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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 216 251
Rank change year-on-year -4 +35 -32
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 260 173 218
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.99% 1.48% 1.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.20% 14.08% 10.55%
Number of salaries quoted 184 115 136
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -21.05% -

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 1,831 1,229 2,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.00% 10.49% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,072 827 1,188
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -9.43% +1.92%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £99,300
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -7 17 £47,500 -38.71% 24
West London -12 8 £82,500 +153.85% 7
East London -10 6 £36,000 +5.88% 4
North London +2 4 £60,000 +84.62% 1
South London -10 1 £24,000 -47.83% 6
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 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (10.38%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.31%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) IIS
4 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.38%) Houdini
4 1 (0.38%) NUKE
4 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (3.08%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.38%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.38%) Eikon
2 1 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (32.69%) Azure
2 77 (29.62%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (25.77%) Entra ID
4 58 (22.31%) AWS
5 26 (10.00%) SaaS
6 20 (7.69%) GCP
7 19 (7.31%) OneDrive
8 13 (5.00%) Google Workspace
9 12 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (4.62%) Google Compute Engine
9 12 (4.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 12 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (3.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 8 (3.08%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.69%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.69%) IaaS
13 6 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.31%) Mimecast
13 6 (2.31%) Slack
14 5 (1.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 163 (62.69%) DNS
2 130 (50.00%) VPN
3 116 (44.62%) DHCP
4 109 (41.92%) Firewall
5 74 (28.46%) WAN
6 72 (27.69%) LAN
7 52 (20.00%) VLAN
8 51 (19.62%) BGP
9 44 (16.92%) Wi-Fi
10 43 (16.54%) Wireless
11 42 (16.15%) Network Security
12 33 (12.69%) HTTP
13 28 (10.77%) OSPF
14 20 (7.69%) SD-WAN
15 14 (5.38%) SSL
16 11 (4.23%) Multicast
17 9 (3.46%) VoIP
18 8 (3.08%) FIX Connectivity
19 7 (2.69%) Internet
20 6 (2.31%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.54%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.69%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.54%) KDB
6 3 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.77%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.77%) MySQL
7 2 (0.77%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.38%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle9i Database
8 1 (0.38%) Redis
8 1 (0.38%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.77%) JIRA
2 12 (4.62%) TeamCity
3 6 (2.31%) GitLab
4 3 (1.15%) Git
5 2 (0.77%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.38%) LSMW
6 1 (0.38%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 118 (45.38%) Social Skills
2 75 (28.85%) Finance
3 41 (15.77%) Banking
4 27 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 23 (8.85%) Law
7 14 (5.38%) Financial Institution
7 14 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (5.00%) Retail
9 12 (4.62%) Back Office
10 9 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.69%) Investment Banking
12 6 (2.31%) Digital Health
12 6 (2.31%) Publishing
13 5 (1.92%) Public Sector
14 4 (1.54%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (1.15%) Marketing
16 2 (0.77%) Cantonese Language
16 2 (0.77%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 53 (20.38%) Network Engineer
2 45 (17.31%) IT Support
3 41 (15.77%) Support Engineer
4 40 (15.38%) Senior
5 34 (13.08%) Analyst
6 28 (10.77%) IT Engineer
7 27 (10.38%) IT Support Engineer
8 25 (9.62%) Support Analyst
9 19 (7.31%) Lead
10 18 (6.92%) 2nd Line Support
11 17 (6.54%) Network Support
11 17 (6.54%) Team Leader
12 15 (5.77%) Support Team Leader
13 13 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (5.00%) Junior
14 12 (4.62%) 3rd Line Support
14 12 (4.62%) Developer
14 12 (4.62%) GCP Engineer
15 11 (4.23%) Network Team Leader
16 10 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.54%) Terraform
2 11 (4.23%) RESTful
3 10 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (2.31%) GraphQL
5 5 (1.92%) Next.js
5 5 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (1.92%) React
6 4 (1.54%) JWT
6 4 (1.54%) OAuth
6 4 (1.54%) WebSockets
7 3 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.77%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.77%) gRPC
8 2 (0.77%) LDAP
8 2 (0.77%) Rendezvous
8 2 (0.77%) REST
9 1 (0.38%) .NET
9 1 (0.38%) CSS
9 1 (0.38%) HTML
9 1 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 27 (10.38%) Data Centre
3 21 (8.08%) Cloud Native
3 21 (8.08%) Security Posture
4 17 (6.54%) Driving Licence
5 16 (6.15%) Management Information System
6 15 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (4.62%) Blog
8 10 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (3.46%) Hedge funds
9 9 (3.46%) PKI
10 8 (3.08%) Eurex
10 8 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (2.69%) FPGA
11 7 (2.69%) MPEG
12 6 (2.31%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (1.92%) AS400
13 5 (1.92%) iSeries
13 5 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.92%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 121 (46.54%) Windows
2 64 (24.62%) Linux
3 55 (21.15%) Windows Server
4 38 (14.62%) Windows 10
5 25 (9.62%) macOS
6 19 (7.31%) Unix
7 12 (4.62%) Rocky
8 10 (3.85%) CentOS
9 6 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (2.31%) Ubuntu
10 5 (1.92%) Solaris
11 2 (0.77%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (31.92%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (26.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 59 (22.69%) Customer Service
4 49 (18.85%) Disaster Recovery
5 38 (14.62%) Computer Science
5 38 (14.62%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (14.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 34 (13.08%) ITIL
7 31 (11.92%) Incident Response
7 31 (11.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (10.38%) CI/CD
9 24 (9.23%) Coaching
10 23 (8.85%) High Availability
10 23 (8.85%) Project Delivery
11 21 (8.08%) AI
11 21 (8.08%) ITSM
11 21 (8.08%) Mentoring
11 21 (8.08%) Runbook
11 21 (8.08%) Service Delivery
12 20 (7.69%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 65 (25.00%) Python
2 41 (15.77%) PowerShell
3 39 (15.00%) SQL
4 33 (12.69%) Bash
5 26 (10.00%) Java
6 17 (6.54%) Go
7 13 (5.00%) C
8 12 (4.62%) C++
9 10 (3.85%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.46%) Perl
11 8 (3.08%) C#
11 8 (3.08%) Ruby
12 6 (2.31%) Rust
13 5 (1.92%) Bicep
13 5 (1.92%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.77%) VBA
16 1 (0.38%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 48 (18.46%) Degree
2 46 (17.69%) Cisco Certification
3 30 (11.54%) CCNA
4 26 (10.00%) CCNP
5 22 (8.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (6.15%) CISSP
7 15 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (5.38%) Security Cleared
9 12 (4.62%) A+ Certification
9 12 (4.62%) Azure Certification
10 11 (4.23%) CISM
11 9 (3.46%) AWS Certification
11 9 (3.46%) Network+ Certification
12 8 (3.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 8 (3.08%) CCSP
13 6 (2.31%) CEH
13 6 (2.31%) OSCP
14 5 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (1.92%) DV Cleared
14 5 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (15.00%) SLA
2 17 (6.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (6.54%) NIST
3 15 (5.77%) GDPR
4 13 (5.00%) PCI DSS
4 13 (5.00%) SOC 2
5 7 (2.69%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.31%) GRC
6 6 (2.31%) NCSC
7 3 (1.15%) QA
8 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.38%) IASME
System Software
1 97 (37.31%) Active Directory
2 37 (14.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (11.54%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.38%) Docker
5 13 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.69%) Firmware
6 7 (2.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.54%) vSphere
8 3 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.15%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.38%) NFS
9 1 (0.38%) Samba
9 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.38%) XenApp
9 1 (0.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (14.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (10.77%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.54%) Grafana
4 14 (5.38%) FortiGate
5 12 (4.62%) Ansible
6 9 (3.46%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.46%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (3.08%) Cilium
8 6 (2.31%) Nagios
9 4 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.54%) QRadar
10 3 (1.15%) Control-M
10 3 (1.15%) SCCM
11 2 (0.77%) Argo
11 2 (0.77%) Nessus
11 2 (0.77%) Nmap
11 2 (0.77%) Norton AntiVirus
12 1 (0.38%) Istio
12 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 105 (40.38%) Microsoft
2 50 (19.23%) VMware
3 34 (13.08%) Cisco
4 29 (11.15%) Fortinet
5 25 (9.62%) Google
6 23 (8.85%) Palo Alto
7 15 (5.77%) F5
7 15 (5.77%) Red Hat
8 13 (5.00%) SolarWinds
8 13 (5.00%) Zscaler
9 12 (4.62%) Bloomberg
10 11 (4.23%) Oracle
11 10 (3.85%) ServiceNow
12 8 (3.08%) CQG
12 8 (3.08%) ION Trading
12 8 (3.08%) Meraki
12 8 (3.08%) Patsystems
12 8 (3.08%) Reuters
12 8 (3.08%) Trayport
12 8 (3.08%) Veeam