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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 184 176
Rank change year-on-year -17 -8 +31
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 101 145 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.07% 1.03% 1.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.53% 11.26% 9.00%
Number of salaries quoted 77 89 123
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,600 £26,400
25th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -16.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £58,000
90th Percentile £66,750 £52,500 £66,600
England median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% -8.60% +3.33%

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 1,825 1,288 1,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 19.40% 9.14% 18.19%
Number of salaries quoted 834 762 1,015
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,775 £28,100
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £32,755
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £77,542
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% -3.85% -0.95%

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +16 52 £43,750 +18.24% 23
North East +42 25 £29,000 -38.95% 9
North West -43 24 £40,500 +8.00% 27
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 30 (29.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (8.91%) IIS
3 5 (4.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.98%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 58 (57.43%) Azure
1 58 (57.43%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (17.82%) IaaS
3 15 (14.85%) PaaS
3 15 (14.85%) SaaS
4 9 (8.91%) AWS
5 8 (7.92%) Entra ID
5 8 (7.92%) GCP
6 6 (5.94%) OCI
7 5 (4.95%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.98%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 53 (52.48%) DNS
2 46 (45.54%) VPN
3 44 (43.56%) DHCP
4 42 (41.58%) Firewall
5 38 (37.62%) VLAN
6 25 (24.75%) LAN
6 25 (24.75%) WAN
7 21 (20.79%) Network Security
8 16 (15.84%) Wireless
9 11 (10.89%) BGP
9 11 (10.89%) OSPF
10 10 (9.90%) Internet
10 10 (9.90%) VoIP
11 8 (7.92%) SSL
12 6 (5.94%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (4.95%) NGN
13 5 (4.95%) Remote Desktop
13 5 (4.95%) SAN
13 5 (4.95%) Unified Communications
13 5 (4.95%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.86%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.90%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (4.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Cucumber
1 4 (3.96%) Robot Framework
2 2 (1.98%) JIRA
2 2 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.99%) Git
3 1 (0.99%) Subversion
3 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 58 (57.43%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.83%) Documentation Skills
3 9 (8.91%) Telecoms
4 6 (5.94%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.95%) Marketing
5 5 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.96%) Retail
7 1 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 24 (23.76%) Technical Support
2 20 (19.80%) Support Engineer
2 20 (19.80%) Technical Engineer
2 20 (19.80%) Technical Support Engineer
3 18 (17.82%) Network Engineer
4 11 (10.89%) 3rd Line Support
5 10 (9.90%) IT Support
5 10 (9.90%) Senior
5 10 (9.90%) Support Technician
6 6 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) IT Support Technician
6 6 (5.94%) IT Technician
7 5 (4.95%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.95%) Coordinator
7 5 (4.95%) Unified Communications Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Analyst
8 4 (3.96%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (3.96%) IT Manager
8 4 (3.96%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.93%) .NET
2 3 (2.97%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.98%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.98%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.98%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.99%) Kafka
4 1 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.99%) REST
4 1 (0.99%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.95%) Clustering
1 5 (4.95%) Data Centre
1 5 (4.95%) Driving Licence
1 5 (4.95%) LIMS
1 5 (4.95%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (3.96%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (3.96%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (0.99%) BYOD
4 1 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 59 (58.42%) Windows
2 40 (39.60%) Windows Server
3 23 (22.77%) Linux
4 7 (6.93%) Unix
5 6 (5.94%) Mac OS
5 6 (5.94%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.98%) VMS
7 1 (0.99%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (28.71%) Customer Service
2 26 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (16.83%) Incident Management
4 15 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (14.85%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (11.88%) Virtual Environments
6 11 (10.89%) Network Design
7 10 (9.90%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (9.90%) Customer-Centricity
7 10 (9.90%) Mentoring
7 10 (9.90%) Network Management
8 9 (8.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (7.92%) Computer Science
9 8 (7.92%) Information Security
9 8 (7.92%) Task Automation
9 8 (7.92%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (5.94%) DevOps
10 6 (5.94%) Load Balancing
11 5 (4.95%) CI/CD
11 5 (4.95%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 22 (21.78%) PowerShell
2 17 (16.83%) Python
3 8 (7.92%) Bash
3 8 (7.92%) SQL
4 4 (3.96%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.97%) Bicep
6 2 (1.98%) C#
7 1 (0.99%) C++
7 1 (0.99%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (20.79%) Degree
2 16 (15.84%) SC Cleared
2 16 (15.84%) Security Cleared
3 12 (11.88%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (7.92%) CCNA
4 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.94%) CISSP
5 6 (5.94%) Network+ Certification
6 5 (4.95%) HNC
6 5 (4.95%) HND
6 5 (4.95%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (3.96%) CCIE
8 3 (2.97%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.97%) CCNP
8 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.97%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.97%) JNCIA
9 2 (1.98%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.98%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.99%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.96%) QA
2 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.99%) NCSC
3 1 (0.99%) NIST
3 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.99%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (63.37%) Active Directory
2 32 (31.68%) Hyper-V
3 28 (27.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.97%) Docker
5 1 (0.99%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (25.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (14.85%) FortiGate
3 12 (11.88%) Ansible
4 8 (7.92%) SCCM
5 5 (4.95%) Terraform
6 3 (2.97%) Autotask
6 3 (2.97%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 70 (69.31%) Microsoft
2 35 (34.65%) VMware
3 24 (23.76%) Cisco
4 15 (14.85%) SonicWALL
4 15 (14.85%) Veeam
5 10 (9.90%) WatchGuard
6 5 (4.95%) Apple
6 5 (4.95%) Fortinet
6 5 (4.95%) Sage
7 4 (3.96%) Citrix
8 3 (2.97%) Avaya
8 3 (2.97%) Mitel
9 2 (1.98%) Arista
9 2 (1.98%) Google
9 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.99%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.99%) Juniper
10 1 (0.99%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.99%) Ubiquiti