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 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 129 106 106
Rank change year-on-year -23 0 -5
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 74 70 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.95% 2.03% 1.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.37% 10.10% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 64 48 45
10th Percentile £28,625 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £54,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £61,375 £76,250 £64,611
England median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -11.76% -7.61%

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 598 693 622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.67% 20.15% 13.93%
Number of salaries quoted 416 270 402
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,250 £62,188
90th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £74,875
England median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -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 6 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 6 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 22 £35,000 +25.00% 11
Hertfordshire -19 22 £50,000 +5.26% 14
Cambridgeshire -15 13 £32,500 -40.91% 10
Bedfordshire -16 6 £34,000 -28.42% 2
Norfolk - 6 £35,750 -
Suffolk -8 5 £58,750 +11.90% 9
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 (18.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (17.57%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.05%) SAS
4 2 (2.70%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (60.81%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (47.30%) Azure
3 27 (36.49%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (5.41%) Azure Storage
4 4 (5.41%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.70%) AWS
5 2 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 45 (60.81%) DNS
2 43 (58.11%) DHCP
3 40 (54.05%) Firewall
4 33 (44.59%) VPN
5 18 (24.32%) WAN
6 17 (22.97%) LAN
7 11 (14.86%) SMTP
8 10 (13.51%) HTTP
8 10 (13.51%) VLAN
8 10 (13.51%) Wireless
9 8 (10.81%) FTP
10 6 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (6.76%) 4G
12 4 (5.41%) VoIP
13 3 (4.05%) IMAP
13 3 (4.05%) Network Security
13 3 (4.05%) POP3
14 2 (2.70%) 5G
14 2 (2.70%) Modbus
14 2 (2.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.70%) MySQL
1 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) GitLab
1 3 (4.05%) JIRA
1 3 (4.05%) Selenium
2 2 (2.70%) Git
2 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 39 (52.70%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Finance
3 6 (8.11%) Aerospace
3 6 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (6.76%) Retail
5 3 (4.05%) Games
6 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (35.14%) IT Engineer
2 22 (29.73%) IT Support
3 21 (28.38%) Support Engineer
4 16 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (20.27%) IT Support Engineer
6 10 (13.51%) Analyst
7 9 (12.16%) Infrastructure Support
7 9 (12.16%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 9 (12.16%) Senior
8 7 (9.46%) SOC Analyst
9 6 (8.11%) Field Engineer
9 6 (8.11%) Field Service Engineer
9 6 (8.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (8.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (8.11%) Support Technician
10 5 (6.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 5 (6.76%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (6.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 5 (6.76%) ICT Support Technician
10 5 (6.76%) ICT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.81%) LDAP
2 4 (5.41%) Terraform
3 2 (2.70%) CSS
3 2 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.70%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.70%) Flask
3 2 (2.70%) HTML
3 2 (2.70%) Jinja
3 2 (2.70%) Kafka
3 2 (2.70%) Pandas
3 2 (2.70%) Playwright
3 2 (2.70%) pytest
3 2 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.70%) REST
3 2 (2.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.68%) Driving Licence
2 11 (14.86%) Onboarding
3 8 (10.81%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (9.46%) Client/Server
5 5 (6.76%) CCTV
5 5 (6.76%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (6.76%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (4.05%) FMCG
6 3 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.70%) Replication
7 2 (2.70%) SCADA
8 1 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 48 (64.86%) Windows
2 27 (36.49%) Windows Server
3 11 (14.86%) Linux
4 10 (13.51%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.05%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.35%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (45.95%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (37.84%) Cybersecurity
3 26 (35.14%) Customer Service
4 24 (32.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (18.92%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (17.57%) Security Operations
6 13 (17.57%) SIEM
7 8 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (9.46%) Analytical Thinking
8 7 (9.46%) Computer Science
8 7 (9.46%) Incident Response
8 7 (9.46%) ITIL
8 7 (9.46%) Mentoring
8 7 (9.46%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 7 (9.46%) Service Delivery
8 7 (9.46%) Use Case
9 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (8.11%) Migration
9 6 (8.11%) Patch Management
9 6 (8.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (29.73%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.16%) Python
3 8 (10.81%) Bash
4 7 (9.46%) C++
5 6 (8.11%) Perl
6 4 (5.41%) Bicep
7 2 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.70%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.70%) SQL
8 1 (1.35%) C
Qualifications
1 14 (18.92%) Degree
2 9 (12.16%) CCNA
2 9 (12.16%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (12.16%) Security Cleared
3 7 (9.46%) Azure Certification
3 7 (9.46%) CEH
3 7 (9.46%) CompTIA Security+
3 7 (9.46%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.11%) CREST Certified
5 5 (6.76%) CCNP
5 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.41%) DBS Check
7 3 (4.05%) A+ Certification
7 3 (4.05%) MCSE
8 2 (2.70%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (2.70%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (1.35%) MCDST
9 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.11%) GDPR
2 5 (6.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.05%) SLA
4 2 (2.70%) QA
5 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (22.97%) Hyper-V
3 14 (18.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (9.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (9.46%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (4.05%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.70%) Docker
7 1 (1.35%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (8.11%) QRadar
3 2 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (2.70%) Grafana
3 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (75.68%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.92%) VMware
3 8 (10.81%) Splunk
3 8 (10.81%) Ubiquiti
4 5 (6.76%) Cisco
5 3 (4.05%) ConnectWise
5 3 (4.05%) Meraki
5 3 (4.05%) SonicWALL
5 3 (4.05%) Sophos
6 2 (2.70%) Citrix
6 2 (2.70%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.70%) Google
6 2 (2.70%) Veeam
6 2 (2.70%) WatchGuard
7 1 (1.35%) Sage