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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 146 120
Rank change year-on-year -18 -26 +49
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 60 102 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.77% 1.54% 2.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.74% 10.38% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59 64 95
10th Percentile £24,500 £29,825 £29,000
25th Percentile £27,125 £32,500 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -22.22% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48,750 £53,438 £57,000
90th Percentile £63,400 £60,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £45,075
% change year-on-year -25.00% +10.93% +0.17%

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 1,605 983 970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.55% 14.84% 19.20%
Number of salaries quoted 436 407 845
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £27,900 £36,250 £29,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £48,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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 2 January 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 2 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
East Midlands -26 36 £31,500 -42.73% 4
West Midlands -5 24 £52,500 +50.00% 15
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 10 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.67%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (56.67%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (33.33%) Azure
3 14 (23.33%) Entra ID
4 8 (13.33%) SaaS
5 6 (10.00%) iPaaS
6 5 (8.33%) AWS
7 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (5.00%) GCP
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.33%) dbt
9 2 (3.33%) Nutanix
9 2 (3.33%) PaaS
9 2 (3.33%) Pulumi
10 1 (1.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.67%) IaaS
10 1 (1.67%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 30 (50.00%) DHCP
1 30 (50.00%) DNS
2 24 (40.00%) Firewall
3 13 (21.67%) VLAN
3 13 (21.67%) VPN
4 9 (15.00%) 3G
5 8 (13.33%) WAN
6 7 (11.67%) LAN
7 6 (10.00%) SAN
7 6 (10.00%) SSL
8 5 (8.33%) 4G
8 5 (8.33%) ADSL
9 4 (6.67%) GPRS
9 4 (6.67%) GSM
9 4 (6.67%) Modbus
9 4 (6.67%) PBX
9 4 (6.67%) RS-232
9 4 (6.67%) RS-485
9 4 (6.67%) SD-WAN
9 4 (6.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (1.67%) JIRA
General
1 22 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Law
4 4 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Advertising
5 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.33%) Retail
7 1 (1.67%) Back Office
7 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (38.33%) IT Support
2 15 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 15 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 14 (23.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 9 (15.00%) Consultant
4 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (15.00%) Support Consultant
5 8 (13.33%) IT Support Technician
5 8 (13.33%) IT Technician
5 8 (13.33%) Support Technician
6 7 (11.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Analyst
7 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
7 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
8 5 (8.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Consultant
8 5 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
9 4 (6.67%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) Django
2 1 (1.67%) .NET
2 1 (1.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.67%) EDI
2 1 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 10 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 6 (10.00%) Clustering
4 4 (6.67%) NHS
5 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.00%) iPad
5 3 (5.00%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.33%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.67%) Life Science
7 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.67%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 39 (65.00%) Windows
2 18 (30.00%) Windows 10
3 17 (28.33%) Windows Server
4 9 (15.00%) Linux
5 4 (6.67%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (6.67%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (3.33%) Unix
7 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (18.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (18.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (18.33%) ITIL
3 9 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (11.67%) Customer Service
5 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 6 (10.00%) Secure Coding
6 5 (8.33%) DevOps
7 4 (6.67%) Agile
7 4 (6.67%) Embedded Software Development
7 4 (6.67%) Service Delivery
7 4 (6.67%) Service Management
7 4 (6.67%) Software Engineering
7 4 (6.67%) Speech Recognition
7 4 (6.67%) Test Automation
7 4 (6.67%) Time Management
8 3 (5.00%) Data Protection
8 3 (5.00%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.00%) SQL
2 4 (6.67%) C
2 4 (6.67%) C++
3 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.33%) Embedded C++
4 2 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (3.33%) CEH
1 2 (3.33%) CISSP
1 2 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (3.33%) GSEC
1 2 (3.33%) OSCP
1 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) SLA
2 6 (10.00%) GDPR
2 6 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.67%) MISRA
4 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (63.33%) Active Directory
2 12 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (8.33%) Docker
5 4 (6.67%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (6.67%) Firmware
5 4 (6.67%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
1 6 (10.00%) Terraform
2 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.67%) SCCM
4 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.33%) Nessus
5 2 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (1.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 30 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) Veeam
2 6 (10.00%) VMware
3 3 (5.00%) Apple
3 3 (5.00%) Cisco
3 3 (5.00%) Freshdesk
3 3 (5.00%) Google
3 3 (5.00%) Meraki
3 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.33%) Darktrace
4 2 (3.33%) Qualys
5 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds