive
8 4 (2.35%) PaaS
8 4 (2.35%) SaaS
9 3 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (1.76%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.76%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 91 (53.53%) DNS
2 71 (41.76%) Firewall
3 67 (39.41%) DHCP
4 61 (35.88%) VPN
5 31 (18.24%) BGP
6 30 (17.65%) WAN
7 29 (17.06%) Network Security
8 28 (16.47%) OSPF
9 24 (14.12%) VLAN
10 23 (13.53%) LAN
11 22 (12.94%) HTTP
12 15 (8.82%) SSL
13 14 (8.24%) Wireless
14 12 (7.06%) MPLS
15 11 (6.47%) Cisco Nexus
15 11 (6.47%) SD-WAN
16 9 (5.29%) Ethernet
17 8 (4.71%) Cisco ASA
17 8 (4.71%) IPsec
18 7 (4.12%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.12%) MySQL
3 5 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.35%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.35%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.18%) DB2
5 2 (1.18%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (9.41%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.88%) Git
3 9 (5.29%) JIRA
3 9 (5.29%) Postman
4 8 (4.71%) Visual Studio
5 6 (3.53%) Eclipse
6 4 (2.35%) GitLab
6 4 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.18%) Subversion
8 1 (0.59%) Robot Framework
General
1 55 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.06%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (10.00%) Finance
4 10 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 9 (5.29%) Military
6 8 (4.71%) Banking
7 6 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.35%) French Language
8 4 (2.35%) Legal
8 4 (2.35%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.76%) Automotive
9 3 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.76%) Electronics
9 3 (1.76%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.76%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.18%) Korean Language
10 2 (1.18%) Law
10 2 (1.18%) Marketing
11 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (18.82%) Network Engineer
2 20 (11.76%) Support Engineer
3 17 (10.00%) Analyst
4 16 (9.41%) Senior
5 15 (8.82%) IT Support
6 12 (7.06%) Architect
6 12 (7.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (7.06%) IT Engineer
7 11 (6.47%) IT Support Engineer
8 10 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
9 8 (4.71%) Lead
10 7 (4.12%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.12%) Service Analyst
10 7 (4.12%) Service Desk Analyst
10 7 (4.12%) Support Analyst
11 6 (3.53%) Check Point Expert
11 6 (3.53%) Technical Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) C# Software Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.12%) Node.js
1 7 (4.12%) Web Services
2 4 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.35%) LDAP
3 3 (1.76%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.76%) REST
4 2 (1.18%) .NET
4 2 (1.18%) LAMP
4 2 (1.18%) PostGIS
4 2 (1.18%) XML
5 1 (0.59%) cloud-init
5 1 (0.59%) Kafka
5 1 (0.59%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.59%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.65%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.29%) Driving Licence
2 9 (5.29%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.12%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (4.12%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.53%) PKI
5 5 (2.94%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.35%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.35%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (2.35%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.76%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.76%) CMDB
8 2 (1.18%) Anti-Spyware
8 2 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 82 (48.24%) Windows
2 52 (30.59%) Linux
3 33 (19.41%) Windows Server
4 27 (15.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (6.47%) Windows 10
6 9 (5.29%) Unix
7 8 (4.71%) Ubuntu
8 6 (3.53%) Check Point GAiA
9 5 (2.94%) zOS
10 4 (2.35%) Android
10 4 (2.35%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.76%) AIX
11 3 (1.76%) CentOS
11 3 (1.76%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.76%) Solaris
11 3 (1.76%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (1.76%) Windows 7
12 2 (1.18%) Debian
13 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (21.76%) ITIL
3 30 (17.65%) DevOps
4 25 (14.71%) Agile
5 23 (13.53%) Containerisation
6 19 (11.18%) CI/CD
6 19 (11.18%) Incident Management
6 19 (11.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (10.59%) Service Management
8 16 (9.41%) Configuration Management
8 16 (9.41%) High Availability
8 16 (9.41%) ITSM
9 15 (8.82%) SIEM
10 13 (7.65%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (7.06%) DevSecOps
11 12 (7.06%) Problem Management
12 11 (6.47%) Change Management
12 11 (6.47%) Network Monitoring
13 10 (5.88%) Computer Science
13 10 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 48 (28.24%) Python
2 23 (13.53%) PowerShell
3 20 (11.76%) Bash
4 15 (8.82%) Java
5 9 (5.29%) SQL
6 8 (4.71%) C++
7 7 (4.12%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.53%) C#
9 5 (2.94%) JCL
9 5 (2.94%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.35%) Perl
11 2 (1.18%) PHP
11 2 (1.18%) REXX
12 1 (0.59%) Go
Qualifications
1 45 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 37 (21.76%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (19.41%) SC Cleared
4 30 (17.65%) CCNP
5 23 (13.53%) CCNA
5 23 (13.53%) Degree
6 15 (8.82%) DV Cleared
7 12 (7.06%) CCSE
8 9 (5.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (4.71%) A+ Certification
10 6 (3.53%) CCSA
10 6 (3.53%) Check Point Certification
11 4 (2.35%) CCIE
12 3 (1.76%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.76%) MCP
12 3 (1.76%) MCSE
12 3 (1.76%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (1.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.47%) SLA
2 6 (3.53%) NIST
3 5 (2.94%) NCSC
4 4 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.76%) GDPR
6 2 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.18%) QA
6 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.59%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (20.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (14.71%) Active Directory
3 23 (13.53%) Docker
4 21 (12.35%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.94%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.94%) vSphere
6 3 (1.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.59%) Firmware
8 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.59%) NFS
8 1 (0.59%) Samba
8 1 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.59%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 43 (25.29%) Ansible
2 28 (16.47%) Puppet
3 27 (15.88%) Terraform
4 24 (14.12%) Kubernetes
5 12 (7.06%) SCCM
6 11 (6.47%) FortiGate
7 6 (3.53%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (2.94%) AirWatch
8 5 (2.94%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.94%) Tivoli NetView
9 4 (2.35%) Grafana
9 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.35%) NetBackup
9 4 (2.35%) Tivoli
10 2 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.18%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (1.18%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.18%) XenMobile
10 2 (1.18%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.59%) yum
Vendors
1 54 (31.76%) Microsoft
2 50 (29.41%) VMware
3 48 (28.24%) Cisco
4 34 (20.00%) Red Hat
5 25 (14.71%) CheckPoint
6 18 (10.59%) Palo Alto
7 14 (8.24%) ServiceNow
8 9 (5.29%) Fortinet
8 9 (5.29%) MuleSoft
9 8 (4.71%) SolarWinds
10 7 (4.12%) Citrix
10 7 (4.12%) HP
11 6 (3.53%) Apple
11 6 (3.53%) Dell
11 6 (3.53%) Meraki
11 6 (3.53%) Splunk
12 5 (2.94%) Oracle
13 4 (2.35%) IBM
13 4 (2.35%) Juniper
13 4 (2.35%) NetApp