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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 197 257
Rank change year-on-year -27 +60 +8
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 208 211 245
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.92% 1.71% 1.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.82% 17.00% 8.91%
Number of salaries quoted 147 141 200
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £37,770
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% +1.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £74,258 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £87,625
England median annual salary £37,750 £39,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.21% -8.24% -6.08%

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 1,923 1,241 2,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.51% 10.06% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,045 896 1,615
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,750 £33,213
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.92% -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% -6.85%

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 23 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 23 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 -16 20 £70,500 +0.71% 14
West London -20 5 £85,000 +73.47% 6
South London +9 2 £35,750 -28.50% 7
North London - 2 £55,000 - 1
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 39 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (7.69%) 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 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (44.23%) Azure
2 59 (28.37%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (24.52%) AWS
4 33 (15.87%) Entra ID
5 12 (5.77%) SaaS
6 8 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 8 (3.85%) Google Workspace
6 8 (3.85%) OneDrive
7 7 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (3.37%) OpenShift
8 6 (2.88%) PaaS
9 5 (2.40%) IaaS
9 5 (2.40%) Route 53
10 4 (1.92%) GCP
10 4 (1.92%) GitHub
10 4 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.44%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 112 (53.85%) DNS
2 80 (38.46%) VPN
3 71 (34.13%) DHCP
3 71 (34.13%) Firewall
4 65 (31.25%) LAN
5 60 (28.85%) WAN
6 39 (18.75%) BGP
7 30 (14.42%) Network Security
8 28 (13.46%) VLAN
8 28 (13.46%) Wi-Fi
9 25 (12.02%) HTTP
9 25 (12.02%) OSPF
10 19 (9.13%) SD-WAN
11 17 (8.17%) Multicast
12 11 (5.29%) VoIP
13 8 (3.85%) HTTPS
14 7 (3.37%) Ethernet
14 7 (3.37%) Wireless
15 6 (2.88%) MPLS
15 6 (2.88%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.92%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.96%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.48%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle9i Database
6 1 (0.48%) Power BI
6 1 (0.48%) Redis
6 1 (0.48%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 12 (5.77%) JIRA
2 8 (3.85%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.40%) Git
3 5 (2.40%) Metasploit
4 4 (1.92%) GitLab
5 2 (0.96%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.48%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.48%) LSMW
General
1 90 (43.27%) Social Skills
2 74 (35.58%) Finance
3 41 (19.71%) Banking
4 28 (13.46%) Telecoms
5 26 (12.50%) Law
6 23 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (7.69%) Investment Banking
8 10 (4.81%) Retail
9 7 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.40%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.92%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (1.44%) Digital Health
12 3 (1.44%) Marketing
13 2 (0.96%) Back Office
13 2 (0.96%) Cantonese Language
13 2 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.96%) Military
14 1 (0.48%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 40 (19.23%) Network Engineer
2 36 (17.31%) Support Engineer
3 32 (15.38%) IT Support
4 28 (13.46%) Senior
5 21 (10.10%) Analyst
6 20 (9.62%) IT Engineer
6 20 (9.62%) IT Support Engineer
7 18 (8.65%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 18 (8.65%) 2nd Line Support
7 18 (8.65%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 18 (8.65%) Developer
8 17 (8.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (7.69%) C++ Developer
9 16 (7.69%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 16 (7.69%) Linux Developer
9 16 (7.69%) Linux Scripter
9 16 (7.69%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 13 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.81%) Operations Engineer
12 9 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.85%) WebSockets
2 5 (2.40%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.92%) ADO
3 4 (1.92%) RESTful
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%) 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%) 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 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 17 (8.17%) Onboarding
3 16 (7.69%) FPGA
3 16 (7.69%) MPEG
4 12 (5.77%) Security Posture
5 11 (5.29%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (5.29%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.88%) CMDB
6 6 (2.88%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.40%) AS400
7 5 (2.40%) iSeries
7 5 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.92%) CCTV
8 4 (1.92%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.92%) FMCG
8 4 (1.92%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 94 (45.19%) Windows
2 56 (26.92%) Linux
3 43 (20.67%) Windows Server
4 20 (9.62%) Windows 10
5 16 (7.69%) Mac OS
6 11 (5.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (4.81%) Unix
8 7 (3.37%) Apple iOS
8 7 (3.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (3.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (2.88%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (2.40%) Kali Linux
10 5 (2.40%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.96%) Rocky
12 1 (0.48%) Android
12 1 (0.48%) CentOS
12 1 (0.48%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (31.73%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (19.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 32 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (13.94%) Incident Response
5 28 (13.46%) Disaster Recovery
5 28 (13.46%) ITIL
6 27 (12.98%) DevOps
7 22 (10.58%) Computer Science
7 22 (10.58%) High Availability
8 21 (10.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 20 (9.62%) Low Latency
9 20 (9.62%) Root Cause Analysis
10 19 (9.13%) CI/CD
10 19 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (9.13%) Incident Management
10 19 (9.13%) Service Delivery
11 18 (8.65%) Change Management
11 18 (8.65%) Line Management
11 18 (8.65%) Project Delivery
11 18 (8.65%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (18.75%) Python
2 28 (13.46%) PowerShell
3 21 (10.10%) Java
4 20 (9.62%) Bash
5 18 (8.65%) C
6 16 (7.69%) C++
7 15 (7.21%) SQL
8 5 (2.40%) Bicep
9 4 (1.92%) C#
9 4 (1.92%) Delphi
9 4 (1.92%) Pascal
9 4 (1.92%) PHP
10 3 (1.44%) Go
11 2 (0.96%) Rust
11 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.96%) VBA
12 1 (0.48%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 40 (19.23%) Degree
2 27 (12.98%) Cisco Certification
3 22 (10.58%) CCNA
4 21 (10.10%) CCNP
5 15 (7.21%) Azure Certification
6 14 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (4.33%) RHCSA
9 6 (2.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (2.88%) MCSA
9 6 (2.88%) Security Cleared
10 5 (2.40%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.40%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (2.40%) SC Cleared
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
12 3 (1.44%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.06%) SLA
2 16 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.92%) GDPR
5 3 (1.44%) NIST
6 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.96%) QA
6 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 71 (34.13%) Active Directory
2 29 (13.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (11.54%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.88%) Docker
5 5 (2.40%) vSphere
6 3 (1.44%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.44%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.48%) Firmware
8 1 (0.48%) KVM
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (12.02%) Kubernetes
3 24 (11.54%) Terraform
4 18 (8.65%) Ansible
5 14 (6.73%) FortiGate
6 11 (5.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (5.29%) Nagios
7 6 (2.88%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (2.88%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.40%) Control-M
8 5 (2.40%) Grafana
9 4 (1.92%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (1.92%) SCCM
9 4 (1.92%) ServiceCenter
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 85 (40.87%) Microsoft
2 42 (20.19%) VMware
3 32 (15.38%) Cisco
4 22 (10.58%) Palo Alto
5 20 (9.62%) Fortinet
5 20 (9.62%) SolarWinds
6 17 (8.17%) Zscaler
7 12 (5.77%) Meraki
8 10 (4.81%) Red Hat
9 9 (4.33%) Apple
9 9 (4.33%) ServiceNow
10 8 (3.85%) F5
10 8 (3.85%) Google
10 8 (3.85%) HP
11 6 (2.88%) Bloomberg
12 5 (2.40%) Dell
12 5 (2.40%) Okta
13 4 (1.92%) OneLogin
13 4 (1.92%) Remedy
13 4 (1.92%) Reuters