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 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 62 70
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 +9
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 6 3 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.41% 0.65% 3.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.52% 6.38% 18.95%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 38
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,500 £27,625
25th Percentile £45,938 £47,500 £28,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +83.33% -47.83%
75th Percentile £65,938 £62,500 £41,406
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,500 £54,500
South West median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £36,125
% change year-on-year -11.11% +24.57% -15.00%

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 92 47 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 6.24% 10.11% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 60 27 229
10th Percentile £37,500 £28,200 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,875 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,425 £70,000 £70,000
South West median annual salary £40,000 £44,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -7.37% +5.56%

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
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 June 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
Cheltenham -27 4 £55,000 - 6
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) VSAN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) CentOS
3 2 (33.33%) CoreOS
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Time Management
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Software Assurance
4 1 (16.67%) Synthetic Environment
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (33.33%) NetBackup
2 2 (33.33%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 2 (33.33%) McAfee
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) Veeam