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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 220 218
Rank change year-on-year +19 -2 +67
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 225 196 320
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.21% 1.52% 1.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.74% 13.68% 10.75%
Number of salaries quoted 137 134 281
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,710 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,375 £36,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% -17.60% +13.64%
75th Percentile £74,000 £75,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,250 £88,750
England median annual salary £38,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -15.56% +5.88% -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 2,095 1,433 2,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.23% 11.14% 13.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,020 984 2,099
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,614
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £96,250
England median annual salary £42,500 £52,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.27% +9.47% -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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -8 29 £52,500 +4.49% 8
South London +20 2 £47,500 -5.00%
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 54 (24.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (12.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.78%) Confluence
4 2 (0.89%) Apache
4 2 (0.89%) IIS
4 2 (0.89%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (8.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.89%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.44%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.44%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 110 (48.89%) Azure
2 80 (35.56%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (24.44%) AWS
4 43 (19.11%) Entra ID
5 27 (12.00%) Google Workspace
6 19 (8.44%) SaaS
7 14 (6.22%) OneDrive
8 13 (5.78%) GCP
9 11 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (3.56%) AWS Direct Connect
11 8 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.56%) Route 53
12 6 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.67%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.22%) Amazon ECR
13 5 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.22%) dbt
13 5 (2.22%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 117 (52.00%) DNS
2 100 (44.44%) DHCP
3 77 (34.22%) VPN
4 64 (28.44%) Firewall
5 61 (27.11%) WAN
6 55 (24.44%) LAN
7 45 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
8 40 (17.78%) VLAN
9 21 (9.33%) SD-WAN
9 21 (9.33%) VoIP
10 17 (7.56%) BGP
10 17 (7.56%) Wireless
11 13 (5.78%) Network Security
12 9 (4.00%) OSPF
13 8 (3.56%) HTTPS
13 8 (3.56%) MPLS
13 8 (3.56%) Multicast
14 7 (3.11%) HTTP
15 6 (2.67%) SAN
16 4 (1.78%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.56%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.22%) Redis
6 4 (1.78%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.89%) Power BI
8 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.44%) MySQL
8 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.44%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (5.78%) JIRA
2 9 (4.00%) Git
3 8 (3.56%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.78%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.89%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 104 (46.22%) Social Skills
2 87 (38.67%) Finance
3 40 (17.78%) Banking
4 27 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.89%) Investment Banking
6 17 (7.56%) Law
7 12 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (5.33%) Retail
8 10 (4.44%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.67%) Back Office
10 6 (2.67%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.78%) Front Office
11 4 (1.78%) Marketing
12 3 (1.33%) Billing
12 3 (1.33%) Legal
12 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.33%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (22.22%) IT Support
2 46 (20.44%) Support Engineer
3 31 (13.78%) Developer
4 30 (13.33%) Analyst
4 30 (13.33%) Senior
5 29 (12.89%) IT Engineer
5 29 (12.89%) IT Support Engineer
6 25 (11.11%) C++ Developer
7 24 (10.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 22 (9.78%) 2nd Line Support
8 22 (9.78%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 22 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 20 (8.89%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 20 (8.89%) Linux Developer
9 20 (8.89%) Linux Scripter
9 20 (8.89%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 19 (8.44%) Network Engineer
11 17 (7.56%) Support Analyst
12 13 (5.78%) Network Support
13 11 (4.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.67%) RESTful
2 5 (2.22%) Django
2 5 (2.22%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (2.22%) WebSockets
3 4 (1.78%) Sass
3 4 (1.78%) ZeroMQ
4 3 (1.33%) ADO
4 3 (1.33%) LDAP
5 2 (0.89%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.89%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.89%) Middleware
6 1 (0.44%) .NET
6 1 (0.44%) gRPC
6 1 (0.44%) Kafka
6 1 (0.44%) MFC
6 1 (0.44%) pytest
6 1 (0.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.22%) Onboarding
2 22 (9.78%) FPGA
3 17 (7.56%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.78%) iPhone
4 13 (5.78%) Video Conferencing
5 12 (5.33%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.44%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.44%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (3.56%) MPEG
8 7 (3.11%) CCTV
9 6 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.67%) iPad
9 6 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.67%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.67%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.22%) Digital Signage
10 5 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 122 (54.22%) Windows
2 81 (36.00%) Linux
3 62 (27.56%) Windows Server
4 48 (21.33%) Windows 10
5 29 (12.89%) Mac OS
6 22 (9.78%) Unix
6 22 (9.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (8.89%) Apple iOS
7 20 (8.89%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (7.56%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (3.56%) Mac OS X
11 6 (2.67%) CentOS
12 5 (2.22%) Android
12 5 (2.22%) Windows 7
13 4 (1.78%) Kali Linux
13 4 (1.78%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.89%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.89%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (35.11%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (15.56%) ITIL
3 29 (12.89%) Customer Service
3 29 (12.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (12.44%) CI/CD
4 28 (12.44%) DevOps
5 26 (11.56%) Agile
5 26 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (11.56%) Root Cause Analysis
6 25 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 25 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 25 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 23 (10.22%) Low Latency
8 22 (9.78%) Incident Response
9 20 (8.89%) Service Delivery
10 19 (8.44%) SIEM
11 18 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
11 18 (8.00%) Performance Monitoring
12 17 (7.56%) Problem Management
13 16 (7.11%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (23.56%) Python
2 33 (14.67%) PowerShell
3 31 (13.78%) C++
3 31 (13.78%) Java
4 26 (11.56%) C
5 21 (9.33%) Bash
6 17 (7.56%) SQL
7 7 (3.11%) Go
8 5 (2.22%) C#
9 4 (1.78%) Bicep
9 4 (1.78%) Delphi
9 4 (1.78%) Pascal
9 4 (1.78%) PHP
9 4 (1.78%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.89%) Perl
11 1 (0.44%) Korn
11 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 47 (20.89%) Degree
2 17 (7.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (6.22%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (5.78%) Azure Certification
4 13 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.33%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (4.89%) CCNA
6 11 (4.89%) Security Cleared
7 8 (3.56%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.11%) MCSA
8 7 (3.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 6 (2.67%) A+ Certification
9 6 (2.67%) CCNP
9 6 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.67%) RHCSA
10 5 (2.22%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.22%) MCDST
10 5 (2.22%) MCITP
11 4 (1.78%) GIAC
11 4 (1.78%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.00%) SOC 2
3 8 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.11%) SLA
5 6 (2.67%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.78%) GDPR
7 2 (0.89%) PMO
8 1 (0.44%) NIST
8 1 (0.44%) QA
System Software
1 85 (37.78%) Active Directory
2 29 (12.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (12.00%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.67%) Docker
5 5 (2.22%) vSphere
6 4 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.33%) KVM
7 3 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.89%) Firmware
9 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (17.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (12.44%) Terraform
3 19 (8.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (8.00%) Ansible
5 16 (7.11%) Kubernetes
6 7 (3.11%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (2.67%) Nagios
8 4 (1.78%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (1.78%) SCCM
8 4 (1.78%) ServiceCenter
9 3 (1.33%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.33%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.89%) Control-M
10 2 (0.89%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.89%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (0.89%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.44%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 108 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.11%) VMware
3 31 (13.78%) Google
4 29 (12.89%) Cisco
5 16 (7.11%) Red Hat
6 13 (5.78%) Palo Alto
6 13 (5.78%) SolarWinds
7 11 (4.89%) Apple
7 11 (4.89%) Dell
8 10 (4.44%) Fortinet
9 9 (4.00%) Zscaler
10 8 (3.56%) HP
10 8 (3.56%) Meraki
11 7 (3.11%) Bloomberg
11 7 (3.11%) Okta
11 7 (3.11%) Reuters
12 6 (2.67%) Arista
12 6 (2.67%) Juniper
12 6 (2.67%) ServiceNow
13 5 (2.22%) CheckPoint