TCP/IP Jobs in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring TCP/IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited TCP/IP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 186 233
Rank change year-on-year -43 +47 +21
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 601 1,330 1,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.31% 1.56% 1.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.94% 10.92% 10.30%
Number of salaries quoted 423 1,077 1,064
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,000 £32,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +4.41%
75th Percentile £63,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £77,715
UK median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -

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 6,049 12,183 14,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.14% 14.30% 15.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,727 8,619 7,434
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,100 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,875 £50,250
% change year-on-year -0.78% -4.73% -4.29%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in England

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in England.

Salary trend for TCP/IP in England

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +14 196 £51,500 -18.60% 173
South East +27 146 £37,500 -2.60% 129
Midlands -10 89 £35,000 -6.67% 62
North of England -44 81 £44,850 +12.13% 70
East of England -1 68 £47,500 +26.67% 71
West Midlands -9 49 £35,000 - 37
Yorkshire +20 41 £44,700 +15.35% 26
East Midlands +3 40 £31,250 -23.78% 21
North West -53 36 £45,000 +12.50% 33
South West -30 23 £51,729 +56.75% 45
North East +45 4 £69,384 +189.10% 14
TCP/IP
UK

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 81 (13.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (9.65%) SharePoint
3 16 (2.66%) IIS
4 11 (1.83%) Apache Solr
4 11 (1.83%) nginx
5 6 (1.00%) Apache
6 2 (0.33%) CMS
6 2 (0.33%) SAS
6 2 (0.33%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.33%) WordPress
7 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 91 (15.14%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.66%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 8 (1.33%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (0.83%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 198 (32.95%) Azure
2 179 (29.78%) Microsoft 365
3 109 (18.14%) AWS
4 43 (7.15%) Entra ID
5 32 (5.32%) Cloud Computing
5 32 (5.32%) GCP
5 32 (5.32%) OneDrive
6 20 (3.33%) Google Workspace
6 20 (3.33%) SaaS
7 14 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (2.33%) Power Automate
8 13 (2.16%) GitHub
8 13 (2.16%) Mimecast
9 10 (1.66%) Amazon ECR
9 10 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (1.66%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 10 (1.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 10 (1.66%) AWS CodeBuild
9 10 (1.66%) dbt
9 10 (1.66%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 273 (45.42%) DNS
2 223 (37.10%) DHCP
3 221 (36.77%) Firewall
4 219 (36.44%) VPN
5 135 (22.46%) LAN
6 130 (21.63%) WAN
7 99 (16.47%) VLAN
8 84 (13.98%) BGP
9 73 (12.15%) OSPF
10 57 (9.48%) Network Security
11 45 (7.49%) Wireless
12 41 (6.82%) MPLS
13 34 (5.66%) HTTP
14 32 (5.32%) IPsec
14 32 (5.32%) VoIP
15 28 (4.66%) Wi-Fi
16 22 (3.66%) Internet
16 22 (3.66%) WLAN
17 18 (3.00%) SMTP
18 17 (2.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.33%) MySQL
3 15 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 11 (1.83%) Couchbase
7 10 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (1.66%) Redis
8 4 (0.67%) Power BI
9 2 (0.33%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.33%) MS Access
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.17%) JasperReports
10 1 (0.17%) Metadata
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 64 (10.65%) Cucumber
1 64 (10.65%) Robot Framework
2 12 (2.00%) Git
2 12 (2.00%) JIRA
3 6 (1.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.67%) Spinnaker
5 2 (0.33%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.33%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.33%) Subversion
6 1 (0.17%) GitLab
6 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 275 (45.76%) Social Skills
2 102 (16.97%) Telecoms
3 98 (16.31%) Finance
4 91 (15.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (7.82%) Banking
7 30 (4.99%) Retail
8 21 (3.49%) Law
8 21 (3.49%) Legal
9 17 (2.83%) Automotive
10 15 (2.50%) Investment Banking
11 12 (2.00%) Public Sector
12 11 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.66%) Back Office
13 10 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.50%) Local Government
15 8 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.16%) Military
Job Titles
1 82 (13.64%) Analyst
2 73 (12.15%) Senior
3 72 (11.98%) IT Support
4 66 (10.98%) Network Engineer
5 64 (10.65%) Test Automation Engineer
5 64 (10.65%) Test Engineer
6 61 (10.15%) Support Engineer
7 50 (8.32%) IT Engineer
8 49 (8.15%) Lead
9 37 (6.16%) Developer
10 36 (5.99%) Support Analyst
11 29 (4.83%) Systems Engineer
12 27 (4.49%) IT Support Engineer
13 26 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (3.99%) Security Engineer
15 21 (3.49%) C++ Developer
16 20 (3.33%) IT Analyst
16 20 (3.33%) Linux Developer
16 20 (3.33%) Service Analyst
16 20 (3.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.00%) Django
2 14 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
3 11 (1.83%) HTML
3 11 (1.83%) XML
4 9 (1.50%) REST
5 8 (1.33%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (1.33%) LDAP
6 5 (0.83%) 802.1X
6 5 (0.83%) JSON
7 4 (0.67%) React
7 4 (0.67%) SOAP
7 4 (0.67%) XSLT
7 4 (0.67%) YAML
8 3 (0.50%) .NET
8 3 (0.50%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.50%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.50%) CSS
8 3 (0.50%) Entity Framework
8 3 (0.50%) Kafka
8 3 (0.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.82%) Linux Command Line
2 60 (9.98%) Management Information System
3 42 (6.99%) Data Centre
4 30 (4.99%) Driving Licence
5 27 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (3.33%) FPGA
7 18 (3.00%) Cyber Threat
8 17 (2.83%) Smartphone
9 14 (2.33%) Clustering
10 13 (2.16%) Client/Server
10 13 (2.16%) Security Operations Centre
11 12 (2.00%) Onboarding
11 12 (2.00%) Public Cloud
11 12 (2.00%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.83%) Robotics
13 9 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.50%) Replication
14 8 (1.33%) CCTV
14 8 (1.33%) Eurex
15 5 (0.83%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 338 (56.24%) Windows
2 195 (32.45%) Linux
3 147 (24.46%) Windows Server
4 46 (7.65%) Windows Server 2019
5 45 (7.49%) Mac OS
6 44 (7.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 38 (6.32%) Windows 10
8 34 (5.66%) Unix
9 25 (4.16%) Apple iOS
10 24 (3.99%) Mac OS X
11 20 (3.33%) Ubuntu
12 17 (2.83%) Android
12 17 (2.83%) Windows Server 2012
13 11 (1.83%) CentOS
13 11 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (0.83%) Rocky
14 5 (0.83%) VMS
14 5 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.67%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.50%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (36.27%) Problem-Solving
2 109 (18.14%) DevOps
3 98 (16.31%) ITIL
4 92 (15.31%) Mentoring
5 91 (15.14%) Cybersecurity
6 77 (12.81%) Customer Service
7 70 (11.65%) Test Automation
8 67 (11.15%) Coaching
9 66 (10.98%) Computer Science
10 64 (10.65%) System Testing
10 64 (10.65%) Test Management
11 53 (8.82%) Disaster Recovery
12 48 (7.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (7.49%) Information Security
14 42 (6.99%) Incident Management
15 34 (5.66%) Network Monitoring
16 33 (5.49%) CI/CD
17 32 (5.32%) Artificial Intelligence
17 32 (5.32%) Incident Response
17 32 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 165 (27.45%) PowerShell
2 156 (25.96%) Python
3 95 (15.81%) Bash
4 78 (12.98%) JavaScript
5 69 (11.48%) SQL
6 40 (6.66%) C
7 38 (6.32%) C++
8 27 (4.49%) Java
9 20 (3.33%) Perl
10 15 (2.50%) C#
11 14 (2.33%) PHP
12 8 (1.33%) R
13 7 (1.16%) TypeScript
14 6 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.67%) Jython
15 4 (0.67%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.67%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.50%) Ruby
17 2 (0.33%) Bicep
18 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 191 (31.78%) Degree
2 76 (12.65%) Cisco Certification
3 69 (11.48%) Security Cleared
4 66 (10.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 61 (10.15%) CCNA
6 44 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (6.82%) CCNP
8 35 (5.82%) SC Cleared
9 25 (4.16%) MCSE
10 24 (3.99%) DV Cleared
11 23 (3.83%) Azure Certification
12 21 (3.49%) CompTIA Security+
13 19 (3.16%) A+ Certification
14 18 (3.00%) HNC
14 18 (3.00%) HND
15 13 (2.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 13 (2.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 11 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (1.83%) JNCIA
16 11 (1.83%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (10.98%) QA
2 48 (7.99%) SLA
3 35 (5.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.33%) NIST
6 7 (1.16%) MIL-STD-1553
6 7 (1.16%) NCSC
7 5 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.83%) GDPR
8 4 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.50%) PMO
10 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.17%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 174 (28.95%) Active Directory
2 85 (14.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (11.81%) Hyper-V
4 24 (3.99%) Docker
5 18 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.50%) Firmware
6 9 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (1.50%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.16%) vSphere
8 6 (1.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.67%) XenApp
10 2 (0.33%) PowerHA
10 2 (0.33%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.17%) NFS
11 1 (0.17%) RHEV
11 1 (0.17%) vCloud
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 65 (10.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 54 (8.99%) Ansible
3 40 (6.66%) SCCM
4 36 (5.99%) Terraform
5 32 (5.32%) Kubernetes
6 14 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (2.16%) SCOM
8 11 (1.83%) QRadar
9 10 (1.66%) AWS Copilot
9 10 (1.66%) FortiGate
10 9 (1.50%) NetBackup
11 8 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (1.16%) WSUS
13 6 (1.00%) Grafana
13 6 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (1.00%) Puppet
14 5 (0.83%) ArcSight ESM
14 5 (0.83%) ZABBIX
15 4 (0.67%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 246 (40.93%) Microsoft
2 106 (17.64%) VMware
3 100 (16.64%) Cisco
4 54 (8.99%) Google
5 36 (5.99%) Fortinet
6 28 (4.66%) Apple
7 26 (4.33%) Dell
8 25 (4.16%) Red Hat
9 23 (3.83%) Juniper
9 23 (3.83%) ServiceNow
10 22 (3.66%) Citrix
11 21 (3.49%) Ubiquiti
12 20 (3.33%) SolarWinds
13 18 (3.00%) Oracle
13 18 (3.00%) Splunk
13 18 (3.00%) Veeam
14 13 (2.16%) CheckPoint
15 11 (1.83%) Palo Alto
15 11 (1.83%) SAP
16 10 (1.66%) HP