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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 189 184
Rank change year-on-year -27 -5 -5
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 143 126 166
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.65% 1.30% 1.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.13% 6.74% 11.22%
Number of salaries quoted 105 95 125
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £25,800
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 £43,750 £52,456 £48,750
90th Percentile £65,500 £73,250 £55,250
England median annual salary £39,000 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -11.76% -6.59%

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 1,285 1,870 1,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.81% 19.35% 9.76%
Number of salaries quoted 854 860 1,049
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £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 £46,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,125 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -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 13 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 13 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 +39 77 £32,125 -19.18% 22
Yorkshire -38 51 £32,500 -16.13% 14
North East -65 15 £37,500 +29.31% 13
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 30 (20.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (12.59%) IIS
3 16 (11.19%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.10%) Apache
5 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 72 (50.35%) Microsoft 365
2 71 (49.65%) Azure
3 37 (25.87%) AWS
4 18 (12.59%) Entra ID
5 16 (11.19%) GCP
6 7 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.90%) OneDrive
7 6 (4.20%) GitHub
7 6 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.50%) dbt
9 4 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.80%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.10%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.40%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (1.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.40%) IaaS
11 2 (1.40%) PaaS
11 2 (1.40%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 97 (67.83%) DNS
2 84 (58.74%) DHCP
3 77 (53.85%) Firewall
4 43 (30.07%) VPN
5 36 (25.17%) VLAN
6 28 (19.58%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (16.08%) LAN
7 23 (16.08%) WAN
8 19 (13.29%) VoIP
9 14 (9.79%) Wireless
10 13 (9.09%) HTTP
10 13 (9.09%) Network Security
11 10 (6.99%) Structured Cabling
12 7 (4.90%) SAN
13 6 (4.20%) NAS
14 5 (3.50%) BGP
14 5 (3.50%) OSPF
14 5 (3.50%) SSL
15 4 (2.80%) SD-WAN
15 4 (2.80%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.79%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.10%) MySQL
4 2 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.40%) Redis
5 1 (0.70%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.10%) Git
3 2 (1.40%) JIRA
4 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.89%) Law
3 14 (9.79%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.29%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (6.29%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.20%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.80%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.40%) Electronics
9 2 (1.40%) Games
10 1 (0.70%) Back Office
10 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (36.36%) IT Support
2 37 (25.87%) Support Engineer
3 26 (18.18%) IT Engineer
4 21 (14.69%) IT Support Engineer
5 20 (13.99%) IT Support Technician
5 20 (13.99%) IT Technician
5 20 (13.99%) Support Technician
6 18 (12.59%) 2nd Line Support
6 18 (12.59%) Senior
7 17 (11.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (11.19%) Analyst
9 15 (10.49%) Network Engineer
10 11 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 10 (6.99%) Support Analyst
12 8 (5.59%) IT Analyst
12 8 (5.59%) IT Support Analyst
13 7 (4.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 7 (4.90%) Field Engineer
13 7 (4.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (4.20%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.59%) Middleware
2 6 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.80%) React
4 3 (2.10%) gRPC
5 2 (1.40%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.40%) Django
6 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.70%) JSON
6 1 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.70%) QML
6 1 (0.70%) Qt
6 1 (0.70%) STL
6 1 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (28.67%) Driving Licence
2 15 (10.49%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (9.79%) Onboarding
4 10 (6.99%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (6.29%) CCTV
6 8 (5.59%) Life Science
7 5 (3.50%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.50%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.80%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.10%) Social Media
10 2 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.40%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.70%) Clustering
11 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.70%) Replication
11 1 (0.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 94 (65.73%) Windows
2 64 (44.76%) Windows Server
3 31 (21.68%) Linux
4 24 (16.78%) Windows 10
5 11 (7.69%) Android
6 10 (6.99%) Apple iOS
7 7 (4.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (4.20%) Unix
9 5 (3.50%) Ubuntu
10 4 (2.80%) CentOS
10 4 (2.80%) Mac OS
11 3 (2.10%) CoreOS
11 3 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (1.40%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (1.40%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (1.40%) VMS
13 1 (0.70%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (32.17%) Customer Service
3 30 (20.98%) Disaster Recovery
3 30 (20.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (17.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (15.38%) ITIL
6 19 (13.29%) Service Delivery
7 17 (11.89%) High Availability
8 15 (10.49%) DevOps
9 13 (9.09%) CI/CD
9 13 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 13 (9.09%) Time Management
10 12 (8.39%) Change Management
10 12 (8.39%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 11 (7.69%) Incident Response
11 11 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 10 (6.99%) Containerisation
12 10 (6.99%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (22.38%) PowerShell
2 29 (20.28%) Python
3 13 (9.09%) SQL
4 12 (8.39%) Bash
5 10 (6.99%) Go
6 4 (2.80%) Bicep
6 4 (2.80%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.10%) C++
7 3 (2.10%) Java
8 2 (1.40%) C
9 1 (0.70%) C#
9 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (12.59%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (7.69%) Degree
3 7 (4.90%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.90%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.10%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.40%) A+ Certification
5 2 (1.40%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.40%) CCNA
5 2 (1.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.70%) CCNP
6 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.70%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.70%) RHCE
6 1 (0.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.10%) SLA
4 1 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 79 (55.24%) Active Directory
2 43 (30.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (23.78%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.50%) Firmware
5 3 (2.10%) Docker
5 3 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.70%) Ceph
6 1 (0.70%) KVM
Systems Management
1 26 (18.18%) Terraform
2 21 (14.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (11.89%) Ansible
4 11 (7.69%) FortiGate
5 9 (6.29%) Grafana
6 8 (5.59%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.59%) WSUS
7 5 (3.50%) VxRail
8 3 (2.10%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (2.10%) Nagios
8 3 (2.10%) SCVMM
9 2 (1.40%) Autotask
9 2 (1.40%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (1.40%) Kubernetes
9 2 (1.40%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.70%) Avamar
10 1 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 87 (60.84%) Microsoft
2 46 (32.17%) VMware
3 15 (10.49%) Cisco
4 13 (9.09%) SonicWALL
4 13 (9.09%) Veeam
5 9 (6.29%) Dell
5 9 (6.29%) Sophos
6 8 (5.59%) HP
7 6 (4.20%) Google
7 6 (4.20%) Meraki
7 6 (4.20%) Zerto
8 5 (3.50%) Commvault
8 5 (3.50%) Tenable
9 4 (2.80%) Aruba
9 4 (2.80%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.80%) New Relic
9 4 (2.80%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.80%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.80%) SAP
9 4 (2.80%) Splunk