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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 166 171
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 +19
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 118 103 177
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.91% 1.33% 1.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.39% 10.88% 11.06%
Number of salaries quoted 101 57 157
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,650 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,750 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.42% +18.75% -2.44%
75th Percentile £48,750 £67,500 £50,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £74,258 £63,000
England median annual salary £38,250 £47,500 £44,500
% change year-on-year -19.47% +6.74% -1.11%

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 2,685 947 1,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 20.76% 12.24% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 792 558 1,365
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £33,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.11% +4.65% -4.44%
75th Percentile £50,298 £63,938 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.64% +10.00% -2.98%

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 21 February 2026.

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 21 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
Yorkshire -18 55 £32,500 -27.78% 16
North West -17 37 £40,500 -26.36% 30
North East +3 26 £45,000 -35.07% 13
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 23 (19.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (11.02%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.54%) IIS
4 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (23.73%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.69%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 71 (60.17%) Azure
2 69 (58.47%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (21.19%) AWS
4 23 (19.49%) GCP
5 17 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (13.56%) GitHub
6 16 (13.56%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (11.86%) Entra ID
8 8 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (5.93%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (5.93%) dbt
9 7 (5.93%) IaaS
9 7 (5.93%) Pulumi
10 5 (4.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 5 (4.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (4.24%) PaaS
10 5 (4.24%) Sentry
11 3 (2.54%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 76 (64.41%) DNS
2 58 (49.15%) Firewall
3 52 (44.07%) DHCP
4 41 (34.75%) VPN
5 23 (19.49%) VLAN
6 22 (18.64%) HTTP
6 22 (18.64%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (17.80%) LAN
7 21 (17.80%) WAN
8 15 (12.71%) Wireless
9 13 (11.02%) Network Security
10 6 (5.08%) SSL
11 5 (4.24%) Internet
12 4 (3.39%) NGN
12 4 (3.39%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (3.39%) Unified Communications
12 4 (3.39%) VoIP
12 4 (3.39%) WLAN
13 3 (2.54%) SD-WAN
14 2 (1.69%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.86%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (9.32%) SQL Server
3 10 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.93%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (5.93%) Redis
5 5 (4.24%) MySQL
6 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 16 (13.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.39%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.85%) Git
3 1 (0.85%) Snyk
General
1 37 (31.36%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.95%) Telecoms
3 16 (13.56%) Law
4 13 (11.02%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.08%) Marketing
6 5 (4.24%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.39%) Retail
8 3 (2.54%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.85%) Finance
10 1 (0.85%) Military
10 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (38.14%) IT Support
2 25 (21.19%) Senior
3 23 (19.49%) Support Engineer
4 21 (17.80%) Support Technician
5 18 (15.25%) 2nd Line Support
6 16 (13.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (13.56%) IT Support Technician
6 16 (13.56%) IT Technician
7 11 (9.32%) IT Engineer
7 11 (9.32%) IT Support Engineer
7 11 (9.32%) Senior IT Support
8 10 (8.47%) Senior IT Technician
8 10 (8.47%) Senior Support Technician
8 10 (8.47%) Senior Technician
9 9 (7.63%) Technical Engineer
9 9 (7.63%) Technical Support
9 9 (7.63%) Technical Support Engineer
10 7 (5.93%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 7 (5.93%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 6 (5.08%) 2nd Line Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.56%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (5.93%) Django
3 4 (3.39%) Qt
3 4 (3.39%) STL
4 3 (2.54%) QML
5 1 (0.85%) .NET
5 1 (0.85%) JSON
5 1 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (25.42%) Driving Licence
2 14 (11.86%) Data Centre
3 10 (8.47%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.78%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.93%) Replication
6 6 (5.08%) LIMS
7 5 (4.24%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (3.39%) Client/Server
8 4 (3.39%) NHS
8 4 (3.39%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.85%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.85%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.85%) iPad
11 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 73 (61.86%) Windows
2 54 (45.76%) Windows Server
3 26 (22.03%) Linux
4 14 (11.86%) Android
5 11 (9.32%) Windows 10
6 8 (6.78%) Mac OS
7 7 (5.93%) Unix
8 6 (5.08%) Apple iOS
9 3 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.85%) CentOS
10 1 (0.85%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (29.66%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (28.81%) Customer Service
3 27 (22.88%) DevOps
4 24 (20.34%) CI/CD
4 24 (20.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (18.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 20 (16.95%) Service Delivery
7 19 (16.10%) Containerisation
7 19 (16.10%) ITIL
8 18 (15.25%) Continuous Delivery
8 18 (15.25%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (14.41%) DevSecOps
9 17 (14.41%) Incident Management
9 17 (14.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (13.56%) High Availability
10 16 (13.56%) Static Code Analysis
10 16 (13.56%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 15 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (12.71%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (11.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.34%) Python
2 17 (14.41%) Bash
3 16 (13.56%) Go
4 10 (8.47%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.93%) SQL
6 4 (3.39%) C++
7 3 (2.54%) C#
7 3 (2.54%) Java
8 2 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (17.80%) SC Cleared
1 21 (17.80%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.25%) Degree
3 11 (9.32%) ITIL Certification
4 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.08%) HNC
5 6 (5.08%) HND
6 5 (4.24%) CCNA
6 5 (4.24%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.69%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.85%) ACSP
8 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.85%) CCNP
8 1 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.39%) QA
3 3 (2.54%) GDPR
4 2 (1.69%) SLA
5 1 (0.85%) GRC
5 1 (0.85%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.85%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 76 (64.41%) Active Directory
2 36 (30.51%) Hyper-V
3 23 (19.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.78%) Docker
5 1 (0.85%) Firmware
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (20.34%) Terraform
2 16 (13.56%) Ansible
2 16 (13.56%) Grafana
2 16 (13.56%) Prometheus
3 14 (11.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (5.93%) Autotask
4 7 (5.93%) FortiGate
5 5 (4.24%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (1.69%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.69%) Plesk
6 2 (1.69%) VxRail
6 2 (1.69%) WSUS
7 1 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.85%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.85%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (65.25%) Microsoft
2 41 (34.75%) VMware
3 16 (13.56%) Citrix
4 14 (11.86%) Veeam
5 9 (7.63%) Cisco
5 9 (7.63%) SonicWALL
6 7 (5.93%) Google
7 5 (4.24%) Apple
7 5 (4.24%) Meraki
7 5 (4.24%) WatchGuard
8 4 (3.39%) Adobe
8 4 (3.39%) Avaya
8 4 (3.39%) Mitel
8 4 (3.39%) Sage
9 3 (2.54%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.69%) Commvault
10 2 (1.69%) Dell
10 2 (1.69%) HP
10 2 (1.69%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.69%) Zerto