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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 121 134
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +31
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 17 19 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.44% 1.00% 1.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.80% 8.80% 9.17%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 21
10th Percentile £43,250 £26,900 £31,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £32,688 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £47,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +59.57% -4.08% -24.62%
75th Percentile £125,000 £85,000 £67,000
90th Percentile - £97,750 £70,000
Central London median annual salary £70,500 £70,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year +0.71% +51.35% -26.76%

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 218 216 360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 5.65% 11.32% 12.65%
Number of salaries quoted 146 191 288
10th Percentile £36,750 £34,000 £34,525
25th Percentile £44,250 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,375 £95,000 £95,000
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -9.17%

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 26 July 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 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.88%) Google Workspace
4 1 (5.88%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) DNS
2 6 (35.29%) DHCP
3 5 (29.41%) Firewall
3 5 (29.41%) Multicast
4 2 (11.76%) Network Security
4 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (5.88%) BGP
5 1 (5.88%) HTTP
5 1 (5.88%) IGMP
5 1 (5.88%) Internet
5 1 (5.88%) LAN
5 1 (5.88%) OSPF
5 1 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (5.88%) VPN
5 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Law
3 5 (29.41%) Telecoms
4 4 (23.53%) Banking
4 4 (23.53%) Finance
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) IT Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Server Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Service Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) ADO
2 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) MPEG
2 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) IPTV
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
3 3 (17.65%) Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Android
4 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.88%) Mac OS X
4 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.88%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps
1 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
3 4 (23.53%) Analytics
3 4 (23.53%) Application Packaging
3 4 (23.53%) Change Management
3 4 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
3 4 (23.53%) IT Strategy
3 4 (23.53%) Line Management
3 4 (23.53%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
3 4 (23.53%) Storytelling
3 4 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (23.53%) Technology Strategy
3 4 (23.53%) Ticket Management
4 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
5 2 (11.76%) High-Frequency Trading
5 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Bash
1 2 (11.76%) C#
1 2 (11.76%) Java
1 2 (11.76%) Python
1 2 (11.76%) Rust
1 2 (11.76%) VBA
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Azure Certification
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) CCNP
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (11.76%) Ansible
4 2 (11.76%) Grafana
4 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.88%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Okta
2 4 (23.53%) OneLogin
3 3 (17.65%) Splunk
4 2 (11.76%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (11.76%) VMware
5 1 (5.88%) Arista
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco
5 1 (5.88%) Rapid7
5 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow