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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 219 221
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +63
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 208 195 318
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.04% 1.53% 1.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.85% 14.55% 9.74%
Number of salaries quoted 131 135 278
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,780 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £64,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -19.84% +16.82%
75th Percentile £78,750 £74,258 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +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 2,112 1,340 3,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.53% 10.55% 13.95%
Number of salaries quoted 992 967 2,045
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,938 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -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 2 May 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 May 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 26 £52,500 - 15
South London +8 2 £47,500 -5.00% 3
North London - 2 £55,000 - 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 51 (24.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (14.42%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.92%) Confluence
4 2 (0.96%) Apache
4 2 (0.96%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (8.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 97 (46.63%) Azure
2 76 (36.54%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (24.52%) AWS
4 39 (18.75%) Entra ID
5 23 (11.06%) Google Workspace
6 14 (6.73%) OneDrive
7 12 (5.77%) SaaS
8 9 (4.33%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (3.85%) GCP
10 7 (3.37%) Route 53
10 7 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (2.88%) AWS Direct Connect
12 5 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.92%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (1.92%) GitHub
14 3 (1.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 116 (55.77%) DNS
2 95 (45.67%) DHCP
3 70 (33.65%) VPN
4 61 (29.33%) WAN
5 60 (28.85%) Firewall
6 54 (25.96%) LAN
7 35 (16.83%) Wi-Fi
8 32 (15.38%) VLAN
9 21 (10.10%) SD-WAN
10 16 (7.69%) Network Security
10 16 (7.69%) VoIP
11 15 (7.21%) BGP
12 11 (5.29%) HTTP
12 11 (5.29%) Wireless
13 10 (4.81%) Multicast
14 9 (4.33%) OSPF
15 8 (3.85%) HTTPS
16 6 (2.88%) SAN
17 5 (2.40%) MPLS
18 4 (1.92%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (2.88%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.92%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.96%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.96%) Power BI
5 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.48%) MySQL
5 1 (0.48%) Redis
5 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.48%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 9 (4.33%) Git
2 8 (3.85%) Bitbucket
2 8 (3.85%) JIRA
3 4 (1.92%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.96%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.48%) GitLab
General
1 94 (45.19%) Social Skills
2 86 (41.35%) Finance
3 39 (18.75%) Banking
4 26 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.13%) Investment Banking
6 18 (8.65%) Law
7 12 (5.77%) Telecoms
8 9 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (4.33%) Retail
9 8 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.92%) Back Office
10 4 (1.92%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.92%) Front Office
11 3 (1.44%) Legal
11 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.44%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (21.15%) Support Engineer
2 39 (18.75%) IT Support
3 30 (14.42%) Developer
4 29 (13.94%) Senior
5 27 (12.98%) Analyst
6 24 (11.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 24 (11.54%) C++ Developer
7 23 (11.06%) 2nd Line Support
7 23 (11.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 23 (11.06%) IT Engineer
7 23 (11.06%) IT Support Engineer
8 22 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 19 (9.13%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
9 19 (9.13%) Linux Developer
9 19 (9.13%) Linux Scripter
9 19 (9.13%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 18 (8.65%) Network Engineer
11 14 (6.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (6.25%) Support Analyst
13 10 (4.81%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.88%) RESTful
1 6 (2.88%) WebSockets
2 4 (1.92%) ADO
2 4 (1.92%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.92%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (1.44%) LDAP
3 3 (1.44%) Sass
3 3 (1.44%) ZeroMQ
4 2 (0.96%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.96%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.96%) JWT
4 2 (0.96%) Middleware
4 2 (0.96%) Next.js
4 2 (0.96%) OAuth
4 2 (0.96%) React
5 1 (0.48%) .NET
5 1 (0.48%) Django
5 1 (0.48%) gRPC
5 1 (0.48%) Kafka
5 1 (0.48%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.10%) FPGA
2 19 (9.13%) Onboarding
3 15 (7.21%) Data Centre
4 13 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (5.77%) Video Conferencing
6 10 (4.81%) iPhone
6 10 (4.81%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.81%) MPEG
7 9 (4.33%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (3.37%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.88%) Mobile App
10 5 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.40%) Digital Signage
10 5 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.40%) iPad
11 4 (1.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 111 (53.37%) Windows
2 67 (32.21%) Linux
3 58 (27.88%) Windows Server
4 44 (21.15%) Windows 10
5 24 (11.54%) Mac OS
6 19 (9.13%) Apple iOS
7 17 (8.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (7.21%) Unix
9 15 (7.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 13 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (2.40%) CentOS
11 5 (2.40%) Windows 7
12 4 (1.92%) Kali Linux
13 3 (1.44%) Android
13 3 (1.44%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.96%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.96%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.48%) CoreOS
15 1 (0.48%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (36.06%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (14.90%) ITIL
3 27 (12.98%) DevOps
3 27 (12.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 26 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 25 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (12.02%) Incident Response
5 25 (12.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (11.54%) Agile
7 23 (11.06%) CI/CD
7 23 (11.06%) Service Delivery
8 22 (10.58%) Computer Science
8 22 (10.58%) Customer Service
8 22 (10.58%) Low Latency
9 20 (9.62%) SIEM
10 19 (9.13%) Identity Access Management
10 19 (9.13%) Incident Management
11 17 (8.17%) Problem Management
11 17 (8.17%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 45 (21.63%) Python
2 34 (16.35%) PowerShell
3 28 (13.46%) C++
4 27 (12.98%) Java
5 23 (11.06%) C
6 21 (10.10%) Bash
7 19 (9.13%) SQL
8 6 (2.88%) C#
9 5 (2.40%) Go
10 4 (1.92%) Bicep
10 4 (1.92%) Delphi
10 4 (1.92%) Pascal
10 4 (1.92%) PHP
11 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.96%) Perl
12 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.48%) Korn
13 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 39 (18.75%) Degree
2 11 (5.29%) Azure Certification
2 11 (5.29%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (4.81%) CCNA
3 10 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (4.33%) Network+ Certification
5 7 (3.37%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.88%) CCNP
6 6 (2.88%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (2.40%) MCDST
7 5 (2.40%) MCITP
7 5 (2.40%) MCSA
7 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 5 (2.40%) Security Cleared
8 4 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.92%) GIAC
8 4 (1.92%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.92%) OSCP
9 3 (1.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.81%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.33%) SLA
3 7 (3.37%) SOC 2
4 6 (2.88%) GDPR
5 4 (1.92%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 79 (37.98%) Active Directory
2 28 (13.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (12.02%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.92%) Docker
4 4 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.92%) vSphere
5 2 (0.96%) Firmware
5 2 (0.96%) KVM
5 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (15.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (12.02%) Terraform
3 19 (9.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (8.65%) Kubernetes
5 17 (8.17%) Ansible
6 7 (3.37%) Nagios
7 5 (2.40%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.92%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (1.92%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.92%) ServiceCenter
9 3 (1.44%) SCCM
10 2 (0.96%) Control-M
10 2 (0.96%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.96%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.96%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.48%) Grafana
11 1 (0.48%) Istio
Vendors
1 99 (47.60%) Microsoft
2 33 (15.87%) VMware
3 23 (11.06%) Cisco
3 23 (11.06%) Google
4 16 (7.69%) Red Hat
5 14 (6.73%) Palo Alto
6 13 (6.25%) SolarWinds
7 9 (4.33%) Dell
7 9 (4.33%) Fortinet
7 9 (4.33%) Meraki
7 9 (4.33%) Zscaler
8 8 (3.85%) HP
9 7 (3.37%) Apple
10 5 (2.40%) Bloomberg
10 5 (2.40%) Reuters
10 5 (2.40%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.92%) Okta
11 4 (1.92%) OneLogin
11 4 (1.92%) Remedy
11 4 (1.92%) TOWER Software