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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 185 180
Rank change year-on-year -31 -5 +4
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 109 83 219
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.60% 1.17% 1.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.94% 6.79% 10.82%
Number of salaries quoted 95 58 186
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,250 £23,375
25th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £29,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £44,850 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.19% +12.13% -11.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 £67,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £62,000 £74,258 £56,750
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 2,768 1,223 2,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.31% 17.24% 12.17%
Number of salaries quoted 791 659 1,650
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,087 £25,875
25th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 27 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 27 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 -49 49 £32,500 -27.29% 13
North West -21 45 £40,000 -5.88% 17
North East -31 15 £46,250 -33.34% 8
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 17 (15.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (9.17%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.59%) IIS
Applications
1 28 (25.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.83%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 59 (54.13%) Azure
2 55 (50.46%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (28.44%) AWS
4 20 (18.35%) GCP
5 19 (17.43%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (16.51%) GitHub
6 18 (16.51%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (8.26%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.67%) Nutanix
8 4 (3.67%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.75%) IaaS
10 2 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.83%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 2 (1.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (1.83%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (1.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 83 (76.15%) DNS
2 59 (54.13%) DHCP
3 54 (49.54%) Firewall
4 24 (22.02%) HTTP
5 21 (19.27%) VPN
6 20 (18.35%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (16.51%) VLAN
8 16 (14.68%) LAN
9 15 (13.76%) WAN
10 12 (11.01%) Network Security
11 7 (6.42%) Wireless
12 5 (4.59%) SAN
13 4 (3.67%) NAS
13 4 (3.67%) SD-WAN
13 4 (3.67%) Structured Cabling
13 4 (3.67%) VoIP
14 3 (2.75%) BGP
14 3 (2.75%) OSPF
15 2 (1.83%) Internet
15 2 (1.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.50%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.59%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.75%) MySQL
4 2 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.83%) Redis
5 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (16.51%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.92%) Git
General
1 29 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.27%) Law
3 19 (17.43%) Telecoms
4 13 (11.93%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.59%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.67%) Retail
7 3 (2.75%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.92%) Finance
8 1 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 46 (42.20%) IT Support
2 19 (17.43%) Senior
3 18 (16.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (15.60%) Support Engineer
5 16 (14.68%) 2nd Line Support
6 15 (13.76%) IT Support Technician
6 15 (13.76%) IT Technician
6 15 (13.76%) Support Technician
7 13 (11.93%) IT Engineer
8 12 (11.01%) IT Support Engineer
9 9 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (7.34%) Infrastructure Support
10 8 (7.34%) Senior IT Support
11 7 (6.42%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 7 (6.42%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 6 (5.50%) Network Engineer
12 6 (5.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (5.50%) Senior IT Technician
12 6 (5.50%) Senior Support Technician
12 6 (5.50%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.51%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.67%) Qt
2 4 (3.67%) STL
3 3 (2.75%) QML
4 2 (1.83%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.83%) Django
5 1 (0.92%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.92%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 29 (26.61%) Driving Licence
2 9 (8.26%) Data Centre
2 9 (8.26%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (7.34%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.67%) CCTV
4 4 (3.67%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.67%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.67%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.67%) Replication
5 2 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.83%) Life Science
5 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.92%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.92%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.92%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 67 (61.47%) Windows
2 53 (48.62%) Windows Server
3 13 (11.93%) Android
3 13 (11.93%) Linux
3 13 (11.93%) Windows 10
4 9 (8.26%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.83%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.83%) Unix
5 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.92%) CentOS
6 1 (0.92%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (34.86%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (25.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (22.94%) Customer Service
4 24 (22.02%) DevOps
5 21 (19.27%) Containerisation
6 20 (18.35%) CI/CD
6 20 (18.35%) Continuous Delivery
6 20 (18.35%) Continuous Integration
6 20 (18.35%) Incident Management
6 20 (18.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 20 (18.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 19 (17.43%) High Availability
8 18 (16.51%) DevSecOps
8 18 (16.51%) Static Code Analysis
8 18 (16.51%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 16 (14.68%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (13.76%) ITIL
10 15 (13.76%) Mentoring
10 15 (13.76%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.27%) Python
2 19 (17.43%) Bash
3 18 (16.51%) Go
4 17 (15.60%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.59%) SQL
6 4 (3.67%) C++
7 3 (2.75%) C#
8 2 (1.83%) Bicep
8 2 (1.83%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (15.60%) SC Cleared
1 17 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.59%) Degree
4 4 (3.67%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.83%) CCNA
7 1 (0.92%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.92%) ACSP
7 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.92%) CCNP
7 1 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.67%) QA
3 3 (2.75%) GDPR
3 3 (2.75%) SLA
4 1 (0.92%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 62 (56.88%) Active Directory
2 23 (21.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (20.18%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.59%) Firmware
5 3 (2.75%) Docker
6 1 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (24.77%) Terraform
2 22 (20.18%) Ansible
3 19 (17.43%) Grafana
4 18 (16.51%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.50%) FortiGate
5 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.67%) VxRail
6 4 (3.67%) WSUS
7 3 (2.75%) Autotask
7 3 (2.75%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.83%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.92%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.92%) Nagios
9 1 (0.92%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (57.80%) Microsoft
2 41 (37.61%) VMware
3 18 (16.51%) Citrix
4 8 (7.34%) Veeam
5 7 (6.42%) Cisco
6 6 (5.50%) Meraki
7 4 (3.67%) Commvault
7 4 (3.67%) Dell
7 4 (3.67%) HP
7 4 (3.67%) SonicWALL
7 4 (3.67%) Sophos
7 4 (3.67%) Tenable
7 4 (3.67%) Zerto
8 2 (1.83%) Apple
8 2 (1.83%) Google
8 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.92%) Aruba
9 1 (0.92%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.92%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.92%) SolarWinds