TCP/IP Job Trends in London

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 217 258
Rank change year-on-year -14 +41 -35
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 229 171 215
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.90% 1.45% 1.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.49% 13.90% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 169 118 142
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £33,200
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,699
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.12% -6.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £74,786
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £39,500 £37,500 £43,000
% change year-on-year +5.33% -12.79% -7.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,833 1,230 2,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.19% 10.40% 13.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,066 846 1,222
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,500 £45,781
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +0.15%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,250 £96,250
England median annual salary £48,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.87% -17.00% -4.76%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in London

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in London over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in London

TCP/IP
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the London region over the 6 months to 23 September 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
Central London -9 18 £61,250 -20.97% 22
West London -17 6 £82,500 +153.85% 12
North London +3 4 £60,000 +84.62% 1
East London -10 3 £36,000 +5.88% 1
South London -8 1 £24,000 -47.83% 8
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 35 (15.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (10.92%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.62%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) IIS
4 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.44%) Houdini
4 1 (0.44%) NUKE
4 1 (0.44%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (3.49%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.44%) Eikon
2 1 (0.44%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (36.24%) Azure
2 67 (29.26%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (24.02%) Entra ID
4 51 (22.27%) AWS
5 15 (6.55%) SaaS
6 14 (6.11%) OneDrive
7 10 (4.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (4.37%) Google Workspace
8 9 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (3.93%) GCP
9 7 (3.06%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.62%) Slack
11 5 (2.18%) IaaS
11 5 (2.18%) PaaS
12 4 (1.75%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 4 (1.75%) Azure Storage
13 3 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.31%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (1.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 146 (63.76%) DNS
2 107 (46.72%) VPN
3 103 (44.98%) DHCP
4 95 (41.48%) Firewall
5 60 (26.20%) LAN
5 60 (26.20%) WAN
6 40 (17.47%) BGP
7 39 (17.03%) Network Security
8 38 (16.59%) VLAN
9 30 (13.10%) HTTP
10 29 (12.66%) Wireless
11 27 (11.79%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (11.35%) OSPF
13 18 (7.86%) SD-WAN
14 11 (4.80%) Multicast
14 11 (4.80%) SSL
15 8 (3.49%) FIX Connectivity
15 8 (3.49%) VoIP
16 7 (3.06%) Ethernet
16 7 (3.06%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.30%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.06%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.44%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.44%) KDB
5 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.44%) MySQL
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle9i Database
5 1 (0.44%) Redis
5 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.44%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 15 (6.55%) JIRA
2 5 (2.18%) GitLab
3 3 (1.31%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.44%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.44%) Git
4 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.44%) LSMW
4 1 (0.44%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.44%) Selenium
General
1 107 (46.72%) Social Skills
2 65 (28.38%) Finance
3 44 (19.21%) Banking
4 25 (10.92%) Telecoms
5 21 (9.17%) Law
6 20 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.37%) Retail
8 9 (3.93%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.62%) Digital Health
11 5 (2.18%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.18%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.18%) Publishing
12 4 (1.75%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (1.31%) Back Office
13 3 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.31%) Marketing
14 2 (0.87%) Cantonese Language
14 2 (0.87%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (19.65%) Network Engineer
2 39 (17.03%) Support Engineer
3 37 (16.16%) Senior
4 36 (15.72%) IT Support
5 32 (13.97%) Analyst
6 26 (11.35%) IT Engineer
7 25 (10.92%) IT Support Engineer
8 22 (9.61%) Support Analyst
9 18 (7.86%) 2nd Line Support
10 16 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (5.68%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 13 (5.68%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 13 (5.68%) Developer
11 13 (5.68%) Junior
11 13 (5.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.80%) 3rd Line Support
13 10 (4.37%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (4.37%) Desktop Support
13 10 (4.37%) Operations Engineer
14 9 (3.93%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.48%) Terraform
2 10 (4.37%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (3.93%) RESTful
4 6 (2.62%) GraphQL
5 5 (2.18%) Next.js
5 5 (2.18%) React
6 4 (1.75%) ARM Templates
6 4 (1.75%) JWT
6 4 (1.75%) OAuth
6 4 (1.75%) WebSockets
7 3 (1.31%) ADO
7 3 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.31%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.87%) gRPC
8 2 (0.87%) LDAP
8 2 (0.87%) REST
9 1 (0.44%) Flask
9 1 (0.44%) Kafka
9 1 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.44%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.16%) Onboarding
2 25 (10.92%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.68%) Security Posture
4 10 (4.37%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.93%) FPGA
5 9 (3.93%) Hedge funds
5 9 (3.93%) MPEG
5 9 (3.93%) PKI
6 8 (3.49%) Driving Licence
6 8 (3.49%) Eurex
6 8 (3.49%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.62%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.62%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (2.18%) AS400
8 5 (2.18%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.18%) iSeries
8 5 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 107 (46.72%) Windows
2 61 (26.64%) Linux
3 47 (20.52%) Windows Server
4 32 (13.97%) Windows 10
5 24 (10.48%) Mac OS
6 19 (8.30%) Unix
7 11 (4.80%) Rocky
8 9 (3.93%) CentOS
9 6 (2.62%) Ubuntu
10 5 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (2.18%) Solaris
11 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.44%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (31.44%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (21.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 40 (17.47%) Disaster Recovery
4 38 (16.59%) Computer Science
5 36 (15.72%) Customer Service
6 34 (14.85%) Cybersecurity
7 33 (14.41%) ITIL
8 30 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (12.23%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (11.35%) High Availability
11 24 (10.48%) Incident Response
12 22 (9.61%) Project Delivery
13 21 (9.17%) AI
13 21 (9.17%) Mentoring
14 20 (8.73%) Incident Management
15 18 (7.86%) Change Management
15 18 (7.86%) DevOps
15 18 (7.86%) ITSM
15 18 (7.86%) Runbook
16 17 (7.42%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.83%) Python
2 35 (15.28%) PowerShell
3 28 (12.23%) Bash
3 28 (12.23%) SQL
4 16 (6.99%) Java
5 15 (6.55%) C
6 11 (4.80%) C++
7 10 (4.37%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.93%) Perl
9 8 (3.49%) Go
9 8 (3.49%) Ruby
10 7 (3.06%) C#
11 6 (2.62%) Bicep
12 5 (2.18%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (1.31%) Rust
14 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.87%) VBA
15 1 (0.44%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 47 (20.52%) Degree
2 35 (15.28%) Cisco Certification
3 28 (12.23%) CCNA
4 26 (11.35%) CCNP
5 23 (10.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (6.99%) Azure Certification
7 14 (6.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (5.68%) Security Cleared
9 11 (4.80%) A+ Certification
10 9 (3.93%) AWS Certification
10 9 (3.93%) CISSP
10 9 (3.93%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (2.62%) CEH
11 6 (2.62%) OSCP
12 5 (2.18%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.75%) CISM
13 4 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.75%) CREST Certified
13 4 (1.75%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.66%) SLA
2 16 (6.99%) GDPR
3 10 (4.37%) NIST
4 9 (3.93%) Accessibility
4 9 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.62%) GRC
6 5 (2.18%) NCSC
7 4 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.75%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.87%) QA
9 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 91 (39.74%) Active Directory
2 34 (14.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (11.35%) Hyper-V
4 13 (5.68%) Docker
5 12 (5.24%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.75%) Firmware
8 3 (1.31%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.31%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.31%) vSphere
9 1 (0.44%) NFS
9 1 (0.44%) Samba
9 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (12.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (9.17%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.55%) FortiGate
4 8 (3.49%) Ansible
4 8 (3.49%) Grafana
5 7 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.62%) Nagios
7 5 (2.18%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.75%) QRadar
9 3 (1.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.31%) Control-M
10 2 (0.87%) Norton AntiVirus
11 1 (0.44%) Cilium
11 1 (0.44%) Nessus
11 1 (0.44%) Nmap
11 1 (0.44%) OpenView
11 1 (0.44%) SCCM
11 1 (0.44%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 97 (42.36%) Microsoft
2 46 (20.09%) VMware
3 33 (14.41%) Cisco
4 26 (11.35%) Palo Alto
5 24 (10.48%) Fortinet
6 16 (6.99%) Zscaler
7 13 (5.68%) F5
7 13 (5.68%) Google
7 13 (5.68%) Red Hat
7 13 (5.68%) SolarWinds
8 12 (5.24%) Bloomberg
9 10 (4.37%) Oracle
9 10 (4.37%) ServiceNow
10 9 (3.93%) Meraki
11 8 (3.49%) CQG
11 8 (3.49%) ION Trading
11 8 (3.49%) Patsystems
11 8 (3.49%) Reuters
11 8 (3.49%) Trayport
12 7 (3.06%) Veeam