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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 159 131
Rank change year-on-year +23 -28 +21
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 104 128 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.84% 1.28% 1.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.43% 11.65% 10.25%
Number of salaries quoted 85 81 89
10th Percentile £24,700 £28,750 £27,400
25th Percentile £27,750 £31,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -14.63% +2.50%
75th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £53,478
90th Percentile £50,000 £50,250 £62,830
England median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% -8.60% +3.33%

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 837 1,099 1,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.84% 10.96% 19.46%
Number of salaries quoted 500 608 763
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -2.30% -8.42%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £57,625
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £69,910
England median annual salary £41,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -18.00% -2.91% -1.90%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP 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 September 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 September 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 +39 57 £32,500 -7.14% 23
East Midlands +12 47 £30,000 -14.29% 18
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (17.31%) SharePoint
2 10 (9.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.92%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.96%) nginx
Applications
1 29 (27.88%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (5.77%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (5.77%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 72 (69.23%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (16.35%) Azure
3 7 (6.73%) Nutanix
4 6 (5.77%) Mimecast
5 5 (4.81%) AWS
6 4 (3.85%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.88%) iPaaS
7 3 (2.88%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.88%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.88%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.88%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (49.04%) DHCP
2 33 (31.73%) Firewall
3 32 (30.77%) DNS
4 31 (29.81%) VPN
5 29 (27.88%) WAN
6 20 (19.23%) LAN
7 17 (16.35%) VLAN
8 16 (15.38%) 3G
8 16 (15.38%) 4G
8 16 (15.38%) ADSL
9 13 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (11.54%) SD-WAN
11 6 (5.77%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (4.81%) SAN
13 3 (2.88%) Softphone
14 2 (1.92%) Internet
14 2 (1.92%) MPLS
14 2 (1.92%) Network Security
14 2 (1.92%) Wireless
14 2 (1.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.96%) Couchbase
2 1 (0.96%) MySQL
2 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (14.42%) Cucumber
1 15 (14.42%) Robot Framework
General
1 43 (41.35%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.19%) Telecoms
3 15 (14.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (10.58%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.73%) Law
7 4 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.88%) Advertising
8 3 (2.88%) Back Office
8 3 (2.88%) Publishing
9 1 (0.96%) Finance
9 1 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 40 (38.46%) IT Support
2 17 (16.35%) IT Engineer
3 16 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (14.42%) ICT Officer
4 15 (14.42%) ICT Support
4 15 (14.42%) ICT Support Officer
4 15 (14.42%) Support Officer
4 15 (14.42%) Test Automation Engineer
4 15 (14.42%) Test Engineer
5 14 (13.46%) Analyst
5 14 (13.46%) IT Support Technician
5 14 (13.46%) IT Technician
5 14 (13.46%) Support Technician
6 12 (11.54%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (10.58%) Support Analyst
8 10 (9.62%) IT Support Engineer
8 10 (9.62%) Lead
8 10 (9.62%) Support Engineer
9 9 (8.65%) IT Analyst
9 9 (8.65%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.88%) EDI
2 2 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 15 (14.42%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (5.77%) iPad
4 3 (2.88%) Clustering
4 3 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.88%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.96%) Life Science
6 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 76 (73.08%) Windows
2 24 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 23 (22.12%) Linux
4 11 (10.58%) Windows 10
5 8 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (6.73%) Apple iOS
7 6 (5.77%) Mac OS
7 6 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.96%) Android
10 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (35.58%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (18.27%) DevOps
3 18 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (16.35%) Mentoring
5 15 (14.42%) Coaching
5 15 (14.42%) System Testing
5 15 (14.42%) Test Automation
5 15 (14.42%) Test Management
6 13 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 13 (12.50%) ITIL
7 10 (9.62%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (8.65%) Data Security
8 9 (8.65%) ERP
9 7 (6.73%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (6.73%) Server Management
10 6 (5.77%) High Availability
10 6 (5.77%) Preventative Maintenance
11 5 (4.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (4.81%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 33 (31.73%) PowerShell
2 17 (16.35%) Bash
2 17 (16.35%) Python
3 15 (14.42%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.85%) SQL
5 2 (1.92%) Perl
6 1 (0.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (25.00%) Degree
2 6 (5.77%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (4.81%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.92%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.92%) CCNA
6 2 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.96%) CCNP
7 1 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.96%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.96%) MCSA
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.38%) QA
2 8 (7.69%) SLA
3 3 (2.88%) GDPR
4 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 49 (47.12%) Active Directory
2 22 (21.15%) Hyper-V
3 21 (20.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.69%) SCCM
2 4 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.85%) SCOM
2 4 (3.85%) Terraform
3 3 (2.88%) Ansible
3 3 (2.88%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.92%) Nagios
4 2 (1.92%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.92%) Puppet
4 2 (1.92%) SCOrch
4 2 (1.92%) SCSM
5 1 (0.96%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.96%) WSUS
Vendors
1 58 (55.77%) Microsoft
2 21 (20.19%) VMware
3 13 (12.50%) Cisco
4 12 (11.54%) Apple
5 11 (10.58%) Meraki
6 6 (5.77%) Nasuni
6 6 (5.77%) Rapid7
6 6 (5.77%) SAP
7 3 (2.88%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.88%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.88%) Veeam
8 2 (1.92%) ArcSight
8 2 (1.92%) HP
8 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.92%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.92%) Splunk
9 1 (0.96%) Aruba
9 1 (0.96%) Juniper
9 1 (0.96%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.96%) Sophos