TCP/IP Job Trends in England

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 196 179
Rank change year-on-year -20 -17 +42
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 598 679 1,168
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.94% 1.63% 1.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.50% 11.86% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 449 439 983
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,125 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,375 £33,200 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £47,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +10.47% -4.44%
75th Percentile £55,000 £64,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £78,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £49,000 £42,964
% change year-on-year -18.37% +14.05% -4.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,207 5,724 9,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.40% 13.76% 13.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,544 3,344 8,115
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +12.24% -4.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £41,000 £55,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -25.45% +13.40% -7.62%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in England

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in England over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in England

TCP/IP
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 7 March 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
London +41 217 £45,000 -11.76% 45
North of England +2 125 £34,000 -28.42% 49
South East -46 98 £37,500 -21.05% 55
Midlands -10 67 £32,500 -7.14% 15
Yorkshire -23 58 £32,500 -27.54% 16
South West -5 47 £40,000 -5.88% 22
East Midlands -10 45 £32,500 -40.91% 7
East of England -13 45 £31,000 -36.08% 36
North West -17 40 £40,500 -26.36% 24
North East +4 27 £45,000 -35.11% 11
West Midlands -12 22 £52,500 +50.00% 8
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 137 (22.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 80 (13.38%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.51%) IIS
4 4 (0.67%) Confluence
4 4 (0.67%) nginx
5 2 (0.33%) Apache
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.33%) CMS
5 2 (0.33%) WordPress
6 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 92 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.33%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.17%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 299 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 297 (49.67%) Azure
3 123 (20.57%) Entra ID
4 110 (18.39%) AWS
5 51 (8.53%) GCP
6 33 (5.52%) Google Workspace
7 31 (5.18%) SaaS
8 26 (4.35%) OneDrive
9 21 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (3.51%) GitHub
10 18 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (2.34%) Amazon ECR
12 14 (2.34%) dbt
12 14 (2.34%) IaaS
12 14 (2.34%) PaaS
12 14 (2.34%) Pulumi
13 10 (1.67%) Power Platform
14 9 (1.51%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 360 (60.20%) DNS
2 299 (50.00%) DHCP
3 216 (36.12%) Firewall
4 199 (33.28%) VPN
5 139 (23.24%) VLAN
5 139 (23.24%) WAN
6 117 (19.57%) LAN
7 85 (14.21%) Wi-Fi
8 62 (10.37%) Wireless
9 49 (8.19%) VoIP
10 46 (7.69%) Network Security
11 41 (6.86%) HTTP
12 35 (5.85%) SD-WAN
13 26 (4.35%) BGP
14 21 (3.51%) SSL
15 20 (3.34%) OSPF
16 16 (2.68%) SAN
17 14 (2.34%) MPLS
18 13 (2.17%) SMTP
19 12 (2.01%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.19%) Amazon RDS
1 37 (6.19%) SQL Server
2 24 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (2.34%) Redis
4 10 (1.67%) Power BI
4 10 (1.67%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.34%) MySQL
6 3 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.50%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.33%) Metadata
8 1 (0.17%) FileMaker
8 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.17%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 21 (3.51%) Jenkins
2 19 (3.18%) Git
3 17 (2.84%) JIRA
4 9 (1.51%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.84%) GitLab
5 5 (0.84%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.67%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.50%) Snyk
8 2 (0.33%) IDA Disassembler
8 2 (0.33%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.33%) MLflow
8 2 (0.33%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 263 (43.98%) Social Skills
2 86 (14.38%) Finance
3 64 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.36%) Law
5 39 (6.52%) Banking
6 38 (6.35%) Telecoms
7 31 (5.18%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (5.18%) Organisational Skills
8 23 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (3.18%) Investment Banking
10 18 (3.01%) Retail
11 17 (2.84%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.34%) Legal
13 12 (2.01%) Back Office
13 12 (2.01%) Marketing
14 10 (1.67%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.17%) Electronics
15 7 (1.17%) Local Government
16 6 (1.00%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.84%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 190 (31.77%) IT Support
2 126 (21.07%) Support Engineer
3 91 (15.22%) IT Engineer
4 83 (13.88%) IT Support Engineer
5 78 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support
6 66 (11.04%) Senior
7 64 (10.70%) Support Technician
8 60 (10.03%) Analyst
9 54 (9.03%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 50 (8.36%) IT Support Technician
10 50 (8.36%) IT Technician
11 49 (8.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 46 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 44 (7.36%) Support Analyst
14 38 (6.35%) Developer
15 32 (5.35%) Network Engineer
16 28 (4.68%) 3rd Line Support
16 28 (4.68%) C++ Developer
17 27 (4.52%) Technical Support
18 24 (4.01%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (2.34%) Django
3 6 (1.00%) RESTful
4 5 (0.84%) .NET
4 5 (0.84%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (0.84%) Middleware
4 5 (0.84%) REST
4 5 (0.84%) WebSockets
5 4 (0.67%) LDAP
5 4 (0.67%) Qt
5 4 (0.67%) Sass
5 4 (0.67%) STL
5 4 (0.67%) ZeroMQ
6 3 (0.50%) QML
6 3 (0.50%) SOAP
6 3 (0.50%) Web Services
7 2 (0.33%) Kafka
7 2 (0.33%) OAuth
7 2 (0.33%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.33%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.04%) Driving Licence
2 54 (9.03%) Onboarding
3 35 (5.85%) Data Centre
4 23 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
5 21 (3.51%) FPGA
6 20 (3.34%) Management Information System
7 19 (3.18%) Linux Command Line
8 17 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (2.68%) Cloud Native
10 14 (2.34%) Replication
10 14 (2.34%) Security Posture
11 12 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
11 12 (2.01%) iPhone
12 11 (1.84%) CCTV
13 10 (1.67%) Clustering
13 10 (1.67%) EPoS
13 10 (1.67%) NHS
14 8 (1.34%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 391 (65.38%) Windows
2 225 (37.63%) Windows Server
3 155 (25.92%) Linux
4 124 (20.74%) Windows 10
5 61 (10.20%) Mac OS
6 36 (6.02%) Apple iOS
7 33 (5.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (5.35%) Unix
9 31 (5.18%) Android
10 25 (4.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (2.84%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (1.84%) CentOS
13 9 (1.51%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.84%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.84%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.67%) CoreOS
15 4 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
15 4 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
15 4 (0.67%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (36.29%) Problem-Solving
2 128 (21.40%) Customer Service
3 113 (18.90%) ITIL
4 86 (14.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 68 (11.37%) Cybersecurity
6 64 (10.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 63 (10.54%) CI/CD
8 62 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 61 (10.20%) Service Delivery
10 60 (10.03%) DevOps
11 55 (9.20%) Disaster Recovery
12 50 (8.36%) Root Cause Analysis
13 43 (7.19%) Mentoring
14 42 (7.02%) ITSM
15 41 (6.86%) Agile
16 40 (6.69%) Computer Science
16 40 (6.69%) Incident Response
17 38 (6.35%) High Availability
18 32 (5.35%) Incident Management
19 30 (5.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 112 (18.73%) Python
2 102 (17.06%) PowerShell
3 53 (8.86%) Bash
4 45 (7.53%) C++
5 40 (6.69%) SQL
6 37 (6.19%) Java
7 32 (5.35%) C
8 24 (4.01%) Go
9 10 (1.67%) C#
10 6 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.67%) Delphi
11 4 (0.67%) Pascal
11 4 (0.67%) PHP
12 2 (0.33%) Bicep
12 2 (0.33%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.33%) Perl
12 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.33%) VBScript
13 1 (0.17%) Korn
13 1 (0.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 104 (17.39%) Degree
2 62 (10.37%) Microsoft Certification
3 54 (9.03%) Security Cleared
4 43 (7.19%) SC Cleared
5 41 (6.86%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (5.52%) CCNA
7 29 (4.85%) Azure Certification
8 24 (4.01%) A+ Certification
9 23 (3.85%) CCNP
10 20 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (3.18%) Network+ Certification
12 17 (2.84%) ITIL Certification
12 17 (2.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 15 (2.51%) DBS Check
14 12 (2.01%) DV Cleared
15 11 (1.84%) CompTIA Security+
15 11 (1.84%) MCSA
16 10 (1.67%) Master's Degree
17 9 (1.51%) MCSE
18 7 (1.17%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (4.01%) SLA
3 23 (3.85%) GDPR
4 14 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.51%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.34%) QA
7 6 (1.00%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.00%) NIST
7 6 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.67%) GxP
8 4 (0.67%) MISRA
9 3 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.33%) PMO
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 326 (54.52%) Active Directory
2 109 (18.23%) Hyper-V
2 109 (18.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (3.34%) Docker
4 14 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (2.01%) Firmware
5 12 (2.01%) vSphere
6 6 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.67%) KVM
7 4 (0.67%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.33%) NFS
9 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.17%) RHEV
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 93 (15.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 56 (9.36%) Terraform
3 47 (7.86%) Ansible
4 21 (3.51%) Prometheus
5 20 (3.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (3.34%) Grafana
6 15 (2.51%) FortiGate
6 15 (2.51%) Kubernetes
7 14 (2.34%) Jamf Pro
8 12 (2.01%) SCCM
9 10 (1.67%) Nagios
10 9 (1.51%) AWS Copilot
11 8 (1.34%) Autotask
12 7 (1.17%) Failover Clustering
12 7 (1.17%) vCenter Server
13 6 (1.00%) McAfee ePO
13 6 (1.00%) SCVMM
13 6 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.67%) Backup Exec
14 4 (0.67%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 338 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 136 (22.74%) VMware
3 66 (11.04%) Cisco
4 52 (8.70%) Google
5 31 (5.18%) Veeam
6 27 (4.52%) Apple
6 27 (4.52%) Citrix
7 24 (4.01%) Palo Alto
7 24 (4.01%) SolarWinds
8 22 (3.68%) Red Hat
9 20 (3.34%) Fortinet
10 18 (3.01%) Dell
10 18 (3.01%) Meraki
11 15 (2.51%) SonicWALL
12 12 (2.01%) CheckPoint
12 12 (2.01%) HP
12 12 (2.01%) Juniper
13 11 (1.84%) ServiceNow
14 9 (1.51%) Mitel
15 8 (1.34%) Qualys