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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 126 125
Rank change year-on-year +23 -1 -14
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 23 16 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.71% 0.83% 0.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.85% 9.41% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16 16 14
10th Percentile £39,250 - -
25th Percentile £45,313 £28,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £74,063 £44,938 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,125 £65,000 £63,375
South East median annual salary £37,500 £36,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.74% -14.12% -

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 179 170 325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.51% 8.83% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 149 144 218
10th Percentile £29,950 £22,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £31,250 £40,003
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,750 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -8.33% -2.86%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,625 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% +4.17%

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 24 August 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 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -11 12 £47,500 -17.39% 10
Wokingham - 6 £76,250 -
Slough - 2 £78,750 -
Maidenhead - 1 £35,000 -
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 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (21.74%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
4 4 (17.39%) Power Automate
5 3 (13.04%) AWS
5 3 (13.04%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Stack
6 1 (4.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 18 (78.26%) Firewall
2 16 (69.57%) DNS
3 14 (60.87%) VPN
4 10 (43.48%) HTTP
5 7 (30.43%) DHCP
6 6 (26.09%) VLAN
7 5 (21.74%) Wireless
8 4 (17.39%) LAN
8 4 (17.39%) WAN
9 3 (13.04%) Network Security
10 2 (8.70%) FTP
10 2 (8.70%) Internet
10 2 (8.70%) SMTP
11 1 (4.35%) DNSSEC
11 1 (4.35%) Modbus
11 1 (4.35%) RS-232
11 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 12 (52.17%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Retail
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Analyst
2 7 (30.43%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (21.74%) IT Support
3 5 (21.74%) SOC Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) IT Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Support Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Security Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Security Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) SIEM Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Implementation Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 1 (4.35%) Network Support
7 1 (4.35%) Network Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) LDAP
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.35%) gRPC
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Cyber Defence
1 10 (43.48%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (34.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (8.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (4.35%) Replication
4 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Linux
3 5 (21.74%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.35%) Android
4 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (56.52%) SIEM
3 10 (43.48%) Incident Management
4 9 (39.13%) ITIL
5 8 (34.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 8 (34.78%) Incident Response
5 8 (34.78%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 8 (34.78%) Threat Detection
5 8 (34.78%) Threat Intelligence
5 8 (34.78%) Use Case
6 7 (30.43%) Blue Team
6 7 (30.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (30.43%) Tradecraft
6 7 (30.43%) Validation
7 6 (26.09%) Cyber Intelligence
7 6 (26.09%) Impact Assessments
7 6 (26.09%) Offensive Security
7 6 (26.09%) Purple Team
7 6 (26.09%) Red Team
8 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
1 7 (30.43%) Search Processing Language
2 2 (8.70%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (8.70%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) GCIA
1 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (43.48%) Degree
2 10 (43.48%) SANS
3 8 (34.78%) CCNA
3 8 (34.78%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (34.78%) CREST Certified
3 8 (34.78%) GCIH
3 8 (34.78%) GIAC
3 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
4 7 (30.43%) GCED
5 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (26.09%) OSCP
6 4 (17.39%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (13.04%) CCNP
7 3 (13.04%) CISSP
7 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (4.35%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Kibana
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.70%) QRadar
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
2 10 (43.48%) Splunk
3 8 (34.78%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (30.43%) Carbon Black
5 2 (8.70%) ArcSight
6 1 (4.35%) ConnectWise
6 1 (4.35%) Google
6 1 (4.35%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.35%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (4.35%) VMware