TCP/IP Job Trends in the North of England

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 183 138
Rank change year-on-year +39 -45 +68
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 132 131 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.36% 1.06% 1.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.17% 11.62% 12.39%
Number of salaries quoted 108 76 133
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,375 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% -5.56% +21.15%
75th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £58,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £74,144 £69,800
England median annual salary £37,500 £47,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% +3.26% +2.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,840 1,127 1,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 19.01% 9.11% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 896 590 940
10th Percentile - £29,000 £27,600
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% - -
75th Percentile £42,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £64,375 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -25.23% +3.88% -1.90%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing TCP/IP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

TCP/IP job vacancy trend in the North of England

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing TCP/IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Salary histogram for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Yorkshire +26 63 £32,500 -20.73% 19
North East +41 38 £29,000 -58.16% 6
North West +5 31 £40,500 -4.71% 38
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 45 (34.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (9.85%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.55%) IIS
4 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 82 (62.12%) Microsoft 365
2 80 (60.61%) Azure
3 17 (12.88%) IaaS
4 16 (12.12%) AWS
5 15 (11.36%) GCP
5 15 (11.36%) PaaS
6 14 (10.61%) Entra ID
7 13 (9.85%) SaaS
8 7 (5.30%) OneDrive
9 5 (3.79%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.79%) dbt
9 5 (3.79%) OCI
9 5 (3.79%) Pulumi
10 3 (2.27%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 3 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (2.27%) GitHub
10 3 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.27%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 72 (54.55%) DNS
2 64 (48.48%) Firewall
3 59 (44.70%) DHCP
4 57 (43.18%) VPN
5 47 (35.61%) VLAN
6 33 (25.00%) LAN
7 32 (24.24%) WAN
8 27 (20.45%) Wireless
9 22 (16.67%) Network Security
10 14 (10.61%) VoIP
10 14 (10.61%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (8.33%) BGP
11 11 (8.33%) Internet
11 11 (8.33%) OSPF
12 10 (7.58%) SSL
13 9 (6.82%) Remote Desktop
14 6 (4.55%) HTTP
14 6 (4.55%) SD-WAN
15 5 (3.79%) NGN
15 5 (3.79%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.15%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (10.61%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.79%) Redis
3 5 (3.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (3.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.52%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.76%) Git
3 1 (0.76%) JIRA
3 1 (0.76%) Snyk
General
1 67 (50.76%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.36%) Documentation Skills
3 12 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 8 (6.06%) Manufacturing
4 8 (6.06%) Marketing
5 5 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.03%) Retail
7 3 (2.27%) Law
8 2 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (27.27%) Support Engineer
2 33 (25.00%) Technical Support
3 29 (21.97%) Technical Engineer
3 29 (21.97%) Technical Support Engineer
4 23 (17.42%) IT Support
5 20 (15.15%) Support Technician
6 19 (14.39%) Senior
7 14 (10.61%) IT Support Technician
7 14 (10.61%) IT Technician
7 14 (10.61%) Network Engineer
8 13 (9.85%) 2nd Line Support
8 13 (9.85%) 3rd Line Support
9 8 (6.06%) Coordinator
10 7 (5.30%) Analyst
11 5 (3.79%) 3rd Line Support Technician
11 5 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.79%) Unified Communications Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) IT Analyst
12 4 (3.03%) IT Engineer
12 4 (3.03%) Senior Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.06%) .NET
2 5 (3.79%) Django
3 3 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.52%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.52%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.52%) Entity Framework
4 2 (1.52%) QML
4 2 (1.52%) Qt
4 2 (1.52%) STL
5 1 (0.76%) JSON
5 1 (0.76%) Kafka
5 1 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.76%) RESTful
5 1 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.39%) Driving Licence
2 13 (9.85%) Data Centre
3 10 (7.58%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.06%) LIMS
5 5 (3.79%) Clustering
5 5 (3.79%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (3.03%) NHS
6 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.03%) Replication
7 3 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.52%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.76%) BYOD
9 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.76%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.76%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.76%) iPad
9 1 (0.76%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 75 (56.82%) Windows
2 55 (41.67%) Windows Server
3 30 (22.73%) Linux
4 10 (7.58%) Windows 10
5 9 (6.82%) Mac OS
5 9 (6.82%) Unix
6 5 (3.79%) Android
7 2 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.76%) Check Point GAiA
8 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (37.88%) Customer Service
2 35 (26.52%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (11.36%) Collaborative Working
4 15 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (11.36%) Customer-Centricity
4 15 (11.36%) Incident Management
5 13 (9.85%) Network Management
6 12 (9.09%) DevOps
6 12 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (9.09%) Virtual Environments
7 11 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 11 (8.33%) Information Security
7 11 (8.33%) ITIL
7 11 (8.33%) Network Design
8 9 (6.82%) Computer Science
8 9 (6.82%) Service Delivery
9 8 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (6.06%) Mentoring
9 8 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.36%) PowerShell
2 14 (10.61%) Python
3 10 (7.58%) SQL
4 4 (3.03%) Bash
4 4 (3.03%) C#
5 3 (2.27%) Go
6 2 (1.52%) C++
6 2 (1.52%) Java
6 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (18.18%) Degree
2 20 (15.15%) SC Cleared
2 20 (15.15%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.85%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (7.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (6.06%) CCNA
5 8 (6.06%) HNC
5 8 (6.06%) HND
5 8 (6.06%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (5.30%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (3.79%) CISSP
7 5 (3.79%) DBS Check
8 4 (3.03%) CCIE
8 4 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.52%) CCNP
10 1 (0.76%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.76%) CCSA
10 1 (0.76%) CCSE
10 1 (0.76%) GCIA
10 1 (0.76%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.52%) QA
2 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.76%) GRC
2 1 (0.76%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 91 (68.94%) Active Directory
2 55 (41.67%) Hyper-V
3 42 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (15.91%) FortiGate
3 8 (6.06%) Ansible
3 8 (6.06%) Terraform
4 5 (3.79%) Autotask
4 5 (3.79%) SCCM
5 3 (2.27%) AWS Copilot
5 3 (2.27%) Grafana
5 3 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.52%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.52%) Plesk
Vendors
1 92 (69.70%) Microsoft
2 47 (35.61%) VMware
3 28 (21.21%) Cisco
4 24 (18.18%) SonicWALL
4 24 (18.18%) Veeam
5 15 (11.36%) WatchGuard
6 9 (6.82%) Apple
6 9 (6.82%) Sage
7 7 (5.30%) Fortinet
7 7 (5.30%) Google
8 4 (3.03%) Adobe
8 4 (3.03%) Avaya
8 4 (3.03%) Mitel
9 3 (2.27%) Citrix
10 2 (1.52%) Draytek
10 2 (1.52%) Meraki
11 1 (0.76%) Checkmarx
11 1 (0.76%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.76%) Qualys
11 1 (0.76%) Ubiquiti