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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 165 107
Rank change year-on-year +28 -58 +81
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 78 109 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.32% 1.22% 2.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.35% 9.82% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 77 55 100
10th Percentile £24,500 £29,850 £28,950
25th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -17.65% +8.97%
75th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £57,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £64,050
England median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £45,075
% change year-on-year -21.05% +5.38% +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 687 1,110 997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.67% 12.41% 19.70%
Number of salaries quoted 496 435 811
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,748 £35,000 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £53,500 £58,125 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -24.53% +2.91% -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 14 November 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 November 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 +13 40 £32,500 -31.58% 25
West Midlands +18 38 £37,500 +7.14% 24
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 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 11 (14.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.28%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.28%) IIS
3 1 (1.28%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (65.38%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (37.18%) Azure
3 12 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 8 (10.26%) Nutanix
4 8 (10.26%) SaaS
5 6 (7.69%) AWS
5 6 (7.69%) iPaaS
6 5 (6.41%) Mimecast
7 3 (3.85%) GCP
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.56%) dbt
8 2 (2.56%) PaaS
8 2 (2.56%) Pulumi
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.28%) IaaS
9 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.28%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 44 (56.41%) DHCP
2 39 (50.00%) DNS
3 32 (41.03%) Firewall
4 21 (26.92%) VLAN
4 21 (26.92%) WAN
5 16 (20.51%) VPN
6 13 (16.67%) LAN
7 11 (14.10%) 3G
8 10 (12.82%) SD-WAN
9 9 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (8.97%) 4G
10 7 (8.97%) ADSL
11 6 (7.69%) SAN
12 5 (6.41%) SSL
13 4 (5.13%) GPRS
13 4 (5.13%) GSM
13 4 (5.13%) Internet
13 4 (5.13%) Modbus
13 4 (5.13%) RS-232
13 4 (5.13%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.56%) Redis
1 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.28%) Couchbase
2 1 (1.28%) MySQL
2 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.28%) JIRA
General
1 22 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (10.26%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (7.69%) Law
5 3 (3.85%) Advertising
5 3 (3.85%) Back Office
5 3 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.85%) Publishing
6 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.56%) Retail
7 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (39.74%) IT Support
2 23 (29.49%) IT Engineer
3 18 (23.08%) Support Engineer
4 17 (21.79%) IT Support Engineer
5 16 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (17.95%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (16.67%) IT Support Technician
7 13 (16.67%) IT Technician
7 13 (16.67%) Support Technician
8 8 (10.26%) Infrastructure Support
8 8 (10.26%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 7 (8.97%) Analyst
9 7 (8.97%) ICT Officer
9 7 (8.97%) ICT Support
9 7 (8.97%) ICT Support Officer
9 7 (8.97%) Support Officer
10 6 (7.69%) Consultant
10 6 (7.69%) Support Consultant
11 5 (6.41%) 3rd Line Support
11 5 (6.41%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.85%) EDI
2 2 (2.56%) Django
3 1 (1.28%) .NET
3 1 (1.28%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.10%) Driving Licence
2 9 (11.54%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (8.97%) iPad
3 7 (8.97%) Onboarding
4 6 (7.69%) Clustering
5 5 (6.41%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.56%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.28%) Life Science
7 1 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.28%) NHS
7 1 (1.28%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 50 (64.10%) Windows
2 20 (25.64%) Windows Server
3 19 (24.36%) Windows 10
4 12 (15.38%) Linux
5 5 (6.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (6.41%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (5.13%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (5.13%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (3.85%) Unix
8 1 (1.28%) Android
8 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.28%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (14.10%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (10.26%) ITIL
5 8 (10.26%) Server Management
6 7 (8.97%) Customer Service
7 6 (7.69%) DevOps
7 6 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (7.69%) Risk Management
7 6 (7.69%) Secure Coding
8 5 (6.41%) Incident Response
8 5 (6.41%) Preventative Maintenance
8 5 (6.41%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (5.13%) Agile
9 4 (5.13%) Embedded Software Development
9 4 (5.13%) ERP
9 4 (5.13%) High Availability
9 4 (5.13%) Software Engineering
9 4 (5.13%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.82%) PowerShell
2 6 (7.69%) SQL
3 4 (5.13%) C
3 4 (5.13%) C++
4 2 (2.56%) Embedded C++
4 2 (2.56%) Python
5 1 (1.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (2.56%) A+ Certification
2 2 (2.56%) CCNA
2 2 (2.56%) CEH
2 2 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (2.56%) CISSP
2 2 (2.56%) Degree
2 2 (2.56%) GSEC
2 2 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
2 2 (2.56%) OSCP
2 2 (2.56%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.28%) JNCIA
3 1 (1.28%) MCSA
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.69%) GDPR
2 5 (6.41%) SLA
3 4 (5.13%) MISRA
4 3 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.56%) NIST
System Software
1 44 (56.41%) Active Directory
2 17 (21.79%) Hyper-V
3 13 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (6.41%) Docker
5 4 (5.13%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (5.13%) Firmware
6 1 (1.28%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (8.97%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (8.97%) Terraform
2 6 (7.69%) Failover Clustering
2 6 (7.69%) SCCM
3 4 (5.13%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.56%) Nessus
4 2 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.28%) Ansible
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (1.28%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.28%) Nagios
5 1 (1.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (58.97%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.67%) VMware
3 12 (15.38%) Cisco
4 10 (12.82%) Meraki
5 7 (8.97%) Apple
6 6 (7.69%) Veeam
7 5 (6.41%) Nasuni
7 5 (6.41%) Rapid7
8 3 (3.85%) Freshdesk
8 3 (3.85%) Google
8 3 (3.85%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.56%) Darktrace
9 2 (2.56%) Fortinet
9 2 (2.56%) HP
9 2 (2.56%) Qualys
10 1 (1.28%) Juniper
10 1 (1.28%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.28%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.28%) SonicWALL
10 1 (1.28%) Sophos