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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 122 93
Rank change year-on-year +7 -29 -5
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 96 50 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.15% 1.51% 1.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.05% 7.46% 11.53%
Number of salaries quoted 72 42 37
10th Percentile £27,500 - £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -18.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £47,875 £53,125 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £76,250 £68,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -19.35% -2.11%

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 598 670 711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.15% 20.22% 16.61%
Number of salaries quoted 399 255 357
10th Percentile £26,375 £26,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -

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 12 October 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 12 October 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
Hertfordshire -16 31 £49,000 +50.77% 17
Essex -15 25 £35,000 +25.00% 4
Cambridgeshire -14 16 £32,500 -39.53% 13
Bedfordshire -17 10 £35,750 -24.74% 1
Suffolk +8 9 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Norfolk - 5 £45,000 - 1
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 16 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 14 (14.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.13%) SAS
4 2 (2.08%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 60 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 44 (45.83%) Azure
3 35 (36.46%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (4.17%) Azure Storage
4 4 (4.17%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.08%) AWS
5 2 (2.08%) GCP
5 2 (2.08%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 55 (57.29%) DNS
2 53 (55.21%) DHCP
3 50 (52.08%) Firewall
4 41 (42.71%) VPN
5 22 (22.92%) LAN
6 20 (20.83%) WAN
7 15 (15.63%) VLAN
7 15 (15.63%) Wireless
8 12 (12.50%) HTTP
8 12 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (8.33%) FTP
9 8 (8.33%) SMTP
10 7 (7.29%) Network Security
11 4 (4.17%) BGP
11 4 (4.17%) OSPF
12 3 (3.13%) Internet
13 2 (2.08%) 4G
13 2 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
13 2 (2.08%) SSH
13 2 (2.08%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.08%) MySQL
1 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.08%) Redis
2 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.17%) GitLab
1 4 (4.17%) Selenium
2 3 (3.13%) JIRA
3 2 (2.08%) Eclipse
3 2 (2.08%) Git
3 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.08%) Robot Framework
3 2 (2.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (53.13%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.33%) Aerospace
3 8 (8.33%) Finance
4 5 (5.21%) Retail
5 3 (3.13%) Games
5 3 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.08%) French Language
6 2 (2.08%) Law
6 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.08%) Military
6 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (37.50%) IT Support
2 30 (31.25%) IT Engineer
3 27 (28.13%) Support Engineer
4 19 (19.79%) IT Support Engineer
5 18 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (14.58%) Analyst
7 11 (11.46%) Infrastructure Support
7 11 (11.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 11 (11.46%) Support Technician
8 9 (9.38%) Senior
9 8 (8.33%) Network Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) IT Analyst
10 7 (7.29%) IT Support Analyst
10 7 (7.29%) SOC Analyst
10 7 (7.29%) Support Analyst
11 6 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (6.25%) Audit Engineer
11 6 (6.25%) IT Audit Support
11 6 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.33%) LDAP
2 4 (4.17%) Terraform
3 2 (2.08%) CSS
3 2 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.08%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.08%) Flask
3 2 (2.08%) HTML
3 2 (2.08%) Jinja
3 2 (2.08%) Kafka
3 2 (2.08%) ModSecurity
3 2 (2.08%) Node.js
3 2 (2.08%) Pandas
3 2 (2.08%) Playwright
3 2 (2.08%) pytest
3 2 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.08%) REST
3 2 (2.08%) RESTful
3 2 (2.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.92%) Driving Licence
2 15 (15.63%) Onboarding
3 8 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (7.29%) CCTV
4 7 (7.29%) Client/Server
5 5 (5.21%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (5.21%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.13%) FMCG
8 2 (2.08%) IoT
8 2 (2.08%) Operational Technology
8 2 (2.08%) Replication
8 2 (2.08%) SCADA
8 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 64 (66.67%) Windows
2 31 (32.29%) Windows Server
3 16 (16.67%) Linux
3 16 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.13%) macOS
5 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.08%) Unix
6 1 (1.04%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (46.88%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 35 (36.46%) Customer Service
4 26 (27.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (13.54%) Security Operations
6 13 (13.54%) SIEM
7 12 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (11.46%) ITIL
9 9 (9.38%) Client Onboarding
9 9 (9.38%) Mentoring
9 9 (9.38%) Project Delivery
9 9 (9.38%) Service Delivery
10 8 (8.33%) Migration
10 8 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (7.29%) Computer Science
11 7 (7.29%) Data Migration
11 7 (7.29%) Incident Response
11 7 (7.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 7 (7.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.92%) PowerShell
2 10 (10.42%) Python
3 9 (9.38%) C++
4 8 (8.33%) Bash
5 6 (6.25%) Perl
6 4 (4.17%) Bicep
6 4 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.08%) C#
7 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.08%) SQL
8 1 (1.04%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (11.46%) CCNA
1 11 (11.46%) Cisco Certification
1 11 (11.46%) Degree
1 11 (11.46%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.38%) CCNP
3 7 (7.29%) Azure Certification
3 7 (7.29%) CEH
3 7 (7.29%) CompTIA Security+
3 7 (7.29%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.25%) CREST Certified
5 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.13%) A+ Certification
7 3 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.13%) DBS Check
8 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (2.08%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.33%) GDPR
2 7 (7.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.29%) SLA
3 4 (4.17%) QA
4 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (46.88%) Active Directory
2 17 (17.71%) Hyper-V
3 14 (14.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (7.29%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (2.08%) Docker
7 2 (2.08%) vSphere
8 1 (1.04%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 11 (11.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (6.25%) QRadar
3 2 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (2.08%) Autotask
3 2 (2.08%) Grafana
3 2 (2.08%) Nagios
3 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.67%) VMware
3 10 (10.42%) Ubiquiti
4 9 (9.38%) Cisco
5 8 (8.33%) Splunk
6 4 (4.17%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.13%) ConnectWise
7 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.13%) SonicWALL
8 2 (2.08%) Aruba
8 2 (2.08%) Citrix
8 2 (2.08%) Datto
8 2 (2.08%) F5
8 2 (2.08%) Google
8 2 (2.08%) Infoblox
8 2 (2.08%) Meraki
8 2 (2.08%) Proofpoint
8 2 (2.08%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.08%) Veeam
8 2 (2.08%) WatchGuard