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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 64 46
Rank change year-on-year +10 -18 +31
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 15 7 92
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.59% 1.48% 6.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.73% 16.28% 31.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13 4 38
10th Percentile £28,125 - £26,750
25th Percentile £36,500 £32,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £33,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +10.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £37,000 £37,469
90th Percentile £68,250 £43,300 £56,250
South West median annual salary £40,000 £40,750 £32,500
% change year-on-year -1.84% +25.38% -27.98%

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 66 43 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 7.00% 9.07% 19.46%
Number of salaries quoted 39 29 201
10th Percentile £16,000 £28,350 £28,500
25th Percentile £27,375 £32,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +7.14% +3.16%
75th Percentile £58,750 £69,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,000 £67,500
South West median annual salary £33,000 £50,000 £48,625
% change year-on-year -34.00% +2.83% +8.06%

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 18 March 2026.

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 18 March 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 -10 6 £55,000 - 5
Stroud - 2 £42,500 -
Gloucester -3 1 £92,500 +180.30% 3
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 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
4 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (93.33%) DNS
2 13 (86.67%) DHCP
3 4 (26.67%) LAN
3 4 (26.67%) WAN
4 2 (13.33%) VPN
4 2 (13.33%) VSAN
5 1 (6.67%) Firewall
5 1 (6.67%) HTTP
5 1 (6.67%) ICMP
5 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (6.67%) Telnet
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (13.33%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Electronics
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (20.00%) Marketing
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) IT Support
3 2 (13.33%) IT Support Technician
3 2 (13.33%) IT Technician
3 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Technician
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Support
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Arduino
1 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
1 1 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (6.67%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
2 9 (60.00%) Windows
3 3 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (13.33%) CentOS
4 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (6.67%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) RBAC
4 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Software Licensing
4 2 (13.33%) Time Management
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.67%) Embedded Software Development
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (6.67%) Process Improvement
5 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 9 (60.00%) Python
3 8 (53.33%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) C
4 1 (6.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
4 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Hyper-V
2 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (13.33%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (13.33%) SCVMM
4 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) Dell
2 3 (20.00%) HP
2 3 (20.00%) Juniper
2 3 (20.00%) SAP
2 3 (20.00%) Veeam
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) McAfee
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat