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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 203 188
Rank change year-on-year -18 -15 -13
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 138 115 165
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.61% 1.20% 1.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.35% 6.16% 11.32%
Number of salaries quoted 100 89 123
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - -20.21%
75th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £71,798 £53,750
England median annual salary £38,000 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +1.33% -11.76% -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 1,333 1,868 1,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.94% 19.51% 9.60%
Number of salaries quoted 873 861 1,020
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,000 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.72% -6.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £43,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,620 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.05% -15.00% -2.91%

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 August 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 August 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 +23 77 £31,750 -20.63% 19
Yorkshire -48 50 £32,500 -11.56% 16
North East -66 11 £35,000 +20.69% 10
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 32 (23.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (13.04%) SharePoint
3 17 (12.32%) IIS
4 3 (2.17%) Apache
5 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 75 (54.35%) Microsoft 365
2 65 (47.10%) Azure
3 30 (21.74%) AWS
4 20 (14.49%) Entra ID
5 10 (7.25%) GCP
6 9 (6.52%) OneDrive
7 4 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.90%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.17%) dbt
8 3 (2.17%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.45%) GitHub
9 2 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.72%) Datadog
10 1 (0.72%) IaaS
10 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 95 (68.84%) DNS
2 86 (62.32%) DHCP
3 74 (53.62%) Firewall
4 48 (34.78%) VPN
5 40 (28.99%) VLAN
6 31 (22.46%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (16.67%) LAN
7 23 (16.67%) WAN
8 22 (15.94%) VoIP
9 15 (10.87%) Wireless
10 13 (9.42%) Network Security
11 12 (8.70%) Structured Cabling
12 9 (6.52%) HTTP
13 6 (4.35%) SAN
13 6 (4.35%) SSL
14 5 (3.62%) BGP
14 5 (3.62%) NAS
14 5 (3.62%) OSPF
15 4 (2.90%) Unified Communications
15 4 (2.90%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.17%) MySQL
4 1 (0.72%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Git
2 2 (1.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.45%) JIRA
3 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (10.14%) Documentation Skills
2 14 (10.14%) Law
3 9 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.62%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.90%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.17%) Games
8 2 (1.45%) Electronics
8 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.45%) Retail
9 1 (0.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 54 (39.13%) IT Support
2 39 (28.26%) Support Engineer
3 28 (20.29%) IT Engineer
4 23 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
5 20 (14.49%) IT Support Technician
5 20 (14.49%) IT Technician
5 20 (14.49%) Support Technician
6 19 (13.77%) 2nd Line Support
7 18 (13.04%) Analyst
8 16 (11.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (10.87%) Network Engineer
9 15 (10.87%) Senior
10 12 (8.70%) Support Analyst
11 11 (7.97%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 9 (6.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 9 (6.52%) IT Analyst
12 9 (6.52%) IT Support Analyst
13 8 (5.80%) Field Engineer
14 7 (5.07%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 6 (4.35%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.77%) Terraform
2 8 (5.80%) Middleware
3 4 (2.90%) React
4 3 (2.17%) gRPC
5 2 (1.45%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.72%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.72%) JSON
6 1 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.72%) QML
6 1 (0.72%) Qt
6 1 (0.72%) STL
6 1 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (31.16%) Driving Licence
2 16 (11.59%) Onboarding
3 15 (10.87%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (6.52%) CCTV
5 8 (5.80%) Life Science
5 8 (5.80%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (4.35%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.90%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.90%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.17%) Social Media
9 2 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.72%) CUDA
10 1 (0.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.72%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 96 (69.57%) Windows
2 64 (46.38%) Windows Server
3 28 (20.29%) Linux
4 25 (18.12%) Windows 10
5 11 (7.97%) Android
6 10 (7.25%) Apple iOS
7 8 (5.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (3.62%) Mac OS
8 5 (3.62%) Ubuntu
9 4 (2.90%) CentOS
9 4 (2.90%) Unix
9 4 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (2.17%) CoreOS
10 3 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.45%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (1.45%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (1.45%) VMS
12 1 (0.72%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (47.10%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (34.06%) Customer Service
3 32 (23.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 29 (21.01%) Disaster Recovery
5 25 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
6 24 (17.39%) ITIL
7 18 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (13.04%) Service Delivery
8 13 (9.42%) High Availability
8 13 (9.42%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 13 (9.42%) Time Management
9 12 (8.70%) Change Management
9 12 (8.70%) Mentoring
10 10 (7.25%) Business Continuity
10 10 (7.25%) Collaborative Culture
10 10 (7.25%) DevOps
10 10 (7.25%) ERP
11 9 (6.52%) Incident Response
11 9 (6.52%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 33 (23.91%) PowerShell
2 23 (16.67%) Python
3 14 (10.14%) SQL
4 8 (5.80%) Bash
5 6 (4.35%) Go
6 4 (2.90%) Bicep
6 4 (2.90%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.17%) C++
8 2 (1.45%) C
9 1 (0.72%) C#
9 1 (0.72%) Java
9 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (13.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (7.97%) Degree
3 6 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.35%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.17%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.45%) A+ Certification
5 2 (1.45%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.45%) CCNA
6 1 (0.72%) CCNP
6 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.72%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.72%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.72%) RHCE
6 1 (0.72%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.80%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.17%) SLA
5 1 (0.72%) GDPR
5 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 81 (58.70%) Active Directory
2 42 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (24.64%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.62%) Firmware
5 3 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.72%) Ceph
6 1 (0.72%) Docker
6 1 (0.72%) KVM
Systems Management
1 23 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (9.42%) Ansible
3 11 (7.97%) FortiGate
4 7 (5.07%) WSUS
5 5 (3.62%) Grafana
6 4 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.90%) VxRail
7 3 (2.17%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.17%) Nagios
7 3 (2.17%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.45%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.72%) Autotask
9 1 (0.72%) Avamar
9 1 (0.72%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.72%) Puppet
9 1 (0.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 88 (63.77%) Microsoft
2 44 (31.88%) VMware
3 15 (10.87%) Cisco
3 15 (10.87%) SonicWALL
4 12 (8.70%) Veeam
5 9 (6.52%) Sophos
6 8 (5.80%) Dell
7 7 (5.07%) HP
8 5 (3.62%) Fortinet
8 5 (3.62%) Meraki
8 5 (3.62%) Zerto
9 4 (2.90%) Aruba
9 4 (2.90%) Commvault
9 4 (2.90%) Google
9 4 (2.90%) New Relic
9 4 (2.90%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.90%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.90%) SAP
9 4 (2.90%) Splunk
9 4 (2.90%) Tenable