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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 151 138
Rank change year-on-year -17 -13 +50
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 65 78 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.71% 1.38% 1.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.08% 8.78% 10.86%
Number of salaries quoted 62 57 131
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £24,696
25th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -22.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £47,500 £51,251 £57,000
90th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £62,600
England median annual salary £39,250 £47,500 £44,000
% change year-on-year -17.37% +7.95% -2.22%

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 1,592 888 1,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.43% 15.68% 15.62%
Number of salaries quoted 428 400 1,137
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,450 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,750 £36,250 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,750 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.50% +17.65% -3.68%
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £66,500 £74,144 £67,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.64% +10.00% -3.05%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -12 44 £32,500 -40.91% 5
West Midlands -15 21 £52,500 +50.00% 14
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 17 (26.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (23.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.54%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (61.54%) Microsoft 365
2 31 (47.69%) Azure
3 24 (36.92%) Entra ID
4 9 (13.85%) SaaS
5 6 (9.23%) iPaaS
6 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (6.15%) AWS
7 4 (6.15%) GCP
8 3 (4.62%) Nutanix
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.08%) dbt
9 2 (3.08%) PaaS
9 2 (3.08%) Pulumi
10 1 (1.54%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (1.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.54%) IaaS
10 1 (1.54%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.54%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 44 (67.69%) DNS
2 42 (64.62%) DHCP
3 27 (41.54%) VPN
4 21 (32.31%) Firewall
5 17 (26.15%) VLAN
6 10 (15.38%) VoIP
7 9 (13.85%) WAN
8 7 (10.77%) SD-WAN
8 7 (10.77%) SSL
9 6 (9.23%) 3G
9 6 (9.23%) SAN
10 5 (7.69%) Wireless
11 4 (6.15%) GPRS
11 4 (6.15%) GSM
11 4 (6.15%) HTTP
11 4 (6.15%) Internet
11 4 (6.15%) LAN
11 4 (6.15%) Modbus
11 4 (6.15%) PBX
11 4 (6.15%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 33 (50.77%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Law
3 6 (9.23%) Legal
4 5 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.08%) Automotive
7 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (36.92%) IT Support
2 13 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 13 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 12 (18.46%) IT Support Engineer
4 11 (16.92%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 11 (16.92%) 3rd Line Support
5 9 (13.85%) Analyst
5 9 (13.85%) Consultant
5 9 (13.85%) Support Consultant
6 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (12.31%) Support Analyst
7 6 (9.23%) 2nd Line Support
7 6 (9.23%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) IT Support Technician
7 6 (9.23%) IT Technician
7 6 (9.23%) Support Technician
8 5 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Consultant
8 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
8 5 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) Django
2 1 (1.54%) .NET
2 1 (1.54%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.54%) LDAP
2 1 (1.54%) SAP CAF
2 1 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.54%) Driving Licence
2 13 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 12 (18.46%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (9.23%) Clustering
5 4 (6.15%) NHS
6 3 (4.62%) Data Centre
7 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
7 2 (3.08%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (3.08%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.54%) iPad
8 1 (1.54%) Life Science
8 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.54%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 49 (75.38%) Windows
2 25 (38.46%) Windows 10
3 17 (26.15%) Windows Server
4 7 (10.77%) Mac OS
5 6 (9.23%) Linux
6 4 (6.15%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (6.15%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (3.08%) Unix
8 1 (1.54%) Android
8 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (23.08%) ITSM
3 13 (20.00%) ITIL
4 12 (18.46%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (16.92%) Customer Service
6 10 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (15.38%) Service Delivery
7 8 (12.31%) Identity Management
8 6 (9.23%) Application Packaging
8 6 (9.23%) CRM
8 6 (9.23%) E-Commerce
8 6 (9.23%) ERP
8 6 (9.23%) Logistics
8 6 (9.23%) Risk Management
8 6 (9.23%) Secure Coding
8 6 (9.23%) Service Management
8 6 (9.23%) Task Automation
9 5 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
9 5 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.31%) PowerShell
2 6 (9.23%) SQL
3 4 (6.15%) C
3 4 (6.15%) C++
4 2 (3.08%) Embedded C++
4 2 (3.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (9.23%) Degree
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (4.62%) A+ Certification
2 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.62%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) CEH
3 2 (3.08%) CISSP
3 2 (3.08%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (3.08%) GSEC
3 2 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.08%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.46%) GDPR
2 9 (13.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (12.31%) SLA
4 7 (10.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (6.15%) MISRA
6 2 (3.08%) NIST
7 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 44 (67.69%) Active Directory
2 11 (16.92%) Hyper-V
3 5 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.15%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (6.15%) Firmware
4 4 (6.15%) Terminal Services
5 2 (3.08%) Docker
6 1 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (9.23%) Failover Clustering
2 6 (9.23%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (6.15%) SCCM
4 3 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.62%) Terraform
5 2 (3.08%) Nagios
5 2 (3.08%) Nessus
6 1 (1.54%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (1.54%) CASB
Vendors
1 41 (63.08%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.77%) Apple
3 6 (9.23%) Logitech
3 6 (9.23%) Veeam
3 6 (9.23%) Yealink
4 5 (7.69%) VMware
5 4 (6.15%) Cisco
6 3 (4.62%) Freshdesk
6 3 (4.62%) Google
6 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.08%) Darktrace
7 2 (3.08%) Epicor
7 2 (3.08%) Meraki
7 2 (3.08%) Qualys
7 2 (3.08%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.08%) TP-LINK
8 1 (1.54%) Autodesk
8 1 (1.54%) Netskope
8 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.54%) SAP