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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 220 256
Rank change year-on-year 0 +36 -40
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 256 170 215
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.99% 1.46% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.05% 13.93% 9.27%
Number of salaries quoted 184 115 135
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -19.35% -2.11%

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 1,822 1,220 2,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.02% 10.45% 12.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,064 827 1,184
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,300 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £66,125
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -9.26% +1.73%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £99,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -

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 October 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 October 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 +5 18 £48,750 -37.10% 25
West London -14 8 £82,500 +153.85% 9
East London -10 6 £36,000 +5.88% 2
North London +2 4 £60,000 +84.62% 1
South London -14 1 £24,000 -47.83% 6
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 40 (15.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (10.55%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.34%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) IIS
4 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.39%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.39%) Houdini
4 1 (0.39%) NUKE
4 1 (0.39%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (3.13%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.39%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.39%) Eikon
2 1 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (33.20%) Azure
2 75 (29.30%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (25.39%) Entra ID
4 57 (22.27%) AWS
5 25 (9.77%) SaaS
6 19 (7.42%) GCP
6 19 (7.42%) OneDrive
7 13 (5.08%) Google Workspace
8 11 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (4.30%) Google Compute Engine
8 11 (4.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 11 (4.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (3.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (3.13%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.34%) IaaS
12 6 (2.34%) Slack
13 5 (1.95%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 5 (1.95%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 162 (63.28%) DNS
2 128 (50.00%) VPN
3 116 (45.31%) DHCP
4 107 (41.80%) Firewall
5 72 (28.13%) WAN
6 70 (27.34%) LAN
7 51 (19.92%) VLAN
8 50 (19.53%) BGP
9 42 (16.41%) Network Security
9 42 (16.41%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (16.02%) Wireless
11 32 (12.50%) HTTP
12 28 (10.94%) OSPF
13 20 (7.81%) SD-WAN
14 13 (5.08%) SSL
15 11 (4.30%) Multicast
16 9 (3.52%) VoIP
17 8 (3.13%) FIX Connectivity
18 7 (2.73%) Internet
19 6 (2.34%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.03%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.73%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.17%) KDB
5 3 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.78%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.78%) MySQL
6 2 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.39%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.39%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.39%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle9i Database
7 1 (0.39%) Redis
7 1 (0.39%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.86%) JIRA
2 11 (4.30%) TeamCity
3 6 (2.34%) GitLab
4 3 (1.17%) Git
5 2 (0.78%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.39%) LSMW
6 1 (0.39%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 118 (46.09%) Social Skills
2 73 (28.52%) Finance
3 41 (16.02%) Banking
4 27 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (10.16%) Telecoms
6 23 (8.98%) Law
7 13 (5.08%) Financial Institution
7 13 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.08%) Retail
8 11 (4.30%) Back Office
9 8 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.73%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.34%) Digital Health
11 6 (2.34%) Publishing
12 5 (1.95%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.56%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.17%) Marketing
15 2 (0.78%) Cantonese Language
15 2 (0.78%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 53 (20.70%) Network Engineer
2 44 (17.19%) IT Support
3 40 (15.63%) Support Engineer
4 38 (14.84%) Senior
5 34 (13.28%) Analyst
6 28 (10.94%) IT Engineer
7 27 (10.55%) IT Support Engineer
8 25 (9.77%) Support Analyst
9 18 (7.03%) 2nd Line Support
9 18 (7.03%) Lead
10 16 (6.25%) Network Support
10 16 (6.25%) Team Leader
11 14 (5.47%) Support Team Leader
12 13 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (5.08%) Junior
13 12 (4.69%) 3rd Line Support
13 12 (4.69%) Developer
14 11 (4.30%) GCP Engineer
14 11 (4.30%) Network Team Leader
15 10 (3.91%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.33%) Terraform
2 11 (4.30%) RESTful
3 10 (3.91%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (2.34%) GraphQL
5 5 (1.95%) Next.js
5 5 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (1.95%) React
6 4 (1.56%) JWT
6 4 (1.56%) OAuth
6 4 (1.56%) WebSockets
7 3 (1.17%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.78%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.78%) gRPC
8 2 (0.78%) LDAP
8 2 (0.78%) Rendezvous
8 2 (0.78%) REST
9 1 (0.39%) BAPI
9 1 (0.39%) HTML
9 1 (0.39%) JSON
9 1 (0.39%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 51 (19.92%) Onboarding
2 27 (10.55%) Data Centre
3 20 (7.81%) Cloud Native
3 20 (7.81%) Security Posture
4 16 (6.25%) Driving Licence
5 15 (5.86%) Management Information System
6 14 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (4.30%) Blog
8 10 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (3.52%) Hedge funds
9 9 (3.52%) PKI
10 8 (3.13%) Eurex
11 7 (2.73%) FPGA
11 7 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (2.73%) MPEG
12 6 (2.34%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (1.95%) AS400
13 5 (1.95%) iSeries
13 5 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.95%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 120 (46.88%) Windows
2 62 (24.22%) Linux
3 54 (21.09%) Windows Server
4 38 (14.84%) Windows 10
5 25 (9.77%) macOS
6 19 (7.42%) Unix
7 12 (4.69%) Rocky
8 10 (3.91%) CentOS
9 6 (2.34%) Ubuntu
10 5 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (1.95%) Solaris
11 2 (0.78%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (26.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 56 (21.88%) Customer Service
4 49 (19.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 38 (14.84%) Computer Science
6 37 (14.45%) Cybersecurity
7 36 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 34 (13.28%) ITIL
9 31 (12.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (11.72%) Incident Response
11 26 (10.16%) CI/CD
12 24 (9.38%) High Availability
13 23 (8.98%) Coaching
13 23 (8.98%) Project Delivery
14 21 (8.20%) AI
14 21 (8.20%) ITSM
14 21 (8.20%) Mentoring
14 21 (8.20%) Runbook
15 20 (7.81%) Service Delivery
16 19 (7.42%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 63 (24.61%) Python
2 41 (16.02%) PowerShell
3 38 (14.84%) SQL
4 32 (12.50%) Bash
5 24 (9.38%) Java
6 16 (6.25%) Go
7 13 (5.08%) C
8 11 (4.30%) C++
9 10 (3.91%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.52%) Perl
11 8 (3.13%) C#
11 8 (3.13%) Ruby
12 5 (1.95%) Bicep
12 5 (1.95%) Rust
12 5 (1.95%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.78%) VBA
15 1 (0.39%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 48 (18.75%) Degree
2 44 (17.19%) Cisco Certification
3 29 (11.33%) CCNA
4 26 (10.16%) CCNP
5 22 (8.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.86%) CISSP
6 15 (5.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (5.47%) Security Cleared
8 13 (5.08%) Azure Certification
9 12 (4.69%) A+ Certification
10 10 (3.91%) CISM
11 9 (3.52%) AWS Certification
11 9 (3.52%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (2.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (2.73%) CCSP
13 6 (2.34%) CEH
13 6 (2.34%) OSCP
14 5 (1.95%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (1.95%) DV Cleared
14 5 (1.95%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (14.84%) SLA
2 16 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (6.25%) NIST
3 15 (5.86%) GDPR
4 12 (4.69%) PCI DSS
4 12 (4.69%) SOC 2
5 7 (2.73%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.34%) GRC
6 6 (2.34%) NCSC
7 3 (1.17%) QA
8 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.39%) IASME
System Software
1 97 (37.89%) Active Directory
2 37 (14.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (11.72%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.47%) Docker
5 13 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.73%) Firmware
6 7 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.56%) vSphere
8 3 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.17%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.39%) NFS
9 1 (0.39%) Samba
9 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.39%) XenApp
9 1 (0.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (13.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (10.94%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.25%) Grafana
4 14 (5.47%) FortiGate
5 11 (4.30%) Ansible
6 9 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.73%) Cilium
8 6 (2.34%) Nagios
9 4 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.56%) QRadar
10 3 (1.17%) Control-M
10 3 (1.17%) SCCM
11 2 (0.78%) Argo
11 2 (0.78%) Nessus
11 2 (0.78%) Nmap
11 2 (0.78%) Norton AntiVirus
12 1 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.39%) Istio
12 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 104 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 50 (19.53%) VMware
3 35 (13.67%) Cisco
4 28 (10.94%) Fortinet
5 24 (9.38%) Google
5 24 (9.38%) Palo Alto
6 14 (5.47%) F5
6 14 (5.47%) Red Hat
6 14 (5.47%) Zscaler
7 13 (5.08%) SolarWinds
8 12 (4.69%) Bloomberg
9 11 (4.30%) Oracle
10 10 (3.91%) ServiceNow
11 8 (3.13%) CQG
11 8 (3.13%) ION Trading
11 8 (3.13%) Meraki
11 8 (3.13%) Patsystems
11 8 (3.13%) Reuters
11 8 (3.13%) Trayport
11 8 (3.13%) Veeam