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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 124 131
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 +8
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 18 11 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.59% 0.64% 1.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.71% 6.04% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 17
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,300 £29,672
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £32,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +88.46% -18.75% -38.46%
75th Percentile £95,000 £57,063 £60,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £88,000 £70,000
Central London median annual salary £61,250 £77,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year -20.97% +84.52% -35.38%

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 168 182 460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 5.51% 10.64% 15.92%
Number of salaries quoted 126 159 274
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £36,825
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £54,500 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.97% -17.42% +5.60%
75th Percentile £88,438 £71,875 £84,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £95,000
Central London median annual salary £61,250 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.08% -7.69% +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 20 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) DNS
2 8 (44.44%) DHCP
3 5 (27.78%) Firewall
3 5 (27.78%) Multicast
3 5 (27.78%) VPN
3 5 (27.78%) Wireless
4 2 (11.11%) Network Security
5 1 (5.56%) BGP
5 1 (5.56%) HTTP
5 1 (5.56%) IGMP
5 1 (5.56%) Internet
5 1 (5.56%) OSPF
5 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Law
3 5 (27.78%) Telecoms
4 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) IT Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) IT Support
2 4 (22.22%) IT Support Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) IT Support Technician
2 4 (22.22%) IT Technician
2 4 (22.22%) Junior
2 4 (22.22%) Junior IT Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Junior IT Support
2 4 (22.22%) Junior IT Technician
2 4 (22.22%) Junior Support Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Junior Support Technician
2 4 (22.22%) Support Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Support Technician
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) ADO
3 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
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%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Windows 10
2 5 (27.78%) Windows Server
3 3 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
2 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (22.22%) IT Strategy
4 4 (22.22%) Line Management
4 4 (22.22%) Storytelling
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (22.22%) Ticket Management
5 3 (16.67%) Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Application Packaging
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 3 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
5 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Bash
1 2 (11.11%) C#
1 2 (11.11%) Java
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.11%) Python
1 2 (11.11%) Rust
1 2 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Degree
2 6 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 4 (22.22%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
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
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) 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 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Okta
2 3 (16.67%) OneLogin
2 3 (16.67%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.56%) Arista
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) Rapid7
4 1 (5.56%) VMware