TCP/IP Job Trends in the East Midlands

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 83 94
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 0
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 36 45 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.43% 2.04% 1.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.47% 16.73% 12.64%
Number of salaries quoted 36 21 27
10th Percentile £25,063 £29,750 £29,400
25th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.73% +22.22% -2.70%
75th Percentile £43,750 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £47,500 - £66,000
England median annual salary £37,500 £48,245 £47,250
% change year-on-year -22.27% +2.10% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 380 269 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.10% 12.17% 13.77%
Number of salaries quoted 186 93 208
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £24,675
25th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £38,750 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing TCP/IP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing TCP/IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the East Midlands

TCP/IP
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire +8 14 £42,500 +39.34% 5
Nottinghamshire +15 12 £32,500 -40.91% 2
Derbyshire - 10 £30,750 - 1
Lincolnshire -18 1 £55,000 - 4
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 9 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (72.22%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (44.44%) Azure
3 9 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (16.67%) iPaaS
4 6 (16.67%) SaaS
5 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (5.56%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.78%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 22 (61.11%) DHCP
2 21 (58.33%) DNS
3 17 (47.22%) Firewall
4 10 (27.78%) VPN
5 9 (25.00%) VLAN
6 6 (16.67%) SAN
7 5 (13.89%) 3G
7 5 (13.89%) 4G
7 5 (13.89%) ADSL
8 4 (11.11%) Internet
8 4 (11.11%) PBX
8 4 (11.11%) VoIP
9 2 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 17 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Law
3 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (44.44%) IT Support
2 11 (30.56%) IT Engineer
2 11 (30.56%) Support Engineer
3 10 (27.78%) IT Support Engineer
4 9 (25.00%) Consultant
4 9 (25.00%) Support Consultant
5 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) IT Support Technician
5 6 (16.67%) IT Technician
5 6 (16.67%) Support Technician
6 5 (13.89%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 5 (13.89%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Consultant
6 5 (13.89%) 3rd Line Support
6 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Support
6 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) Technical Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Applications Consultant
7 4 (11.11%) Applications Support
7 4 (11.11%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Driving Licence
1 10 (27.78%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (27.78%) Onboarding
2 6 (16.67%) Clustering
3 4 (11.11%) NHS
4 1 (2.78%) Life Science
4 1 (2.78%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 31 (86.11%) Windows
2 12 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 12 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (22.22%) ITIL
1 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (19.44%) Customer Service
2 7 (19.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 4 (11.11%) Service Delivery
4 4 (11.11%) Service Management
4 4 (11.11%) Speech Recognition
4 4 (11.11%) Time Management
5 3 (8.33%) Data Protection
5 3 (8.33%) ITSM
6 2 (5.56%) Mentoring
7 1 (2.78%) Decision-Making
7 1 (2.78%) ERP
7 1 (2.78%) Logistics
7 1 (2.78%) Process Improvement
7 1 (2.78%) Robotic Automation
7 1 (2.78%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) SQL
2 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.22%) SLA
2 6 (16.67%) GDPR
3 4 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (86.11%) Active Directory
2 8 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 4 (11.11%) Terminal Services
4 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (52.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) Veeam
3 3 (8.33%) Freshdesk
3 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco
4 2 (5.56%) Darktrace
4 2 (5.56%) Meraki
4 2 (5.56%) VMware