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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 212 238
Rank change year-on-year -17 +26 +43
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 199 207 332
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.92% 1.70% 1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.48% 16.88% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 134 136 280
10th Percentile £32,800 £31,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £52,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.98% -16.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £78,750 £74,258 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,375 £88,750
England median annual salary £39,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% -5.88% -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 1,898 1,226 3,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.79% 10.07% 12.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,047 904 1,956
10th Percentile £33,250 £33,200 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,250 £42,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -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 21 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 21 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 -19 20 £70,000 - 6
North London - 2 £55,000 -
South London +14 1 £47,500 -5.00% 1
West London -23 1 £80,000 +63.27% 4
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 44 (22.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (12.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (8.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 89 (44.72%) Azure
2 59 (29.65%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (26.13%) AWS
4 32 (16.08%) Entra ID
5 12 (6.03%) SaaS
6 11 (5.53%) Google Workspace
7 7 (3.52%) OneDrive
8 6 (3.02%) OpenShift
8 6 (3.02%) Route 53
9 5 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.51%) GCP
9 5 (2.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.01%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (2.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (2.01%) GitHub
11 3 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.51%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 105 (52.76%) DNS
2 76 (38.19%) DHCP
3 66 (33.17%) VPN
4 59 (29.65%) LAN
5 58 (29.15%) Firewall
5 58 (29.15%) WAN
6 29 (14.57%) BGP
6 29 (14.57%) VLAN
7 26 (13.07%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (12.56%) Network Security
9 22 (11.06%) OSPF
10 19 (9.55%) SD-WAN
11 16 (8.04%) HTTP
12 14 (7.04%) Multicast
13 12 (6.03%) VoIP
14 8 (4.02%) HTTPS
15 6 (3.02%) VXLAN
16 5 (2.51%) Ethernet
17 4 (2.01%) SNMP
17 4 (2.01%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (3.02%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.01%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.50%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.50%) MySQL
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle9i Database
4 1 (0.50%) Power BI
4 1 (0.50%) Redis
4 1 (0.50%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.50%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 8 (4.02%) Bitbucket
2 7 (3.52%) Git
3 6 (3.02%) JIRA
4 5 (2.51%) Metasploit
5 4 (2.01%) GitLab
6 2 (1.01%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.50%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.50%) LSMW
General
1 90 (45.23%) Social Skills
2 77 (38.69%) Finance
3 42 (21.11%) Banking
4 24 (12.06%) Law
5 23 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (9.55%) Investment Banking
7 18 (9.05%) Telecoms
8 9 (4.52%) Retail
9 7 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.51%) Back Office
11 3 (1.51%) Digital Health
11 3 (1.51%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.51%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.01%) Front Office
12 2 (1.01%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (1.01%) Military
13 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (18.09%) Support Engineer
2 35 (17.59%) IT Support
3 30 (15.08%) Senior
4 28 (14.07%) Network Engineer
5 25 (12.56%) Developer
6 22 (11.06%) C++ Developer
7 21 (10.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 21 (10.55%) 2nd Line Support
7 21 (10.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 21 (10.55%) Analyst
7 21 (10.55%) IT Engineer
7 21 (10.55%) IT Support Engineer
8 19 (9.55%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
8 19 (9.55%) Linux Developer
8 19 (9.55%) Linux Scripter
8 19 (9.55%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 18 (9.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (6.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.52%) Linux Administrator
11 9 (4.52%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.02%) WebSockets
2 5 (2.51%) RESTful
3 4 (2.01%) ADO
3 4 (2.01%) ARM Templates
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
6 1 (0.50%) BAPI
6 1 (0.50%) Django
6 1 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.50%) Kafka
6 1 (0.50%) SAP XI
6 1 (0.50%) Sass
6 1 (0.50%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.56%) Data Centre
2 19 (9.55%) FPGA
3 13 (6.53%) MPEG
4 11 (5.53%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (5.03%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.52%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.52%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.02%) CMDB
8 5 (2.51%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.51%) Digital Signage
8 5 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.51%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (2.01%) CCTV
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%) iPhone
10 3 (1.51%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 94 (47.24%) Windows
2 55 (27.64%) Linux
3 49 (24.62%) Windows Server
4 28 (14.07%) Windows 10
5 18 (9.05%) Mac OS
6 13 (6.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (6.03%) Apple iOS
7 12 (6.03%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (5.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (5.53%) Windows Server 2019
9 10 (5.03%) Unix
10 5 (2.51%) Kali Linux
10 5 (2.51%) Windows 7
11 2 (1.01%) Android
11 2 (1.01%) CentOS
11 2 (1.01%) Rocky
12 1 (0.50%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.50%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (37.19%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (17.59%) Continuous Improvement
3 28 (14.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (13.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 27 (13.57%) Incident Response
5 26 (13.07%) DevOps
6 22 (11.06%) Agile
6 22 (11.06%) Computer Science
6 22 (11.06%) High Availability
6 22 (11.06%) ITIL
6 22 (11.06%) Service Delivery
7 21 (10.55%) Low Latency
8 20 (10.05%) CI/CD
8 20 (10.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (9.05%) Incident Management
9 18 (9.05%) Root Cause Analysis
10 17 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (8.54%) Performance Monitoring
11 16 (8.04%) Analytics
11 16 (8.04%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 35 (17.59%) Python
2 27 (13.57%) PowerShell
3 23 (11.56%) C++
3 23 (11.56%) Java
4 21 (10.55%) C
5 20 (10.05%) Bash
6 17 (8.54%) SQL
7 4 (2.01%) Bicep
7 4 (2.01%) Delphi
7 4 (2.01%) Go
7 4 (2.01%) Pascal
7 4 (2.01%) PHP
8 3 (1.51%) C#
8 3 (1.51%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.50%) ABAP
10 1 (0.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 38 (19.10%) Degree
2 19 (9.55%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (8.04%) CCNA
4 13 (6.53%) CCNP
4 13 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (6.03%) Azure Certification
5 12 (6.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.52%) RHCSA
7 6 (3.02%) MCSA
7 6 (3.02%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (2.51%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (2.51%) Security Cleared
9 4 (2.01%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (2.01%) MCDST
9 4 (2.01%) MCITP
9 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (2.01%) OSCP
9 4 (2.01%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.04%) SLA
2 13 (6.53%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.01%) GDPR
3 4 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.51%) NIST
4 3 (1.51%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.51%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.01%) QA
6 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 68 (34.17%) Active Directory
2 26 (13.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (11.56%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.01%) Docker
4 4 (2.01%) vSphere
5 2 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.50%) Firmware
6 1 (0.50%) KVM
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (13.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (11.56%) Kubernetes
3 21 (10.55%) Terraform
4 15 (7.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (6.53%) Ansible
6 12 (6.03%) FortiGate
7 11 (5.53%) Nagios
8 5 (2.51%) Control-M
8 5 (2.51%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (2.01%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (2.01%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.01%) ServiceCenter
10 3 (1.51%) Grafana
10 3 (1.51%) SCCM
10 3 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.01%) Norton AntiVirus
11 2 (1.01%) OpenView
11 2 (1.01%) Tivoli
11 2 (1.01%) vCenter Server
11 2 (1.01%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 84 (42.21%) Microsoft
2 34 (17.09%) VMware
3 23 (11.56%) Cisco
4 20 (10.05%) SolarWinds
5 19 (9.55%) Palo Alto
6 15 (7.54%) Fortinet
7 13 (6.53%) Zscaler
8 12 (6.03%) Red Hat
9 11 (5.53%) Google
10 10 (5.03%) Meraki
11 8 (4.02%) ServiceNow
12 7 (3.52%) Apple
13 6 (3.02%) Bloomberg
13 6 (3.02%) HP
14 5 (2.51%) Dell
15 4 (2.01%) F5
15 4 (2.01%) OneLogin
15 4 (2.01%) Remedy
15 4 (2.01%) Reuters
15 4 (2.01%) TOWER Software