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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 176 123
Rank change year-on-year +36 -53 +16
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 95 107 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.72% 1.15% 2.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.59% 9.76% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 90 55 90
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,750 £28,400
25th Percentile £26,250 £31,625 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £43,750 £38,125 £55,938
90th Percentile £53,875 £60,000 £64,050
England median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -21.05% - +5.56%

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 820 1,096 970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.80% 11.75% 18.52%
Number of salaries quoted 498 472 804
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,025 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +4.05% -8.95%
75th Percentile £53,641 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,550 £72,500 £69,235
England median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% - -

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 14 October 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 14 October 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
West Midlands +37 55 £32,500 -7.14% 29
East Midlands +16 40 £32,500 - 17
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 18 (18.95%) SharePoint
2 12 (12.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.11%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.05%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.05%) IIS
4 1 (1.05%) nginx
Applications
1 26 (27.37%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (4.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 69 (72.63%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (25.26%) Azure
3 8 (8.42%) Nutanix
3 8 (8.42%) SaaS
4 6 (6.32%) iPaaS
4 6 (6.32%) Mimecast
5 5 (5.26%) AWS
5 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.11%) GCP
6 2 (2.11%) PaaS
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (1.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.05%) dbt
7 1 (1.05%) IaaS
7 1 (1.05%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.05%) Pulumi
7 1 (1.05%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 54 (56.84%) DHCP
2 39 (41.05%) DNS
3 37 (38.95%) Firewall
4 28 (29.47%) WAN
5 21 (22.11%) VLAN
6 19 (20.00%) LAN
7 18 (18.95%) VPN
8 16 (16.84%) 3G
9 12 (12.63%) 4G
9 12 (12.63%) ADSL
9 12 (12.63%) SD-WAN
10 10 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (8.42%) SAN
12 6 (6.32%) Remote Desktop
13 5 (5.26%) SSL
14 4 (4.21%) GPRS
14 4 (4.21%) GSM
14 4 (4.21%) Internet
14 4 (4.21%) RS-232
14 4 (4.21%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.16%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.05%) Couchbase
2 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.05%) MySQL
2 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 30 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.68%) Organisational Skills
3 10 (10.53%) Law
4 8 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.37%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.16%) Advertising
7 3 (3.16%) Back Office
7 3 (3.16%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.16%) Publishing
8 2 (2.11%) Retail
9 1 (1.05%) Finance
9 1 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (38.95%) IT Support
2 21 (22.11%) IT Engineer
3 20 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (15.79%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (15.79%) IT Support Technician
4 15 (15.79%) IT Technician
4 15 (15.79%) Support Engineer
4 15 (15.79%) Support Technician
5 14 (14.74%) IT Support Engineer
6 12 (12.63%) Analyst
6 12 (12.63%) ICT Officer
6 12 (12.63%) ICT Support
6 12 (12.63%) ICT Support Officer
6 12 (12.63%) Support Officer
7 9 (9.47%) 1st Line Support
8 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Support
8 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 8 (8.42%) Support Analyst
9 5 (5.26%) Lead
9 5 (5.26%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.16%) EDI
2 2 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.05%) .NET
3 1 (1.05%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.05%) Django
3 1 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.05%) Driving Licence
2 7 (7.37%) iPad
3 6 (6.32%) Clustering
3 6 (6.32%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.32%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.16%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.11%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.05%) Life Science
6 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 65 (68.42%) Windows
2 27 (28.42%) Windows Server
3 15 (15.79%) Windows 10
4 13 (13.68%) Linux
5 8 (8.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (6.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (5.26%) Apple iOS
7 5 (5.26%) Mac OS
8 4 (4.21%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (4.21%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (2.11%) Unix
10 2 (2.11%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (1.05%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (23.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (14.74%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (14.74%) ITIL
4 13 (13.68%) Customer Service
4 13 (13.68%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (8.42%) ERP
5 8 (8.42%) Server Management
6 7 (7.37%) Agile
6 7 (7.37%) Collaborative Culture
6 7 (7.37%) Data Security
7 6 (6.32%) High Availability
7 6 (6.32%) Preventative Maintenance
7 6 (6.32%) Risk Management
8 5 (5.26%) DevOps
8 5 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (4.21%) Embedded Software Development
9 4 (4.21%) Incident Response
9 4 (4.21%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.89%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.42%) SQL
3 4 (4.21%) C
3 4 (4.21%) C++
4 3 (3.16%) Python
5 2 (2.11%) Bash
5 2 (2.11%) Embedded C++
5 2 (2.11%) Perl
6 1 (1.05%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (9.47%) Degree
2 5 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.21%) DV Cleared
3 4 (4.21%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.11%) A+ Certification
4 2 (2.11%) CCNA
4 2 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.11%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.05%) JNCIA
5 1 (1.05%) MCSA
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.05%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) SLA
2 6 (6.32%) GDPR
3 4 (4.21%) MISRA
4 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 56 (58.95%) Active Directory
2 23 (24.21%) Hyper-V
3 19 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.21%) Docker
4 4 (4.21%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (4.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (8.42%) SCCM
2 6 (6.32%) Failover Clustering
2 6 (6.32%) Terraform
3 4 (4.21%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.21%) SCOM
4 3 (3.16%) Ansible
4 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.11%) Nagios
5 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.11%) Puppet
5 2 (2.11%) SCOrch
5 2 (2.11%) SCSM
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (1.05%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.05%) WSUS
Vendors
1 60 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 19 (20.00%) VMware
3 14 (14.74%) Cisco
4 12 (12.63%) Meraki
5 11 (11.58%) Apple
6 6 (6.32%) Nasuni
6 6 (6.32%) Rapid7
6 6 (6.32%) Veeam
7 4 (4.21%) SAP
8 3 (3.16%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.16%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.11%) ArcSight
9 2 (2.11%) Google
9 2 (2.11%) HP
9 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.11%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.11%) Splunk
10 1 (1.05%) Aruba
10 1 (1.05%) Juniper
10 1 (1.05%) Sophos