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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 194 276
Rank change year-on-year -49 +82 -18
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 212 200 197
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.89% 1.63% 1.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.12% 15.99% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 148 132 155
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,525 £37,620
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% -5.78%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,313 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,625 £89,350
England median annual salary £38,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.67% -11.76% -6.59%

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 1,906 1,251 2,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.03% 10.19% 13.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,055 895 1,378
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,425 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £44,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -1.96%

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 10 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 10 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 -7 19 £71,000 -8.39% 13
West London -24 6 £82,500 +68.37% 4
North London - 3 £60,000 - 1
South London -5 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 36 (16.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (11.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (6.60%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.42%) 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 4 (1.89%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 94 (44.34%) Azure
2 57 (26.89%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (25.47%) AWS
4 35 (16.51%) Entra ID
5 10 (4.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 10 (4.72%) SaaS
6 9 (4.25%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (3.77%) Google Workspace
7 8 (3.77%) OneDrive
8 7 (3.30%) GCP
8 7 (3.30%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.83%) PaaS
10 5 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.36%) IaaS
11 4 (1.89%) GitHub
12 3 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.42%) dbt
12 3 (1.42%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.42%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 114 (53.77%) DNS
2 88 (41.51%) Firewall
3 78 (36.79%) VPN
4 69 (32.55%) DHCP
5 65 (30.66%) LAN
6 62 (29.25%) WAN
7 38 (17.92%) BGP
8 36 (16.98%) Network Security
9 25 (11.79%) OSPF
10 24 (11.32%) VLAN
10 24 (11.32%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (10.85%) HTTP
12 20 (9.43%) SD-WAN
13 17 (8.02%) Multicast
14 12 (5.66%) VoIP
15 11 (5.19%) Wireless
16 8 (3.77%) HTTPS
17 7 (3.30%) Ethernet
17 7 (3.30%) SSL
18 6 (2.83%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.60%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.94%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.94%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.47%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle9i Database
4 1 (0.47%) Redis
4 1 (0.47%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.25%) JIRA
2 8 (3.77%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.36%) Metasploit
4 4 (1.89%) GitLab
5 3 (1.42%) Git
6 1 (0.47%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.47%) LSMW
General
1 95 (44.81%) Social Skills
2 69 (32.55%) Finance
3 41 (19.34%) Banking
4 31 (14.62%) Telecoms
5 26 (12.26%) Law
6 19 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (7.08%) Investment Banking
8 11 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.83%) Digital Health
10 6 (2.83%) Retail
11 5 (2.36%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.89%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.42%) Marketing
14 2 (0.94%) Cantonese Language
14 2 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.94%) Legal
14 2 (0.94%) Military
15 1 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 44 (20.75%) Network Engineer
2 35 (16.51%) Support Engineer
3 34 (16.04%) Senior
4 26 (12.26%) IT Support
5 20 (9.43%) 2nd Line Support
5 20 (9.43%) Analyst
6 19 (8.96%) IT Engineer
6 19 (8.96%) IT Support Engineer
7 18 (8.49%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 18 (8.49%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 16 (7.55%) Developer
9 14 (6.60%) C++ Developer
9 14 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (6.60%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 14 (6.60%) Linux Developer
9 14 (6.60%) Linux Scripter
9 14 (6.60%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 13 (6.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.72%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.83%) WebSockets
2 5 (2.36%) ARM Templates
2 5 (2.36%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (1.89%) ADO
4 3 (1.42%) gRPC
5 2 (0.94%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.94%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.94%) JWT
5 2 (0.94%) Next.js
5 2 (0.94%) OAuth
5 2 (0.94%) React
5 2 (0.94%) RESTful
6 1 (0.47%) Django
6 1 (0.47%) Kafka
6 1 (0.47%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.47%) pytest
6 1 (0.47%) REST
6 1 (0.47%) SAP XI
6 1 (0.47%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.15%) Data Centre
2 21 (9.91%) Onboarding
3 16 (7.55%) MPEG
4 15 (7.08%) FPGA
5 13 (6.13%) Security Posture
6 11 (5.19%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (4.72%) Management Information System
8 7 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (3.30%) PKI
9 5 (2.36%) AS400
9 5 (2.36%) Driving Licence
9 5 (2.36%) iSeries
9 5 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.89%) CMDB
10 4 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (1.89%) Eurex
11 3 (1.42%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 89 (41.98%) Windows
2 60 (28.30%) Linux
3 43 (20.28%) Windows Server
4 19 (8.96%) Mac OS
5 17 (8.02%) Unix
6 14 (6.60%) Windows 10
7 9 (4.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (2.83%) Rocky
9 5 (2.36%) CentOS
9 5 (2.36%) Kali Linux
9 5 (2.36%) Windows 7
9 5 (2.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (2.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.89%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.42%) Solaris
12 2 (0.94%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.47%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (31.13%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (23.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 35 (16.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (15.57%) Incident Response
5 29 (13.68%) Computer Science
6 27 (12.74%) ITIL
7 26 (12.26%) DevOps
8 25 (11.79%) High Availability
9 24 (11.32%) CI/CD
9 24 (11.32%) Disaster Recovery
10 23 (10.85%) Agile
11 22 (10.38%) Cybersecurity
12 21 (9.91%) Incident Management
12 21 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 21 (9.91%) Project Delivery
13 20 (9.43%) Root Cause Analysis
14 19 (8.96%) Change Management
14 19 (8.96%) Low Latency
15 18 (8.49%) Line Management
15 18 (8.49%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (21.23%) Python
2 31 (14.62%) PowerShell
3 25 (11.79%) Bash
4 20 (9.43%) C
5 17 (8.02%) Java
6 16 (7.55%) SQL
7 15 (7.08%) C++
8 6 (2.83%) Bicep
9 5 (2.36%) Perl
10 4 (1.89%) C#
10 4 (1.89%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.89%) Ruby
11 2 (0.94%) Delphi
11 2 (0.94%) Go
11 2 (0.94%) Pascal
11 2 (0.94%) PHP
11 2 (0.94%) Rust
11 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.94%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 45 (21.23%) Degree
2 32 (15.09%) Cisco Certification
3 27 (12.74%) CCNA
4 26 (12.26%) CCNP
5 18 (8.49%) Azure Certification
6 17 (8.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (6.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (5.66%) Security Cleared
9 9 (4.25%) AWS Certification
10 8 (3.77%) OSCP
11 7 (3.30%) RHCSA
11 7 (3.30%) SC Cleared
12 6 (2.83%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (2.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 6 (2.83%) MCSA
13 4 (1.89%) CISSP
13 4 (1.89%) CREST Certified
13 4 (1.89%) MCDST
13 4 (1.89%) MCITP
13 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.79%) SLA
2 16 (7.55%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.25%) GDPR
4 8 (3.77%) NIST
5 5 (2.36%) GRC
5 5 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.36%) NCSC
6 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 68 (32.08%) Active Directory
2 28 (13.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (11.79%) Hyper-V
4 9 (4.25%) Docker
5 4 (1.89%) vSphere
6 3 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.42%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.47%) Firmware
8 1 (0.47%) KVM
8 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (13.68%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (12.26%) Terraform
3 18 (8.49%) Ansible
4 14 (6.60%) FortiGate
5 9 (4.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 9 (4.25%) Nagios
6 6 (2.83%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (2.83%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.36%) Control-M
7 5 (2.36%) Grafana
8 4 (1.89%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (1.89%) ServiceCenter
9 3 (1.42%) SCCM
9 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.94%) Istio
10 2 (0.94%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.94%) OpenView
10 2 (0.94%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 82 (38.68%) Microsoft
2 42 (19.81%) VMware
3 34 (16.04%) Cisco
4 23 (10.85%) Palo Alto
5 22 (10.38%) Fortinet
6 18 (8.49%) SolarWinds
7 17 (8.02%) Zscaler
8 12 (5.66%) Red Hat
9 11 (5.19%) F5
9 11 (5.19%) Meraki
10 10 (4.72%) Bloomberg
10 10 (4.72%) Google
10 10 (4.72%) HP
11 9 (4.25%) Apple
12 8 (3.77%) Reuters
13 5 (2.36%) Okta
13 5 (2.36%) Oracle
13 5 (2.36%) Remedy
13 5 (2.36%) ServiceNow
13 5 (2.36%) Workday