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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 215 278
Rank change year-on-year -27 +63 -40
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 204 177 200
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.84% 1.48% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.02% 14.37% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 154 122 146
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £79,800 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,500 £84,750 £89,250
England median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -11.76% -8.11%

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 1,851 1,232 2,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.67% 10.30% 13.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,068 869 1,312
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £40,584 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,773 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -3.85%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -6 18 £72,500 -6.45% 16
West London -19 6 £82,500 +153.85% 4
North London - 4 £60,000 - 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 33 (16.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (12.25%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.49%) IIS
4 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.49%) Houdini
3 1 (0.49%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 7 (3.43%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.49%) Eikon
2 1 (0.49%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (38.24%) Azure
2 62 (30.39%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (24.51%) AWS
4 41 (20.10%) Entra ID
5 11 (5.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 11 (5.39%) OneDrive
5 11 (5.39%) SaaS
6 10 (4.90%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (4.41%) Google Workspace
8 7 (3.43%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.45%) GCP
10 5 (2.45%) IaaS
10 5 (2.45%) PaaS
11 4 (1.96%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 3 (1.47%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.47%) Route 53
12 3 (1.47%) Slack
13 2 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 124 (60.78%) DNS
2 84 (41.18%) VPN
3 83 (40.69%) Firewall
4 81 (39.71%) DHCP
5 53 (25.98%) LAN
6 52 (25.49%) WAN
7 39 (19.12%) BGP
8 35 (17.16%) Network Security
9 26 (12.75%) HTTP
9 26 (12.75%) OSPF
10 23 (11.27%) VLAN
11 18 (8.82%) SD-WAN
11 18 (8.82%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (7.84%) Wireless
13 11 (5.39%) Multicast
13 11 (5.39%) VoIP
14 10 (4.90%) SSL
15 7 (3.43%) Ethernet
15 7 (3.43%) FIX Connectivity
16 6 (2.94%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.31%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.49%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.49%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle9i Database
4 1 (0.49%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 12 (5.88%) JIRA
2 4 (1.96%) GitLab
3 2 (0.98%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.98%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.49%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.49%) LSMW
General
1 98 (48.04%) Social Skills
2 62 (30.39%) Finance
3 41 (20.10%) Banking
4 25 (12.25%) Telecoms
5 20 (9.80%) Law
6 16 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (5.39%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.43%) Retail
10 6 (2.94%) Digital Health
11 5 (2.45%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.96%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (1.96%) Publishing
13 3 (1.47%) Marketing
14 2 (0.98%) Cantonese Language
14 2 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.98%) Legal
14 2 (0.98%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (20.10%) Network Engineer
2 36 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 34 (16.67%) Senior
4 28 (13.73%) IT Support
5 23 (11.27%) Analyst
5 23 (11.27%) IT Engineer
6 22 (10.78%) IT Support Engineer
7 17 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
8 15 (7.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 15 (7.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 15 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (6.37%) Developer
9 13 (6.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (5.88%) Support Analyst
11 11 (5.39%) Junior
12 10 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (4.90%) C++ Developer
12 10 (4.90%) Linux Developer
12 10 (4.90%) Linux Scripter
12 10 (4.90%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.25%) Terraform
2 8 (3.92%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (2.94%) GraphQL
3 6 (2.94%) RESTful
4 5 (2.45%) ARM Templates
4 5 (2.45%) Next.js
4 5 (2.45%) React
5 4 (1.96%) ADO
5 4 (1.96%) JWT
5 4 (1.96%) OAuth
5 4 (1.96%) WebSockets
6 3 (1.47%) gRPC
7 2 (0.98%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.49%) JSON
8 1 (0.49%) Kafka
8 1 (0.49%) pytest
8 1 (0.49%) REST
8 1 (0.49%) Software Packaging
8 1 (0.49%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.24%) Onboarding
2 25 (12.25%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.39%) FPGA
3 11 (5.39%) Security Posture
4 10 (4.90%) MPEG
5 9 (4.41%) PKI
6 8 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.43%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.43%) Eurex
8 6 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (2.94%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.94%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.45%) AS400
9 5 (2.45%) iSeries
9 5 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.96%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.47%) Life Science
11 3 (1.47%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 94 (46.08%) Windows
2 57 (27.94%) Linux
3 41 (20.10%) Windows Server
4 24 (11.76%) Mac OS
5 22 (10.78%) Windows 10
6 17 (8.33%) Unix
7 9 (4.41%) Rocky
8 7 (3.43%) CentOS
9 5 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (1.96%) Solaris
10 4 (1.96%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.98%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (32.84%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 37 (18.14%) Computer Science
4 31 (15.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (14.22%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (13.24%) Disaster Recovery
6 27 (13.24%) ITIL
7 25 (12.25%) High Availability
8 24 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 23 (11.27%) Incident Response
10 21 (10.29%) Incident Management
11 20 (9.80%) Project Delivery
12 19 (9.31%) Change Management
12 19 (9.31%) Mentoring
13 18 (8.82%) Agile
13 18 (8.82%) Analytics
14 17 (8.33%) Customer Service
14 17 (8.33%) DevOps
14 17 (8.33%) Roadmaps
15 16 (7.84%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 44 (21.57%) Python
2 27 (13.24%) PowerShell
3 23 (11.27%) Bash
4 22 (10.78%) SQL
5 17 (8.33%) C
6 13 (6.37%) Java
7 11 (5.39%) C++
8 8 (3.92%) Perl
9 7 (3.43%) Bicep
9 7 (3.43%) C#
9 7 (3.43%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.43%) Ruby
10 6 (2.94%) Go
11 5 (2.45%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.98%) Rust
13 2 (0.98%) VBA
14 1 (0.49%) ABAP
14 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (22.06%) Degree
2 32 (15.69%) Cisco Certification
3 27 (13.24%) CCNP
4 26 (12.75%) CCNA
5 22 (10.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (8.33%) Azure Certification
7 12 (5.88%) Security Cleared
8 10 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (4.41%) AWS Certification
10 8 (3.92%) A+ Certification
10 8 (3.92%) CISSP
11 7 (3.43%) OSCP
12 6 (2.94%) CEH
12 6 (2.94%) Master's Degree
12 6 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (2.45%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (2.45%) SC Cleared
14 4 (1.96%) CREST Certified
14 4 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (1.96%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.78%) SLA
2 14 (6.86%) GDPR
3 10 (4.90%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.92%) NIST
5 5 (2.45%) GRC
5 5 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.45%) NCSC
6 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.49%) QA
System Software
1 78 (38.24%) Active Directory
2 27 (13.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (10.78%) Hyper-V
4 11 (5.39%) Docker
5 7 (3.43%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.47%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.47%) vSphere
8 1 (0.49%) Firmware
8 1 (0.49%) NFS
8 1 (0.49%) Samba
8 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (12.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (10.29%) Kubernetes
3 15 (7.35%) FortiGate
4 9 (4.41%) Ansible
5 6 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (2.94%) Nagios
6 5 (2.45%) Grafana
6 5 (2.45%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (2.45%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.47%) Control-M
8 2 (0.98%) Istio
8 2 (0.98%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (0.98%) OpenView
8 2 (0.98%) QRadar
8 2 (0.98%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.49%) Argo
9 1 (0.49%) Cilium
9 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.49%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 86 (42.16%) Microsoft
2 39 (19.12%) VMware
3 32 (15.69%) Cisco
4 22 (10.78%) Palo Alto
5 21 (10.29%) Fortinet
6 16 (7.84%) Zscaler
7 14 (6.86%) SolarWinds
8 12 (5.88%) Bloomberg
8 12 (5.88%) F5
9 11 (5.39%) Google
9 11 (5.39%) Red Hat
10 9 (4.41%) Meraki
10 9 (4.41%) Oracle
11 8 (3.92%) Reuters
12 7 (3.43%) CQG
12 7 (3.43%) HP
12 7 (3.43%) ION Trading
12 7 (3.43%) Patsystems
12 7 (3.43%) ServiceNow
12 7 (3.43%) Trayport