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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 217 288
Rank change year-on-year -26 +71 -39
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 213 182 193
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.89% 1.50% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.35% 14.72% 7.56%
Number of salaries quoted 152 126 148
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,625 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £79,800 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £89,050
England median annual salary £37,750 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +0.67% -11.76% -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 1,876 1,236 2,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.84% 10.19% 13.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 878 1,356
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,373 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,188 £41,250 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -3.23% -0.80%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,125 £100,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,870 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.63% -15.00% -2.77%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 18 £73,000 -5.81% 13
West London -22 6 £82,500 +94.12% 2
North London - 5 £60,000 - 2
South London -2 1 £24,000 -47.83% 5
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 35 (16.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (12.21%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.47%) Confluence
3 1 (0.47%) IIS
3 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.47%) Houdini
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.47%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 5 (2.35%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.47%) Eikon
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 88 (41.31%) Azure
2 60 (28.17%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (24.88%) AWS
4 38 (17.84%) Entra ID
5 12 (5.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 11 (5.16%) OneDrive
6 11 (5.16%) SaaS
7 10 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (3.29%) Google Workspace
8 7 (3.29%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.82%) GCP
10 5 (2.35%) IaaS
10 5 (2.35%) PaaS
11 4 (1.88%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.41%) GitHub
12 3 (1.41%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.41%) Route 53
13 2 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 120 (56.34%) DNS
2 88 (41.31%) Firewall
3 80 (37.56%) VPN
4 74 (34.74%) DHCP
5 62 (29.11%) LAN
6 59 (27.70%) WAN
7 38 (17.84%) BGP
8 34 (15.96%) Network Security
9 27 (12.68%) HTTP
10 25 (11.74%) OSPF
11 24 (11.27%) VLAN
12 20 (9.39%) SD-WAN
12 20 (9.39%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (7.51%) Multicast
14 12 (5.63%) VoIP
14 12 (5.63%) Wireless
15 8 (3.76%) SSL
16 7 (3.29%) Ethernet
17 6 (2.82%) HTTPS
17 6 (2.82%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.98%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.35%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.47%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle9i Database
4 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.47%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 10 (4.69%) JIRA
2 6 (2.82%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.88%) GitLab
3 4 (1.88%) Metasploit
4 3 (1.41%) Git
5 1 (0.47%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.47%) LSMW
General
1 98 (46.01%) Social Skills
2 68 (31.92%) Finance
3 42 (19.72%) Banking
4 30 (14.08%) Telecoms
5 25 (11.74%) Law
6 19 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (6.10%) Investment Banking
8 10 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (3.29%) Retail
11 6 (2.82%) Digital Health
12 5 (2.35%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.88%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.41%) Marketing
15 2 (0.94%) Cantonese Language
15 2 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.94%) Legal
15 2 (0.94%) Military
16 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (19.25%) Network Engineer
2 34 (15.96%) Senior
2 34 (15.96%) Support Engineer
3 26 (12.21%) IT Support
4 21 (9.86%) Analyst
4 21 (9.86%) IT Engineer
5 20 (9.39%) IT Support Engineer
6 18 (8.45%) 2nd Line Support
7 16 (7.51%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 16 (7.51%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 15 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (6.57%) Developer
10 13 (6.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (5.63%) C++ Developer
11 12 (5.63%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
11 12 (5.63%) Linux Developer
11 12 (5.63%) Linux Scripter
11 12 (5.63%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 11 (5.16%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (4.69%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.68%) Terraform
2 6 (2.82%) FIX Protocol
2 6 (2.82%) WebSockets
3 5 (2.35%) ARM Templates
3 5 (2.35%) GraphQL
3 5 (2.35%) Next.js
3 5 (2.35%) React
3 5 (2.35%) RESTful
4 4 (1.88%) ADO
4 4 (1.88%) JWT
4 4 (1.88%) OAuth
5 3 (1.41%) gRPC
6 2 (0.94%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.47%) Kafka
7 1 (0.47%) pytest
7 1 (0.47%) REST
7 1 (0.47%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.47%) Unreal Engine
7 1 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.62%) Data Centre
2 22 (10.33%) Onboarding
3 15 (7.04%) MPEG
4 13 (6.10%) FPGA
5 12 (5.63%) Security Posture
6 11 (5.16%) Management Information System
7 10 (4.69%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (3.76%) PKI
10 6 (2.82%) Cloud Native
11 5 (2.35%) AS400
11 5 (2.35%) Eurex
11 5 (2.35%) iSeries
11 5 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.88%) CMDB
12 4 (1.88%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.88%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (1.41%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 93 (43.66%) Windows
2 60 (28.17%) Linux
3 44 (20.66%) Windows Server
4 22 (10.33%) Mac OS
5 16 (7.51%) Unix
6 15 (7.04%) Windows 10
7 8 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (3.29%) Rocky
9 6 (2.82%) CentOS
10 4 (1.88%) Kali Linux
10 4 (1.88%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (1.41%) Solaris
11 3 (1.41%) Windows 7
11 3 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (31.92%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 35 (16.43%) Computer Science
4 34 (15.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (13.15%) Disaster Recovery
5 28 (13.15%) Incident Response
6 27 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (12.68%) ITIL
7 25 (11.74%) High Availability
8 24 (11.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 23 (10.80%) DevOps
10 22 (10.33%) CI/CD
10 22 (10.33%) Incident Management
11 21 (9.86%) Project Delivery
12 20 (9.39%) Agile
13 18 (8.45%) Analytics
13 18 (8.45%) Change Management
13 18 (8.45%) Mentoring
13 18 (8.45%) Root Cause Analysis
14 17 (7.98%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 46 (21.60%) Python
2 30 (14.08%) PowerShell
3 26 (12.21%) Bash
4 21 (9.86%) SQL
5 19 (8.92%) C
6 15 (7.04%) Java
7 13 (6.10%) C++
8 8 (3.76%) Bicep
9 7 (3.29%) C#
10 6 (2.82%) Perl
11 5 (2.35%) Go
11 5 (2.35%) JavaScript
11 5 (2.35%) Ruby
11 5 (2.35%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.94%) Rust
12 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.94%) VBA
13 1 (0.47%) Pascal
13 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 50 (23.47%) Degree
2 32 (15.02%) Cisco Certification
3 27 (12.68%) CCNA
4 26 (12.21%) CCNP
5 19 (8.92%) Azure Certification
5 19 (8.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (5.63%) Security Cleared
7 9 (4.23%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.76%) OSCP
9 7 (3.29%) RHCSA
10 6 (2.82%) CISSP
10 6 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (2.35%) A+ Certification
11 5 (2.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (2.35%) Master's Degree
11 5 (2.35%) MCSA
11 5 (2.35%) SC Cleared
12 4 (1.88%) CEH
12 4 (1.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.80%) SLA
2 15 (7.04%) Accessibility
3 12 (5.63%) GDPR
4 8 (3.76%) NIST
5 5 (2.35%) GRC
5 5 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 73 (34.27%) Active Directory
2 31 (14.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (11.74%) Hyper-V
4 12 (5.63%) Docker
5 6 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.35%) vSphere
7 3 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.41%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.47%) Firmware
9 1 (0.47%) KVM
Systems Management
1 27 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (7.51%) FortiGate
4 15 (7.04%) Ansible
5 9 (4.23%) Nagios
6 7 (3.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (2.82%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (2.82%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.35%) Grafana
8 5 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.88%) Control-M
10 3 (1.41%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (1.41%) ServiceCenter
11 2 (0.94%) Istio
11 2 (0.94%) Norton AntiVirus
11 2 (0.94%) OpenView
11 2 (0.94%) QRadar
11 2 (0.94%) SCCM
11 2 (0.94%) Tivoli
11 2 (0.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 85 (39.91%) Microsoft
2 45 (21.13%) VMware
3 33 (15.49%) Cisco
4 22 (10.33%) Fortinet
4 22 (10.33%) Palo Alto
5 17 (7.98%) SolarWinds
6 16 (7.51%) Zscaler
7 12 (5.63%) Bloomberg
7 12 (5.63%) Red Hat
8 11 (5.16%) F5
9 9 (4.23%) Google
9 9 (4.23%) HP
9 9 (4.23%) Meraki
10 8 (3.76%) Apple
10 8 (3.76%) Reuters
11 6 (2.82%) Oracle
12 5 (2.35%) CQG
12 5 (2.35%) ION Trading
12 5 (2.35%) Patsystems
12 5 (2.35%) ServiceNow