TCP/IP Job Trends in Berkshire

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 111 135
Rank change year-on-year +9 +24 -17
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 18 16 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.65% 0.95% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.91% 10.19% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 11 16 14
10th Percentile £41,750 - £41,375
25th Percentile £47,500 £28,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £33,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -33.50% +14.94%
75th Percentile £80,625 £37,875 £52,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £49,125 £62,500
South East median annual salary £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -7.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

TCP/IP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 202 157 452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 7.25% 9.37% 14.34%
Number of salaries quoted 130 127 342
10th Percentile £30,000 £22,750 £28,310
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,375 £81,000 £79,875
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +4.40%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing TCP/IP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Berkshire

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing TCP/IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 June 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in Berkshire

TCP/IP
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -13 7 £70,000 +91.78% 4
Wokingham - 6 £76,250 - 4
Slough - 2 £78,750 - 1
Maidenhead +20 1 £35,000 +16.67% 1
TCP/IP
South East

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (77.78%) Firewall
2 11 (61.11%) DNS
3 10 (55.56%) HTTP
3 10 (55.56%) VPN
4 2 (11.11%) DHCP
4 2 (11.11%) FTP
4 2 (11.11%) Internet
4 2 (11.11%) LAN
4 2 (11.11%) Network Security
4 2 (11.11%) SMTP
4 2 (11.11%) WAN
5 1 (5.56%) DNSSEC
5 1 (5.56%) Modbus
5 1 (5.56%) RS-232
5 1 (5.56%) VLAN
5 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
General
1 11 (61.11%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Retail
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Analyst
2 7 (38.89%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) SOC Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Security Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) SIEM Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
6 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Implementation Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Network Support
6 1 (5.56%) Network Technician
6 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Support Technician
6 1 (5.56%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) LDAP
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.56%) gRPC
2 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Cyber Defence
1 10 (55.56%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (11.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (5.56%) Replication
4 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
2 8 (44.44%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Cybersecurity
1 13 (72.22%) SIEM
2 10 (55.56%) Incident Management
3 8 (44.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 8 (44.44%) Incident Response
3 8 (44.44%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 8 (44.44%) Threat Detection
3 8 (44.44%) Threat Intelligence
3 8 (44.44%) Use Case
4 7 (38.89%) Blue Team
4 7 (38.89%) Tradecraft
4 7 (38.89%) Validation
5 6 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
5 6 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
5 6 (33.33%) Offensive Security
5 6 (33.33%) Purple Team
5 6 (33.33%) Red Team
5 6 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (27.78%) ITIL
6 5 (27.78%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Search Processing Language
2 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) GCIA
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) SANS
3 8 (44.44%) CREST Certified
3 8 (44.44%) GCIH
3 8 (44.44%) GIAC
3 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
4 7 (38.89%) GCED
5 6 (33.33%) Degree
5 6 (33.33%) OSCP
6 4 (22.22%) CCNA
6 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (22.22%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (16.67%) CCNP
7 3 (16.67%) CISSP
7 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Kibana
2 2 (11.11%) QRadar
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Splunk
2 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (44.44%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (38.89%) Carbon Black
5 2 (11.11%) ArcSight
6 1 (5.56%) ConnectWise
6 1 (5.56%) Google
6 1 (5.56%) Infoblox
6 1 (5.56%) LogicMonitor