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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 219 223
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +73
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 196 188 324
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.97% 1.50% 1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.52% 14.29% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 126 131 284
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £35,710
25th Percentile £38,125 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -20.77% +13.04%
75th Percentile £79,483 £74,258 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £43,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.51% +1.76% -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 1,863 1,316 3,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.21% 10.49% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 986 946 2,015
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,625 £32,850
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -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 12 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 12 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 -10 22 £53,750 +2.38% 11
South London +11 2 £47,500 -5.00% 5
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 48 (24.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (14.80%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.04%) Confluence
4 2 (1.02%) Apache
4 2 (1.02%) nginx
5 1 (0.51%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (9.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 92 (46.94%) Azure
2 71 (36.22%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (25.00%) AWS
4 38 (19.39%) Entra ID
5 18 (9.18%) Google Workspace
6 13 (6.63%) OneDrive
7 8 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (4.08%) SaaS
8 7 (3.57%) GCP
9 6 (3.06%) Route 53
9 6 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (2.55%) AWS Direct Connect
10 5 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (2.04%) GitHub
12 3 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.53%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 110 (56.12%) DNS
2 87 (44.39%) DHCP
3 64 (32.65%) VPN
4 57 (29.08%) WAN
5 56 (28.57%) Firewall
6 53 (27.04%) LAN
7 30 (15.31%) Wi-Fi
8 26 (13.27%) VLAN
9 20 (10.20%) SD-WAN
10 17 (8.67%) Network Security
11 14 (7.14%) BGP
11 14 (7.14%) HTTP
12 13 (6.63%) VoIP
13 10 (5.10%) Multicast
14 9 (4.59%) OSPF
15 8 (4.08%) HTTPS
15 8 (4.08%) Wireless
16 6 (3.06%) SAN
17 4 (2.04%) NAS
18 3 (1.53%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (3.06%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.04%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.02%) Power BI
4 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.51%) MySQL
4 1 (0.51%) Redis
4 1 (0.51%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.51%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 9 (4.59%) Git
2 8 (4.08%) Bitbucket
3 7 (3.57%) JIRA
4 4 (2.04%) GitLab
4 4 (2.04%) Metasploit
5 2 (1.02%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 87 (44.39%) Social Skills
2 84 (42.86%) Finance
3 41 (20.92%) Banking
4 27 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.69%) Investment Banking
6 17 (8.67%) Law
7 11 (5.61%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (4.08%) Retail
9 7 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.53%) Back Office
10 3 (1.53%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.53%) Front Office
10 3 (1.53%) Legal
10 3 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.02%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (19.90%) Support Engineer
2 34 (17.35%) IT Support
3 29 (14.80%) Senior
4 28 (14.29%) Developer
5 25 (12.76%) Analyst
6 24 (12.24%) C++ Developer
7 21 (10.71%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 21 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (10.20%) 2nd Line Support
8 20 (10.20%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 20 (10.20%) IT Engineer
8 20 (10.20%) IT Support Engineer
9 19 (9.69%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 19 (9.69%) Linux Developer
9 19 (9.69%) Linux Scripter
9 19 (9.69%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 16 (8.16%) Network Engineer
11 14 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (5.10%) Linux Administrator
12 10 (5.10%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.59%) WebSockets
2 5 (2.55%) RESTful
3 4 (2.04%) ADO
3 4 (2.04%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.53%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.53%) LDAP
5 2 (1.02%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.02%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.02%) JWT
5 2 (1.02%) Middleware
5 2 (1.02%) Next.js
5 2 (1.02%) OAuth
5 2 (1.02%) React
5 2 (1.02%) Sass
5 2 (1.02%) ZeroMQ
6 1 (0.51%) Django
6 1 (0.51%) gRPC
6 1 (0.51%) Kafka
6 1 (0.51%) pytest
6 1 (0.51%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.71%) FPGA
2 17 (8.67%) Data Centre
3 14 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 13 (6.63%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (5.61%) Video Conferencing
6 10 (5.10%) Management Information System
6 10 (5.10%) MPEG
7 8 (4.08%) Cloud Native
7 8 (4.08%) Security Posture
8 7 (3.57%) iPhone
9 5 (2.55%) Digital Signage
9 5 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (2.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (2.04%) Driving Licence
10 4 (2.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 102 (52.04%) Windows
2 63 (32.14%) Linux
3 54 (27.55%) Windows Server
4 39 (19.90%) Windows 10
5 18 (9.18%) Mac OS
6 17 (8.67%) Apple iOS
7 16 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (7.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (6.63%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (6.12%) Unix
12 5 (2.55%) Windows 7
13 4 (2.04%) CentOS
13 4 (2.04%) Kali Linux
14 2 (1.02%) Android
14 2 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (1.02%) Rocky
14 2 (1.02%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.51%) CoreOS
15 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (36.73%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (15.31%) DevOps
3 27 (13.78%) Incident Response
4 26 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (13.27%) ITIL
5 25 (12.76%) Disaster Recovery
6 24 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 23 (11.73%) Agile
7 23 (11.73%) Root Cause Analysis
7 23 (11.73%) Service Delivery
8 22 (11.22%) CI/CD
9 21 (10.71%) Computer Science
9 21 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (10.71%) Low Latency
9 21 (10.71%) SIEM
10 20 (10.20%) Performance Monitoring
11 18 (9.18%) Identity Access Management
11 18 (9.18%) Incident Management
12 16 (8.16%) Customer Service
12 16 (8.16%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 43 (21.94%) Python
2 34 (17.35%) PowerShell
3 26 (13.27%) C++
4 25 (12.76%) Java
5 23 (11.73%) Bash
6 21 (10.71%) C
6 21 (10.71%) SQL
7 5 (2.55%) C#
8 4 (2.04%) Bicep
8 4 (2.04%) Delphi
8 4 (2.04%) Go
8 4 (2.04%) Pascal
8 4 (2.04%) PHP
9 2 (1.02%) Perl
9 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.02%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.51%) Korn
10 1 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (18.37%) Degree
2 11 (5.61%) Azure Certification
3 10 (5.10%) RHCSA
4 9 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.57%) CCNA
6 7 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (3.06%) CCNP
7 6 (3.06%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (2.55%) MCDST
8 5 (2.55%) MCITP
8 5 (2.55%) MCSA
8 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (2.04%) GIAC
9 4 (2.04%) OSCP
9 4 (2.04%) Security Cleared
10 3 (1.53%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.10%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.59%) SLA
3 6 (3.06%) GDPR
3 6 (3.06%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.53%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.51%) NIST
5 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 74 (37.76%) Active Directory
2 30 (15.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (11.73%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.04%) Docker
4 4 (2.04%) vSphere
5 3 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.02%) Firmware
6 2 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.51%) KVM
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (15.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (11.73%) Terraform
3 19 (9.69%) Kubernetes
4 17 (8.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (8.16%) Ansible
6 10 (5.10%) Nagios
7 5 (2.55%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.04%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (2.04%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (2.04%) ServiceCenter
9 3 (1.53%) SCCM
10 2 (1.02%) Control-M
10 2 (1.02%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.02%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.51%) AWS Copilot
11 1 (0.51%) Cilium
Vendors
1 92 (46.94%) Microsoft
2 35 (17.86%) VMware
3 20 (10.20%) Cisco
4 18 (9.18%) Google
4 18 (9.18%) Red Hat
5 16 (8.16%) SolarWinds
6 12 (6.12%) Palo Alto
7 10 (5.10%) Zscaler
8 9 (4.59%) Meraki
9 8 (4.08%) Dell
10 7 (3.57%) Fortinet
10 7 (3.57%) HP
11 5 (2.55%) Apple
11 5 (2.55%) Bloomberg
11 5 (2.55%) Reuters
11 5 (2.55%) ServiceNow
12 4 (2.04%) Okta
12 4 (2.04%) OneLogin
12 4 (2.04%) Remedy
12 4 (2.04%) TOWER Software