TCP/IP Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England 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 126 106 93
Rank change year-on-year -20 -13 +6
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 82 67 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.01% 1.99% 1.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.76% 9.80% 11.53%
Number of salaries quoted 67 45 42
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% +3.23%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,250 £76,250 £67,525
England median annual salary £39,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.33% -11.76% -8.60%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 596 684 694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.34% 20.29% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 405 260 388
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,925 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -16.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £48,445 £40,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.88% -18.50% -3.85%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in the East of England

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the East of England

TCP/IP
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Essex -12 24 £35,000 +25.00% 7
Hertfordshire -23 24 £50,000 +53.85% 26
Cambridgeshire -22 15 £32,500 -39.53% 19
Suffolk +2 7 £57,500 +15.00% 6
Bedfordshire -23 7 £34,000 -28.42% 3
Norfolk - 5 £37,500 - 4
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 14 (17.07%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (17.07%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.66%) SAS
3 2 (2.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (62.20%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (46.34%) Azure
3 28 (34.15%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (4.88%) Azure Storage
4 4 (4.88%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.44%) AWS
5 2 (2.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 50 (60.98%) DNS
2 48 (58.54%) DHCP
3 44 (53.66%) Firewall
4 37 (45.12%) VPN
5 17 (20.73%) LAN
5 17 (20.73%) WAN
6 12 (14.63%) Wireless
7 11 (13.41%) HTTP
7 11 (13.41%) VLAN
8 10 (12.20%) SMTP
9 8 (9.76%) FTP
9 8 (9.76%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (4.88%) 4G
11 3 (3.66%) BGP
11 3 (3.66%) Network Security
11 3 (3.66%) OSPF
11 3 (3.66%) VoIP
12 2 (2.44%) IMAP
12 2 (2.44%) POP3
12 2 (2.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.44%) MySQL
1 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) GitLab
1 4 (4.88%) Selenium
2 3 (3.66%) JIRA
3 2 (2.44%) Git
3 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.44%) Robot Framework
4 1 (1.22%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (54.88%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.76%) Finance
4 7 (8.54%) Aerospace
5 5 (6.10%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (6.10%) Retail
6 3 (3.66%) Games
7 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Law
8 1 (1.22%) Military
8 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (34.15%) IT Engineer
2 25 (30.49%) IT Support
2 25 (30.49%) Support Engineer
3 18 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (20.73%) IT Support Engineer
5 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure Support
5 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 10 (12.20%) Analyst
7 9 (10.98%) Senior
8 8 (9.76%) Support Technician
9 7 (8.54%) SOC Analyst
10 6 (7.32%) Audit Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) Field Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) Field Service Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) IT Audit Support
10 6 (7.32%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (6.10%) 2nd Line Support
11 5 (6.10%) ICT Support
11 5 (6.10%) Security Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.76%) LDAP
2 4 (4.88%) Terraform
3 2 (2.44%) CSS
3 2 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.44%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.44%) Flask
3 2 (2.44%) HTML
3 2 (2.44%) Jinja
3 2 (2.44%) Kafka
3 2 (2.44%) Pandas
3 2 (2.44%) Playwright
3 2 (2.44%) pytest
3 2 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.44%) REST
3 2 (2.44%) RESTful
4 1 (1.22%) ModSecurity
4 1 (1.22%) Node.js
4 1 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.61%) Driving Licence
2 14 (17.07%) Onboarding
3 8 (9.76%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (8.54%) CCTV
4 7 (8.54%) Client/Server
5 5 (6.10%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (6.10%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.66%) FMCG
7 2 (2.44%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.44%) Replication
7 2 (2.44%) SCADA
7 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.22%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 53 (64.63%) Windows
2 28 (34.15%) Windows Server
3 14 (17.07%) Linux
4 10 (12.20%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.66%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.44%) Unix
7 1 (1.22%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (43.90%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (39.02%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (34.15%) Customer Service
4 26 (31.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (17.07%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (15.85%) Security Operations
6 13 (15.85%) SIEM
7 11 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (9.76%) Client Onboarding
8 8 (9.76%) Mentoring
8 8 (9.76%) Migration
9 7 (8.54%) Analytical Thinking
9 7 (8.54%) Computer Science
9 7 (8.54%) Data Migration
9 7 (8.54%) Incident Response
9 7 (8.54%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 7 (8.54%) Service Delivery
9 7 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (8.54%) Use Case
10 6 (7.32%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.61%) PowerShell
2 10 (12.20%) Python
3 8 (9.76%) Bash
3 8 (9.76%) C++
4 6 (7.32%) Perl
5 4 (4.88%) Bicep
6 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.44%) SQL
8 1 (1.22%) C
8 1 (1.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (15.85%) Degree
2 10 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.76%) CCNA
3 8 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (8.54%) Azure Certification
4 7 (8.54%) CEH
4 7 (8.54%) CompTIA Security+
4 7 (8.54%) SC Cleared
5 6 (7.32%) CCNP
5 6 (7.32%) CREST Certified
6 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.66%) A+ Certification
7 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.44%) DBS Check
8 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.44%) MCSE
8 2 (2.44%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (2.44%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) GDPR
2 7 (8.54%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (8.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.88%) SLA
4 3 (3.66%) QA
5 1 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (47.56%) Active Directory
2 17 (20.73%) Hyper-V
3 14 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (8.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (8.54%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (3.66%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.44%) Docker
7 1 (1.22%) Terminal Server
7 1 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (7.32%) QRadar
3 2 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (2.44%) Grafana
3 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.22%) Autotask
4 1 (1.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 62 (75.61%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.29%) VMware
3 10 (12.20%) Ubiquiti
4 8 (9.76%) Splunk
5 6 (7.32%) Cisco
6 3 (3.66%) ConnectWise
6 3 (3.66%) SonicWALL
7 2 (2.44%) Citrix
7 2 (2.44%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.44%) Google
7 2 (2.44%) Meraki
7 2 (2.44%) Sophos
7 2 (2.44%) Veeam
7 2 (2.44%) WatchGuard
8 1 (1.22%) Datto
8 1 (1.22%) Sage
8 1 (1.22%) SolarWinds