TCP/IP Jobs in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring TCP/IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited TCP/IP over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 205 202
Rank change year-on-year -34 -3 +21
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 107 218 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.84% 1.10% 1.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.43% 9.85% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 77 164 157
10th Percentile £27,500 £23,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,250 £29,188 £34,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £62,500 £48,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £74,258 £53,375 £67,070
England median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -

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 3,119 2,213 2,849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.38% 11.20% 19.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,465 1,639 1,142
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,875 £27,600
25th Percentile - £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £43,500 £46,900
Median % change year-on-year -42.33% -7.25% -1.26%
75th Percentile £37,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £71,725 £75,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the North of England

TCP/IP
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the North of England.

Salary trend for TCP/IP in the North of England

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +25 62 £40,000 +6.67% 69
North West -55 33 £39,500 -1.25% 98
North East +50 12 £29,000 +22.75% 15
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (19.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.61%) IIS
3 5 (4.67%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.87%) CMS
4 2 (1.87%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (17.76%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.61%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 62 (57.94%) Azure
2 49 (45.79%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (18.69%) AWS
4 17 (15.89%) GCP
5 11 (10.28%) IaaS
5 11 (10.28%) PaaS
5 11 (10.28%) SaaS
6 8 (7.48%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (5.61%) Amazon ECR
7 6 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (5.61%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 6 (5.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 6 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (5.61%) AWS CodeBuild
7 6 (5.61%) dbt
7 6 (5.61%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.61%) OCI
7 6 (5.61%) Pulumi
8 5 (4.67%) NuGet
8 5 (4.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 57 (53.27%) DNS
2 46 (42.99%) DHCP
2 46 (42.99%) Firewall
3 44 (41.12%) VPN
4 32 (29.91%) WAN
5 29 (27.10%) LAN
6 27 (25.23%) VLAN
7 22 (20.56%) Network Security
8 19 (17.76%) BGP
8 19 (17.76%) OSPF
8 19 (17.76%) Wireless
9 8 (7.48%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (5.61%) DWDM
10 6 (5.61%) MPLS
10 6 (5.61%) SD-WAN
11 5 (4.67%) Internet
11 5 (4.67%) VoIP
12 4 (3.74%) EIGRP
12 4 (3.74%) WLAN
13 3 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.28%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.61%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (5.61%) Redis
3 6 (5.61%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.87%) MySQL
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (3.74%) Cucumber
2 4 (3.74%) Robot Framework
3 3 (2.80%) Git
4 2 (1.87%) JIRA
5 1 (0.93%) Subversion
5 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (52.34%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.95%) Documentation Skills
3 10 (9.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.61%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.74%) Local Government
5 4 (3.74%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.87%) Finance
7 2 (1.87%) Legal
7 2 (1.87%) Marketing
7 2 (1.87%) Police
8 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (28.97%) Network Engineer
2 25 (23.36%) Senior
3 14 (13.08%) Technical Support
4 11 (10.28%) IT Support
5 10 (9.35%) Support Engineer
5 10 (9.35%) Technical Engineer
5 10 (9.35%) Technical Support Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Developer
6 6 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) IT Support Technician
6 6 (5.61%) IT Technician
6 6 (5.61%) Senior Technical Support
6 6 (5.61%) Support Technician
7 5 (4.67%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.67%) C# Developer
7 5 (4.67%) Infrastructure Manager
7 5 (4.67%) Senior C# Developer
7 5 (4.67%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.74%) 3rd Line Support
8 4 (3.74%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.48%) Django
2 6 (5.61%) .NET
2 6 (5.61%) REST
3 5 (4.67%) .NET Core
3 5 (4.67%) .NET Framework
3 5 (4.67%) Entity Framework
4 4 (3.74%) Kafka
4 4 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.80%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.87%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.87%) CSS
6 2 (1.87%) HTML
6 2 (1.87%) Node.js
6 2 (1.87%) React
6 2 (1.87%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.67%) Driving Licence
1 5 (4.67%) Public Cloud
2 4 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (2.80%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (2.80%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.87%) Clustering
4 2 (1.87%) LPAR
4 2 (1.87%) PKI
4 2 (1.87%) Replication
4 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.87%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 45 (42.06%) Windows
2 31 (28.97%) Windows Server
3 24 (22.43%) Linux
4 13 (12.15%) Unix
5 10 (9.35%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.87%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.87%) VMS
7 1 (0.93%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.84%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (17.76%) Incident Management
3 15 (14.02%) Customer Service
3 15 (14.02%) DevOps
4 14 (13.08%) CI/CD
5 13 (12.15%) Computer Science
5 13 (12.15%) Task Automation
6 12 (11.21%) Containerisation
6 12 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (11.21%) Migration
6 12 (11.21%) Technical Leadership
7 11 (10.28%) Mentoring
8 9 (8.41%) Continuous Delivery
9 8 (7.48%) Agile
9 8 (7.48%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (7.48%) ITSM
9 8 (7.48%) Network Design
9 8 (7.48%) Network Management
9 8 (7.48%) Test Automation
9 8 (7.48%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 32 (29.91%) Python
2 24 (22.43%) PowerShell
3 9 (8.41%) SQL
4 8 (7.48%) Bash
4 8 (7.48%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.54%) C#
6 3 (2.80%) Bicep
6 3 (2.80%) C++
6 3 (2.80%) Java
7 2 (1.87%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (24.30%) Degree
2 20 (18.69%) SC Cleared
2 20 (18.69%) Security Cleared
3 12 (11.21%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (11.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (11.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (10.28%) CCNA
5 8 (7.48%) JNCIA
6 6 (5.61%) CCNP
6 6 (5.61%) JNCIS
6 6 (5.61%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (2.80%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.80%) CISSP
7 3 (2.80%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.87%) CISM
8 2 (1.87%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.93%) CCSA
9 1 (0.93%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) QA
2 3 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.87%) NCSC
3 2 (1.87%) NIST
3 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (39.25%) Active Directory
2 28 (26.17%) Hyper-V
3 24 (22.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (14.02%) Docker
5 4 (3.74%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.87%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.93%) RHEV
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (19.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (17.76%) Ansible
3 16 (14.95%) FortiGate
4 15 (14.02%) Terraform
5 14 (13.08%) Kubernetes
6 7 (6.54%) SCCM
7 6 (5.61%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (4.67%) WSUS
9 1 (0.93%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 61 (57.01%) Microsoft
2 36 (33.64%) VMware
3 30 (28.04%) Cisco
4 11 (10.28%) Google
5 9 (8.41%) Veeam
6 7 (6.54%) SonicWALL
6 7 (6.54%) Ubiquiti
7 6 (5.61%) Arista
8 5 (4.67%) Draytek
8 5 (4.67%) Fortinet
8 5 (4.67%) WatchGuard
9 4 (3.74%) Citrix
10 3 (2.80%) Apple
10 3 (2.80%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.87%) IBM
11 2 (1.87%) Juniper
11 2 (1.87%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.87%) Sage
11 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.93%) Aruba