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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 94 143
Rank change year-on-year -9 +49 -17
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 10 24 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.42% 1.63% 0.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.72% 19.35% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 6 24 16
10th Percentile £38,750 £27,725 £43,125
25th Percentile £48,438 £28,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £37,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +86.67% -25.00% +70.94%
75th Percentile £77,188 £58,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £63,375 -
South East median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -2.60% +13.24%

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 212 124 456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.81% 8.40% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 109 96 366
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £29,896
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +10.19%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
South East median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £46,625
% change year-on-year - +1.88% +3.61%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 5 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Slough - 4 £78,750 - 1
Maidenhead -4 1 £35,000 +16.67%
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) FTP
2 2 (20.00%) HTTP
2 2 (20.00%) Internet
2 2 (20.00%) LAN
2 2 (20.00%) MQTT
2 2 (20.00%) SMTP
2 2 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) 3GPP
3 1 (10.00%) 4G
3 1 (10.00%) 5G
3 1 (10.00%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) ICMP
3 1 (10.00%) IPv4
3 1 (10.00%) IPv6
3 1 (10.00%) Modbus
3 1 (10.00%) RS-232
3 1 (10.00%) SCTP
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
1 2 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Network Support
2 1 (10.00%) Network Support Technician
2 1 (10.00%) Network Technician
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Support Technician
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Support
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) LDAP
2 2 (20.00%) Middleware
2 2 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (10.00%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (20.00%) Life Science
1 2 (20.00%) LIMS
1 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (40.00%) SIEM
2 3 (30.00%) Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Application Security
3 2 (20.00%) Change Control
3 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (20.00%) Data Science
3 2 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Security Hardening
3 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (20.00%) SOAR
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (20.00%) Swim Lanes
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) CCNA
3 2 (20.00%) CCNP
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (20.00%) CISSP
3 2 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (20.00%) GCIA
3 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (20.00%) SANS
3 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (20.00%) GxP
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Agilent
1 2 (20.00%) ArcSight
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) ConnectWise
2 1 (10.00%) LogicMonitor