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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 122 128
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +11
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 18 11 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.55% 0.63% 1.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.84% 5.98% 10.02%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 16
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,300 £29,341
25th Percentile £47,500 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £32,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +123.08% -29.73% -28.85%
75th Percentile £117,500 £57,063 £69,063
90th Percentile £125,000 £88,000 £70,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +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 183 184 409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 5.61% 10.57% 14.71%
Number of salaries quoted 132 160 267
10th Percentile £36,975 £36,250 £36,900
25th Percentile £44,750 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% +3.80%
75th Percentile £87,813 £71,563 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,750 £96,250
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%

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 6 September 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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) DNS
2 7 (38.89%) DHCP
3 5 (27.78%) Firewall
3 5 (27.78%) Multicast
4 3 (16.67%) VPN
4 3 (16.67%) Wireless
5 2 (11.11%) Network Security
6 1 (5.56%) BGP
6 1 (5.56%) HTTP
6 1 (5.56%) IGMP
6 1 (5.56%) Internet
6 1 (5.56%) OSPF
6 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Law
3 5 (27.78%) Telecoms
4 4 (22.22%) Banking
4 4 (22.22%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) IT Support
3 3 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) IT Support Technician
3 3 (16.67%) IT Technician
3 3 (16.67%) Junior
3 3 (16.67%) Junior IT Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Junior IT Technician
3 3 (16.67%) Junior Support Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Junior Support Technician
3 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) ADO
3 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) MPEG
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) IPTV
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (16.67%) Linux
3 3 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 6 (33.33%) DevOps
1 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
3 4 (22.22%) Analytics
3 4 (22.22%) Application Packaging
3 4 (22.22%) Change Management
3 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (22.22%) Incident Management
3 4 (22.22%) IT Strategy
3 4 (22.22%) Line Management
3 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 4 (22.22%) Storytelling
3 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
3 4 (22.22%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Bash
1 2 (11.11%) C#
1 2 (11.11%) Java
1 2 (11.11%) Python
1 2 (11.11%) Rust
1 2 (11.11%) VBA
2 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
2 5 (27.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 3 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (11.11%) Docker
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) Grafana
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Okta
2 4 (22.22%) OneLogin
3 3 (16.67%) Splunk
4 2 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (11.11%) VMware
5 1 (5.56%) Arista
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco
5 1 (5.56%) Rapid7