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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 193 236
Rank change year-on-year -80 +43 +29
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 594 1,298 1,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.21% 1.45% 1.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.74% 10.70% 9.77%
Number of salaries quoted 401 1,051 963
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £33,500
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 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £77,715
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -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 8,810 12,136 13,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.99% 13.56% 16.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,706 8,540 7,030
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,813 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%

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 30 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 30 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 +22 200 £51,500 -20.77% 137
South East +4 140 £37,250 -0.67% 317
Midlands -5 89 £32,500 -10.96% 206
North of England -72 82 £39,250 -1.88% 268
East of England -17 69 £47,500 +31.03% 197
West Midlands +5 52 £32,500 -5.80% 97
Yorkshire +5 45 £35,000 -11.39% 129
East Midlands -5 37 £30,000 -25.00% 96
North West -78 33 £39,500 -1.25% 111
South West -20 17 £51,729 +56.75% 156
North East +43 4 £69,384 +193.69% 31
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 71 (11.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (8.25%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.53%) IIS
4 9 (1.52%) nginx
5 7 (1.18%) Apache Solr
6 5 (0.84%) Apache
7 2 (0.34%) CMS
7 2 (0.34%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.34%) Traefik
7 2 (0.34%) WordPress
8 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 89 (14.98%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (1.01%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.67%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 193 (32.49%) Azure
2 179 (30.13%) Microsoft 365
3 113 (19.02%) AWS
4 37 (6.23%) GCP
5 35 (5.89%) Entra ID
6 32 (5.39%) Cloud Computing
7 30 (5.05%) OneDrive
8 19 (3.20%) SaaS
9 16 (2.69%) Google Workspace
10 14 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (2.36%) Power Automate
11 13 (2.19%) Mimecast
12 11 (1.85%) Nutanix
13 10 (1.68%) Amazon ECR
13 10 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (1.68%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 10 (1.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 10 (1.68%) AWS CodeBuild
13 10 (1.68%) dbt
13 10 (1.68%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 275 (46.30%) DNS
2 234 (39.39%) DHCP
3 222 (37.37%) VPN
4 217 (36.53%) Firewall
5 145 (24.41%) LAN
6 142 (23.91%) WAN
7 101 (17.00%) VLAN
8 84 (14.14%) BGP
9 73 (12.29%) OSPF
10 65 (10.94%) Network Security
11 41 (6.90%) Wireless
12 40 (6.73%) MPLS
13 36 (6.06%) HTTP
14 30 (5.05%) VoIP
15 29 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
16 28 (4.71%) IPsec
17 23 (3.87%) Internet
17 23 (3.87%) SMTP
18 21 (3.54%) SD-WAN
19 19 (3.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (2.19%) Relational Database
3 12 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.68%) MySQL
4 10 (1.68%) Redis
5 8 (1.35%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.18%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.34%) Power BI
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.17%) JasperReports
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 64 (10.77%) Cucumber
1 64 (10.77%) Robot Framework
2 20 (3.37%) Git
3 9 (1.52%) JIRA
4 6 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.34%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.34%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.34%) Subversion
6 1 (0.17%) GitLab
6 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 274 (46.13%) Social Skills
2 104 (17.51%) Telecoms
3 100 (16.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 97 (16.33%) Finance
5 73 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (8.59%) Banking
7 25 (4.21%) Law
8 22 (3.70%) Legal
9 19 (3.20%) Retail
10 16 (2.69%) Investment Banking
11 14 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (2.02%) Automotive
12 12 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.85%) Local Government
13 11 (1.85%) Public Sector
14 10 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.52%) Back Office
16 8 (1.35%) Aerospace
17 7 (1.18%) Aviation
17 7 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 81 (13.64%) Analyst
2 79 (13.30%) IT Support
3 72 (12.12%) Network Engineer
4 64 (10.77%) Test Automation Engineer
4 64 (10.77%) Test Engineer
5 61 (10.27%) Senior
6 60 (10.10%) Lead
7 58 (9.76%) Support Engineer
8 42 (7.07%) IT Engineer
9 36 (6.06%) Support Analyst
10 33 (5.56%) Developer
11 31 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 24 (4.04%) IT Support Engineer
12 24 (4.04%) Team Leader
13 23 (3.87%) Technical Support
14 22 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
15 21 (3.54%) IT Analyst
16 20 (3.37%) 3rd Line Support
16 20 (3.37%) C++ Developer
16 20 (3.37%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.19%) Django
2 11 (1.85%) LDAP
2 11 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (1.52%) REST
4 7 (1.18%) HTML
5 6 (1.01%) Kafka
5 6 (1.01%) YAML
6 5 (0.84%) .NET
6 5 (0.84%) .NET Core
6 5 (0.84%) .NET Framework
6 5 (0.84%) 802.1X
6 5 (0.84%) Entity Framework
6 5 (0.84%) JSON
7 4 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (0.67%) React
8 3 (0.51%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.51%) CSS
8 3 (0.51%) Node.js
8 3 (0.51%) RESTful
8 3 (0.51%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.94%) Linux Command Line
2 54 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 44 (7.41%) Data Centre
4 32 (5.39%) Driving Licence
5 21 (3.54%) Security Operations Centre
5 21 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (3.20%) Cyber Threat
6 19 (3.20%) FPGA
7 17 (2.86%) Client/Server
8 13 (2.19%) Clustering
8 13 (2.19%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.19%) Smartphone
9 9 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.52%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.35%) Replication
11 7 (1.18%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.18%) Robotics
12 6 (1.01%) CCTV
12 6 (1.01%) Equities
13 5 (0.84%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 320 (53.87%) Windows
2 178 (29.97%) Linux
3 135 (22.73%) Windows Server
4 45 (7.58%) Windows Server 2019
5 44 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 41 (6.90%) Mac OS
7 37 (6.23%) Windows 10
8 30 (5.05%) Unix
9 27 (4.55%) Apple iOS
10 21 (3.54%) Windows Server 2012
11 19 (3.20%) Mac OS X
12 18 (3.03%) Android
13 16 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 13 (2.19%) Ubuntu
15 7 (1.18%) VMS
16 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
17 5 (0.84%) CentOS
18 4 (0.67%) Rocky
19 3 (0.51%) Windows 7
20 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (36.87%) Problem-Solving
2 112 (18.86%) DevOps
3 92 (15.49%) Mentoring
4 89 (14.98%) Cybersecurity
4 89 (14.98%) ITIL
5 72 (12.12%) Coaching
5 72 (12.12%) Customer Service
6 70 (11.78%) Test Automation
7 64 (10.77%) System Testing
7 64 (10.77%) Test Management
8 54 (9.09%) Computer Science
9 50 (8.42%) Disaster Recovery
10 49 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (7.74%) Incident Management
12 44 (7.41%) Incident Response
13 38 (6.40%) Agile
13 38 (6.40%) Artificial Intelligence
13 38 (6.40%) Information Security
14 37 (6.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 37 (6.23%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 161 (27.10%) PowerShell
2 153 (25.76%) Python
3 90 (15.15%) Bash
4 72 (12.12%) JavaScript
5 59 (9.93%) SQL
6 35 (5.89%) C++
7 32 (5.39%) C
8 29 (4.88%) Java
9 14 (2.36%) Perl
10 11 (1.85%) C#
11 10 (1.68%) PHP
12 8 (1.35%) R
13 7 (1.18%) TypeScript
14 6 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.67%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.67%) Objective-C
16 3 (0.51%) Bicep
17 2 (0.34%) Go
18 1 (0.17%) Ruby
18 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 182 (30.64%) Degree
2 74 (12.46%) Security Cleared
3 73 (12.29%) Cisco Certification
4 63 (10.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 59 (9.93%) CCNA
6 37 (6.23%) CCNP
6 37 (6.23%) SC Cleared
7 36 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (4.38%) Azure Certification
8 26 (4.38%) DV Cleared
9 21 (3.54%) MCSE
10 18 (3.03%) A+ Certification
11 17 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
12 16 (2.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 14 (2.36%) Network+ Certification
14 13 (2.19%) HNC
14 13 (2.19%) HND
14 13 (2.19%) JNCIA
15 12 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (11.11%) QA
2 44 (7.41%) SLA
3 32 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.18%) MIL-STD-1553
5 7 (1.18%) NCSC
5 7 (1.18%) NIST
6 6 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.84%) GDPR
8 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 168 (28.28%) Active Directory
2 85 (14.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (11.45%) Hyper-V
4 27 (4.55%) Docker
5 15 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (1.52%) vSphere
8 8 (1.35%) Firmware
8 8 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.35%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.01%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 5 (0.84%) XenApp
11 4 (0.67%) NFS
12 2 (0.34%) PowerHA
13 1 (0.17%) RHEV
13 1 (0.17%) vCloud
13 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 71 (11.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 59 (9.93%) Ansible
3 47 (7.91%) SCCM
4 38 (6.40%) Terraform
5 37 (6.23%) Kubernetes
6 16 (2.69%) QRadar
7 15 (2.53%) SCOM
7 15 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (2.02%) FortiGate
9 11 (1.85%) NetBackup
10 10 (1.68%) AWS Copilot
11 9 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (1.52%) WSUS
12 6 (1.01%) ArcSight ESM
13 5 (0.84%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.67%) Grafana
14 4 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.51%) Nagios
15 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 253 (42.59%) Microsoft
2 105 (17.68%) VMware
3 104 (17.51%) Cisco
4 50 (8.42%) Google
5 32 (5.39%) Fortinet
6 25 (4.21%) Red Hat
6 25 (4.21%) Splunk
7 24 (4.04%) Citrix
8 22 (3.70%) Apple
9 21 (3.54%) Dell
9 21 (3.54%) Juniper
10 20 (3.37%) SolarWinds
11 19 (3.20%) ServiceNow
11 19 (3.20%) Veeam
12 18 (3.03%) Ubiquiti
13 14 (2.36%) Oracle
14 12 (2.02%) SAP
15 11 (1.85%) HP
15 11 (1.85%) Sophos
16 10 (1.68%) CheckPoint