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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 213 246
Rank change year-on-year -15 +33 +34
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 208 210 306
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.94% 1.67% 1.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.68% 16.51% 10.01%
Number of salaries quoted 144 140 255
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £37,620
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £79,795 £74,258 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £88,250
England median annual salary £37,500 £39,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.06% -7.06% -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 1,948 1,272 3,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.79% 10.11% 12.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,056 931 1,862
10th Percentile £33,500 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
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 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -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 9 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 9 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 -10 22 £70,500 +0.71% 13
West London -16 3 £80,000 +63.27% 9
South London +13 2 £35,750 -28.50% 4
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 41 (19.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (12.02%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.96%) 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 91 (43.75%) Azure
2 59 (28.37%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (25.48%) AWS
4 32 (15.38%) Entra ID
5 12 (5.77%) SaaS
6 8 (3.85%) Google Workspace
7 7 (3.37%) OneDrive
7 7 (3.37%) OpenShift
8 6 (2.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (2.88%) Route 53
9 5 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.92%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (1.92%) GCP
10 4 (1.92%) GitHub
10 4 (1.92%) PaaS
11 3 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.44%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 111 (53.37%) DNS
2 77 (37.02%) VPN
3 76 (36.54%) DHCP
4 65 (31.25%) Firewall
5 61 (29.33%) LAN
6 58 (27.88%) WAN
7 39 (18.75%) BGP
8 29 (13.94%) VLAN
9 27 (12.98%) Network Security
10 25 (12.02%) HTTP
10 25 (12.02%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (11.54%) OSPF
12 19 (9.13%) SD-WAN
13 15 (7.21%) Multicast
14 10 (4.81%) VoIP
15 8 (3.85%) HTTPS
16 7 (3.37%) Ethernet
17 6 (2.88%) VXLAN
18 5 (2.40%) Internet
18 5 (2.40%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.88%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.92%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.96%) 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 9 (4.33%) JIRA
2 8 (3.85%) Bitbucket
3 6 (2.88%) Git
4 5 (2.40%) Metasploit
5 4 (1.92%) GitLab
6 2 (0.96%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.48%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.48%) LSMW
General
1 95 (45.67%) Social Skills
2 75 (36.06%) Finance
3 42 (20.19%) Banking
4 25 (12.02%) Law
5 24 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (11.06%) Telecoms
7 17 (8.17%) Investment Banking
8 11 (5.29%) Retail
9 7 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.40%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.92%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (1.44%) Back Office
13 3 (1.44%) Digital Health
13 3 (1.44%) Financial Institution
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%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 38 (18.27%) Network Engineer
2 34 (16.35%) Support Engineer
3 33 (15.87%) IT Support
4 30 (14.42%) Senior
5 22 (10.58%) Analyst
6 21 (10.10%) Developer
7 19 (9.13%) IT Engineer
7 19 (9.13%) IT Support Engineer
8 18 (8.65%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 18 (8.65%) 2nd Line Support
8 18 (8.65%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 18 (8.65%) C++ Developer
8 18 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (8.17%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 17 (8.17%) Linux Developer
9 17 (8.17%) Linux Scripter
9 17 (8.17%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 12 (5.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.33%) Linux Administrator
11 9 (4.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.85%) WebSockets
2 5 (2.40%) ARM Templates
2 5 (2.40%) RESTful
3 4 (1.92%) ADO
4 3 (1.44%) gRPC
5 2 (0.96%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.96%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.96%) JWT
5 2 (0.96%) Middleware
5 2 (0.96%) Next.js
5 2 (0.96%) OAuth
5 2 (0.96%) React
6 1 (0.48%) BAPI
6 1 (0.48%) Django
6 1 (0.48%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.48%) REST
6 1 (0.48%) SAP XI
6 1 (0.48%) Sass
6 1 (0.48%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.42%) Data Centre
2 17 (8.17%) FPGA
3 14 (6.73%) MPEG
3 14 (6.73%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.29%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (5.29%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.29%) Security Posture
5 6 (2.88%) CMDB
5 6 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.40%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.40%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.92%) CCTV
7 4 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (1.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (1.92%) Digital Signage
7 4 (1.92%) FMCG
7 4 (1.92%) iPhone
7 4 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.44%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 95 (45.67%) Windows
2 56 (26.92%) Linux
3 46 (22.12%) Windows Server
4 25 (12.02%) Windows 10
5 15 (7.21%) Mac OS
6 12 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (4.81%) Apple iOS
7 10 (4.81%) Unix
8 9 (4.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (2.40%) Kali Linux
10 5 (2.40%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.96%) Android
11 2 (0.96%) CentOS
11 2 (0.96%) Rocky
12 1 (0.48%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.48%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (33.65%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 31 (14.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (13.46%) Incident Response
5 27 (12.98%) Disaster Recovery
6 26 (12.50%) DevOps
7 24 (11.54%) ITIL
8 23 (11.06%) Computer Science
9 22 (10.58%) High Availability
10 21 (10.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 21 (10.10%) Low Latency
11 20 (9.62%) CI/CD
11 20 (9.62%) Incident Management
11 20 (9.62%) Service Delivery
12 19 (9.13%) Agile
12 19 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (8.65%) Project Delivery
13 18 (8.65%) Root Cause Analysis
14 17 (8.17%) Change Management
15 16 (7.69%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 40 (19.23%) Python
2 28 (13.46%) PowerShell
3 22 (10.58%) Java
4 20 (9.62%) Bash
5 19 (9.13%) C
5 19 (9.13%) C++
6 16 (7.69%) SQL
7 4 (1.92%) Bicep
7 4 (1.92%) C#
7 4 (1.92%) Delphi
7 4 (1.92%) Go
7 4 (1.92%) Pascal
7 4 (1.92%) PHP
8 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.48%) ABAP
9 1 (0.48%) Rust
9 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (19.23%) Degree
2 25 (12.02%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (10.10%) CCNA
4 19 (9.13%) CCNP
5 14 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (6.25%) Azure Certification
7 12 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (4.33%) RHCSA
9 6 (2.88%) MCSA
9 6 (2.88%) Security Cleared
10 5 (2.40%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (2.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (2.40%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (2.40%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.92%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.92%) MCDST
11 4 (1.92%) MCITP
11 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (1.92%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.13%) SLA
2 14 (6.73%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.40%) GDPR
3 5 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.44%) NIST
4 3 (1.44%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.44%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.96%) QA
6 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 70 (33.65%) Active Directory
2 28 (13.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (11.06%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.40%) Docker
4 5 (2.40%) vSphere
5 3 (1.44%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.48%) Firmware
7 1 (0.48%) KVM
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 23 (11.06%) Terraform
4 17 (8.17%) Ansible
5 14 (6.73%) FortiGate
6 12 (5.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 11 (5.29%) Nagios
8 5 (2.40%) Control-M
8 5 (2.40%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (2.40%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.92%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (1.92%) Grafana
9 4 (1.92%) ServiceCenter
10 3 (1.44%) SCCM
10 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.96%) Norton AntiVirus
11 2 (0.96%) OpenView
11 2 (0.96%) Tivoli
11 2 (0.96%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 84 (40.38%) Microsoft
2 39 (18.75%) VMware
3 28 (13.46%) Cisco
4 22 (10.58%) Palo Alto
5 20 (9.62%) SolarWinds
6 19 (9.13%) Fortinet
7 15 (7.21%) Zscaler
8 11 (5.29%) Meraki
8 11 (5.29%) Red Hat
9 9 (4.33%) ServiceNow
10 8 (3.85%) F5
10 8 (3.85%) Google
11 7 (3.37%) Apple
12 6 (2.88%) Bloomberg
12 6 (2.88%) HP
13 5 (2.40%) Dell
14 4 (1.92%) OneLogin
14 4 (1.92%) Remedy
14 4 (1.92%) Reuters
14 4 (1.92%) TOWER Software