TCP/IP Job Trends in the City of London

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 119 130
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 -1
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 18 9 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.70% 0.55% 1.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.33% 5.06% 9.44%
Number of salaries quoted 14 8 15
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,900 £34,900
25th Percentile £28,750 £30,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £32,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -27.78% -33.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £34,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £52,150 £73,000
Central London median annual salary £48,750 £77,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -37.10% +72.22% -30.77%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 146 178 445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 5.71% 10.95% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 113 151 258
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -18.52% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £71,375 £85,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £111,625
Central London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in the City of London

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing TCP/IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the City of London

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.11%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) DNS
2 8 (44.44%) DHCP
3 7 (38.89%) VPN
4 6 (33.33%) Wireless
5 5 (27.78%) Multicast
6 4 (22.22%) Firewall
7 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (11.11%) Network Security
9 1 (5.56%) BGP
9 1 (5.56%) HTTP
9 1 (5.56%) IGMP
9 1 (5.56%) Internet
9 1 (5.56%) LAN
9 1 (5.56%) OSPF
9 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (5.56%) Spanning Tree
9 1 (5.56%) VLAN
9 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Burp Suite
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Law
2 5 (27.78%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) IT Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) IT Support
2 5 (27.78%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Operations Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) IT Support Technician
3 4 (22.22%) IT Technician
3 4 (22.22%) Junior
3 4 (22.22%) Junior IT Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Junior IT Support
3 4 (22.22%) Junior IT Technician
3 4 (22.22%) Junior Support Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Junior Support Technician
3 4 (22.22%) Support Technician
4 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Support
4 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.56%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) MPEG
2 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) IPTV
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 4 (22.22%) Linux
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.56%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
1 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (22.22%) IT Strategy
3 4 (22.22%) Line Management
3 4 (22.22%) Storytelling
3 4 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
3 4 (22.22%) Ticket Management
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.11%) High-Frequency Trading
5 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 2 (11.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (11.11%) Process Improvement
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Bash
1 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 3 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) C#
2 2 (11.11%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) Rust
2 2 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Degree
2 6 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) A+ Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CCNA
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 4 (22.22%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (5.56%) IASME
2 1 (5.56%) NCSC
2 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (11.11%) Docker
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Grafana
2 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (5.56%) Nessus
3 1 (5.56%) Nmap
3 1 (5.56%) QRadar
3 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.56%) Arista
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix
4 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.56%) Meraki
4 1 (5.56%) Okta
4 1 (5.56%) OneLogin
4 1 (5.56%) Proofpoint
4 1 (5.56%) Qualys
4 1 (5.56%) Rapid7
4 1 (5.56%) Ruckus Wireless
4 1 (5.56%) WatchGuard