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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 223 254
Rank change year-on-year -8 +31 -35
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 240 169 219
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.93% 1.44% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.11% 13.93% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 175 115 139
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £33,200
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,875 £78,750 £74,572
90th Percentile £93,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -16.67% -5.26%

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 1,830 1,213 2,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.07% 10.32% 13.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,068 824 1,191
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.79% -3.81%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -10 17 £70,000 -9.68% 26
West London -11 6 £82,500 +153.85% 9
North London 0 4 £60,000 +84.62% 1
East London -11 4 £36,000 +5.88% 2
South London -10 1 £24,000 -47.83% 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 37 (15.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (10.83%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.50%) Confluence
4 1 (0.42%) IIS
4 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.42%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.42%) Houdini
4 1 (0.42%) NUKE
4 1 (0.42%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (3.33%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.42%) Eikon
2 1 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (35.42%) Azure
2 70 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (24.58%) Entra ID
4 52 (21.67%) AWS
5 16 (6.67%) OneDrive
5 16 (6.67%) SaaS
6 11 (4.58%) Google Workspace
7 10 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (4.17%) GCP
8 9 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (2.92%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.50%) IaaS
10 6 (2.50%) Slack
11 5 (2.08%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 5 (2.08%) PaaS
12 4 (1.67%) Google Compute Engine
12 4 (1.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (1.67%) Mimecast
12 4 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 155 (64.58%) DNS
2 114 (47.50%) VPN
3 112 (46.67%) DHCP
4 101 (42.08%) Firewall
5 64 (26.67%) LAN
5 64 (26.67%) WAN
6 43 (17.92%) VLAN
7 41 (17.08%) BGP
8 40 (16.67%) Network Security
9 34 (14.17%) Wireless
10 33 (13.75%) Wi-Fi
11 31 (12.92%) HTTP
12 26 (10.83%) OSPF
13 18 (7.50%) SD-WAN
14 12 (5.00%) SSL
15 11 (4.58%) Multicast
16 8 (3.33%) FIX Connectivity
16 8 (3.33%) VoIP
17 7 (2.92%) Ethernet
17 7 (2.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.92%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.92%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.83%) KDB
7 1 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.42%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 1 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.42%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.42%) MySQL
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle9i Database
7 1 (0.42%) Redis
7 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.42%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 15 (6.25%) JIRA
2 5 (2.08%) GitLab
3 4 (1.67%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.42%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.42%) Git
4 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.42%) LSMW
4 1 (0.42%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.42%) Selenium
General
1 110 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 68 (28.33%) Finance
3 44 (18.33%) Banking
4 25 (10.42%) Telecoms
5 22 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (8.33%) Law
7 11 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.17%) Retail
9 9 (3.75%) Investment Banking
10 8 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.50%) Digital Health
11 6 (2.50%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.50%) Publishing
12 5 (2.08%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.67%) Back Office
13 4 (1.67%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.25%) Marketing
15 2 (0.83%) Cantonese Language
16 1 (0.42%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 46 (19.17%) Network Engineer
2 40 (16.67%) IT Support
3 39 (16.25%) Support Engineer
4 38 (15.83%) Senior
5 32 (13.33%) Analyst
6 27 (11.25%) IT Engineer
7 26 (10.83%) IT Support Engineer
8 23 (9.58%) Support Analyst
9 18 (7.50%) 2nd Line Support
10 16 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (5.42%) Developer
11 13 (5.42%) Junior
11 13 (5.42%) Lead
11 13 (5.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 12 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 12 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
13 11 (4.58%) Team Leader
14 10 (4.17%) Desktop Support
14 10 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.42%) Terraform
2 10 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (3.75%) RESTful
4 6 (2.50%) GraphQL
5 5 (2.08%) Next.js
5 5 (2.08%) React
6 4 (1.67%) ARM Templates
6 4 (1.67%) JWT
6 4 (1.67%) OAuth
6 4 (1.67%) WebSockets
7 3 (1.25%) ADO
7 3 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.25%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.83%) gRPC
8 2 (0.83%) LDAP
8 2 (0.83%) REST
9 1 (0.42%) BAPI
9 1 (0.42%) JSON
9 1 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.42%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.92%) Onboarding
2 25 (10.42%) Data Centre
3 14 (5.83%) Security Posture
4 11 (4.58%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.58%) Driving Licence
4 11 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.75%) FPGA
6 9 (3.75%) Hedge funds
6 9 (3.75%) MPEG
6 9 (3.75%) PKI
7 8 (3.33%) Eurex
8 6 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (2.08%) AS400
9 5 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (2.08%) iSeries
9 5 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.67%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 113 (47.08%) Windows
2 62 (25.83%) Linux
3 52 (21.67%) Windows Server
4 35 (14.58%) Windows 10
5 25 (10.42%) Mac OS
6 19 (7.92%) Unix
7 11 (4.58%) Rocky
8 9 (3.75%) CentOS
9 6 (2.50%) Ubuntu
10 5 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (2.08%) Solaris
11 1 (0.42%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.83%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 45 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 43 (17.92%) Customer Service
5 38 (15.83%) Computer Science
6 36 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
7 33 (13.75%) ITIL
8 32 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 29 (12.08%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (10.83%) High Availability
11 25 (10.42%) Incident Response
12 24 (10.00%) Project Delivery
13 22 (9.17%) Mentoring
14 21 (8.75%) AI
15 20 (8.33%) ITSM
15 20 (8.33%) Service Delivery
16 19 (7.92%) Incident Management
16 19 (7.92%) Runbook
17 18 (7.50%) Coaching
17 18 (7.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 51 (21.25%) Python
2 36 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 29 (12.08%) SQL
4 28 (11.67%) Bash
5 18 (7.50%) Java
6 15 (6.25%) C
7 12 (5.00%) C++
8 10 (4.17%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.75%) Go
9 9 (3.75%) Perl
10 8 (3.33%) Ruby
11 7 (2.92%) C#
12 6 (2.50%) Bicep
13 5 (2.08%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.67%) Rust
15 3 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.83%) VBA
17 1 (0.42%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 47 (19.58%) Degree
2 36 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
3 28 (11.67%) CCNA
4 26 (10.83%) CCNP
5 23 (9.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (6.67%) Azure Certification
7 15 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (5.42%) Security Cleared
9 11 (4.58%) A+ Certification
10 10 (4.17%) CISSP
11 9 (3.75%) AWS Certification
11 9 (3.75%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (2.50%) CEH
12 6 (2.50%) OSCP
13 5 (2.08%) CISM
13 5 (2.08%) Master's Degree
14 4 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (1.67%) CREST Certified
14 4 (1.67%) DBS Check
14 4 (1.67%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.75%) SLA
2 16 (6.67%) GDPR
3 11 (4.58%) NIST
4 10 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.75%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.50%) GRC
7 5 (2.08%) NCSC
7 5 (2.08%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.08%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.83%) QA
9 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
System Software
1 94 (39.17%) Active Directory
2 35 (14.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (11.67%) Hyper-V
4 13 (5.42%) Docker
4 13 (5.42%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.08%) Firmware
5 5 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.25%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.25%) vSphere
7 1 (0.42%) NFS
7 1 (0.42%) Samba
7 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (12.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (9.17%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.25%) FortiGate
4 9 (3.75%) Grafana
5 8 (3.33%) Ansible
6 7 (2.92%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.50%) Nagios
8 4 (1.67%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.67%) QRadar
9 3 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.25%) Control-M
10 2 (0.83%) Cilium
10 2 (0.83%) Norton AntiVirus
11 1 (0.42%) Nessus
11 1 (0.42%) Nmap
11 1 (0.42%) OpenVAS
11 1 (0.42%) SCCM
11 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 102 (42.50%) Microsoft
2 48 (20.00%) VMware
3 34 (14.17%) Cisco
4 27 (11.25%) Palo Alto
5 25 (10.42%) Fortinet
6 16 (6.67%) Zscaler
7 15 (6.25%) Google
8 14 (5.83%) F5
9 13 (5.42%) Red Hat
9 13 (5.42%) SolarWinds
10 12 (5.00%) Bloomberg
11 10 (4.17%) Oracle
11 10 (4.17%) ServiceNow
12 9 (3.75%) Meraki
13 8 (3.33%) CQG
13 8 (3.33%) ION Trading
13 8 (3.33%) Patsystems
13 8 (3.33%) Reuters
13 8 (3.33%) Trayport
13 8 (3.33%) Veeam