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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 179 187
Rank change year-on-year -38 +8 -7
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 110 82 219
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.60% 1.15% 1.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.97% 6.69% 10.84%
Number of salaries quoted 95 57 186
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,250 £23,375
25th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £29,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £44,700 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.94% +11.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 £67,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £63,040 £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 2,774 1,226 2,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.24% 17.22% 12.15%
Number of salaries quoted 794 655 1,646
10th Percentile £25,613 £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 £70,000 £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 30 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 30 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 -53 50 £32,500 -27.29% 11
North West -24 45 £40,000 -5.88% 13
North East -21 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 (15.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 6 (5.45%) IIS
Applications
1 28 (25.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.82%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 60 (54.55%) Azure
2 54 (49.09%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (28.18%) AWS
4 20 (18.18%) GCP
5 19 (17.27%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (16.36%) GitHub
6 18 (16.36%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (8.18%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.64%) Nutanix
8 4 (3.64%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.73%) IaaS
10 2 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 2 (1.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (1.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.82%) dbt
10 2 (1.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 83 (75.45%) DNS
2 59 (53.64%) DHCP
3 55 (50.00%) Firewall
4 24 (21.82%) HTTP
5 21 (19.09%) VPN
6 20 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (16.36%) VLAN
8 17 (15.45%) LAN
9 16 (14.55%) WAN
10 12 (10.91%) Network Security
11 7 (6.36%) Wireless
12 6 (5.45%) SAN
13 5 (4.55%) NAS
14 4 (3.64%) SD-WAN
14 4 (3.64%) Structured Cabling
14 4 (3.64%) VoIP
15 3 (2.73%) BGP
15 3 (2.73%) Ethernet
15 3 (2.73%) OSPF
16 2 (1.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.36%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.73%) MySQL
4 2 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.82%) Redis
5 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (16.36%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.64%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.91%) Git
General
1 28 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.09%) Law
3 19 (17.27%) Telecoms
4 13 (11.82%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.64%) Retail
7 3 (2.73%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.91%) Finance
8 1 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 46 (41.82%) IT Support
2 20 (18.18%) Senior
3 18 (16.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (14.55%) Support Engineer
5 15 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
5 15 (13.64%) IT Support Technician
5 15 (13.64%) IT Technician
5 15 (13.64%) Support Technician
6 13 (11.82%) IT Engineer
7 12 (10.91%) IT Support Engineer
8 10 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (7.27%) Infrastructure Support
9 8 (7.27%) Senior IT Support
10 7 (6.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (5.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 6 (5.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 6 (5.45%) Network Engineer
11 6 (5.45%) Senior IT Technician
11 6 (5.45%) Senior Support Technician
11 6 (5.45%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.36%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.64%) Qt
2 4 (3.64%) STL
3 3 (2.73%) QML
4 2 (1.82%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.82%) Django
5 1 (0.91%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.91%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (25.45%) Driving Licence
2 10 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.18%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (7.27%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.64%) CCTV
5 4 (3.64%) Client/Server
5 4 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.64%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.64%) Replication
6 2 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.82%) Life Science
6 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.82%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.91%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.91%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.91%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 67 (60.91%) Windows
2 54 (49.09%) Windows Server
3 13 (11.82%) Android
3 13 (11.82%) Linux
3 13 (11.82%) Windows 10
4 9 (8.18%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.82%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.82%) Unix
5 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.91%) CentOS
6 1 (0.91%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.64%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (25.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (22.73%) Customer Service
4 24 (21.82%) DevOps
5 21 (19.09%) Containerisation
5 21 (19.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 20 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 20 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
6 20 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 20 (18.18%) Incident Management
6 20 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 19 (17.27%) High Availability
8 18 (16.36%) DevSecOps
8 18 (16.36%) Static Code Analysis
8 18 (16.36%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 17 (15.45%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (14.55%) Service Delivery
11 15 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (13.64%) ITIL
11 15 (13.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.09%) Python
2 19 (17.27%) Bash
3 18 (16.36%) Go
3 18 (16.36%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.55%) SQL
5 4 (3.64%) C++
6 3 (2.73%) C#
7 2 (1.82%) Bicep
7 2 (1.82%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (15.45%) SC Cleared
1 17 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.55%) Degree
4 4 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.82%) CCNA
7 1 (0.91%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.91%) ACSP
7 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.91%) CCNP
7 1 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.64%) QA
3 3 (2.73%) GDPR
3 3 (2.73%) SLA
4 1 (0.91%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 62 (56.36%) Active Directory
2 23 (20.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.55%) Firmware
5 3 (2.73%) Docker
6 1 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (24.55%) Terraform
2 22 (20.00%) Ansible
3 19 (17.27%) Grafana
4 18 (16.36%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.45%) FortiGate
5 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (4.55%) VxRail
6 5 (4.55%) WSUS
7 3 (2.73%) Autotask
7 3 (2.73%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.82%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.91%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.91%) Nagios
9 1 (0.91%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (58.18%) Microsoft
2 41 (37.27%) VMware
3 18 (16.36%) Citrix
4 9 (8.18%) Veeam
5 8 (7.27%) Cisco
6 7 (6.36%) Meraki
7 5 (4.55%) Commvault
7 5 (4.55%) Dell
7 5 (4.55%) HP
7 5 (4.55%) Tenable
7 5 (4.55%) Zerto
8 4 (3.64%) SonicWALL
8 4 (3.64%) Sophos
9 2 (1.82%) Apple
9 2 (1.82%) Google
9 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.91%) Aruba
10 1 (0.91%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.91%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.91%) WatchGuard