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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 121 132
Rank change year-on-year -20 +11 +49
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 20 25 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.49% 1.21% 1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.35% 10.78% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 18 24 38
10th Percentile £26,925 £32,600 £36,100
25th Percentile £41,438 £41,813 £46,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £49,750 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.04% -21.96% +50.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £125,000 £110,000 £75,000
Central London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -16.00% +47.06%

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 272 232 413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 6.69% 11.25% 12.99%
Number of salaries quoted 183 202 339
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,075 £31,950
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £99,750 £92,500
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -15.38%

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 10 May 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 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.00%) Apache
2 2 (10.00%) nginx
2 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) Azure
2 12 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (25.00%) Google Workspace
5 4 (20.00%) AWS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (90.00%) DNS
2 17 (85.00%) DHCP
3 5 (25.00%) LAN
3 5 (25.00%) VPN
3 5 (25.00%) WAN
4 4 (20.00%) Firewall
4 4 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (10.00%) NAS
5 2 (10.00%) SAN
5 2 (10.00%) SNMP
6 1 (5.00%) HTTP
6 1 (5.00%) VoIP
6 1 (5.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 14 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Senior
2 5 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Junior
4 3 (15.00%) Junior Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Junior Network Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Junior Network Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Service Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Support
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) ADO
2 2 (10.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) FPGA
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 18 (90.00%) Windows
2 12 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (30.00%) Windows 10
4 5 (25.00%) Linux
5 4 (20.00%) Mac OS
6 3 (15.00%) CentOS
6 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (10.00%) Android
7 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
7 2 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (5.00%) CoreOS
8 1 (5.00%) Mac OS X
8 1 (5.00%) Windows 7
8 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (35.00%) Application Packaging
2 7 (35.00%) Change Management
2 7 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (35.00%) Identity Access Management
2 7 (35.00%) Incident Management
2 7 (35.00%) Project Delivery
3 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (25.00%) User Experience
4 4 (20.00%) Analytics
4 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (15.00%) Objectives and Key Results
5 3 (15.00%) Patch Management
6 2 (10.00%) AI
6 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.00%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (30.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (20.00%) Terraform
4 2 (10.00%) Ansible
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (5.00%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (5.00%) QRadar
5 1 (5.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Google
2 4 (20.00%) Okta
2 4 (20.00%) OneLogin
3 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.00%) Dell
4 2 (10.00%) HP
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) Apple
5 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (5.00%) McAfee
5 1 (5.00%) Splunk