TCP/IP Job Trends in Hampshire

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 92 86
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 +28
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 26 65 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 1.06% 2.44% 2.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.36% 12.08% 15.10%
Number of salaries quoted 25 45 43
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,400 £25,650
25th Percentile £29,000 £49,775 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £55,000 £39,500
Median % change year-on-year -43.64% +39.24% +34.35%
75th Percentile £38,750 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £50,000 £65,250 £72,500
South East median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% +36.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 311 538 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 12.65% 20.23% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 248 353 250
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,850 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +12.24% +3.16%
75th Percentile £64,063 £62,500 £63,438
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Hampshire

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Hampshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in Hampshire

TCP/IP
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Fareham -8 7 £29,500 -44.39% 1
Gosport - 3 £33,750 -
Basingstoke +8 2 £55,000 -35.29% 1
Portsmouth -1 2 £30,000 +7.14% 9
Farnborough -7 1 - - 1
TCP/IP
South East

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (3.85%) IIS
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (69.23%) VLAN
1 18 (69.23%) VPN
2 16 (61.54%) DHCP
2 16 (61.54%) DNS
3 10 (38.46%) LAN
3 10 (38.46%) WAN
4 6 (23.08%) Firewall
5 2 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (7.69%) IPv4
5 2 (7.69%) IPv6
5 2 (7.69%) Network Security
5 2 (7.69%) VoIP
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (3.85%) Frame Relay
6 1 (3.85%) MPLS
6 1 (3.85%) NAS
6 1 (3.85%) NetScaler
6 1 (3.85%) PBX
6 1 (3.85%) SAN
6 1 (3.85%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) SQL Server
General
1 20 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Back Office
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (73.08%) 2nd Line Support
2 12 (46.15%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 10 (38.46%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 10 (38.46%) Support Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Support Technician
5 6 (23.08%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 6 (23.08%) 1st/2nd Line Support Technician
5 6 (23.08%) 2nd Line Support Technician
6 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Design Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Network Design Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Network Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Design Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Network Design Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) IT Support
8 1 (3.85%) IT Technician
8 1 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Sales Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) EPoS
2 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.54%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (92.31%) Windows
2 19 (73.08%) Windows Server
3 15 (57.69%) Windows 10
4 5 (19.23%) Linux
5 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (46.15%) ITSM
4 7 (26.92%) Customer Service
5 4 (15.38%) ITIL
5 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 3 (11.54%) Logistics
7 2 (7.69%) Capacity Management
7 2 (7.69%) Decision-Making
7 2 (7.69%) Network Design
7 2 (7.69%) Network Management
7 2 (7.69%) Performance Testing
7 2 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (7.69%) Task Automation
8 1 (3.85%) Knowledge Transfer
8 1 (3.85%) Migration
8 1 (3.85%) Product Strategy
8 1 (3.85%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (3.85%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
2 3 (11.54%) CCNA
2 3 (11.54%) CCNP
2 3 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.69%) JNCIA
3 2 (7.69%) JNCIS
3 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) CCIE
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (3.85%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 15 (57.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (50.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.69%) KVM
4 2 (7.69%) RHEV
4 2 (7.69%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Nagios
1 2 (7.69%) Proxmox
2 1 (3.85%) AirWatch
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.85%) OpenView
2 1 (3.85%) SCCM
2 1 (3.85%) SCOM
2 1 (3.85%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) VMware
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 4 (15.38%) Cisco
4 3 (11.54%) Juniper
4 3 (11.54%) SolarWinds
5 2 (7.69%) F5
6 1 (3.85%) ArcSight
6 1 (3.85%) Citrix
6 1 (3.85%) Commvault
6 1 (3.85%) EMC
6 1 (3.85%) ExtraHop
6 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.85%) HP
6 1 (3.85%) Mitel
6 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.85%) Riverbed
6 1 (3.85%) Siebel
6 1 (3.85%) Veeam
6 1 (3.85%) Veritas