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

 6 months to
14 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 137 157
Rank change year-on-year -51 +20 +43
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 58 92 202
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.47% 1.83% 1.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.02% 10.80% 12.29%
Number of salaries quoted 48 73 170
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,000 £24,696
25th Percentile £30,500 £27,750 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% -9.62%
75th Percentile £35,938 £37,500 £50,250
90th Percentile £43,600 £43,750 £57,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -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 643 852 1,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.20% 16.96% 11.77%
Number of salaries quoted 502 488 1,258
10th Percentile £27,694 £26,968 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,000 £30,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £40,313
Median % change year-on-year - +5.43% -6.79%
75th Percentile £58,450 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,125 £64,125
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

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 June 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 14 June 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 -30 33 £32,500 +4.84% 12
West Midlands -47 25 £33,250 +2.31% 20
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 10 (17.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (15.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (6.90%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (70.69%) Microsoft 365
2 26 (44.83%) Azure
3 20 (34.48%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.17%) AWS
5 2 (3.45%) SaaS
6 1 (1.72%) GCP
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.72%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 42 (72.41%) DNS
2 41 (70.69%) DHCP
3 29 (50.00%) VPN
4 24 (41.38%) VLAN
5 16 (27.59%) Firewall
6 14 (24.14%) WAN
7 10 (17.24%) SD-WAN
8 8 (13.79%) VoIP
8 8 (13.79%) Wireless
9 5 (8.62%) LAN
10 3 (5.17%) BGP
10 3 (5.17%) OSPF
10 3 (5.17%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (3.45%) Network Security
11 2 (3.45%) SNMP
12 1 (1.72%) DMZ
12 1 (1.72%) IPFIX
12 1 (1.72%) SAN
12 1 (1.72%) SSL
12 1 (1.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 42 (72.41%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.52%) Legal
4 7 (12.07%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Finance
7 2 (3.45%) Automotive
7 2 (3.45%) Law
8 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (48.28%) IT Support
2 14 (24.14%) Support Engineer
3 12 (20.69%) IT Support Technician
3 12 (20.69%) IT Technician
3 12 (20.69%) Support Technician
4 9 (15.52%) IT Engineer
4 9 (15.52%) IT Support Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 8 (13.79%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (13.79%) Analyst
6 6 (10.34%) Network Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (6.90%) IT Analyst
7 4 (6.90%) IT Support Analyst
7 4 (6.90%) Support Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) Service Desk Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) Technical Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) LDAP
2 3 (5.17%) COM
2 3 (5.17%) DCOM
2 3 (5.17%) Middleware
3 1 (1.72%) gRPC
3 1 (1.72%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Driving Licence
2 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.90%) PKI
2 4 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.17%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.17%) Smartcard
4 2 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Insider Threat
5 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (77.59%) Windows
2 23 (39.66%) Windows 10
3 13 (22.41%) Mac OS
3 13 (22.41%) Windows Server
4 8 (13.79%) Linux
5 6 (10.34%) Apple iOS
6 4 (6.90%) Android
7 1 (1.72%) Debian
7 1 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (53.45%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (39.66%) ITSM
3 16 (27.59%) Customer Service
4 15 (25.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (24.14%) Service Delivery
6 11 (18.97%) ITIL
7 10 (17.24%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (15.52%) Mentoring
8 9 (15.52%) Process Improvement
8 9 (15.52%) Project Delivery
9 8 (13.79%) Application Packaging
9 8 (13.79%) CRM
9 8 (13.79%) E-Commerce
9 8 (13.79%) Identity Management
9 8 (13.79%) Network Monitoring
9 8 (13.79%) Task Automation
10 6 (10.34%) ERP
10 6 (10.34%) Logistics
11 5 (8.62%) Customer Experience
11 5 (8.62%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.41%) SQL
2 9 (15.52%) PowerShell
3 8 (13.79%) VBA
4 2 (3.45%) Python
5 1 (1.72%) Bash
5 1 (1.72%) PHP
5 1 (1.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) Degree
2 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.17%) A+ Certification
4 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.24%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (13.79%) GDPR
2 8 (13.79%) SLA
3 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.72%) ISO 14001
4 1 (1.72%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 40 (68.97%) Active Directory
2 16 (27.59%) Hyper-V
3 8 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.17%) Firmware
4 3 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (27.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (13.79%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (5.17%) FortiGate
3 3 (5.17%) Nagios
4 1 (1.72%) Ansible
4 1 (1.72%) CASB
4 1 (1.72%) Grafana
4 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (84.48%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.79%) Apple
2 8 (13.79%) Logitech
2 8 (13.79%) VMware
2 8 (13.79%) Yealink
3 6 (10.34%) Cisco
4 4 (6.90%) Fortinet
4 4 (6.90%) Freshdesk
4 4 (6.90%) MobileIron
4 4 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.45%) Epicor
5 2 (3.45%) Meraki
5 2 (3.45%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.45%) TP-LINK
5 2 (3.45%) Veeam
6 1 (1.72%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.72%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) Sophos
6 1 (1.72%) WatchGuard
32 TCP/IP jobs in the Midlands