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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 162 104
Rank change year-on-year +3 -58 +90
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 72 106 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.01% 1.34% 2.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.38% 9.86% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 71 61 103
10th Percentile £24,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £27,125 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% +10.39%
75th Percentile £47,500 £51,251 £56,625
90th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £63,950
England median annual salary £37,500 £48,245 £45,000
% change year-on-year -22.27% +7.21% -

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 1,339 1,075 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.79% 13.62% 20.25%
Number of salaries quoted 456 437 837
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,900 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £51,313 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -25.93% +4.85% -1.90%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 +7 38 £32,000 -41.82% 31
West Midlands +9 34 £40,000 +14.29% 45
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 (18.06%) SharePoint
2 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.39%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (34.72%) Azure
3 14 (19.44%) Entra ID
4 8 (11.11%) SaaS
5 6 (8.33%) AWS
5 6 (8.33%) iPaaS
6 4 (5.56%) Nutanix
7 3 (4.17%) GCP
7 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.78%) dbt
8 2 (2.78%) Mimecast
8 2 (2.78%) PaaS
8 2 (2.78%) Pulumi
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.39%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.39%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 38 (52.78%) DHCP
2 35 (48.61%) DNS
3 30 (41.67%) Firewall
4 18 (25.00%) VLAN
4 18 (25.00%) WAN
5 17 (23.61%) VPN
6 13 (18.06%) LAN
7 9 (12.50%) 3G
8 8 (11.11%) SD-WAN
9 6 (8.33%) SAN
9 6 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (6.94%) 4G
10 5 (6.94%) ADSL
10 5 (6.94%) SSL
11 4 (5.56%) GPRS
11 4 (5.56%) GSM
11 4 (5.56%) Internet
11 4 (5.56%) Modbus
11 4 (5.56%) RS-232
11 4 (5.56%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (1.39%) JIRA
General
1 23 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (8.33%) Law
5 3 (4.17%) Advertising
5 3 (4.17%) Back Office
5 3 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.17%) Publishing
6 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.78%) Retail
7 1 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (41.67%) IT Support
2 20 (27.78%) IT Engineer
3 18 (25.00%) Support Engineer
4 17 (23.61%) IT Support Engineer
5 13 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (16.67%) IT Support Technician
6 12 (16.67%) IT Technician
6 12 (16.67%) Support Technician
7 11 (15.28%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (12.50%) Consultant
8 9 (12.50%) Support Consultant
9 8 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
9 8 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 6 (8.33%) Analyst
11 5 (6.94%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
11 5 (6.94%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Consultant
11 5 (6.94%) 3rd Line Support
11 5 (6.94%) Network Engineer
12 4 (5.56%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
12 4 (5.56%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.17%) EDI
2 2 (2.78%) Django
3 1 (1.39%) .NET
3 1 (1.39%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.67%) Driving Licence
1 12 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (13.89%) Onboarding
3 7 (9.72%) iPad
4 6 (8.33%) Clustering
5 5 (6.94%) Security Posture
6 4 (5.56%) NHS
7 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.78%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.39%) Life Science
8 1 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.39%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 45 (62.50%) Windows
2 22 (30.56%) Windows 10
3 18 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 10 (13.89%) Linux
5 4 (5.56%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (5.56%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (4.17%) Unix
7 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (18.06%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (15.28%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (12.50%) ITIL
6 7 (9.72%) Customer Service
6 7 (9.72%) Server Management
7 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (8.33%) Risk Management
7 6 (8.33%) Secure Coding
8 5 (6.94%) DevOps
8 5 (6.94%) Incident Response
8 5 (6.94%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (5.56%) Agile
9 4 (5.56%) Embedded Software Development
9 4 (5.56%) ERP
9 4 (5.56%) High Availability
9 4 (5.56%) Software Engineering
9 4 (5.56%) Speech Recognition
9 4 (5.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.72%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.33%) SQL
3 4 (5.56%) C
3 4 (5.56%) C++
4 2 (2.78%) Embedded C++
4 2 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (2.78%) CEH
1 2 (2.78%) CISSP
1 2 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (2.78%) GSEC
1 2 (2.78%) OSCP
1 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.39%) A+ Certification
2 1 (1.39%) CCNA
2 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.72%) SLA
2 6 (8.33%) GDPR
3 5 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (5.56%) MISRA
5 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (56.94%) Active Directory
2 15 (20.83%) Hyper-V
3 9 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (6.94%) Docker
5 4 (5.56%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (5.56%) Firmware
6 3 (4.17%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
2 6 (8.33%) SCCM
2 6 (8.33%) Terraform
3 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.78%) Nessus
4 2 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (1.39%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.39%) Nagios
Vendors
1 41 (56.94%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.50%) VMware
3 8 (11.11%) Cisco
4 7 (9.72%) Apple
4 7 (9.72%) Meraki
5 6 (8.33%) Veeam
6 3 (4.17%) Freshdesk
6 3 (4.17%) Google
6 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.78%) Darktrace
7 2 (2.78%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.78%) Nasuni
7 2 (2.78%) Qualys
7 2 (2.78%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.39%) Aruba
8 1 (1.39%) HP
8 1 (1.39%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.39%) SonicWALL