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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 120 133
Rank change year-on-year -13 +13 +28
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 19 21 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.45% 1.09% 1.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.76% 9.68% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 17 20 28
10th Percentile £42,300 £27,300 £33,100
25th Percentile £46,250 £35,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £47,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +59.57% -12.56% -10.42%
75th Percentile £96,250 £85,625 £69,063
90th Percentile £125,000 £110,000 £74,125
Central London median annual salary £70,500 £70,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +0.71% +42.86% -14.78%

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 245 217 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 5.79% 11.21% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 161 193 336
10th Percentile £36,750 £34,200 £31,625
25th Percentile £44,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,656
90th Percentile £96,250 £94,500 £95,000
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -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 4 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 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (31.58%) Entra ID
4 4 (21.05%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.26%) Google Workspace
5 1 (5.26%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) DNS
2 11 (57.89%) DHCP
3 5 (26.32%) Firewall
4 3 (15.79%) Multicast
4 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (10.53%) LAN
5 2 (10.53%) Network Security
5 2 (10.53%) VPN
5 2 (10.53%) WAN
6 1 (5.26%) BGP
6 1 (5.26%) HTTP
6 1 (5.26%) IGMP
6 1 (5.26%) Internet
6 1 (5.26%) OSPF
6 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (5.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Law
3 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Senior
2 5 (26.32%) Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) IT Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Service Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Security Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Server Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) ADO
2 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) MPEG
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) IPTV
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Windows
2 11 (57.89%) Windows Server
3 4 (21.05%) Windows 10
4 3 (15.79%) Linux
5 2 (10.53%) Android
5 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
5 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (5.26%) CentOS
6 1 (5.26%) CoreOS
6 1 (5.26%) Mac OS X
6 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.26%) Windows 7
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Application Packaging
1 7 (36.84%) Change Management
1 7 (36.84%) Identity Access Management
1 7 (36.84%) Incident Management
1 7 (36.84%) Project Delivery
2 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (26.32%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
4 4 (21.05%) Analytics
4 4 (21.05%) Customer Service
4 4 (21.05%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (15.79%) Objectives and Key Results
5 3 (15.79%) Patch Management
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) User Experience
6 2 (10.53%) IT Strategy
6 2 (10.53%) Storytelling
6 2 (10.53%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Bash
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
1 2 (10.53%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) C#
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) Rust
2 1 (5.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Azure Certification
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (73.68%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.26%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (26.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 5 (26.32%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.26%) QRadar
3 1 (5.26%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Okta
2 4 (21.05%) OneLogin
3 2 (10.53%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.53%) Splunk
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) Arista
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) McAfee
4 1 (5.26%) Rapid7
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat