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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 207 261
Rank change year-on-year -33 +54 +1
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 209 201 209
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.90% 1.64% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.03% 16.14% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 150 134 164
10th Percentile £34,850 £31,500 £37,590
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -12.24% +2.60%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,625 £88,750
England median annual salary £38,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.67% -11.76% -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 1,894 1,245 2,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.12% 10.18% 12.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,047 891 1,385
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,425 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -2.91%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -15 19 £71,000 -8.39% 15
West London -30 5 £85,000 +73.47% 7
North London - 3 £60,000 - 1
South London -1 1 £24,000 -50.00% 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 37 (17.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (11.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (7.66%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.48%) Houdini
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.48%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 93 (44.50%) Azure
2 58 (27.75%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (25.84%) AWS
4 33 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 10 (4.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 10 (4.78%) SaaS
6 9 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (4.31%) Google Workspace
7 8 (3.83%) OneDrive
8 7 (3.35%) GCP
8 7 (3.35%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.87%) PaaS
10 5 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.39%) IaaS
11 4 (1.91%) GitHub
12 3 (1.44%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.44%) dbt
12 3 (1.44%) Route 53
13 2 (0.96%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 115 (55.02%) DNS
2 83 (39.71%) Firewall
3 78 (37.32%) VPN
4 70 (33.49%) DHCP
5 67 (32.06%) LAN
6 62 (29.67%) WAN
7 38 (18.18%) BGP
8 34 (16.27%) Network Security
9 26 (12.44%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (11.96%) HTTP
10 25 (11.96%) OSPF
11 24 (11.48%) VLAN
12 20 (9.57%) SD-WAN
13 17 (8.13%) Multicast
14 13 (6.22%) VoIP
15 10 (4.78%) Wireless
16 8 (3.83%) HTTPS
17 7 (3.35%) Ethernet
17 7 (3.35%) SSL
18 6 (2.87%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.74%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.96%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.48%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle9i Database
5 1 (0.48%) Redis
5 1 (0.48%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.31%) JIRA
2 8 (3.83%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.39%) Git
3 5 (2.39%) Metasploit
4 4 (1.91%) GitLab
5 1 (0.48%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.48%) LSMW
General
1 92 (44.02%) Social Skills
2 68 (32.54%) Finance
3 41 (19.62%) Banking
4 31 (14.83%) Telecoms
5 26 (12.44%) Law
6 21 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (7.18%) Investment Banking
8 10 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.35%) Retail
10 6 (2.87%) Digital Health
11 5 (2.39%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.91%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (1.44%) Marketing
14 2 (0.96%) Cantonese Language
14 2 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.96%) Legal
14 2 (0.96%) Military
15 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (21.05%) Network Engineer
2 36 (17.22%) Support Engineer
3 33 (15.79%) Senior
4 28 (13.40%) IT Support
5 20 (9.57%) 2nd Line Support
5 20 (9.57%) IT Engineer
5 20 (9.57%) IT Support Engineer
6 19 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 19 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 18 (8.61%) Analyst
8 16 (7.66%) Developer
9 14 (6.70%) C++ Developer
9 14 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (6.70%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 14 (6.70%) Linux Developer
9 14 (6.70%) Linux Scripter
9 14 (6.70%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 13 (6.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.83%) WebSockets
2 5 (2.39%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.91%) ADO
4 3 (1.44%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (1.44%) gRPC
5 2 (0.96%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.96%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.96%) JWT
5 2 (0.96%) Next.js
5 2 (0.96%) OAuth
5 2 (0.96%) React
5 2 (0.96%) RESTful
6 1 (0.48%) Django
6 1 (0.48%) Kafka
6 1 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.48%) pytest
6 1 (0.48%) REST
6 1 (0.48%) SAP XI
6 1 (0.48%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.31%) Data Centre
2 19 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 16 (7.66%) MPEG
4 15 (7.18%) FPGA
5 12 (5.74%) Security Posture
6 11 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (4.78%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.87%) Driving Licence
10 5 (2.39%) AS400
10 5 (2.39%) CMDB
10 5 (2.39%) iSeries
10 5 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.91%) CCTV
11 4 (1.91%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.91%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.91%) PKI
12 3 (1.44%) Cloud Native
12 3 (1.44%) FMCG
12 3 (1.44%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 90 (43.06%) Windows
2 57 (27.27%) Linux
3 44 (21.05%) Windows Server
4 18 (8.61%) Mac OS
5 16 (7.66%) Windows 10
6 15 (7.18%) Unix
7 11 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (2.87%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (2.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (2.39%) Kali Linux
9 5 (2.39%) Windows 7
9 5 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (1.91%) Rocky
11 3 (1.44%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.44%) CentOS
12 2 (0.96%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.48%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.48%) Solaris
13 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 35 (16.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (15.79%) Incident Response
5 28 (13.40%) DevOps
6 26 (12.44%) High Availability
6 26 (12.44%) ITIL
7 25 (11.96%) Computer Science
8 24 (11.48%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (10.53%) CI/CD
10 21 (10.05%) Agile
10 21 (10.05%) Incident Management
10 21 (10.05%) Project Delivery
11 20 (9.57%) Cybersecurity
11 20 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 20 (9.57%) Root Cause Analysis
12 19 (9.09%) Change Management
12 19 (9.09%) Low Latency
13 18 (8.61%) Line Management
13 18 (8.61%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (20.10%) Python
2 29 (13.88%) PowerShell
3 23 (11.00%) Bash
4 18 (8.61%) C
5 17 (8.13%) Java
6 16 (7.66%) SQL
7 15 (7.18%) C++
8 6 (2.87%) Bicep
9 4 (1.91%) C#
10 3 (1.44%) Delphi
10 3 (1.44%) Pascal
10 3 (1.44%) Perl
10 3 (1.44%) PHP
11 2 (0.96%) Go
11 2 (0.96%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.96%) Ruby
11 2 (0.96%) Rust
11 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (20.10%) Degree
2 31 (14.83%) Cisco Certification
3 26 (12.44%) CCNA
4 25 (11.96%) CCNP
5 17 (8.13%) Azure Certification
6 16 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (6.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (4.78%) Security Cleared
9 9 (4.31%) RHCSA
10 8 (3.83%) AWS Certification
11 7 (3.35%) SC Cleared
12 6 (2.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 6 (2.87%) MCSA
12 6 (2.87%) OSCP
13 5 (2.39%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (1.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (1.91%) MCDST
14 4 (1.91%) MCITP
14 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (1.44%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.96%) SLA
2 16 (7.66%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.35%) GDPR
4 6 (2.87%) NIST
5 5 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.44%) GRC
6 3 (1.44%) NCSC
7 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 68 (32.54%) Active Directory
2 30 (14.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (12.44%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.35%) Docker
5 4 (1.91%) vSphere
6 3 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.44%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.44%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.48%) Firmware
8 1 (0.48%) KVM
8 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (12.92%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.44%) Terraform
3 25 (11.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (8.61%) Ansible
5 14 (6.70%) FortiGate
6 11 (5.26%) Nagios
7 10 (4.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (2.87%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (2.87%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.39%) Control-M
9 5 (2.39%) Grafana
10 4 (1.91%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (1.91%) ServiceCenter
11 3 (1.44%) SCCM
11 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.96%) Istio
12 2 (0.96%) Norton AntiVirus
12 2 (0.96%) OpenView
12 2 (0.96%) Tivoli
12 2 (0.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 82 (39.23%) Microsoft
2 44 (21.05%) VMware
3 35 (16.75%) Cisco
4 24 (11.48%) Palo Alto
5 21 (10.05%) Fortinet
6 20 (9.57%) SolarWinds
7 18 (8.61%) Zscaler
8 12 (5.74%) Meraki
8 12 (5.74%) Red Hat
9 11 (5.26%) F5
9 11 (5.26%) Google
10 10 (4.78%) HP
11 9 (4.31%) Apple
12 8 (3.83%) Bloomberg
13 6 (2.87%) Reuters
14 5 (2.39%) Okta
14 5 (2.39%) Remedy
14 5 (2.39%) ServiceNow
15 4 (1.91%) Dell
15 4 (1.91%) OneLogin