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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 74 38
Rank change year-on-year +22 -36 +50
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 9 10 67
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.47% 1.16% 7.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.79% 9.80% 36.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 12
10th Percentile £30,000 - £23,750
25th Percentile £35,906 £32,500 £24,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £33,000 £33,250
Median % change year-on-year +47.73% -0.75% -42.17%
75th Percentile £61,875 £53,000 £49,063
90th Percentile £76,125 £53,450 £70,625
South West median annual salary £34,500 £62,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year -44.80% +48.81% -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 57 102 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 9.33% 11.81% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 30 53 96
10th Percentile £16,000 £29,300 £30,375
25th Percentile £21,000 £40,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £58,438 £69,500 £62,188
90th Percentile £67,875 £70,000 £77,600
South West median annual salary £34,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -35.24% +7.14% +5.38%

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 2 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 2 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 +19 2 £56,250 +7.14% 5
Stroud - 2 £42,500 - 1
Gloucester +12 1 £92,500 +180.30% 3
Filton +9 1 £65,000 +22.64% 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) DNS
2 6 (66.67%) DHCP
3 5 (55.56%) LAN
3 5 (55.56%) WAN
4 3 (33.33%) VSAN
5 2 (22.22%) VPN
6 1 (11.11%) Firewall
6 1 (11.11%) HTTP
6 1 (11.11%) ICMP
6 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (11.11%) Telnet
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) IT Support
2 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Support Technician
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Support
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test and Integration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Arduino
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
1 1 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (11.11%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Linux
3 3 (33.33%) CentOS
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
5 1 (11.11%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Time Management
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) RBAC
3 2 (22.22%) Software Licensing
4 1 (11.11%) Business Development
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Embedded Software Development
4 1 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
4 1 (11.11%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (11.11%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) C
4 1 (11.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) DV Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) A+ Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) MCP
2 1 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Hyper-V
2 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) McAfee ePO
1 3 (33.33%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) McAfee
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat