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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 203 202
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 -7
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 142 108 204
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.69% 1.19% 1.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.41% 6.03% 9.82%
Number of salaries quoted 111 78 161
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £39,250 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +1.95% -14.44%
75th Percentile £46,250 £62,500 £48,250
90th Percentile £58,750 £74,258 £53,750
England median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -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 1,245 1,791 2,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.07% 19.75% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 869 807 1,619
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £25,875
25th Percentile £29,750 £25,313 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -25.29% -7.45%
75th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,600
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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
North West +22 69 £31,500 -20.25% 18
Yorkshire -34 54 £32,500 -18.75% 22
North East -37 19 £40,000 +37.93% 5
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 (16.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (11.97%) IIS
3 11 (7.75%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.41%) Apache
Applications
1 25 (17.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 75 (52.82%) Microsoft 365
2 73 (51.41%) Azure
3 39 (27.46%) AWS
4 17 (11.97%) GCP
5 14 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (9.86%) Entra ID
5 14 (9.86%) GitHub
5 14 (9.86%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (2.82%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.11%) IaaS
8 2 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.41%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (1.41%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.41%) dbt
8 2 (1.41%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.41%) PaaS
8 2 (1.41%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 109 (76.76%) DNS
2 89 (62.68%) DHCP
3 78 (54.93%) Firewall
4 40 (28.17%) VPN
5 38 (26.76%) VLAN
6 33 (23.24%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (15.49%) LAN
8 21 (14.79%) WAN
9 19 (13.38%) HTTP
10 15 (10.56%) Network Security
11 11 (7.75%) VoIP
12 9 (6.34%) Structured Cabling
13 7 (4.93%) SAN
14 6 (4.23%) NAS
15 5 (3.52%) BGP
15 5 (3.52%) OSPF
15 5 (3.52%) Wireless
16 3 (2.11%) SD-WAN
16 3 (2.11%) SSL
17 2 (1.41%) IPFIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.15%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.82%) MySQL
3 4 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.41%) Redis
5 1 (0.70%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 14 (9.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.41%) JIRA
3 1 (0.70%) Git
3 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (41.55%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.49%) Law
3 21 (14.79%) Documentation Skills
4 17 (11.97%) Telecoms
5 10 (7.04%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (4.93%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.23%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.11%) Retail
10 2 (1.41%) Electronics
11 1 (0.70%) Back Office
11 1 (0.70%) Games
Job Titles
1 55 (38.73%) IT Support
2 27 (19.01%) Support Engineer
3 21 (14.79%) 2nd Line Support
3 21 (14.79%) IT Support Technician
3 21 (14.79%) IT Technician
3 21 (14.79%) Support Technician
4 17 (11.97%) IT Engineer
5 14 (9.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 14 (9.86%) Analyst
5 14 (9.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (9.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (9.86%) Senior
6 12 (8.45%) IT Support Engineer
7 11 (7.75%) Network Engineer
8 8 (5.63%) Infrastructure Support
8 8 (5.63%) IT Analyst
8 8 (5.63%) IT Support Analyst
8 8 (5.63%) Support Analyst
9 7 (4.93%) Field Engineer
9 7 (4.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.86%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (5.63%) Middleware
3 3 (2.11%) gRPC
4 2 (1.41%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.41%) Django
5 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.70%) QML
5 1 (0.70%) Qt
5 1 (0.70%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 43 (30.28%) Driving Licence
2 15 (10.56%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (7.75%) Onboarding
4 9 (6.34%) CCTV
5 7 (4.93%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (4.23%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.52%) Life Science
7 5 (3.52%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.82%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.70%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.70%) EPoS
10 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.70%) Replication
10 1 (0.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 94 (66.20%) Windows
2 65 (45.77%) Windows Server
3 26 (18.31%) Windows 10
4 19 (13.38%) Linux
5 17 (11.97%) Android
6 16 (11.27%) Apple iOS
7 4 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.11%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.11%) Unix
9 2 (1.41%) CentOS
9 2 (1.41%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (1.41%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (1.41%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.41%) VMS
10 1 (0.70%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.70%) Solaris
10 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (42.96%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (33.10%) Customer Service
3 32 (22.54%) Disaster Recovery
4 27 (19.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (18.31%) Service Delivery
6 25 (17.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 24 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (16.20%) High Availability
9 20 (14.08%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (13.38%) DevOps
11 18 (12.68%) CI/CD
11 18 (12.68%) Containerisation
11 18 (12.68%) Incident Management
12 16 (11.27%) Continuous Delivery
12 16 (11.27%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (11.27%) ITIL
12 16 (11.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (9.86%) DevSecOps
13 14 (9.86%) Static Code Analysis
13 14 (9.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 28 (19.72%) PowerShell
2 25 (17.61%) Python
3 17 (11.97%) Bash
4 14 (9.86%) Go
5 12 (8.45%) SQL
6 3 (2.11%) C++
7 2 (1.41%) Bicep
7 2 (1.41%) C
7 2 (1.41%) Java
8 1 (0.70%) C#
8 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (9.15%) Microsoft Certification
1 13 (9.15%) SC Cleared
1 13 (9.15%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.23%) Degree
3 3 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.41%) A+ Certification
4 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.41%) CCNA
5 1 (0.70%) ACSP
5 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.70%) CCNP
5 1 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.70%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.70%) RHCE
5 1 (0.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.82%) SLA
3 3 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.41%) GDPR
5 1 (0.70%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 81 (57.04%) Active Directory
2 41 (28.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (18.31%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.82%) Firmware
5 2 (1.41%) Docker
5 2 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.70%) KVM
Systems Management
1 26 (18.31%) Terraform
2 22 (15.49%) Ansible
3 17 (11.97%) Grafana
4 16 (11.27%) Prometheus
5 11 (7.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (7.04%) FortiGate
7 8 (5.63%) WSUS
8 6 (4.23%) VxRail
9 3 (2.11%) Autotask
9 3 (2.11%) Nagios
10 2 (1.41%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (1.41%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.41%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.70%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.70%) Puppet
11 1 (0.70%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 92 (64.79%) Microsoft
2 55 (38.73%) VMware
3 14 (9.86%) Cisco
3 14 (9.86%) Citrix
4 12 (8.45%) Veeam
5 11 (7.75%) SonicWALL
6 9 (6.34%) Sophos
7 8 (5.63%) Dell
7 8 (5.63%) HP
7 8 (5.63%) Meraki
8 6 (4.23%) Commvault
8 6 (4.23%) Tenable
8 6 (4.23%) Zerto
9 4 (2.82%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.11%) Apple
10 3 (2.11%) Aruba
10 3 (2.11%) CheckPoint
10 3 (2.11%) Google
10 3 (2.11%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.11%) SAP