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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 201 257
Rank change year-on-year -13 +56 +16
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 210 213 254
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.93% 1.72% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.88% 17.12% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 149 143 207
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £37,800
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +2.78%
75th Percentile £85,000 £74,629 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £88,000
England median annual salary £37,750 £39,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.21% -8.24% -6.59%

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 1,930 1,244 2,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.58% 10.06% 12.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,056 903 1,638
10th Percentile £34,125 £31,750 £33,213
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,637 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £43,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.47% -9.47% -6.86%

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 July 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 July 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 -9 23 £73,000 +4.29% 14
West London -16 5 £85,000 +73.47% 7
South London +9 2 £35,750 -29.56% 5
North London - 2 £55,000 -
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 40 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (12.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.43%) 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 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 94 (44.76%) Azure
2 61 (29.05%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (24.76%) AWS
4 35 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 12 (5.71%) SaaS
6 8 (3.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 8 (3.81%) Google Workspace
7 7 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (3.33%) OneDrive
7 7 (3.33%) OpenShift
8 6 (2.86%) PaaS
8 6 (2.86%) Route 53
9 5 (2.38%) IaaS
9 5 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.90%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (1.90%) GCP
10 4 (1.90%) GitHub
11 3 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 115 (54.76%) DNS
2 81 (38.57%) VPN
3 75 (35.71%) DHCP
4 70 (33.33%) Firewall
5 64 (30.48%) LAN
6 59 (28.10%) WAN
7 40 (19.05%) BGP
8 30 (14.29%) VLAN
9 29 (13.81%) Network Security
10 28 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (11.90%) HTTP
11 25 (11.90%) OSPF
12 19 (9.05%) SD-WAN
13 16 (7.62%) Multicast
14 11 (5.24%) VoIP
15 8 (3.81%) HTTPS
16 7 (3.33%) Ethernet
16 7 (3.33%) Wireless
17 6 (2.86%) MPLS
17 6 (2.86%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
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%) Oracle9i Database
5 1 (0.48%) Power BI
5 1 (0.48%) Redis
5 1 (0.48%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 11 (5.24%) JIRA
2 8 (3.81%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.38%) Git
3 5 (2.38%) Metasploit
4 4 (1.90%) GitLab
5 2 (0.95%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.48%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.48%) LSMW
General
1 96 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 75 (35.71%) Finance
3 42 (20.00%) Banking
4 26 (12.38%) Law
4 26 (12.38%) Telecoms
5 23 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (7.62%) Investment Banking
7 11 (5.24%) Retail
8 7 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.90%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (1.43%) Back Office
11 3 (1.43%) Digital Health
11 3 (1.43%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.43%) Marketing
12 2 (0.95%) Cantonese Language
12 2 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.95%) Military
13 1 (0.48%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 39 (18.57%) Network Engineer
2 35 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 32 (15.24%) IT Support
4 30 (14.29%) Senior
5 22 (10.48%) Analyst
6 19 (9.05%) IT Engineer
6 19 (9.05%) IT Support Engineer
7 18 (8.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 18 (8.57%) 2nd Line Support
7 18 (8.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 18 (8.57%) Developer
8 17 (8.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (7.62%) C++ Developer
9 16 (7.62%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 16 (7.62%) Linux Developer
9 16 (7.62%) Linux Scripter
9 16 (7.62%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 12 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Infrastructure Manager
11 9 (4.29%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.81%) WebSockets
2 5 (2.38%) ARM Templates
2 5 (2.38%) RESTful
3 4 (1.90%) ADO
4 3 (1.43%) gRPC
5 2 (0.95%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.95%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.95%) JWT
5 2 (0.95%) Middleware
5 2 (0.95%) Next.js
5 2 (0.95%) OAuth
5 2 (0.95%) React
6 1 (0.48%) BAPI
6 1 (0.48%) Django
6 1 (0.48%) Kafka
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 (15.24%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.62%) FPGA
2 16 (7.62%) Onboarding
3 15 (7.14%) MPEG
4 12 (5.71%) Security Posture
5 11 (5.24%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (5.24%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.86%) CMDB
6 6 (2.86%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.38%) AS400
7 5 (2.38%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.38%) iSeries
7 5 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.90%) CCTV
8 4 (1.90%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (1.90%) FMCG
8 4 (1.90%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 97 (46.19%) Windows
2 55 (26.19%) Linux
3 45 (21.43%) Windows Server
4 22 (10.48%) Windows 10
5 15 (7.14%) Mac OS
6 11 (5.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (4.76%) Unix
8 8 (3.81%) Apple iOS
9 7 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (2.38%) Kali Linux
11 5 (2.38%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.95%) Android
12 2 (0.95%) Rocky
13 1 (0.48%) CentOS
13 1 (0.48%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (31.90%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (19.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (13.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 28 (13.33%) Incident Response
6 27 (12.86%) DevOps
7 26 (12.38%) ITIL
8 22 (10.48%) Computer Science
8 22 (10.48%) High Availability
9 21 (10.00%) Incident Management
9 21 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 20 (9.52%) Change Management
10 20 (9.52%) CI/CD
10 20 (9.52%) Low Latency
10 20 (9.52%) Project Delivery
11 19 (9.05%) Cybersecurity
11 19 (9.05%) Root Cause Analysis
11 19 (9.05%) Service Delivery
12 18 (8.57%) Agile
13 17 (8.10%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (18.57%) Python
2 27 (12.86%) PowerShell
3 22 (10.48%) Java
4 20 (9.52%) Bash
5 17 (8.10%) C
6 16 (7.62%) C++
7 15 (7.14%) SQL
8 5 (2.38%) Bicep
9 4 (1.90%) C#
9 4 (1.90%) Delphi
9 4 (1.90%) Go
9 4 (1.90%) Pascal
9 4 (1.90%) PHP
10 2 (0.95%) Rust
10 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.95%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.95%) VBA
11 1 (0.48%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 40 (19.05%) Degree
2 27 (12.86%) Cisco Certification
3 22 (10.48%) CCNA
4 21 (10.00%) CCNP
5 15 (7.14%) Azure Certification
6 14 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (4.29%) RHCSA
9 6 (2.86%) MCSA
9 6 (2.86%) Security Cleared
10 5 (2.38%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (2.38%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.90%) MCDST
11 4 (1.90%) MCITP
11 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (1.90%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.48%) SLA
2 15 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.90%) GDPR
5 3 (1.43%) NIST
5 3 (1.43%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.43%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.95%) QA
7 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 73 (34.76%) Active Directory
2 29 (13.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (11.43%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.86%) Docker
5 5 (2.38%) vSphere
6 3 (1.43%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.48%) Firmware
8 1 (0.48%) KVM
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.90%) Terraform
3 18 (8.57%) Ansible
4 14 (6.67%) FortiGate
5 11 (5.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 11 (5.24%) Nagios
6 6 (2.86%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.38%) Control-M
7 5 (2.38%) Grafana
7 5 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.90%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (1.90%) ServiceCenter
9 3 (1.43%) SCCM
9 3 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.95%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.95%) OpenView
10 2 (0.95%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.95%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.95%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 88 (41.90%) Microsoft
2 41 (19.52%) VMware
3 31 (14.76%) Cisco
4 22 (10.48%) Palo Alto
5 20 (9.52%) Fortinet
5 20 (9.52%) SolarWinds
6 16 (7.62%) Zscaler
7 12 (5.71%) Meraki
8 10 (4.76%) Red Hat
9 9 (4.29%) ServiceNow
10 8 (3.81%) Apple
10 8 (3.81%) F5
10 8 (3.81%) Google
11 7 (3.33%) HP
12 6 (2.86%) Bloomberg
13 5 (2.38%) Dell
14 4 (1.90%) OneLogin
14 4 (1.90%) Remedy
14 4 (1.90%) Reuters
14 4 (1.90%) TOWER Software