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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 217 206
Rank change year-on-year +23 -11 +73
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 219 199 317
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.29% 1.48% 1.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.85% 13.16% 11.88%
Number of salaries quoted 131 130 280
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,200 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,375 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,000 £64,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -20.62% +11.74%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,258 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £37,750 £47,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -19.68% +10.59% -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 2,018 1,512 2,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.86% 11.26% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 973 2,105
10th Percentile £28,697 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £66,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +5.60% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,625 £105,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £42,039 £53,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -20.68% +9.28% -4.98%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -2 26 £46,250 -1.60% 9
South London +25 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 57 (26.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (12.79%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.83%) Confluence
4 3 (1.37%) nginx
5 2 (0.91%) Apache
5 2 (0.91%) IIS
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 17 (7.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.46%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.46%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 107 (48.86%) Azure
2 80 (36.53%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (22.83%) AWS
4 44 (20.09%) Entra ID
5 27 (12.33%) Google Workspace
6 18 (8.22%) SaaS
7 14 (6.39%) GCP
7 14 (6.39%) OneDrive
8 11 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.65%) AWS Direct Connect
9 8 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.74%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.74%) Route 53
11 5 (2.28%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.28%) dbt
11 5 (2.28%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 110 (50.23%) DNS
2 93 (42.47%) DHCP
3 76 (34.70%) VPN
4 63 (28.77%) WAN
5 58 (26.48%) Firewall
6 52 (23.74%) LAN
7 45 (20.55%) Wi-Fi
8 41 (18.72%) VLAN
9 22 (10.05%) VoIP
10 20 (9.13%) SD-WAN
11 17 (7.76%) Wireless
12 14 (6.39%) BGP
13 10 (4.57%) Network Security
14 9 (4.11%) MPLS
15 8 (3.65%) HTTPS
15 8 (3.65%) OSPF
16 7 (3.20%) Multicast
17 6 (2.74%) HTTP
18 5 (2.28%) IPsec
18 5 (2.28%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.02%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.28%) Redis
4 4 (1.83%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.91%) MySQL
5 2 (0.91%) Power BI
6 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.46%) Metadata
6 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.46%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 15 (6.85%) JIRA
2 9 (4.11%) Git
3 8 (3.65%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.83%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.91%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.46%) GitLab
6 1 (0.46%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.46%) MLflow
6 1 (0.46%) Snyk
6 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 97 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 82 (37.44%) Finance
3 37 (16.89%) Banking
4 26 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (9.13%) Investment Banking
6 16 (7.31%) Law
7 12 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (5.02%) Retail
9 9 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (4.11%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.74%) Back Office
10 6 (2.74%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.28%) Front Office
12 4 (1.83%) Billing
12 4 (1.83%) Marketing
13 3 (1.37%) Legal
13 3 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.37%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.91%) Games
14 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 51 (23.29%) IT Support
2 45 (20.55%) Support Engineer
3 32 (14.61%) Developer
3 32 (14.61%) IT Engineer
4 30 (13.70%) IT Support Engineer
5 29 (13.24%) Analyst
6 27 (12.33%) Senior
7 25 (11.42%) C++ Developer
8 22 (10.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 20 (9.13%) 2nd Line Support
9 20 (9.13%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 20 (9.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 20 (9.13%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 20 (9.13%) Linux Developer
9 20 (9.13%) Linux Scripter
9 20 (9.13%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 18 (8.22%) Network Engineer
10 18 (8.22%) Support Analyst
11 14 (6.39%) Network Support
12 12 (5.48%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.74%) RESTful
2 5 (2.28%) Django
2 5 (2.28%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (2.28%) WebSockets
3 4 (1.83%) Sass
3 4 (1.83%) ZeroMQ
4 3 (1.37%) LDAP
5 2 (0.91%) Middleware
6 1 (0.46%) .NET
6 1 (0.46%) ADO
6 1 (0.46%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.46%) Kafka
6 1 (0.46%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.46%) MFC
6 1 (0.46%) OAuth
6 1 (0.46%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.46%) REST
6 1 (0.46%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.96%) Onboarding
2 22 (10.05%) FPGA
3 15 (6.85%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.94%) Video Conferencing
5 12 (5.48%) iPhone
6 11 (5.02%) Cloud Native
6 11 (5.02%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (4.57%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.65%) CCTV
8 8 (3.65%) MPEG
9 7 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.74%) iPad
10 6 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (2.74%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.74%) Security Posture
10 6 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.28%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.28%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 121 (55.25%) Windows
2 83 (37.90%) Linux
3 59 (26.94%) Windows Server
4 50 (22.83%) Windows 10
5 29 (13.24%) Mac OS
6 23 (10.50%) Unix
6 23 (10.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (9.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (8.68%) Apple iOS
9 17 (7.76%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (4.11%) Mac OS X
12 6 (2.74%) CentOS
13 5 (2.28%) Android
13 5 (2.28%) Windows 7
14 4 (1.83%) Kali Linux
14 4 (1.83%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.91%) OpenWrt
15 2 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (34.25%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (15.53%) ITIL
3 30 (13.70%) Customer Service
4 29 (13.24%) CI/CD
5 28 (12.79%) DevOps
5 28 (12.79%) Root Cause Analysis
6 27 (12.33%) Agile
7 25 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (11.42%) Disaster Recovery
7 25 (11.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (10.96%) Computer Science
8 24 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 24 (10.96%) Low Latency
9 23 (10.50%) Incident Response
10 20 (9.13%) SIEM
11 19 (8.68%) Service Delivery
12 17 (7.76%) Performance Monitoring
13 16 (7.31%) Identity Access Management
13 16 (7.31%) Problem Management
13 16 (7.31%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 53 (24.20%) Python
2 33 (15.07%) Java
2 33 (15.07%) PowerShell
3 31 (14.16%) C++
4 26 (11.87%) C
5 21 (9.59%) Bash
6 17 (7.76%) SQL
7 6 (2.74%) Go
8 5 (2.28%) C#
9 4 (1.83%) Delphi
9 4 (1.83%) Pascal
9 4 (1.83%) PHP
9 4 (1.83%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.91%) Bicep
10 2 (0.91%) Perl
11 1 (0.46%) Korn
11 1 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (21.92%) Degree
2 18 (8.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (6.85%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (5.48%) Azure Certification
4 12 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (5.48%) Network+ Certification
4 12 (5.48%) Security Cleared
5 11 (5.02%) CCNA
6 8 (3.65%) MCSA
6 8 (3.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 8 (3.65%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.20%) A+ Certification
8 6 (2.74%) CCNP
8 6 (2.74%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (2.74%) RHCSA
9 5 (2.28%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.28%) MCDST
9 5 (2.28%) MCITP
10 4 (1.83%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.83%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.11%) SOC 2
3 7 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.20%) SLA
4 6 (2.74%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.83%) GDPR
6 2 (0.91%) NIST
6 2 (0.91%) PMO
7 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 82 (37.44%) Active Directory
2 30 (13.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (12.33%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.20%) Docker
5 5 (2.28%) vSphere
6 4 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.37%) KVM
7 3 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.91%) Firmware
9 1 (0.46%) NFS
Systems Management
1 40 (18.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (10.50%) Terraform
3 19 (8.68%) Ansible
4 17 (7.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 14 (6.39%) Kubernetes
6 6 (2.74%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (2.74%) Nagios
7 4 (1.83%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (1.83%) SCCM
7 4 (1.83%) ServiceCenter
8 3 (1.37%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (1.37%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.91%) Control-M
9 2 (0.91%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.91%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.91%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.91%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 2 (0.91%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.46%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.46%) Puppet
Vendors
1 104 (47.49%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.53%) VMware
3 31 (14.16%) Google
4 27 (12.33%) Cisco
5 16 (7.31%) Red Hat
6 11 (5.02%) Apple
6 11 (5.02%) Dell
6 11 (5.02%) Palo Alto
6 11 (5.02%) SolarWinds
7 10 (4.57%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.65%) Bloomberg
8 8 (3.65%) HP
8 8 (3.65%) Juniper
8 8 (3.65%) Reuters
8 8 (3.65%) Zscaler
9 7 (3.20%) Arista
10 6 (2.74%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.74%) Okta
10 6 (2.74%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.28%) Meraki