TCP/IP Job Trends in Manchester

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 129 110
Rank change year-on-year +14 -19 +67
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 16 28 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.55% 1.06% 1.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.74% 11.67% 15.09%
Number of salaries quoted 16 13 37
10th Percentile - £27,850 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +37.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61,788 £74,144 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,145 £84,829 £69,800
North West median annual salary £40,500 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +12.50% -5.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 583 240 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 20.09% 9.05% 11.19%
Number of salaries quoted 140 138 239
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £36,063 £37,385
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -12.62% +8.42%
75th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £69,800
90th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £77,922
North West median annual salary £30,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -32.22% -5.26% +5.56%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing TCP/IP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in Manchester

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing TCP/IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in Manchester

TCP/IP
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Salford +3 2 £73,801 +6.48%
TCP/IP
North West

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 5 (31.25%) IaaS
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (12.50%) AWS
4 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (12.50%) dbt
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Pulumi
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 1 (6.25%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) Firewall
2 6 (37.50%) SSL
2 6 (37.50%) VLAN
2 6 (37.50%) VPN
3 5 (31.25%) HTTP
4 4 (25.00%) DHCP
4 4 (25.00%) DNS
5 2 (12.50%) Network Security
6 1 (6.25%) FTP
6 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
6 1 (6.25%) SMTP
6 1 (6.25%) SNMP
6 1 (6.25%) SSH
6 1 (6.25%) Telnet
6 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (12.50%) Redis
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (31.25%) 3rd Line Support Technician
2 5 (31.25%) Support Technician
3 4 (25.00%) C++ Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior C++ Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Site Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Qt
1 4 (25.00%) STL
2 3 (18.75%) QML
3 2 (12.50%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
2 4 (25.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (12.50%) Driving Licence
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Educational Technology
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Windows
2 6 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (12.50%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (31.25%) Customer Service
3 5 (31.25%) Data Loss Prevention
3 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
3 5 (31.25%) Information Security
3 5 (31.25%) Information Security Management
3 5 (31.25%) ISMS
3 5 (31.25%) Mobile Device Management
3 5 (31.25%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 5 (31.25%) Security Management
3 5 (31.25%) Service Delivery
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (18.75%) GitOps
5 3 (18.75%) ITIL
5 3 (18.75%) Multithreading
6 2 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) C++
2 3 (18.75%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) CCNA
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (31.25%) DBS Check
2 5 (31.25%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) CCNP
4 1 (6.25%) CISSP
4 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (6.25%) GCIA
4 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (6.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Docker
3 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.25%) Firmware
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (31.25%) Autotask
3 2 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Fortinet