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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 236 231
Rank change year-on-year +38 -5 +33
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 184 198 245
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.32% 1.28% 1.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.72% 10.02% 10.74%
Number of salaries quoted 117 112 226
10th Percentile £27,450 £33,200 £33,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £40,000 £40,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £55,000 £64,132
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% -14.24% +14.52%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £88,500 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £46,550
% change year-on-year -25.00% +7.41% +3.44%

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 1,717 1,977 2,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.34% 12.77% 12.42%
Number of salaries quoted 909 1,099 1,790
10th Percentile £28,697 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £103,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +20 32 £55,000 +12.26% 12
South London +39 8 £46,000 -8.46% 4
East London -6 6 £34,000 - 3
West London 0 1 £32,500 -18.75% 1
North London - 1 £32,500 - 3
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 46 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (16.30%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.17%) nginx
4 2 (1.09%) Apache
4 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.09%) Confluence
4 2 (1.09%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.54%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.54%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 82 (44.57%) Azure
2 78 (42.39%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (27.17%) Entra ID
4 38 (20.65%) AWS
5 19 (10.33%) Google Workspace
6 17 (9.24%) SaaS
7 16 (8.70%) OneDrive
8 13 (7.07%) GCP
9 8 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (4.35%) GitHub
10 5 (2.72%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.17%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.17%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.17%) AWS Direct Connect
11 4 (2.17%) dbt
11 4 (2.17%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 87 (47.28%) DNS
2 76 (41.30%) DHCP
3 67 (36.41%) VPN
4 65 (35.33%) WAN
5 58 (31.52%) Firewall
6 51 (27.72%) LAN
7 35 (19.02%) VLAN
8 32 (17.39%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (9.78%) VoIP
10 17 (9.24%) Wireless
11 16 (8.70%) BGP
12 14 (7.61%) SD-WAN
13 13 (7.07%) OSPF
14 8 (4.35%) MPLS
15 7 (3.80%) IPsec
16 6 (3.26%) Fibre Channel
16 6 (3.26%) Network Security
17 4 (2.17%) Cisco IOS
17 4 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
17 4 (2.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.80%) MySQL
2 7 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.80%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.17%) Redis
4 3 (1.63%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.09%) Metadata
6 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.54%) Power BI
6 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.54%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (6.52%) JIRA
2 11 (5.98%) Git
3 3 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.09%) GitLab
4 2 (1.09%) Jaeger
4 2 (1.09%) MLflow
4 2 (1.09%) Snyk
4 2 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 85 (46.20%) Social Skills
2 69 (37.50%) Finance
3 29 (15.76%) Banking
4 17 (9.24%) Investment Banking
5 16 (8.70%) Legal
6 15 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.89%) Law
8 8 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (4.35%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.72%) Front Office
10 4 (2.17%) Billing
10 4 (2.17%) Marketing
10 4 (2.17%) Retail
10 4 (2.17%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (1.63%) Back Office
11 3 (1.63%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.63%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.09%) Electronics
12 2 (1.09%) Games
Job Titles
1 43 (23.37%) Support Engineer
2 37 (20.11%) IT Support
3 32 (17.39%) IT Engineer
4 29 (15.76%) Developer
5 27 (14.67%) IT Support Engineer
6 24 (13.04%) Senior
7 23 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (12.50%) Linux Scripter
8 21 (11.41%) C++ Developer
9 17 (9.24%) Analyst
9 17 (9.24%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 17 (9.24%) Linux Developer
9 17 (9.24%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 16 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support
11 14 (7.61%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 13 (7.07%) Support Analyst
12 13 (7.07%) Windows Engineer
13 12 (6.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 12 (6.52%) Network Engineer
14 10 (5.43%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.26%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (2.17%) Django
2 4 (2.17%) LDAP
2 4 (2.17%) Sass
2 4 (2.17%) ZeroMQ
3 3 (1.63%) .NET
3 3 (1.63%) RESTful
4 2 (1.09%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.09%) Kafka
4 2 (1.09%) Keycloak
4 2 (1.09%) OAuth
4 2 (1.09%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.09%) WebRTC
5 1 (0.54%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.54%) MFC
5 1 (0.54%) REST
5 1 (0.54%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.13%) Onboarding
2 19 (10.33%) FPGA
3 13 (7.07%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (6.52%) Video Conferencing
5 10 (5.43%) Hedge funds
5 10 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (5.43%) iPhone
6 9 (4.89%) Cloud Native
7 8 (4.35%) CCTV
7 8 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (4.35%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.80%) iPad
9 6 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (3.26%) Data Centre
9 6 (3.26%) Mobile App
9 6 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.72%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (2.17%) IoT
11 4 (2.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 98 (53.26%) Windows
2 71 (38.59%) Linux
3 54 (29.35%) Windows Server
4 33 (17.93%) Windows 10
5 25 (13.59%) Mac OS
6 18 (9.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (8.15%) Unix
7 15 (8.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (8.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (5.98%) Apple iOS
8 11 (5.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (4.35%) Mac OS X
10 6 (3.26%) VMS
11 4 (2.17%) Android
11 4 (2.17%) CentOS
12 3 (1.63%) Ubuntu
13 2 (1.09%) OpenWrt
13 2 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (1.09%) Solaris
14 1 (0.54%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (16.85%) Root Cause Analysis
3 30 (16.30%) Disaster Recovery
4 28 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 26 (14.13%) Agile
6 25 (13.59%) DevOps
7 24 (13.04%) Customer Service
7 24 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (13.04%) Low Latency
8 23 (12.50%) ITIL
9 21 (11.41%) Computer Science
9 21 (11.41%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (9.78%) Incident Response
12 16 (8.70%) CI/CD
13 14 (7.61%) Patch Management
13 14 (7.61%) Task Automation
13 14 (7.61%) Zero Trust
14 13 (7.07%) High Availability
15 12 (6.52%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (25.00%) Python
2 30 (16.30%) PowerShell
3 28 (15.22%) C++
3 28 (15.22%) Java
4 23 (12.50%) C
5 13 (7.07%) SQL
6 11 (5.98%) Bash
7 7 (3.80%) C#
8 4 (2.17%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.63%) Go
9 3 (1.63%) Perl
10 1 (0.54%) Bourne shell
10 1 (0.54%) C-shell
10 1 (0.54%) Korn
10 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 37 (20.11%) Degree
2 15 (8.15%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (7.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (5.98%) Azure Certification
4 11 (5.98%) Security Cleared
5 10 (5.43%) Network+ Certification
6 9 (4.89%) CCNA
6 9 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (4.35%) A+ Certification
7 8 (4.35%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.80%) CCNP
9 6 (3.26%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.26%) MCSA
10 5 (2.72%) GIAC
10 5 (2.72%) MCP
10 5 (2.72%) MCSE
11 4 (2.17%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.63%) CCIE
12 3 (1.63%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.63%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (5.43%) GDPR
3 7 (3.80%) SLA
4 6 (3.26%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.17%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.63%) NIST
7 2 (1.09%) PMO
8 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.54%) NIST 800
System Software
1 73 (39.67%) Active Directory
2 37 (20.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (10.87%) Hyper-V
4 9 (4.89%) vSphere
5 8 (4.35%) NFS
6 7 (3.80%) Docker
7 5 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.17%) BitLocker
9 2 (1.09%) KVM
9 2 (1.09%) pfSense
9 2 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (21.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (12.50%) Terraform
3 18 (9.78%) Ansible
4 17 (9.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 11 (5.98%) Kubernetes
6 10 (5.43%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.72%) Autotask
7 5 (2.72%) Nagios
7 5 (2.72%) SCCM
8 3 (1.63%) Grafana
8 3 (1.63%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.63%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.09%) Argo
9 2 (1.09%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 2 (1.09%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.54%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.54%) VxRail
Vendors
1 94 (51.09%) Microsoft
2 38 (20.65%) VMware
3 31 (16.85%) Cisco
4 23 (12.50%) Google
5 17 (9.24%) Red Hat
6 13 (7.07%) Bloomberg
6 13 (7.07%) Reuters
7 12 (6.52%) Fortinet
8 8 (4.35%) Apple
8 8 (4.35%) Commvault
8 8 (4.35%) Juniper
8 8 (4.35%) Palo Alto
8 8 (4.35%) Pure Storage
9 7 (3.80%) Arista
10 6 (3.26%) CheckPoint
10 6 (3.26%) Dell
10 6 (3.26%) Symantec
11 5 (2.72%) Qualys
11 5 (2.72%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.72%) Zscaler