TCP/IP Contracts

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 281 237
Rank change year-on-year +57 -44 +33
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 356 352 613
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 0.81% 1.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.24% 6.49% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 235 389
10th Percentile £213 £196 £210
25th Percentile £357 £275 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -0.84% +0.84%
75th Percentile £623 £575 £638
90th Percentile £775 £650 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £488 £440
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.92% +9.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 32 46
10th Percentile £18.79 £18.65 £18.38
25th Percentile £41.45 £53.93 £26.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.91
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +16.26% +17.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £65.75
90th Percentile - £67.25 £77.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.33
% change year-on-year - +13.38% +27.20%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,854 5,424 7,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.42% 12.50% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,324 3,203 4,615
10th Percentile £230 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.38% +1.40%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.22% +3.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 430 433
10th Percentile £14.40 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.85 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £43.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +114.29% -27.88%
75th Percentile £61.25 £63.75 £62.55
90th Percentile £78.00 £73.30 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £47.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -34.57% +115.91% -3.30%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for TCP/IP in the UK

TCP/IP
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 July 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
England +29 287 £463 -2.63% 1,317
UK excluding London +12 165 £450 -7.69% 772
London +65 143 £469 +4.17% 619
Work from Home +53 123 £575 +15.00% 509
North of England +13 45 £450 -2.70% 183
South East +25 35 £450 - 225
Yorkshire +5 31 £500 +38.89% 70
East of England +21 24 £425 +13.33% 102
Midlands -13 19 £550 +10.00% 101
Scotland +15 16 £450 +2.74% 53
South West +17 14 £615 +2.50% 84
North West +5 12 £283 -38.92% 102
West Midlands +3 11 £500 -4.76% 61
Northern Ireland -2 9 £160 - 11
East Midlands -9 8 £550 +29.41% 40
Wales +5 4 - - 26
North East - 2 £288 - 15

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (5.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.49%) Confluence
3 15 (4.21%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.40%) IIS
5 4 (1.12%) Apache
6 3 (0.84%) nginx
7 2 (0.56%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.28%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 25 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.40%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.84%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 95 (26.69%) Azure
2 80 (22.47%) AWS
3 53 (14.89%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (10.11%) GCP
5 32 (8.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 27 (7.58%) GitHub
7 22 (6.18%) SaaS
8 18 (5.06%) Entra ID
8 18 (5.06%) IaaS
8 18 (5.06%) PaaS
9 16 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (3.09%) Serverless
12 9 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.53%) OneDrive
12 9 (2.53%) OpenShift
13 8 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (2.25%) Nutanix
14 7 (1.97%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 189 (53.09%) DNS
2 139 (39.04%) Firewall
3 126 (35.39%) DHCP
4 106 (29.78%) VPN
5 68 (19.10%) BGP
6 65 (18.26%) HTTP
7 63 (17.70%) OSPF
8 57 (16.01%) LAN
8 57 (16.01%) WAN
9 53 (14.89%) Network Security
10 47 (13.20%) VLAN
11 33 (9.27%) Wireless
12 28 (7.87%) Internet
12 28 (7.87%) SSL
13 19 (5.34%) SMTP
14 18 (5.06%) HTTPS
15 17 (4.78%) Ethernet
15 17 (4.78%) IPsec
16 16 (4.49%) SAN
17 13 (3.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.90%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (4.78%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.81%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (1.97%) DynamoDB
4 7 (1.97%) MySQL
4 7 (1.97%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.12%) DB2
5 4 (1.12%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.84%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.84%) Power BI
7 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.56%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.56%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.28%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 34 (9.55%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.58%) Git
3 22 (6.18%) JIRA
4 14 (3.93%) Postman
4 14 (3.93%) Visual Studio
5 12 (3.37%) Eclipse
6 10 (2.81%) Subversion
7 7 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.69%) GitLab
8 6 (1.69%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.84%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.56%) Mercurial
11 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.28%) Burp Suite
General
1 135 (37.92%) Social Skills
2 52 (14.61%) Finance
3 49 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (6.46%) Banking
5 21 (5.90%) Military
6 15 (4.21%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.09%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.81%) Legal
9 10 (2.81%) Marketing
10 8 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.25%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.97%) Front Office
12 5 (1.40%) Electronics
12 5 (1.40%) Games
13 4 (1.12%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.12%) French Language
13 4 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.12%) Local Government
13 4 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 61 (17.13%) Network Engineer
2 39 (10.96%) Senior
3 33 (9.27%) Support Engineer
4 30 (8.43%) Architect
5 29 (8.15%) Analyst
6 25 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (6.18%) IT Support
8 20 (5.62%) Technical Architect
9 19 (5.34%) Developer
9 19 (5.34%) IT Engineer
10 17 (4.78%) Cloud Architect
10 17 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (4.49%) Cloud Native Architect
11 16 (4.49%) Support Analyst
11 16 (4.49%) Technical Engineer
11 16 (4.49%) Windows Engineer
12 13 (3.65%) IT Support Engineer
12 13 (3.65%) Lead
13 12 (3.37%) Software Engineer
14 11 (3.09%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.06%) Elastic Stack
1 18 (5.06%) Node.js
2 13 (3.65%) Web Services
3 11 (3.09%) .NET
3 11 (3.09%) REST
4 10 (2.81%) LDAP
5 6 (1.69%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (1.69%) Middleware
6 5 (1.40%) FpML
7 3 (0.84%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.84%) JSON
7 3 (0.84%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.84%) YAML
8 2 (0.56%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.56%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.56%) LAMP
8 2 (0.56%) React
8 2 (0.56%) RESTful
8 2 (0.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.71%) Data Centre
2 18 (5.06%) Cloud Native
3 17 (4.78%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.53%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (2.25%) Driving Licence
7 8 (2.25%) PKI
7 8 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.97%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.97%) Clustering
8 7 (1.97%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.69%) Derivative
9 6 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.40%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 141 (39.61%) Windows
2 105 (29.49%) Linux
3 47 (13.20%) Windows Server
4 29 (8.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (7.02%) Windows 10
6 23 (6.46%) Unix
7 16 (4.49%) Mac OS
8 13 (3.65%) Ubuntu
9 9 (2.53%) Solaris
9 9 (2.53%) Windows 7
9 9 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (2.25%) Android
11 6 (1.69%) CentOS
11 6 (1.69%) Check Point GAiA
11 6 (1.69%) Debian
11 6 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (1.40%) Apple iOS
12 5 (1.40%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (1.40%) zOS
13 4 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (17.42%) Agile
3 61 (17.13%) DevOps
4 51 (14.33%) CI/CD
5 47 (13.20%) ITIL
6 46 (12.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 39 (10.96%) Computer Science
8 38 (10.67%) High Availability
9 37 (10.39%) Configuration Management
10 32 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (8.15%) Containerisation
12 27 (7.58%) Continuous Integration
13 26 (7.30%) Customer Service
14 24 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
14 24 (6.74%) Incident Management
14 24 (6.74%) ITSM
14 24 (6.74%) SIEM
15 22 (6.18%) Migration
15 22 (6.18%) Security Operations
16 20 (5.62%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 101 (28.37%) Python
2 41 (11.52%) PowerShell
3 32 (8.99%) Bash
4 26 (7.30%) C#
5 23 (6.46%) C++
6 20 (5.62%) Java
6 20 (5.62%) JavaScript
6 20 (5.62%) SQL
7 19 (5.34%) Bicep
8 18 (5.06%) Perl
9 8 (2.25%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.40%) Go
11 5 (1.40%) JCL
11 5 (1.40%) PHP
12 3 (0.84%) VBScript
13 2 (0.56%) REXX
13 2 (0.56%) VB
14 1 (0.28%) C
Qualifications
1 64 (17.98%) Cisco Certification
2 63 (17.70%) Security Cleared
3 53 (14.89%) Degree
3 53 (14.89%) SC Cleared
4 49 (13.76%) CCNP
5 43 (12.08%) CCNA
6 19 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.49%) DV Cleared
8 12 (3.37%) CCSE
9 10 (2.81%) JNCIA
9 10 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.53%) A+ Certification
11 7 (1.97%) CCSA
12 6 (1.69%) CCIE
12 6 (1.69%) Check Point Certification
12 6 (1.69%) MCP
13 5 (1.40%) JNCIS
13 5 (1.40%) MCSA
14 4 (1.12%) CCSP
14 4 (1.12%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.65%) SLA
2 11 (3.09%) GDPR
3 6 (1.69%) QA
4 5 (1.40%) NIST
5 4 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.12%) NCSC
5 4 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.56%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 67 (18.82%) Active Directory
2 56 (15.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (8.99%) Docker
4 20 (5.62%) Hyper-V
5 16 (4.49%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (2.81%) vSphere
7 9 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 6 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.12%) NFS
10 3 (0.84%) Firmware
11 2 (0.56%) iptables
11 2 (0.56%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.56%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.56%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.56%) XenApp
12 1 (0.28%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 74 (20.79%) Ansible
2 68 (19.10%) Terraform
3 40 (11.24%) Puppet
4 35 (9.83%) Kubernetes
5 26 (7.30%) SCCM
6 19 (5.34%) Grafana
6 19 (5.34%) Prometheus
7 18 (5.06%) FortiGate
8 13 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (3.65%) Progress Chef
9 11 (3.09%) Tivoli
10 8 (2.25%) Microsoft Clustering
10 8 (2.25%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (1.40%) AirWatch
11 5 (1.40%) QRadar
11 5 (1.40%) Tivoli NetView
12 4 (1.12%) EMC NetWorker
12 4 (1.12%) NetBackup
12 4 (1.12%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 4 (1.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 108 (30.34%) Microsoft
2 96 (26.97%) Cisco
3 84 (23.60%) VMware
4 51 (14.33%) Red Hat
5 50 (14.04%) CheckPoint
5 50 (14.04%) Palo Alto
6 35 (9.83%) Fortinet
7 24 (6.74%) ServiceNow
8 19 (5.34%) Citrix
9 16 (4.49%) MuleSoft
10 15 (4.21%) Google
10 15 (4.21%) Juniper
11 14 (3.93%) Oracle
12 13 (3.65%) Splunk
13 11 (3.09%) F5
13 11 (3.09%) SolarWinds
14 10 (2.81%) Apple
14 10 (2.81%) Dell
14 10 (2.81%) IBM
14 10 (2.81%) Meraki