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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 190 235
Rank change year-on-year -78 +45 +25
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 587 1,288 1,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.18% 1.49% 1.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.06% 10.68% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 405 1,066 1,004
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% +3.45%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,000 £72,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £45,637 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% -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 8,311 12,058 13,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.77% 13.96% 15.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,748 8,529 7,169
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £35,375
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 £85,000 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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 18 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 18 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 +11 193 £51,500 -20.77% 232
South East +3 142 £37,500 -2.60% 153
Midlands -26 91 £32,500 -10.96% 53
North of England -79 77 £44,700 +11.75% 115
East of England -16 69 £47,500 +23.38% 111
West Midlands -2 53 £32,500 -5.80% 26
Yorkshire +14 43 £42,350 +12.93% 50
East Midlands -23 38 £31,000 -22.50% 21
North West -90 31 £47,500 +18.75% 47
South West -16 19 £51,729 +52.14% 88
North East +31 3 £69,384 +193.69% 22
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 76 (12.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (8.86%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.90%) IIS
4 6 (1.02%) Apache
4 6 (1.02%) Apache Solr
4 6 (1.02%) nginx
5 2 (0.34%) CMS
5 2 (0.34%) SAS
5 2 (0.34%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.34%) WordPress
6 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 93 (15.84%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.19%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (1.19%) Fidessa
2 6 (1.02%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (1.02%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 190 (32.37%) Azure
2 178 (30.32%) Microsoft 365
3 107 (18.23%) AWS
4 38 (6.47%) Entra ID
5 31 (5.28%) Cloud Computing
5 31 (5.28%) GCP
6 30 (5.11%) OneDrive
7 20 (3.41%) SaaS
8 18 (3.07%) Google Workspace
9 14 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (2.39%) Power Automate
10 13 (2.21%) Mimecast
11 10 (1.70%) Amazon ECR
11 10 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (1.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 10 (1.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 10 (1.70%) AWS CodeBuild
11 10 (1.70%) dbt
11 10 (1.70%) Pulumi
12 9 (1.53%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 269 (45.83%) DNS
2 227 (38.67%) DHCP
3 217 (36.97%) VPN
4 215 (36.63%) Firewall
5 137 (23.34%) LAN
6 132 (22.49%) WAN
7 96 (16.35%) VLAN
8 78 (13.29%) BGP
9 68 (11.58%) OSPF
10 56 (9.54%) Network Security
11 44 (7.50%) Wireless
12 38 (6.47%) MPLS
13 36 (6.13%) HTTP
14 32 (5.45%) VoIP
15 27 (4.60%) Wi-Fi
16 26 (4.43%) IPsec
17 23 (3.92%) Internet
18 21 (3.58%) SMTP
19 20 (3.41%) WLAN
20 18 (3.07%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.30%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (2.04%) MySQL
3 12 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 10 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.70%) Redis
5 7 (1.19%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.02%) Couchbase
7 3 (0.51%) Power BI
8 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.17%) JasperReports
9 1 (0.17%) Metadata
9 1 (0.17%) MS Access
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 64 (10.90%) Cucumber
1 64 (10.90%) Robot Framework
2 13 (2.21%) Git
3 11 (1.87%) JIRA
4 6 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.68%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.34%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.34%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.34%) Spinnaker
6 2 (0.34%) Subversion
7 1 (0.17%) GitLab
7 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 269 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 102 (17.38%) Telecoms
3 93 (15.84%) Finance
4 91 (15.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 66 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (8.18%) Banking
7 23 (3.92%) Retail
8 21 (3.58%) Law
8 21 (3.58%) Legal
9 16 (2.73%) Investment Banking
10 15 (2.56%) Automotive
11 13 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.87%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.70%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.70%) Back Office
13 10 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.53%) Local Government
15 7 (1.19%) Aviation
15 7 (1.19%) Military
Job Titles
1 83 (14.14%) Analyst
2 75 (12.78%) IT Support
3 64 (10.90%) Test Automation Engineer
3 64 (10.90%) Test Engineer
4 61 (10.39%) Network Engineer
4 61 (10.39%) Senior
5 58 (9.88%) Support Engineer
6 52 (8.86%) Lead
7 44 (7.50%) IT Engineer
8 37 (6.30%) Support Analyst
9 34 (5.79%) Developer
10 27 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 26 (4.43%) Systems Engineer
12 24 (4.09%) IT Support Engineer
13 21 (3.58%) C++ Developer
13 21 (3.58%) IT Analyst
13 21 (3.58%) Security Engineer
13 21 (3.58%) Team Leader
14 20 (3.41%) Linux Developer
14 20 (3.41%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.56%) Django
2 10 (1.70%) LDAP
3 9 (1.53%) HTML
3 9 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (1.53%) REST
4 7 (1.19%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (1.02%) XML
6 5 (0.85%) JSON
7 4 (0.68%) 802.1X
7 4 (0.68%) React
7 4 (0.68%) YAML
8 3 (0.51%) .NET
8 3 (0.51%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.51%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.51%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.51%) CSS
8 3 (0.51%) Entity Framework
8 3 (0.51%) Kafka
8 3 (0.51%) Node.js
8 3 (0.51%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 65 (11.07%) Linux Command Line
2 57 (9.71%) Management Information System
3 43 (7.33%) Data Centre
4 30 (5.11%) Driving Licence
5 26 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (3.41%) FPGA
7 19 (3.24%) Cyber Threat
8 18 (3.07%) Security Operations Centre
9 16 (2.73%) Client/Server
10 15 (2.56%) Clustering
10 15 (2.56%) Smartphone
11 12 (2.04%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.87%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.70%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.70%) Replication
14 9 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (1.53%) Robotics
15 8 (1.36%) CCTV
16 7 (1.19%) Eurex
17 5 (0.85%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 329 (56.05%) Windows
2 183 (31.18%) Linux
3 143 (24.36%) Windows Server
4 46 (7.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 44 (7.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 42 (7.16%) Mac OS
7 37 (6.30%) Windows 10
8 29 (4.94%) Unix
9 26 (4.43%) Apple iOS
10 22 (3.75%) Mac OS X
11 19 (3.24%) Windows Server 2012
12 18 (3.07%) Android
13 17 (2.90%) Ubuntu
14 13 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 9 (1.53%) CentOS
16 7 (1.19%) VMS
17 6 (1.02%) Windows Server 2008
18 4 (0.68%) Rocky
18 4 (0.68%) Windows 7
19 2 (0.34%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (35.95%) Problem-Solving
2 104 (17.72%) DevOps
3 93 (15.84%) ITIL
4 89 (15.16%) Cybersecurity
5 88 (14.99%) Mentoring
6 75 (12.78%) Customer Service
7 71 (12.10%) Coaching
8 70 (11.93%) Test Automation
9 64 (10.90%) System Testing
9 64 (10.90%) Test Management
10 60 (10.22%) Computer Science
11 50 (8.52%) Disaster Recovery
12 45 (7.67%) Incident Management
13 43 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (6.64%) Incident Response
14 39 (6.64%) Information Security
15 35 (5.96%) Artificial Intelligence
16 32 (5.45%) Agile
16 32 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 32 (5.45%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 165 (28.11%) PowerShell
2 150 (25.55%) Python
3 92 (15.67%) Bash
4 75 (12.78%) JavaScript
5 64 (10.90%) SQL
6 38 (6.47%) C
6 38 (6.47%) C++
7 28 (4.77%) Java
8 17 (2.90%) Perl
9 12 (2.04%) C#
10 9 (1.53%) PHP
11 8 (1.36%) R
12 7 (1.19%) TypeScript
13 6 (1.02%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.68%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.51%) Bicep
16 2 (0.34%) Jython
16 2 (0.34%) Ruby
17 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 183 (31.18%) Degree
2 71 (12.10%) Security Cleared
3 69 (11.75%) Cisco Certification
4 62 (10.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 55 (9.37%) CCNA
6 41 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (6.13%) CCNP
7 36 (6.13%) SC Cleared
8 25 (4.26%) Azure Certification
8 25 (4.26%) DV Cleared
9 23 (3.92%) MCSE
10 18 (3.07%) A+ Certification
10 18 (3.07%) CompTIA Security+
11 16 (2.73%) HNC
11 16 (2.73%) HND
12 14 (2.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 12 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (1.87%) JNCIA
14 11 (1.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 9 (1.53%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (11.24%) QA
2 48 (8.18%) SLA
3 33 (5.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.36%) NIST
6 7 (1.19%) MIL-STD-1553
6 7 (1.19%) NCSC
7 6 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.85%) GDPR
9 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 173 (29.47%) Active Directory
2 84 (14.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (11.93%) Hyper-V
4 24 (4.09%) Docker
5 16 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.53%) Firmware
6 9 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.19%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.02%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 6 (1.02%) vSphere
9 4 (0.68%) XenApp
10 2 (0.34%) PowerHA
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
11 1 (0.17%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 64 (10.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 49 (8.35%) Ansible
3 45 (7.67%) SCCM
4 32 (5.45%) Terraform
5 27 (4.60%) Kubernetes
6 15 (2.56%) QRadar
7 14 (2.39%) SCOM
7 14 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.70%) AWS Copilot
8 10 (1.70%) FortiGate
8 10 (1.70%) NetBackup
9 9 (1.53%) WSUS
10 8 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (1.02%) ArcSight ESM
11 6 (1.02%) Grafana
12 5 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.85%) Puppet
12 5 (0.85%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 248 (42.25%) Microsoft
2 105 (17.89%) VMware
3 95 (16.18%) Cisco
4 50 (8.52%) Google
5 30 (5.11%) Fortinet
6 25 (4.26%) Apple
6 25 (4.26%) Red Hat
7 23 (3.92%) Dell
7 23 (3.92%) Splunk
8 22 (3.75%) Citrix
8 22 (3.75%) ServiceNow
9 21 (3.58%) Juniper
10 20 (3.41%) SolarWinds
11 19 (3.24%) Ubiquiti
12 18 (3.07%) Veeam
13 17 (2.90%) Oracle
14 12 (2.04%) SAP
15 11 (1.87%) CheckPoint
16 10 (1.70%) HP
16 10 (1.70%) Sophos