TCP/IP Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 69 39
Rank change year-on-year +27 -30 +52
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 12 9 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.87% 1.28% 7.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.43% 10.98% 36.13%
Number of salaries quoted 10 4 12
10th Percentile £27,375 - £23,750
25th Percentile £32,469 £32,500 £24,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £33,000 £30,750
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% +7.32% -45.33%
75th Percentile £57,188 £38,375 £37,188
90th Percentile £63,625 £47,150 £68,500
South West median annual salary £34,500 £65,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year -46.92% +54.76% -16.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 56 82 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.72% 11.63% 22.03%
Number of salaries quoted 33 41 97
10th Percentile £16,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £21,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -8.16% -2.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £69,500 £61,000
90th Percentile £69,000 £70,000 £74,250
South West median annual salary £34,000 £51,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +4.08% +7.59%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in Gloucestershire

TCP/IP
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Cheltenham - 5 £53,750 - 8
Stroud - 2 £42,500 -
Gloucester +13 1 £92,500 +180.30% 5
TCP/IP
South West

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) DNS
2 10 (83.33%) DHCP
3 5 (41.67%) LAN
3 5 (41.67%) WAN
4 3 (25.00%) VSAN
5 2 (16.67%) VPN
6 1 (8.33%) Firewall
6 1 (8.33%) HTTP
6 1 (8.33%) ICMP
6 1 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (8.33%) Telnet
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Electronics
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (25.00%) Marketing
2 3 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) IT Support
2 2 (16.67%) IT Support Technician
2 2 (16.67%) IT Technician
2 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Support Technician
2 2 (16.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Support
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (8.33%) IT Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Support
3 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Arduino
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
1 1 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (8.33%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Linux
3 3 (25.00%) CentOS
3 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (8.33%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) Time Management
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) RBAC
3 2 (16.67%) Software Licensing
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (8.33%) Prototyping
4 1 (8.33%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
2 6 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (41.67%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) C
4 1 (8.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) A+ Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (8.33%) MCP
4 1 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
1 3 (25.00%) McAfee ePO
1 3 (25.00%) SCVMM
2 1 (8.33%) NetBackup
2 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) McAfee
2 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) HP
3 1 (8.33%) Juniper
3 1 (8.33%) Veeam
3 1 (8.33%) VMware