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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 137 168
Rank change year-on-year -46 +31 -2
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 89 102 134
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.63% 1.78% 1.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 11.74% 10.66%
Number of salaries quoted 73 83 109
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,000 £23,625
25th Percentile £30,500 £27,750 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -7.14% -7.89%
75th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £45,500
90th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £56,250
England median annual salary £38,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.67% -11.76% -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 712 869 1,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.05% 15.15% 11.62%
Number of salaries quoted 574 524 854
10th Percentile £27,694 £26,325 £25,950
25th Percentile £31,000 £29,938 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% -9.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -2.91%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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
West Midlands -48 45 £37,500 +15.38% 19
East Midlands -16 44 £32,500 +4.00% 10
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 15 (16.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (11.24%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.62%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (13.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (12.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Sage 200
2 1 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (70.79%) Microsoft 365
2 44 (49.44%) Azure
3 29 (32.58%) Entra ID
4 9 (10.11%) AWS
5 4 (4.49%) SaaS
6 3 (3.37%) Cloudflare
6 3 (3.37%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.25%) dbt
7 2 (2.25%) GCP
8 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.12%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 63 (70.79%) DNS
2 56 (62.92%) DHCP
3 40 (44.94%) VPN
4 34 (38.20%) Firewall
5 32 (35.96%) VLAN
6 19 (21.35%) WAN
7 12 (13.48%) LAN
8 10 (11.24%) Wireless
9 9 (10.11%) SD-WAN
10 7 (7.87%) VoIP
11 6 (6.74%) Network Security
11 6 (6.74%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (4.49%) BGP
13 3 (3.37%) OSPF
14 2 (2.25%) SNMP
15 1 (1.12%) DMZ
15 1 (1.12%) HTTP
15 1 (1.12%) SAN
15 1 (1.12%) SSL
15 1 (1.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.25%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (2.25%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (5.62%) JIRA
2 4 (4.49%) Git
General
1 57 (64.04%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.60%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.74%) Legal
3 6 (6.74%) Telecoms
4 5 (5.62%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.62%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.37%) Electronics
5 3 (3.37%) Finance
6 2 (2.25%) Law
7 1 (1.12%) Automotive
7 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (43.82%) IT Support
2 22 (24.72%) IT Technician
3 21 (23.60%) Support Engineer
4 20 (22.47%) IT Support Technician
4 20 (22.47%) Support Technician
5 17 (19.10%) IT Engineer
6 14 (15.73%) IT Support Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Network Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) 3rd Line Support
9 6 (6.74%) 2nd Line Support
9 6 (6.74%) Analyst
10 5 (5.62%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
10 5 (5.62%) Administrator
10 5 (5.62%) Systems Administrator
11 4 (4.49%) Service Analyst
11 4 (4.49%) Service Desk Analyst
11 4 (4.49%) Technical Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Technical Support
11 4 (4.49%) Technical Support Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.49%) COM
1 4 (4.49%) DCOM
1 4 (4.49%) LDAP
1 4 (4.49%) Middleware
2 3 (3.37%) XML
3 1 (1.12%) gRPC
3 1 (1.12%) REST
3 1 (1.12%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.61%) Driving Licence
2 7 (7.87%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.62%) PKI
4 4 (4.49%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.49%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.49%) Smartcard
5 3 (3.37%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.37%) SCADA
6 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.12%) Digital Signage
7 1 (1.12%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.12%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.12%) PMI
7 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) Replication
7 1 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 68 (76.40%) Windows
2 33 (37.08%) Windows Server
3 25 (28.09%) Windows 10
4 19 (21.35%) Linux
5 12 (13.48%) Mac OS
6 8 (8.99%) Apple iOS
7 7 (7.87%) Android
8 2 (2.25%) Unix
9 1 (1.12%) Debian
9 1 (1.12%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (47.19%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (38.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 28 (31.46%) ITSM
4 23 (25.84%) Customer Service
5 17 (19.10%) Mentoring
6 16 (17.98%) Service Delivery
7 15 (16.85%) Collaborative Working
7 15 (16.85%) ITIL
7 15 (16.85%) Project Delivery
8 14 (15.73%) Process Improvement
9 11 (12.36%) Patch Management
10 9 (10.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (10.11%) Risk Management
10 9 (10.11%) Server Patching
11 8 (8.99%) DevOps
11 8 (8.99%) High Availability
11 8 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (8.99%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (8.99%) Task Automation
12 7 (7.87%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.22%) SQL
2 12 (13.48%) VBA
3 10 (11.24%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.62%) Python
5 2 (2.25%) Bash
6 1 (1.12%) PHP
6 1 (1.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (17.98%) Degree
2 12 (13.48%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.62%) CCNA
5 5 (5.62%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.25%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.12%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.12%) CCNP
7 1 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.85%) SLA
2 8 (8.99%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (6.74%) GDPR
4 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.12%) ISO 14001
6 1 (1.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 62 (69.66%) Active Directory
2 29 (32.58%) Hyper-V
3 14 (15.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.62%) Firmware
5 4 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (20.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (8.99%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (5.62%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.25%) Terraform
5 1 (1.12%) Ansible
5 1 (1.12%) Grafana
5 1 (1.12%) Nagios
5 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.12%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 71 (79.78%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.85%) VMware
3 12 (13.48%) Cisco
4 7 (7.87%) Fortinet
4 7 (7.87%) ServiceNow
5 5 (5.62%) Apple
5 5 (5.62%) Logitech
5 5 (5.62%) MobileIron
5 5 (5.62%) Yealink
6 4 (4.49%) Freshdesk
6 4 (4.49%) Meraki
6 4 (4.49%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.37%) SAP
8 2 (2.25%) Google
8 2 (2.25%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.25%) Sage
8 2 (2.25%) SonicWALL
8 2 (2.25%) Sophos
8 2 (2.25%) Veeam
8 2 (2.25%) WatchGuard