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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 213 233
Rank change year-on-year -12 +20 +54
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 199 199 321
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.95% 1.66% 1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.31% 15.91% 10.09%
Number of salaries quoted 131 131 276
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £36,625
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,125 £75,254 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £88,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.61% -2.35% -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 1,931 1,251 3,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.22% 10.44% 13.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,014 898 1,978
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,235 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £78,594
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,875 £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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -18 21 £55,000 +0.46% 10
South London +5 2 £47,500 -5.00% 4
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 (24.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (13.07%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.51%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (9.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 90 (45.23%) Azure
2 66 (33.17%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (24.62%) AWS
4 34 (17.09%) Entra ID
5 16 (8.04%) Google Workspace
6 10 (5.03%) OneDrive
7 9 (4.52%) SaaS
8 8 (4.02%) GCP
9 6 (3.02%) Route 53
10 5 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.01%) AWS Direct Connect
11 4 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.01%) GitHub
11 4 (2.01%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.51%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 104 (52.26%) DNS
2 78 (39.20%) DHCP
3 62 (31.16%) VPN
4 56 (28.14%) Firewall
4 56 (28.14%) LAN
5 55 (27.64%) WAN
6 30 (15.08%) VLAN
7 27 (13.57%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (10.55%) BGP
8 21 (10.55%) Network Security
9 16 (8.04%) OSPF
9 16 (8.04%) SD-WAN
10 14 (7.04%) HTTP
11 13 (6.53%) Multicast
11 13 (6.53%) VoIP
12 8 (4.02%) HTTPS
13 4 (2.01%) Ethernet
13 4 (2.01%) SAN
13 4 (2.01%) SNMP
13 4 (2.01%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.52%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.01%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.50%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.50%) MySQL
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle9i Database
5 1 (0.50%) Power BI
5 1 (0.50%) Redis
5 1 (0.50%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.50%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 8 (4.02%) Bitbucket
1 8 (4.02%) Git
2 5 (2.51%) JIRA
3 4 (2.01%) GitLab
3 4 (2.01%) Metasploit
4 2 (1.01%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.50%) LSMW
General
1 87 (43.72%) Social Skills
2 83 (41.71%) Finance
3 44 (22.11%) Banking
4 27 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (10.55%) Law
6 20 (10.05%) Investment Banking
7 17 (8.54%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.02%) Retail
9 7 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.51%) Back Office
11 3 (1.51%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.51%) Front Office
11 3 (1.51%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.01%) Legal
12 2 (1.01%) Military
12 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (19.10%) Support Engineer
2 35 (17.59%) IT Support
3 28 (14.07%) Developer
3 28 (14.07%) Senior
4 24 (12.06%) C++ Developer
5 22 (11.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 22 (11.06%) Analyst
6 21 (10.55%) 2nd Line Support
6 21 (10.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 21 (10.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (10.55%) IT Engineer
6 21 (10.55%) IT Support Engineer
6 21 (10.55%) Network Engineer
7 20 (10.05%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
7 20 (10.05%) Linux Developer
7 20 (10.05%) Linux Scripter
7 20 (10.05%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 14 (7.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.03%) Linux Administrator
9 10 (5.03%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.52%) WebSockets
2 5 (2.51%) RESTful
3 4 (2.01%) ADO
3 4 (2.01%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.51%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.51%) 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 (0.50%) .NET
6 1 (0.50%) BAPI
6 1 (0.50%) Django
6 1 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.06%) Data Centre
2 20 (10.05%) FPGA
3 12 (6.03%) MPEG
4 11 (5.53%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (5.03%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.03%) Onboarding
6 8 (4.02%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.02%) CMDB
7 6 (3.02%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (2.51%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.51%) Digital Signage
8 5 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (2.01%) Driving Licence
9 4 (2.01%) FMCG
9 4 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.01%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 100 (50.25%) Windows
2 62 (31.16%) Linux
3 52 (26.13%) Windows Server
4 33 (16.58%) Windows 10
5 18 (9.05%) Mac OS
6 14 (7.04%) Apple iOS
6 14 (7.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (7.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (6.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (6.03%) Unix
8 12 (6.03%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (2.51%) Windows 7
10 4 (2.01%) Kali Linux
11 2 (1.01%) Android
11 2 (1.01%) CentOS
11 2 (1.01%) Rocky
11 2 (1.01%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.50%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.50%) Solaris
12 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (36.68%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 28 (14.07%) DevOps
4 27 (13.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 27 (13.57%) Incident Response
4 27 (13.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (11.56%) Agile
5 23 (11.56%) Computer Science
5 23 (11.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 23 (11.56%) ITIL
6 22 (11.06%) Low Latency
6 22 (11.06%) Service Delivery
7 21 (10.55%) CI/CD
8 20 (10.05%) Performance Monitoring
9 18 (9.05%) High Availability
9 18 (9.05%) Root Cause Analysis
10 17 (8.54%) Incident Management
11 15 (7.54%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (7.54%) Identity Access Management
11 15 (7.54%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 40 (20.10%) Python
2 31 (15.58%) PowerShell
3 26 (13.07%) C++
4 24 (12.06%) Java
5 23 (11.56%) C
6 22 (11.06%) Bash
7 20 (10.05%) SQL
8 5 (2.51%) C#
9 4 (2.01%) Bicep
9 4 (2.01%) Delphi
9 4 (2.01%) Go
9 4 (2.01%) Pascal
9 4 (2.01%) PHP
10 3 (1.51%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.50%) ABAP
12 1 (0.50%) Korn
12 1 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (18.09%) Degree
2 13 (6.53%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (5.53%) Azure Certification
4 11 (5.53%) CCNA
5 10 (5.03%) RHCSA
6 8 (4.02%) CCNP
7 7 (3.52%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (3.52%) MCSA
8 6 (3.02%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (2.51%) MCDST
9 5 (2.51%) MCITP
9 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 5 (2.51%) Security Cleared
10 4 (2.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (2.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (2.01%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.01%) OSCP
10 4 (2.01%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.03%) Accessibility
1 12 (6.03%) SLA
2 6 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.01%) GDPR
3 4 (2.01%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.51%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.01%) NIST
5 2 (1.01%) QA
6 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 73 (36.68%) Active Directory
2 28 (14.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (10.55%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.01%) Docker
4 4 (2.01%) vSphere
5 2 (1.01%) Firmware
5 2 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.50%) KVM
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (14.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (11.06%) Terraform
3 21 (10.55%) Kubernetes
4 16 (8.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (6.53%) Ansible
6 12 (6.03%) Nagios
7 10 (5.03%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.01%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (2.01%) Control-M
8 4 (2.01%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (2.01%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.01%) ServiceCenter
9 3 (1.51%) Grafana
9 3 (1.51%) SCCM
10 2 (1.01%) Norton AntiVirus
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 89 (44.72%) Microsoft
2 35 (17.59%) VMware
3 23 (11.56%) Cisco
4 19 (9.55%) SolarWinds
5 16 (8.04%) Google
6 15 (7.54%) Red Hat
7 13 (6.53%) Palo Alto
8 12 (6.03%) Fortinet
9 11 (5.53%) Zscaler
10 9 (4.52%) Meraki
11 7 (3.52%) Apple
11 7 (3.52%) Bloomberg
11 7 (3.52%) ServiceNow
12 6 (3.02%) Dell
12 6 (3.02%) HP
13 5 (2.51%) Reuters
14 4 (2.01%) Okta
14 4 (2.01%) OneLogin
14 4 (2.01%) Remedy
14 4 (2.01%) TOWER Software