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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 171 184
Rank change year-on-year -33 +13 -2
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 116 78 216
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.68% 1.19% 1.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.21% 8.41% 10.80%
Number of salaries quoted 103 57 185
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,250 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £44,700 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.94% +11.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 £67,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £63,220 £74,258 £56,850
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +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 2,757 928 2,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.21% 14.19% 12.28%
Number of salaries quoted 794 660 1,647
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,267 £26,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £50,443 £59,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £42,750 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.50% +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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -47 52 £32,500 -27.29% 17
North West -15 45 £40,000 -5.88% 13
North East -14 19 £46,250 -33.34% 6
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 19 (16.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (9.48%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.45%) IIS
Applications
1 31 (26.72%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.72%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 64 (55.17%) Azure
2 59 (50.86%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (25.86%) AWS
4 23 (19.83%) GCP
5 19 (16.38%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (15.52%) GitHub
6 18 (15.52%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (10.34%) Entra ID
8 7 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (6.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.31%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (4.31%) dbt
9 5 (4.31%) Pulumi
10 4 (3.45%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.59%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (2.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (2.59%) IaaS
11 3 (2.59%) Nutanix
11 3 (2.59%) PaaS
11 3 (2.59%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 83 (71.55%) DNS
2 60 (51.72%) DHCP
3 59 (50.86%) Firewall
4 24 (20.69%) VPN
5 23 (19.83%) HTTP
6 21 (18.10%) VLAN
7 19 (16.38%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (12.93%) LAN
8 15 (12.93%) WAN
9 14 (12.07%) Network Security
10 10 (8.62%) Wireless
11 5 (4.31%) VoIP
12 4 (3.45%) SAN
12 4 (3.45%) Structured Cabling
13 3 (2.59%) NAS
13 3 (2.59%) SD-WAN
14 2 (1.72%) BGP
14 2 (1.72%) Internet
14 2 (1.72%) OSPF
14 2 (1.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.62%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.31%) Redis
3 5 (4.31%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.45%) MySQL
5 1 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (15.52%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.45%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.86%) Git
General
1 32 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.10%) Law
3 20 (17.24%) Telecoms
4 13 (11.21%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.31%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.45%) Retail
7 3 (2.59%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.86%) Finance
8 1 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 49 (42.24%) IT Support
2 22 (18.97%) Senior
3 20 (17.24%) Support Engineer
4 19 (16.38%) 2nd Line Support
5 18 (15.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (15.52%) IT Support Technician
5 18 (15.52%) IT Technician
5 18 (15.52%) Support Technician
6 13 (11.21%) IT Engineer
7 12 (10.34%) IT Support Engineer
8 9 (7.76%) Senior IT Support
9 8 (6.90%) Infrastructure Support
10 7 (6.03%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) 2nd Line Support Technician
10 7 (6.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) Senior IT Technician
10 7 (6.03%) Senior Support Technician
10 7 (6.03%) Senior Technician
11 6 (5.17%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.52%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (4.31%) Django
3 4 (3.45%) Qt
3 4 (3.45%) STL
4 3 (2.59%) QML
5 1 (0.86%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.86%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 34 (29.31%) Driving Licence
2 12 (10.34%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.31%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.31%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.31%) Replication
5 4 (3.45%) CCTV
5 4 (3.45%) Client/Server
5 4 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.59%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.72%) Life Science
7 2 (1.72%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.86%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.86%) iPad
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 67 (57.76%) Windows
2 54 (46.55%) Windows Server
3 18 (15.52%) Linux
4 14 (12.07%) Android
4 14 (12.07%) Windows 10
5 9 (7.76%) Apple iOS
6 5 (4.31%) Unix
7 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.72%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.86%) CentOS
9 1 (0.86%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (36.21%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (25.86%) Customer Service
3 28 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (23.28%) DevOps
5 23 (19.83%) CI/CD
5 23 (19.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 21 (18.10%) Containerisation
7 20 (17.24%) Continuous Delivery
7 20 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
7 20 (17.24%) Incident Management
8 19 (16.38%) High Availability
9 18 (15.52%) DevSecOps
9 18 (15.52%) ITIL
9 18 (15.52%) Mentoring
9 18 (15.52%) Static Code Analysis
9 18 (15.52%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 17 (14.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (12.93%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (12.93%) Service Delivery
12 14 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.69%) Python
2 19 (16.38%) Bash
3 18 (15.52%) Go
4 16 (13.79%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.45%) C++
5 4 (3.45%) SQL
6 3 (2.59%) C#
7 2 (1.72%) Java
8 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (17.24%) SC Cleared
1 20 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (6.90%) Degree
3 8 (6.90%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.72%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.72%) CCNA
4 2 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.86%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.86%) ACSP
5 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.86%) CCNP
5 1 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.86%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.45%) QA
3 3 (2.59%) GDPR
3 3 (2.59%) SLA
4 1 (0.86%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.86%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 67 (57.76%) Active Directory
2 29 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 27 (23.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (5.17%) Docker
5 5 (4.31%) Firmware
6 1 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (24.14%) Terraform
2 21 (18.10%) Ansible
3 19 (16.38%) Grafana
4 18 (15.52%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.90%) FortiGate
5 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.59%) Autotask
6 3 (2.59%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (2.59%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.59%) VxRail
6 3 (2.59%) WSUS
7 2 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.86%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.86%) Nagios
8 1 (0.86%) Plesk
8 1 (0.86%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (58.62%) Microsoft
2 46 (39.66%) VMware
3 18 (15.52%) Citrix
4 10 (8.62%) Veeam
5 7 (6.03%) Cisco
5 7 (6.03%) SonicWALL
6 6 (5.17%) Meraki
7 5 (4.31%) Google
8 4 (3.45%) Adobe
8 4 (3.45%) Sophos
9 3 (2.59%) Apple
9 3 (2.59%) Commvault
9 3 (2.59%) Dell
9 3 (2.59%) HP
9 3 (2.59%) Tenable
9 3 (2.59%) WatchGuard
9 3 (2.59%) Zerto
10 2 (1.72%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.86%) Huawei