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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 217 257
Rank change year-on-year -3 +40 -35
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 250 168 218
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.97% 1.43% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.80% 13.71% 9.03%
Number of salaries quoted 185 114 138
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,325 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,438 £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 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -16.67% -5.26%

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 1,812 1,225 2,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.00% 10.40% 12.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,069 826 1,191
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £99,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -22.33% -1.90%

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 5 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 5 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 -4 19 £50,000 -35.48% 30
West London -11 7 £82,500 +153.85% 10
East London -11 6 £36,000 +5.88% 2
North London +1 4 £60,000 +84.62% 1
South London -9 1 £24,000 -47.83% 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 40 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (10.80%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.40%) Confluence
4 1 (0.40%) IIS
4 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.40%) Houdini
4 1 (0.40%) NUKE
4 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (3.20%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.40%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.40%) Eikon
2 1 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 89 (35.60%) Azure
2 75 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (26.00%) Entra ID
4 54 (21.60%) AWS
5 19 (7.60%) SaaS
6 17 (6.80%) OneDrive
7 12 (4.80%) GCP
8 11 (4.40%) Google Workspace
9 9 (3.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (3.20%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.40%) IaaS
11 6 (2.40%) Slack
12 5 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 5 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.00%) Google Compute Engine
12 5 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (2.00%) Mimecast
12 5 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 162 (64.80%) DNS
2 121 (48.40%) VPN
3 117 (46.80%) DHCP
4 103 (41.20%) Firewall
5 71 (28.40%) WAN
6 69 (27.60%) LAN
7 48 (19.20%) VLAN
8 44 (17.60%) BGP
9 41 (16.40%) Network Security
10 39 (15.60%) Wireless
11 38 (15.20%) Wi-Fi
12 31 (12.40%) HTTP
13 28 (11.20%) OSPF
14 20 (8.00%) SD-WAN
15 12 (4.80%) SSL
16 11 (4.40%) Multicast
17 9 (3.60%) VoIP
18 8 (3.20%) FIX Connectivity
19 7 (2.80%) Ethernet
19 7 (2.80%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.20%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.80%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.80%) KDB
6 2 (0.80%) MySQL
7 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.40%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle9i Database
7 1 (0.40%) Redis
7 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.40%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 15 (6.00%) JIRA
2 6 (2.40%) GitLab
3 5 (2.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.80%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.80%) Git
5 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.40%) LSMW
5 1 (0.40%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.40%) Selenium
5 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 117 (46.80%) Social Skills
2 67 (26.80%) Finance
3 41 (16.40%) Banking
4 27 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (10.40%) Telecoms
6 22 (8.80%) Law
7 11 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.40%) Retail
8 8 (3.20%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.80%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.40%) Digital Health
10 6 (2.40%) Publishing
11 5 (2.00%) Back Office
11 5 (2.00%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.60%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.20%) Marketing
14 2 (0.80%) Cantonese Language
14 2 (0.80%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 53 (21.20%) Network Engineer
2 42 (16.80%) IT Support
2 42 (16.80%) Support Engineer
3 36 (14.40%) Senior
4 34 (13.60%) Analyst
5 28 (11.20%) IT Engineer
6 27 (10.80%) IT Support Engineer
7 25 (10.00%) Support Analyst
8 19 (7.60%) 2nd Line Support
9 14 (5.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (5.60%) Lead
10 13 (5.20%) Junior
10 13 (5.20%) Network Support
11 12 (4.80%) 3rd Line Support
11 12 (4.80%) Developer
11 12 (4.80%) Team Leader
12 11 (4.40%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 11 (4.40%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 11 (4.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (4.00%) Support Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.00%) Terraform
2 10 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (3.60%) RESTful
4 6 (2.40%) GraphQL
5 5 (2.00%) Next.js
5 5 (2.00%) React
6 4 (1.60%) JWT
6 4 (1.60%) OAuth
6 4 (1.60%) WebSockets
7 3 (1.20%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.80%) ADO
8 2 (0.80%) gRPC
8 2 (0.80%) LDAP
8 2 (0.80%) REST
9 1 (0.40%) CSS
9 1 (0.40%) HTML
9 1 (0.40%) Rendezvous
9 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.40%) Onboarding
2 27 (10.80%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.00%) Driving Licence
3 15 (6.00%) Security Posture
4 13 (5.20%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (4.00%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.60%) Hedge funds
7 9 (3.60%) PKI
8 8 (3.20%) Eurex
8 8 (3.20%) FPGA
8 8 (3.20%) MPEG
9 7 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (2.40%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (2.00%) AS400
11 5 (2.00%) Blog
11 5 (2.00%) iSeries
11 5 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (2.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 120 (48.00%) Windows
2 63 (25.20%) Linux
3 55 (22.00%) Windows Server
4 38 (15.20%) Windows 10
5 25 (10.00%) Mac OS
6 19 (7.60%) Unix
7 12 (4.80%) Rocky
8 10 (4.00%) CentOS
9 6 (2.40%) Ubuntu
10 5 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (2.00%) Solaris
11 2 (0.80%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (30.80%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (24.40%) Continuous Improvement
3 51 (20.40%) Customer Service
4 48 (19.20%) Disaster Recovery
5 37 (14.80%) Computer Science
6 36 (14.40%) Cybersecurity
7 34 (13.60%) ITIL
8 32 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 29 (11.60%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (10.80%) High Availability
11 26 (10.40%) Incident Response
12 24 (9.60%) Project Delivery
13 21 (8.40%) AI
13 21 (8.40%) Mentoring
14 20 (8.00%) CI/CD
14 20 (8.00%) ITSM
14 20 (8.00%) Service Delivery
15 19 (7.60%) Coaching
15 19 (7.60%) Patch Management
15 19 (7.60%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 56 (22.40%) Python
2 40 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 31 (12.40%) SQL
4 30 (12.00%) Bash
5 18 (7.20%) Java
6 14 (5.60%) C
7 11 (4.40%) C++
8 10 (4.00%) Go
8 10 (4.00%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.60%) Perl
10 8 (3.20%) Ruby
11 7 (2.80%) C#
12 5 (2.00%) Bicep
12 5 (2.00%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.60%) Rust
14 3 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.80%) VBA
16 1 (0.40%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 46 (18.40%) Degree
2 41 (16.40%) Cisco Certification
3 31 (12.40%) CCNA
4 27 (10.80%) CCNP
5 22 (8.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.00%) Azure Certification
6 15 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (5.60%) Security Cleared
8 12 (4.80%) A+ Certification
9 11 (4.40%) CISSP
10 10 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
11 9 (3.60%) AWS Certification
12 6 (2.40%) CEH
12 6 (2.40%) CISM
12 6 (2.40%) OSCP
13 5 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (2.00%) DV Cleared
13 5 (2.00%) Master's Degree
13 5 (2.00%) SC Cleared
14 4 (1.60%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.60%) SLA
2 16 (6.40%) GDPR
3 12 (4.80%) NIST
4 11 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (3.20%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.40%) GRC
6 6 (2.40%) NCSC
6 6 (2.40%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.40%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.20%) QA
8 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.40%) IASME
System Software
1 98 (39.20%) Active Directory
2 37 (14.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (12.00%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.60%) Docker
5 13 (5.20%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.80%) Firmware
7 6 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.20%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.20%) vSphere
9 1 (0.40%) NFS
9 1 (0.40%) Samba
9 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (13.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (9.20%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.00%) FortiGate
4 10 (4.00%) Ansible
4 10 (4.00%) Grafana
5 7 (2.80%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.40%) Nagios
7 4 (1.60%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (1.60%) QRadar
8 3 (1.20%) Cilium
8 3 (1.20%) Control-M
9 2 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.80%) Argo
9 2 (0.80%) Nessus
9 2 (0.80%) Nmap
9 2 (0.80%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.80%) SCCM
10 1 (0.40%) Istio
10 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 107 (42.80%) Microsoft
2 50 (20.00%) VMware
3 36 (14.40%) Cisco
4 28 (11.20%) Fortinet
5 26 (10.40%) Palo Alto
6 17 (6.80%) Google
7 15 (6.00%) Zscaler
8 14 (5.60%) F5
8 14 (5.60%) Red Hat
9 13 (5.20%) SolarWinds
10 12 (4.80%) Bloomberg
11 10 (4.00%) Meraki
11 10 (4.00%) Oracle
11 10 (4.00%) ServiceNow
12 8 (3.20%) CQG
12 8 (3.20%) ION Trading
12 8 (3.20%) Patsystems
12 8 (3.20%) Reuters
12 8 (3.20%) Trayport
12 8 (3.20%) Veeam