TCP/IP Job Trends in the Midlands

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 138 161
Rank change year-on-year -48 +23 +16
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 79 102 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.58% 1.80% 1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.67% 12.07% 11.26%
Number of salaries quoted 65 83 137
10th Percentile £29,300 £25,000 £24,050
25th Percentile £30,500 £27,750 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% -7.89%
75th Percentile £38,750 £39,125 £47,500
90th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £56,250
England median annual salary £37,750 £39,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.21% -8.24% -6.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 677 845 1,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.99% 14.95% 11.95%
Number of salaries quoted 548 512 1,027
10th Percentile £27,636 £26,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £39,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% -2.50% -10.36%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £43,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.47% -9.47% -6.85%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing TCP/IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 July 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
East Midlands -24 43 £32,500 - 11
West Midlands -55 36 £33,250 +2.31% 16
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 13 (16.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (13.92%) SharePoint
3 5 (6.33%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (15.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (12.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Sage 200
2 1 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (73.42%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (45.57%) Azure
3 24 (30.38%) Entra ID
4 6 (7.59%) AWS
5 2 (2.53%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.53%) SaaS
6 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.27%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.27%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 58 (73.42%) DNS
2 54 (68.35%) DHCP
3 35 (44.30%) VPN
4 32 (40.51%) VLAN
5 29 (36.71%) Firewall
6 18 (22.78%) WAN
7 11 (13.92%) LAN
8 9 (11.39%) SD-WAN
8 9 (11.39%) VoIP
8 9 (11.39%) Wireless
9 4 (5.06%) BGP
9 4 (5.06%) Network Security
9 4 (5.06%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (3.80%) OSPF
11 2 (2.53%) SNMP
12 1 (1.27%) DMZ
12 1 (1.27%) HTTP
12 1 (1.27%) Internet
12 1 (1.27%) SAN
12 1 (1.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.53%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (2.53%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (6.33%) JIRA
2 3 (3.80%) Git
General
1 56 (70.89%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.78%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.13%) Legal
4 6 (7.59%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.33%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.80%) Electronics
7 3 (3.80%) Finance
8 2 (2.53%) Law
9 1 (1.27%) Automotive
9 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (45.57%) IT Support
2 21 (26.58%) IT Technician
3 19 (24.05%) IT Support Technician
3 19 (24.05%) Support Engineer
3 19 (24.05%) Support Technician
4 15 (18.99%) IT Engineer
5 12 (15.19%) IT Support Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) 3rd Line Support
7 7 (8.86%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
7 7 (8.86%) Network Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) Lead
9 4 (5.06%) Technical Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Technical Support
9 4 (5.06%) Technical Support Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) 2nd Line Support
10 3 (3.80%) Lead Test Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Service Analyst
10 3 (3.80%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.06%) COM
1 4 (5.06%) DCOM
1 4 (5.06%) LDAP
1 4 (5.06%) Middleware
2 3 (3.80%) XML
3 1 (1.27%) gRPC
3 1 (1.27%) REST
3 1 (1.27%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.46%) Driving Licence
2 6 (7.59%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.33%) PKI
4 4 (5.06%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.06%) Smartcard
5 3 (3.80%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.80%) SCADA
6 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.27%) Digital Signage
7 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.27%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) Replication
7 1 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 61 (77.22%) Windows
2 27 (34.18%) Windows Server
3 22 (27.85%) Windows 10
4 16 (20.25%) Linux
5 14 (17.72%) Mac OS
6 7 (8.86%) Apple iOS
7 6 (7.59%) Android
8 1 (1.27%) Debian
8 1 (1.27%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (50.63%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (35.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 28 (35.44%) ITSM
3 18 (22.78%) Customer Service
3 18 (22.78%) Service Delivery
4 16 (20.25%) Collaborative Working
5 15 (18.99%) Process Improvement
6 14 (17.72%) Mentoring
6 14 (17.72%) Project Delivery
7 13 (16.46%) ITIL
8 9 (11.39%) CRM
8 9 (11.39%) Risk Management
8 9 (11.39%) Server Patching
9 8 (10.13%) Task Automation
10 7 (8.86%) Application Packaging
10 7 (8.86%) E-Commerce
10 7 (8.86%) Identity Management
11 6 (7.59%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (7.59%) ERP
11 6 (7.59%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.78%) SQL
2 12 (15.19%) VBA
3 11 (13.92%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.80%) Python
5 2 (2.53%) Bash
6 1 (1.27%) PHP
6 1 (1.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (20.25%) Degree
2 10 (12.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (11.39%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.06%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.80%) CCNA
5 3 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.27%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.27%) CCNP
6 1 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.72%) SLA
2 9 (11.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (8.86%) GDPR
4 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.27%) ISO 14001
5 1 (1.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 55 (69.62%) Active Directory
2 28 (35.44%) Hyper-V
3 13 (16.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.80%) Firmware
6 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (20.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (10.13%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (5.06%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.27%) Ansible
4 1 (1.27%) Grafana
4 1 (1.27%) Nagios
4 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 64 (81.01%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.72%) VMware
3 9 (11.39%) Cisco
4 7 (8.86%) Apple
4 7 (8.86%) Logitech
4 7 (8.86%) ServiceNow
4 7 (8.86%) Yealink
5 5 (6.33%) Fortinet
6 4 (5.06%) Freshdesk
6 4 (5.06%) Meraki
6 4 (5.06%) MobileIron
6 4 (5.06%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.80%) SAP
8 2 (2.53%) Sage
8 2 (2.53%) Veeam
9 1 (1.27%) Aruba
9 1 (1.27%) Autodesk
9 1 (1.27%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.27%) Sophos
9 1 (1.27%) Ubiquiti