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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 165 180
Rank change year-on-year -19 +15 +3
Permanent jobs citing TCP/IP 124 82 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.81% 1.28% 1.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.50% 9.92% 10.74%
Number of salaries quoted 108 65 181
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,250 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 £67,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £74,258 £57,250
England median annual salary £37,500 £47,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -20.21% +10.59% -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 2,753 827 1,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.90% 12.94% 12.39%
Number of salaries quoted 803 662 1,595
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,525 £26,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £50,443 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -27 57 £32,500 -16.13% 17
North West -10 44 £40,000 -27.27% 26
North East -2 23 £46,250 -33.31% 7
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 24 (19.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (11.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.42%) IIS
Applications
1 30 (24.19%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.61%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 70 (56.45%) Azure
2 69 (55.65%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (24.19%) AWS
4 25 (20.16%) GCP
5 19 (15.32%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (14.52%) GitHub
6 18 (14.52%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (10.48%) Entra ID
8 9 (7.26%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (7.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (5.65%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (5.65%) dbt
9 7 (5.65%) Pulumi
10 5 (4.03%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 5 (4.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (4.03%) PaaS
10 5 (4.03%) Sentry
11 4 (3.23%) IaaS
11 4 (3.23%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 84 (67.74%) DNS
2 64 (51.61%) Firewall
3 60 (48.39%) DHCP
4 30 (24.19%) VPN
5 24 (19.35%) VLAN
6 23 (18.55%) HTTP
6 23 (18.55%) Wi-Fi
7 19 (15.32%) LAN
7 19 (15.32%) WAN
8 15 (12.10%) Network Security
9 14 (11.29%) Wireless
10 7 (5.65%) VoIP
11 4 (3.23%) Structured Cabling
12 3 (2.42%) Internet
12 3 (2.42%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (2.42%) SAN
12 3 (2.42%) SD-WAN
12 3 (2.42%) Unified Communications
12 3 (2.42%) WLAN
13 2 (1.61%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.48%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (5.65%) Redis
3 7 (5.65%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.03%) MySQL
5 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (14.52%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.23%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.81%) Git
General
1 37 (29.84%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.74%) Telecoms
3 19 (15.32%) Law
4 13 (10.48%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.03%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.23%) Retail
7 3 (2.42%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.61%) Marketing
9 1 (0.81%) Finance
9 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (41.13%) IT Support
2 25 (20.16%) Senior
3 24 (19.35%) Support Engineer
4 21 (16.94%) Support Technician
5 20 (16.13%) IT Support Technician
5 20 (16.13%) IT Technician
6 19 (15.32%) 2nd Line Support
7 18 (14.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (10.48%) IT Engineer
9 12 (9.68%) IT Support Engineer
10 11 (8.87%) Senior IT Support
11 9 (7.26%) Senior IT Technician
11 9 (7.26%) Senior Support Technician
11 9 (7.26%) Senior Technician
12 8 (6.45%) Infrastructure Support
13 7 (5.65%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 7 (5.65%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 7 (5.65%) 2nd Line Support Technician
13 7 (5.65%) Technical Engineer
13 7 (5.65%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.52%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (5.65%) Django
3 4 (3.23%) Qt
3 4 (3.23%) STL
4 3 (2.42%) QML
5 1 (0.81%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 37 (29.84%) Driving Licence
2 13 (10.48%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.65%) Replication
4 7 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (4.84%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.23%) CCTV
6 4 (3.23%) Client/Server
6 4 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.42%) NHS
7 3 (2.42%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.61%) LIMS
8 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.81%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.81%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 73 (58.87%) Windows
2 58 (46.77%) Windows Server
3 24 (19.35%) Linux
4 15 (12.10%) Android
4 15 (12.10%) Windows 10
5 8 (6.45%) Apple iOS
6 7 (5.65%) Unix
7 4 (3.23%) Mac OS
7 4 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.81%) CentOS
8 1 (0.81%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (29.03%) Customer Service
3 29 (23.39%) DevOps
3 29 (23.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (20.16%) CI/CD
4 25 (20.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 21 (16.94%) Containerisation
6 20 (16.13%) Continuous Delivery
6 20 (16.13%) Continuous Integration
6 20 (16.13%) Incident Management
7 19 (15.32%) High Availability
7 19 (15.32%) ITIL
8 18 (14.52%) DevSecOps
8 18 (14.52%) Mentoring
8 18 (14.52%) Static Code Analysis
8 18 (14.52%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 17 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (12.90%) Service Delivery
11 14 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (11.29%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.97%) Python
2 19 (15.32%) Bash
3 18 (14.52%) Go
4 15 (12.10%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.03%) SQL
6 4 (3.23%) C++
7 3 (2.42%) C#
8 2 (1.61%) Java
8 2 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (17.74%) SC Cleared
1 22 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.87%) Degree
2 11 (8.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (8.06%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.61%) CCNA
5 2 (1.61%) HNC
5 2 (1.61%) HND
6 1 (0.81%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.81%) ACSP
6 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.81%) CCNP
6 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.81%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.23%) QA
3 3 (2.42%) GDPR
4 2 (1.61%) SLA
5 1 (0.81%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.81%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 74 (59.68%) Active Directory
2 35 (28.23%) Hyper-V
3 29 (23.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.45%) Docker
5 5 (4.03%) Firmware
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (23.39%) Terraform
2 20 (16.13%) Ansible
3 18 (14.52%) Grafana
3 18 (14.52%) Prometheus
4 11 (8.87%) FortiGate
4 11 (8.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.03%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (3.23%) Autotask
7 3 (2.42%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.61%) Plesk
8 2 (1.61%) VxRail
8 2 (1.61%) WSUS
9 1 (0.81%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.81%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 76 (61.29%) Microsoft
2 49 (39.52%) VMware
3 18 (14.52%) Citrix
4 13 (10.48%) Veeam
5 11 (8.87%) SonicWALL
6 9 (7.26%) Cisco
7 7 (5.65%) Google
8 6 (4.84%) Meraki
9 5 (4.03%) Apple
9 5 (4.03%) WatchGuard
10 4 (3.23%) Adobe
10 4 (3.23%) Sophos
11 3 (2.42%) Fortinet
11 3 (2.42%) Sage
12 2 (1.61%) Avaya
12 2 (1.61%) Commvault
12 2 (1.61%) Dell
12 2 (1.61%) Draytek
12 2 (1.61%) HP
12 2 (1.61%) Mitel