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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 204 234
Rank change year-on-year -23 +30 +49
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 198 200 322
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.94% 1.66% 1.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.17% 15.90% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 130 132 278
10th Percentile £32,375 £31,500 £36,775
25th Percentile £41,438 £36,250 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -20.77% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,438 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £88,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%

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 1,946 1,258 3,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.29% 10.46% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,031 905 1,985
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £103,750 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 21 £55,000 +0.46% 5
South London +7 2 £47,500 -5.00%
North London - 2 £55,000 - 1
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 49 (24.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (13.64%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 89 (44.95%) Azure
2 67 (33.84%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (24.75%) AWS
4 35 (17.68%) Entra ID
5 17 (8.59%) Google Workspace
6 11 (5.56%) OneDrive
7 8 (4.04%) GCP
7 8 (4.04%) SaaS
8 6 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.03%) Route 53
9 5 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.02%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.02%) GitHub
10 4 (2.02%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.52%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 106 (53.54%) DNS
2 80 (40.40%) DHCP
3 60 (30.30%) VPN
4 56 (28.28%) Firewall
5 54 (27.27%) LAN
5 54 (27.27%) WAN
6 30 (15.15%) VLAN
7 28 (14.14%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (10.10%) BGP
8 20 (10.10%) Network Security
9 16 (8.08%) SD-WAN
10 15 (7.58%) OSPF
11 14 (7.07%) HTTP
11 14 (7.07%) VoIP
12 13 (6.57%) Multicast
13 8 (4.04%) HTTPS
14 5 (2.53%) Wireless
15 4 (2.02%) SAN
15 4 (2.02%) SNMP
15 4 (2.02%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.54%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.02%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.51%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.51%) MySQL
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle9i Database
5 1 (0.51%) Power BI
5 1 (0.51%) Redis
5 1 (0.51%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.51%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.51%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 8 (4.04%) Bitbucket
1 8 (4.04%) Git
2 5 (2.53%) JIRA
3 4 (2.02%) GitLab
3 4 (2.02%) Metasploit
4 2 (1.01%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.51%) LSMW
General
1 85 (42.93%) Social Skills
2 81 (40.91%) Finance
3 42 (21.21%) Banking
4 25 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (10.10%) Investment Banking
5 20 (10.10%) Law
6 17 (8.59%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.04%) Retail
8 7 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.52%) Back Office
10 3 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.52%) Front Office
10 3 (1.52%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.01%) Legal
11 2 (1.01%) Military
11 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 38 (19.19%) Support Engineer
2 36 (18.18%) IT Support
3 29 (14.65%) Developer
3 29 (14.65%) Senior
4 25 (12.63%) C++ Developer
5 23 (11.62%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 22 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
6 22 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 22 (11.11%) Analyst
6 22 (11.11%) IT Engineer
6 22 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
7 21 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (10.10%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
8 20 (10.10%) Linux Developer
8 20 (10.10%) Linux Scripter
8 20 (10.10%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 20 (10.10%) Network Engineer
9 14 (7.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.05%) Administrator
10 10 (5.05%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.55%) WebSockets
2 5 (2.53%) RESTful
3 4 (2.02%) ADO
3 4 (2.02%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.52%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.52%) gRPC
5 2 (1.01%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.01%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.01%) JWT
5 2 (1.01%) Middleware
5 2 (1.01%) Next.js
5 2 (1.01%) OAuth
5 2 (1.01%) React
5 2 (1.01%) REST
5 2 (1.01%) Sass
5 2 (1.01%) ZeroMQ
6 1 (0.51%) BAPI
6 1 (0.51%) Kafka
6 1 (0.51%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.51%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.61%) Data Centre
2 20 (10.10%) FPGA
3 12 (6.06%) MPEG
4 11 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 10 (5.05%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.04%) Security Posture
7 7 (3.54%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (2.53%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.53%) CMDB
8 5 (2.53%) Digital Signage
8 5 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.53%) iPhone
9 4 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.02%) CCTV
9 4 (2.02%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.02%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (2.02%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 99 (50.00%) Windows
2 63 (31.82%) Linux
3 52 (26.26%) Windows Server
4 35 (17.68%) Windows 10
5 19 (9.60%) Mac OS
6 15 (7.58%) Apple iOS
6 15 (7.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (7.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (7.07%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (6.57%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (6.06%) Unix
10 5 (2.53%) Windows 7
11 4 (2.02%) Kali Linux
12 2 (1.01%) Android
12 2 (1.01%) CentOS
12 2 (1.01%) Rocky
12 2 (1.01%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.51%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.51%) Solaris
13 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (14.14%) DevOps
2 28 (14.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 27 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (13.13%) Incident Response
5 24 (12.12%) Computer Science
6 23 (11.62%) Agile
6 23 (11.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 23 (11.62%) Service Delivery
7 22 (11.11%) ITIL
7 22 (11.11%) Low Latency
8 21 (10.61%) CI/CD
9 20 (10.10%) Performance Monitoring
10 18 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
11 16 (8.08%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (8.08%) High Availability
11 16 (8.08%) Identity Access Management
11 16 (8.08%) Incident Management
11 16 (8.08%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 40 (20.20%) Python
2 30 (15.15%) PowerShell
3 27 (13.64%) C++
4 24 (12.12%) Java
5 23 (11.62%) C
6 22 (11.11%) Bash
7 20 (10.10%) SQL
8 5 (2.53%) C#
9 4 (2.02%) Bicep
9 4 (2.02%) Delphi
9 4 (2.02%) Go
9 4 (2.02%) Pascal
9 4 (2.02%) PHP
10 3 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.51%) ABAP
12 1 (0.51%) Korn
12 1 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (18.18%) Degree
2 12 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (5.05%) RHCSA
5 9 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.55%) CCNA
5 9 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (4.04%) CCNP
7 7 (3.54%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (3.03%) MCSA
8 6 (3.03%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (2.53%) MCDST
9 5 (2.53%) MCITP
9 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (2.53%) Security Cleared
10 4 (2.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (2.02%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.02%) OSCP
10 4 (2.02%) SC Cleared
11 2 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.56%) SLA
3 6 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.02%) GDPR
4 4 (2.02%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.52%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.01%) NIST
6 2 (1.01%) QA
7 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 72 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 29 (14.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (11.62%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.02%) Docker
4 4 (2.02%) vSphere
5 2 (1.01%) Firmware
5 2 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.51%) KVM
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (14.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (11.11%) Terraform
3 21 (10.61%) Kubernetes
4 17 (8.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (6.57%) Ansible
6 12 (6.06%) Nagios
7 10 (5.05%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.02%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (2.02%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (2.02%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.02%) ServiceCenter
9 3 (1.52%) Grafana
9 3 (1.52%) SCCM
10 2 (1.01%) Control-M
10 2 (1.01%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (1.01%) OpenView
10 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.01%) Tivoli
10 2 (1.01%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.01%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 88 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 35 (17.68%) VMware
3 23 (11.62%) Cisco
4 17 (8.59%) Google
4 17 (8.59%) SolarWinds
5 15 (7.58%) Red Hat
6 13 (6.57%) Palo Alto
7 12 (6.06%) Fortinet
8 11 (5.56%) Zscaler
9 9 (4.55%) Meraki
10 6 (3.03%) Apple
10 6 (3.03%) Bloomberg
10 6 (3.03%) Dell
10 6 (3.03%) HP
10 6 (3.03%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.53%) Reuters
12 4 (2.02%) Okta
12 4 (2.02%) OneLogin
12 4 (2.02%) Remedy
12 4 (2.02%) TOWER Software