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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 226 259
Rank change year-on-year -2 +33 -42
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 244 171 220
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.94% 1.45% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.41% 13.96% 8.86%
Number of salaries quoted 179 116 140
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £33,200
25th Percentile £39,500 £39,375 £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 £74,358
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -16.67% -5.26%

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 1,820 1,225 2,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.02% 10.36% 13.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,076 831 1,206
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £47,014
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.79% -3.81%

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 2 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 2 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 -9 17 £52,500 -32.26% 28
West London -12 6 £82,500 +153.85% 12
East London -11 5 £36,000 +5.88% 1
North London 0 4 £60,000 +84.62% 1
South London -10 1 £24,000 -47.83% 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 (15.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (11.07%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.46%) Confluence
4 1 (0.41%) IIS
4 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.41%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.41%) Houdini
4 1 (0.41%) NUKE
4 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (3.28%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.41%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.41%) Eikon
2 1 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (34.84%) Azure
2 71 (29.10%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (24.59%) Entra ID
4 53 (21.72%) AWS
5 17 (6.97%) SaaS
6 16 (6.56%) OneDrive
7 11 (4.51%) GCP
7 11 (4.51%) Google Workspace
8 10 (4.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 9 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (2.87%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.46%) IaaS
11 6 (2.46%) Slack
12 5 (2.05%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 5 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.05%) Google Compute Engine
12 5 (2.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (2.05%) Mimecast
12 5 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 157 (64.34%) DNS
2 117 (47.95%) VPN
3 114 (46.72%) DHCP
4 101 (41.39%) Firewall
5 68 (27.87%) LAN
5 68 (27.87%) WAN
6 46 (18.85%) VLAN
7 43 (17.62%) BGP
8 40 (16.39%) Network Security
9 38 (15.57%) Wireless
10 37 (15.16%) Wi-Fi
11 31 (12.70%) HTTP
12 27 (11.07%) OSPF
13 19 (7.79%) SD-WAN
14 12 (4.92%) SSL
15 11 (4.51%) Multicast
16 9 (3.69%) VoIP
17 8 (3.28%) Ethernet
17 8 (3.28%) FIX Connectivity
18 7 (2.87%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.38%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.87%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.82%) KDB
7 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 1 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.41%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.41%) MySQL
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle9i Database
7 1 (0.41%) Redis
7 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.41%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 15 (6.15%) JIRA
2 5 (2.05%) GitLab
2 5 (2.05%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.41%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.41%) Git
3 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.41%) LSMW
3 1 (0.41%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 111 (45.49%) Social Skills
2 66 (27.05%) Finance
3 42 (17.21%) Banking
4 26 (10.66%) Telecoms
5 24 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (8.61%) Law
7 11 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.51%) Retail
8 8 (3.28%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.87%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.46%) Digital Health
10 6 (2.46%) Publishing
11 5 (2.05%) Back Office
11 5 (2.05%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.64%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.23%) Marketing
14 2 (0.82%) Cantonese Language
14 2 (0.82%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 47 (19.26%) Network Engineer
2 41 (16.80%) IT Support
3 40 (16.39%) Support Engineer
4 38 (15.57%) Senior
5 33 (13.52%) Analyst
6 28 (11.48%) IT Engineer
7 27 (11.07%) IT Support Engineer
8 24 (9.84%) Support Analyst
9 18 (7.38%) 2nd Line Support
10 16 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (5.74%) Lead
12 13 (5.33%) Junior
12 13 (5.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (4.92%) 3rd Line Support
13 12 (4.92%) Developer
13 12 (4.92%) Team Leader
14 11 (4.51%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 11 (4.51%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 11 (4.51%) Network Support
15 10 (4.10%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.25%) Terraform
2 10 (4.10%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (3.69%) RESTful
4 6 (2.46%) GraphQL
5 5 (2.05%) Next.js
5 5 (2.05%) React
6 4 (1.64%) ARM Templates
6 4 (1.64%) JWT
6 4 (1.64%) OAuth
6 4 (1.64%) WebSockets
7 3 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.23%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.82%) ADO
8 2 (0.82%) gRPC
8 2 (0.82%) LDAP
8 2 (0.82%) REST
9 1 (0.41%) BAPI
9 1 (0.41%) CSS
9 1 (0.41%) HTML
9 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.03%) Onboarding
2 25 (10.25%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.15%) Security Posture
4 13 (5.33%) Driving Licence
5 12 (4.92%) Cloud Native
6 11 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (4.51%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.69%) Hedge funds
7 9 (3.69%) MPEG
7 9 (3.69%) PKI
8 8 (3.28%) Eurex
8 8 (3.28%) FPGA
9 7 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (2.46%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (2.05%) AS400
11 5 (2.05%) Blog
11 5 (2.05%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (2.05%) iSeries
11 5 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 116 (47.54%) Windows
2 61 (25.00%) Linux
3 53 (21.72%) Windows Server
4 37 (15.16%) Windows 10
5 25 (10.25%) Mac OS
6 19 (7.79%) Unix
7 11 (4.51%) Rocky
8 9 (3.69%) CentOS
9 6 (2.46%) Ubuntu
10 5 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (2.05%) Solaris
11 1 (0.41%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (30.74%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (23.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 47 (19.26%) Customer Service
3 47 (19.26%) Disaster Recovery
4 38 (15.57%) Computer Science
5 36 (14.75%) Cybersecurity
6 34 (13.93%) ITIL
7 33 (13.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 29 (11.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (10.66%) Incident Response
10 25 (10.25%) High Availability
11 24 (9.84%) Project Delivery
12 22 (9.02%) Mentoring
13 21 (8.61%) AI
13 21 (8.61%) Service Delivery
14 20 (8.20%) ITSM
15 19 (7.79%) CI/CD
15 19 (7.79%) Coaching
15 19 (7.79%) Runbook
16 18 (7.38%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.31%) Python
2 38 (15.57%) PowerShell
3 30 (12.30%) SQL
4 28 (11.48%) Bash
5 18 (7.38%) Java
6 14 (5.74%) C
7 11 (4.51%) C++
8 10 (4.10%) Go
8 10 (4.10%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.69%) Perl
10 8 (3.28%) Ruby
11 7 (2.87%) C#
12 6 (2.46%) Bicep
13 5 (2.05%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.64%) Rust
15 3 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.82%) VBA
17 1 (0.41%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 47 (19.26%) Degree
2 38 (15.57%) Cisco Certification
3 29 (11.89%) CCNA
4 26 (10.66%) CCNP
5 23 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.15%) Azure Certification
6 15 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (5.74%) Security Cleared
8 12 (4.92%) A+ Certification
9 11 (4.51%) CISSP
10 10 (4.10%) Network+ Certification
11 9 (3.69%) AWS Certification
12 6 (2.46%) CEH
12 6 (2.46%) CISM
12 6 (2.46%) OSCP
13 5 (2.05%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (2.05%) DV Cleared
13 5 (2.05%) Master's Degree
13 5 (2.05%) SC Cleared
14 4 (1.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.93%) SLA
2 16 (6.56%) GDPR
3 12 (4.92%) NIST
4 11 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.69%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.46%) GRC
6 6 (2.46%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.46%) SOC 2
7 5 (2.05%) NCSC
8 2 (0.82%) QA
9 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 94 (38.52%) Active Directory
2 36 (14.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (11.89%) Hyper-V
4 13 (5.33%) Docker
4 13 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.46%) Firmware
5 6 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.23%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.23%) vSphere
7 1 (0.41%) NFS
7 1 (0.41%) Samba
7 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (12.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (9.02%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.15%) FortiGate
4 10 (4.10%) Grafana
5 8 (3.28%) Ansible
6 7 (2.87%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.46%) Nagios
8 4 (1.64%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.64%) QRadar
9 3 (1.23%) Cilium
9 3 (1.23%) Control-M
10 2 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.82%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.82%) SCCM
11 1 (0.41%) Argo
11 1 (0.41%) Istio
11 1 (0.41%) OpenVAS
11 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 102 (41.80%) Microsoft
2 49 (20.08%) VMware
3 35 (14.34%) Cisco
4 27 (11.07%) Palo Alto
5 26 (10.66%) Fortinet
6 16 (6.56%) Google
7 15 (6.15%) Zscaler
8 14 (5.74%) F5
9 13 (5.33%) Red Hat
9 13 (5.33%) SolarWinds
10 12 (4.92%) Bloomberg
11 10 (4.10%) Oracle
11 10 (4.10%) ServiceNow
12 8 (3.28%) CQG
12 8 (3.28%) ION Trading
12 8 (3.28%) Meraki
12 8 (3.28%) Patsystems
12 8 (3.28%) Reuters
12 8 (3.28%) Trayport
12 8 (3.28%) Veeam